Week Calendar

Get further acquainted with the sewing machine and basic tools of the trade. Learn how to work with different-weight fabrics and sew a boxed corner.

Journey forth, young adventurers, and partake in a quest of jumping, spinning, balancing, and more in the great outdoors!

The program is weather-dependent. 

Join us for Monday Matinees! Enjoy a favorite family movie. Blankets and pillows are welcome! All children under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Moana is rated PG.

Join us for tower building using a variety of materials. Let's find out which team has the tallest or strongest towers.

Meet some friendly community helpers and their vehicles. Come on out and touch a truck!

June 20 is the first day of summer! What's in bloom at the Finksburg Branch Garden? Take a guided tour with one of our garden volunteers. Questions about native plants?

Water, water, everywhere!

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 This writing group allows beginners, unpublished, and published writers to network, learn, vent, and feel inspired to move to the next level.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 at the Finksburg Branch Garden for this music event! Pack a picnic, spread a blanket, and enjoy the cool sounds of local bands. It's our Summer Reading Celebration, and what an adventure we'll be having!

Adventure Begins at Your Library this summer, and we want you to come along! Join the celebration with crafts, games, fun, and food throughout the branch.

Kick off the summer with this month's selection, the classic thriller The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. 

Come to our Summer Reading Celebration with games, crafts, and ice cream from The Cow! Bring a chair and hang out in our gardens for the festivities!

Join multiple Parents' Choice Award winner Mr. Jon & Friends for a musical comedy show for the whole family. Mr. Jon and his silly friend George the Monkey will have you dancing, laughing, and singing along.

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 how to make an easy bird feeder and about how birds' beaks are different.

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

Learn the secrets to creating seasonings perfect for grilling meats, seafood, and veggies. Participants will create a grilling spice blend and then make their own signature blend to take home. A tasting will conclude the class.

One way to ensure you can achieve your retirement dreams is to lay solid groundwork for your goals.

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

Join us as we kick off Summer Reading, Adventure Begins at Your Library, with games, crafts, and prizes! This event will be held outside in our park (weather permitting). Feel free to bring sunscreen and water if it is hot and sunny!

Join us to kick off our K-Pop Party with a dance performance by FADE Dance Crew. FADE will perform K-pop cover dances and teach the audience some choreography to accompany your favorite K-pop tunes!

CCPL's Mount Airy Branch is honored to welcome Paco Samb and Super Ngewel to our community for a special musical event! Pape Demba "Paco" Samb is a Senegalese musician and keeper of his ancestral history.

CCPL's Taneytown Branch will partner with Carroll County Public Schools and the US Department of Agriculture to provide free summer meals for kids and teens.

CCPL's Taneytown Branch will partner with Carroll County Public Schools and the US Department of Agriculture to provide free summer meals for kids and teens.

CCPL's Taneytown Branch will partner with Carroll County Public Schools and the US Department of Agriculture to provide free summer meals for kids and teens.

CCPL's Taneytown Branch will partner with Carroll County Public Schools and the US Department of Agriculture to provide free summer meals for kids and teens.

Join us for our 2^nd annual celebration of everything K-Pop! Drop in between 12 PM and 4 PM for games, crafts, music, Korean snacks, prizes, and more! Wear your favorite K-pop outfit, and bring your own photo cards to trade!

Join us for another joint program between CCPL's Westminster Branch and Exploration Commons, hosted in our teaching kitchen!

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

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

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! 

At our adventures in gaming celebration, you can experience snapshots of video game history, from arcade classics to the latest generation.

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

Join us for a fun and creative afternoon of folding books into beautiful, eye-catching decorations. Available while supplies last.

Peter Rabbit loves adventure and eating his veggies. Mr. McGregor grows the best vegetables in his garden, but Peter's not allowed to go there. What do you think will happen when Peter decides to sneak into the garden? Will he get caught by Mr.

Help celebrate our Summer Reading theme, Adventures Begins at Your Library, through a community art project! Do you have a favorite adventure you want to paint, either something you did or read?

Join us for a summer-themed Nerf target range. We will provide the Nerf weapons and targets for you to use!

Tiny thoughts lead to big ideas! Paint a mini canvas and create tiny art masterpieces to display in the library. Participants may paint their canvas in the library or take a kit home. Canvases will be available while supplies last.

Celebrate National Ocean Month with a variety of activities for the whole family.

Enjoy lifelong birder Martin Brazeau's entertaining and informative high-definition film showing the ecology of Maryland birds, such as scarlet tanagers, orioles, and warblers.

Come to the library and read a story to a book-loving dog from My Caring Paws. Research shows that reading to animals can boost children's reading skills and help with emotional and social skills.

We will create our own custom s'mores stations with an engraved design on the front of a wooden box to hold marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers. We will finish with a quick assembly of s'mores items in the kitchen.

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.

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!

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.

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!  

Adventure Begins at Your Library is the Summer Reading theme this year, but maybe you are ready to travel a little further. Listen as experienced traveler Danielle Unglesbee shares how to plan the best adventure that fits you.

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

Celebrate the first day of summer with an evening at the Steeped Tea Cafe in Manchester. On arrival, walk through the backyard and enjoy the beautiful flower beds to slow down after a busy day. Enter this cozy tearoom and relax.

From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes The Queen's Faithful Companion, an endearing and vivid story told from the unique multi-narrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth, Hanna Penwyck (the fictionali