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Community Conversations-High Achievers: Happier, Healthier Success

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
East Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Parenting and Caregivers
Age Group:
Adults

High Achievers: Healthier, Happier Success

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: East Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Parenting and Caregivers
Event Details:

High Achievers: Healthier, Happier Success

Friends of Novi Library Board Meeting

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Friends of the Library
Age Group:
Adults

We support and advocate for our Library! Through Book Nook sales, and membership fees, the Friends sponsor the annual Community Reads and Summer Reading Program, Battle of the Books, the iCube Makerspace, and more! Looking to volunteer? Join us!

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Friends of the Library
Event Details:

We support and advocate for our Library! Through Book Nook sales, and membership fees, the Friends sponsor the annual Community Reads and Summer Reading Program, Battle of the Books, the iCube Makerspace, and more! Looking to volunteer? Join us!

Talk about michigan Food Brands on Wednesday April 8th at 7pm

NHC Event: Classic Michigan Foods

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm
West Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Historical Commission
Age Group:
Adults

Classic Michigan Food and Drinks: The Stories Behind The
Brands is full of amazing stories about Michigan food and
drink brands we know and love. Join Gail Offen and Jon
Milan as they take us on an epicurean exploration of

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Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: West Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Historical Commission
Registration Required
Event Details:

Classic Michigan Food and Drinks: The Stories Behind The
Brands is full of amazing stories about Michigan food and
drink brands we know and love. Join Gail Offen and Jon
Milan as they take us on an epicurean exploration of

Knit 2gether Knitting group

Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults
Knit 2gether:

Participants gather to enjoy their projects and the companionship of like-minded people. Skill levels range from beginner to expert. No instructor. Limited to 20 persons.

Join us at the library for a chance to work on a knitting or crochet project and connect with other members of the community. Skill levels range from beginner to expert. No instructor. Limited to 20 persons.

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Participants gather to enjoy their projects and the companionship of like-minded people. Skill levels range from beginner to expert. No instructor. Limited to 20 persons.

Join us at the library for a chance to work on a knitting or crochet project and connect with other members of the community. Skill levels range from beginner to expert. No instructor. Limited to 20 persons.

Fun for Fours & Fives with a house coming out of a book

Fun For Fours & Fives

Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Story Time Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Story Time
Age Group:
Youth

Designed to encourage a love of reading, this story time offers 4-5 year-olds their own time for stories, songs, conversation and kid fun.

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Story Time Room
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Story Time
Event Details:

Designed to encourage a love of reading, this story time offers 4-5 year-olds their own time for stories, songs, conversation and kid fun.

Disclaimer(s)

Attending With or Without an Adult

Parents, guardians or caregivers of children under the age of seven (7) years must be responsible for maintaining visual contact with and must be in the presence of their child at all times. Parents, guardians or caregivers of children between seven (7) and eleven (11) years old must remain at the Library but not necessarily in visual contact with their child. Click here to read our Unattended Child policy.

Teen Space

Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 2:45pm - 5:00pm
Whole Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Age Group:
Tweens, Teens
Teen Space:

Teen Space is held from 2:45-5pm, Monday-Friday, downstairs in the Whole Meeting Room, near the Café, during the school year. Students can hang out, play games, including Xbox and ...

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Whole Meeting Room
Age Group: Tweens, Teens

Teen Space is held from 2:45-5pm, Monday-Friday, downstairs in the Whole Meeting Room, near the Café, during the school year. Students can hang out, play games, including Xbox and Switch, ping pong, board games and more. Come check it out and have fun! Proof of student status is required for admittance. Teen Space is closed during vacation breaks, half days and Teen Advisory Board (TAB) meetings.

Teen Reads Book Club

Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Teens

Teens are invited to join us to read and discuss books for fun! Read the book and come prepared to discuss it with us!

January 8: The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor

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Closed
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Teens are invited to join us to read and discuss books for fun! Read the book and come prepared to discuss it with us!

January 8: The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor

Promotional graphic for the NO-VI Chess Club. The text reads: 'NO-VI Chess Club. Ages 5 to Adult. No previous knowledge of chess is necessary.' The background features a silver king chess piece in focus on a black and white chessboard, with a blurred gold piece lying down in the background.

NO-VI Chess Club

Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Whole Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Age Group:
Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults
NO-VI Chess Club:

Join our NO-VI Chess Club to participate, learn and sharpen your chess skill. No previous knowledge of chess is necessary. This program will include lectures, practice games, ...

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Whole Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults
Registration Required

Join our NO-VI Chess Club to participate, learn and sharpen your chess skill. No previous knowledge of chess is necessary. This program will include lectures, practice games, game analysis, and other components of chess training. Limited number of chess boards, timers, and rule books are provided (sponsored by a generous library donor). Please bring your own board.

Registration is required for each session. Ages 5 and up welcome (caregivers are expected to accompany their child to the program if under the age of 12).


 

Beginner English Language Lessons

Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
ESL
Age Group:
Adults

For adult beginners who recently arrived in the USA/Michigan within the last year. Participants are able to understand simple, everyday phrases and slow speech. This class will have conversation time for listening, speaking, and writing.

Closed
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: ESL
Registration Required
Event Details:

For adult beginners who recently arrived in the USA/Michigan within the last year. Participants are able to understand simple, everyday phrases and slow speech. This class will have conversation time for listening, speaking, and writing.

Intermediate/Advanced English Language Lessons

Friday, April 10, 2026 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
ESL
Age Group:
Adults

These sessions will be for intermediate/advanced level adults who have been in the USA/Michigan for at least 1-2 years. They can understand and speak at a normal pace but struggle with more complex grammar and discussion topics.

Closed
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: ESL
Registration Required
Event Details:

These sessions will be for intermediate/advanced level adults who have been in the USA/Michigan for at least 1-2 years. They can understand and speak at a normal pace but struggle with more complex grammar and discussion topics.

Teen Advisory Board (TAB) Meeting

Friday, April 10, 2026 at 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Age Group:
Teens
Teen Advisory Board (TAB) Meeting:

Get involved with the Library by joining our Teen Advisory Board (TAB). All high school students are welcome (you do not need to be a Novi resident to participate). Share ideas for...

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Teens
Registration Required

Get involved with the Library by joining our Teen Advisory Board (TAB). All high school students are welcome (you do not need to be a Novi resident to participate). Share ideas for teen programs, discuss teen books, organize community service projects, and more. Meeting attendance will count as volunteer hours if you are registered in the library's Teen Volunteer Program (you do not need to be a registered volunteer to attend TAB). If you are passionate about teen services, the library would love to have you join TAB!

Family Story Time with a tree coming out of a book

Family Story Time

Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 11:00am - 11:30am
West Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Story Time
Age Group:
Youth

Join us for stories, songs, and fingerplays that promote early literacy. For children birth-5 years and their caregivers. Siblings welcome. No registration is required. 

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: West Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Story Time
Event Details:

Join us for stories, songs, and fingerplays that promote early literacy. For children birth-5 years and their caregivers. Siblings welcome. No registration is required. 

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted. Click here to view our Unattended Child policy.

Family Story Time with a tree coming out of a book

Family Story Time

Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 12:00pm - 12:30pm
West Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Story Time
Age Group:
Youth

Join us for stories, songs, and fingerplays that promote early literacy. For children birth-5 years and their caregivers. Siblings welcome. No registration is required. 

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: West Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Story Time
Event Details:

Join us for stories, songs, and fingerplays that promote early literacy. For children birth-5 years and their caregivers. Siblings welcome. No registration is required. 

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted. Click here to view our Unattended Child policy.

Graphic advertising a “Game Afternoon at the Library.” The top text reads “Game Afternoon at the Library” with four illustrated dice around it. Below, the text says “A Game Program for All Abilities.” The graphic includes illustrations of a Connect Four board, a checkers board, multicolored game pawns on a square board, and a set of number cards. At the bottom, a banner reads “A Neurodivergent, Disability, and Family-Friendly Event.”

Game Afternoon at the Library – A Games Program for All Abilities

Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Whole Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Family
Age Group:
Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages

Join us for Game Afternoon at the Library, a welcoming and inclusive game day celebration for all ages and abilities.

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Whole Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Family
Event Details:

Join us for Game Afternoon at the Library, a welcoming and inclusive game day celebration for all ages and abilities.

Teen Space

Monday, April 13, 2026 at 2:45pm - 5:00pm
Whole Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Age Group:
Tweens, Teens
Teen Space:

Teen Space is held from 2:45-5pm, Monday-Friday, downstairs in the Whole Meeting Room, near the Café, during the school year. Students can hang out, play games, including Xbox and ...

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Whole Meeting Room
Age Group: Tweens, Teens

Teen Space is held from 2:45-5pm, Monday-Friday, downstairs in the Whole Meeting Room, near the Café, during the school year. Students can hang out, play games, including Xbox and Switch, ping pong, board games and more. Come check it out and have fun! Proof of student status is required for admittance. Teen Space is closed during vacation breaks, half days and Teen Advisory Board (TAB) meetings.

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For the Love of Poetry @ Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea

Monday, April 13, 2026 at 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Off Site

Do you love poetry? Do you also write poetry? If your answer is “yes", then please join fellow poetry lovers  for reading, analyzing and writing  poems, and being introduced to a poet.

Open
Registration Required
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Registration Required
Event Details:

Do you love poetry? Do you also write poetry? If your answer is “yes", then please join fellow poetry lovers  for reading, analyzing and writing  poems, and being introduced to a poet.

Novi Mental Health Alliance Meeting

Monday, April 13, 2026 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
2nd Floor Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Age Group:
Adults

The mission of this group is to raise mental health awareness, well-being, and self-efficacy in the Novi Community School District’s (NCSD) K-12 system for students, with the support of parents, staff, and community members.  

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Event Details:

The mission of this group is to raise mental health awareness, well-being, and self-efficacy in the Novi Community School District’s (NCSD) K-12 system for students, with the support of parents, staff, and community members.  

Novi Youth Assistance Presentation

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Parenting and Caregivers
Age Group:
Adults

Novi Youth Assistance, has been a prevention program here in Novi since 1960! We continue to be dedicated to strengthening youth and families through meaningful community involvement.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Parenting and Caregivers
Registration Required
Event Details:

Novi Youth Assistance, has been a prevention program here in Novi since 1960! We continue to be dedicated to strengthening youth and families through meaningful community involvement.

Time for Twos & Threes with a castle coming out of a book

Time for Twos & Threes

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 10:15am - 10:45am
West Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Story Time
Age Group:
Youth

Join us for fun stories, songs, rhymes, movement, and activities that promote early literacy for children 2-3 years-old with their caregiver. Siblings welcome. No registration is required.

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: West Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Story Time
Event Details:

Join us for fun stories, songs, rhymes, movement, and activities that promote early literacy for children 2-3 years-old with their caregiver. Siblings welcome. No registration is required.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted. Click here to view our Unattended Child policy.

Cover of Cue the Sun by Emily Nussbaum

Afternoon Read Book Club

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults

Join us for an Afternoon Read. Read the selected title and come prepared to discuss! 

This club meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month. 

[No meetings in June, July or December]

 

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join us for an Afternoon Read. Read the selected title and come prepared to discuss! 

This club meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month. 

[No meetings in June, July or December]

 

Teen Space

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 2:45pm - 5:00pm
Whole Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Age Group:
Tweens, Teens
Teen Space:

Teen Space is held from 2:45-5pm, Monday-Friday, downstairs in the Whole Meeting Room, near the Café, during the school year. Students can hang out, play games, including Xbox and ...

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Whole Meeting Room
Age Group: Tweens, Teens

Teen Space is held from 2:45-5pm, Monday-Friday, downstairs in the Whole Meeting Room, near the Café, during the school year. Students can hang out, play games, including Xbox and Switch, ping pong, board games and more. Come check it out and have fun! Proof of student status is required for admittance. Teen Space is closed during vacation breaks, half days and Teen Advisory Board (TAB) meetings.

Novi Youth Assistance Presentation

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Parenting and Caregivers
Age Group:
Adults

Novi Youth Assistance, has been a prevention program here in Novi since 1960! We continue to be dedicated to strengthening youth and families through meaningful community involvement.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Parenting and Caregivers
Registration Required
Event Details:

Novi Youth Assistance, has been a prevention program here in Novi since 1960! We continue to be dedicated to strengthening youth and families through meaningful community involvement.

Earth Day Birdfeeders - Youth

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Youth

Join us at the library to celebrate Earth Day by making sustainable birdfeeders to take home. 

Grades K-4

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join us at the library to celebrate Earth Day by making sustainable birdfeeders to take home. 

Grades K-4

Baby Time with trees coming out of a book

Baby Time

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 10:15am - 10:45am
West Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Story Time
Age Group:
Youth

In this lap-sit program, babies 0-12 months and their caregivers will enjoy books, bouncing rhymes, songs, and fingerplays to promote early literacy and socialization. Fun and age-appropriate toys will be brought out at the end of story time.

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: West Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Story Time
Event Details:

In this lap-sit program, babies 0-12 months and their caregivers will enjoy books, bouncing rhymes, songs, and fingerplays to promote early literacy and socialization. Fun and age-appropriate toys will be brought out at the end of story time.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted. Click here to view our Unattended Child policy.