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Purvis Public Library

122 Shelby Speights Drive Purvis, MS 39475

Lumberton Public Library

106 West Main Avenue Lumberton, MS 39455

Oak Grove Public Library

4958 Old Highway 11 Hattiesburg, MS 39402

L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

121 Poplar Street Sumrall, MS 39482

Lajaunie Memorial Bookmobile

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September Calendar for All Lamar County Library Events

Date: September 13, 2025 (Saturday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 11:am-1:00pm

Bring your new or gently used kids clothing and swap it out for some new threads! Don't have any? That's okay, come take what you need.

Adults

Date: September 13, 2025 (Saturday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm

Location: Main Room

Adults

Date: September 13, 2025 (Saturday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

September 13th is Scooby Doo Day! Lets celebrate with Scooby snacks, craft, and photo prop!

All Ages

Date: September 15, 2025 (Monday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 5:45pm

Friends meet quarterly to see how and what they need to do to help the library. The library needs more friends! If you are interested, please join a meeting to see what it's all about!

AdultsTeens

Date: September 15, 2025 (Monday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 5:30pm

Location: Meeting Room

Adults

Date: September 15, 2025 (Monday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 3:00- 5:00 pm

Location: Program Room at Oak Grove library

We've got spirit, how about you? Come in to make a clothes pin pin to show your support for whatever you've got spirit for. All supplies included. Registration required.

All Ages

Date: September 15, 2025 (Monday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 4:00pm

Location: Teen Room

Come play bingo and win some fun prizes!

Children

Date: September 16, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Read-Meet-Discuss

AdultsTeens

Date: September 16, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 9:30am-11:30am

Need help with setting up a FB account, email, or any other tech issues. We have set aside a few hours every Tuesday to help you with all your tech needs!

All Ages

Date: September 16, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Lumberton Public Library

Time: 10:30am

Location: Children's Room

Join us for Apple Story Time where we'll read yummy apple stories and make easy apple dumplings.

Children

Date: September 16, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 10:30 am

Location: Children's Room

Have you ever read a Pigeon book? Around here we love author and illustrated Mo Willems, who created Pigeon. We will honor him and his work with this week's storytime themed after his beloved character Pigeon. Join us.

Children

Date: September 16, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 10:30 am

Location: Main Library

Do you love books and want to tell the world (or Lamar County) about a great book you've read? Make a poster. Bring it to the library. We will vote and give away prizes. Posters will be displayed in the library all week.

Children

Date: September 17, 2025 (Wednesday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 4pm

Location: Program Room at Oak Grove library

We will be using diamond art gems to bedazzle book covers. This is a tedious but rewarding craft. It is best suited for people with longer attention spans. It may take us more than one program to complete our works. Feel free to bring your own book or choose from some we have collected. Gems, pens, adhesive and limited number of books included. Please register at the circulation desk.

Adults

Date: September 17, 2025 (Wednesday)  |   Lumberton Public Library

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Meeting Room

Join us to play Mexican Train Dominoes!

Adults

Date: September 17, 2025 (Wednesday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 10:30am

Location: Children's Room

Join us for a story and a craft!

Children

Date: September 17, 2025 (Wednesday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Ever wanted to learn to play the game? Do you love the game but need more players? Join us!

Teens

Date: September 18, 2025 (Thursday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Teen Room

Adults

Date: September 18, 2025 (Thursday)  |   Lumberton Public Library

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Children's Room

Join us this month for true crime with Mrs.Juanita Green Hollinghead about her book "Beyond the Green Widow:
Consequences of the Piney Woods Creek Murders of 1921”.

Adults

Date: September 18, 2025 (Thursday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 3:30pm-5:30pm

Learn how to weave yarn on cardboard!

All Ages

Date: September 18, 2025 (Thursday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 10:30 am

Location: Children's Room

Have you ever read a Pigeon book? Around here we love author and illustrated Mo Willems, who created Pigeon. We will honor him and his work with this week's storytime themed after his beloved character Pigeon. Join us.

Children

Date: September 18, 2025 (Thursday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 10:00 - 10:45

Stories, coloring, crafts, etc.

Children

Date: September 19, 2025 (Friday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 6PM

Location: Main Library

Every other month for the rest of 2025 we will be playing Bunco! Bunco is an easy dice game that is fun to play! We will teach you how to play.

Adults

Date: September 19, 2025 (Friday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Location: Main Library

Bring whatever you many be working on and we will sit and talk while working on our crafts.

Adults

Date: September 20, 2025 (Saturday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 10:30am

Very easy game for all skill levels! We will play either the Mexican Train or Chickenfoot version

All Ages

Date: September 20, 2025 (Saturday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 11:00am

Location: Children's Room

Children

Date: September 22, 2025 (Monday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 3:30pm-5:30pm

The autumnal (fall) equinox arrives on September 22. Join us as we create Fall Sun Catchers

All Ages

Date: September 22, 2025 (Monday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm

Location: Program Room at Oak Grove library

We will be playing Bingo and you will have a chance to will a gift-bag fill of snack foods. We will play 5 games. That's 5 chances to win!

All Ages

Date: September 23, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 4:00pm

Location: Meeting Room

Come up-cycle teacups into cute, cottagecore bird feeders!

**Please note: This is a registered event. Please call or visit the library to register.

All Ages

Date: September 23, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 9:30am-11:30am

Need help with setting up a FB account, email, or any other tech issues. We have set aside a few hours every Tuesday to help you with all your tech needs!

All Ages

Date: September 23, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 4:00 pm

Location: Program Room at Oak Grove library

A cake walk is a fun game, similar to musical chairs but with numbered squares and books as prizes. Participants walk around a circle of numbered squares while music plays. When the music stops, whoever is standing on the number that is drawn from a container wins a book!

Children

Date: September 23, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Lumberton Public Library

Time: 10:30am

Location: Children's Room

Join us for Creativity Story Time and let your imagination lead the way!

Children

Date: September 23, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 10:30 am

Location: Children's Room

To celebrate the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, our storytime theme will align with the holiday. Come learn something about the celebration of the New Year with crafts, songs and stories.

Children

Date: September 24, 2025 (Wednesday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm

Location: Program Room at Oak Grove library

The Oak Grove Writer's Guild is a great group of people who have a passion for writing and truly enjoy when a new member stops by. Join us from 4-5pm Sept. 10th.

Adults

Date: September 24, 2025 (Wednesday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 10:30am

Location: Children's Room

Join us for a story and a craft!

Children

Date: September 24, 2025 (Wednesday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 3:00pm

Ever wanted to learn to play the game? Do you love the game but need more players? Join us!

Teens

Date: September 25, 2025 (Thursday)  |   Lumberton Public Library

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Children's Room

Call to reserve your spot. You must be added to the list in order to play.

Adults

Date: September 25, 2025 (Thursday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 6:00 pm

Location: Program Room at Oak Grove library

This month we will learn about D.B. Cooper. He hi-jacked and aircraft and got away with $200,000 in 1971. Can you solve a case that has baffled the FBI for decades? Come and find out!

Adults

Date: September 25, 2025 (Thursday)  |   Lumberton Public Library

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Children's Room

This month for The 641 Club we're celebrating Great American Pot Pie Day. So bring your favorite version of pot pie and have lunch with us!

All Ages

Date: September 25, 2025 (Thursday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 10:30 am

Location: Children's Room

To celebrate the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, our storytime theme will align with the holiday. Come learn something about the celebration of the New Year with crafts, songs and stories.

Children

Date: September 25, 2025 (Thursday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 10:00 - 10:45

Stories, coloring, crafts, etc.

Children

Date: September 25, 2025 (Thursday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 4:00pm

Location: Teen Room

Teens

Date: September 26, 2025 (Friday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Lamar County Library System will be closed for staff training, but will be open Saturday September 27th from9am-2pm.

All Ages

Date: September 26, 2025 (Friday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Closed

Date: September 26, 2025 (Friday)  |   Lumberton Public Library

Lamar County Library System will be closed on September 26th for Staff Training and Deep Cleaning. We will reopen on September 27th at 10 am.

Closed

Date: September 26, 2025 (Friday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 9:00am - 6:00pm

ClosedAll Ages

Date: September 27, 2025 (Saturday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

Ethan Williamson will be here with his book 'The Killing of a Whale and Other Tall Tales".

Adults

Date: September 27, 2025 (Saturday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 10:00am

Location: Program Room at Oak Grove library

This month we will be discussing "The Art Forger" by B.A. Shapiro.

Adults

Date: September 27, 2025 (Saturday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 11:00am

Location: Children's Room

Children

Date: September 29, 2025 (Monday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 6:00pm

A Fun game for ALL!!

AdultsTeens

Date: September 30, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Lumberton Public Library

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Meeting Room

Adults, 18 and older, join us to discuss The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.

Adults

Date: September 30, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 5:00pm

Location: Meeting Room

Adults

Date: September 30, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   L.R. Boyer Memorial Library

Time: 9:30am-11:30am

Need help with setting up a FB account, email, or any other tech issues. We have set aside a few hours every Tuesday to help you with all your tech needs!

Adults

Date: September 30, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Purvis Public Library

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Meeting Room

Adults

Date: September 30, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 5:00-6:00 PM

Location: Program Room at Oak Grove library

This month we will be making recipes our of The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond's cookbook The New Frontier.

All Ages

Date: September 30, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Lumberton Public Library

Time: 10:30am

Location: Children's Room

September is Library Card Sign-up Month. Join us for story time and see what you can do at your local library!

Children

Date: September 30, 2025 (Tuesday)  |   Oak Grove Public Library

Time: 10:30 am

Location: Children's Room

Fall is in the air and pumpkins are the theme of this week's storytimes. We will have stories, craft and games.

Children


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Purvis, MS 39475
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