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Let's Talk About Travel

Monday, June 16, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Story Time Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Registration Required
Event Details:

Just in time before Summer begins, you are invited to a storytelling hour to share your stories about your most memorable travel adventures.

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Treat Your Shelf Book Exchange

Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Whole Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Other
Registration Required
Event Details:

Please bring no more than 5 books you're willing to part with. Each table will have different genre designations.

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Hanging Yarn Art

Sunday, June 22, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Summer Reading Program
Registration Required
Event Details:

Explore the world of art through yarn! Participants will design and decorate a unique hanging wall art piece to take home. This program encourages creativity and hands-on engagement with fiber arts.

Grades 5-8

"Adult Coloring Evening. June 25th and July 23rd 6-8pm at the Novi Public Library in the Boardroom"

Adult Coloring Evening

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Summer Reading Program
Event Details:

Spend an evening relaxing and being creative at the library. Draw, color, or explore the iCube’s creative kits. You may also bring your own materials. 

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Lakeshore Book Club

Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
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Library Branch: Off Site
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

This month we will be discussing "Shark Heart" by Emily Habeck.

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NO-VI Chess Club

Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Whole Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults
Registration Required
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Rainbow Sensory Exploration

Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Whole Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Summer Reading Program
Event Details:

Join us for an afternoon of sensory fun by exploring various activity stations. 

Ages 0-5 with caregiver(s).

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Business Book Club - Virtual

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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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.

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Business Book Club

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board 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.

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Ultimate Crafts

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 2:30pm - 3:30pm
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Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join us for an afternoon of arts and crafts.

Grades: 1-4 

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Korean Conversation Group

10:30am–12:00pm
Adults
Conversation Groups, Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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.

Business Book Club - Virtual

12:00pm–1:00pm
Adults
Business/Career, Book Club
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.

Lego Club

6:30pm–7:15pm
Youth
Arts & Crafts
Cancelled
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

6:30pm–8:30pm
Teens, Adults
Conversation Groups, Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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+

A2 Magic: Art of Magic

7:00pm–8:00pm
Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Summer Reading Program
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Whole Meeting Room
Age Group: Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Summer Reading Program
Registration Required
Event Details:

Imaginative magic, hilarious visual humor, and terrific audience interaction are in store as A2 Magic presents its "Best of the Best" material from over 18,000 children's and family performances.

Business Book Club

7:00pm–8:00pm
Adults
Business/Career, Book Club
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board 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.

Knit 2gether Knitting group

10:00am–11:30am
Adults
Arts & Crafts
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.

ICUBE TEEN INVASION: Zines, Blackout Poetry, and Learn to Crochet

2:30pm–4:00pm
Teens
Arts & Crafts, iCube, Summer Reading Program
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: iCube Makerspace
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, iCube, Summer Reading Program
Event Details:

Drop in at the iCube makerspace for TEEN ONLY crafts this summer!

Summer Songfest

6:30pm–8:30pm
Adults, All Ages
Family, Friends of the Library
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: Do It Again Band      

 

Summer Songfest is sponsored by:

August Youth Grab and Go Kit

All Day
Youth
Grab & Go
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Information Desk - 1st Floor
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Grab & Go
Event Details:

Stop by the Library beginning at 10am to pick up a youth grab
and go kit. Kits are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and
while supplies last. Limit 1 kit per child. Grades K - 3. 

Tamil Summer Read-A-Thon

10:30am–12:00pm
All Ages
Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Registration Required
Event Details:

This five week workshop is designed to help your child read Tamil fluently and quickly with interactive lessons and fun filled activities provided by our experienced teachers.

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.

Back to School Bingo

2:00pm–3:00pm
Tweens
Arts & Crafts
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: West Meeting Room
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join us for an afternoon of Bingo and win fun school supplies.

Grade: 5-8 

Tuesday Tunes on the Patio

11:30am–1:00pm
Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Family, Friends of the Library
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Patio
Age Group: Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Family, Friends of the Library
Registration Required
Event Details:

Bring a lunch or purchase food from our Cafe and enjoy live music, and good company on the patio.  Children can participate in outdoor games. Concert will be held in meeting room if inclement weather.

Music brought to you by the Friends of Novi Library.

Today's performer: Jim Duprey (playing everything from Sinatra to Jimmy Buffett)

 

Thank you to Diversified Members Credit Union for sponsoring this concert series!

Afternoon Read Book Club

1:00pm–2:00pm
Adults
Book Club
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!

What Are we Reading? There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

 

This Book is available on Libby

SCRATCH ART - Youth

7:00pm–8:00pm
Youth
Arts & Crafts
Upcoming
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 make a one of a kind rainbow scratch art.


 

Grades: K-4

Registration Begins: One month prior

Friends of Novi Library Board Meeting

7:00pm–8:30pm
Adults
Friends of the Library
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Friends of the Library

Knit 2gether Knitting group

10:00am–11:30am
Adults
Arts & Crafts
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.

Library Board Meeting

7:00pm–9:00pm
Library Board
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.

Library Closed

All Day
Closing
Branches:
Novi Public Library
Description:

The Library will reopen on Saturday, August 16 at 10am.

Tamil Summer Read-A-Thon

10:30am–12:00pm
All Ages
Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Registration Required
Event Details:

This five week workshop is designed to help your child read Tamil fluently and quickly with interactive lessons and fun filled activities provided by our experienced teachers.

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.

Tuesday Tunes on the Patio

11:30am–1:00pm
Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Family, Friends of the Library
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Patio
Age Group: Youth, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Family, Friends of the Library
Registration Required
Event Details:

Bring a lunch or purchase food from our Cafe and enjoy live music, and good company on the patio.  Children can participate in outdoor games. Concert will be held in meeting room if inclement weather.

Music brought to you by the Friends of Novi Library.

Today's performer: Matt Watroba (folk music)

 

Thank you to Diversified Members Credit Union for sponsoring this concert series!

Spanish Conversation Group

6:30pm–8:00pm
Teens, Adults
Conversation Groups, Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Board Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Conversation Groups, Cultural/International, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Registration Required
Event Details:

Hola amigos! All levels of Spanish speakers from ZERO to NATIVE are welcome to join us!  High school students welcome. 

 

 

Novi Historical Commission Meeting

7:00pm–8:30pm
Adults
Historical Commission
Library Branch: Novi Public Library
Room: Local History Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Historical Commission
Event Details:

The Novi Historical Commission meets 1x a month to discuss ongoing projects related to the sharing and preserving of Novi's history. All meetings are open to the public.

Knit 2gether Knitting group

10:00am–11:30am
Adults
Arts & Crafts
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.