Week Calendar

Join Barbara Kemerer, from Brunswick Bird City, for a morning walk along the canal in recognition of Migratory Bird Day. Bring your binoculars if you have them. Supervised children are welcome.

Join us for "Hello Summer" Storytime at the library! Celebrate the season with fun, sun-filled stories, songs, and activities that bring the joys of summer to life.

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.

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! This program is for toddlers ages 2-3 and their caregivers.

Understand the history and structure of the Chinese language.

Learn basic greetings and self-introduction.

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

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

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 preschoolers and their grownups. This program is for children ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for ages 2-5 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.

Is your child interested in learning how to care for a garden? Look no further! Join us for a fun morning of exploring, creating, and learning how to care for plants and gardens at the Emmitsburg Library. Ages 0-12. 

Visit your favorite library staff person and learn about what FCPL has to offer to older adults.

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

Music, movement, stories and more! 

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! This program is for children's ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver. 

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

Dress your best or come as you are to dance the morning away! Designed for our 0-5 year old patrons 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.

Shri Yoga is a calming but challenging style practiced in an informal environment. Classes include various asanas, breathing exercises, chakra vibration, mantras, and relaxation techniques. Attendees are welcome to bring their own mat.

Visit our outreach table at Earthfest!  Get a library card, learn more about our materials and programs, and say hello to your favorite library staff!

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

We welcome adults who want to practice their English to a conversation class hosted by the Literacy Council of Frederick County.

Join us to learn how culinary favorites like garlic, cinnamon, and hibiscus can support heart health.  The heart-healthy benefits of olive oil and chocolate will also be discussed.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

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

This self-guided program is designed to help little learners (ages 3–5) build early school skills through fun, hands-on activities.

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

Join us for this free yoga class offered by Sol Yoga's Good Cause Division. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat. Donations accepted.

An SBA representative will be available every third Wednesday of each month to assist with your small business needs.

Counseling | Funding | Contracting

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

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math concepts. Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for a morning of building! Use the library's blocks and building toys to build with your little one while working on fine motor skills! For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

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

Young learners can practice skills they will need for school - listening, asking, writing, cutting, tracing, and more. Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver.

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

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

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Has your little one always wanted to dabble in the arts, but the supplies are so expensive, you just never had the Monet? This is the perfect program for you!

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

Lawyer in the Library provides free one-on-one legal advice from Maryland Legal Aid lawyers. Types of issues include:

Recurring mahjong and game event hosted by the Asian American Center of Frederick.

Join us for an encore presentation of the Myersville-Wolfsville Area Historical Society's mini-program on the impact of the Civil War on Central Maryland.

Calling all knitters—whether you're a seasoned pro, a curious beginner, or somewhere in between! The Knitting Help Circle is a cozy and collaborative space where Frederick’s fiber enthusiasts come together to stitch, learn, and share.

Participate in a variety of experiences related to science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.  This program is designed for children in grades K - 5 and their caregivers.

David H. Wallace (1926-2024) was a well-known and loved member of the Frederick community and long-time volunteer in the Maryland Room of Frederick County Public Libraries.

Bring some sunshine to the library! Join us for a fun window painting program where we'll transform our library windows into works of art with colorful summer designs.

Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles....let's play with puzzles! Join us as we have fun doing different projects using puzzle pieces.  There is no limit to the creative way puzzle pieces can be used. Geared for elementary ages.

Come hang out and join in a Fortnite elimination race tournament. Sign up for the bracket or stay and watch! Duos will compete to see who ends the game with the most points. 

What do art and AI have in common? Everything! Art and literature envision new worlds, not just the world given to us.

Spend your Tuesday afternoons with us. Take time to create art, all supplies provided by the library. Program for teens and tweens to start a new work of art or bring a work in progress! For teens in grades 6-12.

Join us for a variety of science, technology, engineering, arts and math activities for elementary-aged children.

Create a scrapbook for storing your summer memories.

This program is for children in kindergarten through 5th grades (ages 5-10).

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

Get creative and turn old CDs into amazing works of art! 

Join other young adventurers doing trivia, making crafts, and playing games, while we prepare our next epic Kid Quest Role Playing Game storyline for the fall.

Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Spring has sprung and what better way to celebrate than with your very own Sharpie Tie Dye Pillowcase (perfect for summer day naps and picnics)! Get your art on and see what you can create! All materials provided while supplies last.

Spring is here and the fae have come out to play! Create your own fairy house, using recycled and natural materials.

Come hang out and make shrinky dinks! 

Create a mason jar light to take home and display in your room or outside on the deck. We will provide the jar, battery operated lights and lots of decorative items to make your own unique creation.

Storytime, pajama style!  Enjoy movement, music, and stories with the whole family.  PJ's optional!  Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Join the Chronicles of Yarnia group for casual craft time! This is a group for those who would like to gather for a social time of crafting together. Instruction will be provided to new learners.

Join us for an all-ages storytime after a long day of work and play. Unwind with stories, songs, and rhymes for the whole family!

In this course you’ll learn three quick techniques to help save a life before someone bleeds out:

(1) How to use your hands to apply pressure to a wound;
(2) How to pack a wound to control bleeding;

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

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

Take a break from your school work and de-stress with therapy dogs from Wags for Hope!

This program is for teens in 6th through 12th grades (ages 11-18).

Want to review safety tips for your upcoming vacation, or wonder if you should invest in trip insurance? Krista Page, travel agent with AAA, will teach us how to plan safe travels for a stress-free vacation.

Take a break from your school work and de-stress with dogs from Wags for Hope.

**Please note that this program will meet inside the library, by the fireplace**

The program is for tweens in 3rd through 8th grades (ages 8-13).

Please join us for an evening with author Robert Fersh as he discusses his book From Conflict to Convergence, which draws on his experience with conflict resolution as a former policy maker.

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