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Winter Reading Challenge 2025

There's snow better time for reading than winter! Join our Winter Reading Challenge, running from January 1 - February 28.

Read books, complete fun activities, and earn the chance to win exciting prizes! This challenge is open to all ages, so whether you're a young reader or a lifelong book lover, there's something for everyone.

Start the year with a good book and the opportunity to win, sign up today!

College Survival Skills 101 Workshop.

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Dates & times	Wed, 08/03/2016 - 12:00pm -Wed, 08/03/2016 - 3:00pm
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Contact Person: Jason Miller
Contact Phone: 330-294-8871
First year college students come to learn survival skills and strategies to be successful.

Tracy Keys Sings the Oldies

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Dates & times	Fri, 08/26/2016 - 6:30pm -Fri, 08/26/2016 - 7:30pm
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Rock and roll on over to the library for August’s 4th Friday event! Spend an hour enjoying music from the ’50s sung by Tracy Keys. Tracy has been in the entertainment business for many years performing in a nine-piece ‘50s and ’60s show band where they opened for groups like The Vogues, The Drifters and Herman’s Hermits.

Ghosts of the Civil War by the Largely Literary Theater Company

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Dates & times	Thu, 10/27/2016 - 6:30pm -Thu, 10/27/2016 - 7:30pm
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Join us for an hour of hair-raising ghost stories performed by Sara Showman and Mark Dawidziak, from Largely Literary Theater. Sara and Mark will perform stories from South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Ohio, including a special piece about Abraham Lincoln.

Meet Local Author and Poet Tony Gamblin

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Dates & times	Thu, 08/04/2016 - 6:30pm -Thu, 08/04/2016 - 7:30pm
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Join us as Tony Gamblin discusses his latest book Lyrics & Verses: Seeing Life as a Lyricist. He will also perform some of his favorite poetry pieces for you. Tony, a multimedia artist, performs his poetry all around Northeast Ohio.

City of Barberton Training

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Dates & times	Wed, 08/10/2016 - 7:30am -Wed, 08/10/2016 - 12:00pm
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Contact Person: Rainy Boucher
Contact Phone: 330-848-6710

City of Barberton Training

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Dates & times	Tue, 08/23/2016 - 11:30am -Tue, 08/23/2016 - 4:00pm
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Contact Person: Rainy Boucher
Contact Phone: 330-848-6710

City of Barberton Training

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Dates & times	Tue, 11/15/2016 - 11:30am -Tue, 11/15/2016 - 2:30pm
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Contact Person: Rainy Boucher
Contact Phone: 330-848-6710

Polar Express Free Movie

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Dates & times	Mon, 12/12/2016 - 5:00pm -Mon, 12/12/2016 - 7:00pm
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Families are invited to join us for this classic holiday film. To get in the spirit of the movie, you may wear comfortable cloths and bring sleeping bags or blankets. Hot chocolate and treats will be served!

Contact Person: Mary Eritano
Contact Phone: 330-745-1194 x1413

Board Committee Meetings

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Dates & times	Tue, 08/16/2016 - 5:30pm -Tue, 08/16/2016 - 6:30pm
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This is a regular meeting of the Barberton Public Library Board of Trustees committees. The committees are: Building and Equipment, Personnel, and Finance and Audit. In accordance with the provisions of the Ohio Revised Code, Section 121.22, all Board meetings are open to the public, except during executive sessions.