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 English language learners.

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

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

Ages 5-11; 15 min.

This class is designed for English language learners. Improve your spoken English as we focus on listening and speaking skills with an emphasis on everyday pronunciation, intonation, and stress, as well as unique American rhythms.

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.

This is a class for English language learners.

This class is designed 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 know

Ages 0-5, 15- 20 minutes, ticket required. 

Find the answers to gardening questions by talking with a University of Maryland Extension Master Gardener in the Enchanted Garden.  In the event of inclement or severe weather, this session may be canceled.

Learn the basics of composting. Composting reduces pressure on our landfills and recycles organic waste material into helpful soil supplements for gardens, container plants, and lawns.

Play trivia through email! Categories and fun for everyone. Please email HCLS.trivia@hclibrary.org for the trivia details or if you have questions.

Ages 0-5, 15- 20 minutes, ticket required. 

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

You may be rad at solving radicals but it’s only rational to join us anyways!

Join us for the Black Fiction Book Club, meeting on the 1st Saturday of the month.

What makes a function a function? Come join us to review two-variable statistics, as well as linear and exponential functions. From two-way tables to scatter plots, we’ll learn more about how we can organize and interpret large sets of data.

Ages 11-18 & Adults; 90 min.

All crafters welcome. Work on your stitching, knitting or crocheting projects while chatting and sharing ideas! Find inspiration as you trade tips tricks and techniques with other crafting enthusiasts!

Linear, quadratic, polynomial, oh my! Review how to interpret the graphs of these functions and how to use them to solve all kinds of real-world problems.

Have you ever performed a bisection? Maybe you just imagined the owl pellets from elementary school (but that would be a dissection). If you would like to review how to construct bisectors then Geometry – Part B is the course for you!&nb

Trigonometry sure can be tricky and data sets from randomized experiments may seem like a mess!

Everyone on board - it’s your one-stop trip to higher level math! In this course, we’ll review one-variable statistics and linear equations, inequalities, and systems.

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

Quadratic functions are everywhere! In this course, we'll take a deep dive into the quadratic function to learn more about its various forms and graphical features, and how it can help us in real-life situations!

Calling all LEGO™ blocks fans!

Slide to the left... Slide to the right... Criss-cross!  If you think this course is about dancing, you’re close – it’s Geometry!

Think lines have all the fun? Well, so do circles!

We will discuss The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Arikawa Hiro.

Do you struggle to answer when a recruiter asks you for your salary requirements? Are you afraid you’ll ask for too much and not get the interview or too little and end up being under paid?

Travel without restriction via a wide variety of transporting reads, mapped by an adventuresome crew of HCLS Instructors!  Explore the Adult Summer Reading 2021 list, discover how to participate in summer reading, and learn about up

Veterans, both active and retired military, are invited to this online discussion series.

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 designed for English language learners who are interested in taking the U.S.

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 English language learners in high beginning level.  This class meets t

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. Practice your speaking skills in a supportive environment. Students read a short story each week and discuss it in class.

Learn about the Library’s new story collection on people’s experiences related to race and discrimination in Howard County.

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 is a class for English language learners.