Upcoming Events

Youth, grades 3-5, have an opportunity to tackle the Winfield Public Library’s 2024 Reading Challenge together! April's challenge is to read "a bestseller in a genre you don't normally read." We thought April would be the perfect month to read the in...

Join us for an evening of information and exploration at Chaplin Nature Center! The evening will begin at 5:30pm with a program on the biodiversity and ecological importance of the Arkansas River presented by Elizabeth Walker, Director of CNC.&nbs...

Youth, grades 3-5, have an opportunity to tackle the Winfield Public Library’s 2024 Reading Challenge together! May's challenge is to read "an autobiography or memoir." We are reading the award-winning graphic novel, El Deafo, by Cece Bell. This b...

Pack a lunch, invite a friend, and join the discussion. This month we're excited to view and discuss Brene Brown's 2010 TED Talk "The power of vulnerability."  Drawing on two decades of research on courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy, Brow...

Youth, grades 3-5, have an opportunity to tackle the Winfield Public Library’s 2024 Reading Challenge together! May's challenge is to read "an autobiography or memoir." We are reading the award-winning graphic novel, El Deafo, by Cece Bell. This b...

Monthly meeting of the Friends of WPL board ...

The Friends of Winfield Public Library group is pleased to host Kansas native and author Liz Moore for a presentation at their monthly meeting on Monday, May 12th at 7:00pm. In the year she turned 50, Liz Moore acted on a long-time daydream. She l...

WPL's Bookn' with Friends book club will gather to chat about Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones at 6:30pm on Monday, May 20. Both a Pulitzer Prize nominee and Kansas Notable Book, Easy Beauty is a memoir about art, travel, motherhood, an...

WPL will host "Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills" a presentation and discussion by Humanities Kansas speaker Rex Buchanan on Sunday, June 23 at 2:00pm. Too often Kansas history seems to start with the Coronados' trip through the state in 1541....

WPL's Bookn' with Friends book club will gather for a chat about Christine Simon's The Patron Saint of Second Chances at 6:30pm on Monday, June 24. Selected to meet the 2024 Reading Challenge topic of "a book that allows you to travel vicario...

WPL will host "Married to Adventure: Osa and Martin Johnson's Films," a presentation and discussion by Humanities Kansas speaker Mary Ann Thompson on Sunday, July 21 at 2:00pm at the Winfield Public Library. Pioneers in the early history of docume...

WPL's Bookn' with Friends book club will meet at 6:30pm on Monday, July 29 for a discussion on Kristin Hannah's 2018 best seller The Great Alone. Selected to meet the 2024 Reading Challenge topic "an adventure story," The Great Alone is ...