Eau Claire Library

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❤️ We need your ideas. We need to know what’s working. And we need to know how to make the library even better. Please take our 10-minute survey: ecpubliclibrary.info/survey

🔴LIBRARY CLOSED: Due to current travel conditions and the forecast of additional severe weather, the library will be closed today, Thursday, February 23. We expect to resume regular hours tomorrow, Friday, February 24. DETAILS: ecpubliclibrary.info/library-will-b…

🛑IMPORTANT: Due to forecasted severe weather, the library will close early today (Wednesday, February 22) at 5 p.m. The library may remain closed through Thursday, February 23, depending on travel conditions. MORE: ecpubliclibrary.info/library-to-clo…

IMPORTANT: The library will be closed Monday, January 16 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Staff members are attending in-service training. The library will resume its normal hours on Tuesday, January 17.

😀Happy New Year, Eau Claire! Let's take a quick look back at some fun library stuff from 2022. Thank you so much for making the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library a part of your lives!

🛑LIBRARY CLOSED FRIDAY, DEC. 23 - Due to today’s forecasted severe weather, and in accordance with guidance to avoid non-emergency travel, the library will be closed on Friday, Dec. 23. All scheduled events have been cancelled. We’ll also be closed Dec. 24 through Dec. 26.

🚫CLOSING AT NOON! Due to today’s forecasted severe weather, the library will close early—at noon, Thursday, Dec. 22. All scheduled events have been cancelled. The library is expected to resume regular hours tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 23. We’ll let you know if that changes.

❤️Today on #GivingTuesday please consider the library’s endowment fund. Supporting this fund means supporting fantastic library programs such as our Dabble Box Makerspace, Sawdust City Sounds, and our circulating art collection. Donate here: eccf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/cre…

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📢 SUBMISSIONS END OCT. 31 • Musicians! Want to see your music in our Sawdust City Sounds lineup? Submissions are closing soon. A $200 honorarium will be offered for each album our jury selects (at least 4 tracks). Full details: sawdustcitysounds.org

😎We've still got two days of Grand Reopening Week Events left! Check it out: ecpubliclibrary.info/reopening

TONIGHT! EAU CLAIRE! 6PM! Come see me with Nickolas Butler ⁦@wiscobutler⁩ at the new ⁦@ECPubLib⁩! Whispers in the Driftless: Maggie Ginsberg and Nickolas Butler in Conversation ⁦@CVWritersGuild⁩ ⁦@BJHollars⁩ #eauclaire #debutnovel facebook.com/events/le-phil…

2/2 - "...where they may ask all the questions they please and always find someone on the staff to whom it is a pleasure to search for the needed information as far as time and other duties will allow.”❤️

1/2 -❤️We found this in a library Annual Report from 1896: “Readers are granted free and unrestricted access to the shelves, where they can spend all the time they wish in examining the books themselves and deciding as to their merits; ...”

😍 IT'S GRAND REOPENING WEEK! To celebrate our return to downtown Eau Claire, join us for special events running Monday, September 26 through Saturday, October 1. What events? Great question! Just follow the link ... ecpubliclibrary.info/reopening

🚫It's #bannedbooksweek … Stop in to the the library to ask about our lists of commonly challenged and banned books. For those interested, we're happy to help you place holds or check them out.

♥️ Foggy days are great for reading. ♥️ Hours: M–Th: 9am–8pm | F–Sa 9am–6pm | Su: Closed

📢Please join us for the library's Grand Reopening Week, with special events running Monday, Sept. 26 through Saturday, Oct. 1. Details coming soon! In the meantime, check out Volume One's beautiful take on the newly reopened library! WATCH: youtu.be/x5ZEcIUBeOk

❤️The library is now open at 400 Eau Claire Street in downtown Eau Claire! You may once again visit the building to use core services and see the newly renovated and expanded space.