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Decorative Candy Dish Pottery Class (Makerspace)

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Makerspace - DIAL at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Decorative Candy Dish ClassCreate Your Own Sweet Treat!Join us at the Royal Oak Library for a fun clay-making adventure! With guidance from Jan Bostwick of Jan's Pottery LLC, you’l...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Makerspace - DIAL
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Decorative Candy Dish Class
Create Your Own Sweet Treat!

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

Graphic Displaying Flowers for Gardening event April 2.

Gardening with Native Plants!

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Gardening & Nature, Lecture, Sustainability & the Environment
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Would you like to attract more butterflies, hummingbirds, and pollinators to your garden? Would you like to learn more about native plants?  This presentation is a good i...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Gardening & Nature, Lecture, Sustainability & the Environment
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Would you like to attract more butterflies, hummingbirds, and pollinators to your garden? 

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

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Saturday Matinee - Affliction

Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Movie
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

For the next Saturday matinee:AfflictionSet in a snowy New Hampshire town, this gripping psychological drama follows Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte), a small-town sheriff haunted by h...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movie
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:

For the next Saturday matinee:

Affliction

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

Queer person sitting

Queerdos: A literary and just plain social club

Monday, April 7, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Social Group
Age Group:
Adults
Queerdos: A Literary and Just Plain Social Club:

Are you LGBTQIA+? Do you love books, graphic novels, or basically any other form of media? Do you want to meet and chill with others who answered the above questions with...

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Social Group

Are you LGBTQIA+? Do you love books, graphic novels, or basically any other form of media? Do you want to meet and chill with others who answered the above questions with yes too? Well you are in luck! Welcome to Royal Oak Public Library's monthly queer social club, a safe space to talk about various medias and simply exist in a place where you don't need to worry about people just not getting it.  If you'd like to bring your emotional support ally, they are welcome too!

At least one rad gay media will be recommended at the end of each meeting and no registration is necessary to come! Bring your iced coffees, your sweatpants, your septum rings...they're all welcome here!

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

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Taste & Learn: How to Choose, Use & Enjoy Healthy Oils

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness, Lecture
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Curious about coconut? Wondering what’s up with walnuts? Unrefined oils offer a wealth of flavors and culinary uses! (And beautiful hues, too.) Join us to learn all ...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness, Lecture
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 26
Event Details:

Curious about coconut? Wondering what’s up with walnuts? Unrefined oils offer a wealth of flavors and culinary uses!

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman

Poetry Workshop

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Poetry, Workshop
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

This is a poetry workshop at Royal Oak Public Library, where we meet monthly to workshop poems we are working on. A workshop is a welcoming, focused environment, in which we can pa...

Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Poetry, Workshop
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 2
Event Details:

This is a poetry workshop at Royal Oak Public Library, where we meet monthly to workshop poems we are working on. A workshop is a welcoming, focused environment, in which we can patiently and with care discuss the work of another poet.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

One hand passing a book to another

Community Book Club

Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults
Community Book Club:

A book club run by book lovers, for book lovers! On the second Thursday of each month, this group will meet, discuss the chosen book of last month, and at the end of the meeti...

Event Details:

April Book: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

A book club run by book lovers, for book lovers! On the second Thursday of each month, this group will meet, discuss the chosen book of last month, and at the end of the meeting the group will discuss and choose the next book. All genres, thoughts, and feelings are respected, and all are welcome!

The selected book can be requested through the catalog for reading, or contact adultreference@romi.gov and we can get a copy for you.

April Book:

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

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Houseplant Basics: Propagation Techniques, Tricks, And Tips To Turn One Plant Into Many

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Gardening & Nature, Lecture
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

The class will cover propagation techniques, tricks, and tips to turn one plant into many. Houseplant basics will also be covered to ensure proper care once successful with propaga...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Gardening & Nature, Lecture
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 16
Event Details:

The class will cover propagation techniques, tricks, and tips to turn one plant into many. Houseplant basics will also be covered to ensure proper care once successful with propagations.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

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Poetry Reading and Open Mic

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Performance, Poetry
Age Group:
Teen/ High School, Adults
Event Details:

April is poetry month, which means a time to celebrate the infinite resources of language. What does it mean to make art out of language? This month, we will celebrate this difficu...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Teen/ High School, Adults
Program Type: Performance, Poetry
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 36
Event Details:

April is poetry month, which means a time to celebrate the infinite resources of language. What does it mean to make art out of language? This month, we will celebrate this difficult, pleasurable art with a poetry reading and open mic.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

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Thursday Night Book Club

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 7:00pm - 7:45pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Come join us at the Royal Oak Public Library's monthly Thursday night book club meeting. Copies of the book are available behind the reference desk. Please contact the event organi...

Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 2
Event Details:

Come join us at the Royal Oak Public Library's monthly Thursday night book club meeting. Copies of the book are available behind the reference desk.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Encouraged

We encourage you to register for this program, but it is not required.

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All Day 4/18 - 4/20
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library
Police Chief Michael Moore

Coffee & Conversation with the Royal Oak Police Department

Monday, April 21, 2025 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join Royal Oak Police Chief Michael Moore (and Raider!) for coffee and conversation. Topics he will cover include:Mental Health & Co-respondersSubstance Use DisorderComfort Dog...

Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 49
Event Details:

Join Royal Oak Police Chief Michael Moore (and Raider!) for coffee and conversation. Topics he will cover include:

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

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ESL Conversation Club

Monday, April 21, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Age Group:
Adults
ESL Conversation Club:

The club, in partnership with Oakland Community College, is designed to give non-native speakers a chance to practice their English skills. English speakers who want to learn about...

Event Details:

April movie: Nowhere Boy. The movie is available at the library, on Hoopla with a library card, on Kanopy with a library card, and on Amazon prime Video.If you register to attend o...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: English as a Second Language (ESL)
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 7
Event Details:

The club, in partnership with Oakland Community College, is designed to give non-native speakers a chance to practice their English skills. English speakers who want to learn about other cultures are invited as well. Participants view a movie prior to the meeting, to discuss with the group. All skill levels welcome.

April movie: Nowhere Boy. The movie is available at the library, on Hoopla with a library card, on Kanopy with a library card, and on Amazon prime Video.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

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Make & Mingle: Mermaid Tail Macrame Keychain

Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Tween/ Middle School, Teen/ High School, Adults
Event Details:

Make & Mingle is a program designed as both a craft and social event. Bring a friend or family member to craft together. Don't have anyone to bring? You're still welcome to com...

Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Tween/ Middle School, Teen/ High School, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:

Make & Mingle is a program designed as both a craft and social event. Bring a friend or family member to craft together. Don't have anyone to bring?

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Participant Age

To ensure a successful experience in this program and socialization with one’s peers, age limits are enforced. 

Registration Encouraged

We encourage you to register for this program, but it is not required.

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Short Work Book Club - Man's Search for Meaning

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

This is a short story book club, by which we mean not collections of short stories, but rather books that are meaningful but short, usually under 250 pages. We read the book, then ...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 7
Event Details:

This is a short story book club, by which we mean not collections of short stories, but rather books that are meaningful but short, usually under 250 pages. We read the book, then come and have a spirited conversation.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

A rat in a tiny party hat, a raccoon, and a possum stare at the viewer. The possum has its mouth open in a scream.

Trash Animal Party

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts, Social Group
Age Group:
Teen/ High School, Adults, All Ages
Event Details:

This is an all ages event: Adults, Teens, Families - the only requirement is a love for the majestic trash animalYou know them, you love them, it's a little shocking to find them i...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Teen/ High School, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Social Group
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

This is an all ages event: Adults, Teens, Families - the only requirement is a love for the majestic trash animal

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.

Registration Encouraged

We encourage you to register for this program, but it is not required.

Queer person sitting

Queerdos: A literary and just plain social club

Monday, May 5, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Social Group
Age Group:
Adults
Queerdos: A Literary and Just Plain Social Club:

Are you LGBTQIA+? Do you love books, graphic novels, or basically any other form of media? Do you want to meet and chill with others who answered the above questions with...

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Social Group

Are you LGBTQIA+? Do you love books, graphic novels, or basically any other form of media? Do you want to meet and chill with others who answered the above questions with yes too? Well you are in luck! Welcome to Royal Oak Public Library's monthly queer social club, a safe space to talk about various medias and simply exist in a place where you don't need to worry about people just not getting it.  If you'd like to bring your emotional support ally, they are welcome too!

At least one rad gay media will be recommended at the end of each meeting and no registration is necessary to come! Bring your iced coffees, your sweatpants, your septum rings...they're all welcome here!

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Colorful game pieces with dice on top of a game board.

Board Game Night

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Self-Guided Program, Social Group
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Love board games? Looking for a chance to meet people? Then come to Board Game Night!A variety of board games will be available to choose from (compliments of the Library of T...

Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Self-Guided Program, Social Group
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 49
Event Details:

Love board games? Looking for a chance to meet people? 

Then come to Board Game Night!

A variety of board games will be available to choose from (compliments of the Library of Things Collection). 

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Encouraged

We encourage you to register for this program, but it is not required.

Image of Brittany Rogers and her book, Good Dress

An Evening with Poet Brittany Rogers!

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Author Visit, Book Club, Poetry
Age Group:
Tween/ Middle School, Teen/ High School, Adults
Event Details:

 ROPL is hosting author Brittany Rogers as she tours Michigan as a 2025 Michigan Notable Book Author!"In her debut poetry collection, Brittany Rogers explores the audacity of ...

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Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Tween/ Middle School, Teen/ High School, Adults
Program Type: Author Visit, Book Club, Poetry
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 39
Event Details:

 

ROPL is hosting author Brittany Rogers as she tours Michigan as a 2025 Michigan Notable Book Author!

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

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Preventing Elder Financial Abuse with Vibe Credit Union

Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness, Lecture, Senior, Workshop
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

 Senior Citizens are being targeted by financial scams more than ever! Arm yourself with information from financial professionals who know the signs and see the terrible resul...

Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness, Lecture, Senior, Workshop
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 47
Event Details:

 

Senior Citizens are being targeted by financial scams more than ever! Arm yourself with information from financial professionals who know the signs and see the terrible results of these scams first-hand. 

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

One hand passing a book to another

Community Book Club

Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults
Community Book Club:

A book club run by book lovers, for book lovers! On the second Thursday of each month, this group will meet, discuss the chosen book of last month, and at the end of the meeti...

Event Details:

May Book: The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

A book club run by book lovers, for book lovers! On the second Thursday of each month, this group will meet, discuss the chosen book of last month, and at the end of the meeting the group will discuss and choose the next book. All genres, thoughts, and feelings are respected, and all are welcome!

The selected book can be requested through the catalog for reading, or contact adultreference@romi.gov and we can get a copy for you.

May Book:

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Senior citizens dressed in formal wear dancing togther.

Senior Citizen Prom

Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Senior
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Proms aren't just for high school seniors! Dress up in your classiest fineries and join us at the Senior Citizen Prom for an afternoon of drinks and snacks, dancing, and socializin...

Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Senior
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 49
Event Details:

Proms aren't just for high school seniors! Dress up in your classiest fineries and join us at the Senior Citizen Prom for an afternoon of drinks and snacks, dancing, and socializing. 

 

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Encouraged

We encourage you to register for this program, but it is not required.

Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman

Poetry Workshop

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Poetry, Workshop
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

This is a poetry workshop at Royal Oak Public Library, where we meet monthly to workshop poems we are working on. A workshop is a welcoming, focused environment, in which we can pa...

Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Poetry, Workshop
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

This is a poetry workshop at Royal Oak Public Library, where we meet monthly to workshop poems we are working on. A workshop is a welcoming, focused environment, in which we can patiently and with care discuss the work of another poet.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

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All Day
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
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