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The community is invited to be a part of a special monthly program made possible by the West Texas Homeless Network. Join us at the Main Library on the second Monday mornings of each month at 9:00AM for an hour-long program titled Coffee and Conversations. If you know someone who might be in need of housing, food, clothing, or support, sometimes you might not know where to go for help or who to refer the person in need to. At this monthly program, you can come find out what help is available in our community, while enjoying free coffee & snacks. Come talk and share your stories and see how you can get access to services someone you know might benefit from.

Youth are invited to join your South Branch Library for more STEAM fun activities. Just because school is out for Spring Break, that doesn’t mean you still can’t have fun with hands-on activities that will get you thinking and keep you busy. We’ll offer a different project each day of Spring Break, and they’ll be located in the children’s area of the library. At this session, we’ll be creating Static Electricity Butterflies to make a butterfly craft move via static electricity. For more information about this program, contact staff at 325-698-7565.

The library has an awesome new robot for youth to come out and meet...Cue! It’s a little robot with a big personality that is ready to teach coding through blockly and javascript. On this afternoon, join us in the activity room where we’ll have all of the Cue bots wrangled up for you to come out, meet them, and learn to use them. For more information, be sure to contact staff at 325-437-7323.

As more people acquire smartphones, tablets, and laptops, you may find yourself needing a little help. If that’s you, join us for TECH (Technology Enrichment & Collaborative Help) Time at your library. Sessions will be hosted on a weekly basis at your South Branch Library where our tech gurus will help you to navigate your way through learning to use your devices and answering your tech-related questions. We may not have all the answers, but we’ll certainly do our best to help. Guests will be helped on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to 20-minutes if others are waiting. For more information, contact staff at 325-698-7565.

Youth are invited out to the Main Library for our next Imagination Lab session where the featured project will be Paper Circuits. Create a card or piece of art that lights up. Using a coin battery, led, and copper tape, we’ll show you how to create a circuit to add a light to a card. One light and coin battery per person. Materials will be provided and it’s a great STEAM activity to get your hands on. For additional information, contact staff at 325-676-6067.

Need someplace to host a Dungeons & Dragons game? Looking for other teens to play D&D with? Well come on over to the Mockingbird Branch because we’ll be hosting regular gaming sessions on select Monday evenings starting at 5:30PM. The library will provide the three main manuals, dice, and character sheets. So if you’re a Dungeon Master, or an adventurer, come join in on the gaming fun. For more information, contact staff at 325-437-7323.

Baby Steps is a weekly storytime and activity series designed for parents to share with newborns up to age 1. At each session, stories, activities, and stimuli are presented along with parental participation. Follow along as children's staff help to guide you through a number of stimulating activities, while also getting the opportunity to socialize with other parents too.

Rhythm & Rhyme is a great weekly series, hosted on Mondays and Fridays for youth of various ages. This educational program combines music, dance, and rhythm with structured learning at your library, in a relaxed environment. It's a great way for getting up and moving at your library.

The Preschool Storytime is presented weekly and aimed at youth ages 3-6. Kids will listen to great stories selected by children's staff, join in fingerplays, sing, dance, and watch puppets and other visual presentations. Parents are encouraged to join in on the storytime fun.

Campers will have a party at GV Daniels Recreation Center! Through the celebration of Spring Break, there will be lots of fun activities for the kids, such as games, gym activities, outdoor adventures, field trips, provided lunches, and more! It's $65 per child, and it's open to both boys and girls ages 6-13. This camp takes place at GV Daniels Recreation Center from March 9-13 from 7am-6pm. Registration is open now, and you can register online at www.abilenetx.gov/signup!

Lunch for our seniors is at 11:30-12:30 am, Take a look at our menu with the provided link.