Roxborough Neighborhood Library

Join us on Saturday, July 11th for a chess tournament! Roxborough Library Chess Club will host a kids tournament and adult tournament. Sign up at the link in the comments! If you're out of practice, stop by our Chess Club every Tuesday at 5:30pm to hone your skills!

This week, Roxborough Library will close early on Thursday, June 18th at 1pm and remain closed on Friday, June 19th in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. We will reopen on Saturday, June 29th at 10am. Check out our display in the Children's department to learn more about the history of Juneteenth!

Our friends at Skinny Joey’s CheeseSteaks have now opened Skinny Joey’s Cheesesteaks Wildwood! It great to see the best cheesesteaks in Philly down the Jersey Shore!

Drop in for an evening of LGBTQ+-inspired tabletop games! Test your 🏳️‍🌈 trivia knowledge, learn some history,or play as a q***r character! We will have a selection of games, or feel free to BYOG.

Games include:

Love Letter: Princess Princess Ever After (ages 10+)
Tea Dragon Society Card Game (ages 10+)
Rainbow Quest! (ages 13+)
Stonewall Uprising (ages 16+)
and more!

⚽Join us on Friday 6/5 at 3:30pm for Science of Soccer: Think Fast! ⚽

Make some noise on Saturday 6/6 with Jump, Jive & Jam! This program is generously sponsored by 🪇

Majors thanks and applause to one of our favorite patrons Cedar who won the Book Song Challenge! As part of the contest, the winner chooses a library to receive a cash prize and Cedar picked us! Thank You Cedar, Sincerely The Roxborough Library!

🌈 There's something for everyone in our June programs! 🌈

New programs:
🍕Thursday 6/4: Teen Video Games & Pizza
🧈Thursday 6/11: Shake Your Own Butter!
⚽ Friday 6/5 & 6/12: Science of Soccer
🏳️‍🌈 Monday 6/15: Pride Month GAYme Night
🎭Saturday 6/27: Audition Workshop with Pretzel Theater
☘ Saturday 6/27: Live Music with Dave Dempsey

Stop by after school for some pizza and video games on the Switch! Thursday, June 4th at 3pm in the meeting room. Ages 13-18 🎮🍕

In May, Roxborough Library is celebrating some of our talented neighbors! We are excited to present a full series of Local Author-Illustrator Storytimes, made possible by a grant from the Lydia Eloise Seibert Foundation.

On Friday, May 29th, at 11am, we welcome Steve Teare (he/him) for a special storytime and craft activity for kids! Steve is the illustrator of Sixteen Games and Hide and Seek, which was just published on May 12!