National Library Week: Apr 19-25

Find Your Joy! Celebrate National Library Week April 19-25, 2026, with the theme “Find Your Joy” and Honorary Chair Mychal Threets! 📚 🧡 🌈 

National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.

Award-winning librarian, author, and new host of the children’s program “Reading Rainbow” Mychal Threets will serve as Honorary Chair of National Library Week this year.

“Find Your Joy,” is an invitation for people of all backgrounds to explore and discover what sparks joy in them at the library. The theme amplifies a message that is ever-present in Threets’ recurring viral videos about the innumerable ways people can find joy in the library, and in his debut picture book, I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy, published on February 3, 2026.

National Library Week promo for 2026 featuring honorary Chair, Mychal Threets

We will have special happenings every day at our library – everyone is invited to Find Your Joy with us!

Schedule of daily National Library week happenings poster

Sun 4/19Storywalk begins

Mon 4/20Silent Book Club

Tues 4/21 – Guess Who? Library Workers Ed. (stop by our upper floor or visit our Facebook page)

Wed 4/22Pop-up @ Possibility Playground

Thurs 4/23The Librarians documentary

Fri 4/24Literary bookmarks & button making

Sat 4/25 – Free donuts! (first 150 guests)

The librarians film screening, Thurs, Apr 23 @ 6-8pm with panel discussion at end. Location: Inventors Brewpub Port Washington, WI

Learn more about National Library Week at https://www.ala.org/confe…/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek