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Creating Your Personal Health Narrative

Personal health narratives are powerful tools for self-care and for helping others.Each participant will receive a custom journalThe goal is to use one or more of the following as an act of self-discovery, self-care, and self-expression:Manifestos, Personal essays or experiences, Collages of images and text captions, Sketches or comics, PoetryAlready created some of this? Come … Read More

CANCELLED Online Safety Course

CANCELLED Robin Putnam, Events & Outreach Manager from the Office of Consumer Affairs and BusinessRegulation, will present on online safety. The presentation will include information about the Office andwhat they do. It will also cover how to be safe online whether it be on your smart device, social media oronline banking, phishing emails, and general protection … Read More

CANCELLED Technology Support: One on One

CANCELLED Tech Support 4/15 but stop by for our Online Safety Course with Robin Putnam! Are you struggling to navigate the Oak Bluffs Public Library's e-resources? Do you need assistance setting up your laptop, iPad, Kindle, smartphone, or other personal electronic device? Perhaps you just need a refresher on using our library apps? Don't worry, we've … Read More

Library Friends Book Drive

Donate your used books to the LFOB Book Drive!·        Books must be in good to excellent condition –odor-free and without markings or torn pages.·        We are looking for adult, young adult, and children’s books, both fiction and non-fiction.·        Books must be published within the past five years, with the exception that medical and scientific books and travel guides … Read More

School Age Storytime

Join children in grades K-4 (ages 5-10) for jokes, stories, songs, and a social emotional activity.

CANCELLED Tap with Hannah

CANCELLED Saturday, April 15th!Join Hannah on Saturday mornings to discover your inner tap dancer! Class will include a warm-up, instruction to basic tap steps and vocabulary. We will end each class with some fun, light choreography that will keep you tapping until the next class.No experience is necessary, and a limited number of tap shoes … Read More

All Ages Chess Club

Come join Chess Club at its new home at the Oak Bluffs Library! Chess is more popular now than ever. Are you looking for a partner, a challenge, a new move? Come and play at the library with a dedicated group of chess lovers in this fun and welcoming environment.Email amcdonough@clamsnet.org, or tthorpe@clamsnet.org for more information.

Adaptive Yoga

Adaptive Yoga is a style of yoga that considers all bodies and abilities. This class aims to improve patron's flexibility, concentration and strength while remaining accessible to all. Lorrane has been a yoga teacher for many years on island, teaching classes at Yoga on the Vine, private lessons, and her popular summertime morning flow at … Read More

Homeschool Meet Up for Preschool + Kindergarten

Join us for a FREE circle time and show and tell at the Oak Bluffs Library. Leave with a weekly curriculum for home. Great for those looking to begin early education, part time preschoolers, and homeschool 6 and under to have a social learning experience! If you have any questions about this event, contact Sidney Trott … Read More

Open ASL Practice Group

Want to learn ASL? Come drop in on our conversational practice group! No experience necessary, but before joining the practice group please check out the linked videos. Learn this First! 10 Things You Need to Know About ASL (7:23 minutes)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w1ZDaE-whc Signing the Alphabet (8:27 minutes)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFv_mLwBvHc Here are a few other helpful videos, if interested:"The first 150 … Read More