Week Calendar

Join us inside to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers! This 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. 

Enjoy global languages through stories, songs and dances! 

*We are not fluent in any global languages. We will be learning together!

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!

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! 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 a panel of experts on topics such as Medicare, Senior fitness, Home Safety, In home Care, Home Health, FCC ILR program, Elder Law, Assisted Living, Brain Health, Financial and other resources. 

Music, movement, stories and more!  

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! For ages 0-5 with a caregiver. 

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.

Join us as we head to Brookfield Pumpkins for a special storytime all about pumpkins!

Please bring a blanket to sit on!

Freedom Bang is a pre-choreographed fusion of boxing, HIIT, hip hop, world dance, optional weighted gloves and just a touch of attitude.  Offering a wide range of intensity options to help you customize your workout.

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

Join us inside to explore songs, rhymes, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers.

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

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.

 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.

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

Join us on the lawn for a day of fun with board games, physical challenges, learning activities, and more! 

Donna DiMarco brings deaf, hard of hearing and CODA babies and their families stories, interactive bonding moments and more in this ASL immersive storytime. Stay and play after.

Maryland Legal Aid attorneys are available every other Monday on a first-come, first-served basis to provide brief one-on-one advice focusing on a variety of areas including: criminal record expungement, COVID-related housing issues, and more.

Got designer taste and a tight budget?  Come see how two experts, Charissa Beavers of Fetch Thrift, and Ellen Baker of Upcycle Vintage Home Decor, work their magic shopping, upcycling, and repurposing, transforming objects for your home.&nbsp

If you are new to the Memory Lab or would like to learn how to use the Memory Lab equipment, please join us during this Open Lab. Volunteers will be available to show you to use our equipment to convert your photos and analog home videos to d

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

When it comes to Medicare it can be challenging to understand all the different options available and to figure out what's most important to you.

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 at the Frederick Keys stadium for a Donation Drop-Off as part of United Way of Frederick County's annual Day of Action!

Join us at the Villages of Urbana Fall Festival for an afternoon fall fun. 

For English as a second language learners, a place to practice conversational English.

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

We invite Grades 4-12 to join us for our monthly technology program!  Each month we will feature different tech from 3D printing to eSports and Virtual Reality!

It's All Hallow's Eve, and there's magic in the air! Escape from the Sanderson sisters in this Hocus Pocus-themed escape room. Suggested for ages 8+, but younger children are welcome if accompanied by an adult.

Complete in a tournament of popular esport games.

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

Come join us as we learn about why pollinators are important to us and the environment!

We will also be making a fun craft that will help our pollinators! 

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.

Train to be a spy at this top secret library program! 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.

We will go on amazing adventures through time using the popular book series, The Magic Tree House. Explore reading, science, and history through crafts, activities, and games.

Create your very own masterpiece! For kids and teens in grades 6-12.

COVID-19 updated boosters (Pfizer only 5+ years old) from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Updated boosters by appointment only at: www.frederickcountymd.gov/covidvaccine

COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters for ages 5 and up. Thursdays from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Pre-register at: www.frederickcountymd.gov/covidvaccine

Come play on Open Game Night!  Board games, card games, chess and much more. It's a fun night of cooperative play and team building.

Join the adventure! Elementary ages and up are welcome to join us at Middletown Library for Dungeons and Dragons! All skill levels welcome!

Did you know that the average American household wastes about a third of the food it purchases every year?

Wear your pajamas and unwind with us indoors with 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!

Teen Library Council is an opportunity for teens to help steer the vision of teen programming at their library branch. Each month we have a guest speaker, free snacks, and teens receive double Service Learning Hours for attending.

A program dedicated to High Schoolers, especially juniors and seniors, that are exploring their post-graduation options, specifically outside of a 4 year university degree.

Frederick County Public Libraries is celebrating Library Card Sign Up Month in our community this Fall!

This fall, Frederick County Public Libraries will again participate in One Maryland One Book, a program from Maryland Humanities that strives to unite Marylanders of diverse backgrounds through the shared experience of reading the same book.

Ready for a new chapter in life?  Maybe it's time to consider downsizing?  Maybe less rooms and more gardens?  Or the lure of a condo is calling your name but you're just not sure?  What will you do with your stuff?  Come