Week Calendar

Join us in our backyard with your blanket and energy to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers. Please check back here by 9am for cancellations due to weather.

Bring a blanket and your wiggles for songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Please check back here by 9am for cancellations due to weather.

Institute for Learning in Retirement Courses for Older Adults

In-Person Course LIR175

Rhymes, bounces, songs and more to guide caregivers to early literacy skills for baby. We'll be outside on our beautiful covered deck, weather permitting.  Please bring a blanket or towel to sit on.

Join us for an outside family storytime. Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Ages 0-5. Consider bringing a blanket for sitting on the ground. Please check back here by 10 a.m. for cancellations due to weather.

Let your creativity shine while you decorate our sidewalk and patio.  Please check back for cancellations due to weather.

Join us for an outside family storytime. Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Ages 0-5. Consider bringing a blanket for sitting on the ground. Please check back here by 10 a.m. for cancellations due to weather.

Designed with beginning mobility in mind, join us for movement, songs, stories and more that will guide caregivers toward early learning and literacy for toddlers. Bring a blanket to sit on.

Join us in the Urbana Library Plaza for music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.  Cancellations due to weather are made at 9 a.m.

We've taken storytime outside where preschoolers and their caregivers will learn early literacy skills with fun songs, story telling, movement, and more. Don't forget a blanket for sitting on the ground.

Join us for an outside family storytime. Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Ages 0-5. Consider bringing a blanket for sitting on the ground. Please check back here by 10 a.m. for cancellations due to weather.

Join us for engaging stories, rousing music, and interactive early literacy learning in this interactive storytime. Designed for ages 3-5, but welcoming for all ages and stages. 

Join us in the Urbana Library Plaza for music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.  Cancellations due to weather are made at 9 a.m.

Join us at Creamery Park in Walkersville to hunt for all things nature.

Gross but cool. Learn about owls' habitat, behavior, and diet. Dissect pellets, examine, and sort their content. Dress for cooler weather, as this event is held outside.

This 3-week nature series will connect kids with nature on the Library Nature Trail. Meet a park ranger from Cunningham Falls State Park who will instruct how to identify trees by looking at leaves and bark.

Join us outside on Thurmont Regional Library's nature trail to create fun art projects using natural items. Please dress to be outdoors.

Pop-Up Program!  Join us at the Urbana Library Plaza for a Leaf Hunt and STEM activity! 

Join us outside the C. Burr Artz Children's Department by department windows. This mini storytime will still offer fingerplays, rhymes, and in addition inspiration for activities for the rest of the day.

Join us outside the C. Burr Artz Children's Department by department windows. This mini storytime will still offer fingerplays, rhymes, and in addition inspiration for activities for the rest of the day.

Stop by the Thurmont Regional Library's outreach table at Grand Opening of the Thurmont Skatepark and register to win a skateboard and other related items.

Thurmont Regional Library shows it's support for the Park's grand opening by raffling off an Embark skateboard and protective gear. Enter raffle at the library and park. 

Calling all teens! Join us on the lawn for fun, outdoor lawn games.

Middle and high school students - join us on our patio for fun with rockets. We'll be experimenting with multiple types of rockets to see how high and fast we can make them go!

Join us for Walkersville Branch Library's 4th annual Trunk-or-Treat sponsored by Walkersville's Friends of the Library and community partners. This event will be held rain or shine.

Institute for Learning in Retirement Courses for Older Adults

Online Course LIR168

Calling all Frederick County Teens! Join us for our monthly Virtual Teen Library Council (TLC) meeting on Discord. Help us plan the future of our Discord server and enjoy a different guest speaker each month.

Read aloud to a Go Team therapy dog.  Improve your reading confidence and make a new friend!