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Family Storytime

10:00am - 11:00am
North Carroll Branch
Location: North Carroll Branch
Room: North Carroll Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( Birth - 8 )

Program Type: Storytime

We’ll share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Come talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. 

Family Storytime

10:00am - 11:00am
Mount Airy Branch
Location: Mount Airy Branch
Room: Mount Airy Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( Birth - 8 )

Program Type: Storytime

We’ll share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Come talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. 

Disclaimer(s)

Siblings are welcome to attend this program.

Family Storytime

10:00am - 11:00am
Taneytown Branch
Location: Taneytown Branch
Room: Taneytown Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( Birth - 8 )

Program Type: Storytime

We’ll share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Come talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. 

Parachute Play

10:00am - 11:00am
Westminster Branch
Location: Westminster Branch
Room: Westminster Outdoor Stage
Age Group:
Kids ( 3 - 6 )

Description:

Join us in Mary Lou Dewey Park as we go up, down, and all around! We will have an amazing time singing songs, playing games, and learning to work together around our colorful parachutes!

Read and Play

10:00am - 11:00am
Eldersburg Branch
Location: Eldersburg Branch
Room: Eldersburg Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( Birth - 24 Months )

Program Type: Storytime

Join your little one at a storytime featuring interactive books, rhymes, music, and movement, followed by playgroup activities that allow children to practice skills and socialize.

North Carroll Writers Group

10:00am - 12:00pm
North Carroll Branch
Location: North Carroll Branch
Room: North Carroll Small Meeting Room
Age Group:
Adults

Description:

Bring your writing, works-in-progress, or works-in-thought. This writing group allows beginners, unpublished, and published writers to network, learn, vent, and feel inspired to move to the next level.

Family Storytime

11:00am - 12:00pm
Eldersburg Branch
Location: Eldersburg Branch
Room: Eldersburg Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( Birth - 8 )

Program Type: Storytime

We’ll share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Come talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. 

Read and Play

11:00am - 12:00pm
Finksburg Branch
Location: Finksburg Branch
Room: Finksburg Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( Birth - 24 Months )

Program Type: Storytime

Join your little one at a storytime featuring interactive books, rhymes, music, and movement, followed by playgroup activities that allow children to practice skills and socialize.

Learn to Solder

1:30pm - 4:30pm
Exploration Commons
Registration
Location: Exploration Commons
Age Group:
Teens ( 16 - Adults )
Adults

Program Type: STEM/STEAM, Technology and Maker
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Description:

Soldering is fun and fundamental to various maker electronic projects and modern technology. From simple light-up LEDs to complex robots, solder is the glue that holds the technological world together.

Back from the Beach Booksale

All Day
Eldersburg Branch
Location: Eldersburg Branch
Age Group:
Everyone ( All Ages )

Description:

Shop a large selection of items at special prices.  

Carroll County Health Department's Health on Wheels Mobile Services

9:30am - 11:30am
Finksburg Branch
Location: Finksburg Branch
Room: Finksburg Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Everyone ( All Ages )

Program Type: Health and Wellness
Description:

Health on Wheels will offer a range of services, including reproductive health services, HIV and Hepatitis C testing, blood pressure screening, smoking cessation, Naloxone training, peer support services, birth certificates, assistance with vaccin

Read and Play

10:00am - 11:00am
North Carroll Branch
Location: North Carroll Branch
Room: North Carroll Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( Birth - 24 Months )

Program Type: Storytime

Join your little one at a storytime featuring interactive books, rhymes, music, and movement, followed by playgroup activities that allow children to practice skills and socialize.

Coffee with the Classics: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

10:00am - 12:00pm
Eldersburg Branch
Location: Eldersburg Branch
Room: Eldersburg Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Adults

Description:

Join us for the last selection of the summer, the buddy Western classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

Back-to-School Book Sale

10:00am - 4:00pm
Mount Airy Branch
Location: Mount Airy Branch
Room: Mount Airy Small Meeting Room
Age Group:
Everyone ( All Ages )

Description:

Join us for our first annual Back-to-School Book Sale! Stock up on all your school year reading needs at this expanded book sale event. Books for children and teens will be highlighted but adult titles will also be available.

Mushroom-Spotting: Daytime Hike at Piney Run Park

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Offsite
Registration
Offsite Event
Location: Offsite
Age Group:
( 11 - 17 )
Teens

Program Type: DIY Arts and Crafts, Fun and Games, STEM/STEAM
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Description:

Join us at the Piney Run Park Nature Center for a mushroom-spotting hike led by a naturalist! Identify and learn about mushrooms and return to the Nature Center's yurt for mushroom-themed crafts!

Disclaimer(s)

All attendees need to register.

Armchair Adventuring: A Screening of Out of Africa

1:30pm - 4:30pm
Mount Airy Branch
Location: Mount Airy Branch
Room: Mount Airy Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Adults

Program Type: Music Theater and Dance
Description:

Join us as we enjoy Isak Dinesen's adventure-filled memoir about Africa from the comfort of the air-conditioned library. Out of Africa is rated PG with a runtime of 2 hours and 41 minutes.

Backyard Birds and How to Identify Them

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Eldersburg Branch
Registration
Location: Eldersburg Branch
Room: Eldersburg Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( 8 - 18 )
Teens

Program Type: Gardening and Environment
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 30
Description:

Calling all bird detectives! Join 4-H Environmental Educator Torrey Silliman to learn tips and tricks for identifying backyard birds.

Disclaimer(s)

Only kids need to register. 

Back from the Beach Booksale

All Day
Eldersburg Branch
Location: Eldersburg Branch
Age Group:
Everyone ( All Ages )

Description:

Shop a large selection of items at special prices.  

Saturday Adventures

10:00am - 11:00am
Eldersburg Branch
Location: Eldersburg Branch
Room: Eldersburg Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( Birth - 8 )

Program Type: DIY Arts and Crafts, Fun and Games, Storytime
Description:

Come to the library every Saturday morning for a new adventure! Stories, songs, dancing, crafts- there will be something new and different each week. The one thing that will always happen? Fun!

Back-to-School Book Sale

10:00am - 4:00pm
Mount Airy Branch
Location: Mount Airy Branch
Room: Mount Airy Small Meeting Room
Age Group:
Everyone ( All Ages )

Description:

Join us for our first annual Back-to-School Book Sale! Stock up on all your school year reading needs at this expanded book sale event. Books for children and teens will be highlighted but adult titles will also be available.

Saturday Storytime

11:00am - 12:00pm
Mount Airy Branch
Location: Mount Airy Branch
Room: Mount Airy Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
Kids ( Birth - 8 )

Program Type: Storytime

We’ll share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Come talk, sing, read, write, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. 

Disclaimer(s)

Siblings are welcome to attend this program.

Saving Seeds from Your Garden

11:00am - 1:00pm
Westminster Branch
Registration
Location: Westminster Branch
Room: Westminster Large Meeting Room (Staff Use Only)
Age Group:
( 10 - Adults )
Teens
Adults

Program Type: Gardening and Environment
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 32
Description:

Join the Carroll County Master Gardeners for this hands-on program to learn how to save seeds from your garden. Feel free to bring your disease- and pest-free plant material or materials will be provided.

Fins to the Left!

1:00pm - 3:30pm
Exploration Commons
Registration
Payment
Location: Exploration Commons
Room: Exploration Commons Kitchen
Age Group:
Adults

Program Type: Cooking
Registration Required
Payment Required
Seats Remaining: 5
Description:

Grab your Hawaiian shirts and join us to celebrate Jimmy Buffett Day! We'll be making several of Jimmy's and his sister LuLu's favorite recipes and non-alcoholic boat drinks to go with them. The registration fee is for a group of four.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration verifies your acceptance of Exploration Commons' program cancellation and kitchen safety procedures.

The Exploration Commons kitchen is not an allergen-free facility.

Dungeons and Dragons Club

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Mount Airy Branch
Registration
Location: Mount Airy Branch
Room: Mount Airy Large Meeting Room
Age Group:
( 11 - 18 )
Teens

Program Type: Fun and Games
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Description:

Welcome adventurers! Join our table as we embark on a fun-filled campaign! Our game is friendly to both new and returning players. Our characters are currently level 3.

Disclaimer(s)

All attendees need to register.