Open Late! Trick or Treating @HPL

While you visit the neighborhoods, stop by HPL! Share your costume for candy, run in for a quick restroom break, vote for your favorites in our Pumpkin Decorating Contest, hunt for CRYPTIDS in our Creepy Cryptid Scavenger hunt, grab some apple cider, get a library card/......More

While you visit the neighborhoods, stop by HPL! Share your costume for candy, run in for a quick restroom break, vote for your favorites in our Pumpkin Decorating Contest, hunt for CRYPTIDS in our Creepy Cryptid Scavenger hunt, grab some apple cider, get a library card/books/movies/games and warm up or cool down (depending on the IN weather) and take a break!

Mahjong Club

Do you love to play American Mahjong and have an interest in finding others to play with? Is it a game that you've seen before and have an interest in learning how to play? Join us for Mahjong club! If you are interested in joining us that day please follow the registra......More

Do you love to play American Mahjong and have an interest in finding others to play with? Is it a game that you've seen before and have an interest in learning how to play? Join us for Mahjong club! If you are interested in joining us that day please follow the registration link: https://forms.gle/grdznEbCQxtdrFF46

STORYTIME: for friends 0 - 6 yrs

Join us for Storytime on the first Tuesday of the month! We'll read stories, sing songs and learn rhymes--working on our learning, sharing, dexterity and all of the things that help us get ready for bigger things.

HPL Children's Area

Jr. Dungeons & Dragons Class

Tabletop Roleplaying Games are a wonderful outlet for the imagination, they inspire creativity, storytelling skills and cooperative play. One of the most well known of these is Dungeons & Dragons. Do you have a 5th or 6th grader who is interested in learning how to play......More

Tabletop Roleplaying Games are a wonderful outlet for the imagination, they inspire creativity, storytelling skills and cooperative play. One of the most well known of these is Dungeons & Dragons. Do you have a 5th or 6th grader who is interested in learning how to play Dungeons & Dragons? This class will serve as an introduction to creating characters, telling stories and collaboratively playing the game of D&D. Registration is required and will be limited, we will have 8 seats available at the gaming table - and a waiting list will be used if there is interest. A snack will be provided. Follow the link to register: https://forms.gle/3SMVpK3PDnxbtpQj7

Take Pause - Monthly Discussion Group

Perimenopause & Menopause - two words that cause some to laugh, some to cringe and some to breath a sigh of relief that they are "done with that", but it's something that affects every woman on this planet at some point in her life. So join us at the Hagerstown Public ......More

Perimenopause & Menopause - two words that cause some to laugh, some to cringe and some to breath a sigh of relief that they are "done with that", but it's something that affects every woman on this planet at some point in her life. So join us at the Hagerstown Public Library for a special screening of the documentary "The M Factor" followed by a roundtable chat. Subsequent meetings will be a monthly discussion group that meets on the first Tuesday of each month beginning at 6pm. Registration is required for planning of seating for the first meeting. (You can register at: https://forms.gle/Tify3UuvVCUrzq6D6 ) Attendance is limited to those 21 and over. Drinks will be available.

HAK Club

Night Owls Facebook Book Discussion

Night Owls Facebook Group Join us online for our book chat to share what you have been reading with others, and maybe pick up a few reading suggestions!

Library Closed

HAK Club

Savage Worlds Rippers Game for kids 7th grade and older.

PLAYTIME: for friends yrs and their adult

 Come in to play and make new friends! Games, toys, building challenges, crafts, coloring and sensory activities take over the Children's area for this great time together.  We'll break for a quick hello song and one story at 9:45 and then find more fun! Come and go as ......More

 Come in to play and make new friends! Games, toys, building challenges, crafts, coloring and sensory activities take over the Children's area for this great time together.  We'll break for a quick hello song and one story at 9:45 and then find more fun! Come and go as needed--even hang around to find books afterwards.

HPL Children's Area

Jr. Dungeons & Dragons Class

Tabletop Roleplaying Games are a wonderful outlet for the imagination, they inspire creativity, storytelling skills and cooperative play. One of the most well known of these is Dungeons & Dragons. Do you have a 5th or 6th grader who is interested in learning how to play......More

Tabletop Roleplaying Games are a wonderful outlet for the imagination, they inspire creativity, storytelling skills and cooperative play. One of the most well known of these is Dungeons & Dragons. Do you have a 5th or 6th grader who is interested in learning how to play Dungeons & Dragons? This class will serve as an introduction to creating characters, telling stories and collaboratively playing the game of D&D. Registration is required and will be limited, we will have 8 seats available at the gaming table - and a waiting list will be used if there is interest. A snack will be provided. Follow the link to register: https://forms.gle/3SMVpK3PDnxbtpQj7

HAK Club

Savage Worlds Rippers Game for kids 7th grade and older.