Upcoming Events

The Old Metairie Library’s SciFi and Fantasy Discussion Group has announced its programming for 2025. The group meets at 6:30 p.m., Wednesdays, at the Old Metairie Library, 2350 Metairie Road. 

Want a chance to connect with teens in your community? Come join us for our Teen Advisory Board during our Teen Time Thursdays! We ask your feedback on our teen services and you earn community service hours.

The Science Book Club meets monthly in the A/V Conference room at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

This month, the group will discuss "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" by Steve Brusatte.

This month’s book is The Spectacular by Fiona Davis. Tea/Coffee served at 2pm. Discussion at 2:30pm. Please bring your own mug!

Book : The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement

by David Graeber

Author Peter Wolf will discuss his latest book, The Etruscans and the Jews, New Orleans Echoes, Sardinian Shadows, Roman Shame, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Monday, May 12, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

Join us for an Any Book Club. Choose any book from the genre--this month it's Fantasy--and come ready to discuss it with the group.

Maybe Book Club – The members of the book club have moved the event to 1:30 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month. The following books will be read and discussed.

Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator.

This month's book is Cave of Bones by Anne Hillerman. 

Book: Wish You Were Here, by Jodi Picoult

This month's book will be Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus.

Want a chance to connect with teens in your community? Come join us for our Teen Advisory Board during our Teen Time Thursdays! We ask your feedback on our teen services and you earn community service hours.

Join Westwego Library's amateur sleuths over a cup of tea as we discuss new and classic whodunits!

We will meet on the last Tuesday of every month, from 2-4. Bring your own mug!

The Old Metairie Library’s SciFi and Fantasy Discussion Group has announced its programming for 2025. The group meets at 6:30 p.m., Wednesdays, at the Old Metairie Library, 2350 Metairie Road. 

This month’s book is Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson. Tea/Coffee served at 2pm. Discussion at 2:30pm. Please bring your own mug!

Book: The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

by David Graeber

The French Literature Discussion Group is a book club of Francophones who’ve had some basic schooling in the French language, and who’ve been to France. However, meetings are conducted in English. 

Join us for an Any Book Club. Choose any book from the genre--this month it's Children's Books--and come ready to discuss it with the group.

This month's book is The Ghost Orchid by Jonathan Kellerman. 

Book: The Women by Kristin Hannah

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West.