Get your tickets for the Fightin Phils Summer Reading Kickoff at the Oley Valley Library. We only have 84 tickets to sell. The more we sell the more money we will raise for the library!

Hurry in and get your tickets, then meet us at the Ballpark for a fabulous day of baseball and fun! Go Fightin Phils!!

Spring has officially arrived in Oley. Although you would not know it from the snow and cold winds still blowing around. If you visit our little library though you will walk into a sunshine yellow room and instantly be warmed up. (And no, I can’t control the heating in the building so sorry if it’s too warm!)

I am already thinking past Spring into Summer, busy planning our 2nd annual Summer Reading Program. Our theme this year is “Dig Into Reading,” or for teens “Beneath the Surface.” We are in search of many things to make this summer spectacular: guest readers for storytime, buddy readers for elementary school students, speakers for teens and adults. The topics we will be covering this summer are digging machines, dirt, animals that live underground, worms, gardening, vegetables, and then on to digging for dinosaur bones, pirate treasure, and ancient egyptian tombs! Do you have knowledge or skills in any of these areas? Would you be willing to help make our Summer Reading Program stupendous? Contact the library today and let me know how you would like to help out!!

Thinking Spring,

Carin, your librarian

The sun is shining a little longer here at the Oley Library. I am grateful for this of course because this old building at night gives me the shivers! Patrons have teased me of an old Oley Librarian ghost in the building. If I’m going to have a ghost though, I’m glad it’s a librarian!

I am looking forward to Spring and what it will bring. Click on “March Events” below for a selection of what the Oley Library is bringing to the Valley. We hope to see you here soon at one of our events or programs!

March Events

Welcome to our new and improved but hopefully temporary website! We have had many complaints that our website is full of outdated and just plain incorrect information. And well, we are a library and that is unacceptable. Since we don’t have control of that website we are making a new one for now. I say for now because we are hoping that in the next six months you will see the Oley Valley Library listed on the Berks County Library page as an official and recognized library!! Cross your fingers, your toes, knock on wood, wear your pajamas inside out (wait, that’s for snow right?) Whatever you need to do to bring us some good luck, DO IT! This next step is a big one and I think it will give us the momentum we need to get this community the library it deserves.

For now I hope you enjoy this little place online where you can find up to date information about our little library. I will also be rambling on here from time to time about cool stuff I see and hear in Room 208. Please feel free to post comments and share with your fellow Oley Valley peeps.