Join DPL’s year-long reading challenge for teens and adults, Read Around the World! Let’s see how far you can travel in 2022. In this challenge, we will read about diverse locations, topics, and authors. Monthly reading challenges will be based on the world’s 24 time zones. Our first list, available January 2, will “take place” […] Read More

Deerfield loves reading classics. Works by Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy are always popular checkouts at the library, and maybe always will be. Occasionally, a title like Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here will become newly relevant and shoot up our charts. In the past year, Deerfield patrons have also consistently checked out books by Flannery […] Read More

It’s voting time for our Fall Photography Scavenger Hunt! September’s participants used three different prompts to take some spectacular photos of Deerfield and beyond. Now, it’s time for you to vote! Browse through the gallery online or in-person on the fireplace and vote either using the online voting form or cast a physical ballot near […] Read More

It’s that time of year again… the time when everyone starts making their “Best of 2016” lists. We, of course, couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make one of our own and share our staff’s favorite books, movies, and TV on DVD from 2016. So here it is! We just have one disclaimer: This blog […] Read More

Public Library Access and Community for Everyone. Are you looking for your place? Look no further! At the Deerfield Public Library, we are committed to meeting the needs of ALL our patrons. With that in mind, we are very excited to announce that we are introducing a new program series geared specifically towards our adult […] Read More

As you may have noticed it’s been a bit of a crazy year. The Grammy awards are usually held in early February but they have been delayed several times this year. They are finally scheduled to be announced in mid-March. The Grammys have also not been without controversy this year. In every past Deerfield Public […] Read More

Hello Teens! This month’s Grab & Go craft is a two-sided felt Love Monster Plushie! Everything you need except for scissors and glue can be found in the kit which is available at the outdoor Creation Station at the Library. Teen kits will have a blue ‘TEEN’ sticker on them. It looks like this:  This craft […] Read More

Sometimes, the library feels like a big popularity contest. We have entire shelves of titles by James Patterson and Stephen King. And right now, everyone wants to read The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. But there are thousands of items in our collection, and it’s about time someone gave some love to the more obscure […] Read More

Alaska always seemed like that mysterious frontier that everyone was curious about. Nowadays, though, it is easier to reach and explore. “Sweet Home Alaska,” by Carole Estby Dagg, takes us back to a time when the state was still an enigma and brave pioneers were looking for a new world filled with fortune and hope. […] Read More

Now is the perfect time to get hooked on S.E. Grove’s The Mapmakers Trilogy, a fantasy series, starting with “The Glass Sentence.” If you’re anything like me and enjoy binge reading entire series, now is the perfect time to get started as the final book will be released this July. While “The Glass Sentence” is […] Read More