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To ensure the operating procedures Community Recreation programs are safe, fun accessible to as many community members/visitors as possible there are limits on who can participate and attend.

Have you heard the news? You can now browse through digitized issues of the Homer News at the library!

Sound Publishing, the parent company of the Homer News, partnered with Newspapers.com to digitize past issues of the newspaper and convert them into a searchable online database. All issues of the paper from 1954-2021 are now available through the Newspapers.com website.

The City of Homer is thrilled to partner with the Chamber of Commerce in hosting Homer’s own Kristen Faulkner in the telling of her Olympic journey to Gold.

Join us the Friday after Christmas at Homer High School!  December 27, 2024 at 3 pm!

Ring in the new year with a movie at the library!

January 2, 2025 The Princess Bride (PG) at 3pm!

The library is CLOSED TODAY, December 13th due to weather.

Join the Friends of the Homer Public Library for an Author Talk with local author Harold Shepherd! Shepherd will discuss his book Return to Ekeunick's Time: Defending Waters and Tradition in the Arctic.

January 23, 2025

The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys published landslide hazard susceptibility mapping for the City of Homer and Kachemak City.

The publication is available for purchase or free download on the  Alaska Department of Natural Resources Geological & Geophysical Survey webpage and includes:

Thursday December 12, 4:30-6

Join us for crafting and hanging out! Supplies provided for gnomes and other fun things!

Join two Homer writers to discuss the joys and challenges of writing about historical events and individuals. How does a historian take the facts of a real person’s actions in a previous time and make them interesting and compelling to a modern reader? How does a fiction writer embellish or even set aside the facts of history for the same reason?

Come and see what happens when a journalist and a novelist walk into a library!

Tuesday, December 17th from 7 - 8pm

Homer Public Library's Fireplace Reading Lounge

Wednesday, January 15th at 3:00 PM AKST

Come have a magical moment with New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune as he chats about his Cerulean Chronicles, with special emphasis on his newest in the series, Somewhere Beyond the Sea.