Week Calendar

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

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

The East Bank Regional Library, located at 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie, will host the Ninth Edition of Saturday Scrabble from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 25. 

The event consists of the following:

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.

This PowerPoint Class is aimed at helping adults acquire the technology skills they desire in a low-pressure setting. This class explores the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint 2016.

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

This class covers the fundamentals of Facebook.

Register for this class to receive a 30-minute one-on-one time with a trainer who can help you with your basic computer / Smart Phone skills practice or questions.

Open to all levels playing American mah-jong.

Register for this class to receive a 30-minute one-on-one time with a trainer who can help you with your basic computer / Smart Phone skills practice or questions.

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

Northstar Digital Learning is aimed at helping adults acquire the technology skills they desire in a low-pressure setting. This class takes what you learned in Part 1 and digs a little deeper.

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. We have chess sets and clocks available on a first-come basis.

Register for this class to receive a 30-minute one-on-one time with a trainer who can help you with your basic computer / Smart Phone skills practice or questions.

This event is for players, experienced and new, to join adventures across different continents, fighting different villains, saving town’s people and slaying some dragons!

* Hear from two visiting Greek artists about their work and their experiences in the Greater New Orleans area.

Cemetery preservationist Emily Ford will discuss “Tomb Ownership and Deeds” at 7 p.m., Monday, April 20, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

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