West Des Moines Public Library
4000 Mills Civic Pkwy
West Des Moines, IA 50265
United States
Curbside Pickup of holds is available during our Renovation Closure.
As of 4/8/2021, we have EXPANDED Curbside Hours! These will continue until we reopen in late April.
Hours for Curbside during Closure:
Monday - Thursday, 9am - 7pm
Friday - Saturday, 10am - 2pm
To Use Curbside:
Amazon is withholding ebook and audiobook versions of works it publishes through its in-house publishing arms from US libraries. This may affect the offerings provided to patrons via our statewide Bridges service from OverDrive, though we don't yet know the impact.
Here is a good article from The Verge outlining the issue.
"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people." Andrew Carnegie
The West Des Moines Public Library will close for at least six weeks starting March 1 as the library enters the final stage of its nearly 18-month renovation. During the closure, contractors, engineers, movers, furniture vendors and library staff will re-open areas of the building currently closed, finish design and structural work, install new furnishings, fixtures and technology, re-install shelving currently in storage and assess, sort and re-shelve 30,000 library materials stored off site since the beginning of the project.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Public Library Story Room Mural
City of West Des Moines
WEST DES MOINES: COMMUNITY
West Des Moines, IA–At a mid-day meeting of the Library Board of Trustees on January 5, board members decided that The West Des Moines Public Library will reopen to limited walk-in traffic starting at 9am on Monday, January 11.
Remember the West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation as you make your final contributions for 2020 - or your first ones for 2021!
Welcome, friends! After months of work, our new West Des Moines Public Library Website is up and running!
We have reorganized and refreshed our graphics, our information, and our look. The whole site has been made more mobile-friendly, with easy links to our many wonderful services - some of which may be new to you.
We hope you like our bright, fresh new look and feel. We invite you to explore and enjoy!
This renovation project probably feels like it has taken a long time–remember October 2019 when the library closed for the first renovation stage and your librarians packed up over 30,000 books for storage? We moved all the stacks around and dove into Phase 1 of our project. That transition took two long weeks and it felt like ages before we were able to welcome you back inside (little did we know what was in store for all of us this year…ha). During Phases 1 and 2 the second floor of the library received its refresh.