Events
December 2018
Saturday Storytime
Main Library in Hillsborough, Saturdays @ 10:30 a.m. (except on holidays, please check our calendar for more information, www.bit.ly/ocplibrary). Children from walkers to age 5, their caregivers, and their siblings are invited to participate in a 30-minute interactive program with books, songs, and movement to nurture pre-reading skills. (30-minute Stay and Play following storytime)
Find out more »Governor William Woods Holden Bicentennial
On Sunday, December 16, a program will be held at the Orange County Public Library in Hillsborough to commemorate the bicentennial of Governor William Woods Holden’s birth in 1818. Holden was born near Hillsborough and served as North Carolina’s governor at the end of the Civil War and during the early stages of the Reconstruction Era. Eddie Davis, the public historian for the City of Durham, is coordinating Sunday’s program. Most of Durham was a part of Orange County until 1881. According…
Find out more »Baby Lapsit Storytime
Main Library in Hillsborough, Mondays @ 11:00 a.m. (except on holidays, please check our calendar for more information, www.bit.ly/ocplibrary). Babies and their caregivers are invited to participate in a 20-minute lapsit program that incorporates age-appropriate books, rhymes, music, and movement. (30-minute Stay and Play following storytime)
Find out more »Toddler Storytime
Main Library in Hillsborough, Tuesdays @ 10:00 am (except on holidays, please check our calendar for more information, www.bit.ly/ocplibrary). Children from walkers to age 3 and their caregivers are invited to participate in a 25-minute interactive program that incorporates age-appropriate books, rhymes, music, and movement. (30-minute Stay and Play following storytime)
Find out more »Pick up Some STEAM!, Grades K-2
Main Library in Hillsborough, Tuesday afternoons @ 4:00 p.m. (except on holidays, please check our calendar for more information at www.bit.ly/ocplibrary). Join us for a variety of 45-minute programs for kids in grades K-2 where we combine books to spark imaginations with a variety of science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM)-based activities to foster creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Find out more »Preschool Storytime
Main Library in Hillsborough, Wednesdays @ 10:00 a.m. (except on holidays, please check our calendar for more information, www.bit.ly/ocplibrary). Children ages 3-5 and their caregivers are invited to participate in a 30 minute interactive program that incorporates age appropriate books, songs, movement to nurture pre-reading skills. (30-minute Stay and Play following storytime)
Find out more »Saturday Storytime
Main Library in Hillsborough, Saturdays @ 10:30 a.m. (except on holidays, please check our calendar for more information, www.bit.ly/ocplibrary). Children from walkers to age 5, their caregivers, and their siblings are invited to participate in a 30-minute interactive program with books, songs, and movement to nurture pre-reading skills. (30-minute Stay and Play following storytime)
Find out more »January 2019
Classic Film Screening: Double Indemnity
The Hillsborough Classic Film Society hosts a series of classic, foreign, and independent film screenings once a month on alternating third and fourth Sundays. Each screening is accompanied by short discussions of pertinent themes. January's film is the noir classic, "Double Indemnity," which will be introduced by Marsha Gordon, the Film Program Coordinator at NCSU. This program is FREE and open to the public; light refreshments will be served. For more information and to RSVP, visit HillsboroughClassicFilms.com
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