Name: Book Club Social: Hybrid Edition
Start: 2025-03-24T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-24T20:30:00-05:00
Location: West Des Moines Public Library

Book Club Social: Hybrid Edition

Monday, March 24, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Book Club

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Please join Alana and Amy to discuss what everyone has been reading and watching this month. You may join us in the Millie Knee Classroom upstairs at the library or in Zoom.Come pr...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Required

Seats Remaining: 20

Event Details:

Please join Alana and Amy to discuss what everyone has been reading and watching this month. You may join us in the Millie Knee Classroom upstairs at the library or in Zoom.

West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation Meeting

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Community Room at Main Branch

Program Type:

Board Meeting

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Visit the West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation webpage for more information.

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Community Room

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Board Meeting

Event Details:

Visit the West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation webpage for more information.

Final Friday Fiber Club

Friday, March 28, 2025 at 10:00am - 11:30am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Do you embroider, cross-stitch, crochet, or knit? All fiber artists are invited to join us for Final Friday Fiber Club, an informal opportunity to get together with other fiber art...

Required

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 12

Event Details:

Do you embroider, cross-stitch, crochet, or knit?

Drop-in Activity: Poetry Terrariums

All Day 4/1 - 4/19

Main Branch

Program Type:

Craft

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

In April, we invite you to make your own Poetry Terrarium. Just what is a Poetry Terrarium? It combines snips of words and poetry in a small, clear box with tiny found objects (lik...

Library Branch: Main Branch

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Craft

Event Details:

In April, we invite you to make your own Poetry Terrarium. Just what is a Poetry Terrarium? It combines snips of words and poetry in a small, clear box with tiny found objects (like keys or lego pieces).

Tech One-on-One

Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 10:00am - 10:30am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One Do you have a specific computer, mobile device, or other technology related questions? We are here to help! Sign up for a 30 minute private se...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 2

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One

Tech One-on-One

Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One Do you have a specific computer, mobile device, or other technology related questions? We are here to help! Sign up for a 30 minute private se...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 2

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One

Tech One-on-One

Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One Do you have a specific computer, mobile device, or other technology related questions? We are here to help! Sign up for a 30 minute private se...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 2

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One

Family Night at the Library!

Monday, April 7, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Community Room at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Toddlers, Preschool, School-Age Children, Teens, Adults

Event Details:

Join Nate for a fun family activity! We'll be doing something different each month. For all ages. Please register each person attending (children and adults). This p...

Required

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Community Room

Age Group: Toddlers, Preschool, School-Age Children, Teens, Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 25

Event Details:

Join Nate for a fun family activity! We'll be doing something different each month. For all ages. Please register each person attending (children and adults).

YA Not Club Read

Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Community Room at Main Branch

Program Type:

Book Club

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Are you a "Grown Up" but you like to read Young Adult books? Are you looking for a book club that doesn’t take itself too seriously? Then YA Not join us for YA Not Club...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Community Room

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Required

Seats Remaining: 25

Event Details:

Are you a "Grown Up" but you like to read Young Adult books? Are you looking for a book club that doesn’t take itself too seriously? Then YA Not join us for YA Not Club Read!

WDM Writer's Group

Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10:00am - 1:00pm

Southwoods Room at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

This in-person group is open to aspiring authors of all experience levels. Each participant brings an approximately 1500-word excerpt of their work-in-progress to read aloud. Fello...

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Southwoods Room

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Event Details:

This in-person group is open to aspiring authors of all experience levels. Each participant brings an approximately 1500-word excerpt of their work-in-progress to read aloud.

Iowa Files: Iowa in the 1840s; Cheap Land and Broken Treaties

Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Community Room at Main Branch

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

This joint library-Historical Society event is free and open to the public thanks to the support of West Des Moines Historical Society Members, EMC Insurance Foundation, the West D...

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Community Room

Age Group: Adults

Event Details:

This joint library-Historical Society event is free and open to the public thanks to the support of West Des Moines Historical Society Members, EMC Insurance Foundation, the West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation and the Iowa Arts Council.&nbs

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Community Room at Main Branch

Program Type:

Board Meeting

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Visit the Library Board of Trustees webpage for the meeting agenda and minutes from past meetings. The City of West Des Moines and the West Des Moines Public Library encourages ...

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Community Room

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Board Meeting

Event Details:

Visit the Library Board of Trustees webpage for the meeting agenda and minutes from past meetings.

Step Back in Time: Historical Fiction book group

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Outreach

Program Type:

Book Club

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Historical fiction is a great way to learn about people and events through stories that bring history to life. Our group discusses titles from a wide variety of time/places/people....

Required

Offsite Event

Library Branch: Outreach

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Required

Seats Remaining: 22

Event Details:

Historical fiction is a great way to learn about people and events through stories that bring history to life. Our group discusses titles from a wide variety of time/places/people.

Tech One-on-One

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 10:00am - 10:30am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One Do you have a specific computer, mobile device, or other technology related questions? We are here to help! Sign up for a 30 minute private se...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 2

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One

Tech One-on-One

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One Do you have a specific computer, mobile device, or other technology related questions? We are here to help! Sign up for a 30 minute private se...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 2

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One

Tech One-on-One

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One Do you have a specific computer, mobile device, or other technology related questions? We are here to help! Sign up for a 30 minute private se...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 2

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One

Copy of Drop-in Activity: Poetry Terrariums

All Day 4/21 - 4/30

Main Branch

Program Type:

Craft

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

In April, we invite you to make your own Poetry Terrarium. Just what is a Poetry Terrarium? It combines snips of words and poetry in a small, clear box with tiny found objects (lik...

Library Branch: Main Branch

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Craft

Event Details:

In April, we invite you to make your own Poetry Terrarium. Just what is a Poetry Terrarium? It combines snips of words and poetry in a small, clear box with tiny found objects (like keys or lego pieces).

West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation Meeting

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Community Room at Main Branch

Program Type:

Board Meeting

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Visit the West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation webpage for more information.

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Community Room

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Board Meeting

Event Details:

Visit the West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation webpage for more information.

Final Friday Fiber Club

Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:00am - 11:30am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Do you embroider, cross-stitch, crochet, or knit? All fiber artists are invited to join us for Final Friday Fiber Club, an informal opportunity to get together with other fiber art...

Required

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 12

Event Details:

Do you embroider, cross-stitch, crochet, or knit?

WDM Writer's Group

Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 10:00am - 1:00pm

Southwoods Room at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

This in-person group is open to aspiring authors of all experience levels. Each participant brings an approximately 1500-word excerpt of their work-in-progress to read aloud. Fello...

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Southwoods Room

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Event Details:

This in-person group is open to aspiring authors of all experience levels. Each participant brings an approximately 1500-word excerpt of their work-in-progress to read aloud.

Book Club Social: Hybrid Edition

Monday, April 28, 2025 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Book Club

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Please join Alana and Amy to discuss what everyone has been reading and watching this month. You may join us in the Millie Knee Classroom upstairs at the library or in Zoom.Come pr...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Required

Seats Remaining: 20

Event Details:

Please join Alana and Amy to discuss what everyone has been reading and watching this month. You may join us in the Millie Knee Classroom upstairs at the library or in Zoom.

Tech One-on-One

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 10:00am - 10:30am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One Do you have a specific computer, mobile device, or other technology related questions? We are here to help! Sign up for a 30 minute private se...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 2

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One

Tech One-on-One

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One Do you have a specific computer, mobile device, or other technology related questions? We are here to help! Sign up for a 30 minute private se...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 2

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One

Tech One-on-One

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Millie Knee Classroom at Main Branch

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One Do you have a specific computer, mobile device, or other technology related questions? We are here to help! Sign up for a 30 minute private se...

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: Main Branch

Room: Millie Knee Classroom

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Program

Required

Seats Remaining: 2

Event Details:

Tech One-on-One

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