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The collective daily borrow limit set by your library has been reached and will reset at midnight. Please browse and add titles to favorites so you can easily access them after midnight. The message above is the most common error message for Hoopla. Hoopla only charges the library for what people use, and the library… Read More

Purchase tickets now for the Glen Ellyn Library Foundation 2023 gala event, The Silver Ball! The event will take place on Friday, April 28 at 6:30 pm at The Morton Arboretum in the Ginkgo Room and feature live music from Bluewater Kings Band. This event celebrates 25 years during which the Foundation has grown the… Read More

Apply through Friday, April 14 Local artists, showcase your Warhol-inspired art at the library during the Summer of 2023! Submit an Art Display Proposal… Read More

At this spring’s A Human Library event, people will have the chance to “check out” people from all walks of life. Readers can also explore these exceptional accounts and biographies written from personal knowledge or special sources from authors that represent a wide range of unique experiences. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika… Read More

Did you know that cardholders can read daily Chicago Tribune and The New York Times articles online? The Chicago Sun-Times is also available as a text only list of articles or as a PDF version of the printed newspaper. Read newspapers with your library card… Read More

A summary of the 2023 Glen Ellyn Public Library Strategic Planning: Community Survey is now available. This summary, compiled by strategic planning consultant Amber Johnson, provides data regarding the 398 community survey responses and includes a general overview of comments. The next step in the library's strategic planning process is to conduct Strategic Planning Focus… Read More

The Glen Ellyn Library Foundation 2023 gala event, The Silver Ball, will take place on Friday, April 28 at The Morton Arboretum in the Ginkgo Room and feature live music from Bluewater Kings Band. The event celebrates 25 years during which the Foundation has grown the funds in an endowment and used the interest earned to provide high-quality library… Read More

Glen Ellyn Public Library is now offering 24/7 locker hold pick up and book return at 65 S Park Boulevard, inside the Glen Ellyn Police Department.* To use the lockers at 65 S Park Boulevard, Choose Glen Ellyn Public Library 65 S Park Lockers as your pickup location when you place a hold.** Receive an… Read More

Thirty lucky Glen Ellyn seniors took home a free Acer Chromebook last Wednesday! Funded by PLA Digital Literacy Workshop Incentive, supported by AT&T, Glen Ellyn Public Library's Digital Skills for Seniors program covered topics like Getting Started on a Computer and Using a Search Engine, Using Email, and Being Safe Online: Accounts and Passwords, Online Fraud… Read More

The traveling exhibition from the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage comes to Glen Ellyn Public Library for five weeks July 22 – August 30, 2024. Glen Ellyn Public Library has been selected as one of only fifteen libraries in the United States and the only library in Illinois… Read More

Happy New Year! Here are some Fun Library Facts from 2022: 483,520 Glen Ellyn Public Library items were checked out or renewed between January and November 2022 158,537 people visited Glen Ellyn Public Library between January and November 2022 The books from the series Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey were the most checked-out… Read More

The Village of Glen Ellyn and Glen Ellyn Public Library enlisted the help of Glen Ellyn Youth & Family Counseling Service (GEYFCS) to help residents of Glen Ellyn more easily access individual, family, or couples counseling, crisis intervention and support, and referral and linkage to community resources. Beginning Tuesday, January 17, every Tuesday and Wednesday… Read More