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Events
Monday, July 15
10:00am - 10:45am
Story program for children ages 3-5 and their caregiver.
Lively time of sharing books, songs, puppets, early literacy, and a pre-school craft.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Monday, July 15
11:15am - 12:00pm
Story program for children ages 3-5 and their caregiver.
Lively time of sharing books, songs, puppets, early literacy, and a pre-school craft.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Monday, July 15
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Come in and learn how to make simple meals in a mug! Ages 11 - 18
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Monday, July 15
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: New Hampshire Room, Event Location: Online
Tuesday, July 16
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Adventure Begins at Your Library!
We are going to go on a Safari!!! We will make two crafts and then go outside (weather permitting) for a wild animal safari/scavenger hunt! If raining, we will do it inside!!
All ages with caregiver!... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Tuesday, July 16
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Do you enjoy knitting and/or crocheting?
Meeting other fiber friends?
Bring a project to work on and make some new friends.
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Tuesday, July 16
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Introduction to US Naturalization with Sara Cochran
Millions came, stayed, and were naturalized. The benefits of becoming a U.S. citizen were significant and included the right to vote and claim land under the Homestead Act. In... Read More
Event Location: Online
Tuesday, July 16
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Friends of the Derry Libraries Special Summer Concert Book Sale!
6-7:30PM
Event Location: Book Sale Room
Wednesday, July 17
10:00am - 10:30am
All infants and their caregivers are welcome at this lapsit storytime for babies (birth through 12 months).
Learn fingerplays, songs, and nursery rhymes to share with your baby as she/he sits in your lap. Connect with other parents and caregivers... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Wednesday, July 17
2:30pm - 3:30pm
We are reusing materials to make individual wall hanging for you to take home and decorate or gift. Ages 11 - 18
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Wednesday, July 17
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Please join us for an online discussion of Independent, Foreign, and Classic films. We will watch the film at home and gather to discuss it!
See the upcoming films here... Read More
Event Location: Online
Thursday, July 18
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Adventure Begins at Your Library!
Get ready for even more animal adventures! Ms. Tami will lead us in two awesome animal craft activities!
Ages 5-11. Registration required and will open on June 27th.
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Friday, July 19
11:00am - 11:45am
Join us at The Derry Public Library lower-level meeting room with your children ages 0-6 to connect with other families, make a child-friendly craft, enjoy snacks, stories, and useful parenting tips and resources followed by an interactive playtime... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Friday, July 19
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Please join us for an in-person book discussion. We read a variety of books and love to talk about them!
See our upcoming reads here!
Please contact Jessica (... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room B
Saturday, July 20
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Do you love to read? Do you just want to talk about your latest read and hear what others are interested in? Bring your own book, whether its a great book or a dud and share your thoughts. We'll provide the PIZZA you bring your current reads, who... Read More
Event Location: Patio, Event Location: Meeting Room A
Monday, July 22
10:00am - 10:45am
Story program for children ages 3-5 and their caregiver.
Lively time of sharing books, songs, puppets, early literacy, and a pre-school craft.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Monday, July 22
11:15am - 12:00pm
Story program for children ages 3-5 and their caregiver.
Lively time of sharing books, songs, puppets, early literacy, and a pre-school craft.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Monday, July 22
2:00pm - 3:00pm
The kickoff to a cozy mystery book club.
Cozy mysteries, also referred to as "cosy mysteries" or "cozies", are a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Tuesday, July 23
10:00am - 10:45am
Join Ms. Eileen for this lively music and dance program for children ages 3-5 years old and their caregiver.
Celebrate early childhood with songs, stories, games, and movement.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Tuesday, July 23
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Adventure Begins at Your Library!
Come join us for an adventure….with dragons! We will making jeweled dragon eggs and magic wands. Plus we will be reading a story about……you guessed it, dragons!
Registration required! Registration opens... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Tuesday, July 23
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a virtual meeting where we discuss books about science. Do you read Ed Yong and Mary Roach, Brian Greene and Sam Kean? Are you looking for a group where you can talk about science? Then this is the group for you! Join us for an... Read More
Event Location: Online
Wednesday, July 24
10:00am - 10:30am
All infants and their caregivers are welcome at this lapsit storytime for babies (birth through 12 months).
Learn fingerplays, songs, and nursery rhymes to share with your baby as she/he sits in your lap. Connect with other parents and caregivers... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Wednesday, July 24
11:00am - 11:45am
Kids Kitchen Adventures Class Session 1--Registration required--ages 5-12. ... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Wednesday, July 24
1:00pm - 1:45pm
Kids Kitchen Adventures Class Session 2--Registration required--ages 5-12. ... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Wednesday, July 24
1:00pm - 2:30pm
You are encouraged and invited to participate in our class homework assignment. Please use the following quote as a prompt:
Be brave enough to be bad at something new
Please remember that we are learning to embrace... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room B
Wednesday, July 24
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Let's get together and game on the library's Nintendo Switch on the TV monitor. Snacks included. Ages 9- 15
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Wednesday, July 24
6:30pm - 7:45pm
Drop by for a talk on the fascinating mini-monsters living right in your own backyard! We share our yards with thousands of insect species. These range from tiny wasps that lay their eggs in living caterpillars, a form of parasitism so ghastly... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Wednesday, July 24
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Please join us for a book discussion. We read a variety of books and love to talk about them!
See what we are reading here!
Registration is required if you want... Read More
Event Location: New Hampshire Room, Event Location: Online
Thursday, July 25
10:00am - 10:45am
Join Ms. Eileen for this exciting toddler storytime for children 12 to 36 months and their caregivers.
This storytime engages young children using music, finger plays, props, and movement.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Thursday, July 25
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Head up the road to the Taylor Library for our annual tradition of stories, songs, and s’mores by the campfire with Mr. Ray!
All ages with caregiver. Registration required and will open on July 4th.
Please note: This event will be held at the... Read More
Event Location: Children’s Room
Friday, July 26
10:00am - 10:45am
Join Mr. Ray for an all ages family storytime featuring fun stories and songs. Weather permitting, this storytime will be outside on the patio, otherwise we will meet in the Meeting Room.... Read More
Event Location: Patio, Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Saturday, July 27
2:00pm - 4:00pm
RESCHEDULED for Saturday, July 27th, at 2 PM
A plucky eleven-year-old named Margaret finds her life on the cusp of change as her family uproots from the heart of the city to a quiet suburban neighborhood. Margaret must then navigate... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room B
Monday, July 29
10:00am - 10:45am
Story program for children ages 3-5 and their caregiver.
Lively time of sharing books, songs, puppets, early literacy, and a pre-school craft.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Monday, July 29
11:15am - 12:00pm
Story program for children ages 3-5 and their caregiver.
Lively time of sharing books, songs, puppets, early literacy, and a pre-school craft.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Monday, July 29
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Come in and learn how to make simple meals in a mug! Ages 11 - 18
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Tuesday, July 30
10:00am - 10:45am
Join Ms. Eileen for this lively music and dance program for children ages 3-5 years old and their caregiver.
Celebrate early childhood with songs, stories, games, and movement.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Tuesday, July 30
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Adventure Begins at Your Library!
We're going to have a Glow Party!!! Enjoy making a glow craft, glow games and glow party dancing!!! Wear your white or neon colors!!
Suggested ages 5 and up with caregiver!
Registration... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Tuesday, July 30
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Let’s eat! Do you have a cherished family or community cookbook that has been handed down from generation to generation? Are you the keeper of Great Grandma’s recipe cards? Are you interested in recipes as a historical artifact or genealogical... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Tuesday, July 30
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Do you enjoy knitting and/or crocheting?
Meeting other fiber friends?
Bring a project to work on and make some new friends.
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Tuesday, July 30
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Friends of the Derry Libraries Special Summer Concert Book Sale!
6-8PM
Event Location: Book Sale Room
Tuesday, July 30
6:00pm - 7:30pm
More information to come.
Event Location: Meeting Room B
Wednesday, July 31
10:00am - 10:30am
All infants and their caregivers are welcome at this lapsit storytime for babies (birth through 12 months).
Learn fingerplays, songs, and nursery rhymes to share with your baby as she/he sits in your lap. Connect with other parents and caregivers... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Wednesday, July 31
2:30pm - 3:30pm
It's an amateur escape room brought to you by your librarians, There will be mysterious escapades and blue food of course. Ages 11 - 18
Event Location: Meeting Room A
Wednesday, July 31
6:30pm - 7:45pm
Local Historian Mike Morin comes to Derry to talk about NH's most famous diner, The Red Arrow Diner!
Mike Morin, NH radio personality and author, visits The Derry Public Library to present his book on local history, If These Walls Could Talk:... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Thursday, August 01
10:00am - 10:45am
Join Ms. Eileen for this exciting toddler storytime for children 12 to 36 months and their caregivers.
This storytime engages young children using music, finger plays, props, and movement.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Thursday, August 01
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Due to an author visit (Matt Forrest Esenwine!!!) brought to us by the Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF) of Vermont and New Hampshire, this event has been moved to Tuesday, August 13th. We hope to see you at both events!
Event Location: Children’s Room
Thursday, August 01
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Come on in for an awesome visit by author Matt Forrest Esenwine! He will read his newest picture book "The Thing to Remember About Stargazing", answer all our questions about being an author, and have a fun activity! This event is brought to us by... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Friday, August 02
10:00am - 10:45am
Join Mr. Ray for an all ages family storytime featuring fun stories and songs. Weather permitting, this storytime will be outside on the patio, otherwise we will meet in the Meeting Room.... Read More
Event Location: Patio, Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Monday, August 05
10:00am - 10:45am
Story program for children ages 3-5 and their caregiver.
Lively time of sharing books, songs, puppets, early literacy, and a pre-school craft.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B
Monday, August 05
11:15am - 12:00pm
Story program for children ages 3-5 and their caregiver.
Lively time of sharing books, songs, puppets, early literacy, and a pre-school craft.... Read More
Event Location: Meeting Room A, Event Location: Meeting Room B