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Novel Idea Book Club

Monday, August 25, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults

A book club, what a novel idea! Read the selected title and come prepared to discuss! 

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

A book club, what a novel idea! Read the selected title and come prepared to discuss! 

Sunset Stories with mountains coming out of a book

Sunset Stories

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
West Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Story Time
Age Group:
Youth

Join us for an evening family story time that promotes early literacy with stories, songs, rhymes and more! This story time is designed for children 0-5 years. No registration required.

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

Join us for an evening family story time that promotes early literacy with stories, songs, rhymes and more! This story time is designed for children 0-5 years. No registration 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.

Knit 2gether Knitting group

Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 10:00am - 11:30am
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.

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

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.

Summer Songfest

Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Off Site
Program Type:
Family, Friends of the Library
Age Group:
Adults, All Ages
Summer Songfest:

Enjoy the summer at Paradise Park with lively music from great area bands, brought to you by the Friends of the Novi Library. Event is free and will be hel...

Tonight's Performer: Motor City Soul Band

 

Summer Songfest is sponsored by:

Open
Registration Required
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Family, Friends of the Library
Registration Required
Event Details:

Enjoy the summer at Paradise Park with lively music from great area bands, brought to you by the Friends of the Novi Library. Event is free and will be held under an outdoor, covered pavilion. Arrive at 6pm for cash bar, food service, attractions and games which are available for purchase.

Paradise Park is located at 45799 Grand River Ave, Novi.

 

Tonight's Performer: Motor City Soul Band

 

Summer Songfest is sponsored by:

Strange Lands Book Club promotional image with a split creme and lilac background. On the right side is the cover for The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang..

Strange Lands Book Club

Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
2nd Floor Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults

Delve into far-flung and fantastical worlds with NPL! We explore all that speculative fiction has to offer, from sci-fi to fantasy, and everything in between. Registration required.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Delve into far-flung and fantastical worlds with NPL! We explore all that speculative fiction has to offer, from sci-fi to fantasy, and everything in between. Registration required.

Library Closed

All Day 8/30 - 9/1
Novi Public Library

The Library will reopen on Tuesday, September 2 at 10am.

Closing
Branches:
Novi Public Library
Description:

The Library will reopen on Tuesday, September 2 at 10am.

Korean Conversation Group

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
2nd Floor Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Conversation Groups, Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Age Group:
Adults

안녕하세요! Interested in Korean culture and language? Join us for a free monthly lesson. Participants will engage in fun activities using basic words and sentences while learning consonants and vowels.

Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Conversation Groups, Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Registration Required
Event Details:

안녕하세요! Interested in Korean culture and language? Join us for a free monthly lesson. Participants will engage in fun activities using basic words and sentences while learning consonants and vowels.

Image promoting the Virtual Business Book Club. Image is of a laptop. On the laptop screen is an image of a book with a black cover and the words Virtual Business Book Club.

Business Book Club - Virtual

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Business/Career, Book Club
Age Group:
Adults

Join our Virtual Business Book Club, a monthly gathering where entrepreneurs, professionals, and business enthusiasts explore influential works in the world of business.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Business/Career, Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join our Virtual Business Book Club, a monthly gathering where entrepreneurs, professionals, and business enthusiasts explore influential works in the world of business.

Pages to Pages: ESL/ELL Bookclub

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
ESL
Age Group:
Adults

Improve your English while reading a book with friends! For High-Intermediate to Advanced English speakers only. We will discuss one book during the sixteen-week session. This book club meets every other week.

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

Improve your English while reading a book with friends! For High-Intermediate to Advanced English speakers only. We will discuss one book during the sixteen-week session. This book club meets every other week.

Lego Club

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:15pm
East Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Youth
Lego Club:

Join us once a month for Lego show-and-tell and building activities. We supply the Legos, you supply the imagination.

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: East Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Join us once a month for Lego show-and-tell and building activities. We supply the Legos, you supply the imagination.

Japanese Conversation Group 1st Wednesday of each month at 6:30pm, registration required. Knowledge of hiragana and katakana required. Ages 16+

Japanese Conversation Group

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Youth Activity Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Conversation Groups, Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Age Group:
Teens, Adults

こんにちは! Do you think your Japanese conversation skills are getting rusty? Let’s practice and learn Japanese together! Knowledge of Hiragana and Katakana required. Ages 13+

Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Conversation Groups, Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Registration Required
Event Details:

こんにちは! Do you think your Japanese conversation skills are getting rusty? Let’s practice and learn Japanese together! Knowledge of Hiragana and Katakana required. Ages 13+

Pages to Pages: ESL/ELL Bookclub

Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
ESL
Age Group:
Adults

Improve your English while reading a book with friends! For High-Intermediate to Advanced English speakers only. We will discuss one book during the sixteen-week session. This book club meets every other week.

Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: ESL
Registration Required
Event Details:

Improve your English while reading a book with friends! For High-Intermediate to Advanced English speakers only. We will discuss one book during the sixteen-week session. This book club meets every other week.

Cover of Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan.

Club Half-Blood

Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts, Book Club
Age Group:
Tweens

Calling all fans of mythology, monsters, and mayhem! If you love Rick Riordan’s books, or want to read them for the first time, join our monthly club for discussion, snacks, games, and crafts inspired by the books!

Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Calling all fans of mythology, monsters, and mayhem! If you love Rick Riordan’s books, or want to read them for the first time, join our monthly club for discussion, snacks, games, and crafts inspired by the books!

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.

Beginner English Language Lessons

Friday, September 5, 2025 at 10:00am - 12:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, ESL
Age Group:
Adults

For adult beginners who recently arrived in the USA/Michigan. We will have conversation time for listening, speaking, and writing. Also, a discussion of topics that are for the beginner level.

Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, ESL
Registration Required
Event Details:

For adult beginners who recently arrived in the USA/Michigan. We will have conversation time for listening, speaking, and writing. Also, a discussion of topics that are for the beginner level.

Intermediate/Advanced English Language Lessons

Friday, September 5, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, 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. We will discuss a variety of subjects during our 8 weeks of class.

Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, 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. We will discuss a variety of subjects during our 8 weeks of class.

Afternoon Read Book Club

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 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!

TBD Community read title Announced in August 

 

Waitlist
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!

TBD Community read title Announced in August 

 

Image promoting the Business Book Club. Background color blue with books at the bottom for decoration. Words say Business Book Club. Image of a generic book with a black cover.

Business Book Club

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Youth Activity Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Business/Career, Book Club
Age Group:
Adults

Join our Business Book Club, a monthly gathering where entrepreneurs, professionals, and business enthusiasts explore influential works in the world of business.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Business/Career, Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join our Business Book Club, a monthly gathering where entrepreneurs, professionals, and business enthusiasts explore influential works in the world of business.

Friends of Novi Library Board Meeting

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Friends of the Library
Age Group:
Adults
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Friends of the Library

Kaleidoscope: Celebrating! The Arts in the Community

Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
West Meeting Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Friends of the Library
Age Group:
Adults

Presenter: Shannon Karol, Executive Director, Northville Art House

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: West Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Friends of the Library
Registration Required
Event Details:

Presenter: Shannon Karol, Executive Director, Northville Art House

Library Board Meeting

Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Off Site
Program Type:
Library Board

Library Board meetings are usually held on the second Thursday of each month, at the Novi Civic Center at 7:00pm, to review library financials, make policy decisions, and provide broad operational oversight of the Library. The public is welcome.

Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Program Type: Library Board
Event Details:

Library Board meetings are usually held on the second Thursday of each month, at the Novi Civic Center at 7:00pm, to review library financials, make policy decisions, and provide broad operational oversight of the Library. The public is welcome.

Beginner English Language Lessons

Friday, September 12, 2025 at 10:00am - 12:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, ESL
Age Group:
Adults

For adult beginners who recently arrived in the USA/Michigan. We will have conversation time for listening, speaking, and writing. Also, a discussion of topics that are for the beginner level.

Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, ESL
Registration Required
Event Details:

For adult beginners who recently arrived in the USA/Michigan. We will have conversation time for listening, speaking, and writing. Also, a discussion of topics that are for the beginner level.

Intermediate/Advanced English Language Lessons

Friday, September 12, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, 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. We will discuss a variety of subjects during our 8 weeks of class.

Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, 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. We will discuss a variety of subjects during our 8 weeks of class.

Image of Documents with Novi Historical Commission Logo

Local History Room Office Hours

Monday, September 15, 2025 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Local History Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
Historical Commission
Age Group:
Adults
Local History Room Office Hours:

Come to the Local History Room for assistance or just to meet commission members and learn about Novi's history.  

Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Local History Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Historical Commission

Come to the Local History Room for assistance or just to meet commission members and learn about Novi's history.
 


 

Pages to Pages: ESL/ELL Bookclub

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Board Room at Novi Public Library
Program Type:
ESL
Age Group:
Adults

Improve your English while reading a book with friends! For High-Intermediate to Advanced English speakers only. We will discuss one book during the sixteen-week session. This book club meets every other week.

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

Improve your English while reading a book with friends! For High-Intermediate to Advanced English speakers only. We will discuss one book during the sixteen-week session. This book club meets every other week.