Event List

Tech One-on-One 

Drop in and join us in the storyroom for Saturday Storytime! Build a lifetime love of books and reading as we share stories, songs, and interactive rhymes with an early literacy focus. For ages 0-6 w/adult. No registration.

Tech One-on-One 

Tech One-on-One 

"Light it up!" - House of Earth and Blood 

**Early registration, opening October 1st at 9am**

Join us to learn about how dementia affects communication and how to use a person centered communication approach.

Spend some time with the Naturalist at Raccoon River Park's Coneflower Shelter! We'll enjoy nature stories and a kid-friendly craft or activity. Bring a blanket and dress for the weather.

If you like to read and talk about books (but you’re getting too old for our other book clubs), this club is for you. Join us for discussion and activities related to this month’s book The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill!

Please join us for a holiday ornament workshop with Artfull! Registrants may make one or two ornaments.

Registration is requested, please.

Join us in the Teen Center to make bracelets, necklaces, or other beaded creations of your choice! Materials will be provided. Program intended for grades 6-12. Registration is not required.

Join us at the West Des Moines Public Library for English with Friends, a welcoming and informal conversation program.

Drop in and join us in the storyroom for Saturday Storytime! Build a lifetime love of books and reading as we share stories, songs, and interactive rhymes with an early literacy focus. For ages 0-6 w/adult. No registration.

This in-person group is open to aspiring authors of all experience levels. Each participant brings an approximately 1500-word excerpt of their work-in-progress to read aloud.

Drop in and join us in the storyroom for Saturday Storytime! Build a lifetime love of books and reading as we share stories, songs, and interactive rhymes with an early literacy focus. For ages 0-6 w/adult. No registration.

Using puppets, rhymes, songs, and short stories, we will engage baby and caregiver in language-rich activities designed for pre-walking babies.

Using puppets, rhymes, songs, and short stories, we will engage baby and caregiver in language-rich activities designed for pre-walking babies.

Join Alana and Amy on Monday, November 10th at 7p.m. for Club Read, a book club for adults. You may join us in the Community Room at the library or through Zoom.

Simple stories, gentle tunes, flannel boards, and nursery rhymes.

Spend some time with the Naturalist at Raccoon River Park's Coneflower Shelter! We'll enjoy nature stories and a kid-friendly craft or activity. Bring a blanket and dress for the weather.