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.   

This is a class for adult English language learners at an advanced level.  Improve your English language skills for work and everyday life.  

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!

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.

Join other adults who knit, crochet, embroider, and sew, in an open forum for creating, conversing, sharing, and learning. To register and receive links/instructions, email pinsneedlearts@hclibrary.org. 

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. 

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

The Maryland Insurance Administration presents a virtual event on Why Renter's Insurance is Important. Unfortunately, most people do not think about renters insurance until they have reason to use it.

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

Please be sure to reference the attached document for song lyrics and HCLS resources!

Ages 2-5 and family. 30 minutes. Registration required.

ABC Mystery

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

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

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

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 Elephants.

Ages 5-10 and family. 30 minutes. Registration required.

Animal Tracks & Scat

Let's learn about animal droppings.

Join us for a 30-minute lesson from the kitchen for healthy ideas on what to do with peanut butter with Howard County's SNAP Ed's educator, Razan Sahuri. 

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, 60 min.

Recommend books music and movies; develop and plan events for teens; and work with HCLS instructors on projects you create.

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!

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.

Ages 14 and up. 9 min.

Neha, a member of the Teen Advisory Board, shares the first of a 3-video series covering everything stoichiometry. Start with basics and build up to challenging problems. Have fun learning! 

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

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

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

Get help with math in our HiTech Math Lab! Come with questions from your virtual classes - anything from 6th grade math through Calculus is welcome! There are three live HiTech Math Instructors to help. No questions from school?

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

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!!!

Get hands-on experience in the ancient art of paper folding from a HiTech instructor! 

This class takes place outdoors. Please dress for the weather. 

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. 

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!

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

Meet every second and fourth Thursday of the month. 

Explore aspect of digital design with our HiTech Instructors and an iPad Pro!

This class takes place outdoors. Please dress for the weather. 

Do you love to build with LEGO - or other blocks and building materials? Meet up virtually with other builders to spend some time exploring what you can create and sharing your ideas together.

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!

Ages 11-18, 5 min.

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

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 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

Read and discuss a wide array of fiction and nonfiction titles.

2nd Tuesdays, 7-8pm

Join for an online discussion of the following title:

June 8: The NIckel Boys by Colson Whitehead

This 3-part webinar will cover the early educational pursuits of African Americans 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 class is designed for English language learners who are interested in taking the U.S.

Read and discuss a wide array of mystery novels.

2nd Wednesdays; 7-8pm.

Join for an online discussion of the following titles:

June 9 - The Trespasses by Tana French

Are you considering homeownership but you have questions about how to prepare for the homebuying process? Are you interested in learning about down payment and closing cost assistance programs that may be available to you?

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.

Hannibal B.

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.