Week Calendar

Monthly Meeting

Tompkins County Public Library will be offering 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 first

Monthly Meeting

Join us in the Makerspace for self-led open hours!

Caregivers and newborns up to 24 months are invited for music, rhymes, movement and books at 10:30. After storytime, stay for an hour of play and social time.

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

Do you have old family photos, film or videos that you would like to convert to a digital format?  Now you can for free at the library!  During this hour long session a librarian will help you use our conversion equipment.  Please r

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.

Join TCPL volunteer technology tutor Woojin Richardson for one-on-one assistance with your website questions.  Woojin has experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Firebase.  Please visit the Information and Learning Services ref

Please join other families and friends to enjoy songs, rhymes and stories in Mandarin and English. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us.

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.

What are Hungarian Sweet and Sour Eggs? Who was that celebrity at the next table? What was in that soup? Join the Senior Troupe of Lifelong as we reveal the answers to these questions through our living history theatre.

Join us in the Makerspace for self-led open hours!

Next Chapter Book Club provides the opportunity for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to read, learn and make friends in a community setting.

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

Children ages 5+ and their families are invited to learn "How Rainbows Tell Us What Things Are Made Of", a program presented by Cornell Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility (SPIF). Distant planets, stars, galaxies . . .

Get in the holiday spirit by creating your own holiday cards and ornaments! Each child who creates a holiday card will receive a set of 10 cards professionally printed with their design. Envelopes will also be provided. 

Join us in the Makerspace for self-led open hours!

Celebrate America Recycles Day by making a zine--a small pamphlet of original or found words and images. We will use new and recycled papers to create zines about the environmental issues you want to write about.

Join us for an afternoon with local author, Joyce Holmes McAllister.This author of Return and Before We Knew has a new book coming out! Food for Thought is a collection of Joyce’s poems abou

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

TCPL Foundation Monthly Board Meeting

Children ages 8-12 are invited to explore and learn new board games each week with Mike Timonin, local board game aficionado! All kinds of great games to choose from! Put on your strategic thinking cap and join us!

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 your conversation skills? Come to the library and meet other people who are practicing English.

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

Do you have old family photos, film or videos that you would like to convert to a digital format?  Now you can for free at the library!  During this hour long session a librarian will help you use our conversion equipment.  Please r

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!

Make it light up and learn to code! This program is all about expressing yourself through computer programming.

This is an all-levels Slow Flow style yoga class, adaptable for people with different levels of fitness (it does involve sitting on a mat and standing up from the floor).

Explore your creative muscles in our casual weekly after school writing workshops. Sign up for a couple or take them all - each week will be something a little different but attendance at all sessions is not required.

Join craft team Heather and Julie to learn how to make beautiful fabric covered ornaments. This no-sew project involves folding fabric and pinning it into a foam ball to replicate a quilted look which looks trickier than it is!

Join Kris Altucher to learn to sew your own scrunchies! This 90's staple has return to fashion, and is a fun accessory to make for yourself or others. Customize the width and length to fit around a bigger ponytail.

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

Celebrate ReUse2!

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

Police Officers present the data and dangers of Distracted Driving.

This is a library-sponsored event.

If you have taken some French in the past and would like to find a place to practice your foreign language skills, please join us.

Have a good idea?  Have a hobby or arts and craft niche that you could see selling?  Join members of Cornell Tech Consulting for a free workshop on the basics of setting up an online store.  Learn how to use the internet to start a

Join us in the Makerspace for self-led open hours!