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.  

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

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

Join us for a fun-filled story time, for ages 0-2.

Join us for a fun aerobics exercise with Ms. Linda Epps. It's a great way to enjoy exercising while allowing you to stretch and improve flexibility, muscular strength, and cardiovascular fitness. 

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

Come and join us for a super cool story time! 

This beginner-friendly class is designed for adults who want to build confidence using a computer.

This 5-week course meets at Cossitt Library on Tuesdays from 10:30am-12:00pm on 9.30, 10.7, 10.14, 10.21, and 10.28.

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

Computer Basics is for the very beginner to introduce fundamental concepts and skills related to using computers. The class encompasses keyboarding, mouse skills, internet and email basics among other basic applications.

Join teaching artist Elaine Blanchard for this 6-week creative writing course. Participants use prompts, timed writing, and critique to explore writing techniques.

Join us for a fun aerobics exercise with Ms. Linda Epps. It's a great way to enjoy exercising while allowing you to stretch and improve flexibility, muscular strength, and cardiovascular fitness. 

Join us for a fun-filled story time, for ages 3-5. 

Join us on Thursdays from 10:30-11:30 at Randolph Library for Sensory Storytime! Sensory storytime is a welcoming, interactive environment designed for special sensory seeking children with autism or other sensory integration.

This beginner-friendly class is designed for adults who want to build confidence using a computer.

Calling all teens who love a good scare or a heart-pounding thriller! In this special library program, you’ll choose a mystery book without seeing the cover, title, or author.

For the month of October, write down or draw your Halloween costume!

Are you new to computers or looking to freshen up on your skills? Please join us for our computer basics class! Come learn about accessing essential tools on the desktop and on the web. We can't wait for you to join us! 

Walk a mile and get a free book! We are going to walk from the library entrance, complete the walking path around the Bert Ferguson community center (approx. 1 mile), and return to the library.

Are you interested in crocheting or knitting? If so, this program is for you. Memphis Yarnworks is hosting a Sit & Stitch session. Please bring your own supplies.  

Need a hand with homework? The Frayser Library is here to help!

Students in 1st through 3rd grade are invited to get one-on-one assistance from Ms. Rebekah on their homework assignments!

Support your library! Join the Frayser Friends of the Library monthly meeting. Learn about upcoming programs, events, and more arriving at your Frayser Library. 

The Cherokee Sewing Club meets once per month. There is a morning and afternoon meeting, please pick only one time.  The same class project will be taught at both sessions.

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.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Baby Storytime.  Share stories and songs and bubbles!

This week's theme - Happy Halloween

No registration is needed.

Learning basic keyboard and Microsoft Office skills.

Come out to Hollywood and enjoy an hour of various games and fellowship. 

You are welcome to bring your child to Story Times @ Crenshaw. Pre-K story time offers children, parents and caregivers stories, songs and movements to nurture imagination and creativity through exposure to storybook characters and fun songs.

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

This week's theme - Happy Halloween!

No registration is needed.

Free program open to YMCA members and to the public!

What is AI? What can AI do? How can I use AI tools and how can they make my life easier? How do I stay safe while using AI tools? How do I avoid AI scams?

We encourage our seniors to come to the Levi Library and test their skills in our Bingo Wednesday! For this Bingo, MLGW will return as our host and guest caller!

Design, build, and glaze your own clay windchime with the guidance of an experienced ceramics instructor. 

Windchimes bring a beautiful sound to your home and garden. And, you will have created it with your own hands!

Come out and learn the basics of computer literacy, which will include one hour of a basic curriculum and one hour of answering technology related questions with your phone, tablet, or laptop.

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

This week's theme - Happy Halloween!

No registration is needed.

Pregame for Halloween with an EPIC ALL DAY movie marathon! 

Come see the ALL AGES  classic comfort watches you love and find new favorites! 

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

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

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Cordova Clown Day. 

Meet real Shriner Circus Clowns.  Share stories and games.  Facepainting and juggling.  

For all ages and no registration is needed.

Come to this special story time featuring Memphis musicians!

Looking for a way to set healthy goals or start an exercise routine? Join us at Levi as we move and groove with modern, easy to use equipment. Your choice, Your Pace!

Keepin' it Live at Levi: Come join us for our free nine-week line dancing workshop! Beginners will learn the basic steps as they continue to advance at their own speed. But above all, participants will be having fun! 

Looking for a way to set healthy goals or start an exercise routine? Join us at Levi as we move and groove with modern, easy to use equipment. Your choice, Your Pace!

Memphis Public Libraries provides free notary services to the public during drop-in hours: WEDNESDAYS from Noon – 2 PM at the Central Library in the Business & Sciences Department on the 3rd floor.

Come out, enjoy and have fun learning our basic line dancing steps at a slower pace. This class is more instructional and repetitive. This class is cardio-driven and more about movement than technique.

Looking for a way to set healthy goals or start an exercise routine? Join us at Levi as we move and groove with modern, easy to use equipment. Your choice, Your Pace!

Come to the South Library to receive a FREE Health Screening from Tri State Community Health Center.

Looking for a way to set healthy goals or start an exercise routine? Join us at Levi as we move and groove with modern, easy to use equipment. Your choice, Your Pace!

We provide the lego bricks and you come with the creations!

Join the Frayser Book Club for a lively book discussion! Listen and discuss plot points, writing style, and hidden messages in the novel.

 Your Story, Your Power:  A 6 week Journey to Finding Your Inner Monologue with ANN PERRY WALLACE.

October 8, 15, 29 and November 1, 8, and 15

Note: The Safety Test is for current members of the CLOUD901 Teen Lab Robotics Team only. Members must sign up to complete their written safety test with Robotics Coach, Marion Anderson.

Join us at Levi for a fun take on the Biggest Loser program. This 6-week program will be geared toward adults looking to achieve maintainable weight loss and healthy goals.

Join teaching artist Carol Buchman for this 5-week introduction to mural making. Participants will collaborate to design and create a large multi-paneled mural.

Chicago Stepping is returning to the Levi Library! Join us every Monday from 2:00-3:00 and Wednesday from 1:30-2:30 p.m. as Ray Hilliard demonstrates the Chicago Style 8 count step-by-step while getting in the groove. 

                It's officially fall and almost the spooky season!   

For our second annual scary movie, we are showing another classic .

East Shelby Book Lovers Club will meet Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. in the conference room, at the East Shelby Library. We will discuss This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection by Carol Burnett.

For this pop-up event, customers will have the opportunity to learn about financial empowerment. Chauntay Harris from Greater Memphis will provide the necessary advice for customers to maintain and improve their personal financial status.

Chicago Stepping is returning to the Levi Library! Join us every Monday from 2:00-3:00 and Wednesday from 1:30-2:30 p.m. as Ray Hilliard demonstrates the Chicago Style 8 count step-by-step while getting in the groove. 

Learn Spanish for free in this beginner-friendly class for adults! Instructional materials provided at the start of every class. No registration needed.

Come along to learn great new moves while exercising and having a great time while dancing! It'll help stimulate your mind and improve your body tone.

The Cherokee Sewing Club meets once per month. Both morning and afternoon meetings will make the same project, please sign up for only one!

Students will embark on a crash course into the world of a Comedy TV writer, experiencing what it’s like to work on a shared storyline in a healthy and constructive collaborative environment.

Its teen Trivia Takeover, testing brainpower, teens will battle it out in a fun, fast-paced trivia challenge covering pop culture, school smarts, and random fun facts.

Join the Dixon's own Shawna White for an hour of learning inspired by the ever changing seasons and collections at the Gallery. No experience needed to create your own works of art from a wide variety of techniques!

Students ages 13-15 will participate in the Fair Housing Council Youth Internship Program.

Come join our Fun Thursday Bingo! You will enjoy the laughing, music, bingo games and the good time gathering. 

Connect Crew will be present to share free books and library resources for the students in the Whitehaven community! This will occur in the parking lot next to Brown Baptist, near the Southland Mall.

For October, our "page-to-screen" book club, I Read That Movie @ the Library, continues its Halloween tradition of seasonably appropriate selections for the holiday!

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays! Please join us for Boooooks with Friends to celebrate. Stop by the library for tricks or treats, book giveaways, take-home activities, and a spine-tingling storytime.

Stand Up, Speak Out: An Anti-Bullying Interactive Experience

A Creative Workshop Presented by Heal the Hood Foundation of Memphis

Spend your Saturday at the library! Bring your favorite trading cards or board games so you can make new friends, learn new games, and have a blast! Games also provided by the library.

Join us for a fun and creative afternoon painting bookends for the library shelves! Tweens can show off their artistic flair while helping to brighten up our space with one-of-a-kind designs.

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

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

Do you like Dungeons and Dragons but don't know how to play? Great, neither do we! Come play a chaotic game where no one knows the rules but still have to win battles against unknown foes. 

This isn’t your ordinary game of UNO — with up to 20 players, this is going to be wild, competitive, and full of surprises. We're using all the decks for a chaotic hour of Uno!

🌭 HOTDOGS, NACHOS, CUPCAKES 🧁, FACE PAINTING, GAMES, CANDY BAGS ! 

Happy Halloween! Put on your costume and join us for an hour of crafts, candy, and Halloween fun! 

Come join us at the Levi Library for our 6th Annual Spooky Fest on October 31, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.!

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:

Gather weekly for a fun and engaging story time.

Note: The Safety Test is for current members of the CLOUD901 Teen Lab Robotics Team only. Members must sign up to complete their written safety test with Robotics Coach, Marion Anderson.

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

Join us for a fun and interactive music therapy program led by a board certified music therapist from The STAR Center, Inc.

South's STEM Club will look at different STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) topics each month, from bridges to solar power.

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.

Note: The Safety Test is for current members of the CLOUD901 Teen Lab Robotics Team only. Members must sign up to complete their written safety test with Robotics Coach, Marion Anderson.

Teens are invited to try a different Board Game every two weeks at South.  Card games, Dungeon Crawlers, Deck Builders, Strategy versus all-out chaos - it’s all on the table at Board game Buffet.

Unleash your inner artist with the return of our "Tangled In Crafts" series! This time, we're diving into a new craft: DIY Holiday Doormats.

Get introduced to CLOUD901's Sound Mixing Lab and learn the basics needed for recording our city's next biggest hit!

Note: We do not allow cursing or inappropriate subject matter in the Music Lab.

Note: The Safety Test is for current members of the CLOUD901 Teen Lab Robotics Team only. Members must sign up to complete their written safety test with Robotics Coach, Marion Anderson.

This class/workshop will focus on dramatic writing culminating to presenting works on stage including poetry, short stories, and prose in a dramatic form.

Note: The Safety Test is for current members of the CLOUD901 Teen Lab Robotics Team only. Members must sign up to complete their written safety test with Robotics Coach, Marion Anderson.

Kids: Join us at your Randolph Branch Library for Boooo Books! We will have storytime, free books, snacks and crafts!

Build English skills in a relaxed, friendly environment, meet other English learners, and practice speaking and listening skills in small groups.