Week Calendar

Stop by the Urbana Regional Library's table while enjoying breakfast and visiting with Santa at the Carroll Manor Volunteer Fire Department's Annual Santa Breakfast!

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.

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. 

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. 

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

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

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

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.

Come listen and participate in an interactive story time.

This program designed for adults with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers.

A multi-sensory storytime designed to support children with autism or sensory processing challenges. This time is designed to meet your child where they are in, a fun, engaging environment.

Songs, stories, and fun for the whole family. This Storytime is followed by a playgroup.  Designed for ages 0 -5, with a caregiver.

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

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Ages 0-5 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 our first Senior Cafe where we will have someone from Frederick County Senior Services Division discussing their Meals on Wheels program. 

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

Music, movement, stories and more!  

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Ages 0-5 with a caregiver. 

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

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

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.

Join us for a day of fun activities. The Myersville Elementary School chorus performs at 10:15. Reuben from the Hagerstown & Frederick Railway Historical Society will be here 11-4 to talk about our trolley. 

Celebrate Frederick County's 275th during this year's Museums by Candlelight event.

Take a step back into time by learning about the Eyler's Valley Chapel built in 1857. Discover how this candlelight building has maintained it's historical significance in Frederick County's history.  

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

Enjoy music, stories and more! Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Have fun exploring literacy, STEM, and art through play-based activities that integrate essential school skills.  Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver. 

Children learn and explore through hands on activities using science, technology, engineering, art, and math concepts at the library. Caregivers are encouraged to connect with children and participate in the activities!

Experience the joy of music with your little ones with Music Together®, a culturally rich, research-based music curriculum.

Play is the best way to learn! Join us for fun activities that will help develop your child's literacy, mathematical, fine/gross motor, and social/emotional skills. 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!

Bring your wiggles for songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. In the event of inclement weather, storytime will be held inside.

Introducing toddlers and their caregivers to a variety of preschool-readiness skills including fine motor development, social emotional skills, and early literacy activities. In the event of inclement weather, this program will be held inside.

Preschoolers and their caregivers will build school-ready skills while having fun and exploring their social-emotional selves at this weekly kindergarten prep program. In the event of inclement weather, this program will be held inside.

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

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math concepts. 

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver. In the event of inclement weather, storytime will be held inside.

Have fun exploring literacy, STEM, and art through play-based activities that integrate essential school skills.  Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver. 

Join us for a celebration of music and motion with the Frederick Children's Chorus! Children will enjoy music, rhythm, dancing and playing musical instruments. For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Young learners can practice skills they will need for school - listening, asking, writing, cutting, tracing, and more.

With a variety of activities, preschoolers and their caregivers will practice school-readiness skills. This program will be held inside in the event of inclement weather.

Move over Barbie, Gingy's in the house! Bring out your inner designer as you create your very own Gingerbread Dream House! 

Stories, movement, music, and fun for the entire family.  Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver. 

Stop in between 11-1 and meet one of Frederick’s most well-known “makers”, Erin Aylor, as he gives a tour of his Story Time Tree, which is the highlight of the C. Burr Artz Childrens Programming Room.

Yearly local author showcase highlighting a variety of regional writers and their works in the lobby of C. Burr Artz. Visit with the authors and learn more about their work. Books will be available for purchase.

The Kombucha Lady, a local kombucha brewer, delves into the history of kombucha, explains what happens when she ferments tea with the kombucha culture and why kombucha is beneficial for your health. 

As the weather gets cooler, the rate at which we move through the world gets slower. The changing of seasons into winter means going inward, both into our homes and our bodies.

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

Join professonal crafter Denise Wagenaar, as we make a variety of holiday crafts that will amaze and delight you. All supplies are provided, just bring your imagination, and come and enjoy some holiday cider. (while supplies last).

Grades 6-12. Design decorative marble mugs and hot cocoa kits to gift for the holidays. 

Enjoy holiday music performed in the library stacks featuring teachers from the Sloan School of Music.

12/3 - Deanna Davis

12/10 - Madelyn Hall

12/17 - Grace Gnatowski

Come enjoy a preview performance of "Junior Claus: The Musical" by Other Voices Theatre.  Bring your autograph books and meet the cast.

As you can tell by the title, this is not your usual book club!  Each month on a Sunday afternoon, experts from Frederick Health Hospice will explore issues surrounding death AND life through a variety of books and other media. And no, y

Connect with other kids, create, and be curious together!

Llama themed trivia, crafts, and more! Designed for students in 3rd through 7th grades.

Celebrate Museums by Candlelight at the library! Make a beeswax candle to enjoy with your family. While supplies last. 

Enjoy the music of the Walkersville High School String Quartet outside the Maryland Room on the second floor.

Calling all teens! Join us to explore, create, and innovate with paper circuits!

Children can learn and explore using STEAM-based activities. Caregivers are encouraged to connect with children and participate in the activities! Designed for elementary-aged students.

Teen Connect is a time to engage with friends, peer mentors, and teen-oriented community resources.

Get in the spirit at of the season at our holiday open house! Enjoy live music provided by AJ's Jazz Band, make a festive holiday craft and more. Drop by any time from 4:30-5:30pm prior to the Emmitsburg tree lighting. All ages welcome. 

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

Join us Tuesdays at the library for your chance to learn a new skill, create art, and hang out with your friends!

Calling all builders! The Brunswick High School Robotics team will be joining us at the library to build LEGO creations with you and read with you. 

Designed for children in grades K-5.

Grades 6-12. Get in on the action and become the character. Create and participate in a live action role-playing game.

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

Elementary Explorers is a weekly after-school program that connects children in Grades K-5 to fun, hands-on experiences. Join other curious kids as we explore a different topic each week!

Need help expunging your record from a past conviction? Meet with an attorney from Maryland Legal Aid to discuss your options and begin the process.  This is a free service!

Come in to create your own snowy world in a globe! Supplies limited

Build a holiday gingerbread house! We'll supply the graham crackers, sweets and treats for your ultimate design. Creations are welcome to enter our library Gingerbread Contest, or brought home to enjoy. Geared for Grades K-5.

Join us and some special guests, like the Walkersville High School Spanish Club and Strings Ensemble, for fun holiday activities, music, and a visit with Jolly Old Saint Nick!

New to anime and manga? A long time fan? Join us to discuss your favorite series, learn a little about Japan, and enjoy watching a show or two! 

Grades 4-7. Learn the beginner basics of knitting and crocheting or bring your own projects to join in the crafting. All skill levels welcome. Materials will be provided.

Join us for this free yoga class offered by Sol Yoga.  Be sure to wear comfortable clothes.

STEAM On! programs will focus on integrating arts into science, technology, engineering and math concepts to promote creativity and curiosity about the world around us.

This is a group for those who would like to gather for a social time of crafting together. Bring your own projects to work on and meet other local crafters. Knitting, crochet, all fiber crafts welcome! 

Join us in the Urbana Library for music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Maryland Legal Aid is a nonprofit organization that provides free civil legal services to low/no-income individuals.  This presentation will address criminal record expungement in the state of Maryland, including recent changes to expungement

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

Make a "tub tea" bath soak using a real tea bag with herbs and epsom salt! Enjoy a cup of tea while you create!

This program is recommended for teens in grades 6 through 12.

Improve your reading confidence and make a new friend when you read aloud to a Go Team Therapy Dog.

Tweens and teens, grades 6 through 12, meet to collaborate with each other and teen librarians on upcoming library events and to plan teen-led projects.  Teen Library Council (TLC) is an opportunity for teens to make an impact within the libr

Join us for a fun evening of Trivia at the new 10Tavern, an american style pub in downtown Thurmont.

10 East Main Street
Thurmont, MD 21788

Fresh off their performance at the 2023 World Culture Festival, we are pleased to welcome Chinese musical group JinEE! Join us for an evening of holiday music and traditional Chinese songs.