Chippewa Falls Public Library

09/04/2026

Registration to secure your spots at October's Chippewa Valley Book Festival is now open! You don't have to read the book to enjoy the festival... but it does help! Place your books on hold today.

Note: Youth, teens, and their families do NOT need to register in advance for youth events and author presentations.

Save your seat! Run, don't walk!

cvbookfest.com/register

09/04/2026

The Library will be CLOSED Monday, September 7 for Labor Day.

School Year Hours will begin on Tuesday, September 8.
Hours will be Monday through Thursday 9am-7pm. Friday 9am-5:30pm and Saturday 9am-1pm.

09/03/2026

New for teens!

Starting in September, middle and high schoolers are invited to attend our Diamond Painting Club. Join us in the Teen Area on Tuesday, September 22 from 4:30-6pm for free-style creating options and diamond painting kits. Snacks will be available.

Visit our website for more details.

09/02/2026

New month... new books!

Stay in the know about all the brand-new books added to the Young Adult collection in September and October by clicking the link below to follow our 2026 - New YA Books list.

In the first two days alone we added 24 young adult books: a mix of Marvel comics, TMNT comics, beautiful Hunger Games paperbacks, a short novel about a dog that gets turned into a football player, a cozy mystery, books to make you laugh and cry, tales that bring a sense of wonder, stories to make you shake in your boots, and so much more!

These titles are new the Chippewa Falls Public Library young adult collection. Items are added to this list periodically in September and October 2026.

09/02/2026

This September, Chippewa Falls Public Library invites you to celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month and discover how a library card can hit all the right notes, no matter what your tastes are.

With a library card, you can do more than check out books. From free classes and job resources to homework help, streaming media, and cultural events, today’s libraries connect communities to information, inspiration, and each other.

Did you lose your library card? During the month of September, replacement cards are FREE! Stop in at the Circulation Desk.

09/01/2026

Today we are heading into a month that is on the cusp of seasonal change. September is also dedicated as National Recovery Month, when we celebrate the strength of individuals in recovery and the dedication of the professionals who make recovery possible. 🌼

The month was established in 1989 to increase public awareness surrounding mental health and addiction recovery.

The initiative came from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) who wanted to provide those in recovery a time to honor and celebrate their success stories and to illustrate to those still dealing with a substance use disorder that living in recovery is possible.

Locally, Chippewa County administers a Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) program for people of all ages who have a substance use disorder and/or a mental illness.

09/01/2026

Our early childhood programming resumes this month - we can't wait to see you back at storytime.

Visit our events page and website for full details.

Storytime @ the Park - Tuesdays at 10:30am, starting September 15
Baby-Toddler Storytime - Wednesdays at 9:30am, starting September 16
Preschool Storytime - Thursdays at 9:30am, starting September 17
Family Storytime -Fridays at 9:30am, starting September 18

https://www.chippewafallslibrary.org/

08/31/2026

Do you have school spirit, yet?

Visit magical academies, boarding schools, and performing arts/sports training centers with the books in our Boarding Schools & Dark Academia list.

https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/1901515459/2064223833

08/31/2026

Recognize any of these items from a past visit to the Chippewa Falls Public Library? Please come and claim them - anything unclaimed will be recycled after Labor Day so we can start off the school year with an empty lost and found!

08/27/2026

August is starting to wrap up; today we are looking back to not only the end of this year’s Summer Reading programs, but visiting the 1956 season.

In a very frail scrap book of library events in the 1950s we found the original, sepia-colored photo that was published in the newspaper! It shows the winners in the Name-The-Mountain contest, Karen Ann LeDuc and James Kenney. Karen’s winning suggestion was MT. JAGGEDY. (The runner-up James also earned a prize for READSMORE MT.)

Any kid who read 10 books or more was invited to a “Summer Reading Club party” in the City Auditorium in August. 144 of them attended and there was “a special recognition of the 31 children who had reached the top of Mount Jaggedy by reading and reporting on 50 books.” They were named “Conquerors of the Mountain.” [Chippewa Herald-Telegram, June 23 and Aug. 9, 1956]

70 years later, the program is called the Summer Learning Challenge. We organized many events throughout June and July. And our participation stats for the season showed that were 739 entries from children and 318 entries from teens who were awarded prizes, both big and small.

The 2026 theme was “Unearth a Story” which refers to (among other things) dinosaurs—always a popular topic with kids. 🦖

Our three cardboard dinosaurs were named after suggestions from kids, and the occasional grown-up: PICKLE, MEG-A-ZINE (covered in a magazine images collage) and RAINBOW PALLETTEOSAURUS (who likes books about food!)