Join the Summer Reading Challenge

Dig Deeper this summer at the Joliet Public Library! Earn prizes, a free book, and enter extra giveaways by logging the number of pages you read from June 1-July 31! Plus, stay sharp all summer long by reaching your reading goals!

Digital Media Studio at the Ottawa Street Branch

What can you do in the DMS?
Print large format posters, 3D designs, t-shirts
Record music, voice, instrumental, podcasts
Produce videos for commercials, social media, music videos
Restore old photos, digitize vinyl or cassettes
Convert video to digital
Shoot product photography or portraits
Update your website or social media

Call or email dms@jolietlibrary.org for an appointment today!

Bookworm Bags

Fill out our survey and Joliet Library staff will handpick books for you to enjoy---along with some special "bookish items"!

Bookworm Bags can be reserved for children, teens and adults and picked up at either library location. Just wait for your hold notification, then you have five days to pick up your Bookworm Bag. Register here

Multi-Library Geocaching Competition

You can start visiting participating libraries on Monday, June 1. You have until Monday, August 2 to visit the libraries, find the caches, and log your finds for your chance to win a gift card!

Monthly Book List Subscriptions

Sign up for our monthly book list subscriptions, and learn about the latest titles from the genre of your choice! You will be emailed book lists monthly.

Project Burnham

Project Burnham is the library's comprehensive plan to remodel the Joliet Public Library's Ottawa Street Branch. Follow our renovation page as we finalize floor plans and design and plan for construction to start in early 2021.

Learn more about Project Burnham