Week Calendar

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

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

This beginner/intermediate class meets every Wednesday and Thursday morning. 

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

This beginner/intermediate class meets every Wednesday and Thursday morning. 

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

Start communicating with your preverbal baby or toddler by learning some American Sign Language. Your baby has A LOT to say!

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 the Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books.

Help your community and save lives by donating blood with our event partner New York Blood Center.  Type O+ and O- donors are particularly encouraged.  

To qualify as a blood donor, you must be:

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.

Come join for a highly social and interactive baby music class that introduces rhythm, tone, melody, and movement. Kids and parents will sing, dance, explore instruments, and learn from one another as they fall in love with music.

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

Lori is live in the Auditorium!

This program is aimed at low to moderate income taxpayers with simple tax returns that can be prepared in less than one hour.  Taxpayers with complicated tax returns (more than 12 documents) will be advised to seek professional tax preparatio

Messy art with your baby is a fun sensory experience that results in cool art that you make with your baby!

This month we will be making hand and foot print canvases in celebration of Love for Valentine's Day! 

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.

Rosa Maria Goeller leads this series of four oil painting classes exploring the beauty of flowers as seen through the eyes of Vincent Van Gogh. Materials are provided by the instructor.

Decorate a wooden heart with doilies, buttons, and bows to create a sweet decoration for Valentine's Day.  Please register for only ONE session. 

Join LBHS students for a fun-filled book buddies session! Children will be paired up with a teen volunteer to read books together. Practice reading skills with an older student and enjoy a good story.

The crochet workshop is part of a 3-session series. Please register for the first session on February 15th to attend all three sessions.

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.

Let your voice be heard! Join published author and creative writing instructor Marc DeSantis for this interactive workshop style writing program designed to help writers explore style and voice. Please register.

At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

Do you love baseball & basketball?

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Join LBHS student, Katherine B., and LBHS' BestPal's program for an all-abilities winter craft!

Create an adorable Valentines craft celebrating friendship!

Do you love true crime?

Join Tanya and Eddie to discuss a specific case each month. We will focus on a different true crime case with theories, suspects and coverage being discussed.

Grab Someone Special and join us for our 2nd Annual Someone Special Dance! 

Join us for a fun Day Dance under our disco ball!

Bring you friends for an afternoon of tabletop gaming at the library!  Everything from D&D to MTG is welcome at this open play club.  Bring your own cards and board games or borrow one from our collection.

Join us at the West End Branch of the Long Beach Library for this beginner-friendly Chair Yoga class. With gentle instruction by Librarian Nicole, together we will build strength, flexibility and mental well-being.

Decorate a wooden heart with doilies, buttons, and bows to create a sweet decoration for Valentine's Day.  Please register for only ONE session.

Back by popular demand - LBPL Jr. Gamers!

This month, we'll be playing Mario Kart! Face off with friends, both old and new.

Join us for a fun craft for little hands! Using the provided supplies, we will be crafting handmade greeting cards for Valentine's Day! 

Intended for children ages 2-5 years. 

Decorate a wooden heart with doilies, buttons, and bows to create a sweet decoration for Valentine's Day.  Please register for only ONE session.  

Join us for a fun story and craft as we learn about and celebrate the achievements of Garrett Morgan, the man who invented the three-way traffic light!

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

Join us to create a Heart Wreath!

Snacks and supplies provided!

Come play board games or cards at West!

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.

Use decoupage and embellishments to create an adorable winter themed door hanger.  

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

Our monthly series highlighting LGBTQ+ films. This month's Valentine's Day inspired film is, I Love You Phillip Morris.

Come join us for refreshments and see the artwork of Mitchell Rodbell, displayed in the Local Artist Gallery.

Join us for a Valentines  speed-dating style friendship mixer!  Mingle with other locals looking to make new friends in the area.  Light refreshments provided.

Adults only.

Fall in love with these swoon-worthy romance books! This month, join us for a talk about Ali Hazelwood's Bride, at our West End Branch.

You’re invited to a riveting conversation with bestselling author Waubgeshig Rice to chat about his newest book Moon of the Turning Leaves, the hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow.

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This February at Bright Eye Beer Co.  join fellow community members for a drink and a chat about attorney Bryan Stevenson's memoir, Just Mercy. Copies can be picked