Week Calendar

Bring your questions about spring 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.

Drop in to celebrate Earth Day with CCPL's Taneytown Branch and Neighborhood Forest!

Join the STEM fun as we explore photosynthesis and learn what plants need to grow. Make play dough flowers and create a nature collage.

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

Learn to make delicious chicken and scratch dumpling soup. We'll create our soup and have it together for lunch in our teaching kitchen.

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

Bring your questions about spring gardening to a Carroll County Master Gardener and pick up tips, handouts, and more. Hear about seed starting, soil tests, and container gardening.

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 This writing group allows beginners, unpublished, and published writers to network, learn, vent, and feel inspired to move to the next level.

Join us as we celebrate the changing weather of spring. We will read books, sing, and learn fun weather rhymes. Hands-on stations will be set up around the room.

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.

Join us for this month's selection, Billy Wilder's noir classic Sunset Boulevard, starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. This movie has a runtime of 1 hour and 50 minutes.

Join us for an inclusive makerspace class for teens and adults with disabilities! Discover the joy of creating as we dive into Tinkercad, an entry-level 3D design software!

This is a friendly, informal group gathering monthly to practice speaking Spanish together. All levels are welcome; the leader will provide materials.

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!

We will discuss precision techniques to improve your laser project outcomes. Topics will include centering-point alignment, printed registration marks, using jigs or templates, and the importance of maintaining a settings notebook.

Join avid hobby gardener Mr. Max from CCPL's Finksburg Branch for a presentation on the state of our environment.

Are you looking to make new friends and have valuable social experiences for your little one? Join us for our new weekly playgroup!

Getting bored with cooking the same things over and over? You may just be missing that creative spark! In this class, we will use the same primary ingredients, chicken, tomato, and pasta, to discuss how to make three separate dishes.

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

Celebrate National Poetry Month as we learn about poetry all around us and create some of our own poems!

CCPL's Taneytown Branch is having a monthly Super Smash Bros. tournament for kids, so join us to show you're the best Super Smash Bros. player your age in town! No prizes, just glory to the winner!

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

Join us for a hands-on session where we create and cut out a wood puzzle ball on Exploration Commons' Iconic CNC router. Previous basic computer experience is required. No experience with the CNC router or design software is needed.

This month we will discuss Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey.

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! 

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

CCPL's Taneytown Branch is having a monthly Super Smash Bros. tournament for teens, so join us to show you're the best Super Smash Bros. player in town! No prizes, just glory to the winner!

Join us at CCPL's Eldersburg Branch to design a custom dishwasher-safe mug with our library's Cricut machine. Create a design, prepare your mug, and return later to pick up your unique sublimation mug!

Help us celebrate spring by joining us for a fun afternoon of painting!

The paint we use can stain clothing, so please wear old clothes to this event. Materials will be provided. No prior experience is necessary.

Bring an art project and your own supplies. Work in our shared space with other artists. This is an excellent opportunity to meet other artists and share art ideas.

Celebrate National Poetry Month at CCPL's Mount Airy Branch as we decorate poetry jars to hold your favorite poems! You can also use the jars for inspirational moments, personal reflections, quippy quotes, or gift them away.

Come to the library to visit with or read to a book-loving dog. Research shows that reading to animals boosts reading skills in children and helps with social skills and emotional health for all ages.

Every dog enjoys a good story! Trained reading dogs from My Caring Paws will provide a relaxed, informal atmosphere for kids to practice reading.

Join us at CCPL's Eldersburg Branch to design a custom dishwasher-safe mug with our library's Cricut machine. Create a design, prepare your mug, and return later to pick up your unique sublimation mug!

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

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.

Are you or someone you care about eligible for Medicare? Come and find out how to maximize your Medicare health benefits. This seminar focuses on Medicare Supplement/Medigap and Medicare Advantage plans.

Adding lights or sound to any cosplay project can be a great way to make you stand out in the crowd.

In this class, participants will explore the basics of pattern digitizing. Pattern digitizing is the process of transforming paper sewing patterns into digital files with computer-aided design (CAD) systems for preservation, editing, and storage.

Welcome adventurers! Join us for a fun-filled, self-contained one-shot adventure! This silly one-shot is friendly to both new and returning players.

Pass the syrup! In this class, you'll make and taste sweet and savory varieties of this breakfast favorite. Recipes will include Banana Oatmeal, Apple Fritter, Cheddar Bacon Jalapeño, Pulled Pork, and Belgian Coffee.

Join us for a murder mystery based on the classic board game Clue.

Have you always wanted to win a blue ribbon at the State Fair? Join Maryland State Fair Home Arts Department Superintendent Janice Coroneos to learn the ins and outs of competing at the Fair.

Join us for an afternoon of creating your own paper flowers. Choose from two beautiful templates: a paper hyacinth bouquet and a paper sunflower bouquet. All supplies will be provided. 

Richard Blacksten, log home restorationist, has compiled video footage of multiple log cabins in the Carroll County area as they were being restored or demolished.

Please join us for our monthly Death Café. Enjoy a hot cup of tea or coffee and a cupcake as we discuss death. Our goal is to destigmatize discussions about death and dying.

Join us for a monthly session of diamond painting! We'll have a new project each month, and no experience is necessary!  

Join local author, Jean Burgess, as she launches her debut fiction, That Summer She Found Her Voice: A Retro Novel.

Join us to watch the latest and greatest anime with other Taneytown teens! 

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.

Wear your pajamas and listen to stories before bed. Join us for family fun and enjoy stories, music, crafts, play, and being together with friends.

This month's selection is The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

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!

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!