Upcoming Events

Are you searching for a new job, having trouble navigating a website, or looking to learn a new digital skill? Goodwill is at the library to help!

Craft Night at the Forest Avenue Library is a great place to spend time with friends, meet new people, and enjoy a fun activity. Each month will focus on a new craft, and supplies will be provided.

Broaden your perspective, find new strategies for handling life’s challenges, or deepen your understanding of a topic when you join us for a monthly conversation around a life-changing nonfiction book. 

Join yoga instructor, Lily Allen-Duenas, for chair yoga at the Forest Avenue Library! No experience needed! No yoga mats or props are needed. Just bring yourself!

Need help with a phone, laptop, or tablet, or another electronic device? Come by the Central Library at 2PM on Thursdays and our staff will work with you to figure things out. This is a drop-in, first-come first-served service.

Join us for South Side's Monthly Book Discussion! This month we're reading The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong.

Book Discussion books are first come first served during the monthly book discussion meeting.

Renovate with Confidence - Understanding Home Improvement Loans with Neighborhood Finance Corporation (NFC)

Maria Semple is the bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Today Will Be Different, This One Is Mine, and the forthcoming Go Gentle (2026). Her novels are translated into 40 languages.

Are you searching for a new job, having trouble navigating a website, or looking to learn a new digital skill? Goodwill is at the library to help!

Connect with area organizations for resources. Community advocates will provide information about community resources like meal sites and shelters.

Connect with area organizations for resources. Community advocates will provide information about community resources like meal sites and shelters.

Please join the Friends of the Franklin Avenue Library for our quarterly membership meeting.

This conversation club is both for native speakers and those wanting to learn Russian. Topics of conversation are meant to be light. Get to know other members of your community, or assist those wanting to learn Russian.

Are you searching for a new job, having trouble navigating a website, or looking to learn a new digital skill? Goodwill is at the library to help!

April's film selection is Spotlight (2015).

The YSS team will be providing street outreach services, meal kits that include snacks and water, hygiene kits, survival kits for the weather with gloves and blankets, and central intake assessments.

This month we will be discussing Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green.

Learn how to use the Bambu X-1 Carbon filament 3D printer and the Formlabs Form 3 resin 3D printer.  Participants will learn how to use the free software to prepare their 3D files for printing at the library.

Do you like all things K-pop? Come to the Central Library every month and bring your photocards to trade, invite your friends or meet and hang out with other fans! Enjoy snacks, other activities, and listening to music.

Staff from the Evelyn K Davis Center for Working Families are ready to provide one-on-one job search and resume assistance to job seekers.

Are you searching for a new job, having trouble navigating a website, or looking to learn a new digital skill? Goodwill is at the library to help!

Cross wordy title off your bingo card with this month's book, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip by Kelsey McKinney. 

Join yoga instructor, Lily Allen-Duenas, for chair yoga at the Forest Avenue Library! No experience needed! No yoga mats or props are needed. Just bring yourself!