Adults
Online Resources
While the Library is closed, it’s a great time to discover the resources BPL offers online. Check out e-books and audiobooks, take a class, learn a new language, stream your favorite music and much more. Try it out today!
Don’t forget to check out our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter feeds - BPL will also be posting links to other great sites that have other ways to educate, entertain and distract you!
Summer Reading Registration is Open Now!
Beginning May 11th, you can "Imagine Your Story" by signing up for our 2020 Summer Reading program. You can register yourself or sign up as a family group, and Adults can begin logging their reading on June 1st. Log your books, complete weekly activities, and participate in our online events to earn points and enter drawings for wonderful gift cards and grand prize baskets! Click here for more information and to sign up.
Montana Monday Scavenger Hunt
Let’s have some local history fun this May. Each Monday in May, we will post a scavenger hunt online on here on the library’s website and on our social media feeds on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Each week will focus on a new theme, and all the answers will be able to be found in the Montana Memory Project (https://montanamemory.org). Answers will be submitted on our website by Friday each week. A winner will be drawn from all the correct answers for a gift card from Target. Get more details about the scavenger hunt.
Congratulations to Week 2 winner Kathy Slehofer!
The Adult Reading Olympics
May’s Challenge: "In the Olympic Spirit". The 2020 Summer Games may be postponed, but the Olympic Spirit lives on. This month, read a book set in one of the countries that served as host to the Games sometime over the last 50 years.
The Reading Olympics will continue through December, and you can join at any time. Sign up and start working towards your reading goals--or stretch outside your comfort zone with monthly exercises in different genres or authors. Log your reading to earn points, and complete monthly reading challenges! You will be awarded badges for the completed challenges, and be entered into quarterly prize drawings. At the end of the year, top readers will be entered into grand prize drawings based on the number of points you earn! Are you ready for this challenge? Sign Up Now!
100 Hats Challenge
Our library Knitting Circle is challenging itself to gather 100 locally hand knit or crocheted hats to send to children, teens, and adults who need help staying warm in 2020. To date we have collected over 200 hats from community crafters to be distributed to Family Services serving the Billings and Yellowstone County area, and Operation Gratitude to support veterans and active military serving far from home. *We ask that knitters and crocheters continue to create hats and scarves through the COVID-19 disruption and to store their creations at home until it is safe once again for the library to collect these items. Follow these links for guidelines and free patterns if you are crafting for Operation Gratitude. Please remember to attach a tag listing the item’s fiber content!