Week Calendar

Learn how to sort, filter, freeze panes, conduct basic math, and create charts. Then learn advanced Excel topics like how to create pivot tables, how to use multiple spreadsheets, and how to use absolute references, vlookup, and other techniq

This engaging series includes 3 workshops for parents and award-winning books to read with your child at home.

Participate in Raising a Reader® & learn:

Join us for songs, stories, words, letters, numbers, and general silliness in this storytime designed to get children ready for kindergarten. Ages 3-5.

Bring your little makers for a family friendly hour of parent and child maker time. We will have STEAM  coloring crafts,  electronic toys, coding board games and a reading area for a parent and child to read together.

How do you show your besties and bffs that you care about them? Celebrate PALentines’s Day on February 14^th. We’ll celebrate by making crafts and enjoying sweet treats.

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free tax help to people who generally make $60,000 or less, persons with disabilities, the elderly, and limited English-speaking taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax ret

Join us for songs, stories, words, letters, numbers, and general silliness in this storytime designed to get children ready for kindergarten. Ages 3-5.

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free tax help to people who generally make $60,000 or less, persons with disabilities, the elderly, and limited English-speaking taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax ret

Toddlertime incorporates stories, music, and movement into an engaging storytime for children. Ages 16-36 months.

Come and join us for a storytime filled with movement, singing, stories, mindfulness, and easy yoga poses. Ages 3-5 years.

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free tax help to people who generally make $60,000 or less, persons with disabilities, the elderly, and limited English-speaking taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax ret

Toddlertime incorporates stories, music, and movement into an engaging storytime for children. Ages 16-36 months.

Join us on our reading adventure with Around the World Storytime.

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free tax help to people who generally make $60,000 or less, persons with disabilities, the elderly, and limited English-speaking taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax ret

Join us for a morning of guided play. Join your young child in a meaningful play experience that will enhance a variety of skills.  A materials kit with the corresponding theme will be available for check out. 

Adult non-native speakers are welcome--no need to register.

Come explore your creative side at the library with LEGO®. Children can either follow a monthly theme or build from their imaginations. LEGO® and DUPLO® blocks will be provided.

In honor of Black History Month we will be learning about Bettye Washington Greene's work in the chemistry of polymers. Bettye was the first African American woman chemist to work for Dow Chemical.

Pre-requisite: A working knowledge of how to use a computer mouse and keyboard.

Rap and Hip-hop music have deep cultural roots. The two genres have a long history of promoting social change and breaking down racial barriers.  “Hip-hop speaks to issues that transcend race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.”

Create beautiful works of art using paint, glitter, markers, and vinyl records. 

Supplies are limited, and registration is required. 

If your math homework gives you a headache, former math teacher Mr. Rogowski can help by showing you how to solve problems and proofs during the library's math lab for teens.

Enjoy Valentine's Day watching Howl's Moving Castle while decorating heartbreak cookies. 

Ages 12-18

While supplies last.

© 2004 Studio Ghibli – NDDMT.

Celebrate International Friendship Month and watch the movie Lilo & Stitch. Get crafty at the same time by creating a surfboard design bookmark. Ages 8-12. Supplies are limited. 

Learn and play Dungeons & Dragons®  with an experienced player.  Already know how to play? Come in and use the space to lead your own campaign. New players are welcome. 

Ages 10-18.

Learn the Japanese art of paper-folding! Teens will be introduced to easy, medium, and hard levels of origami, so every skill-level can enjoy. Age range 12-18

Come explore your creative side at the library with LEGO®. Children can either follow a monthly theme or build from their imaginations. LEGO® and jumbo blocks will be provided. Ages 5-9.

Every week we will create awesome projects using all sorts of different apps.

Mesa Public Library is excited to partner with the Arizona State Library and welcome Kelli Donley-Williams as our Writer in Residence from February through April.

Mesa Public Library is excited to partner with the Arizona State Library and welcome Kelli Donley-Williams as our Writer in Residence from February through April.

President's Day is around the corner, make your own president puppet like Abraham Lincoln or George Washington. Kids will have the supplies to make a historic presidential puppet. Ages 4+. Supplies limited.
 

Use our new Thinkspot space to make stickers for your water bottle on our vinyl cutter. Teen Time is a chance for teens to hang out, create, play and learn with a different topic each time.

Try your hand at a low-stakes craft night. This month we'll be making yarn wall hangings.

Ages 14+

Learn this amazing paper spinning technique that blends strips of recycled paper and creativity. Turn your design into a card or a piece of recycled art for your wall. We'll provide instructions and supplies, you bring the imagination.

Join author Joe Ziemba as he discusses his new book “Bears vs.