Week Calendar

Join us for this fun family lapsit program featuring the Molly Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books.

For children ages 5 months to 3 years.

No switching, please attend the class you signed up for.

Join teachers from the Adult Learning Center for this English as a Second Language series. 

This beginner/intermediate class meets every Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9-12pm. 

Dance your way to fitness with instructor Barbara Prince in this high energy exercise class. 

Registration required.

Join teachers from the Adult Learning Center for this English as a Second Language series. 

This beginner/intermediate class meets every Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9-12pm. 

This popular Chair Yoga class focuses on a full-body practice and will help strengthen your nervous system and reduce stress and stiffness. Kathleen Regan has been teaching yoga since 1993, and she has been practicing for even longe

Your baby has A LOT to say! Toddlers too!

With just a few easy-to-learn American Sign Language signs, start communicating with your preverbal baby or toddler today!

The AARP Smart Driver Defensive Driving course teaches proven driving techniques to help keep you and your loved ones safe on the road. Attending this class could make you eligible for a multi-year discount on your auto insurance:

This Hatha yoga class is designed to strengthen and lengthen your muscles and free your mind. Instructor Stephanie Durso will guide you into each pose and provide alignment cues for holding the pose and breathing deeply.

Build strength and flexibility along with a calmer mind in this accessible yoga for every body with Miriam Abrahams. Using a combination of seated and standing positions, you’ll learn balance, breathing, and focus.

Join us for this fun family lapsit program featuring the Molly Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books.

Your 2 to 5 year old will have lots of fun in this music & movement program using puppets, instruments, finger play and dancing to encourage socialization and healthy expelling of energy.

Stories, games, and other activities help kids develop their fine and gross motor skills. They also learn social skills and preschool readiness skills including sharing, listening, focusing, and participating.

Your baby has A LOT to say! Toddlers too!

With just a few easy-to-learn American Sign Language signs, start communicating with your preverbal baby or toddler today!

Join us for this fun family lapsit program featuring the Molly Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books.

If you're a writer and want to join other local writers serious about the craft, then come join our Writers' Circle on Monday from 11am to 1pm! 

Lori is live in the Auditorium!

Come hang out while squishing, smooshing, rolling and flattening homemade play dough! When a child uses play dough, they build strength in their hands and increase fine motor skills.

Do you play Canasta and want to meet other community members who play? Join us on Wednesdays at 11:00am in the Library Auditorium! Practice your skills and have fun while you do it.

Do you play Mah Jongg and want to meet other community members who play? Join us on Wednesdays at 11:00am in the Library Auditorium! Practice your skills and have fun while you do it.

Back by popular demand!

This meditative movement class with Marissa Moser promotes profound somatic healing. If you've ever tried to sit still to meditate and struggled to stop the thoughts in your head, this is for you!

Looking for a job and need some help with your resume? Book a 30-minute appointment with Lenora, a LBPL reference librarian with training on job search help and resume assistance.

Looking for a job and need some help with your resume? Book a 30-minute appointment with Lenora, a LBPL reference librarian with training on job search help and resume assistance.

Our new monthly film series led by resident film expert, Jake Cohen, will feature a variety of international film styles, themes, and directors. Discussion will follow each film.

Do you love baseball & basketball?

The Great Books Discussion Group is an in-person program taking place on the 2nd floor of Long Beach Public Library. Below is the list of upcoming meeting dates as well as the titles up for discussion.

Directed by Jennifer Esposito, the daughters of the Larusso family struggle to break the unspoken code of the women behind the men in the 1990s mob world of Staten Island.  

Drama, 2023, NR, 2hr

The Long Beach Friends of the Library is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to fundraising which enhances programs and services at the Long Beach Public Library.

Do you have questions about your computer or laptop? Want to learn more about Zoom, streaming movies, or downloading ebooks to your device?

Put your sculpting skills to the test and try to recreate cute figures using air dry clay! See if you got what it takes to make a picture perfect masterpiece. 

Please be advised this program is for teens ages 12-18. 

Spread the gift of kindness with the community by making kindness rocks! Write and paint kind words, affirmations, and gratitudes on some rocks, then help create a place to display our rocks in the teen space!

Self Care is not Selfish! Your Mental Health is important! Join us to create a Coping Skills Wheel. This wheel is a tool that you can use to help remind you how to cope with stress, anxiety and worry in a fun and easy way. 

Meet other kid Pokémon card collectors and trade cards.

Trading rules

• The Library is not responsible for trades made during this program

• Leave cards you don’t want to trade at home

Come play board games at West and enjoy a slice of pizza on us!

We have several games including Monopoly, Scrabble, Pictionary, Backgammon, and Connect 4.

Increase strength, flexibility, and balance through an engaging Pilates class taught by Pat Cappeto.

Teen gamers of Long Beach, come on down!

Test your skills amongst friends, enjoy snacks, and hang out. 

This program is for ages 12+.

Discover the beauty of oil painting with instructor Rosa Maria Goeller.

Calling all poets, spoken word artists, lyricists, and songwriters!  Welcome to Long Beach Library's Unplugged Open Mic Night, hosted by Nassau County Poet Laureate Emeritus 2022-2024, Paula Curci, and

Get ready for bedtime with themed stories and a take home an activity to do before bed.   

Love chess? Want to learn how to play?  Come join our Chess Club for children in the 2nd grade and above.  Play against each other and instructor Chess Master Joel Salman.

Decorate your space with adorable candy corn wall art made with buttons.  

A very special evening with Chris Whitaker! Join us as Chris discusses his blockbuster novel, All the Colors of the Dark, followed by a book signing. The LBPL Friends will be selling Chris's books!