Upcoming Events

Bring your favorite guy (dad, grandpa, uncle) to celebrate Father’s Day with all things dinosaurs, including a handprint keepsake. 

Kayaking is an excellent way to explore local waterways and improve your strength and cardiovascular fitness.

We will have fun as we read, sing, and play together to build early literacy skills.   

An informal, mixed level group, guided by a teacher. Anyone with a basic working knowledge of English can join. Childcare is not available, but parents or caregivers may bring young children who can occupy themselves during the program

Take and Make. For Orland Park residents only. 

Grades 6-12. Stop by for one of these sessions to learn step by step how to draw a popular comic/manga character using simple shapes

We will present basic safety stuff on automobiles like check oil, setting tire pressure, where other fluids are located and installing a spare tire.

Birth-11 months with parent or caregiver.

Stories, songs, fingerplays and fun all while building early literacy skills.

12-23 months with parent or caregiver.

Stories, songs, fingerplays and fun all while building early literacy skills.

Assist library staff with this youth program. Check youth description for program specifics. 

Let’s read Our Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth and explore ways that we can help Earth slow climate change and create an art project with our ideas. 

Where and when did the collective African American voice truly begin to resound? And how?

Join us for this interactive storytime. Be ready to sing, shake, and move!   

Outreach Services brings a browsing collection of large type books and audiovisual materials to residents of Brookdale Senior Living. Outreach Services also facilitates a book discussion of The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

Assist library staff with this youth program. Check youth description for program specifics. 

Using recycled materials and your creative mind, create a unique invention and pitch your idea to the rest of the class.

Get “on board” with the charcuterie trend! Learn how to assemble beautiful, budget-friendly charcuterie boards with Kristyn Slick of Making Mealtime Memories.

In this intermediate level hands-on class, we will look at how to create labels, use mail merge to speed up the mass sending of personalized mailings, and create flyers/posters.

Pick up this Take and Make at the Teen Loft while supplies last. 

National Pollinator week is June 17-23. Plant a mini pollinator garden and learn how to help pollinators in your neighborhood.

Assist library staff with this youth program. Check youth description for program specifics.