Upcoming Events

Join us for a family-friendly movie and delicious popcorn!

This month's movie: Zootopia 2.

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

Join Alaska Dept of Fish & Game staff for a family-friendly discussion about what to consider and how to prepare to live and recreate safely around bears and moose, as well as how to react in different encounters. 

Help your child master school readiness skills in the year before starting kindergarten while earning books and other prizes! Countdown to Kindergarten is for children 3 to 5 years old with their adult caregivers.

Time especially for seniors to get one-on-one help with technology, community resource navigation, and traditional library reference. 

Three projects to choose from! Make a seed-starting mini greenhouse, create a mini upcycled window terrarium, or make decorations for your garden. Keep what you make! Note: staining art materials, scissors, and small parts in use.

Express your artistic vision through sugar-coated marshmallow! Individuals, groups and families are invited to create dioramas on literary or popular culture themes using marshmallow Peeps. 

Join us for drop in hours to get help with your family tree, scanning photos and documents, and doing research online. Learn more about genealogy resources that you can access free through the Anchorage Public Library.

Join us for a teen-friendly movie and delicious popcorn!

This Month: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Come on by and watch a movie at the library for free! Concessions provided.

Join us for the Gerrish Book Club discussion. April’s title is 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.

Try out different early literacy, language, and math toys to help prepare preschoolers for Kindergarten while having fun at the same time. Stay and play, meet some new families, and check out some books.

Make your own wearable pins! You make the design then we'll walk you through using the button maker.

Approximately 30 minutes of stories, songs, and rhymes ideal for children ages 3-5 with caregiver, followed by free play or an activity. This one is more story-based and less active than Parachute Storytime on Wednesdays.

Play with library toys, make friends and check out books!

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.

Do you knit, crochet or sew or are you a beginner looking for a start? Join us for a weekly meetup and bring your ideas or current projects.

Seniors, join local poet and facilitator Brian Hutton for a poetry workshop, including exercises and discussions on creativity and mental well being.

Join us for resource fairs at Anchorage Public Library branches!

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.

Location: Mountain View Library, 120 Bragaw St

Time to get one-on-one help with technology, community resource navigation, and traditional library reference. 

Bring your wiggliest toddlers to the library for an active storytime! We'll get up and go but we'll also sneak in some books. Stories alternate with songs and rhymes that incorporate a huge parachute!

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 and their caregivers.