Week Calendar

Singing, shaking, dancing, and bubbles! Adult participation is required.

Join us for books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, bubbles, and more, geared toward toddlers & pre-k.

Books, rhymes, scarves, songs, and bubbles for babies.

Singing, shaking, dancing, and bubbles! Adult participation is required.

Singing, shaking, dancing, and bubbles! Adult participation is required.

Join us for books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, bubbles, and more, geared toward toddlers & pre-k.

Join us for books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, bubbles, and more, geared toward toddlers & pre-k.

Singing, shaking, dancing, and bubbles! Adult participation is required.

Bring your favorite cribbage board or use one of ours. Come for the fun!

Singing, shaking, dancing, and bubbles! Adult participation is required.

This month's selection: Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi

Books will be available September 12 at the Circulation Desk.

Looking for a place to meet friends for some friendly games? Bring your favorite card game or board game to the library, or play some of ours! 

This month's selection: The Monsters We Make, by Kali White

Books will be available on September 13 after 2 PM at the Circulation Desk.

Join fellow crafters to work on projects and get tips with other creative people. All crafts are welcome, including sewing, knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking, paper crafts and so on.

All adult players are welcome! Games start at 3:30pm. For help with character creation or any questions please arrive between 2:00pm and 3:30pm, walk-ins are also welcome during this time!

Join guidebook author and TV host Rick Steves as he shares the latest in smart European travel. In this entertaining, information-packed slideshow lecture, Rick will teach you the secrets of safe, smart, inexpensive travel — low on stress and high

Join us as we read new picture books & a "bite" of new chapter books too! Snack provided.

Looking for a change of scenery and a space to connect with fellow writers? Join our Writer’s Café!

Select your design and get crafty! We’ll be creating animal-shaped magnets using diamond painting kits. Similar to paint-by-number, this craft involves applying small colored rhinestones in a specific pattern.

Select your design and get crafty! We’ll be creating animal-shaped magnets using diamond painting kits. Similar to paint-by-number, this craft involves applying small colored rhinestones in a specific pattern.

Join fellow crafters to work on projects and get tips with other creative people. All crafts are welcome, including sewing, knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking, paper crafts and so on.

The purpose of this program is to promote the magnificent game of chess in Ankeny by bringing players of all ages and skill levels together at the library for a relaxing and informal evening of chess.

Love chatting with fellow bookworms while supporting a local business? Then check out Get Lit! Open to teens and adults, this book club meets every other month at Smokey Row and reads a variety of young adult and new adult books.

Do you love puzzles? Have you ever thought about entering a puzzle competition? Put together a team of up to 4 people to join us on the evening of October 13 at 6 PM to test your team's puzzling prowess against other teams.