Bernie Public Library

04/25/2026

SUMMER OF STORIES IS BACK! 📚🍕

Enrollment opens May 1st—get ready to turn reading time into pizza time! 🎉
This summer, keep your kids’ reading, learning, and loving books… all while earning FREE pizza. 🙌

📱 Join through the BOOK IT! App (Summer program only available through App)
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 For parents with kids in pre-K – 6th grade
📅 Program runs June 1st – August 31st
⚠️ Don’t forget—everyone must enroll each year!

💛 Parents, you’re the real MVPs! As we count down to enrollment, we’d love to hear your summer reading memories.

👇 Join the conversation:
Were you a BOOK IT! kid?
What was your favorite summer read? 📚

03/20/2026

We’re updating our Children’s library. You can add to your child’s library or help grow ours with our online book fair.

Shopping link:

https://paperpie.com/brandpartner/T9558/event/4083933

Wishlist if you’d like to donate:

https://paperpie.com/brandpartner/T9558/bookshelf/90715

01/21/2026

How cool would this be? Go to the original comments and tag the Bernie Public Library

WANT A ZOO AT YOUR LIBRARY? 🦥
​We’re bringing the zoo to the books this summer! 📖 We want to visit YOUR local library, but we need to know where to go!

​HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN: 👇
​TAG your local library or favorite librarian! 🏛️
​SHARE this post to your town’s community group so your neighbors can chime in! 📢
​The libraries with the most "noise" in the comments get a call from us first. Let’s get these animals on the road! 🐾✨

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12/16/2025

Congratulations to this year’s lighting contest winners, Chris and Debbie Freed!!!

Honorable mention goes to Keith and Scarlette Cloninger!!

Be sure to go check these gorgeous displays out on Bowman and North Miller. The pictures do not do these beautiful displays justice.

12/15/2025

The Annual Lighting Contest is tonight. Please have lights on. Judging will start at 6. First place will receive $50.

12/07/2025

The Annual Lighting Contest will be next Monday, December 15th. Please have lights on by 5:30. Judging will start at 6. First place will receive $50.

06/13/2025

Today the kids got to get up close and personal with some of our local heroes, and it was the last day of our Reading Week! We had so much fun this week and are already thinking about next year. We want to thank everyone who helped make this possible!