Northbrook Public Library

Our Summer Reading Challenge starts Monday, June 1! Stop by our lobby from June 1 – 7 for these fun Kick-Off Week activities:

🌱 Pick up a seed packet (while supplies last).
🫙 Guess the number of items in our estimation jar for a chance to win the jar and a $100 Reds Garden Center gift card.
🎻 Enter a drawing for a family pass to a Northbrook Symphony kids’ concert.

Learn all about our Summer Reading Challenge at www.northbrook.info/summer-reading

Come visit our table at this great community event outside Village Hall on Sat., May 30 from 10am-1pm. 🌱

Don’t forget that Northbrook Climate Action Day is this Saturday! 🌱🌎

Join us at Village Hall on May 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a community event focused on sustainability, energy efficiency, and climate action.

Explore the resource fair featuring the Sustainability Commission, community partners, and sustainability experts, visit the demonstration garden, and discover practical ways to make your home, landscape, and transportation more environmentally friendly.

We hope to see you there!

🔗 Learn more: https://www.northbrook.il.us/819/Community-Events

Classical music lovers, we invite you to a lecture and classical performance by Northbrook Symphony Music Director, Mina Zikri on 5/26 at 2pm. He will illustrate the concept of tonality and how it reflects the evolution of human thought in music with a live performance of Shostakovich’s "Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano."

Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of welcoming four Northbrook 8th-grade students to the library as part of the 67th Annual Student Government Day, hosted by the Village of Northbrook. The students first met with library managers to learn about how the library operates, and then attended a mock board meeting where they worked together to solve a community issue. We were really impressed with these future leaders!

Last Friday, our Executive Director Kate Hall appeared on WBEZ Chicago's "Say More with Mary Dixon and Patrick Smith" to explain why popular eBooks and audiobooks can take months to become available at your library and how the Digital Library Protection Act, which restricts publishers from imposing unfair digital licensing terms for Illinois libraries, will help. Listen here: https://www.wbez.org/say-more-with-mary-dixon-patrick-smith/2026/05/19/e-books-and-audiobooks-are-costing-libraries-an-arm-and-a-leg

The Digital Library Protection Act (HB 5236) recently passed the Illinois House by a vote of 99-0. Now, it’s up to the Senate. If you love reading and listening to titles on Hoopla and Libby, consider taking a couple of minutes to call your state senator and ask them to support the Digital Library Protection Act (HB 5236).

E-books and audiobooks are costing libraries an arm and a leg E-books and audiobooks account for nearly half of the budget at some libraries, but that could change under legislation being considered in Illinois.

The library will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25. We will reopen at 9am on Tuesday, May 26.

Our Summer Reading Challenge returns JUNE 1! Get ready to read books and earn great prizes. Learn more at northbrook.info/summer-reading 🌱