Author: Brittany Burchett

Hello Beavercreek Community!

Summer Reading starts June 1^st and we are so excited to have everyone here for our Kick-off Party.  Beavercreek’s Summer Reading Kick-off is on June 1 from 12-2 p.m.  We have Jungle Island animals that will be out on our front lawn.  We will also be serving Cake Hope Love cookies – they always give us such fun buttercream cookie shapes! That day, we will also start passing out our SUMMER SWAG.  Our photo spot will be available all summer long where Booker will welcome you into Beavercreek’s Summer Reading Park.  We are so eager to have you here!

June and July will be packed with magicians, animals and fun craft programs.  Our theme is “Unearth a Story” and we have worked extra hard to give you all of the dinosaur puns and programs.  It is always wonderful when a theme attracts such excitement from our librarians – we are so excited to be surrounded by dinosaurs this summer.  Our photo spot will be available all summer long where Booker will welcome you into Beavercreek’s Summer Reading Park.  

As you read this summer, do not forget to come in and claim your prizes.  When you complete your reading, you will be put into a drawing for the grand prize.  Can you tell that we love summer reading?

Make plans this summer with the Carol Graff Beavercreek Library!

Click this link for a full calendar of programs and events.

Greetings to all our Beavercreek patrons!

I am so grateful to be writing this blog with the sun shining into my office.  Beavercreek is beautiful in the spring! 

We have so much coming up in the next two months.  Beavercreek City School’s 2nd grade classes will all visit us in April.  We will have a booth at Spring into Adventure put on by Beavercreek Parks.  Also, you will see our librarians visit your schools in May to gear up for our Summer Reading Club starting June 1st!  I am always astounded by the classes, crafts and activities put on by our children and adult librarians.  We have so many book clubs, story times and craft sessions for our kids and some fantastic garden and musician programs coming up.  

On April 11, we will start our Plant Club for adults – you can craft and gab about new plants that you’ve found or ideas that  you have.  

On May 21, we will have Glen Helen here for their program, “Hunters of the Sky.”  

Here is a link to all of our programs this April and May in Beavercreek.

We are excited to see you around town and in YOUR library this Spring – stop on in and see us! 

We have had quite the winter already and I am eager to write about programs and events happening in the next couple of months.  As I’m writing this, we are expecting anywhere from six to ten inches of snow!  Here’s hoping that they have miscalculated their estimations!  February and March are coming up next and our librarians have been hard at work to bring you some wonderful times to be a part of.  

We will have our annual Food for Fines week, February 9-15.  During this week, you can bring in any non-perishable food item and we will remove $1.00, per item, from your overdue fines.  This is a great time to look in the pantry and bring in any food that you don’t plan to use and is not expired.  We will be donating the food received from this drive to Beavercreek Fish.  We also have so much for our adults and families in February. We have a dance demonstration by Vu-Do Swing, a concert with Jim McCutcheon, a Coretta Scott King story time, and even a Storybook Ball!  Ms. Lynne has a new story time on Wednesdays and Ms. Ruth has a French class that will begin this month.  We also have three different movie nights coming up – two for adults and one for teens. 

March will also be rocking here at the Carol Graff Beavercreek Library.  We will have our Quarterly Friends of the Library Booksale from March 23 – April 3. We will have Tony Peters as our first Saturday artist.  We also are so lucky to have a selection of gardening programs offered to get us all ready for spring.  

We are eager to have you at the Carol Graff Beavercreek Library – this is YOUR library.

For all of our programs at the Carol Graff Beavercreek Library, click here.

Hello everyone!

It is great to write to you all again and tell you about the awesome things we have coming up this holiday season and into the new year.  Our librarians have been working hard to give you some amazing things to help start and continue those traditions with your families each year.  First and foremost, I want to thank you all for being such great patrons to our library.  We are grateful to be able to serve you.

We have an amazing December coming up.  Our biggest event is Winter Welcome on December 12th from 5-8.  This happens at Wartinger Park and is the highlight of the season.  There will be Santa and one of his reindeer ready to meet everyone, along with Booker T. Fox from the library.  Go on a tour of the different houses and find surprises inside like cookies, crafts and games.  It truly is a wonderful night.  I will see you all there! 

Our other December events include, the 3rd annual Winter Craft-stravaganza on December 13, Holiday Crafts and Stories with Mr. Tim on December 15th, and Scary and Bright laser tag with Ms. Julie on December 20th.

In January, we have Wolf Moon Howl on the 3rd, Blue Ribbon Kitchen for our adults on the 14th, and Disgusting Critters Book Club on the 17th. 

This is just a taste of all the programs we have here in Beavercreek during the holiday season.  Please click here to see them all.

Happy Fall to all our patrons. 

I absolutely love this time of year. I love the mums and the leaves and especially love the cool breeze. 

We have so many things coming up for October and November.  Our neighbors at the Fairborn Library are having their Terrifying Trivia on October 18th.  Here at BeaverCREEP, we are starting off the spooky season with a Literary Ghost Walk: “We Read Dead People” on October 3rd at 7 p.m.  We also have two spooky movie nights happening after hours on October 16th and October 30th.  

We have musicians scheduled to come to Beavercreek and play for us on the first Saturdays of the month.  On October 4th, we have 3 Rivers Old Time Music and on November 1st, we have Midwestern Mrs.  These are always free and fun performances. We really hope you will come check these musicians out! 

For our teens and children, we have Macabre Makers (Oct 22/Teens) and then Holiday Crafts and Stories (Oct 20) and finally, a Costume Parade (Oct 30).  

You can find out more about these events and more scheduled for you by clicking here.

I wish you a wonderful Fall Season whether you are a Gilmore Girl or a Twilight Fan. 

We have something for everyone here at the library.

This is YOUR Carol Graff Beavercreek Library.

Brittany Burchett

Head Librarian, Carol Graff Beavercreek Library

Hello again, Beavercreek!

It has been a wonderful summer with so many amazing programs and visits from you all.  We love seeing everyone enjoy our library and are so grateful to be wrapping up such a successful Summer Reading Challenge.

It is hard to believe that August and September will so soon be here. It feels like summer break just started and now we are buying school supplies and going school shoe shopping. I want to make sure each parent remembers that we do have free tutors here at the library starting August 27 on Wednesdays from 4-7 and Saturdays from 10-1.  These tutors can help your students from grades K-12.  

In August, we also have our Stuffy Sleepover on August 8 (ages 2-6) and Crossword Contest (adults) on August 9. Paul’s Cool Scales has been rescheduled for August 12 at Peace Lutheran Church. Our Youth and Adult Services departments always do such an excellent job with story times, book clubs and crafts for all ages. To find a calendar of all of our events please follow this link.

For September, Beavercreek will be busy with the Popcorn Festival on the 6th and 7th. If you do not have a yard sign yet, please grab one from our booth at the popcorn festival or at any of your local branches. Teen Fan Fest will also be happening again at the Carol Graff Beavercreek Library on September 13 from 6-8 p.m. This has been a fantastic event for the past three years and we are excited to welcome our Greene County Teens to Beavercreek again.

And last but not least, we will have Chalk the Parks! Where you can do sidewalk chalk at all of your favorite parks surrounding the Beavercreek Library.  This will happen every Tuesday at 3:30 at a different park each week.  We are excited to partner with our parks and show our patrons just a little piece of what makes Beavercreek and Greene County so amazing.

I am so excited for the upcoming Fall season with all of the community events and programs coming up. I love being a part of the Homecoming Parade and all of the community fun!

Thank you for choosing the Greene County Public Library – we appreciate YOU!

Brittany Burchett

Head Librarian, Carol Graff Beavercreek Library

Hello Beavercreek!

We are so excited for our 2025 Summer Reading Club.  Our annual Kick Off Party on June 2^nd from 12-2pm where we’ll have games, cookies and some animal guests! Summer Reading is my absolute favorite time of the year.  It is wonderful to see so many patrons and families leave with arm loads of books, movies and games. 

Our theme this year is color our world. So look around the library for hints to artists and community expressions.  Along with the artsy theme, we have a Color Run event at Dominick Lofino Park on June 3^rd and a local artist demonstration on June 7^th.  We also have Train Your Dragon Day on June 13^th and the adults have a Cozy Coffee Corner program on June 21^st!

July will be packed as well with Stingrays at Peace Lutheran Church on July 1^st.  We also have a whodunit program titled, “Mona Lisa is Missing,” in this program, you have to find Miss Mona and then you can paint her yourself! (July 19) Our adults have a squeegee art program and a sewing and costuming expert here holding office hours on July 26^th.

The programs I’ve listed above are just a taste of all that we have prepared for you this summer in Beavercreek.  We have worked hard to make this a fun and enriching summer for all of our patrons. 

See you soon!

Brittany Burchett

Head Librarian, Carol Graff Beavercreek Library