Week Calendar

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.

The Des Moines Public Library is partnering with area organizations to connect people with community resources. Community advocates will provide information about community resources like meal sites and shelters.

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.

This month we will be reading and discussing Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Copies of the book are available at the North Side Library.

Join other women who are practicing their English in this casual conversation group. We will chat, share coffee, and learn together in this group moderated by a Forest Avenue Library staff member.

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 at Forest Avenue Library for Blood on the Clocktower with The Dealt Hand!

Learn how to use the Glowforge Plus Laser Engraver at Tech Central! This program takes the place of the 1 on 1 Glowforge tutorial, so you will be fully qualified to book and use the Glowforge on your own after this program. 

Calling all poets to Freedom in Freeform. 

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.

October's film selection is The Wages of Fear (1953), a psychological drama directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Yves Montand and Charles Vanel.

Join our book club as we explore Matt Bell’s Refuse to Be Done. Discuss strategies for outlining, generating ideas, and tackling your first draft, while connecting with fellow writers.

Join CCPI (Calhoun County Paranormal Investigators) for an exciting dive into Iowa’s supernatural side!

The truth of Dr. Frankenstein's crimes is slowly coming to light. Your detective team has been contracted to find the evidence necessary to convict him. If evidence is not found by the end of the day, he will be released and never tried again.

For our October Book Discussion, we will be trying something new – We give you a genre, you pick the book you want to read! 

There are two rules:

Join professor Andy Langager for a series on different aspects of the history of photography. This session will explore how moving images went from Eadweard Muybridge’s “horse in motion” photographs in the 1870s to William K.