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Baby Time (Ages 0-2 + Guardian)

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Story and Craft Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Early Childhood, Babies & Toddlers
Baby Time:

Help your child learn important pre-literacy skills with our fun-filled baby storytimes. In addition to books, we focus on songs, games, and motion to help babies learn and grow.

Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Story and Craft Room
Age Group: Early Childhood, Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime

Baby Time

Help your child learn important pre-literacy skills with our fun-filled baby storytimes. In addition to books, we focus on songs, games, and motion to help babies learn and grow.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted. 

ELL Conversation Group (Women Only)

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Conference Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
En Español
Age Group:
Adults
ELL Conversation Group:

Practice English skills at these free, drop-in ELL groups.  

Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: En Español

ELL Conversation Group

Practice English skills at these free, drop-in ELL groups.

 

Toddler Time (Ages 2-4 + Guardian)

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 10:45am - 11:15am
Story and Craft Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Early Childhood, Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Story and Craft Room
Age Group: Early Childhood, Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Storytime

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted. 

Pokéblade (Grades 3-6)

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 6:00pm - 6:45pm
Story and Craft Room at Glenside Library
Age Group:
Grade School
Pokéblade (Grades 3-6):

Meet up with other Pokémon and Beyblade fans! Show us your most powerful Pokémon cards and bring your best defenders, attackers, launchers and bursts! Stadiums are provided.

Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Story and Craft Room
Age Group: Grade School

Pokéblade (Grades 3-6)

Meet up with other Pokémon and Beyblade fans! Show us your most powerful Pokémon cards and bring your best defenders, attackers, launchers and bursts! Stadiums are provided.

People raising their hands in a large room, facing a stage with individuals standing at a podium, American flags in the background.

Citizenship Study Group Part 1

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Conference Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Citzenship
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Review the N-400: Application for Naturalization, and learn the five most common reasons forms get denied. Practice the citizenship test, rehearse for the naturalization interview ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Citzenship
Required
Seats Remaining: 9
Event Details:

Review the N-400: Application for Naturalization, and learn the five most common reasons forms get denied. Practice the citizenship test, rehearse for the naturalization interview and prepare for the Oath of Allegiance.

Glass Fusing

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Large Community Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join artist Jim Braun of Ed Hoy’s International, North America’s largest art glass supplier, to design, cut, grind, and kiln fire colorful glass pieces. Unlike stained glass, fused...

Waitlist
Required
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Large Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Join artist Jim Braun of Ed Hoy’s International, North America’s largest art glass supplier, to design, cut, grind, and kiln fire colorful glass pieces.

Device Advice

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 9:30am - 10:30am
Off Site Center for Senior Citizens
Age Group:
Seniors (60+)
Event Details:

Drop in with your device (mobile/cell phone, tablet, iPad, laptop, Chromebook, etc.) for 1-on-1 assistance managing and troubleshooting apps, personal information, and projects.

Library Branch: Off Site Center for Senior Citizens
Age Group: Seniors (60+)
Event Details:

Drop in with your device (mobile/cell phone, tablet, iPad, laptop, Chromebook, etc.) for 1-on-1 assistance managing and troubleshooting apps, personal information, and projects.

Baby Time (Ages 0-2 + Guardian)

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Story and Craft Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Early Childhood, Babies & Toddlers
Baby Time:

Help your child learn important pre-literacy skills with our fun-filled baby storytimes. In addition to books, we focus on songs, games, and motion to help babies learn and grow.

Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Story and Craft Room
Age Group: Early Childhood, Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime

Baby Time

Help your child learn important pre-literacy skills with our fun-filled baby storytimes. In addition to books, we focus on songs, games, and motion to help babies learn and grow.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted. 

Senior Book Club: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Off Site Center for Senior Citizens
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Seniors (60+)
Senior Book Club:

Read or listen to a preselected book at home and discuss it at the monthly meeting. Each registrant will receive a complimentary copy of the book, while supplies last.

Event Details:

The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by f...

Library Branch: Off Site Center for Senior Citizens
Age Group: Seniors (60+)
Program Type: Book Club

Senior Book Club

Read or listen to a preselected book at home and discuss it at the monthly meeting. Each registrant will receive a complimentary copy of the book, while supplies last.

Event Details:

The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by followi

Toddler Time (Ages 2-4 + Guardian)

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 10:45am - 11:15am
Story and Craft Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Early Childhood, Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Toddler Time:

Help your child learn important pre-literacy skills with our fun-filled toddler storytimes. In addition to books, we focus on songs, games, and motion to help toddlers learn and gr...

Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Story and Craft Room
Age Group: Early Childhood, Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Storytime

Toddler Time

Help your child learn important pre-literacy skills with our fun-filled toddler storytimes. In addition to books, we focus on songs, games, and motion to help toddlers learn and grow.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted. 

Oregon Trail: Choose Your Adventure (Grades 4-6)

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Story and Craft Room at Glenside Library
Age Group:
Grade School
Event Details:

Experience the thrills of pioneering as you follow a map to trek through the library. Will the decision you make along the way make for a successful journey, or lead to your demise...

Required
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Story and Craft Room
Age Group: Grade School
Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Event Details:

Experience the thrills of pioneering as you follow a map to trek through the library. Will the decision you make along the way make for a successful journey, or lead to your demise?

Disclaimer(s)

Independent Attendance

This is a program intended for children to attend independently. Please let us know if your child requires any extra accommodations. See our family programs to attend with the whole family. 

Snowman Bookmarks (Grades 7-12)

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Community Room 1 at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Teen
Event Details:

Design unique snowman bookmarks to keep your place while curling up by the fireplace with your favorite book this winter.

Required
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Community Room 1
Age Group: Teen
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Required
Seats Remaining: 16
Event Details:

Design unique snowman bookmarks to keep your place while curling up by the fireplace with your favorite book this winter.

College of Dupage: FREE English Language Learning Course

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:45pm
Community Room 1 at Glenside Library
Program Type:
ELL Study
Age Group:
Adults
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Community Room 1
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: ELL Study

Getting Started with Excel

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Computer Lab at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Computer Study
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Learn to use the most popular spreadsheet program in the world. Find your way around worksheets, enter and edit data, and more. Computer experience is required but no prior Excel e...

Required
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Computer Lab
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Computer Study
Required
Seats Remaining: 12
Event Details:

Learn to use the most popular spreadsheet program in the world. Find your way around worksheets, enter and edit data, and more. Computer experience is required but no prior Excel experience is needed.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all.  If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request special accommodations, please contact the library. 

Make a Kaleidoscope (Grades 1-3)

Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 4:00pm - 4:45pm
Community Room 2 at Glenside Library
Age Group:
Grade School
Event Details:

Learn the science behind how kaleidoscopes works, then build your own and watch mesmerizing patterns come to life. 

Required
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Community Room 2
Age Group: Grade School
Required
Seats Remaining: 16
Event Details:

Learn the science behind how kaleidoscopes works, then build your own and watch mesmerizing patterns come to life. 

Disclaimer(s)

Independent Attendance

This is a program intended for children to attend independently. Please let us know if your child requires any extra accommodations. See our family programs to attend with the whole family. 

ELL Conversation Group

Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Conference Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
ELL Study
Age Group:
Adults
ELL Conversation Group:

Practice English skills at these free, drop-in ELL groups.  

Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: ELL Study

ELL Conversation Group

Practice English skills at these free, drop-in ELL groups.

 

A Portrait of Shakespeare

Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Large Community Room at Glenside Library
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

“All the world’s a stage.” Peter Garino, artistic director of The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, takes us on a journey combining biography and excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays an...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Large Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Required
Seats Remaining: 30
Event Details:

“All the world’s a stage.” Peter Garino, artistic director of The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, takes us on a journey combining biography and excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets.

Friends of the Library Meeting

Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 9:00am - 11:00am
Conference Room at Glenside Library
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors (60+)
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Conference Room
Age Group: Adults, Seniors (60+)

College of Dupage: FREE English Language Learning Course

Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 9:30am - 1:45pm
Story and Craft Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
ELL Study
Age Group:
Adults
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Story and Craft Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: ELL Study

Art Studio (Grades 1-3)

Monday, February 10, 2025 at 4:00pm - 4:45pm
Community Room 2 at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Grade School
Event Details:

Learn about an artist, technique, or movement and make a project inspired by what we learn!  

Required
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Community Room 2
Age Group: Grade School
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Required
Seats Remaining: 16
Event Details:

Learn about an artist, technique, or movement and make a project inspired by what we learn!
 

Disclaimer(s)

Independent Attendance

This is a program intended for children to attend independently. Please let us know if your child requires any extra accommodations. See our family programs to attend with the whole family. 

Arte de Sal de San Valentín (Adultos) / Saint Valentine’s Salt Art (Adults)

Monday, February 10, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Community Room 2 at Glenside Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts, En Español
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Si estás buscando una idea increíble, tienes que probar este técnica de acuarela. / If you are looking for an amazing idea, you have to try this watercolor technique.

Open
Required
Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Community Room 2
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, En Español
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Event Details:

Si estás buscando una idea increíble, tienes que probar este técnica de acuarela. / If you are looking for an amazing idea, you have to try this watercolor technique.

ELL Conversation Group

Monday, February 10, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Conference Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
ELL Study
Age Group:
Adults
ELL Conversation Group:

Practice English skills at these free, drop-in ELL groups.  

Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: ELL Study

ELL Conversation Group

Practice English skills at these free, drop-in ELL groups.

 

College of Dupage: FREE English Language Learning Course

Monday, February 10, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:45pm
Community Room 1 at Glenside Library
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Come to this FREE English Language Learning Course presented by the College of Dupage. The class meets each Monday & Wednesday from 2/3-5/19. Registration & Testing will...

Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Community Room 1
Age Group: Adults
Event Details:

Come to this FREE English Language Learning Course presented by the College of Dupage. The class meets each Monday & Wednesday from 2/3-5/19.

Registration & Testing will be held on 1/27 & 1/29 from 6:30-8:30pm.

ELL Conversation Group (Women Only)

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Conference Room at Glenside Library
Program Type:
En Español
Age Group:
Adults
ELL Conversation Group:

Practice English skills at these free, drop-in ELL groups.  

Library Branch: Glenside Library
Room: Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: En Español

ELL Conversation Group

Practice English skills at these free, drop-in ELL groups.