Week Calendar

Join Miss Chris, Children's Instructor, East Columbia Branch of the  Howard County Library System,  for bounces, rhymes, tickles and songs while interacting with your baby.

Join Chris Mancini, Children's Instructor, Howard County Library System, East Columbia Branch, for Preschool Circle Time!

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Practice conversational skills and discuss topics ranging from small talk and common interests to life, work and current events.   

For adult English language learners at an advanced level.  Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  

This class is designed for English language learners who are interested in working as a Vision Technician in an ophthalmologist’s office.  The participants will learn about the work setting, responsibilities, potentia

This is a class for English language learners.

Join Chris Mancini, Children's Instructor, Howard County Library System, East Columbia Branch, for Preschool Circle Time!

This class is designed for English language learners. 

This class is designed for English language learners who are interested in working as a Certified Nursing Assistant in a healthcare facility.  The participants will learn about the work setting, responsibilities, potential earning,

This is a class for adult English language learners.  It is a career centered class where students explore topics related to working in the US.

This class is designed for adult English language learners. Practice speaking skills in a supportive environment. Students read one short story each week and discuss it in class.

Join us for our Book To Screen Series ( Movies adapted from books)

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Parents of children aged ten and younger may bring their children to class as they gain a better understanding of informal spoken English and increase their knowledge of Eng

If you miss this class, past classes are posted on the Howard County Library System YouTube channel Playlists [use link:  

STEAM Train Stories: The Three Little Pigs

Families, Ages 3-5. 20 min. 

Ages 5-10. Registration required. 20 - 30 minutes.

STEAM Saturday

Receive fun and interactive activities that challenge thinking and help you stay mentally active through email. Please register with an email address to receive an immediate registration confirmation. You will receive an email every Frid

Join us for a live, interactive virtual presentation with The Maryland Zoo!  During this 30-minute presentation, teens and adults will learn about one of the Zoo's Signature Animal Programs (SAPs) - African Penguins.

Ages 11-18, 60 min.

Curious about podcasting? Join us each month to learn the basics and work on upcoming episodes of HoCoCast, the library's teen produced podcast. No experience necessary.

Let your imagination fly and start writing now. Every week we will share a writing prompt to inspire you. It can be just a few words, a paragraph, or it can be a story-it's up to you!

How do films shape and connect us? Join our film discussion series. Please watch weekly films prior to their actual discussion dates

Ages 7-10   30-45 minutes.  Registration required.

Celebrate Women's History Month with a discussion and activities about true heroines both past and present.  

Have you, your child, or the whole family always wanted to learn Spanish? Well NOW is the perfect time!!!

Drop in for online assistance with job applications. Sessions begin with helpful job search tips, library resources and recommended internet sites.

For Teens. Play HCLS trivia through Kahoot! Categories and questions designed for ages 13-17. The game starts at 4:30 pm. You will receive the Kahoot! link in an email by 4 pm. Every second Wednesday will be a LIVE! Kahoot on Zoom. 

Improve your ability to communicate and interact in German in a fun and casual setting.

Meet every second and fourth Thursday of the month. 

Drawing on more than 25 years' experience as a professional career and resume consultant (SolidGoldResumes.com), former college teacher and Harvard graduate Dan Berman, PhD, shares with participants the inside tips and techniques for quickly devel

Calling all LEGO™ blocks fans! Each week watch a brief video to receive new challenges, then create and engineer  designs with LEGO™ blocks. Register with an email address to receive a link to join the online class.

The March Hare and Mad Hatter forced you to their eternal tea party! You have one hour to solve puzzles and riddles to escape, or be trapped in their time loop of tea forever!

This is a virtual orientation for adult English language learners who want to improve their English language skills through Howard County Library System's virtual English classes.  Participants will receive information on eligibility, pl

Read and discuss a wide array of graphic novels. 3rd Tuesdays 7 - 8 pm.

Mar 22 Dracula, Motherf****r!    by Alex de Campi, Erica Henderson  (rescheduled from March 16)

Prerequisite: Korean for Beginners. Registration required. Ages 18+.

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in low beginning level.  The class meets twice a wee

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in high beginning level.  This class meets twice a w

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in low intermediate levels.  This class meets twice a wee

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Improve your spoken English with this class. The class will focus on listening and speaking skills with an emphasis on everyday pronunciation, intonation and stress, as well as u

“So you’re the little lady who started this great war!” said President Abraham Lincoln in the fall of 1862 when he finally met Harriet Beecher Stowe.

This is a class for adult English language learners. Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in high intermediate level.  This class meets twice a week on Tue.

This is a class for adult English language learners. Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It is suitable for language learners in low advanced level.  This class meets twice a week on Tue.

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in high advanced level.  This class meets twice a week on

This class is for people who applied for their citizenship before 12/1/20.  It will give students a strong foundation in all questions that could be asked on the American Government portion of the civics exam. It

Participants of this workshop are introduced to the importance of credit and what impacts it has, a brief synopsis about each credit score range and how they are viewed by lenders.

Welcome sci-fi enthusiasts and other intrepid readers!

Discuss a wide-array of SciFi movies (2nd Wednesdays) and books (4th Wednesdays)

Mar 24th: "Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir

Love to read romance novels? Do you need an escape from reality? Join the new Romantic Reads Book Discussion!

Join us for a virtual literary happy hour. 4th Wednesdays; 7 - 8 pm.

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in low beginning level.  The class meets twice a wee

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in high beginning level.  This class meets twice a w

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in low intermediate levels.  This class meets twice a wee

This class is designed for English language learners. 

Play trivia through Kahoot! Categories and questions designed for ages 18+. Please email HCLS.trivia@hclibrary.org for the trivia details or if you have questions. 

This is a class for adult English language learners. Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in high intermediate level.  This class meets twice a week on Tue.

This is a class for adult English language learners. Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It is suitable for language learners in low advanced level.  This class meets twice a week on Tue.

This is a class for adult English language learners.  Improve your English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  It is suitable for language learners in high advanced level.  This class meets twice a week on

This class focuses on the new citizenship exam for people who apply for their citizenship after 12/1/20.  It will give students a strong foundation in all questions that could be asked on the American Government portion of the new civics&nbsp