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: THIS PAGE IS FOR 2023
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
We meet the 2nd Thursday of the Month
Our book club meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 5 p.m.
Book Club est. May 2006
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1:00pm
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or awood@brimfieldlibrary.org.
For January 2023 - we are reading A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller
February 2023 - we are reading The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore
Books+Tea @ the Library meets on the 4th Monday of the month (book club webpage)
For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274--2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.
Reader's Group meets the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the Don O'Hara Reading Room at the Library.
Our book club (RIOT ACT - Readers In Our Town Are Coming Together) meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 pm.
January-
February -
March -
April -
May -
June -
July -
August -
September -
October -
Musings on Main
Book Selections 2022
First Thursdays @ 6:30pm
Farmington Area Public Library District
Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)
JANUARY: The Undertakers Daughter - picking up Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor
FEBRUARY: Dirt Creek - picking up The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
MARCH: The Lies I Tell - picking up TBD
APRIL:
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JULY:
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SEPTEMBER:
OCTOBER:
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DECEMBER:
After Thoughts Book Club at Hanna City Community Center (Last Monday of each month except for May and August at 9:30am)
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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
Please note: we DO loan our book club kits to other libraries for book discussions. Contact Jane (jane.easterly@galesburglibrary.org or 309-343-6118) if you want to borrow one of our kits.
Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club
Food for Thought Book Club
Buzzwords Book Club
Starting 10/25/21, our Book Club will meet the last Monday of the month at 7:30 pm at the Library, except December (no meeting) and May (one week earlier).
1/30/23: The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom
2/27/23: Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
3/27/23: All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
4/24/23: The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore
5/22/23: The Girl from Guernica, by Karen Robards
6/26/23: Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Turning Pages Book Club
Best Little Book Club by a Dam Site - Group formed fall of 2002 and named January 2003. Henry has been using variations on this theme for many years. The first instance I found was in the 1 February 1872 paper.
We meet at 9:30 on the Second Monday of the month. We generally pick 6 months of books at a time.
Book Buzz meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 1 pm.
Spring Bay Branch
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 20 years in January. Meeting are held once a month at the Spring Bay Branch. We hope to avoid conflicts with other book clubs in getting our selections, and the past year proved successful. We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting.
Adult Book Club meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
1/16/23: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
2/20/23: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
3/20/23: The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura
4/17/23: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (NEA Big Read)
5/15/23: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
6/19/23: The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
7/17/23: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
8/21/23: The Maid by Nita Prose
9/18/23: The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
10/16/23: Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
11/20/23: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
12/18/23: The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
"Talk About a Good Book” Discussion Group
Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
2023 (Our 20th year)
Blog available online at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/
Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.
Page Turners
Page Turners is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. They meet monthly on Mondays 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Macomb Public Library multi-purpose room. Usually the group meets on the 2nd Monday of the month, though sometimes they meet on the 3rd Monday if there is a Monday holiday closure on the usual meeting date.
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 library staff assistance, so staff is usually unaware the titles are intended for book club use or how long materials 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 non-RSA libraries.
Contact Carla Ainslie macomblib.carla@gmail.com or macomb.pld.rsa@gmail.com for more information.
Our Book Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 PM. New members and visitors are always welcome! We meet in person, but readers are welcome to join us on Zoom. Just email us at elmwoodlib@gmail.com to get the link.
Books & Bites is held at local restaurants on the third Tuesday of the month. Contact Emma Roth Smith at emmas@mortonlibrary.org
Required Reading will be held the second Thursday of each month Contact Shannon at shannonk@mortonlibrary.org
Stranger Than Fiction: A Nonfiction Book Club meets monthly, usually on the 2nd Wednesday from 6:30-7:30 pm. Beginning in June, we will meet at the Beer Hall at DESTIHL, in Normal. Contact: Rhiannon - rhiannon@normalpl.org
January 2023: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
February 2023: Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
March 2023: Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond
April 2023: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
May 2023: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
June 2023: This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
July 2023: I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir by Jan Grue
August 2023: Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
September 2023: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
October 2023: People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry
November 2023: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
December 2023: The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Romance Me Book Club meets monthly, usually on the 4th Thursday from 6:30-7:30 pm in the Community Room.
We meet the 1st Monday of the month at 2 and 6:30 (same book both times)
I ORDER 42 BOOKS EACH MONTH (sorry to deplete the supply) Beth bbradford@pekinpubliclibrary.org
2023
Jan – Violeta by Allende
Feb/The Maid –
March/Band of Sisters
April Bewilderment by Richard Powers
May/The Measure by Erlick
June/Black Cake by Wilkerson
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 pm
All are welcome
ABC book club
Meets at Ashland location on the third Tuesday of each month @ 6:30pm
Bookies--meet in the Library on the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 PM
TBD
Renaissance Readers--meet in the library on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:15 AM
TBD
Unshelved--meets in the library on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM
TBD
20s & 30s SciFi/Horror reading group -- meets in the library on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 PM.
TBD
Literary Angles--meet at the library on the third Tuesday each month at 1:30 PM
TBD
All Over the Page--meets at local restaurants on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM
TBD
Third Thursday Bookclub
YA Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)
Youth Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
We meet the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM in the Main library study rooms. (We do not meet during June/July, due to Summer Reading.)
Meet at the Paramount Theater at 6 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month
January and February we will meet at One Eleven Coffee at 11:30 a.m.
2023
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
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: THIS PAGE IS FOR 2023
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
We meet the 2nd Thursday of the Month
Our book club meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 5 p.m.
Book Club est. May 2006
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1:00pm
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or awood@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library meets on the 4th Monday of the month (book club webpage)
For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274--2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.
Reader's Group meets the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the Don O'Hara Reading Room at the Library.
Our book club (RIOT ACT - Readers In Our Town Are Coming Together) meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 pm.
January-
February -
March -
April -
May -
June -
July -
August -
September -
October -
Musings on Main
Book Selections 2022
First Thursdays @ 6:30pm
Farmington Area Public Library District
Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)
After Thoughts Book Club at Hanna City Community Center (Last Monday of each month except for May and August at 9:30am)
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
Please note: we DO loan our book club kits to other libraries for book discussions. Contact Jane (jane.easterly@galesburglibrary.org or 309-343-6118) if you want to borrow one of our kits.
Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club
Food for Thought Book Club
Buzzwords Book Club
Starting 10/25/21, our Book Club will meet the last Monday of the month at 7:30 pm at the Library, except December (no meeting) and May (one week earlier).
1/30/23: The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom
2/27/23: Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
3/27/23: All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
4/24/23: The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore
5/22/23: The Girl from Guernica, by Karen Robards
6/26/23: Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Turning Pages Book Club
Best Little Book Club by a Dam Site - Group formed fall of 2002 and named January 2003. Henry has been using variations on this theme for many years. The first instance I found was in the 1 February 1872 paper.
We meet at 9:30 on the Second Monday of the month. We generally pick 6 months of books at a time.
Illinois Prairie District Public Library
Book Buzz meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 1 pm.
Spring Bay Branch
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 20 years in January. Meeting are held once a month at the Spring Bay Branch. We hope to avoid conflicts with other book clubs in getting our selections, and the past year proved successful. We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting.
Adult Book Club meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
Higher Learning Book Club is a limited-run club
Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
2023 (Our 20th year)
Blog available online at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/
Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.
Page Turners
Page Turners is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. They meet monthly on Mondays 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Macomb Public Library multi-purpose room. Usually the group meets on the 2nd Monday of the month, though sometimes they meet on the 3rd Monday if there is a Monday holiday closure on the usual meeting date.
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 library staff assistance, so staff is usually unaware the titles are intended for book club use or how long materials 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 non-RSA libraries.
Contact Carla Ainslie macomblib.carla@gmail.com or macomb.pld.rsa@gmail.com for more information.
Our Book Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 PM. New members and visitors are always welcome! We meet in person, but readers are welcome to join us on Zoom. Just email us at elmwoodlib@gmail.com to get the link.
Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL
Contact Tahdra for more information: TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org
Stranger Than Fiction: A Nonfiction Book Club meets monthly, usually on the 2nd Wednesday from 6:30-7:30 pm. Beginning in June, we will meet at the Beer Hall at DESTIHL, in Normal. Contact: Rhiannon - rhiannon@normalpl.org
Romance Me Book Club meets monthly, usually on the 4th Thursday from 6:30-7:30 pm in the Community Room.
We meet the 1st Monday of the month at 2 and 6:30 (same book both times)
I ORDER 42 BOOKS EACH MONTH (sorry to deplete the supply) Beth bbradford@pekinpubliclibrary.org
2023
Jan – Violeta by Allende
Feb/The Maid –
March/Band of Sisters
April Bewilderment by Richard Powers
May/The Measure by Erlick
June/Black Cake by Wilkerson
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 pm
All are welcome
ABC book club
Meets at Ashland location on the third Tuesday of each month @ 6:30pm
Bookies--meet in the Library on the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 PM
TBD
Renaissance Readers--meet in the library on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:15 AM
TBD
Unshelved--meets in the library on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM
TBD
20s & 30s SciFi/Horror reading group -- meets in the library on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 PM.
TBD
Literary Angles--meet at the library on the third Tuesday each month at 1:30 PM
TBD
All Over the Page--meets at local restaurants on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM
TBD
Third Thursday Bookclub
YA Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)
Youth Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
We meet the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM in the Main library study rooms. (We do not meet during June/July, due to Summer Reading.)
Meet at the Paramount Theater at 6 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month
January and February we will meet at One Eleven Coffee at 11:30 a.m.
2023
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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