Join us around the campfire Tuesday night, July 7th at 7:00 p.m. at the Traverwood Branch.
Our family camp-in includes a camp fire, songs, stories, games, and sand painting.
No camping experience is complete without those ooey gooey s'mores. We'll have those, too.

Let's hunt some dinosaurs! PaleoJoe, the author the Dinosaur Detective Club books, will come to Ann Arbor next week to talk about real dinosaur hunts. He'll describe how dinosaurs lived and died and how fossils tell us everything we know about the great beasts. He will be at the Pittsfield Branch on Thursday, July 9th at 1:00 p.m. and at the Downtown Library at 7:00 p.m. the same day.

Dinosaur Detective Club books will be on sale at the events.

On July 8 at 6:45pm, this 1.5 mile walking tour of sustainable techniques in Ann Arbor, led by the Ann Arbor Chapter of Wild Ones will include a look at the sustainable elements of Malletts Creek Branch, The Buhr Park Children’s Wet Meadow, and Mary Beth Doyle Park, among others. This event is held in conjunction with the Library’s summer reading program, Local Motion - which encourages the use of local neighborhoods, organizations gyms, recreational facilities and outdoor areas to move and get fit.

Make a solar s'more oven using a cardboard pizza box, some aluminum foil, and a few other basic materials. If the weather permits, we will go outside, test the oven, then eat some delicious s'mores (no campfire required)! This is science at its most delicious.

Thursday July 2, 2009 | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Pittsfield Branch | Grade 4 thru Adult

Stop by the Ann Arbor District Library’s tent from 2-8 pm on Friday, July 10th on Liberty St. between Fourth and Fifth Ave. to make a Rolling Sculpture out of goodies from the Scrap Box and meet Hillary Will, the fastest woman top fuel dragster driver in the world, who will also be speaking at the Downtown Library earlier in the week. The library is joining Main Street Area's Rolling Sculpture Car Show for the first time this year just for the pure fun of it! Use all your creativity to design a wild vehicle and you just might win a prize!

On Tuesday, June 30 at 7pm, at the Downtown Library Dr. Ben Song will give basic information and highlight common misconceptions about food allergies. Look for him in the food allergy documentary “I’m Not Nuts: Living With Food Allergies” which aired on PBS this May.