Week Calendar

Joseph Oliver and a variety of skilled professionals conduct weekly classes with customers participating in hands-on repair and learning exercises. Participants will be exposed to the basics of electricity and electronics theory and repair.

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.

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:

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

All ages are welcome at our Family Storytime! Come listen to exciting stories, participate in fun activities, and share a special time together.

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.

Positive Solutions for Families (PSF) is an evidence-informed seven-part series for parents and caregivers of young children.

Do you love reading AND doggies?! Come and read to a sweet, friendly pup and practice your reading skills! Every third Saturday at the Central Library in the Children's story time room from 11 - 1pm.

Please join us in the Tai Chi exercise program!  It will improve your pain relief, flexibility, body strength and balancing.

What is “Shabach Live”? It’s an exhilarating game of Empowerment, Excitement, and Engagement similar to bingo. Join us for a fun filled "Black History is World History" event for the whole family. You can also win prizes! Let’s play! 

Every third Saturday, customers of all ages will get to watch a movie and enjoy popcorn and beverages. Please join us if you are interested, and make sure to spread the word!

Our tweens will explore topics of careers choices and personal finance through a ten week course provided by Junior Achievement.

Our teens will explore topics of personal finance through an eight week course provided by Junior Achievement. Each session is 45 minutes and will cover everything our teens need to know about stacking their paper and managing their wealth.

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.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with creativity and good tunes! Dive into fun, heart-inspired art projects that let you express yourself—whether through painting, crafting, or music-inspired designs.

A celebration of self-worth, friendship and fun! Grab your besties for an empowering day of love, laughter and joy. It's about embracing your self-worth and celebrating the friendships that lift you up.

Children can read to our reading therapy dog Lovie! Children may bring their own books, or they may choose from ones available.

Learn to use the xTool laser cutter!  

Unleash your rhythm in this dynamic, hands-on drumming workshop designed for teens! This introductory session explores the fundamentals of drumming, including basic techniques, rhythm patterns, and collaborative percussion exercises.

Learn to use the xTool laser cutter!  

Come join us for a fun-filled adventure as we REad to Lovie, MPL'S very own therapy dog! We’ll be diving into exciting stories with magical characters, thrilling adventures, and lots of laughter.

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.

Unleash your creativity in CLOUD901's Video and Photo Production Lab!

Show someone you care! An hour of fun & crafts. All supplies provided. Be there!

Come join us at Randolph for a fun opportunity to handmake a plushie for your Valentine using scraps of fabric! We'll have all the supplies you need, available on a first come, first serve basis.

Nothing says PALentine's Day like heart shaped boxes full of sweet treats!

Join us as we make and decorate heart-shaped boxes that we will be filling with decorated sweet treats in PALentine's Day Treat Boxes Part 2!

Welcome to the Whitehaven Booked Club! 

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

Nothing says PALentine's Day like heart shaped boxes full of sweet treats!

Join us for an Open Art Session at Randolph Library This is your chance to explore your artistic talents in a relaxed and fun environment.

You can bring some of your own art supplies or use those that we will provide, including:

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

Stop by the South Branch on the 2nd Monday of each month for a special painting project! We'll try out different painting materials and techniques to make great pieces of art!

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.

Do you love to read? Are you competitive? Come and join us for a fun celebration of books where we design our own book covers, swap books and play some friendly competitive games. 

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. 

Our tweens will explore topics of careers choices and personal finance through a ten week course provided by Junior Achievement.

🎉 Calling All Book Enthusiasts! ✨

Our teens will explore topics of personal finance through an eight week course provided by Junior Achievement. Each session is 45 minutes and will cover everything our teens need to know about stacking their paper and managing their wealth.

Join us for a fun-filled movie experience at the library! Every Friday, we’ll be showing a selection of classic films, family favorites, and exciting new releases, all with free popcorn for you to enjoy.

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.

For February, A Wider Angle, our monthly film series highlighting independent global cinema, will screen the 2022 coming-of-age film The Sales Girl, directed by acclaimed Mongolian director Sengedorj Janchivdorj.

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.

American Fiction: The Genres

with instructor Aaron Brame

February 6-March 13, Thursdays 6:00-7:30 pm

Room L-56

Tired of reading the same old thing? Interested in trying out a new genre for the first time?