Girls Who Code Club is for girls and non-binary youth in grades 3-5 who are interested in learning how to code. No previous experience necessary! The goal of this club is to create a safe and supportive environment of peers and role models where...
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Upcoming events
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 4:00pm
Storytime Room
Join us for the exciting World Club on the third Tuesday of every month! Discover a new world culture each time through engaging stories, games, crafts, activities, and even delicious food. All ages and backgrounds are welcome! It’s awesome April...
Wednesday, April 16, 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...
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Preschool Stories & More is the Thursday Storytime program at the library and will often be a guest presenter, storyteller or performer! All ages are welcome to attend Preschool Stories and More every week, but some programs may be better suited...
Friday, April 18, 2025 - 1:00pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
Come celebrate Children’s Day & Book Day with us! Join us in Meeting Room A at 1 PM for an exciting storytime with Iowa’s legendary lucha libre wrestler, Latin Thunder. We’ll have crafts, face painting, and popcorn—lots of fun activities you won...
Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 2:00pm
Storytime Room
As tradition has it: April showers bring May flowers (as well as helping food crops get a good start, filling ponds, lakes, and reservoirs, and a slew of other very good things). So join us in making hanging, fluffy clouds with falling rain drops (...
Monday, April 21, 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...
Monday, April 21, 2025 - 4:00pm
Storytime Room
Are you interested in learning how to play chess or to practice and improve your chess skills? Grades K-6th are welcome to join us for Chess Club twice a month on the first and third Monday of the month, from 4:00-5:00. Mark Capron, who was...
Tuesday, April 22, 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...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 4:00pm
Digital Media Lab
Girls Who Code Club is for girls and non-binary youth in grades 3-5 who are interested in learning how to code. No previous experience necessary! The goal of this club is to create a safe and supportive environment of peers and role models where...