Week Calendar

Join us before school to eat bagels (or other breakfast pastries) and chat about what you're reading!

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

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

Kerry Walter-Ashby will lead you in a chair yoga class. 

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

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.

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

Join us for a performance from the Encounter Performing Arts Company! They will offer a short ballet lesson following the performance. 

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

Canasta is a card game of the rummy family, invented in Uruguay in 1939 that quickly took the world by storm and became an American craze through the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s.  If you haven’t played in several years or missed out on the craze ent

Support group meetings are a family caregiver's opportunity to learn more about Alzheimer's disease and care-giving from peers who have had similar experiences or have the same questions and concerns

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 us for a read-aloud of an emergent reader book (Branches or Acorn series), followed by a related STEAM activity! This month we will read Notebook of Doom: Rise of the Balloon Goons! by Troy Cummings.

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

Join us for a book discussion specifically for tweens! This month we are discussing Turtle Boy by M. Evan Wolkenstein.

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.

Bring your family for stories and crafts and learn about the popular Mexican and Latin American holiday, Day of the Dead! This program is brought to you by Spanish Honor Society students from Ankeny High School.

Bring your family for stories and crafts and learn about the popular Mexican and Latin American holiday, Day of the Dead! This program is brought to you by Spanish Honor Society students from Ankeny High School.

Bring your family for stories and crafts and learn about the popular Mexican and Latin American holiday, Day of the Dead! This program is brought to you by Spanish Honor Society students from Ankeny High School.

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.

Join us for an intimate conversation with Full House star, John Stamos, as he leads us through his incredibly moving and vulnerable memoir, If You Would Have Told Me.