Week Calendar

Join us inside to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers! Our infants program is intended for children 0-12 months and their families.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Join us for a caregiver-led discussion and playgroup for tips and tricks to help navigate raising little ones. 

Each week we will focus on one or two letters of the alphabet and activites will be centered around that letter; STEM activity, story, songs, etc.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups.  Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.  Afterwards, we offer a baby playgroup for all to enjoy.

Inspired by Musical Storytime? Play with a variety of instruments from around the world and make some music of your own! Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Music, movement, stories, and more! Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver. 

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more!  Designed for toddlers and their caregivers.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.   Afterwards, we offer a "stay and play" for all to enjoy.

Join us at the Carroll Creek Amphitheater for Family storytime presented in partnership with Downtown Frederick Partnership. Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more.

Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for kids ages 0-5 with their caregivers.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

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

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! 

Join us for an outside family storytime. Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Ages 0-5. Consider bringing a blanket for sitting on the ground. Storytime will move inside in the event of bad weather.

Music, movement, stories, and more! Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more. Designed for ages 0-5 with caregiver. 

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Join us in our backyard with your blanket and energy to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers

Enjoy music, stories and more.

Bring a blanket and your wiggles for songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

We're turning storytime up to 11! Come explore books and stories through music, movement, and plenty of dancing to kid-friendly tunes. Geared for children ages 0-5. Siblings welcome!

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Introducing toddlers and their caregivers to a variety of preschool-readiness skills including fine motor development, social emotional skills, and early literacy activities.

Songs, stories, and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 & up with a caregiver.

Preschoolers and their caregivers will learn all about the world of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics with a variety of hands-on activities.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

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.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Understand the who, what, when of Medicare.  An introduction and guide to Medicare, presented by Humana.  

Preshoolers and their caregivers will practice school-readiness skills with cutting, tracing, play, and other literacy activities.

Put your Lego skills to the test with our building challenges! Can you build the tallest tower? The strongest bridge? A unique creation? Bring your creativity and excitement to the lawn for this awesome activity.

Join us as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Emmitsburg Community Center and Emmitsburg High School building.

Come meet some of Maryland Writers' Association's Frederick Chapter authors. Join authors like David Reichenbaugh, author of In Pursuit: The Hunt For The Beltway Snipers, whose next manuscript is heading to his agent soon!

Notary Services will be available all day and are free to active FCPL cardholders. Can't come in on Sunday? No problem! Notary Services are available 7 days a week!

Do you like history? Do you like learning about magical creatures and where they come? Have you ever wanted a magical creature of your own?

Connecting stories with concepts in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math creates a hands-on learning experience for preschoolers at the library. Be prepared to jump in and connect with your child during this program.

Join us as we read a different fairytale each month and then see if you are up to the challenge to do your own Fairytale STEAM challenge. 

Join us for coffee and a discussion with author Patricia Tyson Redmond.

Exercise is essential for good health and mobility but what should be included in a program as we age? Walking alone is not enough.

Explore new instruments and make music while you move!

Catoctin National Park 2022 Artist in Residence, Susan Lenz Dingman will share her passion for quilting and hand-stitching.  All are invited to assist in quilting and embellishing antique quilt blocks into a finished art quilt while learning

Please join us for a weekly mindfulness session with the Frederick Meditation Center.

Tai Chi is a self-paced system of gentle physical exercise and stretching. It is practiced for defense training, health benefits, and meditation! 

Learn facts and myths related to medical marijuana and CBD oil with Dr. Larry Romane, author of R U Medically Curious?

Join us on the lawn to explore, create, and experiment with STEAM activities!

Teens in grades 6-12 are invited to join us for our weekly Teen programming! This week will be a cupcake decorating contest! Who will decorate the best cupcake?

Learn from the latest research in the areas of diet and nutrition, exercise, cognitive activity, and social engagement about how to keep your brain healthy and get tips and tools to help with healthy aging.

Stop by the library and enjoy some bubbles!

Join us today for a visit with Aje Hill and the I Believe in Me Foundation.

Join us for a special bilingual family storytime that features books and music in celebration of the Urbana Latino Fesitval.

This storytime will take place outside of the library on the steps by the flagpole. 

The 2nd Annual Urbana Latino Celebration is held in collaboration with the Villages of Urbana and takes place outdoors at the Urbana Library Plaza from 3-7PM.

COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters for ages 5+ Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Join us as explore natural art! We will be looking at natural materials that you can use as art! 

Dress appropriately! We will be getting messy! For elementary ages! 

Expand your horizons, make friends and more as we explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math with hands-on afterschool activities! Elementary Explorers takes place every Tuesday afternoon at 4pm.

Join us for all things rockets! Designed for children in grades K-5.

Discover and explore the world around you through science, math, technology, history, art, and literature. Designed for kids in grades K-5.

Let's create! We'll learn and be inspired by the great children’s book illustrators by looking at their art and discussing how it brings their stories to life.

Mario has been kidnapped by the evil Bowser and he needs your help! Come and enjoy this Nintendo themed escape room. 

COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters for ages 5+ Thursdays from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Learn about healthy body boundaries with Heiress, a service dog from the Child Advocacy Center.

Bring a blanket, wear your pajamas, and unwind with us on the lawn for songs, stories, and fun for the whole family.

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.

Join us for bedtime themed songs and stories--pajamas are welcome!

Make your own slime creation with whatever special ingredients you choose.

The Monocacy Archeological Society's monthly meetings return from summer hiatus. September's speaker is Todd Mackley of Emmitsburg. Todd will be discussing a Neolithic site at Indian Lookout.

NOTE: THIS PROGRAM IS CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED. The 1950 US Population Census was released on April 1.  No fooling.  Have you searched for your people yet?