Adult Blog Entries
Celebrate Women's History at HPL
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From America's favorite fictional sleuth to groundbreaking female songwriters, we're celebrating trailblazing women this March (and beyond!) at HPL.
Library Love: 10 Unexpected Ways to Use Your Library
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February is Library Lovers’ Month! We’re letting you in on some hidden gems to make you fall even deeper in love with HPL.
Introducing Palace Project: A New App for eBooks and Audiobooks
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We're happy to announce our newest digital reading and listening app, Palace Project. Learn more about this new service.
HPL Wrapped 2025: Lombard's Most Borrowed Books
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It's that time of year again! Take a look at the most-borrowed books and movies of the year.
Upcoming Events
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Helen Plum Library
Room:
Plum Meeting Rooms (Combined)
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Adult,
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The Library is an Election Day polling place for the March 17, 2026, General Primary Election in DuPage County. Polling is open from 6am–7pm in the Plum Meeting Rooms.
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Helen Plum Library
Room:
Studio 411
Age Group:
Adult,
Seniors
Program Type:
Maker
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Get creative during drop-in Studio 411 hours. Use the makerspace equipment to sew, laser cut, record a podcast, customize with Cricut, and more!
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Library Branch:
Helen Plum Library
Room:
Colonel William R. Plum Meeting Room
Age Group:
Adult
Program Type:
Book Clubs
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Helen Plum Library
Room:
Computer Lab
Age Group:
Adult
Program Type:
Technology Classes
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Expand your knowledge of Google Drive by learning to navigate Google Sheets, a free online spreadsheet application similar to Microsoft Excel. Learn how to create, save, download, share and set permissions, and upload spreadsheets.
This event is in the "Adult" group
Library Branch:
Helen Plum Library
Room:
Computer Lab
Age Group:
Adult
Program Type:
Technology Classes
Registration Required
Event Details:
Learn the ins and outs of creating pivot tables, sorting files, and filtering Excel spreadsheets.
Adult Services Staff Recommendations
If you're looking for a historical fiction novel with a more contemporary feel, Daisy Jones and the Six is the book for you! Set in the 1970s, this novel, told in an interview format, delves into the lives of the members of the famous ba...
If you could change the course of history, would you, no matter the cost? That’s the question Jake Epping must ask himself in this time-traveling thriller. When Jake’s friend Al shows him a portal back in time, he has one goal: to stop t...
This is a twisty tale involving a bartender, her brother, her husband, a shipping executive, and a Ponzi scheme. To say any more would give away the intricacies of this book but I can say that it’s nothing like I expected it to be. As al...
