Week Calendar

Bring your tablet, laptop, or smart device and receive one-on-one technical assistance in accessing the Library’s digital services.  This is not a formal class and customers receive assistance on a first-come first-served basis.  

AARP Foundation’s IRS-certified volunteers provide FREE basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.

Come join us for stories, songs and fun, specially designed for pre-school children! Groups must pre-register.

AARP Foundation’s IRS-certified volunteers provide FREE basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.

Come join us for story time appropriate for the youngest children! No groups please.

AARP Foundation’s IRS-certified volunteers provide FREE basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.

Come join us as we explore the wonderful world of children's literature for toddlers! No groups please.

AARP Foundation’s IRS-certified volunteers provide FREE basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.

Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive and/or coercive behavior used to gain or keep power and control of another person. It can include legal and illegal acts that undermine the victim’s sense of safety, self, and free will.

AARP Foundation’s IRS-certified volunteers provide FREE basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.

Canva.com, a free, easy to use online graphic design program, is an excellent tool for creating professional, vibrant digital content, including résumés.  It features hundreds of templates for all kinds of job seekers.

AARP Foundation’s IRS-certified volunteers provide FREE basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.

Eat, Learn, and Move in this six week series! Join Family and Consumer Sciences TNCEP Agent Lauren Wells for bi weekly programming promising good food, kitchen safety skills, achievable exercise, and budget friendly advice.

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

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.

The first hand lettering session was so much fun, we're doing another one! Hand lettering is a creative and meditative way to personalize your things and make gifts for friends and family.

Once upon a time a few librarians set out to create a magical enchanted forest in the Children's department. Come make our dreams come true by joining us in a day full of magical foliage, enchanting crafts, and a whimsical scavenger hunt.

Join us for an interactive visit with the Meeman-Shelby Forest park rangers! Come learn about what all this beautiful state park has to offer and learn about some of the animals who make the park their home. 

Please join us for a special program with The Dixon's Art to Grow Program! 

Participants ages 8-12 are invited to learn about the art of Floyd Newsom and create their own artwork inspired by his unique style. 

Join us for a fun-filled hour of song and dance designed for children aged 0–5 and their caregivers!

LENA Start Program  ( Language ENvironment Analysis)

Open to all Shelby County Residents

Join us for the Seed Library Garden Club, a welcoming space for gardening lovers of all levels!

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 March, A Wider Angle, our monthly film series highlighting independent global cinema, will screen the 2020 film My Little Sister, written and directed by the Swiss "twin-engine" duo Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond.

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?