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Corolla Now Available at Main Library and Madison Branch

Corolla, the latest book of poems by local poet, George Kaull, and published by Lakewood’s own Outlandish Press, is now available at both the Main Library and the Madison Branch. Read More

Program Guide – Fall/Winter 2018 2019

Explore all of the Library’s current programs in our Fall/Winter 2018 2019 Program Guide. Download Now Read More

Lynda.com Now Available For Free with Your Library Card

Lynda.com has more than 12,000 courses, ranging from computer programming to project management including instruction on various computer software, programming languages, and business topics. The video courses are taught by industry experts and are designed for any skill level. Read More

TumbleMath now Available

An indispensable tool for students, parents, and math teachers, TumbleMath offers the most comprehensive collection of math storybooks online. With TumbleMath, students can make the connection between math and the real world. Read More

Space is the Place: Deep Space Explorer

For students in first through third grade. Blast off on a mission to discover new planets! In this activity, kids will act the role of an astronomer with telescopes, deep space probes and even a landing craft to discover a new planet and tell scientists about it back on Earth. This is a 2-person team […] Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, December 14, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Friday, December 14, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, December 14, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, December 14, 2018 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Sew Your Own Library Tote

For patrons eight years and older. The Library stopped handing out plastic bags years ago out of a concern for the environment and a desire to save a little money but that doesn’t mean we want you to stop checking out more materials than you can carry. Create your own unique and stylish tote bag […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 2:30 p.m.
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 4:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Film – Black Narcissus (1947) Presented by Barbara Steffek-Hill

High in the Himalayas stands Mopu Palace, once inhabited by concubines and now home to St. Faith, an Anglican dispensary and school for local children. Sister Superior Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) is in charge, the youngest sister ever to be given such responsibility. The four other nuns are each assigned tasks that best match their capabilities. […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 6:00 p.m.
Lakewood Public Cinema,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Concert – Drumplay

As Cleveland’s world/jazz outfit, Drumplay’s sound is a wide open one, combining various percussive elements with strings and horns. Exploring Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and Middle Eastern styles in timbre and texture, their approach is purely rhythmic but gives way to a jazz bent and space between notes. “Rhythmprovisation” is how founding member James Onysko explains their […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday With The Friends,

Holiday Drop-In Storytime

For the whole family. Celebrate the Christmas, Hanukkah, and winter holiday seasons with this special forty-five minute program featuring stories, finger plays, music activities and a craft. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 6:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Holiday Drop-In Storytime

For the whole family. Celebrate the Christmas, Hanukkah, and winter holiday seasons with this special forty-five minute program featuring stories, finger plays, music activities and a craft. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - 6:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, December 21, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Friday, December 21, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, December 21, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, December 21, 2018 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 22, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 22, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 22, 2018 - 4:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Film – The Artist (2011)

Silent-film star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is the idol of 1920s Hollywood. Adoring fans crowd around him at the premier of his latest film, desperate to catch a glimpse of the swashbuckling hero. Aspiring young actress Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) bumps into George among the throngs of fans and captures the attention of the studio […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 22, 2018 - 6:00 p.m.
Lakewood Public Cinema,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, December 23, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Art Connection

For students in Kindergarten through Fifth grade. Art activities let you express your view of the world. Create your own unique piece of art to take home and show off to family and friends. Registration required. Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, December 27, 2018 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 29, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 29, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, December 29, 2018 - 4:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, December 30, 2018 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Lakewood Lego League

For students in Kindergarten through Fifth grade. If you build it, you’ll have fun! Use your imagination and the Library’s collection of LEGO® bricks to create fabulous new structures and designs. Meet other building fans and check out our large collection of LEGO® books. Tickets will be given out thirty minutes before each scheduled time. […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, December 30, 2018 - 6:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Upcycling: From Rags to Riches

For students in Third through Eighth grade. Upcycling is taking an item that is no longer needed or wanted and giving it new life as something that is either useful or creative. Learn how to transform old clothing into new treasures. Turn an old t-shirt into strand necklaces, infinity scarves or a tote bag. Discover […] Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, January 03, 2019 - 2:30 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, January 04, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Friday, January 04, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, January 04, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Stranger Things Escape Room

For students in sixth through twelfth grade. Step back in time to 1980 and help your fellow fans escape the Upside Down in this Stranger Things inspired escape room. You will help Mike, Dustin and Lucas find and free Eleven before you find Will and escape the demogorgon-like monster. Solve puzzles and work with others […] Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, January 04, 2019 - 3:00 p.m.
Programs For Teens,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, January 04, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, January 05, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Music Therapy and More

For you and your birth to six year old child. For families and their children who are struggling in an area of development. Join us for a hands-on program designed to teach families how to use music to improve their child’s motor, communication and social skills as well as behavior. This program is led by […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, January 05, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, January 05, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, January 05, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Film: Wonder (2017)

Auggie Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) is like any other 10-year-old boy. He loves all things Minecraft and Star Wars, but unlike most fifth graders, Auggie is going to school for the first time in his life. Born with facial differences, Auggie spends most of his time hiding underneath an astronaut helmet. His parents Isabel (Julia Roberts) […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, January 05, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Lakewood Public Cinema,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, January 06, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Concert – Girl Singers Starring Eileen Burns

This special performance, Girl Singers, pays tribute to the classic female vocalists of the ‘40s and ‘50s. Take a trip down memory lane with the songs and stories of ladies like Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and more. Eileen Burns is an accomplished vocalist specializing in jazz standards, swing and rhythm & […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, January 06, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday With The Friends,

Adapted Story Time

For you and your 3 to 7 year old child. Children with varying learning styles and abilities learn together in a safe, supportive environment where respect and appreciation for differences is encouraged. This thirty-minute story time, followed by a time for socialization, is designed for children who may not be successful in a typical story […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, January 06, 2019 - 3:30 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, January 07, 2019 - 9:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Toddler Treats

For you and your 2 to 3 1/2 year old child. Enjoy stories, songs and movements together with your toddler for thirty fun filled minutes. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, January 07, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Monday, January 07, 2019 - 11:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Shake Rattle and Roll

For you and your two to six year old child. Tune in to the magic of music. Enjoy stories that leap off the page with song, dance and rhythm instruments. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration required. Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, January 07, 2019 - 1:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Girls Who Code Club

For students in Sixth through Twelfth Grade. Join our club of geeky girls and use computer science to solve a problem that you care about in our community. Team up with other techies to work on a Computer Science Impact Project where you’ll learn to use computer science to create a mobile app, design a […] Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, January 07, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Programs For Teens,

Pajama Party

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Put on your PJs and bring your best stuffed animal for an evening of good night stories and songs. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration Required. Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, January 07, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 9:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Toddler Treats

For you and your 2 to 3 1/2 year old child. Enjoy stories, songs and movements together with your toddler for thirty fun filled minutes. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 9:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Get Ready for Kindergarten

For you and your 3 1/2 to 6 year old child. Enjoy hands on activities together that help your child learn skills that will help him/her be prepared to start kindergarten. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Shake Rattle and Roll

For you and your two to six year old child. Tune in to the magic of music. Enjoy stories that leap off the page with song, dance and rhythm instruments. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 11:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Reader’s Theater

For students in third through fifth grade. Love reading and yearn for a life on the stage? Readers’ Theater combines both! Actors perform by reading scripts adapted from beloved children’s books, play theater games, and create props and costumes to culminate in a final performance. Participants must be able to attend the final performance. Registration […] Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Programs For Infants,

Pajama Party

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Put on your PJs and bring your best stuffed animal for an evening of good night stories and songs. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration Required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,