Get up and get moving at our Baby and Toddler Story Times. These 20-to-30-minute programs are full of books, songs and fun activities, and are designed to help develop your child’s language skills. Children ages 18 to 36 months and their grownups are encouraged to engage with the stories and activities and participate in the program along with the children.
Share the fun of reading with your children, ages 3-5 years. Children and their grownups will explore stories and activities to encourage children to develop a lifelong love of reading and learning. These 30-to-40-minute programs are designed to promote language and listening skills, expand children’s imaginations and arouse their curiosity about the world around them.
Share the fun of reading with your children, ages 3-5 years. Children and their grownups will explore stories and activities to encourage children to develop a lifelong love of reading and learning. These 30-to-40-minute programs are designed to promote language and listening skills, expand children’s imaginations and arouse their curiosity about the world around them.
Join us on the first and third Thursday of the month for a dance party!
This 25 minute program is designed to help develop motor skills and encourage an appreciation of music. Come and dance to the beat of your drummer.
Recommended for ages birth to 5.
Drop by and build during our weekly LEGO Club.
Come and try something different every Thursday at LEGO Club:
First Thursday - Lego Robots
Second Thursday - Lego Free Play
Third Thursday - All ages karaoke starts at 5:30 p.m.
Fourth Thursday - Collective Design Challenge (build together - share together)
Recommended for ages 4-12.
Every month patrons of ALL ages will have a rip-roaring good time sharing their favorite songs with the world during Karaoke For All! Whether it's Beyonce, Chicago, The Beatles or the Queen of Soul: Aretha Franklin - folks are encouraged and cheered on to sing, sing, sing. Subtitles of all songs will be shown so that everyone can read, read, read the song lyrics as the featured singers belt out a variety of songs!
Let’s Communicate in American Sign Language: Beginning Level
Thursdays October 25 – December 6, 2018
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Join us in this beginning level class, which covers 100+ ASL vocabulary words and rules of grammar. Review what you know, learn new signs, and practice conversation. Although focus is on beginners, everyone is welcome to join the class, regardless of skill level.
The class is free. No need to register.
Come meet fellow writers, share your ideas and give and get constructive feedback from your peers of your work in progress.
Bring one printed copy of your own flash fiction or an excerpt from a longer piece (limit: 1,000 words). At each session, we will randomly select three participants to receive critique.
Recommended for ages 18 and up.
Let’s Communicate in American Sign Language: Intermediate Level
Thursdays October 25 – December 6, 2018
7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Join us in this intermediate-level class. Review what you know, learn new signs, and practice conversation. Although focus is on those who already have familiarity with American Sign Language, everyone is welcome to join the class, regardless of skill level.
The class is free. No need to register
Get up and get moving at our Baby and Toddler Story Times. These 20-to-30-minute programs are full of books, songs and fun activities that are designed to help develop your child’s language skills. Children ages 18 to 36 months and their grownups are encouraged to engage with the stories and activities and participate in the program along with the children.
The books that really grab my attention are always heavy in suspense, utilize dark undertones, move at a rapid pace, and highlight characters with paranormal abilities. These ingredients often create the "edge of seat" feel that readers crave in teen and young adult literature.
If you consider yourself a literary fan of the same characteristics, then definitely browse my recommendations below to see what jumps out at you!
Join us Wednesday evenings in June at 7 p.m. for Music DVDs featuring Hip Hop legends, Dizzy Gillespie, African American Music History and Music of South Africa.
A salute to African Americans in Opera will be held on Sunday, June 14, with photographs of African American Opera performers on display and a live performance with Guest Artist Sheryl Perry, Lyric Coloratura Soprano at 2:30 p.m.
Families! Join us for a community bike ride from the Woodridge Interim Library in celebration of National Bike Month on Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 10:30 a.m.
Learn about some local history, meet neighbors, visit historic sites and learn about the New Woodridge Library.
Meet up at 18th and Douglas streets NE.
Are you a job seeker or a recently hired employee? Are you having difficulties getting or keeping a job?
Come to one of these Jobseeker Clinics and meet with an attorney from Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP) to find out if you have a barrier to employment that a lawyer may be able to help you resolve. You can get information about issues such as criminal record sealing, credit reports, background checks, obtaining driving and professional licenses, resolving back child support arrearages, wage theft, and other issues.
Spring into Spring: Seasonal vegetables and healthy snacks for kids!
Once again, Good Food Markets will present an engaging seminar for our Book it-to-Health Seminar.
A nutritionist will share with children and parents the importance of eating healthy. You may be the lucky winner of a sample bag of delicious healthy snacks provided by Good Food Markets. Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 4:30 p.m.
Best for ages 5 years and up.
Join us in celebrating Women's History Month, and win fantastic prizes!
Every Monday in March, a new trivia question will be posted on Twitter (@dcpl) and Facebook. Respond by Friday with the correct answer using #herstoryDCPL, and get entered to win a different prize each week! We'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the week.
Every year book titles are released in theatres. There’s always been controversy about which is better: the book or the film.
This year, as we celebrate National Library Week April 12-18, which pay tributes to libraries as centers for learning, come in and browse our selections of Books made into Movies (Books to Reel Display).
Vote on the selection our customers will view on April 12 at 2:30 p.m. Come in and take our Book vs. Movie survey.
The Woodridge Anime Club is a group for like minded otaku who love to read manga and watch anime. With this common interest, the goal from day one has been to make the public library a destination for entertainment coupled with reading through manga and subtitled anime.
Please join us for shows currently popular with the club in addition to your own recommendations.
Tokyo Ghoul
Parasyte the Maxim
Death Parade
Three club dates from 3 p.m.- 5 p.m. See you there!
Teen Tech Week is an opportunity for public libraries to highlight all things technology and computer science geared to teens.
Popular Internet games and mobile apps are programmed with a high-powered, yet easy to learn language known as Python.
Please join the Woodridge Library on Wednesday, March 11 at 4 p.m. as we play "Code Combat" to learn the basics of Python coding for game navigation.
Best for ages 10 and older.
Our Thursday afternoons, LEGO Club enjoyed a lot of free building time in February, inspired by Valentine's Day and our own imaginations.
On Feb. 17, we used our LEGO collection to re-create inventions by African Americans to celebrate Black History Month. We re-created:
the cabinet bed invented in 1885 by Sarah Goode, the first African-American woman to receive a patent
the traffic light and gas mask, invented by Garrett Morgan in the early 20th century
Join us to build every Thursday afternoon from 4-6 p.m. for more fun!
