Morris Area Public Library

Serving the Morris Area Since 1913

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Library News: COVID Update

Due to the recent increase in COVID-19 infection rates, the library will only offer curbside and remote library services until further notice. Please call us at 815-942-6880, email us, or message us on Facebook for more assistance.  Please be careful out there.  

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

If you signed up for our Virtual Santa Goodie Box, they can be picked up now. See you soon! While your here grab your Letter To Santa too.

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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

Join Resa Tuesday December 8 as she demonstrates how to make this warm delicious meal with less than 5 ingredients and in under 15 minutes!!

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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

Thanks for joining our Virtual Story Time

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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

Hello little friends! Stop by and pick up your Letter To Santa. Once you return it to us we will pass it on to Santa. Santa will then send you a letter back!

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Monday, November 30th, 2020

This weeks Take and Make Kit is ready for pick up! Call when your out front and we will run them out!

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Saturday, November 28th, 2020

Join Miss Starla for virtual Lab Ratz!

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Saturday, November 28th, 2020

There are a few Lab Ratz kits left! Make sure to join Miss Starla at 2:00 today!

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Friday, November 27th, 2020
Photos from Morris Area Public Library’s post

We have these great photo backdrops set up, ready for your smiling faces. They are in the Library side garden and will be illuminated until 8:00p Monday through Saturday night for the rest of the … See more

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Friday, November 27th, 2020

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Friday, November 27th, 2020

We do have 6 Childrens Take and Make kits left. Pick up today!

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Letter to Santa

Letter to Santa

Want to hear from Santa? Pick up one of our forms and and return it to us by the 19th, and can get a letter from Santa!

Strike a Pose

Stop by the library’s courtyard to take pictures with our three photo vistas as backdrops.  November 27-December 26

Santa Is Coming to Town

Santa will pay us a virtual visit on Facebook Live on 12/5! Call 815-942-6880 to register.  Goodie box available 11/27.

Holiday Cookbook

The Morris Area Public Library Holiday Cookbook will be available for purchase in December.

Bookworm Bundle

Kid's Book Bundle Service

MAPL has a Book Bundle subscription service for kids. We will choose 2-5 books for your child/family that you check out each month.  Sign up today!

Board Openings

The Morris Area Public Library has three openings on the Board of Trustees.  If you are interested, stop by and pick up a candidate packet curbside.

New Books at the Library

When we believed in mermaids
In the lion
The last druid
A private cathedral
You betrayed me
The orphan collector
The dirty South
Anxious people
Jack
The exiles
The silent wife
Thick as thieves
Robert B. Parker
Marauder
Shadows in death
Total power
The end of the day
Whirlwind
Three women disappear
The book of two ways
The brightest star
Squeeze me
The coast-to-coast murders
Next to last stand
Chance of a lifetime
The wonder boy of Whistle Stop
The return
Christmas cupcake murder
The evening and the morning
The kingdom
The gift of the magpie
The law of innocence
A garland of bones
Magic lessons
Truly, madly, deeply
Forever by your side
Silent bite
How to raise an elephant
Confessions on the 7:45
Daylight
Piece of my heart
Fortune and glory
A time for mercy
Elsewhere
The awakening
All that glitters
Bitter pill
Chaos rising
The cold millions
Jingle all the way
The Noel letters
The orphan
Return to Virgin River
The sentinel
Shakeup
Troubled blood
Troubles in paradise
Burden of proof
A Christmas resolution
Hidden in plain sight
Love your life
The searcher
Battle ground
Whispering hearts
One by one
Monogamy
Happily this Christmas
The restaurant
Jolene
Home grown
The Mystery Writers of America cookbook
Teaching from rest
Killing Crazy Horse
The end of food allergy
Boots in the ashes
Live free or die
Blitz
Too much and never enough
Everything beautiful in its time
Battlegrounds
Blackout
Die with zero
Twilight of the gods
The upswing
Caste
Essential Herbs
The fixed stars
Finding freedom
Evil geniuses
Humans
I
Frontier follies
Greenlights
His truth is marching on
Is this anything?
Doesn
Think like a monk
The daughters of Yalta
Dearly
Make Me Rain
This time next year we
Modern comfort food
Martha Stewart
Dessert person
The good book of Southern baking
Melania and me
Tecumseh and the prophet
A knock at midnight
Speaking for myself
No rules rules
What to expect.
Disloyal
Stuff you should know
We keep the dead close
The cancer code

Wide awake
Anna and the French kiss
Keep curious and carry a banana
Almost adulting
Like a love story
A match made in mehendi
Social Welfare
Unbirthday
Lightbringer
The damned
A song of wraiths and ruin
Dear Justyce
Between burning worlds
The Enigma game
Crave
Verona comics
Song below water
You should see me in a crown
All the things we never knew
Midnight sun
My Calamity Jane
I
Goddess in the machine
The court of miracles
Rebel spy
Kissing lessons
Girl, unframed
A sky painted gold
Forest of souls
Burn our bodies down
Hawk
Little creeping things
Kiki
Unravel the dusk
The voting booth
Dark tide
The shadow of Kyoshi
Ms. Gloria Steinem
I kissed Alice
Anxiety ... I
The mall
This is my America
Lobizona
Sia Martinez and the moonlit beginning of everything
Don
Star daughter
We are not free
The scapegracers
Legendborn
Watch over me
As the shadow rises
Punching the air
The fell of dark
Darius the Great deserves better
Where dreams descend
Now that I
Elatsoe
The lost Book of the White
Grown