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Get crafty in Main Library's Craft Zone. We provide knitting yarns, stamps, felt sheets, drawing papers, markers, and more, plus looming and potholder kits to help your creative mind make a craft.
Register online, in person, or by phone at 330.643.9145.
Interested in more arts and crafts? Using your Akron-Summit County Public Library card, CreativeBug gives you Unlimited access to over 1,000 online art and craft classes, patterns, templates, and recipes. Topics include art & design, sewing, quilting, paper, knitting, crochet, food & home, jewelry, holiday & party, and classes for kids. Visit https://www.creativebug.com/lib/akronlibrary.
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To get 1 on 1 help using the machine, please click on this link to schedule an appointment with one of our staff members.
Click here to view a complete list of the library's upcoming computer and technology classes.
Visit www.akronlibrary.org/tz to learn more about TechZone@Main.
Main Library, located in the heart of downtown Akron, combines compelling public space with meaningful and relevant public library services for all members of our community. Since opening in 2004, the downtown library welcomes more than one million visitors each year.
Subject divisions include: Business, Government & Science, Culture & AV, Magazines & Newspapers, Special Collections (local history & genealogy), TechZone@Main, Teen, and a 12,000 square feet Children's Library.
Special services available at Main Library include: a Patent & Trademark Resource Center; U.S. Passport and Notary services; a Microbusiness Center; a Maker Space; a resource lab for early childhood educators; and regularly scheduled computer training classes. Also available at Main Library are more than 125 public access computers, color photocopiers/printers, laminating, scanning, faxing, and free Wi-Fi.
Specialized spaces include a 425-seat auditorium, public meeting rooms, and a used bookstore. An interior glass block walkway leads to a 600-space parking garage owned by the City of Akron. An outdoor amphitheater and landscaped park complete the complex.
60 South High Street
Akron, Ohio 44326
330.643.9000
Our Mission: The Akron-Summit County Public Library provides resources for learning and leisure, information services, meeting spaces, and programs for all ages that support, improve, and enrich individual, family, and community life.
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