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Press Releases

Jul 1, 2022 - The Iowa City Public Library will be Fine Free for all materials, effective Friday, July 1, 2022. Iowa City Public Library patrons will no longer incur fines for returning library materials past their due dates.

May 27, 2022 - With their Iowa City Public Library card, children have a ticket to ride an Iowa City Transit bus for free, all summer long.

May 26, 2022 - American poet Robert Frost wrote, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” The 2022 Summer Reading Program theme, Read Beyond the Beaten Path, invites the community to try new t

May 26, 2022 - Iowa City author Katie Runde's debut novel, "The Shore," was just released and has received rave reviews—Glamour magazine listed it as one of the ten best books to read in May, and a New York Times reviewer wrote that the book "is never sentimenta

May 24, 2022 - The summer Bookmobile route and schedule kicks off on Tuesday, May 31, and runs through Friday, August 19, 2022. Services will be unavailable on June 20 (Juneteenth) and July 4 (Independence Day).

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  • Check It Out - Overview - Third Thursday
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  • Little Window - Children's - First Thursday

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The Window is mailed out to Iowa City residents seasonally.