Week Calendar

Coordinated Transportation Planning Meeting

Visit the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library booksale website at www.booksale.org. Please email any questions you have about the sale to info@booksale.org.

Visit the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library booksale website at www.booksale.org. Please email any questions you have about the sale to info@booksale.org.

Tompkins County Public Library will be offering fall open lab hours in its digital lab.  Open lab hours will provide an opportunity for patrons to drop in and get help with their basic technology questions.  Patrons will be helped on a f

Visit the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library booksale website at www.booksale.org. Please email any questions you have about the sale to info@booksale.org.

Caregivers and newborns up to 24 months are invited for music, rhymes, movement and books. After storytime, stay for an hour of play and social time.

Visit the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library booksale website at www.booksale.org. Please email any questions you have about the sale to info@booksale.org.

Book a librarian for help with digital downloads or computer basics.

Toddlers, preschoolers and their caregivers are invited every Tuesday for early literacy-based stories, songs, finger plays and much more! After storytime, stay for an hour of play and social time.

Book a librarian for help with digital downloads or computer basics.

Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early literacy skills at Family Storytime. We meet each Saturday for stories, songs and hands-on fun.

    "Mapping David Vaughan's New York" - David Vaughan (d 1865) was an Irish immigrant who came to Albany in the late 1840's already skilled in tools and techniques that were sorely needed by New York State as it resumed its first e

The Mental Health Association in Tompkins County provides Mental Health First Aid courses to prepare our community with the knowledge and skills to help individuals who are developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis.

Join us for a discussion of "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson.

Facilitated by psychotherapist and Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Anna Salamone, RN, LCSW, these sessions will encourage participants to shift out of "automatic pilot" mode and observe the workings of the mind, body

The Mental Health Association in Tompkins County provides Mental Health First Aid courses to prepare our community with the knowledge and skills to help individuals who are developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis.

This weekly group is intended for adults interested in playing Dungeons & Dragons who have RSVPed to rachel.e.hadley@gmail.com. Minors are welcome to attend with a parent or guardian.

This is a private reservation for Leigh Cole's IC class in the Makerspace.

Volunteers from The Cornell Society of Women Engineers will be available to help children explore some of the Libary's S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) resources during this hour-long drop in program.

Adults are invited to join our weekly board game club! Bring a favorite game or play one that's on hand. RSVPs are appreciated but drop-ins are welcome as well.

Zee Zahava will celebrate the approaching end of her 2-year term as Tompkins County Poet Laureate with this reading of humorous stories about people she doesn’t know.

This event is open to the public.

What do you want to make?

Children are invited to attend this weekly LEGO® brick building program. 'LEGO at the Library' encourages children to use their imaginations or LEGO books from the TCPL collection to create their own LEGO art!

A local support group for families raising children on the autism spectrum. Parents and caregivers are invited to discuss and learn about various issues and resources concerning ASD.

Book a librarian for help with digital downloads or computer basics.

Children are invited to practice their reading skills by sharing a story with a truly non-judgmental listener -- a dog! Reading sessions will be held Tuesdays from 3-4 p.m. Children who attend 6 sessions will earn a FREE book of their choice!

Do you want to practice speaking with other people? Come to the library, and meet other people who are practicing English.

What do you want to make?

New! A second chance to catch Baby Storytime! Caregivers and newborns up to 24 months are invited for music, rhymes, movement and books.

Join us for a weekly open make session. Every session will provide a short tutorial on 3D printing, laser cutting, sewing, or Arduino. No prior experience required. Materials will be provided.

Join us for a weekly teen maker session. Every session will provide a short tutorial on 3D printing, laser cutting, sewing, or Arduino programming. No prior experience required. Materials will be provided.

What do you want to make?

This is a teen-run gaming club for other teens to come together and play different IO games each week. 

Book a librarian for help with digital downloads or computer basics.

This training for local journalists, including student journalists, will teach members of the media how to report on suicide and mental health responsibly, with particular focus on how the media can help prevent suicides and better educate the pub

Business Leaders of Colors is a network of small business owners committed to social justice.

Halloween is coming and you NEED a lamp made out of a porcelain baby head. Join Lady of the Lamps, Patricia Freyburger, to learn to assemble and wire a baby head lamp!

Joy. Sorrow. Loss. Love.

Local comic book artist Ten Van Winkle will be on site in the Digital Lab each week to help you create your own comics. Learn how to use the skills you already have to tell stories with art.

Stop by the library to chat with artist-in-residence Frances Gallardo. Bring images or stories of your favorite places in Ithaca, which the artist will use to inform her upcoming art show.

Join us in our new makerspace for 3-D printing lab, where participants can bring in their 3D model files and bring them to life using one of our state-of-the-art 3D printers.

Uncover the stories that hide in crumbling walls and behind the names on headstones in forgotten burial grounds.  The history in our own backyard shapes who and what we are today, it is in our souls.

This is an open meeting for the Tompkins County Genealogical Society.  It will begin with a genealogical presentation and will be followed by a discussion about research methods.

Tompkins County Public Library will be offering fall open lab hours in its digital lab.  Open lab hours will provide an opportunity for patrons to drop in and get help with their basic technology questions.  Patrons will be helped on a f

Join us for a discussion of "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson.

Ellis's talk will be a discussion of the psychological and historical themes in "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," a novel by Shirley Jackson, in particular agoraphobia, xenophobia, and the Cold War.