AADL MySpace page

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Ann Arbor Book Festival

This four-day festival is a community-wide celebration of reading, writing and literacy, held annually each Spring. Author signings, panel discussions, and workshops are held throughout the community in the days leading up to the day-long Street Festival. Find out more by visiting the Ann Arbor Book Festival website.

Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads

Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads is an annual partnership between numerous Washtenaw County organizations with the intent to focus community attention on a single book from January through March, including related lectures, book discussions, performances, and other events. Find out more at aareads.org.

Bi-Folkal Kits

By choosing one of several themes to reminisce about, looking at historic photos and mementos, and singing familiar songs, a group can quickly create connections by sharing their stories with one another. Bi-Folkal Kits provide all the materials and many hands-on ideas needed for activity directors and older adults to make their own good time! Find out more information and reserve a kit.

Book Clubs to Go

Book Clubs To Go (BCTG) is a service of the Ann Arbor District Library that provides local book clubs with the convenience of complete kits for book discussions. We hope this service will expand the choices and selections for book groups in Ann Arbor, offering popular titles as well as classics and lesser-known works of award-winning authors, fiction and non-fiction, and even some in large print format.

Homebound Delivery

The Friends of the AADL provide free pick-up and delivery of library materials for Ann Arbor residents who are temporarily or permanently homebound. A Friends volunteer is assigned to each person so that individual needs receive personal attention. For more information, please call (734) 327-4221.

Museum Adventure Pass by Macy's

The AADL in a first-of-its-kind partnership with Greater Detroit Macy’s, the Library of Michigan Foundation, Detroit metro area libraries and the Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan is pleased to be participating in “Museum Adventure Pass,” presented by Macy’s. For a full listing of participating institutions and for check-out guidelines, go online to www.detroitadventurepass.org.

Read While You Wait

The AADL, in collaboration with the Friends of the AADL, provides books for local medical, dental, childcare and government services waiting rooms. Books are available for reading while you or your child are waiting for an appointment and if you find one you want to keep, you can take it with you!

Summer Reading Game

Can you imagine a Library reference desk swamped with people of all ages, excited to register to begin their summer reading? Well, it happens here! On the first day of registration for the AADL Summer Family Reading Program, hundreds of readers of all ages - youth, teens, and adults - get their reading logs, a registration prize, and begin reading. The youth log/game includes incentive prizes along the way to reading or listening to 10 books; the teens have plenty of choices to make on their reading materials and activities, and a grand prize drawing, too; even adults get a prize! For the past two years over 7000 readers have participated!