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Clear Your Shelves for a Great Cause: Donate to the ICPL Friends Foundation Book Sale!
by Katie — May 7, 2025
The Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation is gearing up for one of our biggest events of the summer—our annual Sidewalk Sale Book Sale, held during the Downtown Iowa City Sidewalk Sales on Saturday, July 19, from 10am to 3pm and Sunday, July...
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by Brian — May 2, 2018
The Iowa City Public Library is now offering streaming movies from Kanopy. All you need is a Library card and to be a resident of Iowa...
by Kara — May 1, 2018
No time to pick-up your Holds at the Iowa City Public Library? CHOMP Delivery service can help! Beginning Tuesday May 1, CHOMP will deliver...
by Kara — April 30, 2018
YES YES YES YES . The Library is absolutely open during Ped Mall Construction. 2018 Construction begins today as a a part of Phase 1. In...
by Susan — April 23, 2018
Although much of the information people receive today comes to them in an electronic format the Library has several ways of getting your...
by Kara — April 18, 2018
Spring will arrive ... someday. And that means we need to be prepared for severe weather. If severe weather is imminent when the Bookmobile...
by Shawna — April 13, 2018
Though the Bookmobile is always a happy place (who doesn't love the novelty of a library on wheels?!) we saw even more smiles than usual...
by Kara — April 13, 2018
This week the Iowa City Public Library's Bookmobile celebrates its first anniversary of taking Library services on the road and what a...
by Alyssa H — April 13, 2018
I sing in a local choir which is doing several French pieces for our next concert and it made me realize I've lost much of the French I...
by Candice — April 10, 2018
And I do mean a good old walk! On November 5, 1881, Anton Stein woke up, had coffee in the guest house he was at on Dubuque St., then...
by Kara — April 5, 2018
We're so excited about National Bookmobile Day we're celebrating ALL WEEK! Visit any ICPL Bookmobile stop between April 9 and 12 and...