Upcoming Events

Children can come and read a book to Lovie the Therapy Dog! Read to our furry friends in a fun and supportive environment.

Kids can come to their Randolph Branch Library after school on Mondays and utilize their creativity with craft making!

Hop on over to the Whitehaven Branch Library to showcase your artistic talents! Participants will be able to paint on pre-sketched canvases or free style on blank canvases!

Every Tuesday from 4-5pm come and sharpen your reading skills. This group is for Pre-k to 5th grade.

Free chess tutorials for all ages. Beginners are invited to learn to play, and veterans are welcome to challenge each other to a friendly match of strategy and tactics. For this event we will meet in our main lobby behind the escalators.

Join us for a preschool story time for children ages 2-5! We'll share books, songs, a craft, and more each week! No registration necessary.

Are you a Cat Kid's Comic Club fan? Come to the library and make your own one-page comic! 

Sensory storytime is a welcoming, interactive environment designed for special sensory seeking children with autism or other sensory integration challenges.

Join us for a special crafting event where kids can stitch their love and appreciation into heartfelt cards for the caregivers who mean the world to them. Let's sew love and gratitude together!

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Family Fun!  This week:  Zumba for Kids  Get fit and have fun.

Followed by fruitsicles.

For all ages and no registration is needed.

Hattiloo Theatre performs a live children play based on the book, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters. Attendees will be able to participate in an interactive activity based on the play following the performance. 

Let's learn about personal finance through games and crafts! Join the Hollywood Library and Mrs. Carmen Northern (CarmenCents) as we explore how to make our money work for us and build wealth early! Registration is required to attend.

Please join us Saturday afternoons for children's craft time at Cossitt Library. We will have a guided craft, but also will provide supplies for artistic free play. Come get crafty with us!

In a galaxy far away, a group of librarians set out to build the Millennium Falcon, taste the delicacies of the Jedi, battle like a Padawan, and create tools that will even dazzle Master Yoda.

This is an all-ages event.

May the 4th be with you! Come celebrate Star Wars Day at the Bartlett Library! We'll have a Star Wars themed story time, craft, games, and more! Come dressed in costume or in your favorite Star Wars t-shirt, and enjoy the best day of the year!

Join us at the East Shelby Library for a movie day every other Saturday from 3-5 PM. What adventures will you experience that day? You'll have to come see the movie to find out!

Bring the family to storytime to explore stories and facts, shake your sillies out, sing and rhyme together, and more! 

This storytime occurs on Mondays at 11:00 a.m.

Kids age 6-12 can come and read to our sweet reading therapy dog, Lovie. Books will be available for children to read, or they may bring their own.

Kids can come to their Randolph Branch Library after school on Mondays and utilize their creativity with craft making!

This year is the inaugural AAPI Heritage Month Memphis Student Art Competition. Join us as we celebrate the power of creativity to bridge cultures and forge connections.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for the Homeschool Bookclub.  Read and discuss great stories, then share a related activity.  This month, we're reading The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom by Mac Barnett.