Upcoming Events

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Join us for monthly meetings of the TCPL Tween Book Club – the second Tuesday of every month. We will read and discuss great books together, play games, eat snacks, and laugh a lot. Best for ages 8-12. We hope to see you there! 

TCPL invites families to a weekly LEGO build night! Buckets of LEGO will be provided for participants to borrow for their builds.

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Join us for a tour of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art!

Are you between the ages of 8 and 108 and love playing board games? Then come join our board game club at TCPL! We meet in the Thaler/Howell Programming Room on Thursdays from 5 to 7pm.

TCPL will be hosting community organizations providing food resources to the Downtown Ithaca area and beyond.

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Please join author and Library Director Susan Currie, for a discussion of her memoir, The Preventorium.

Join us for Honey Heist, where you get to play bears working together to pull off the greatest heist in bear history- stealing all the honey from the annual NYS Honey Convention. It won't be easy, but these bears are determined!

Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early literacy skills at Family Storytime. We meet each Saturday for stories, songs and hands-on fun.

Let your imagination soar with local artist and teacher, Stiller Zusman.  This is a drop-in program and well-suited for children ages 3-6 and their families. 

Learn the basics of using a modern sewing machine!

Join Therese for a one hour instructional introduction to sewing. You will learn the parts, threading, and basic use of the machine.

Let's Make Something! 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, Cricut, and more...

Join us to discuss This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini:

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TCPL invites families to a weekly LEGO build night! Buckets of LEGO will be provided for participants to borrow for their builds.

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Get swept up in the magic created by great stories and live music as the CCO and Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) join forces for our annual Family Concert & Storytime Series, now in its eleventh season!  We select a different childr

Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early literacy skills at Family Storytime. We meet each Saturday for stories, songs and hands-on fun.

Join The Learning Web in TCPL's MakerSpace to work on a collaborative mixed-media collage and talk about career exploration in the art field!

This is an event for tweens and teens ages 12 - 18. Registration is encouraged. 

Children ages 5 and up and their families are invited to a free science program co-hosted by Chemists for Outreach and Graduate Inclusion (CoRGi) at Cornell University. 

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Let's Make Something! 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, Cricut, and more...

What do you want to make?