Week Calendar

This month's selection is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.

Infants and young babies who are crawlers/pre-walkers and their caregivers are invited to this laid-back, gentle program to enjoy nursery rhymes and stories together as we start baby's love of reading and begin to build literacy skills, all f

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.

This energetic storytime encourages creative movement and dance to help develop gross motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness while fostering a love of stories.

This eight-hour training introduces common mental health challenges for youths (ages 12 - 18), reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a five-step action plan for helping young people in crisis and non-crisis situations.

Are you in need of service hours? Do you like working outside and don't mind getting your hands dirty? If so, this may be the perfect volunteer opportunity for you!

Celebrate Batman Day! Come by to do some Batman-themed crafts and do a self-guided Batman-themed scavenger hunt!

Open Sewing Studio is an opportunity to enjoy freestyle sewing with other sewists. Come in and work on your current sewing project in the company of others.

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

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

This energetic storytime encourages creative movement and dance to help develop gross motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness while fostering a love of stories.

Bring your questions to a Carroll County Master Gardener and pick up tips, handouts, and more. The Ask a Master Gardener table will be set up in the Finksburg Branch lobby.

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 This writing group allows beginners, unpublished, and published writers to network, learn, vent, and feel inspired to move to the next level.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 for a friendly and informal group gathering to practice speaking Spanish together. All levels are welcome. This program is led by a partner from The Literacy Council of Carroll County.

Learn about creepy crawlies like snakes, bugs, and worms with books and crafts at the library and help from our park ranger friends at Piney Run! All materials will be provided.

At this special Saturday Adventure, we will be joined by Black Barn Alpacas. Learn about alpacas, enjoy a story, and then meet some real alpacas!

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

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

Celebrate Batman's 85^th Anniversary on Batman Day with comic book giveaways, movie screenings (The Lego Batman Movie and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm), and more!

Holy 85 years, Batman! Celebrate Batman's 85^th anniversary with themed crafts, games, and a special screening of The Lego Batman Movie! The movie is rated PG.

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

This month's selection is What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. Chancy.

What Storm, What Thunder is the One Maryland One Book 2024 selection.

In this two-part class, learn the basics of braiding and baking yeast-raised sweet doughs using a recipe for Houska, a traditional Czechoslovakian holiday bread.

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!

In this two-part class, learn the basics of braiding and baking yeast-raised sweet doughs using a recipe for Houska, a traditional Czechoslovakian holiday bread.

Cooler weather means cooler crafts! Join us as we usher in the new season by making hand-crafted ceramic coasters you can enjoy or gift away! We will use alcohol based inks and create unique autumnal designs with a variety of techniques.

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

Karen Peck will teach about tones, the lightness or darkness of colors used in artwork. Artists use this range to create contrast, depth, and form in their compositions.

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

Join us for this month's selection, the tense drama 12 Angry Men, starring Henry Fonda. 

Come to the library to visit with or read to book-loving therapy dogs. 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 for a hands-on class on making gilgeori toast, a popular Korean street food. You will prepare a version of this savory-sweet dish that pairs wasabi-mayo crab with the traditional eggy-veg filling.

Join us for Chef Stories with Jennifer Yang of Covalent Spirits. Jen will teach her 'taste of home' recipe for making scallion pancakes.

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. There are many decisions to make when you are transitioning to Medicare.

Digital design using tools such as Fusion 360 is a fundamental skill that unlocks the full potential of maker technologies such as 3D printing and many others, which depend on a digital file to define the shape and size of a real-world ob

Augmented reality allows us to combine digital elements with real-world objects. Join us to learn how to create and code a simple augmented reality scavenger hunt.

Join Memory Lane Playback, a local improv theater troupe, for a family-friendly performance based on audience stories.

In this talk, Executive Director Kyle Dalton of the Union Mills Homestead shares the historic site's long history of slavery and the enslaved. New research has shed light on the enslaved's identity, how they were held, and their resistance.

Experience the many benefits of yoga and meditation. This class, taught by Rebecca Berg, welcomes students of all levels. Adaptations for using a chair will be shared if participants are uncomfortable getting on the floor.

Learn how to create a tropical painting in this hands-on, basic beginner's painting class. Participants can use their imagination and creativity to follow the presenter's example or dream up a warm-weather painting themselves.

Connect with your community and join us for our new group! Participants will earn service learning hours while collaborating on projects that will benefit Eldersburg and beyond.

Join us once a month for our brand-new ASL (American Sign Language) Practice Club! We will have conversational games and prompts to help keep your skills up. All fluency levels are welcome! 

Are you a chess expert or learning to play? Drop in to show your skills with other chess players! Chess players of all levels are welcome.

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, featuring stories, music, crafts, play, and time with friends.

This month's selection is It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover.

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!

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.

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