Please join us for a special program on Aldo Leopold’s International renown by Turkish Scholar, Dr. Ufuk Özdag of Hacettepe University, Ankara Turkey and is currently a visiting professor in the Environmental Studies Program Vassar College. She translated Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” into Turkish in 2013 and is the Founder and Director of the new Land Ethic Research Center in Ankara, TY. Dr. Özdag’s primary research interests include American environmental literature and comparative studies between literature and the visual arts. She has written several books including, Literature and the Land Ethic: Leopoldian thought in American Nature Writing. This event is sponsored by The Leopold Landscape Alliance and Friends of the Burlington Public Library. Light refreshments will be served following the program. For more information, call Sam at the Library. 319-753-1647 ext.114

Literati: people interested in literature Tea: a hug in a cup Join us for tea and short stories this summer. Crimes of Conscience by Nadine Gordimer (1991) In stories set in South Africa a woman betrays her husband's best friend, an activist and spy fall in love, refugees are forced to move, and politics strangles daily life.

eBrunch is an educational and networking brunch series hosted by the Burlington Public Library each Wednesday from 10am to 11am. Please register for this Free event series. **A special thanks to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring this tech series.**

Gather at the library to learn more about fitness from a local expert. Come with questions each Friday morning this summer at 10am. Registration for this series is preferred.

Come join Miss Allison for a fun filled storytime with songs, rhymes, dance, and books! For ages 2-4 with a parent or caregiver. No registration required.

Music lovers will find themselves clapping, singing, dancing, jumping and sneezing along with the folk music of family entertainer, Jim Gill, as he strums his energetic, rhythmic tunes on the banjo at the library during his “Family Room Tour” musical performance, slated to be held in the library’s meeting rooms on Tuesday, June 27 at 2 pm.

Bring your kiddo to the library for an afternoon of crafts, stories, and fun! For ages 3-6 with parent/caregiver. Registration required.

"Growing happy, healthy babies … one rhyme at a time.” Join Miss Sarah with your baby (ages 0-23 months) on Wednesdays at 5:30pm or 6:30pm or on Thursdays at 10am this summer!

"Growing happy, healthy babies … one rhyme at a time.” Join Miss Sarah with your baby (ages 0-23 months) on Wednesdays at 5:30pm or 6:30pm or on Thursdays at 10am this summer!

"Growing happy, healthy babies … one rhyme at a time.” Join Miss Sarah with your baby (ages 0-23 months) on Wednesdays at 5:30pm or 6:30pm or on Thursdays at 10am this summer!

This class is geared for ages 7+ and requires registration. LEGO® bricks are naturally engaging to elementary students. When they are introduced into the learning environment they boost motivation. It’s through this active, engaged experience that LEGO Education Elementary teaching solutions help you to lay the foundation for lifelong learning. The hands-on solutions ignite children’s natural desire to explore and discover. Students will learn subjects like language, math, science, technology, and engineering more effectively while improving and developing their 21st-century skills, like problem solving, collaboration and communication.

This class geared for ages 8+ will be a different STEM challenge each week. We will use the Makey Makey, Littlebits electronics and other items to learn something and have fun at the same time! Classes fill fast, so don't forget to register each week.

In this class for ages 8+ we will use Hour of Code.org and Scratch Coding to play games and learn computer coding. Class size is limited so don't forget to register online each week.

Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Each week, we open the computer lab and start our Minecraft server. Classes fill quickly in the summer, so don't forget to register each week.

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Watch the movie while we make your own Bowtruckle and nibble a Niffler snack! We are doing this program twice. Once at 1, then again at 5.

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Watch the movie while we make your own Bowtruckle and nibble a Niffler snack! We are doing this program twice. Once at 1, then again at 5.