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📣 Exciting Libby update! You now have automatic access to more digital books and audiobooks, no setup required. Quick refresher:

• YDL partners with a bunch of other Michigan library networks, so patrons can borrow from way beyond our catalog.
• Before, you had to manually add each partner library to your account. That step is no longer required! 🥳
• Just search for any book, and Libby will automatically check if it's available to check out from one of our partner libraries.

Our low-key D&D nights need a new Dungeon Master, and we think it might be you. 🫵 Let us know if you're interested in running a table for our adult players this fall, Mondays or Wednesdays from 6-9pm at the downtown branch.

Interested? Email Stephanie at smorrison@ypsilibrary.org

Tonight we invite you to celebrate the Ypsi Farmers & Gardeners Enduring Legacy Exhibit at YDL-Superior 🌱. Plus: your say in YDL's future, guitar club, and gardening season extenders.

Full lineup: ypsilibrary.org/events 🔗

A comics workshop, garden recipes, back-to-school crafts, D&D and a visit with Bambi the library dog. Full lineup at ypsilibrary.org/events 🔗

Clay, transportation painting, a color science lab, and bubble art... all delightfully messy, all in the library plaza!

📍 Saturday | 11am-1pm | YDL-Michigan

Learn to save a life, then eat a Plant Based Coney! A solid Friday night. A Trinity Health paramedic will be on site to train teens to help in an emergency before professional help arrives. RSVP at ypsilibrary.org/events.
📍 YDL-Michigan | 229 W. Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti | 5:30-8pm

YDL is shaping our next strategic plan, and we need your help. Stop by a listening session to share what you want from your library.

Can't make it? Take our survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N7TGFYV

The Eastern Echo caught up with Monica Porter, head of our Outreach team, about everything we packed into just one bus. We could not be prouder! 🎉 

Read the full story: https://www.easternecho.com/article/2026/08/ypsilanti-district-librarys-bookmobile-brings-library-access-to-community

Young creatives (ages 10-24) spent the past two months writing, recording, producing, and rehearsing with Dante Dorsey (Music Means More, Inc.) and Joel Stralnic (SkyRat Productions Studio), and now it's showtime. Come downtown Friday and support the next generation of local creativity! Free, all ages, everyone is welcome.

📅 Friday, August 7 | 6–8pm
📍 YDL-Michigan Library Plaza

A whole summer of teen creativity comes to a head this Friday at our Annual Noise Permit Concert. 🎤🎸🎶 Then Saturday brings free document shredding and the season finale of Second Saturday Cinema, where we'll screen A League of Their Own under the stars.

See our full calendar at ypsilibrary.org/events

A whole summer of creative workshops culminates in this Friday's Noise Permit Concert. 🎉 Come celebrate everything our young artists have been working on! And heads up: this is the last week of Noise Permit Workshops and summer storytimes! Fall storytimes will begin the week of September 21.

Full lineup at ypsilibrary.org/events

Jacopo and Maddalena Giacopuzzi, internationally acclaimed pianists from a storied musical family in Verona, Italy, are taking the stage at our Whittaker branch this Saturday at 11am. Don't miss it! 🎹

UPDATE: The survey will be open through August 15!

We're planning YDL's next 5 years, and we need your feedback! Share what's working, what's not, and what you'd love to see more of. The survey closes at end of July! ⏰

Join us this Thursday for a free Lunch & Learn on responding to dementia-related behaviors with Michigan Medicine & the Alzheimer's Association. We'll break bread, listen to expert insight, and have plenty of time for a discussion.

📍 YDL-Whittaker

Join instructor Meret Flessenkamper for a virtual, chair-based class that mixes movement, breathwork, and meditation. It's a great way to build balance, strength, and flexibility, all from the comfort of home.

Fridays from 12-1pm, ages 55+. RSVP at ypsilibrary.org/events

We're accepting applications for local creators to set up shop at our Teen Entrepreneur Market at Noise Permit on Friday, August 7. Do you make art, prints, zines, teas, tinctures, or other handmade creations? We want to see it all!

Reach out to Stephanie (our Teen Librarian) at smorrison@ypsilibrary.org by next Friday, July 31 to apply. Not sure if your creation counts? Just ask!

This Thursday, social worker Rebecca Nieuburt will be at the library with real tools, real talk, and no scare tactics. Register at ypsilibrary.org/events (walk-ins welcome too!) Help us spread the word!

Only 2 spots left in our 3D Printing miniseries! 🖨️ Also this week: Friday's after-hours Teen STEAM Cafe goes ecological (there's still time to register! 🌍), plus Life-Sized Board Games, tons of summer programming, and Drop-in D&D.

Register at ypsilibrary.org/events!

Come join us for communal pot painting, a community conversation, and activities celebrating Black queerness and community in Ypsi and Michigan at large 🌈✊🏾

Conversation, communal pot painting, and connection in the downtown library plaza from 3-5:30pm. Also this week: mahjong, meditation, crochet marathons, Bingo, cornhole, and more.

Full lineup + registration at ypsilibrary.org/events