Lewis & Clark Library Augusta Branch

10/07/2026

The library will be closed Monday, October 12 for Indigenous Peoples' Day.

09/20/2026

09/16/2026

Free books are now available at the Augusta Library

An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the power of a shared reading experience.

09/15/2026

Starting mid-September, get your free copy of In the Heart of the Sea from any Lewis & Clark Library location while supplies last.
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry s***m whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little–known documents-including a long–lost account written by the ship’s cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

09/09/2026

The library will be closed Friday, September 11 for staff training.

08/31/2026

The library will be closed Saturday through Monday, September 5-7 for Labor Day Weekend.

08/27/2026

This September, consider Libby your patron’s ticket to the wizarding world – no trip to King’s Cross Station necessary. MontanaLibrary2Go on Libby will be offering readers free, unlimited access to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone — in every language and format — all September long!
https://lclibrary.org/374/Libby-by-Overdrive

08/26/2026

In 1995, Dolly Parton started mailing books to children in her home county to inspire children to love reading in honor of her dad, who couldn’t read or write.

That idea lives here too. Every month, 2,000 children in Lewis & Clark County find a book in the mailbox — because of neighbors who fund it, volunteers who run it, and a woman from Sevier County, TN who started it all.

Thank you, Dolly. We will always love you.