News Category: Abington Community Library

Celebrate all your hard work during the SummerQuest challenge! On Monday August 5, stop by the Abington Community Library anytime between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm to participate in our pop-up makerspace. Use the materials provided for kids, teens, and...

Join us for a trip around the world on Sunday July 28 from 2:30 to 4:00 pm! Leela Baikadi will present a traveling photo exhibition and slide show that will also include performances by Debbie Koshinski-Urban and Group Step by...

Join presidential expert Dr. Laurence L. Cook for an engaging presentation focusing on presidential first ladies on Monday, July 22 from 6:30-8:00 PM. You will be delighted and captivated at this presentation on first ladies which will include: Julia Grant,...

This summer, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with SummerQuest: A Universe of Stories! We cannot wait to have astronomer Kevin Manning here at the Abington Community Library on the actual anniversary, July 20. From 7-9PM,...

Join Aaron Turner of Tiger Karate Academy for two weeks of self defense classes! He will teach you basic and fun self defense and karate moves, give you confidence building tools, and teach you how to break a board with...

In the 10th episode of Lexivore, Renee and Megha welcome a guest for this episode, Chris Fotta, and have some lovely conversation with him about libraries, books, and other interesting things. We also have some listener participation going on, like...

In the sad event you missed Gina Rice's Artist Talk for her exhibition at the Abington Community Library, "Whimsical to Wearable: Gina Rice", you can read her transcript below. Find her work on Instagram at: @vixenvice. Gina Rice Transcript  

We're hosting a Read-A-Thon! The Library will be open for a twenty-four hour period to allow for non-stop reading! Participants will pick up a registration form and ask friends, family, or neighbors for sponsorship. The sponsorship is a flat donation...

We're hosting a special focus group dedicated to library topics. We are always trying to better serve our community and your feedback is vital to us! If you have opinions on what we do well and areas for improvement, we'd...

There are an estimated 5.8 million adults in the United States who live with Alzheimer's dementia. You may know that listening to and singing familiar music can engage Alzheimer and dementia patients. But research has also shown that books written...