Boo Bash! Extravaganza!

The Calhoun County Library is getting ready to have a scary good time on Halloween night!

If you are out and about trick-or-treating in the town of St. Matthews, stop by the library for some indoor fun! If you need a break from walking around getting candy, come play some games and get books, prizes, and even more candy! We will be having Boo Bash! on Thursday, October 31, 2024, from 5 PM - 7 PM. We will be playing games, which includes Toss Dem Bones, Pin the Spider on the Web, Eyeball Toss, and many more. We will even be bringing back one of the favorites, which is Bat Bullseye! Come take your chances and see if you can shoot hanging bats with a Nerf gun! In addition to winning prizes, we will be giving out candy and something even more exciting: freshly spun cotton candy from Twisted Sugar!

Last year, we had almost 700 trick-or-treaters visit us throughout the night. Let’s see if we can top it this year!

Bookmobile’s Outreach

            The Calhoun County Library has a very active Bookmobile schedule that allows everyone in the community to have access to our portable library!

            Are you an avid reader or movie watcher? Do you want to get free materials without having to leave your home? If you answered yes to both of those questions, we want to help you! We offer home deliveries on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month. This is when we come to your house and drop off the materials you requested. You don’t even have to leave your house for the library to come to you.

            In addition to home deliveries, we take our very fancy, full Bookmobile out to many places. We visit The Gressette Center, Counsel of Aging, Press Academy, Beulah United Methodist Church Afterschool Care, and more! During these visits, we do many activities such as making ice cream in a bag, playing BINGO, reading stories, and having fun. We also invite everyone to take a look around the Bookmobile and see if any books, movies, or Playaways spark your interest. You can check out everything right then and there. If you don’t have a library card, there’s no need to worry. We can sign you up for one!

            The Calhoun County Library wants everyone to be able to have access to library materials. So, if you can’t come to us, we will come to you!

Reading Has Never Been So Easy!

            Reading has never been so easy at the Calhoun County Library.

We have a variety of audiobooks ready to be checked out. We have standard CD audiobooks, Playaways that are audiobooks on the go, and even brand new read-along books designed for children called Wonderbooks. Wonderbooks by Playaway are books that have a ready-to-play mechanic that allows kids to hear the words as they follow along with the book. With each player, you can adjust the volume, start and pause, switch the reading modes, and so much more! Wonderbooks make it easy for a child to learn to read with all the great stories and fun sounds. 

Come check out a Wonderbook today and see what all the hype is about!