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Enjoy movies every Sunday at 2 pm. Relax in Main Library’s 400-seat auditorium. Free parking is available in the High/Market deck on weekends.
Free parking in the High/Market deck on weekends.
January 8, 2 pm: Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) Based on the novel by Delia Jones, Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as a young woman in the 1950s who has raised herself alone in the southern marshland. When a local man is murdered, she becomes the prime suspect. Also starring Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, and David Strathairn, PG-13, 125 min.
January 15, 2 pm: MLK Lecture: Basil Smickle Jr. PhD
January 22, 2 pm: Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) Gru launches plans to become a supervillain with the help of the minions, but things don't turn out quite like he had planned. Brad Ableson animation, with voices by Steve Carrell, Pierre Coffin, Alan Arkin, Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Yeoh, and Julie Andrews, PG, 87 min.
January 29, 2 pm: Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Director Taika Waititi and star Chris Hemsworth continue the Stan Lee Marvel saga with Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, and Idris Elba, PG-13, 118 min.
Contact the Culture & AV Division at 330.643.9015 or cadiv@akronlibrary.org for more information.
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Main Library, located in the heart of downtown Akron, combines compelling public space with meaningful and relevant public library services for all members of our community. Since opening in 2004, the downtown library welcomes more than one million visitors each year.
Subject divisions include: Business, Government & Science, Culture & AV, Magazines & Newspapers, Special Collections (local history & genealogy), TechZone@Main, Teen, and a 12,000 square feet Children's Library.
Special services available at Main Library include: a Patent & Trademark Resource Center; U.S. Passport and Notary services; a Microbusiness Center; a Maker Space; a resource lab for early childhood educators; and regularly scheduled computer training classes. Also available at Main Library are more than 125 public access computers, color photocopiers/printers, laminating, scanning, faxing, and free Wi-Fi.
Specialized spaces include a 425-seat auditorium, public meeting rooms, and a used bookstore. An interior glass block walkway leads to a 600-space parking garage owned by the City of Akron. An outdoor amphitheater and landscaped park complete the complex.
60 South High Street
Akron, Ohio 44326
330.643.9000
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