The Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library is inviting you to take a walk around the Library and read with us The Cazuela That The Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos and illustrated by Rafael López [5].

Unwind with friends and join us for an afternoon movie.  Participate and vote each week for the movie to be shown the following week.   Recommended for adults and seniors.

Schedule your Memory Lab Orientation and Transfer Session appointment at bit.ly/labsclasses [13]. Memory Lab Orientation and Transfer Session appointments are individualized do-it-yourself (DIY) appointments. Completing a Labs Participant Release Form and a short orientation at the beginning of your appointment is required. A photo ID is required to complete the Labs Participant Release Form, and a library card is required to book a Memory Lab session appointment.

In this 2-hour class, you will learn the basic features of the Microsoft Excel 2019 spreadsheet environment that are frequently used for calculation and data entry functions in the workplace.  Seats are limited to 12 participants and will be filled on a first-come, first-served walk-in basis. Please arrive a half-hour early to sign in for a seat at one of the 12 workstations. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact the Center for Accessibility at DCPLaccess@dc.gov [17] or 202-727-2142.

Feeling a spark of creativity? Children ages 6-12 are welcome in Northeast’s garden for an hour of arts and crafts. Please note: Outdoor library programs are cancelled if DC Government issues a Heat Emergency or if there are thunderstorms. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [22] [LS-246526-OLS-20].

Join us for two hours of entertainment every Thursday after school at Tenley-Friendship Library. We have gaming, films, crafts, karaoke and a variety of other programs on a rotating basis. Please call 202-727-1225 for more details.     Ages 11-19  

Learn about DC Public Libraries’ many resources that can help you this school year.

Calling all artists! We challenge you to create an original work of art or design based on the work of award-winning Mexican-American illustrator, Yuyi Morales [33]. Visit Southeast Library any time during open business hours and request your art challenge kit, brimming with colorful supplies to get your creative juices going.

Need something fun to do at home? Check out our Maker Kits!  These Maker Kits have the supplies for different kinds of experiments - from week to week, you may encounter activities like making a recyclable bird feeder, a LEGO duck, and more. Find us on the 5th floor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library and pick yours up on Thursday evenings, starting September 2nd. We'll look forward to seeing you!

Let's face it, there are some pretty funny and memorable commercials out there. Every Thursday for the next month we will be showing the most hilarious commercials we can find from around the world. Commercial hour will start September 9th from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the projector in the teen room. 

 In this 2-hour class, you will learn more features of the Microsoft Excel 2019 software that can help you further your career.   Seats are limited to 12 participants and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive a half-hour early to sign in for a seat at one of the 12 workstations. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact the Center for Accessibility at DCPLaccess@dc.gov [17] or 202-727-2142. Instructor: N. Wood MLK Jr. Memorial Library

Please join us for our fall monthly history lecture series with C.R.Gibbs at the Woodridge Neighborhood Library.   He will take you on a voyage of discovery into the missing pages of American history.  Each presentation will begin at 6:30 pm. September 23 The Black Family: Yesterday & Today

For the month of September, our book club will be reading, Such a Fun Age [48] written by Kiley Reid.  An insert from the book reads, "With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone "family," and the complicated reality of being a grown-up.  It is a searing debut for our times."  Just a reminder, we will be meeting virtually [49]

Join the library on Sept. 23 for the third session of Shifting the Spotlight Drama Book Club! The book club, a partnership between the DC Public Library and Theatre Prometheus, is a place to read and discuss great plays that are too often excluded from the modern American stage, especially those by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) playwrights. For this session, we will be reading Harvest [53], a play by Manjula Padmanabhan. Written in 1997 and set in India in 2010, Harvest is a futuristic, dystopian play about an exploitative international organ trading market in which residents of a large city, facing poverty and few job opportunities, are coerced into selling their organs — and lives —to wealthy North American ‘Receivers’ who can afford to pay the price.