Week Calendar

Join Mr. Red for approximately 30 minutes of stories, songs, and rhymes. Watch live or recorded: https://www.facebook.com/APLMuldoon

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

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.

Stop by for some free build time -- bring your imagination!

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?

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! 

Join the Anchorage Health Department for STI Awareness Week!

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

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. 

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. 

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

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.

Test your creativity: build a city or a spaceship or whatever you like! Or challenge your building skills with new projects and designs.

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!

Join us for a hands-on activity that focuses on science, technology, engineering, or math.

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

Use our Wii, Xbox One, and board games to build strategic thinking and good sporting conduct. Meet new gaming friends, too!

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

We're doing it again! 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. 

Are you a teen who's passionate about the Library and interested in sharing your opinions?

Email for the meeting link: TeenUnderground@anchorageak.gov.
Online meeting

Join us for our April Book Club discussion about The Sympathizer

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

This is the book club for those that don’t want to be tied down. No assignments, no judgment – just read what you want!

If you prefer to participate online please contact meneka.thiru@anchorageak.gov for the link.

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.