Welcome!

photo of Warren Public LibraryWelcome to the Warren Public Library website.  From here you can access our catalog, learn about upcoming library events, and find links to other resources.  We serve Salamonie Township in Huntington County, Indiana and anyone else with an active Evergreen Indiana library card.  Founded in 1916, we are now over 100 years old!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WPL Bead Night
Wednesday Aug 27
6-8PM
 
We have supplies for bracelets, necklaces, keychains, etc. Beads, charms, wire, embroidery thread, string, and instruction books.
 
Attendees are welcome to bring snacks and drinks with a lid.
 
 
 
Friday August 29
1PM-3PM
 
 
Visit the employee cafe at Heritage Pointe during ice cream day from 1-3 pm, and see us there! We will have a booth set up where Heritage Pointe, Town House, and Villa residents (and staff!) can sign up for library cards and check out from a small selection of books. This will be an ongoing event in an effort to reach our patrons at Heritage Pointe.
 
 
 
Library Board Meeting
Tuesday, Sept 2nd
7:30 PM
 
 
The Library Board will discuss matters both large and small that impact our library community.  All meetings are open to the public.
 
 
 
Wednesday, Sept 3rd
Pizza and soda are FREE – but please RSVP via comment, message, or phone call so we can order enough food!
 
 
 
 
Friends of the Library Booksale
Saturday, Sept 6
10AM-12PM
 
 
Take a break from the heat and walk over to shop the Friends of the Library book sale! Books are only $1 a bag!
 
*Bag provided by Friends of the Library
 
 
 
Murder Mystery Book Club
Wednesday Sept 10
7:00 PM
 
 
“When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign–but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide. When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door–as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog–to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first”
 
 
 
Old Favorites Book Club
Wednesday September 17
7:00 PM
Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany’s Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. Paul watches his Second Company, 150 men strong, reduced in a single battle to 32 weary survivors. As Paul struggles with the realities of who he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is lead like a ghost into the war’s final hours.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Attention – Residents at Heritage Pointe of Warren
 
Residents at Heritage Pointe of Warren who have difficulty leaving the facility can now have books delivered and picked up at their home! We will even help with library card sign up. Residents can check out books, movies, audiobooks, and magazines – the same as any walk-in patron. Residents will also have access to Libby and Hoopla, for e-books and audio books that they can read or listen to on their devices!
 
This program is completely free! Call the Library at 260-375-3450 for more information.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We now have a Keurig available for public use at WPL! We have a selection of coffees, teas, and hot chocolates available, with a $1.00 suggested donation. Come and sit in the air conditioning and relax with a book!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Warren Weekly at the Library
 
 
Print outs of the Warren Weekly are available at the library. Pick up the current and previous week when you are curious about local news.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Overdrive/Libby Switchover to Indiana Digital Library Instructions
 
Concerned your digital library says there are only 22 books in the entire app?  20 that have holds, and there other 2 say “not available?”  Our digital library has been been moved, and combined with another digital library to give everyone even MORE titles.  
 
 
Website:
• Click the gold Sign In button
• Select Warren Public Library
• Enter your card number with NO spaces
 
Libby app:
• Yes there is an app.  Download from your phone’s store
• We recommend the Libby app, as the OverDrive app has been retired
• Tap the bottom button of three lines, it should be in the middle
• Under “Add Library,” search for Indiana Digital Library.  As of right now the symbol should be a yellow and blue card
• Tap IDL to add it
• Select Warren Public Library
• Enter your card number with NO spaces

 

 

 

Indiana Digital Library – Website link to browse and check your account

The Indiana State Library has announced the formation of a new statewide e-book consortium, the Indiana Digital Library, launching on March 1. Nearly 200 public libraries in the state will all share the OverDrive platform to create a statewide consortium of e-books and magazines. This new consortium – made up of libraries that serve populations under 150,000 – will benefit libraries, taxpayers and library users. Patrons of consortium member libraries will have the ability to borrow materials from both their own library’s collections and the member library collections. The State Library is paying the platform fees for the consortium and 100% of the member libraries’ fees will be spent on materials. 

A volunteer library team will also assist with collection development for libraries and will help ensure the efficient usage of the consortium’s funds. Libraries may either purchase titles for their collection on their own or may chose to assign their funds to the collection development team. 

“The new Indiana Digital Library consortium will be a great service and benefit to Indiana libraries and the customers of Indiana libraries. This collaboration is a great example of Indiana libraries working together to provide high quality services to library users,” said Jake Speer, State Librarian.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

BIG DIGITALIZATION ANNOUNCEMENT

HISTORIC WARREN NEWSPAPERS NOW ONLINE


The Warren Tribune and the Warren Weekly are now available on the Internet via the Warren Public Library’s (WPL) website.


There are nearly 37,000 searchable pages available of The Warren Tribune (1898-1985), and nearly 8,000 searchable pages available of the Warren Weekly (1986-2000).


The website allows you to search, pan, view, zoom in, zoom out, clip, fit to width, fit to height, rotate, view previous object, view previous page, advance page, and print the newspaper pages with the click of your mouse.

 

 

NEW LIBRARY SERVICE ANNOUCEMENT

Attention Warren Public Library cardholders, let us introduce you to Hoopla!

Hoopla is a digital service that expands your options even further.  Hoopla offers:

  • Audiobooks
  • Comics
  • eBooks
  • Movies
  • Music
  • Television shows

Very simple instructions to get you started on Hoopla:

  1. To sign up, click the link here.  https://www.hoopladigital.com
  2. Near the top click on “Get Started Today.”
  3. Put in your preferred email address.
  4. Set up a password.
  5. On “Choose Your Library,” select Warren Public Library.
  6. Enter your library card number.
  7. Enter your library PIN.Don’t remember your PIN?  Call us at 260-375-3450 and we can reset it for you.
  8. PLEASE NOTE – As of right now, each card is limited to just FIVE checkouts per month.

 

 

Online Database Feature – World Book Online

Did you know the library has access to several research databases, some geared for school curriculum?  World Book Online lists its mission as such:

“To enhance learning and reading for children around the world by developing trustworthy, engaging content to create products that will engage children of all ages at home, on the go, in the classroom or in libraries worldwide. We aspire to establish World Book as a renowned, global, adaptive, and mission-driven enterprise that helps kids learn and read throughout their entire childhood journey.”

Click on the link, enter your library card number, and have access to this up-to-date classic encyclopedia series.

 

 

New AWE Learning Computer is at WPL

Look upstairs for a computer designed with engaging activities for our young readers.  Science, technology, reading, engineering, art, and math.

-Ages 1-14: Created specifically for young learners!

-Award-winning content: Providing hours of education and fun!

-70+ Software titles: Over 4,000 learning activities.

-Correlated content: Aligned to STEM/STREAM and correlated to academic standards.

-Safe environment: Self-contained learning solution keeps children away from unwarranted websites and content.

-Engaging and fun! Full of child-friendly images, sounds, songs & videos.

-Ideal for all learning styles: Auditory, visual, tactile & kinesthetic learners.

-Enhances school readiness.