Week Calendar

Get together at the library for a fun social time for neurodiverse adults. We’ll provide the space, and you provide the fun. 

In Person Storytime

Bring your questions about fall gardening to a Carroll County Master Gardener and pick up tips, handouts, and more.

Writers of all levels and genres are invited to join our weekly writing group. It is a flexible, drop-in, stay-as-long-as-you-like environment.

What is a Card Kit Box? It's a box full of fun for crafty adults!

Get together at the library for a fun social time for you and your children. We’ll provide the space, toys, and activities, and you provide the fun. Play is an important part of developing early literacy skills.

Join CCPL's Westminster Branch staff members, Tina Mawhinney, Joy Zimmer, and the Exploration Commons Teaching Kitchen for Cook the Book!

Get familiar with embroidery machines and the tools and materials you need to create a successful project.

Join us for this energetic and interactive storytime. Explore your favorite children’s books (and find some new ones) through song, dance, and creative movement!    

Join the Mount Airy Knitters for a weekly roundtable of knitting, conversation, and fun. All experience levels are welcome. 

This hands-on class will cover everything you need to know about caring for your knives and how to use them. You’ll learn how to chop, dice, and mince and get plenty of practice with other professional cuts.

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 This writing group allows beginners, unpublished, and published writers to network, learn, vent, and feel inspired to move to the next level.

Preparing and sewing a garment in ¼ scale will allow you to experience the process of completing a simple pair of pull-on pants without the fear of failure. Real-life pattern sizing and references will be provided for you to use your new skil

Join Carroll County Workforce Development for a pop-up event at CCPL's Taneytown Branch! Learn about free career services, opportunities for free training, updating your resume, and getting connected to employers.

Are you interested in improving your language skills? Join us for Spanish Bilingual Storytime! There will be singing, dancing, activities, stories, and rhymes in Spanish and English.

Join the fun as we explore apples through crafts, stories, and fun!

Join the fun with Fit Friends, taught by Miss Courtney, a certified personal trainer specializing in youth fitness. This program features inspiring ideas to get your kids moving! 

Walk, stroll, or trike along the path at Mount Airy's Wildwood Park with Ms. Sara as we play a fun game of I Spy. We will meet at the gazebo to get started. Please make sure to bring water or snacks.

Play is a fantastic way for children to develop their critical thinking skills. Join us for an open playtime where children can be imaginative and creative while exploring blocks, puzzles, playdough, and more.

This is a conversation club created to help each other learn and practice Spanish. All levels welcome; native speakers, too. No pressure, no judgment. ¡Aprender juntos es divertido!

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!

Learn the basic features of Adobe Illustrator. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and explore the program through hands-on instruction. No experience is required!

A theme-based storytime featuring an age-appropriate story, songs, and learning activities, with a concentration on creative movement.

Join us for this energetic and interactive storytime. Explore your favorite children’s books (and find some new ones) through song, dance, and creative movement!    

Looking to have fun with your kids and make new friends in your community? Join us for a walk in the park as we enjoy the Story Stroll at Taneytown Memorial Park! We'll act out the story together, then do some fun activities.

Code with Pepper, CCPL's social humanoid robot! Program Pepper to strike up a conversation using the drag-and-drop interface, Choregraphe. No previous coding experience is required.

Join us one Monday a month for a classic film. This month's movie is On Golden Pond, starring Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Jane Fonda. The film is rated PG and is 1 hour and 49 minutes.

Knitters and crocheters are welcome to join this group gathering to share tips, projects, and patterns.

This month's selection is All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir and the Carroll Reads 2023 book selection.

The library is more than just books. It's a place to come together as a community. We welcome teens and adults with developmental disabilities and their caregivers to join us for games, crafts, music, and more! 

Join us for a sparkling, crafty afternoon. We will be creating glittering paw print coasters with diamond painting.  

Join us for an afternoon of painting themed around the beautiful autumn season with a fun glow-in-the-dark touch. No prior painting experience is necessary!

Join us for a special visit by a screech owl from the Piney Run Park Nature Center! Participants will also perform an owl pellet dissection. Learn all about owl behavior, diet, and habitat.

This beginner-level laser cutter class will walk you through design basics, machine use, and safety procedures.

Celebrate Asian authors, characters, and genres while sipping boba tea in this joint program with CCPL's Westminster Branch and Exploration Commons at 50 East!

Are you or someone you care about eligible for Medicare? Come and find out how to maximize your Medicare health benefits. There are many decisions to make when you are transitioning to Medicare.

Microcontrollers are everywhere and are often the unseen heroes of our modern world. Microcontrollers can be programmed to fulfill various simple tasks, from coffee makers to elevators and even the television remote control.

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.

We'll provide some old toys for you to take apart, cut, glue, and put together however you want to make into your own creation.

Digital Maryland is a collaborative, statewide digitization program that provides partners resources to make their cultural materials accessible online.

Calling all nature enthusiasts! From crickets and cockroaches to beetles and butterflies. Test your knowledge of all types of creepy crawlies during this exciting trivia quiz!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is flooding headlines and creeping into our everyday lives. Join us for a presentation by David Sherwood about the past and future of AI.

Join this friendly crochet group open to beginners and experienced crocheters alike. Those new to crocheting should bring a size J hook and a light-colored, worsted-weight yarn to the class.

Join us for family fun and enjoy stories, music, crafts, play, and being together with friends.

This month's selection is All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir and the Carroll Reads 2023 book selection.

Financial professionals Karen and Michael Stebner will be here to discuss children and money. In week one, we will cover important money concepts to teach your children, starting as young as three!

Tea & Tidbits will be a tasting of eight teas, with some tidbits of traditional English tea foods: classic scones, cucumber finger sandwiches, and hot milk cake. We will also share tea knowledge and history.

A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist Scott Shan

Calling all teens with a love of the library! Help us plan teen programming and influence our teen collections. We want you for our Teen Advisory Board! Need service hours? We’ve got those too!

Speaking with other people who have multiple sclerosis can be one of the most empowering and helpful things for someone with MS.

This reading/discussion group will read a provided work together and discuss it, all in the same evening! It’s all of the book club experience with none of the homework. Just bring yourself and a friend.

Looking for some Friday night fun? Come show off your rhythm skills on Beat Saber, a virtual reality block slashing game that will challenge your coordination and musical timing.

All experience levels are welcome to participate in this one-hour virtual hatha yoga practice. In class, we will explore beginner-level asanas and mindful movements designed to support your well-being on many levels.

In this online class, Sarah Reading CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher) will lead us through a relaxing drawing activity that starts with four dots and a line. The outcome will amaze you!