Welcome!

photo of Warren Public LibraryWelcome to the Warren Public Library website.  From here you can access our catalog, learn about upcoming library events, and find links to other resources.  We serve Salamonie Township in Huntington County, Indiana and anyone else with an active Evergreen Indiana library card.  Founded in 1916, we are now over 100 years old!

 
 
 
 
 
 
Dec 11 – Murder Mystery Bookclub – 7PM
 
 
“Instead of presents this Christmas, a true crime podcaster is opening up a cold case…Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget.
She’s the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was convicted of murdering her best friend Steph, and is suspected in the disappearance of two sisters, also good friends of Madeline’s, who have been missing for nearly a decade.
It’s an investigation that has obsessed her father Sheriff James Martin right up until his stroke took his faculties. Harley Granger has a gift for seeing things that others miss. He wasn’t much of a novelist, but his work as a true crime author and podcaster has earned him fame and wealth–and some serious criticism for his various unethical practices. Still, visiting Little Valley to be closer to his dying father has caused him to look into a case that many people think is closed–and some want reopened. And he has a lot of questions about the night Stephanie Cramer was killed, Ainsley and Sam Wallace disappeared, and Madeline Martin was left for dead, bleeding out on a riverbank.
Since Evan Handy went to jail, three other young women have gone missing, most recently a young college dropout named Lolly. Five young women missing in the same area in a decade. Are they connected? Was Evan Handy innocent after all? Or was there someone else there that night? Someone who is still satisfying his dark appetites?
As Christmas approaches and a blizzard bears down, Madeline and her childhood friend Badger return to a past they both hoped was dead–to find the missing Lolly and to answer questions that have haunted them both, discovering that the truth is more terrible and much closer to home than they think. Coupling a picturesque, cozy setting with a deeply unsettling suspenseful plot, Christmas Presents is a chilling seasonal novella that can be enjoyed all year long.”
 
 
 
Dec 18 – Old Favorites Bookclub – 7PM
 
 
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season.
 
 
 
Monday Jan 6 – 4:30-5:30
 
This is a program for Ages 10-Adult! Gather any old magazines you no longer want and a friend, come to the library to learn about vision boards, and create your own vision board for 2025 with supplies provided by WPL.
 
 
 
 
Our 2025 Winter Reading Challenge is fast approaching! To hold everyone over until the big excitement, we’re offering a fun bingo challenge on Beanstack starting December 1 and running until February 1 (right before Winter Reading starts).

This challenged is genre-based, so be prepared to read outside of your comfort zone! Score a bingo and come into the library to get a prize. Open to all ages, and only available through the free Beanstack app/website!

https://warrenlibin.beanstack.org/
 
 
 
 
 
 
Attention – Residents at Heritage Pointe of Warren
 
Residents at Heritage Pointe of Warren who have difficulty leaving the facility can now have books delivered and picked up at their home! We will even help with library card sign up. Residents can check out books, movies, audiobooks, and magazines – the same as any walk-in patron. Residents will also have access to Libby and Hoopla, for e-books and audio books that they can read or listen to on their devices!
 
This program is completely free! Call the Library at 260-375-3450 for more information.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We now have a Keurig available for public use at WPL! We have a selection of coffees, teas, and hot chocolates available, with a $1.00 suggested donation. Come and sit in the air conditioning and relax with a book!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Starting April 1st
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Warren Weekly at the Library
 
 
Print outs of the Warren Weekly are available at the library. Pick up the current and previous week when you are curious about local news.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Overdrive/Libby Switchover to Indiana Digital Library Instructions
 
Concerned your digital library says there are only 22 books in the entire app?  20 that have holds, and there other 2 say “not available?”  Our digital library has been been moved, and combined with another digital library to give everyone even MORE titles.  
 
 
Website:
• Click the gold Sign In button
• Select Warren Public Library
• Enter your card number with NO spaces
 
Libby app:
• Yes there is an app.  Download from your phone’s store
• We recommend the Libby app, as the OverDrive app has been retired
• Tap the bottom button of three lines, it should be in the middle
• Under “Add Library,” search for Indiana Digital Library.  As of right now the symbol should be a yellow and blue card
• Tap IDL to add it
• Select Warren Public Library
• Enter your card number with NO spaces

 

 

 

Indiana Digital Library – Website link to browse and check your account

The Indiana State Library has announced the formation of a new statewide e-book consortium, the Indiana Digital Library, launching on March 1. Nearly 200 public libraries in the state will all share the OverDrive platform to create a statewide consortium of e-books and magazines. This new consortium – made up of libraries that serve populations under 150,000 – will benefit libraries, taxpayers and library users. Patrons of consortium member libraries will have the ability to borrow materials from both their own library’s collections and the member library collections. The State Library is paying the platform fees for the consortium and 100% of the member libraries’ fees will be spent on materials. 

A volunteer library team will also assist with collection development for libraries and will help ensure the efficient usage of the consortium’s funds. Libraries may either purchase titles for their collection on their own or may chose to assign their funds to the collection development team. 

“The new Indiana Digital Library consortium will be a great service and benefit to Indiana libraries and the customers of Indiana libraries. This collaboration is a great example of Indiana libraries working together to provide high quality services to library users,” said Jake Speer, State Librarian.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

BIG DIGITALIZATION ANNOUNCEMENT

HISTORIC WARREN NEWSPAPERS NOW ONLINE


The Warren Tribune and the Warren Weekly are now available on the Internet via the Warren Public Library’s (WPL) website.


There are nearly 37,000 searchable pages available of The Warren Tribune (1898-1985), and nearly 8,000 searchable pages available of the Warren Weekly (1986-2000).


The website allows you to search, pan, view, zoom in, zoom out, clip, fit to width, fit to height, rotate, view previous object, view previous page, advance page, and print the newspaper pages with the click of your mouse.

 

 

NEW LIBRARY SERVICE ANNOUCEMENT

Attention Warren Public Library cardholders, let us introduce you to Hoopla!

Hoopla is a digital service that expands your options even further.  Hoopla offers:

  • Audiobooks
  • Comics
  • eBooks
  • Movies
  • Music
  • Television shows

Very simple instructions to get you started on Hoopla:

  1. To sign up, click the link here.  https://www.hoopladigital.com
  2. Near the top click on “Get Started Today.”
  3. Put in your preferred email address.
  4. Set up a password.
  5. On “Choose Your Library,” select Warren Public Library.
  6. Enter your library card number.
  7. Enter your library PIN.Don’t remember your PIN?  Call us at 260-375-3450 and we can reset it for you.
  8. PLEASE NOTE – As of right now, each card is limited to just FIVE checkouts per month.

 

 

Online Database Feature – World Book Online

Did you know the library has access to several research databases, some geared for school curriculum?  World Book Online lists its mission as such:

“To enhance learning and reading for children around the world by developing trustworthy, engaging content to create products that will engage children of all ages at home, on the go, in the classroom or in libraries worldwide. We aspire to establish World Book as a renowned, global, adaptive, and mission-driven enterprise that helps kids learn and read throughout their entire childhood journey.”

Click on the link, enter your library card number, and have access to this up-to-date classic encyclopedia series.

 

 

New AWE Learning Computer is at WPL

Look upstairs for a computer designed with engaging activities for our young readers.  Science, technology, reading, engineering, art, and math.

-Ages 1-14: Created specifically for young learners!

-Award-winning content: Providing hours of education and fun!

-70+ Software titles: Over 4,000 learning activities.

-Correlated content: Aligned to STEM/STREAM and correlated to academic standards.

-Safe environment: Self-contained learning solution keeps children away from unwarranted websites and content.

-Engaging and fun! Full of child-friendly images, sounds, songs & videos.

-Ideal for all learning styles: Auditory, visual, tactile & kinesthetic learners.

-Enhances school readiness.