Upcoming Events

Ready for some friendly competition this year! 2025 is the year of gaming! Let's have some fun playing video games. We'll have a different game for every month. Will you be the one to go home with bragging rights?

The only objective is to put words on paper! Think of this as a NaNoWriMo "write-in," but for those of us who need longer than a year to write a book! Bring a writing project to work on, or start something new. All skill levels welcome.

A beginning Spanish class designed for students that have no familiarity with the language. Registration not necessary and we can start you with our beginners group and work you up to our advanced group.

Literature with Lovie! 

Lovie the library dog loves to listen to books. Drop by while she's here to read her a story. We have lots of books to choose from or you can bring your own!

This is the Python seminar portion of coding club, taught by our brilliant Dr. Karishma Gangwani! 

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.

Express yourself! Every Wednesday from January to May local artist and founder of Color Your Story Onto Mine nonprofit, Violet Newborn, will be hosting a series of social artistry workshops for Memphis youth at the Orange Mound Library.

Button pins are used to express a plethora of things from achievement badges to showing pride in one's community. Whatever idea or statement you’d like to convey there’s a button for it.

If you are a teenager and  looking for a safe place for fun, join us in game activities, including board  games. You will have a great time. 

Ever find yourself stuck when you're trying to write? Or, maybe, you don't even know how to start? Then please join us for 'The Writer's Block,' a writing club geared towards gathering writers together and getting words down on the page.

This class is designed to introduce the basic functions of  Microsoft Word for Office 365 in order to create professional documents, resumes, and any other text documents.  The following skills will be covered:

Welcome to the Whitehaven Booked Club! 

Fiber arts creators come together and work on your current project!

Come join us for an afternoon of gaming, crafts, and snacks in the teen loft!

A beginning Spanish class designed for students that have no familiarity with the language. Registration not necessary and we can start you with our beginners group and work you up to our advanced group.

Memphis Area Legal Service offers free consultations to the public each second Friday of the month at 2pm. Appointments are by first come, first served.

Join us for MPL's Japanese Culture Club! This monthly meeting will be dedicated to the appreciation of Japanese culture.

Please join us for a special storytime with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra! Learn about all the different brass instruments and they music they make. We will then read a story as the brass ensemble plays along.

New to the guitar and interested in learning the fundamentals? Come to the Orange Mound Branch and learn the essential skills you'll need rock, jam, or serenade! It's B.Y.O.G. (Bring Your Own Guitar), but that's all you need to bring.

Come Celebrate Beverly Cleary's birthday with us over at Randolph and have a D.E.A.R old time. There will be fun games, giveaways and as always Books! Bring the whole family and join us! 

Curious about poetry? Is it for you? Join us at the Orange Mound Library for The People's Poetry Club, where we prefer poems that speak to you instead of at you.