Week Calendar

Babies from birth to 18 months (with caring adult) enjoy songs, action rhymes and playtime while building early literacy skills. A great way to get to know other families in your community!

Children ages 18 to 36 months (with caring adult) enjoy a variety of developmentally appropriate stories, songs, rhymes and movement activities while building early literacy skills.

Babies in Bloom Storytimes are 15-20 minutes, followed by social time for caregivers and little ones.

Babies from birth to 18 months (with caring adult) enjoy songs, action rhymes and playtime while building early literacy skills. A great way to get to know other families in your community!

Children ages three to five (with caring adult) build the early literacy skills needed for school readiness through engaging books, songs and activities.

Children will explore open ended activities and play by building, shaping, and manipulating objects to create something new. Curiosity and creativity abound, fostering the development of cognitive and functional skills.

Children ages three to five (with caring adult) build the early literacy skills needed for school readiness through engaging books, songs and activities.

Imaginative fun featuring open-ended, hands-on exploration of different materials & manipulatives. Get creative, messy, and inventive - through play!

Children ages three to five (with caring adult) build the early literacy skills needed for school readiness through engaging books, songs and activities.

Exercise your brain with a friendly game of Scrabble! For teens and adults.

1-on-1 training to learn how to use the flatbed scanner.

Join us every Friday for stories, songs and activities perfect for young children. Each week will be a different theme and activities!

Visit us for a morning of learning, socializing, and donuts.

This month, we'll get ready for the holiday season by making paper holiday cards. Feel free to bring your own festive supplies or use some of ours!

Join the library for a special storytime to celebrate the season of thankfulness and gratitude! 

Young children from birth to 5 years old (with caring adult) may enjoy books, music and a variety of developmentally appropriate toys during this hour of unstructured social time.

Young children will enjoy books, music, and developmentally appropriate toys and activities during an hour of unstructured social time. 

Enjoy a tiny (no more than 2 hours) role-playing game at the library! In Honey Heist, you are a part of a dangerous gang of criminals who are planning to steal an absurd amount of honey... and you're a bear.

Young children will enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and activities while building ready to read skills in English and in Spanish.  

Families with young children enjoy a variety of stories, songs, rhymes and movement activities while building early literacy skills.

Sing, chant, play instruments and dance while exploring sounds, rhythms and patterns that make up our language.

Children ages 18 to 36 months (with caring adult) enjoy a variety of developmentally appropriate stories, songs, rhymes and movement activities while building early literacy skills.

Join the Arundel Rivers Federation, your local Riverkeeper group, for a hands-on learning experience about our rivers! Discover what a watershed is, what lives within it, and ways we can protect and enjoy our natural surroundings and more.

Enjoy games, crafts, and other activities at Discoveries: The Library at the Mall during this monthly social event for adults. Everyone is welcome, so come join us to socialize and meet some new friends. 

Talk with a volunteer lawyer for up to 20 minutes about your civil, non-family legal problem for free! Once you have signed up, you will be sent an intake sheet and instructions for meeting with the attorney. To register for an appointme

Practice gentle movement, breathing, and meditation with a chair-supported, beginner-friendly yoga practice.  

Families with young children enjoy a variety of stories, songs, rhymes and movement activities while building early literacy skills.

High-school senior Sabrina Richter explores the writing and publishing process, providing tips for every stage of the process.

Seniors, join us for our monthly genre book club! Each month members read and discuss from a different genre. This month we will be reading and discussing Recommended Reads. Recommended by who? Anybody!

This month we will be discussing The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.

Homeschoolers of all ages can drop in to hang out for games, arts & crafts, music and more! Is it a club? Is it a course? Come and choose your own adventure!

Gather in this encouraging environment to read an excerpt of something you're writing and receive feedback from your peers!

Calling all homeschoolers! Explore a different subject every week with fun games, STEM, reading, writing, crafts, and tons of other activities! All ages are welcome!

The selection this month is Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper

Homeschool students are invited to engage in fun and creative art projects to master their artistic skills and try something new!

This month: We will play with collected object collages like Lois Ehlert

This in person workshop is a high-impact dementia simulation experience that immerses participants into life with dementia, resulting in a deeper understanding of what it is like to live with cognitive impairment and sensory changes.

Tired of completing the same jigsaw puzzle over and over again? Bring your old puzzles to swap out for new puzzles and stay to work together to complete new puzzles with new friends!

Please make sure puzzles have no missing pieces.

Teen craft hour: We'll make Perler bead picture frames and then print out photos for the frames using a Sprocket printer! 

Whether you're team pink or green, "Defying Gravity", or just "Popular", bring your witchy selves for this swankified event!

Sew, knit, needlepoint, crochet - we do it all! Meet old friends and new as we teach and learn from each other. Beginners welcome.

Families are welcome to drop-in for Lego® build and play fun. We'll provide plenty of Legos®!

Bring your old button up shirts and join us to create an upcycled project that will give new life to your old fabrics and help to reduce fabric waste. 

This course, American Heart Association, is ideal for individuals with little to no medical training who need a completion card for their job, regulatory compliance (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements.

Calling all teens - Drop in for video games, crafts, movies, snacks and more every Thursday afternoon from 3:00 to 4:30pm!

Join us in the meeting room for snacks and games for an after-school wind down time.

Travel back in time! Young historians will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with historical people and cultures.

Theme: The Renaissance

Level cybersecurity and technology skills by hacking your way through different computer activities.

This event is presented in partnership with the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber).

School aged children are invited to attend our new Kids Create series. Each month we will learn about an individual artist or art movement, and create a piece of artwork inspired by what we learn.

Does your 3rd-5th grader like to read, play games, and have fun?

Play games and have fun with fellow fans of the Nintendo Wii Video Game System!

Join us for a special book club just for beginning readers! Kids will listen to a story, play word-decoding games, participate in a read-along, and make a craft. This program is best for children in kindergarten through 2nd grade.

Join us for an evening of inspired creativity & paint along with us as we recreate a seasonal masterpiece!
All materials will be provided by the library.

Call Discoveries: Library at the Mall at 410-222-0133 to register for a 15 minute appointment beginning two weeks before the program. 

It's easier than you think to have fun playing the ukulele. We start with the basics, and you'll be playing songs by the end of your first session. Don't have a ukulele?

Share in the love of Japanese animation and comics! Come join your fellow Otaku and enjoy anime watching, manga discussions, games, creating, and more! Light snacks provided and cosplay is always welcome!

Put on your PJs and bring a stuffed animal friend for a sleepover at the library. After a special storytime, tuck in the animals and say goodnight. Come back the next day to find out what mischief they got into!

Strumming and singing is more fun in a group! Meet with fellow ukulele players from the area, and feel free to bring song requests.

Pour paint on a decorative glass ball.

Trying to decide what your next step is after High School? Looking to change careers? Are you an older adult who wants to go back to finish a degree, or do you simply want take a few classes for your own growth?

Designed for emerging readers in kindergarten through 2nd grade, we'll meet every month to read several stories, play interactive games, engage in books discussions, and other literacy building activities! 

Create beautiful works of art using paper! Book pages, origami paper, card stock will all be used to create different wondrous crafts.

Practice breath work and physical poses that best support your physical and emotional needs so you can cultivate and maintain a stronger mind-body connection on and off your mat.  Through gentle guidance from an experienced and trusted y

Come hangout with us for Anime and Manga Club! Come hangout with us for Anime and Manga Share your favorites, what you are currently watching/reading, artwork and cosplay. We will have discussions, play games, watch shows, and more! 

Learn more Microsoft Word with using headers and footers, formatting text, columns, some advanced formatting features and more.

All classes are taught on library computers. Please bring a USB flash drive to save your work.

Join us for a fascinating talk on the history of the Native American Code Talkers from both World Wars presented by the The National Cryptologic Museum.&n

Try your hand at Scrapbook Journaling and learn to create pages full of visual imagery and inspiration.

A journal and a variety of scrapbook supplies provided.

Join us each week to learn how to manage your money!  

This week's topic is "Index Funds vs Mutual Finds vs ETFs." The session will explain the difference between the various funds and which one is right for you.

Practice mindfulness with crafting. 

November: Make a library themed paper gingerbread house. 

Sew, knit, needlepoint, crochet - we do it all! Meet old friends and new as we teach and learn from each other. Beginners welcome.

Join the staff of the Laurel Historical Society for an overview of Laurel's involvement in WWI and WWII, based on their previous exhibits "Laurel's WWI: From Here To Over There" and "Over Here: Life in Laurel During WWII." The presentation will in

A monthly book club that reads queer books in a queer- and trans-affirming setting.  All identities are welcome!

True Crime Tuesday is a virtual true crime discussion group exploring famous solved and unsolved murders and crimes. Topics change every month. Please register for the Zoom link. Hosted by Busch Annapolis Staff.

Nana's 80th birthday party takes a dark turn when she is murdered at the stroke of midnight. Who is slowly killing off Daisy Darker's family? And what other secrets will be revealed?

This program is both virtual and in person.

Join us for the story of the Nutcracker and a preview of the ballet by The Chesapeake Ballet Company.

Do you like doing the Wobble or the Cupid Shuffle? Come learn some more beginner soul line dances and discover a fun, low impact physical activity!

We'll learn how to crystallize things we find while foraging and experiment with creating the most colorful and exciting crystals we can! 

Join a group of English and Spanish speakers to practice speaking either language in a fun and informal setting.

Knitters and crocheters of all skill levels are welcome at this monthly meeting. Bring your own project or use our materials to work on projects for charity.

With Natalie Goldberg's guidelines and a set of guided writing prompts, we write.

Sharing is optional.

There is no critiquing, commenting, or suggestions made.

Come jam with us at the library! Our traditional Bluegrass jam is both for folks new to bluegrass music interested in learning its standards and those with more experience seeking to develop deeper knowledge of tunes commonly played.

Join the Quiet Reading Club for a cozy evening with your book and quiet company. Classical music or white noise will be playing softly in the background.

Need service learning hours? Have great ideas to enhance our teen programming? Join us for our Teen Advisory Board meeting to share your thoughts. We will be finalizing details for our upcoming program.

Join us for Teen Pizza and Pages Book Club! Bring a favorite read or two or even your own "Top 10" list of titles you love and share your thoughts over pizza!