Day Calendar

The La Jolla-Riford Library is proud to offer a two-week intensive seminar for parliamentary debate, designed for complete beginners.

Robert Warren leads this popular qi gong class, a mind-body-spirit practice that improves one's mental and physical health by integrating posture, movement, and breathing technique.

Ages 0-5

Show off your moves while making new friends at our dance party!  Dress up encouraged.  

Join us for a special fire truck and ambulance themed story time!  Get a look at the emergency vehicles that keep us safe, learn what you can do to stay safe, and listen to some fun stories.  This story time is in partnership with CERT m

Join us for "Sign-a-Story Circle Time" with Baby Sign Language Basics author, Monta Z. Briant. Parents learn how to use ASL signs for early communication with their babies through stories, songs, and other fun activities. 

Join us Thursday mornings at 10am for stories, songs, finger games and more! 

Come one, come all for the amazing and interactive magical feats of Zany Zoe!  You won’t want to miss this high energy and entertaining magic show!

Join us for a storytime that fosters early literacy!  Features books, songs, action rhymes, and finger plays that invite participation.  Ages 1-5.  Every Thursday. 

Open to the public and are free of charge. Play variety board games. Attendees should be fully vaccinated and have masks

Love to read and talk about books? Join the new Morning Book Club!

Summer Program:

“The Princess and the Pea”

Lively, interactive, hands-on Audience Participation! Come wear costumes and play different characters in the story.

The Tierrasanta Library Monthly Book Club is held every 2nd Thursday of the month from 10:00 am-11:15 pm. This month's selection is The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Are you looking to learn some computer skills?  These sessions—with instruction, hands-on opportunities, and plenty of time for questions and answers—are just for you!  

I'll show kids how to draw basic shapes.  Then we'll add other elements to those shapes to create popular objects like people, bunnies, cars, fish, caterpillars, houses, etc..  Throughout the lessen I'll have them color parts of those ob

Come & see Sparkles the Clown with a comedy magic show and giant bubbles outside on the grass!

Kensington-Normal Heights Librarians will share stories, songs, and bubbles with children ages 3-5. Older and younger siblings welcome! Bring a blanket to sit on the grass. 

Join Ms. Katia for an engaging preschool storytime that promotes a love of reading and quality together time. Featuring stories, songs, and fun! 

I'll show kids how to draw basic shapes.  Then we'll add other elements to those shapes to create popular objects like people, bunnies, cars, fish, caterpillars, houses, etc..  Throughout the lessen I'll have them color parts of those ob

Join Ms Canndy as she presents Stories and Songs in Mandarin, followed by play and social time.

Recommended for ages 2-5, this storytime program includes books, songs, games, and early literacy fun! A to-go craft will be provided at the end.

Michael Rayner's show is a combination of hilarious tricks and uproarious stand-up comedy. Watch as he balances a wheelbarrow on his chin, spins a cheeseburger on a parasol umbrella, and juggles unlikely items.

Preschool storytime for babies, toddlers, and all preschoolers!

In this Japanese tradition, a professional storyteller reveals a series of illustrations contained in a storybox as the narrative unfolds.  Before TV & comic books existed in Japan, there was Kamishibai (kami = paper; shibai = theatre).&n

Please join Miss Lea and Miss Ellie for storytime, songs, and some fun!

This summer we will be hosting a special Engineering Storytime provided by the San Diego Aerospace Museum in their special Mobile Bus Classroom!  San Diego Air & Space Museum presents a series of flying-related story times to

Can’t make it to our in-person book club at the Carmel Mountain Ranch Library? Try this virtual alterative! A limited number of this month’s selection will be available at the Circulation Desk. This program is appropriate for adults 18 and up.

Free Summer Lunch at San Diego Public Library. Monday-Friday from 12-1 PM. Ages 0-18. Join us!

Learn all about READ/San Diego and enjoy a free lunch! Lunch only for ages 0-18.

San Diego Public Library has partnered with the San Diego Unified School District to help end summer hunger. Free summer lunch will be provided for youth aged 0-18.

In partnership with the San Diego Unified  School District, Lunch @ Your Library will provide free hot lunches to children ages 0-18.

Young children can awaken their senses at our sensory playground that uses sight, sound, and touch to allow participants to play, investigate, create and discover.

Learn to make one arrangement in each meeting. One-on-one criteques with students on their work will be conducted in each meeting.  Explore other Japanese cultures, including tea ceremony, kimono Japanese cuisine and confection.

Use the Silhouette Cameo to create a monogram design. Cut the design out on your choice of vinyl to stick on your school supplies.

AND

Choose from an assortment of designs to heat press on your canvas bookbag or backpack.

A Mah Jong Group for adults is meeting every Monday and Thursday from 1:00pm-3:30pm. Knowledge of American Mah Jong rules is required to play. Please bring your own Mah Jong tiles if possible.

Calling young entrepreneurs: If you have ever wanted to sell your own product or idea, here's your chance to develop strong marketing skills using the computer program Scratch.

Want to improve your computer skills or learn how to navigate the internet?  The Access 4 All Express offers FREE in-person classes for people of all skill levels. Don't have a device?

Interested in achieving better brain function while improving your memory, cognitive abilities, and strategic thinking? Then play chess!

Chess is played by over 600 million people and is the most popular game in the world.

Performer Craig Newton will play an amazing variety of instruments, from guitars to wind instruments plus a few surprises, to accompany delightful songs about following your dreams.  This program will have the audience tapping, clapping, and

Don't stop learning this summer!  Stop by any of our Homework Centers to hone your skills.  We've got games, learning activities, STEAM crafts, and more fun ways to learn.

A rhythmic time travel journey that will take the audience of all ages  from the beginning of humanity to our present .

Don't stop learning this summer!  Stop by any of our Homework Centers to hone your skills.  We've got games, learning activities, STEAM crafts, and more fun ways to learn.

Don't stop learning this summer!

Stop by our Homework Center to hone your skills.

Chess is played by over 600 million people and is the most popular game in the world. We welcome players with all levels of chess experience from beginners to advanced. Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Things may get a little inky as students work together to dissect a real squid. Students will develop scientific research skills as they learn about squids and other animals that make their homes in ocean ecosystems.

Don't stop learning this summer!

Stop by any of our Homework Center to hone your skills.

Don't stop learning this summer!  Stop by any of our Homework Centers to hone your skills.  We've got games, learning activities, STEAM crafts, and more fun ways to learn.

Don't stop learning this summer!

Stop by any of our Homework Center to hone your skills.

Have someone in your family who wants to learn how to play chess? Join us for our revamped Board Game Afternoon program now with Chess lessons!  Not interested Chess?

 Join us for an hour of creativity with Perler Beads! Create any shape, design, or character. 

Open to all ages. Children under 8 years old must
be accompanied with an adult.

Join us every Thursday from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm for Courtyard Chess. Downtown Chess meets at the courtyard/1st floor lobby of the San Diego Central Library @ Joan ^ Irwin Jacobs Common. All ages are welcome to join. 

The Teen Game Room is open! Come check out our Nintendo Switch and PS4. Teens regularly play Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Gang Beasts and more. 

Join Zovargo for an educational, interactive, animal program featuring their show-stopping animals! Learn about the amazing abilities these animals have and how you can help make a difference in the lives of their wild cousins!

Join us the 2nd and 4th Thursdays to play Switch games and board games!

All levels of players are welcome. There will be instruction for beginners and opportunities for kids to play against other kids at their own level. Geared to Grades 1-5.

Get messy, make mistakes, and prepare to make ART!

Join us every Thursday to get creative!

Zany Zoe will be here to astound and amaze with her high energy, family friendly magic show! 

Bring your picnic blankets and chairs to sit back and enjoy this fantastic magic show!

English and Spanish friendly!

Join us for the Pacific Beach Library's monthly book discussion!  On July 13th we will discuss Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.  

Join us for astonishing slight of hand, fun comedy for all ages. Be amazed by incredible levitation, ball manipulation, famous Chinese linking rings, multiplying sponge balls into children’s hands, and much, much more.

Joins us for a fun craft for children.  Registration recommended.

Do you love competitive board game classics like Jenga, Dominoes, Uno, Monopoly, or maybe relaxing by working on a jigsaw puzzle? Drop by the Legler Benbough Teen IDEA Lab with your friends on Wednesdays and Thursdays to play!