Upcoming Events

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

Is AI on your mind more these days? Please join us for this presentation, which focuses on the big moral and political issues surrounding artificial intelligence. What exactly is AI?

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 (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 As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds!

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 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. 

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.

Underneath the ground lies Colfax’s best kept secret, the mineral water! In the 1870s, underground mineral water, which was a cure-all health craze at the time, was discovered in Colfax.

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.

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 Humphrey's Really Wheely Racing Day by Betty Birney.