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Welcome to RSA Bookgroups 

The Resource Sharing Alliance (RSA) is a consortium of libraries in Central Illinois that share a common library automation system.  RSA facilitates sharing of materials among its member libraries providing you with access to materials from up to 193 different libraries. RSA's website is http://alsi.sdp.sirsi.net/client/RSAwebsite 

 

Since we share our material, we try to coordinate our bookgroups through this wiki.  Please post your library's schedule if it's available.  Thanks!

 

PLEASE NOTE: CURRENTLY, THIS PAGE IS FOR 2016.  

Please click here for titles from 2015

 

Libraries A-Z

 

Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville

 


 

Beardstown Houston Memorial

January 2016: Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki

 


 

Blessing Health Professions Library in Quincy

 

 

Contact us at 217-228-5520 x. 6970.  Melissa DeVerger

 


Bradford Public Library District

 


 

Brimfield Public Library District 

Brimfield Book Club-4th Monday of the month @ 1pm

 

 

For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.

 


 

Chillicothe Public Library

Books+Tea @ the Library (book club webpage)

 

For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274-2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.

 


 

Eureka Public Library District

Musings on Main – Titles for 2016

 

January – Our Souls at Night   Kent Haruf 
February – Seven Women and the secret  Of Their Greatness  Eric Mataxas 
March -   Empty Mansions   Bill Dedman 

April – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel

 Robin Sloan 
May – Cruel Harvest        Fran Elizabeth Grubb 
June -    Take This Bread       Sara Miles 
July – Traveling With Pomegranates        Sue Monk Kidd 

August – The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed  Out the Window and Disappeared 

Jonas Jonasson 

September – River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey

Candice Millard
October – No book choice / potluck at Maple Lawn/ choose 2017 titles 
November – After You       Jojo Moyes
December – A Highland Christmas   M.C. Beaton

                                            


 

Farmington Area Public Library District

Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)

 

For more information contact the Library at 309-245-2175

 

 


 

Fondulac District Library in East Peoria

YA For All Book Club (YA book discussion for teens and adults), meets second Tuesday of every month at 7pm

 

 

Teen Space Book Club (YA book discussion for grades 8 through 12), meets third Tuesday of every month at 7pm

 

 

To Be Continued Book Club (A series book club for 5-8th graders), meets the third Thursday of every month at 6:30pm

 

 


 

Galesburg Public Library

Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs (tentative list)

January - Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman

February - We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride

March - Boom, Bust, Exodus by Chad Broughton (Big Read tie-in)

April - Sun, Stone, and Shadows (Big Read)

 

Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club (tentative list)

January - The Science of Star Wars by Jeanne Cavelos

February - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

March - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

April - Sun, Stone, and Shadows (Big Read)

 

Food for Thought Book Club (tentative list)

February -Your Water Foot Print: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products by Stephen Leahy

March - The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

April - Planet Taco by Jeffrey Pilcher (Big Read tie-in)

May - Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

June - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

 

 

 

 


 

Illinois Prairie District Public Library - Spring Bay Branch

The Spring Bay Bookies, will celebrate 13 years in Jan.  We meet once a month at our branch library.  We did have two conflicts this past year of not being able to get our selection because not available when the time came to place holds.  We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting.  


 

Lillie M. Evans Library District in Princeville "Talk About a Good Book” Discussion Group

 

Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room

 

Bookgroup blog is at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/ 

Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.

 


Macomb Public Library

Great Reads

Great Reads Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets from September through May (except for December) on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. (November is a first Wednesday due to the library's closing for Veteran's Day.) The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.

 

2016 Selections for Great Reads Book Club
Discussion Date Title Author
January 13 Deep Down Dark
Hector Robar
February 10
The House of Special Purpose John Boyne
March 9
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
April 13 Transatlantic Colum McCann
May 11
My Notorious Life
Kate Manning

 

Mystery Book Club

Mystery Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets the fourth Wednesday every month from August to May at 7:00 pm (*with slight deviations for November and December to accommodate holidays). The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.

 

2016 Selections for Mystery Book Club
Discussion Date Title Author
January 27 Blood Hina Naomi Hirahara
February 24 New Tricks David Rosenfelt
March 23 March Violets Philip Kerr
April 27 The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart
May 25 North of Nowhere Steve Hamilton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patron-run book clubs.

These groups use Macomb Public Library for interlibrary loan of book club titles but are not directly sponsored by our library.

 

Book Club 1

This group usually meets the final Friday of the month and selects the title for the next month on their meeting dates. Some exceptions are made for holidays with this schedule, though. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a selection.

 

Book Club 2

Group usually meets on a Monday roughly every six weeks and selects the next title on their meeting dates. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a title.

 

Book Club 3  

This group meets on the second Friday of the month. The leader has expressed willingness to switch discussion dates of particular titles as needed to accommodate for conflicts with other groups. The group requests 9 titles for each discussion. The majority of selections for this group are borrowed in large print format to accommodate more seasoned readers from a local nursing home.

 

2016 Selections for Book Club 3
Discussion Date Title Author
January 8, 2016
TBD Season-related title  

 

 

 

 

 

There are also book clubs affiliated with our local university, so a few patrons sometimes request titles for those as well. Those patrons usually place their requests on RSACat with no assistance, so I am usually unaware the titles are intended for book club use or how long they may be in use unless the patron expresses concern about being able to renew a title. These particular patrons are usually very responsible about their usage, though, and the titles are usually not in high demand at the time these patrons place their requests. 

 

When we see there is a situation of a book club title not being easily available, we expand our searches to I-Share, SHARE Illinois libraries, and non-RSA libraries in our region.

 

We are in the middle of a construction project. With such a small local collection available, we are not in a position to loan right now. We look forward to resuming loans to other libraries for book clubs and other purposes when the project is complete, though.

 

Contact Carla Ainslie macomblib.carla@gmail.com or macomb.pld.rsa@gmail.com for more information.

 


 

Morton Public Library Book Club

Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL

 

Contact Tahdra for more information:   TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org 

 


 

Normal Public Library

2015 book groups meeting at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal

 

Contact Pixie for more information: pfreymann at normalpl.org 

 


 

Pekin Public Library

2016

January: The Husband's Secret

February: The Tiger's Wife

March: I Am the Cheese


 

Prairie Skies Public Library District  "Bookies" Book Club 

Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 PM

 

 

Tremont District Library

Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.

 

January  

 


 

WYOMING PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK CLUB

Meet at Speer Bank Community Center 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month

 


 

Questions about this wiki?  

Contact Beth Duttlinger

bethd@lmelibrary.org 

Lillie M. Evans Library District

207 N Walnut, PO Box 349

Princeville, IL 61559

lmelibrary.org

 

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