Week Calendar

We will be sharing stories & activities with our friends from Skip-Along/Rock Island campus

Youth Services staff will be reading and sharing literacy activities with the RIMSD Head Start and Preschool for All classes.

Young children and their caregivers are invited to enjoy this story time full of short books, action rhymes and songs.

For ages 0 - 5 years old.

Meet neighbors and create community at Coffee & Conversations every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at the Southwest Library! Coffee, light refreshments, and optional activities will be provided.

Relaxing and casual fun for kids 5 and younger with their caregiver.  Toys and activities will be set out from  10 am to noon at the Downtown Library, Children's Room.  

Children and their caregivers are invited to enjoy this story time full of books, action rhymes and songs.

For ages 0 - 5 years old.

Do your toddlers love to get messy?  Bring them to Petite Picassos where they can use all of their senses with hands on art.  We will take care of the mess as they create their masterpieces.  

Join us for a new year of our Teen Graphic Novel Book Club! This time we'll be discussing Victory, Stand! Raising My Fist For Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile.

Conversation Group.

No agenda. We gather, we eat cake, and we talk. Discussions include all things related to life, death, and the finality of it. Open, non-judgmental, and honest conversation about topics we don’t discuss much.

Looking for volunteer hours? Join us for Teen Advisory Board, and learn about volunteering at the library.

Youth Services staff will be reading and sharing literacy activities with the RIMSD Head Start and Preschool for All classes.

Does it get any better than curling up with a crafting project while playing a favorite movie in the background? Only if you do it with friends!

On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market in the small town’s s

This lecture series is commemorating the 250th anniversary of the creation of the United States Army in 1775. All talks in this series are presented by the staff of Army Sustainment Command's History Office, based on the Rock Island Arsenal.

After school activities every week on Tuesday (Watts-Midtown) and Thursday (Southwest) for school age kids (K-6). 

This week we will be creating penguin poppers!!!

After school activities every week on Tuesday (Watts-Midtown) and Thursday (Southwest) for school age kids (K-6). 

This week we will be creating penguin poppers!!!

Children's librarian will be at Ridgewood School with United Way/Spring Forward reading with students. 

Looking for assistance with computer skills and searching for jobs?

Come enjoy a Wacky Movie at Watts-Midtown for all ages!! This month's film is from the year 2003 staring Mike Myers and is based on a beloved Dr. Seuss book.