StoryJAM is a music and movement program designed to model, encourage, and facilitate music-making as an early literacy skill. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate as much as possible. Singing is a projectile activity, please be...
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Upcoming events
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 10:30am
Meeting Room A, Storytime Room
Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 10:30am
Meeting Room A, Storytime Room
Kathy and other volunteers from the our local K9 Ambassador program, and sponsored by the lowa City Dog Obedience Club, will use handpicked dogs to help teach kids about dog safety with a presentation that includes tricks and various obedience skill...
Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 2:00pm
Storytime Room
Construct a lair filled with a sweet sleeping bear!
Monday, January 27, 2025 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us every Monday for a special Chinese Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Fang! Together we will enjoy songs, rhymes, stories and fun crafts in Chinese and English. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us every Tuesday for a fun Spanish Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Miriam! Every week, there will be a fun theme with plenty of repetition from previous weeks in order to enhance language learning. Get ready for a lot of...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 10:30am
Meeting Room A, Storytime Room
StoryJAM is a music and movement program designed to model, encourage, and facilitate music-making as an early literacy skill. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate as much as possible. Singing is a projectile activity, please be...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 4:00pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
Join us at ICPL for a fantstic celebration of the Lunar New Year! Enjoy a vibrant lion dance performance presented by APAPA (Eastern Iowa Chapter of Asian and Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association). Afterward, please stick around and...
Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Today's Storytime will be all about shadows! Next week is Groundhog's Day, which means if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow we'll have six more weeks of winter weather; no shadow means an early spring....
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us every Monday for a special Chinese Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Fang! Together we will enjoy songs, rhymes, stories and fun crafts in Chinese and English. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us every Tuesday for a fun Spanish Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Miriam! Every week, there will be a fun theme with plenty of repetition from previous weeks in order to enhance language learning. Get ready for a lot of...