Category Archives: Lake Oswego Library

Discover Some Good Books to Help You Compete in Lake Oswego’s 2025 Summer Library Challenge

The Lake Oswego Public Library has kicked off their Summer Library Challenge of 2025. Open to all ages the challenge runs from June 1st through August 31st and is filled with special events, fun challenges, reading tracking and drawings for … Continue reading

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Lake Oswego Reads Kicks Off a Month of Book-Related Events Next Month

Lake Oswego Reads has done it again. With their selection of How to Read a Book by Monica Wood, organizers have given us a timely book that uses fiction to get us to think about our current reality. A chance encounter … Continue reading

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Celebrate National Library Card Sign-Up Month By Getting Yours!

What do a Root Slayer Shovel, free admission to the Pittock Mansion and heirloom vegetable seeds all have in common? They are all things you can check out of the Lake Oswego Public Library! September is national Library Card Sign-Up … Continue reading

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Lake Oswego Reads Kicks Off Special Events Next Month

Lake Oswego Reads has done it again. With their selection of Honor by Thrity Umrigar, organizers have given us a timely book that uses fiction to get us to think about our current reality. Here are some reasons why you … Continue reading

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Lake Oswego Reads 2020 Kicks Off With Book Giveaway Next Week

The 2020 Lake Oswego Reads selection has once again made sure that Lake Oswegans get educated about and participate in discussions concerning a complex, and at times controversial, topic: climate change. Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth … Continue reading

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Celebrate National Read A Book Day With One of These Recommendations

Friday, September 6, is National Read a Book Day, coming on the heels of beach reads season. My wife and I managed to tally up some pages this summer and I wanted to share a few of our recommendations in … Continue reading

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5 Reasons Why Loving the Library Is an Easy Thing to Do in Lake Oswego

It’s Library Lovers Month and in Lake Oswego, loving the library is an easy thing to do. The 13th Annual LO Reads Program is underway in February but there are lots of other reasons to fall in love with our … Continue reading

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Lake Oswego Reads Launches a Month of Hot Topic Events

One thing you can say about Lake Oswego Reads—it likes to stay topical. Last year’s book pick, Rise of the Rocket Girls, with its spotlight on the contributions of female mathematicians to NASA’s early space missions ensured that Lake Oswegans … Continue reading

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Celebrate All Things Brian Doyle at Library on November 6

Tuesday, November 6 is “Brian Doyle Day” made possible by a city proclamation last year in honor of a local esteemed author and friend to many. November 6 happens to be his birthday and so each year on that day … Continue reading

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Lake Oswego Reads Kicks Off This Week With Book Giveaway

Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton beat out 21 other books to become this year’s Lake Oswego Reads selection. The story follows the narrative of a 78 year old Arctic scientist and a mission specialist on a return flight from … Continue reading

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