Week Calendar

Join us for a half-hour of stories, songs, and more to build early literacy skills; a blend of fun and education for children birth through kindergarten & their caregivers.

Drop in for a self guided storytime experience. Different stations will encourage you to READ, SING, TALK, WRITE, and PLAY together through a storytime theme. Activities are designed to encourage early literacy skills and be fun! 

Tours run approximately every 15 minutes from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. 

Get to know your library with a brief personal tour. Bring photo ID and address verification item to make a library card on the spot! 

Preschool storytime is a half hour of stories, songs, and movement that build early literacy skills and prepare your preschooler ages three to five for kindergarten.

Anchorage Public Library is collaborating with the Thomas Memorial Library for this unusual continent-spanning virtual conversation serie

Join us for a special non-fiction storytime where we introduce a variety of STEM topics through books and hands-on activities! Best for ages 3-6 but families and siblings welcome.

Approximately 30 minutes of stories, songs, and rhymes followed by a family craft or activity. Ideal for children up to age 5 with caregiver, but all families are welcome. 

Family storytime is a half hour of stories, songs, and movement that build early literacy skills. It's a blend of fun and education for children birth through kindergarten and their caregivers.

Come challenge your engineering and artistic talents with a variety of building materials.

Need help with a smartphone, tablet, or social media? Are you interested in learning how to borrow e-books and audiobooks digitally from the library?

Time especially for seniors to meet with library staff one-on-one for technology coaching, community resources, or help with other library questions. 

AARP Foundation Tax-Aide is available free to taxpayers with low and moderate income, with special attention to those 60 and older. 

Most people with thoughts of suicide don't truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive.

Do you need more information about Anchorage's public transit system? Let the library help! 

Family storytime is a half hour of stories, songs, and movement that build early literacy skills. It's a blend of fun and education for for children birth through kindergarten and their caregivers.

Twenty minutes of nursery rhymes, songs, fingerplays and action for infants, birth to 18 months, and their caregivers. Followed by a special baby playtime. Older siblings welcome.

Teen Talk brought to you by AWAIC in partnership with Anchorage Public Libraries. In Teen Talk, youth can join their peers and adult mentors to participate in group conversations and activities.

Try out a new art technique and/or make a masterpiece. Supplies provided. This month we will be making simple suncatchers.

The Houseless Resource Advisory Council is a group whose voting members have experienced or are experiencing houselessness.

First Thursdays are open to all and address advocacy issues.

Calling all teen gamers, we have board and card games for you to play!

Has going to the movie theaters gotten too expensive? Never fear, just come on by and watch a movie at the library for free! Concessions provided.

Movie titles to be determined.

In need of volunteer hours? Every Friday, we'll be hosting drop-in times with projects for you to help the library!
2nd floor YS

Come to the Teen Underground to make poems with paper, scissors, and decorations. Try your hand at found poems or blackout poems-- or both!

A relaxed environment for group study, socializing, or gaming. Ask to use our board games, Chromebooks, Xbox, or Wii! 

Try out a new technique and/or make a masterpiece. Supplies provided-- keep all that you make. Ideal for ages 6+ with caregiver. Projects may be messy! 

A relaxed environment for group study, socializing, or gaming. Ask to use our board games, Chromebooks, Xbox, or Wii! 

Approximately 30 minutes of stories, songs, and rhymes followed by a family craft or activity. Ideal for children up to age 5 with caregiver, but all families are welcome. 

Contact Stacia McGourty - stacia.mcgourty@anchorageak.gov - 907-343-2856

Join Miss Keelin in the Mountain View Library Community Room for a half-hour of stories, songs, and more to build early literacy skills; a blend of fun and education for children birth through kindergarten & their caregivers.

Can you juggle? Are you a clown? A musician? Another type of performer interested in vaudeville? Join Spenaudeville & Friends for an open rehearsal to grow your skills. All ages welcome, children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.