Upcoming Events

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

Did you know that Americans spend approximately $3.2 billion a year on gift wrap, most of which goes to the landfill?

Is your home overflowing with wrapping supplies?

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.

Did you know that Americans spend approximately $3.2 billion a year on gift wrap, most of which goes directly to the landfill?

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.

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

If you like to read and talk about books, this club is for you! Join us for discussion and activities related to this month's book Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin.

This month we'll be making bracelets! Nate will show you how to make two, simple knotted bracelets, and he'll have out all sorts of beads for making beaded bracelets. For ages 5-12, registration required.

Join us in the Community Room for this class featuring stories, songs, and rhymes followed by gross and fine motor play all with an early literacy focus!

For ages 2-6 w/adult. 

Join us for Empowered Aging: Knowledge for Every Stage, a three-part series designed to help you navigate the many options for aging with confidence.

Join us in the Community Room for this class featuring stories, songs, and rhymes followed by gross and fine motor play all with an early literacy focus!

For ages 2-6 w/adult. 

Join the WDM Library Friends Foundation for a drop-in writing event for November's Inkathon! Snacks will be provided. 

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

Join us in the Community Room for this class featuring stories, songs, and rhymes followed by gross and fine motor play all with an early literacy focus!

For ages 2-6 w/adult.