Thursday, November 16, 2023 -7:30pm to 8:30pm Digital Media Lab Register2 of 10 registered If you've ever wanted to produce your own cards, join us for an overview! You'll learn how to add your photos, scanned images, and text to a digital document and format it for optimum printing onto cardstock from our color laser printer. Sometimes...
Get free, one-on-one help with your writing! Every Thursday from June 15th to August 3rd in Meeting Room E on the second floor of the Iowa City Public Library. Resumes, applications, op-eds, reports, essays, legal documents, creative writing — all writing is welcome! Walk-in 20-minute appointments are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Thursday, February 16, 2023 -4:00pm to 5:00pm Storytime Room Don't just learn science - DO science with the Iowa City Science Booster Club! This monthly hands-on program for tweens gives you a chance to use cool scientific equipment to discover and explore the world around you. Learn about a different scientific concept or phenomenon each month and...
4:00pm to 5:00pm In-person event + Online other Teen Center, Online Adam and Matthew from 1 Week Critique are here every Thursday to lead a Teen Writing workshop. If you love to write, or have considered it and have been too scared to try, now's your chance! Teen authors also have the opportunity to have their work...
Thursday, January 19, 2023 -4:00pm to 5:00pm Storytime Room Don't just learn science - DO science with the Iowa City Science Booster Club! This monthly hands-on program for tweens gives you a chance to use cool scientific equipment to discover and explore the world around you. Learn about a different scientific concept or phenomenon each month and...
In honor of this year's Hispanic Heritage Month theme, Elizabeth Bernal, Marcela Hurtado, and Paola Jaramillo will speak to the progress Latinos and Hispanics have made over the last fifteen years in the Iowa City Area their personal experience as Latinas in Iowa, organizing wins, and recent work empowering Latinos through entrepreneurship and the power...
Meeting Room A, Online StoryJAM is a music and movement program designed to model, encourage, and facilitate music-making as an early literacy skill. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate as much as possible. Masks are required for all individuals over the age of two. Social distancing between groups in attendance is encouraged. In order...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 -6:00pm to 8:00pm Meeting Room D All writers are welcome to join us at The Violet Realm where we talk about all things fantasy and science fiction. Are you a new writer starting on your first book? Are you an experienced author who's looking to spruce up your work? Then join us for...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 -5:00pm to 7:00pm Digital Media Lab Register Do you love to make things in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, GIMP, Canva, or other graphic design software? Would doing it around others at this specific time motivate you to finally start or finish a project, experiment more, and share ideas? Of course it would! Join...
Storytime Room Lego Club is an informal hour of Lego building from 4-5pm, with a new time of 4-5 on the second TUESDAY of the month. We will have both Legos and Duplos, so all ages are welcome to attend, but this is a semi-unsupervised library activity. If your child is too young to play...
Family Storytime is recommended for all ages and includes both shorter and longer stories combined with action games and activities. We ask Storytime attendees to social distance and masks are required for those old enough to wear them. If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library. This...
In-person event + Online other Join us every Tuesday for a special Spanish Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Raquel! Together we will enjoy songs, rhymes and stories in Spanish and English. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us. Masks are required for all individuals over the age of two. Social...
