Day Calendar

It's Money Smart Week! Teach your children the importance of saving with our piggy bank take home kit! For ages 5-10

Make your own marbled stationery! Each kit will include shaving cream, cardstock, food coloring, and extra tools to help you make beautiful notecards to send to loved ones.

This program is designed for parents and children ages 2-5 to do together. Make construction trucks with different foam shapes!

Sew your own book! Each kit will include everything you need to take a stack of paper and turn it into your own notebook.

Join us for a StoryWalk® around Bethany Library. Enjoy nature and Bethany's walking trails as you read a story. The story changes every month so drop by to catch a different story.

"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Spoticus. His mission: to explore space and conduct new experiments, to boldly go where no dog has gone before."

What kind of book does a rabbit like to read at bedtime? Search the children's area to find the 19 reading rabbits hidden to find the answer! Turn in your answer sheet and receive a small prize.

Celebrate Earth Day this year all month long! Pick-up a bingo card and get started with fun conservation activities for the whole family. Complete 5 bingo squares and get a re-usable library tote bag.

Feeling stressed about finances?

It's never too late to learn about money management!

Here at the Downtown Library, we’re always looking for fun ways to connect readers with our collection of books.

A subscription box without the subscription! Each box includes a personalized book, selected just for you, along with some fun goodies! When your item comes due, you’ll return the box and library book—the rest is yours to keep!

Write poetry in 28 Words! Classical Chinese Jueju is a four line poetry stanza using 7 words per line creating a balance between the "Yin and Yang" elements of sound.

April is National Poetry Month! Get in touch with your inner poet with Metro Library’s Blackout Poetry Kit!

Let's continue our journey around the world - through art!

Join us in decorating an Easter egg in celebration of Christ's resurrection. Easter is a time of new beginnings. Let's have some fun and respectfully celebrate this Holiday season with a Take & Make kit.

Let your imagination soar at this special arts and crafts program made for little hands! professional librarians will provide you with all the resources you need to take home to spread your artistic wings.

Create your own relaxing bath experience! Come pick up a take-home kit with everything you'll need to make a bath bomb by yourself.

Have you heard of those subscription boxes where you pay to receive a personalized box of goodies every month? Well this is just like that, except for free! And with library books!

Spring is here! How many colorful signs of spring can you find posted in the children's area. Show your completed sheet at the desk to collect a take home craft.

Celebrate Earth Day and grow some yummy herbs in your very own upcycled plastic bottle planter! This project makes use of things you probably already have in your house and were going to throw away to give them new life--literally!

ATTENTION ADULT READERS!

Have you been seeing those subscription boxes pop up everywhere? Well, good news for teens. Get a teen-centered book box at the library! Included in the boxes will be a book, a treat and something special! You get to keep everything in the box!

ATTENTION ADULT READERS!
Have you heard of the subscription box services? Some people spend up to $20-$40 on different book subscription services. Well, we have a (free) library book box just for you! We are proud to offer monthly boxes with library books handpicked specifically for you (along with some extra goodies for you to keep). We hope your boxes will surprise and delight you.

Teen Book Box Subscribers! Please pick up your box starting the 6th!

If you would like to register for next month's box, click here.

Visit Ralph Ellison Library for a poem a day during National Poetry Month, featuring different poets, eras, and subjects. You just might find a new favorite!

For any teen that loves books, or any teen that maybe needs a little help loving books, our Teen Book Boxes are for you! Simply register and answer a few questions about yourself, and we'll select a book for you!

Create your own 3D hanging diamond mobile! Each kit will include all the supplies you need, except scissors.

Stop by anytime from April 1 to April 18 to see our wonderful display and to decorate an egg for our Community Tree.

Easter is coming! Pick up one of these bags to learn about the Christian holiday of Easter and create a faux stained glass cross. This bag contains all materials needed, except customers will need to provide a pair of scissors.