Upcoming Events

Looking for a fun, chill spot to hang out? Join us at the library for our Teen Café! Watch your favorite anime, play video and board games, get creative with crafts, and vibe with friends or meet new ones.

Join us for evening storytime, followed by a craft! Targeted for ages 3-7. 

Not long after the first commercial steamboat found its way from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in 1812, the popularity of steamboat travel up and down the Mississippi soon became an easy and affordable means of travel.

The group meets at 1 p.m. to discuss "Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?)" by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. 

The New Aurora Saxophone Ensemble performs a variety of music with six musicians - all saxophonists.

The Jefferson Parish Library, in conjunction with YMCA New Orleans, offers an intermediate English as a Second Language class.

"Doctor Who" is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

The Read and Sing Story Time includes stories, songs, and finger plays for infants and toddlers.

Join JPL's Makerspace team for an experiment with solar power! For ages 6 & up. Registration required. 

Open to all levels playing American mah-jong.

Come sip on coffee, tea, or cocoa and make a painting with sheet music as your canvas!

Open to teens ages 12-18 and in grades 7th-12th. For more details, contact the East Bank Regional Teen Department at (504) 849-8833. 

In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published his novel in serial form in 1905

The Jefferson Parish Library, in conjunction with YMCA New Orleans, offers an intermediate English as a Second Language class.

Join us for books, songs, and play! Our program starts with stories and songs before our weekly activity. Followed by playtime! 

Learn how to use DNA testing to unlock one's family heritage.