Upcoming Events

The New Neighbor Project will offer a series of in-person English as a Second Language classes. English as a second or foreign language is a language education program for people learning English.

Bring your projects, your questions, your disasters and your triumphs, and share the love of making clothing with like-minded people in this discussion and support group for people who love to create clothing. 

This event includes stories and activities for children newborn to 5 years old. 

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This month’s book is Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Tea/Coffee served at 2pm. Discussion at 2:30pm. Please bring your own mug!

Storytime

This event includes stories for children ages 3 to 9 years old. This event is held in the Children's area.

The Creative Craft Club is an expansion of the Paper Craft Club. Patrons of all ages are welcome to come and enjoy making a different craft each month using a variety of supplied materials.

For more information, please call 504-838-4375.

More than 3,000 named kinds of Camellias exist, in a remarkable range of colors, forms, and sizes.

The Pontchartrain Astronomy Society was founded in 1959 and currently has a roster of nearly 150 members from South Louisiana and South Mississippi.

The Read and Sing Story Time includes stories, songs, and finger plays for children ages one to three years old.

Join us for Bridge Club in the Old Metairie Meeting Room!  Beginners welcome!

This event includes stories and crafts for school aged children (ages 6 to 11 years old.) 

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Your local librarians are working on their fitness. Come join! We will be working out together using our collection of Zumba, Pilates, and Dance Cardio DVDs. All ages welcome!

Ancestry.com is perhaps the main genealogy database that currently exists.  This lecture will focus on searching the database, using the library version of Ancestry.com as well as what the Ancestry.com website offers to subscribers.

Come garden with your neighbors and librarians as we work on our very first Community Garden! Learn what to grow and how to tend a vegetable and flower garden during this informal work hour. Open to all ages and experience levels. 

Join us for Chess Club! We welcome amateurs, novices, and dabblers of chess, who would like to play in a semi-competitive and/or social environment. No registration is required. Instruction will be available on occasions.

The purpose of the group is to encourage local writers to create works of fiction - novels, novellas, short stories, flash fiction, etc. Writers submit manuscripts to be critiqued by other group members.

"Let the Good Times Roll" at the library! Paintedwitlove's Brittani Landry is a Jazz & Heritage Community Partnership Grant recipient, and she’s agreed to give art classes for kids for Jefferson Parish Library! Ages 9 to 12.

This event will consist of an hour of one on one VR e