Georgetown Public Library

Are you kitten me?! Adopt a kitten at the Library for only $35!

Join us at the Library on July 30 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a heartwarming kitten adoption event! You can give a precious kitten a forever home. These adorable furballs will be ready to go home with you the same day. Can’t adopt right now? Come cuddle a kitten instead.

This special event is proudly brought to you by the City of Georgetown Animal Shelter and the Library. Don’t miss out on the purrfect opportunity to find your new best friend!

Heads up! 🚧 A portion of the Library parking lot near Rock Street and 9th Street will be closed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., July 10-19.

👷 Closure is for installing underground electrical conduit and sidewalks

🚧 Roads to remain open to thru traffic

💲 Cost: $2.8 million funded by the 2015 City Transportation Bonds

“Adventure begins at your library” is the theme this year. The Library will have events for kids, tweens, teens, and adults! Check them out here:

• Kids
• Tweens
• Teens
• Adults

Children’s Summer Reading

Visit the library for fun and adventure this summer. See amazing performers. Keep track of your reading to win prizes. Vote for your favorite cryptid.

Stop by the Children’s Desk to pick up reading logs or to redeem reading logs for tickets to grand prize drawings.

Children’s Summer Reading Events

👨‍🔬 June 4 | 10 a.m. – Mad Science
🐄 June 18 | 10 a.m. – Mobile Dairy Classroom
🕺 June 22 | 2 p.m. – Terrence Taps: tap dancing
🌍 July 9 | 10 a.m. – Elizabeth Kahura: storytelling
🎶 July 20 | 2 p.m. – Staci Gray: music and dancing
🦎 July 23 | 10 a.m. – Austin Reptile Shows

Groups: Our programs are very popular so we cannot accommodate groups such as churches, camps, or daycares.

Summer Storytimes

Storytimes change during the summer. These storytimes will be from June 4-July 31.

🏞️ Storytime Playdate: Join us in San Gabriel Park at 9:30 a.m. Storytime + play! Storytime Playdate is on these dates: June 5 | June 12 | July 10 | July 17
👶 Baby and Me: Mondays & Wednesdays 10 a.m.
👪 Family: Thursdays and Fridays at 9:30, 10:15, 11 a.m.
📚 Sensory storytime: For kiddos with sensory issues. 10:30 a.m. on these dates: June 7 | June 21 | July 5 | July 19

Tween Summer Reading Events

Tween events are specifically for tweens ages 9-12. These events are ticketed and tickets are available at the Children’s Desk one hour before each event begins. Some events have limited spots available.

🎶 June 14 | 1 p.m.: K-Pop Party
📻  June 28 | 1 p.m.: KGCO Radio Mystery Show Adventure. Join this interactive old-time radio program with songs, sounds, and storytelling!
💅 July 12 | 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.: Nail Art with Miss Linda: Paint swatch sticks and try out cool nail art techniques!
🤹‍♂️ July 26 | 1 p.m.: Matt Tardy Juggling Workshops

Teen Summer Reading

Teens ages 12-18 will choose your cryptid team this summer-Bigfoot, Nessie, or Mothman! Scoop a reading log and earn tickets for your chosen team by reading every day. The team with the most tickets at the end of the program wins! Redeem your reading log and pick up tickets at the Children’s Desk.

The winning team gets to decorate the Teen Space in the theme of their winning cryptid mascot. One grand prize winner will be chosen from the winning team and will receive a $100 Lark and Owl gift certificate and gift bag. Three runners-up, one from each team, will win $50 Lark and Owl gift certificates and gift bags.

Teen Summer Reading is open to teens ages 12-18, June 3 through July 26. The final day to turn in tickets is July 26.

Teen events are ticketed. Pick up tickets one hour before each event at the Children’s Desk. Some events have limited spots available.

🎶 June 14 | 3 p.m.: K-Pop Party
📻  June 28 | 3 p.m.: KGCO Radio Mystery Show Adventure. Join this interactive old-time radio program with songs, sounds, and storytelling!
💅 July 12 | 3 p.m.: Nail Art with Miss Linda: Paint swatch sticks and try out cool nail art techniques!
🤹‍♂️ July 26 | 3 p.m.: Matt Tardy Juggling Workshops

Adult Summer Reading

Adults will have a jam packed summer filled with the tools needed to have their own adventures, starting with these events:

⛰️ June 7 | 7 p.m.: Join us at the Library to hear Underground Texas Grotto present “Deep in the Karst of Texas: Conserving your drinking water, natural heritage, and the rarest animals on earth.”

🦇 July 12 | 7 p.m.: Native Plant Society of Texas will give a talk about bats as pollinators.

🦇 July 13 | 8 p.m.: Bat Walk with the Native Plant Society. They will be hosting a bat walk on July 13 at the McNeil bridge in Round Rock. Meet outside 601 S. I-35 Frontage Road in Round Rock (formerly the NAPA Auto Parts store).

Starting June 1, adults ages 18+ can click here to save their own BOOKS card. Once you complete a line on your BOOKS card, you can visit the main circulation desk at the Library to claim a prize and get a ticket for a prize drawing.

The Library will also have a travel map to put dots onto to show where you’ve traveled and where you would like to go. It is located on the second floor in the seating area. There is a scavenger hunt for the second floor, as well as tons of recommended items to check out!

Prize options include three gift packs:

Adventure at Home
Exit game, Scratch off map; Games on the Go; GardenCube hydroponic cube

Camping Adventure
Waterproof bags; Lifestraw, LED lanterns, s’mores roasting sticks

Adventure Challenge
Adventure Challenge book with mini polaroid camera

Adult summer reading concludes on July 31. Winners will be drawn and notified by August 9.

Attention Library Lovers! We have an important announcement: we’re getting new carpet on the second floor.

We’re excited to see this improvement to our building. However, this means the second floor will be closed from Aug. 5 through Sept. 20. What does this mean?

🚫 No study room OR meeting room access.

🚫 No access to upstairs collections, which means fiction, nonfiction, large print, DVD, audiobook, or graphic novel collections

🚫 The Plant Propagation Station will not be accessible.  Plant parents, please adopt all these wayward plant propagations ASAP!

🚫 Second Hand Prose bookstore will be closed

🚫 No donations at this time-we don’t have anywhere to sort or sell them!

🚫 Due dates for regular materials in second floor collections will be extended beginning July 16 and will not be due until after the carpeting project is complete.

🚫New items will continue having regular circulating periods.

🚫The WOW! schedule and stops will continue as usual.

🚫All first floor collections, including Adult New Books, Jigsaw Puzzles, Children’s, Teen, and Spanish materials will remain available.

🚫A limited selection of second floor collection materials returned by patrons during the closure will be available on the first floor for checkout.

The Georgetown Public Library hosts “Live Music at the Library” at 2 pm the third Sunday of most months of the year; the concerts are free and open to the public. Seating is limited to 200 attendees.

Performance on July 21st from 2:00PM to 3:30PM

McLeod Nine 

McLeod Nine, the Swingy, Stringy, Funky, Folky duo from Texas, plays, jiggy, jazzy, gorgeous acoustic music, with roots deep in their Americana and Celtic past and a backbeat straight from the roots of swing and string-band soul. Their award-winning songwriting(Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk finalists, and Americana Fest, Nacogdoches winner)  is front and center in their shows and draws from a deep well of musical and life experience. Gordon and Christy McLeod’s music is nothing if not eclectic, spanning a wide range of musical worlds from swing and Django jazz to Americana and alternative folk, even Irish, Cajun and American fiddle tunes. Most of all, McLeod Nine want their audiences to be energized, inspired and to have fun ! (For example, One of the highlights of their shows is Christy getting the audience to dance a simple Irish Ceili dance.)

Gordon and Christy McLeod’s eclectic music spans a wide range of worlds including Americana, Celtic, Folk, Irish,  Swing and Django-jazz,  Bluegrass and Cajun. In a world of trendy and ever narrowing genres, McLeod Nine’s shows offer a refreshingly varied pallet of styles and textures.  While the roots of their musical tree are the  American and Celtic  traditions , the branches cover a wide patch of ground strewn with multi-colored leaves of blues, jazz, and even classical hues. Christy says ” We want to make sure in our shows that the next song is always something different from the last one!”

Recent Major Accomplishments:

~3 Full length albums recorded in past 3 years

~Headliner at 10 major festivals last year

~over 1 million streams from McLeod Nine Studio recordings ytd in 2022

~Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk finalists in 2019

~Just Completed 6 state tour

McLeod Nine are Gordon and Christy McLeod. Their eclectic and energetic sound covers a broad range of intriguing material, from string jazz with a Django flavor to inspiring original songs with lots of energy and musical spice to Americana to traditional Irish fiddle tunes. Gordon and Christy are well known as founders and performers in the very popular Americana-Celtic-roots band Beyond The Pale and as founders (with cellist Dirje Childs) of the elegant string ensemble, The Aisling String Trio.

Website

Check the Library Events Calendar for more information about each performance.

This performance is a gift of the Friends of the Georgetown Public Library.

Calling all Library fans! We have limited edition Library totes on sale for $10 at the main circulation desk.

These double stitched canvas bags come with handles perfectly suited to slinging over your shoulder as you browse the newest books. Carry as many titles or movies as you need in this bad boy-it won’t let you down.

Featuring some of the things the Library is best known for, all you need now is to own one for yourself. Stop by and get one today-once we’re out, we are out!

Six session course on the basics of ukulele playing with two optional sessions at the end. We’ll cover chords, strumming, tabs, theory, pop songs, blues and more! Bring your own ukulele or borrow one from the library. Limited spots and ukuleles available.

This class is free and open to registrants ages 18+. Register here starting June 3. Registration is required.

Tuesdays 4:30-5:30 p.m.

June 10-July 30

May is AAPI month! This month we celebrate the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

There are many different ways to celebrate AAPI month. Maybe try one of the following:

Visit the Asian American Resource Center in Austin. They have an annual celebration called Celebrasia on May 18!
Find a new Asian owned or Asian restaurant! Check out this list of places to visit in the Austin area.
Learn about Asian cultures. Check out any of the recommended items from the Library:

Children ages 0-12
Teens ages 12-18
Adults ages 18+