Week Calendar

Enjoy stories, songs, and fun as children ages 3-5 are introduced to the joy-filled world of children’s books. Groups must pre-register.

Toddlers and their caregivers are invited to Randolph Library for stories, songs, rhymes and a craft!

Join us for stories, songs, fingerplays, and fun with the toddler in your life. Appropriate for children ages 18-36 months. No groups.

Welcome to the Lev(I)magintion Storytime Station! We invite you to join us as we Explore, Discover, and Learn through Reading, Singing, and Crafts at the Levi Library.

Join us at OGR Library at the corner of Poplar and White Station for stories, songs, movement, and more! 

Support Foster Youth Awareness, take home free school supplies, and visit vendors during South Memphis Alliance's Back to School Supply Giveaway. Connect Crew will read stories in the Social Suds Pinwheel Playroom during this community event.

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.

Family story times are a great opportunity for children and caretakers to come together, hear stories, sing songs, and work together on crafts or other activities.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Baby Storytime.  Share stories and songs and bubbles!  This week's theme is: Cowboys & Cowgirls.  No registration is needed.

Join us for an hour of building, creating, and making new friends! 

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Storytime.  Share stories, songs and crafts.  This week's theme: Cowboys & Cowgirls.  No registration is needed.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Storytime.  Share stories, songs and crafts.

This week's theme - Cowboys & Cowgirls

No registration is needed.

No health insurance? No problem!

LINC/211 and ShotRX are bringing one-day-only, FREE services to anyone who needs medical care. 

No appointments are necessary.

Health Screenings

Family storytimes are a great opportunity for children and caretakers to come together, hear stories, sing songs, and work together on crafts or other activities. Everyone's afraid of something.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for a Chess Tournament for kids.

Registration begins at 11 AM.  First match at 12 NOON

For registered and unregistered players.

Can't play?  Come learn how!

Break dancing is making its Olympic debut in 2024, so we're going to do some judging of our own.

Parents and students, come register for school at the library! Recruitment officers will be onsite to help K-12 students get signed up to attend classes this fall. 

Parents and students, come register for school at the library! Recruitment officers will be onsite to help K-12 students (NEW to MSCS, entering kindergarten or transferring) get signed up to attend classes this fall. 

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!

Join us at the Hollywood Community Center for a back to school bash! Pick up a free backpack full of school supplies, clothes, snacks, and you can even get a library card! You don't want to miss out.

Join us for a performance by the Kids on the Block, an award-winning International Program. Enjoy puppets and stories, and make a puppet of your own to take home. 

We encourage our tweens and teens to come to the Levi Library to partake in a towel ping-pong contest! 

Join us for Art to Grow! An art program provided by Dixon Gallery and Gardens. This program is a painting lesson based on art by Amy Hutcheson, an artist in the Dixon exhibition "Memphis 2024". Ages 8-16 are welcome to attend.

A four week course introducing the Korean language running 7/12, 7/19, 7/26 and 8/2. More details soon.

Do you love Memphis? We do! Join us in celebrating our city AND the start of Summer Reading!  Enjoy free food, live music from local bands, and story time and crafts.

Come join us at the Levi Library for our Explore Memphis Finale! We'll have plenty of activities available, such as a petting zoo for children and a wildlife adventure for customers of all ages!

Join us and Memphis City Beautiful as we discover amazing ways to taking care of our city and recycle. Let's help keep Memphis Beautiful! We will also enjoy a fun craft. 

Would you like to read a book to Lovie, the library therapy dog? Lovie loves a good book, so join us and have fun reading to Lovie. She loves all books, especially mysteries!

Every hero has to face obstacles and challenge during their adventures. Test your ability to answer riddles, keep your balance in an alligator pit, and jump across a canyon. 

Come to the Cordova Branch Library to meet local children's author Lashanna Houston.  Listen to her read her book.  Then stay for snacks and crafts.  For ages 5-12 and no registration is needed.

Would you like to read a book to a dog? Lovie, the library therapy dog, loves a good book, especially mysteries! Come join us. Choose a good book, relax, and read to the dog!

Tween Zone is a chance for tweens ages 10-12 to chill out after school. Need to give your mind a break? Stop by the children's department to create art, play games, and chill. 

Kids ages 3-8 are invited to come by the Storytime Area and pick up a new pack of crayons to start the school year right, and a coloring book to celebrate National Coloring Book Day.

Would you like to read a book to a dog? Now is your chance, so join us and grab a good book and meet Lovie, the library therapy dog. Relax, and cuddle up and read a favorite book to Lovie,

Join us at Orange Mound to celebrate International Friendship Day! Learn how to make friendship bracelets for the friends you already have, and maybe make a new one! Ages 6-12.

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 August 2nd from 6-8pm at the Benjamin L. Hooks' Goodwyn Gallery for a celebration of arts and animals! The Pet Portrait Art Show will feature art from the Memphis community that is inspired by our mutual love of pets.