Week Calendar

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

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

Join us as babies and their caregivers explore early literacy and social emotional developmental skills. 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.

Enjoy music, stories, and more! Designed for ages 0-5 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 "stay and play" for all to enjoy.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups.  Afterwards, we offer a baby playgroup for all to enjoy.

This program is for children ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Join us for a special smurf-tastic summer fun themed storytime. We’ll sing, dance to some smurfy tunes and dive into summer themed crafts and games. Designed for families, ages 0 - 8 with a caregiver.

Inspired by Musical Storytime? Play with a variety of instruments from around the world and make some music of your own!

While supplies last, lunches are available for youth ages 0-18 each Tuesday June 17 -August 11.
Lunches are provided by Helping Hands and Caring Hearts, a local nonproft.

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! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers. Ages 18 - 36 mos.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A very special outdoor storytime as part of our ThorpeWood Community Day! 

Come learn about Tarot and how it can help with your self-reflection journey.

Explore the natural wonder of ThorpeWood! Reconnect with nature while you visit the horses, goats, cows, and chickens, get dirty in the mud kitchen, take a tractor ride, and enjoy a nature scavenger hunt on this beautiful 156-acre farm.

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

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. Followed by baby playgroup. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Join us every Thursday this summer for a Tween/Teen Leadership Camp and earn Community Service hours each week. Today, we will kick off our camp with games, a pizza party and ice cream making. Come join the fun!

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

Join us for a special storytime featuring songs, stories, and rhymes in different languages. For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Join us at Middletown Park at the pavilion next to the Middletown Learning Studio. We'll stretch and do a short, fun run at the park. Afterwards we'll meet back at the pavilion for a finish line storytime! 

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.

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

Enjoy a storytime, craft, or other fun activity with the whole family.

Practice reading to a furry friend with Wags for Hope. This program is designed for children ages 0-10.

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

Engage your baby's senses with activities designed just for them while visiting with other caregivers. For ages 0-24 months, 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!

In this class we will jump into the basics of storytelling, and how to tell your narrative through art and text together on a page! All levels of artists are welcome while we discover how one creates a graphic novel.

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

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

Join us for play based learning, games and activities! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers.

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. 

Variety of preschool aged activities to support early literacy and school readiness skills. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

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.

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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.

Get ready for a wild and wonderful time with our live animal program — a fun and exciting way to learn about alpacas! In this hands-on program, kids get to: Meet real alpacas!

Curl up for a cozy storytime all about our favorite furry friends—cats! Enjoy meow-gical stories, silly songs, and fun activities that are the cat’s meow. Great for little animal lovers! Stories, movement, music and fun for the entire family.

Visit our outreach table at Pride!  We'll have a table and tent set up behind the library, near the Creek.  Make a paper butterfly, get a library card, and say hello to your favorite library staff!

It's a tradition! Heritage Days is the best of summer in Emmitsburg. See a full line up of events at COMMUNITY HERITAGE DAY 2025 | emmitsburgevents.

While supplies last, lunches are available for youth ages 0-18.
 Funds provided by Glade Valley Community Services and the Town of Walkersville.

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

The City of Frederick will visit us serve lunches for children and teens (under 18) each afternoon this summer from 12:15-1:00 pm. Lunch will be served June 13 -August 19 (lunches will not be served on June 19 & July 4).

While supplies last, lunches are available for youth ages 0-18.
 Funds provided by Glade Valley Community Services and the Town of Walkersville.

The City of Frederick will visit us serve lunches for children and teens (under 18) each afternoon this summer from 12:15-1:00 pm. Lunch will be served June 13 -August 19 (lunches will not be served on June 19 & July 4).

While supplies last, lunches are available for youth ages 0-18.
 Funds provided by Glade Valley Community Services and the Town of Walkersville.

The City of Frederick will visit us serve lunches for children and teens (under 18) each afternoon this summer from 12:15-1:00 pm. Lunch will be served June 13 -August 19 (lunches will not be served on June 19 & July 4).

While supplies last, lunches are available for youth ages 0-18.
 Funds provided by Glade Valley Community Services and the Town of Walkersville.

The City of Frederick will visit us serve lunches for children and teens (under 18) each afternoon this summer from 12:15-1:00 pm. Lunch will be served June 13 -August 19 (lunches will not be served on June 19 & July 4).

While supplies last, lunches are available for youth ages 0-18.
 Funds provided by Glade Valley Community Services and the Town of Walkersville.

The City of Frederick will visit us serve lunches for children and teens (under 18) each afternoon this summer from 12:15-1:00 pm. Lunch will be served June 13 -August 19 (lunches will not be served on June 19 & July 4).

Enjoy a fun-filled day of discovery at How-To Fest 2025! Dig into the creativity and connect with our strong and vibrant community as they show off their unique businesses, hobbies, skills, and passions.

Join Andy Nichols, outdoor enthusiast and director of programs at Shenandoah Mountain Guides and School, for a refreshing look at the history, natural wonders, and recreational opportunities of the Monocacy River.

Presented SRC Video 30 kids.  Registered 15 for Summer Reading Challenge.

Terrific for adults of all fitness levels and abilities. Tai Chi Ch'uan has been practiced for fitness and heath for hundreds of years.

Come meet fellow cosplayers in the Community, share ideas, and have an opportunity to work on cosplay repairs using provided glue and sewing machines. Snacks will be provided. 

For Teens ages 13-18. 

Members of the Senior Service Provider Community will provide information on a variety of topics including Healthcare, Transportation, Downsizing, At-Home Doctor and Physical Therapist Visits, Housing Options, Dementia Issues, and more.

Let's turn up the heat this summer with dragons! Enjoy dragon themed crafts, games, and activities for the whole family. 

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

The Online Job Search Skills workshop is designed to help participants confidently navigate the digital job market.

Join us for an afternoon with author Charlotte Taylor Fryar as she discusses her debut book Potomac Fever, which explores the winding history of this well-known river.

Carissa Barth with FIBE Dance will lead a fun and interactive line dance class just for kids. This event is ideal for kids under age 12. Be ready to Cupid Shuffle your way around the library deck!

Join Brandon Chapman and Jason Francis of More Than (Formerly More Than a Father), for an engaging and supportive session designed for caregivers and their children.

Preschoolers and their caregivers will build school-ready skills while having fun and exploring their social-emotional selves at this weekly kindergarten prep program. For ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Connect with nature! Enjoy a nature-themed storytime at the playground, followed by an easy hike with Ranger Zach who will share all about the job as a park ranger. Come prepared to ask lots of questions about being a park ranger!

Connect with nature! Enjoy a nature-themed storytime , followed by a talk with Ranger Zach who will share all about the job as a park ranger. Come prepared to ask lots of questions about being a park ranger!

Turn a Pokemon card into a piece of art! Supplies are limited and will be provided on a first come, first served basis. 

Come join us for sun and fun as we celebrate the end of the school year with a dance party!

Indoor live animal program. Explore the radical world of reptiles with Nicole and her exotic pets!

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.

The folks at i9 Sports will be leading us in a fun obstacle course that improves our gross motor skills.

Join Mr. Chris at the library this summer for “Color Our World” – a movement-filled adventure! This year’s program features 10 exciting PE-style stations, including rolling, underhand and overhand tossing, an obstacle course, and much more!

Get ready for the hot summer months with iced tea! Join Paulella Burchill to sample and learn techniques to make deliciously different and refreshing iced tea beverages from her new book.

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! 

Feeling lucky? For each round of this tournament, spin the wheel - whatever it game lands on is what you'll play.

Join us for a creative and meaningful afternoon of kindness!

Get creative with sidewalk chalk at the library! Kids of all ages can draw, doodle, and design colorful masterpieces. Join us for a fun, outdoor art adventure—bring your imagination and let’s chalk it up! For Grades K-5.

Flex your fandom knowledge with friends in this trivia contest on anime new and old!

Growing up brings lots of changes, and it can be hard to navigate. Decorate and take home a personalized self-esteem box filled with affirmations and attributes of who you want to be!

Join Mr. Chris at the library this summer for “Color Our World” – a movement-filled adventure! This year’s program features 10 exciting PE-style stations, including rolling, underhand and overhand tossing, an obstacle course, and much more!

Enjoy a fun afternoon creating as we use supplies from the craft closet.  Bring your friends and make bracelets, picture frames, and so much more! For ages 13-18. All activities while supplies last. 

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

Run away and join the circus without leaving home! Join former Ringling Brothers performer and professional knucklehead Gregory May as he builds his own wacky circus show.

Need some help identifying those insects in your garden? Join us for a buggy evening identifying beneficial and harmful garden insects.  We will start in the community room with insect displays and Q and A.

New book alert! Ready for your next summer romance? On Tuesday, June 24 at C.

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!

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

Join Benjamin Egerman from the Maryland State Library Resource Center to learn more about the history of the LGBTQ+ movement in Maryland.

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

Oh Crit performs improv comedy fused with Dungeons & Dragons! Join them as they embark on an adventure of twists and turns, bizarre characters, occasional epic failure…

Songs, stories and fun for the whole family -- pajamas are welcome!  Designed for ages 0-5, with a caregiver.

Whether you're a Swiftie or not, join us to make a bracelet to wear, trade, or gift using new and found beads. 

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