Storytimes near APPLEGATE BRANCH LIBRARY

Ruch Meeting Room (Full Room A B Side), Ruch Library

Discover how children learn through play and daily activities: singing songs, telling stories, creating art, and having fun! Read Play Talk (RPT) is open to everyone — young children (ages 0-5) and their family, caregivers, and parents. No pre-registration required. RPT groups are offered in collaboration with Southern Oregon Early Learning Hub. To find a group near you: https://www.soesd.k12.or.us/early-learning-hub-2/.

Community Meeting Room, Gold Hill Library

Celebrate Shark Week by making a felt hammerhead shark toy!

Community Meeting Room, Prospect Library

Why are Southern Oregon's forests increasingly vulnerable to megafires — and what can you do about it? Join Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative's fire education team for this hands-on, one-hour program where you'll explore the science behind wildfire behavior, discover how homes actually ignite, and take action by building and evaluating your own defensible space model. Whether you live in a house, apartment, or mobile home, you'll walk away with real, practical steps you can take to protect your home and family. You'll also learn how to get involved with natural resource work and explore career pathways in fire and forest management. Come ready to build, think, and prepare.

Meeting Room, Eagle Point Library

Shop for new and gently used items including books, CDs & movies. All proceeds benefit the Eagle Point Library.

Meeting Room, Shady Cove Library

Did you know that you can make your own art prints using the sun? It’s true! Join us as we use scientific methods to preserve images of plants and flowers that you can take home with you as your own piece of art. For ages 10-19, all supplies provided.

Community Meeting Room, Rogue River Library

Come and learn to Zentangle® with a Certified Zentangle® Instructor! Zentangle is a fun, easy-to-learn, meditative way to create beautiful images with structured patterns, dots, lines, simple curves and more. This 2-hour beginners' class includes supplies, and will cover everything you need to know to begin your Zentangle journey. Please pre-register to guarantee your spot. Walk-ins will be welcome as space allows!

Community Meeting Room, Gold Hill Library

Celebrate Shark Week by making blue ocean slime! Personalize your slime by adding sharks and other sea creatures while listening to relaxing shark background music.

Meeting Room, White City Library

Join other romance readers for book discussion, sip, and snack. June 11: Everthing for You by Chloe Liese July 9: Beneath This Mask by Meghan March August 13 : Flawless by Elsie Silver

Community Meeting Room, Prospect Library

Drop in and play with us. We will have different board and tabletop games and the Nintendo Switch set up and ready to play every other Thursday late afternoon until close. We will feature games available in the JCLS collection and encourage you borrow one or more from the Library to take home and enjoy. Come learn a new game, play an old favorite, or you are even welcome to bring one from home to play with those who drop by.

Meeting Room, Eagle Point Library

Children are invited to share a story with a trained and registered therapy dog. Paws to Read at the Library provides a non-intimidating environment for budding readers to explore reading out loud. The dogs welcome a scratch on the head and the turn of the page from young readers.

Community Meeting Room, Gold Hill Library

Create a shark themed sensory bottle as we watch a shark documentary. Let this shark themed ocean event drift you off to relaxation and mindfulness.

Butte Falls Library

Come join us and other teens/tweens at the Butte Falls Library to participate in our Teen/Tween Game Day. Hangout with other teens and play board games set up for you to play, as well as snacks. Come and enjoy games every other Thursday afternoon throughout the school year. We've got a lot of different games to choose from.

Meeting Room, Shady Cove Library

Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy tabletop role playing game. Come experience some play, storytelling, creativity and imagination with us! The game is led by Dungeon Master, Pauline Zuntz.

Shady Cove Library

Come check out our book nook and shop for gently used children's, teens, and adult books. We have a variety of authors, and topics to choose from, plus the prices are reasonable. All proceeds go toward our wonderful programs.

Community Meeting Room, Prospect Library

First Friday Art Labs are a time to experiment with creativity. We'll provide the materials, you bring your imagination and innovation. This month we partner with Southern Oregon Sanitation (SOS) to make seed paper using recycled materials and native seeds.

Meeting Room, White City Library

Youth and adults are invited to come and participate in creative projects. Join us at the White City Library to create wherever your imagination takes you. Bring your own craft that you're working on, or try something new. Program will be hosted in English.

Meeting Room, Shady Cove Library

Learn how to knit and crochet. All materials are provided, all ages and abilities welcome.

Meyer Memorial Trust Community Meeting Room, Phoenix Library

Basic tips and practices to protect your identity online

Storytime Room, Medford Library

Come and join the Medford Children's Department's fiber arts club for kids! Staff will help kids learn how to knit or crochet, and each participant will work on creative projects throughout the year, keep their creations, and learn these useful (and very fun) skills.

Board Room, Medford Library

On July 1, the JCLS Libby collection moved from Library2Go (Oregon Digital Library Consortium) to a standalone Jackson County Library Services platform. Have you experienced any challenges, or have questions to ask? Come to a drop-in session at the Medford library July 11 between 11 AM and 3 PM to get assistance from the JCLS Tech Ed team. We'll be in the second floor classroom ready to help!

Community Meeting Room, Gold Hill Library

Celebrate Shark Week by joining us to watch a cartoon about Norvin, a boy who closely resembles a shark. Norvin uses his talents to scare away all the swimmers at Carmel Cove-except for one female shark in love. Help! Stay and make a shark fin hat.

Meeting Room, Eagle Point Library

Join your local Librarian Fairies in some tinkering! Make your own fairy wings, color our pixie leaf, and take home some pixie dust!

Storytime Room, Medford Library

Welcome, young adventurers, to the forest of Revenwood and the village of Reve! Something is afoot beneath the trees, and we are now recruiting five adventurers to help uncover the secrets of the woods. Join our mini Dungeons and Dragons adventure in the Medford Library Children's department! This event requires registration. Our first session will be constructing the 5th level D&D characters each player will use for the remaining 5 sessions. This is a campaign with a connected plot, but if people are unable to make every session, waitlisted players will be called in to play premade characters in the adventure. There will be opportunities for storytelling, roleplay, and practicing problem solving skills and teamwork.

Ashland Library

Join the Ashland Children's Department for free play with Lego bricks. The only limit is your imagination!

Butte Falls Library

Join us at the Butte Falls Library as we embark on artistic adventures! Youth and adults are invited to come and participate in creative projects, work with paints, clay, beads, etc. This activity will continue every other Saturday.

Community Meeting Room, Jacksonville Library

It's never too early to plant the love of reading seed! Join the Children's Museum of Southern Oregon's Book Nook Crew for a special storytime - full of books, songs, play and fun!

Meeting Room, White City Library

Practice your Spanish conversation skills in a casual setting. This program is perfect for people with at least an intermediate understanding of Spanish. Light refreshments provided. RSVP's at the branch are appreciated but not required to attend. This event is hosted in Spanish.

Jacksonville Library

New in March: Paws to Read EVERY Saturday! Paws to Read at the Library provides a non-intimidating environment for budding readers to explore reading out loud to trained and registered therapy dogs. The dogs welcome a scratch on the head and the turn of the page from young readers.

Community Meeting Room, Prospect Library

Join us on the second Saturday each month to journey around the world through a snack crate shipped to the library. Each month we will visit a new country. While listening to music from that country we will share 10-12 snacks popular there, learn trivia and recipes, and play games. There will also be JCLS books, movies, CDs from the collection for checkout to continue your exploration.

Community Meeting Room, Gold Hill Library

Celebrate Shark Week by creating a shark work of art you can enjoy for years to come! Relax with a glass of sparkling cider, listen to relaxing music, and paint your way to fame along with a local artist.