Adventure Pass temporarily shut down in 2025

Due to software issues affecting all libraries using the service, the Iowa Adventure Pass program will temporarily shut down in 2025. Any reservation already made for 2025 will be honored, but we encourage anyone with a current reservation to print those passes immediately. Customers can still make new reservations for passes that must be used by December 31, 2024. The service will return at a later time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Weather update for 12/14/2024

All locations of the Des Moines Public Library will be open normal hours Saturday, December 14, and all locations will serve as emergency warming shelters during open hours. 

CANCELLED: Supporting Friends During Suicide Loss with Sage & Cedar Grief Support

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We don't always know what to say or how to help when we see our friend's pain and grief. Maybe we feel scared to say something or we don't know how to help. We might even say the wrong things. Drawing from the latest bereavement research, data, and writings by psychotherapists, hospice social workers, neuroscientists, social scientists, and more, this one-hour presentation provides attendees with practical tools and information about how to support friends in early grief.

Sage Love is a mixed-methods researcher, mental health advocate, and founder of Sage + Cedar Grief Support. They hold an End-of-Life Doula Certificate from Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont with a focus on grief.

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