Week Calendar

On the first and third Tuesday of each month, the Pop-Up will be at Longboat Key with books for all ages and a Storytime for children at 10:30 AM. Swing by to sign up for a library card and read a book with us!

Use 1 of 5 Brother sewing machines on Your Own Project. Must Know How to Sew.  Machines Available on first come first serve basis.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy a special uninterrupted playtime with your child in our FREE Partners in Play® (PIP) groups. Meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how play and learning go hand-in-hand.

Fun To Be Fit Kids is a music and movement program for children and their caregivers to attend together.

Join Mrs. Bee from Bumble Bee Yoga for a 1-hour yoga session to help build strength and stability. No materials or experience required.

Registration Required.

Looking to try something new and maybe make a friend or two?  Join the library book club! 

Join us for a page or two of your favorite word puzzles! We'll have crosswords, sudoku, word searches, and more.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

Join us for a fun time filled with books, songs, and a craft! Each Little Critter Storytime will focus on a different animal!

Join us at the Fruitville Library with your knit/crochet projects. All ages and skills are welcome. Supplies and knowledgeable members are on hand to help anyone interested in learning to knit or crochet. 

Preschoolers, kindergarteners, and their families can enjoy loosely structured play with a variety of rotating toys and activities in our Story Time Room.

Children ages 2-8 and their caregivers are invited for Wednesday morning free-play time, with an assortment of toys and props to inspire the young imagination! Drop-in anytime between 10:30am and 11:30am.

The Sarasota Music Archive presents the John Goodman Performance and Lecture Series:

Please register for each event separately AND each name attending. (Duplicate registrations are deleted.)

Do you need access to a sewing machine for practice? Or do you need help with a sewing or mending project? This is an open lab for adults with basic sewing machine experience. 

Come and socialize with fellow knitting, crocheting and sewing enthusiasts! All levels welcome. Bring your current project to work on.

Come and get assistance from experienced and knowledgeable volunteers.

Bring your questions!

Stumped by technology? Your technology questions can be answered through an in-person appointment with one of our Tech Navigators. Tech Navigators are library staff members ready to assist you with technology skills.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy a special uninterrupted playtime with your child in our FREE Partners in Play® (PIP) groups. Meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how play and learning go hand-in-hand.

For infants to five years, attending with caregiver. The storytime includes simple stories, nursery rhymes, songs, fingerplays, and crafts. Space is limited. Free tickets are available at the youth desk beginning at 10 a.m.

Enjoy watching a short shadow puppet play based on a popular Indonesian folktale about a mischievous mouse-deer. Make a shadow puppet and try it out with a screen and light.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

The Plant Clinic meets in the library lobby.

Stroll through our Reading Garden with your little one as YOU become the storyteller. Enjoy a different book each visit.

*Weather permitting

Ready to rock? Join us for a fun and family-friendly 6-week guitar class designated for complete beginners! Learn to play some of your favorite songs while making music and memories.

Come to the Creation Station and sew a book bag with a sewing machine materials we have on hand.  This project is fairly simple for those who have attended at least one sewing class.  Beginners are also welcome.

KIDS, START YOUR ENGINES! Build looping, twisting tracks for Hot Wheel cars, and experiment with Newton's laws of motion in this fun hands-on event that combines STEM learning with classic play.

Join Teresa as she teaches even more difficult origami than she does in her beginner class.

She likes to create items to decorate a home or to give away as a gift. She brings in her own extra work as examples and sometimes to give away.

A storytime for preschool aged children that is filled with opportunities to wiggle our wobbles away! Join a library staff member and fellow storytime friends for stories, rhymes, and other fun activities!

Get assistance from experienced and knowledgeable volunteers

Bring your questions

Get expert and experienced genealogy research assistance.

Bring your questions

Attend this sign-up session to register for an AARP Income Tax Assistance appointment.  Advance appointments are required to utilize AARP's tax assistance services this tax season.

Assistance from experienced and knowledgeable volunteers

Bring your questions

Join us at the North Port Library for storytime!  Songs, crafts and stories guaranteed! 

Join your friends for stories, rhymes, sign language, and other activities. 

This is best suited for toddlers aged 1-3, but all ages are welcome as needed. 

Save the date for the Friends of Selby Public Library Silent Auction!

Already know a few chords or continuing from Beginner 1? Let's take your guitar skills to the next level!

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

Attend this sign-up session to register for an AARP Income Tax Assistance appointment.  Advance appointments are required to utilize AARP's tax assistance services this tax season.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy a special uninterrupted playtime with your child in our FREE Partners in Play® (PIP) groups. Meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how play and learning go hand-in-hand.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

Attend this sign-up session to register for an AARP Income Tax Assistance appointment.  Advance appointments are required to utilize AARP's tax assistance services this tax season.

Attend this sign-up session to register for an AARP Income Tax Assistance appointment.  Advance appointments are required to utilize AARP's tax assistance services this tax season.

Everyone is welcome to the open-topic discussions of the Socrates Cafe.

Pick your choice of colorful beads and accessories to create a beaded necklace.

Get assistance from experienced and knowledgeable volunteers

Bring your questions

Bring your projects, patterns, and questions to Elsie Quirk Library and join the Quirky Knitters for an afternoon of knitting and crochet.  All skill levels welcome.  Registration is not required, so come on in to knit and chat!

Join other local knitters and crocheters while working on personal projects and discussing all things knitting/crocheting. All skill levels welcome. Crochet Amigurumi kits will be provided while supplies last.

Play Mah Jongg in the rotunda with other experienced players in the Rotunda and make new friends! Please bring your own NMJL card with your name on it.

Attend this sign-up session to register for an AARP Income Tax Assistance appointment.  Advance appointments are required to utilize AARP's tax assistance services this tax season.

Join Sari to learn basic Sumi-e strokes and express the beauty of nature as a black-and-white landscape painting.

Sarasota County Extension Services Master Gardeners are here to help folks identify plants, flowers, etc. as well as care for them.

Get expert advice on your landscaping needs.

Participate in a wide variety of fabric crafts. 

This weeks craft is Hexagon Quilt Making instructed by Riley Ivol.

Registration Required.

Join us for a free lecture and Q&A exploring the Renaissance life, career and lasting legacy of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

This program will be a Zoom lecture with a library staff member available to facilitate audience questions.

Stumped by technology? Your technology questions can be answered through an in-person or distance appointment with one of our Tech Navigators. Tech Navigators are library staff members ready to assist you with technology skills.

Drop by the teen room and watch this week's requested movie. Add more wishlist movies to our clipboard request page in the teen room!

Teens in grades 6 through 12 are welcome to hang out, play games, and more.

Learn about the Japanese writing system and practice writing Zen words mindfully with a brush and ink.

Seating is limited. Registration is required.

Sponsored by the Friends of Fruitville Library.

Join us for a fast-paced and fun dramatic reading with Theatre of the Mind.

Seating is first-come first-served.

Sponsored by the Friends of Selby Library.

Teens in grades 6 through 12 are welcome to hang out, play games, and more.

Teens in grades 6 through 12 are welcome to hang out, play games, and more.

Mark Twain wrote autobiographically, basing fictional and non-fictional characters and events on the people he knew and personal experiences. Writers and performers of solo works continue that tradition in this program.

Add warmth to a chilly night by creating a setting, an ambiance for this time of year.

All supplies will be provided.

Creation Station event.

This program is a unique and sustainable way to explore your creativity and imagination.

*THIS CLUB IS CURRENTLY FULL*

Teens in grades 6 through 12 are welcome to hang out, play games, and more.

Get the insight and inspiration you need for your winning college entrance essay! Presenter Bryn Durgin is a writer for The New Yorker and a Moth storyteller.

LAST Stop is a drop-in program designed for teens in 6th through 12th grade to participate in fun activities, talk with friends, have snacks, and play games.

The Multi-session program meets weekly for 4 weeks and will provide you with the valuable tools you need to help you quit tobacco.

Whether you're cooking in a crock pot or Dutch oven, you'll find yourself making these incredible one-pot meals for your family or dinner guests.

Registration Required.

Come learn about the reign of Queen Joanna the First!

LAST Stop is a drop-in program designed for teens in 6th through 12th grade to participate in fun activities, talk with friends, have snacks, and play games.

Looking for a fun and quick craft that yields beautiful results? Join us for "Shaving Cream Marbling Art" in the Reading Garden! 

LAST Stop is a drop-in program designed for teens in 6th through 12th grade to participate in fun activities, talk with friends, have snacks, and play games.

Join the musical duo of Anne and Mark Burnell as they perform music from the Great American Songbook, including names like Berlin, Arlen, Porter, the Gershwins and more!

Seating is first-come first-served.

LAST Stop is a drop-in program designed for teens in 6th through 12th grade to participate in fun activities, talk with friends, have snacks, and play games.

Celebrate the weekend with an hour of open gaming time with video games and board games!

A different project every week!

Recommended for ages 6 and up.

Join us in some stellar science fun! Learn more about our water cycle and our planets from a NASA scientist,

For Tweens and Teens. 

Registration Required. 

Hang out as you please and play a variety of board games and card games with your friends! All games will be provided. Ages 13-18 only.

Come and get one-on-one experienced and expert genealogy research assistance.

Bring your questions!

Kids and tweens can make colorful pixel art images with Perler beads! The only limit is your imagination!

Join other teens at our monthly Teen Advisory Board Meeting. The Board will discuss topics related to teen library services, teen programs and the teen collections. Attendees will receive community service credit for their time at the meeting.

Pick your choice of friendship bracelet and colorful threads to make gifts for you and your friends!

Movie Club is every 3rd Tuesday of each month.

Movie will begin promptly at 5:30pm.

Enjoy a movie with a short discussion afterwards about what you liked or disliked about the movie. There will be popcorn and snacks available.

Join us to watch: Clueless (1995)

Work on your own creations or build as a team. We provide the LEGO® bricks, you provide the imagination.

Learn to create a simple 3D name tag using Tinkercad, a free program that is great for beginners. Staff will print your design on the library's 3D printer, and you may pick it up the following week.