Get ready for fall fun at the library in November!

Read the book; meet the author. Join us for the 2025 Fauquier Community Read!

Join us as we "Color Our World" this summer!

May is National Mystery Month, and we have you covered!

Here's a shout out to public libraries, as we celebrate National Library Week!

Library celebrates Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day and welcomes bestselling Civil War author Patrick K. O'Donnell.

February is a busy month at the library, from books clubs to STEAM programs.

Learn about the ways to start your new year at the library!

"Buddy, it’s fruitcake weather,” exclaims Miss Sook Faulk, in the lovely short story A Christmas Memory .    For Buddy and Sook the holiday is a break from the routine of daily life.  They gather pecans, a little bootlegged whiskey and other ingredients for cakes that will be sent to acquaintances they have met briefly, and to people they've never met at all, such as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt .   Perhaps your holidays are marked by traditions like Buddy and Sook, or

Library Director Maria Del Rosso shares a few highlights of library happenings in November.

Join us in celebrating The Book Cellar's 25 anniversary!

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled, according to Greek philosopher Plutarch .   The lineup of what the library is offering this month (and every month for that matter) can definitely be considered tinder to ignite fires in your mind.   There are six book clubs  ranging from mystery to classics.  A sampling of titles up for discussion include A Still Moment  by Eudora Welty, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store , North Woods   and The West: A New His

The green and white encyclopedia loomed large in my childhood.

Our summer theme is Adventure Begins at Your Library.  The operative word is “begins” but who knows where it will lead?  

It’s Monday morning and the first of our volunteers for the week shows up ready to work. 

“When it’s good, it’s very good, but when it’s bad it’s horrid.” Forgive me for altering Longfellow’s poem , but it sizes up the situation perfectly when confronted with a balky technology problem. If you don’t have a resident techno whiz to sort out your confusing phone, tablet or laptop, we have a new service that may help.  Teen volunteer Jack Woodard staffs a weekly help desk  at the Warrenton library for the technology challenged.  Teaching and troubleshooting only; no d

There’s a wow factor that greets visitors to Warrenton these days. The beige Britches building at the corner of Culpeper and Main Streets has been transformed by a brilliant rendering of the Blue Ridge mountains . Pure alchemy, perhaps. Or, maybe not. You can learn more about murals and what it takes to create them when award winning artist Craig McPherson  discusses his work with retired journalist Lou Emerson on February 25, the next installment of our Sundays at Two series

“If you build it, they will come.” On December 18, 2003, the Bealeton branch library opened its doors to the southern Fauquier community. A beautiful building, the 10,000 sq. ft. library took its architectural cues from the “roofy” Bealeton depot that a few years later would serve as its meeting room. From that December day 20 years ago, the branch library has served as the hub of the community. Folks have gathered to light a community Christmas tree, visit with Santa and ma

In the movie The Way We Were longtime buddies Hubbell and J.J. while sailing recount the best Saturday afternoon, the best month, the best year. Perhaps not the whip and snap of sails but the stillness and quiet of winter evenings will invite you to contemplate the year’s best book, best meal, best time with family and friends. We’ve done our own little bit of reflecting and here are some highlights of our year serving you. Of course, the news is filled with those in the kno

Check out these Meet the Author talks coming later this month: Joy Harjo Thursday, Nov. 16  |  4-5 p.m. Register United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet. In Catching the Light , Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing. In this lyrical med