The Senior/Homebound Outreach Program makes monthly visits to Senior residential facilities and nursing homes, bringing the experience of browsing for Library materials right inside the doors.

11:30-1:00 Shepherd Senior Meal Site, 5541 Haynes Rd 2:00-3:30 Brush Meadow Apts, 1203 Lake Elmo Road 3:45-4:45 Hemingway & Poe

The Senior/Homebound Outreach Program makes monthly visits to Senior residential facilities and nursing homes, bringing the experience of browsing for Library materials right inside the doors.

The Senior/Homebound Outreach Program makes monthly visits to Senior residential facilities and nursing homes, bringing the experience of browsing for Library materials right inside the doors.

11:30-1:00 Custer Senior Center 1:15-3:15 Custer School 4:00-5:00 Pompey's Pillar

The Senior/Homebound Outreach Program makes monthly visits to Senior residential facilities and nursing homes, bringing the experience of browsing for Library materials right inside the doors.

11:30-1:00 Senior Meal Site, 1505 Ave D 2:00-3:30 Poly & Westfield 4:00-4:45 Bobby Jones & 54th

11:00-12:00 925 North 18th 1:00-2:30 Elder Grove School 2:45-3:45 Banff & 3700 Crater Lake 4:00-5:00 30th St W & Howard

Billings Public Library’s 22nd annual Family Reading Program will begin January 22nd. Family Reading is designed to encourage families to develop the habit of reading aloud together. Studies have shown that children who are read aloud to have improved language skills and are more successful in school. During the program families will read together for 20 minutes a day for 20 days. Families completing the program will receive a book and be entered into a drawing for a special grand prize. An End of Program Event will also be held. For more information please call the Children's Services Desk at 657-8256, visit the Children's Page, or sign-up at the Family Reading homepage,

Come enjoy Stories, songs and fingerplays for children ages 2 to 3 years old.

Where LEGOs, games and imaginations come together! Come enjoy free play with LEGOs of all sorts of colors and shapes. Try putting together a car, house or even a helicopter! If LEGOs are not your thing, come play games with your child. Wednesday Fun will be back in the Craft Corner for children and families to enjoy!

Come enjoy Stories, songs and fingerplays for children ages 3 to 6 years old.

Books & Babies - come read and sing with your baby! For children 0-2 years old and their caregivers.

Come dive into the world of the colorful colors where we will be guided by our very own Aquarist! Come meet Zach from the Butterfly House and Aquarium. We will return from our tropical adventure with a colorful souvenir! Passports provided, imaginations required! Please register your 6-8 year old in person at the Children’s Desk or call 406-657-8256.

Books & Babies - come read and sing with your baby! For children 0-2 years old and their caregivers.

Where LEGOs, games and imaginations come together! Come enjoy free play with LEGOs of all sorts of colors and shapes. Try putting together a car, house or even a helicopter! If LEGOs are not your thing, come play games with your child. Wednesday Fun will be back in the Craft Corner for children and families to enjoy!

Come enjoy stories, songs and fingerplays for children of all ages

Come enjoy Stories, songs and fingerplays for children ages 3 to 6 years old.

Come to the unveiling of the LEGO replica of Billings Public Library. Kids, we will also have a large racetrack and supplies to create and race your own LEGO car. Thank you to Bricks and MiniFigs for creating the Library in LEGOS and supplying the track and accessories. In January 2009 Billings Public Library began offering a Books and Babies program for ages 0-2 years.! We are inviting all current and past “babies” and their parents and/or care givers to enjoy cookies. We are excited to see many of our “grown-up babies” who are now in 4th & 5th grade!

Come enjoy Stories, songs and fingerplays for children ages 2 to 3 years old.

Where LEGOs, games and imaginations come together! Come enjoy free play with LEGOs of all sorts of colors and shapes. Try putting together a car, house or even a helicopter! If LEGOs are not your thing, come play games with your child. Wednesday Fun will be back in the Craft Corner for children and families to enjoy!

Come enjoy Stories, songs and fingerplays for children ages 3 to 6 years old.

Books & Babies - come read and sing with your baby! For children 0-2 years old and their caregivers.

The Turning Page reads books from the Library's book club kit collection, and meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month (except for a couple of hiatus months during the holidays and summer). Each kit contains 10 copies of the book, and are available on a first come, first served basis BUT readers are always welcome to obtain their own copy and join the fun!

In the Taoist tradition, a person's health depends on the harmony of body, mind, and spirit. The Taoist Tai Chi arts exercise the entire physiology, including the tendons, joints, connective tissue and the internal organs. Attendees should wear comfortable clothing that allows movement, including grip-less, flat-soled shoes, and should be prepared to sign a waiver.

We are the library's fiber arts enthusiasts who knit, crochet, embroider, spin, felt, and generally love fiber arts. We get together the second Tuesday and fourth Thursday of every month to talk about what we enjoy the most and share projects. If you're a newbie at the fiber craft game, we can help you learn! This is our Fellowship, we look forward to your company!

Bring the family for an evening of trivia fun!

Join the Billings Public Library Board of Trustees to launch the week celebrating the library building’s 5th birthday. Take a step back in time to find out how the building came to be with a panel discussion moderated by Board Chair Roger Young. Hear the stories of the rewards and the challenges shared by retired Library Director Bill Cochran, retired Board Chair Shari Nault, Building Committee Chairs Frank Cross and Lloyd Mickelson, and Board Member Bill Lamdin. Then for the future? Library Director Gavin Woltjer will share his visions.

The Yellowstone Genealogy Forum will teach a class on how to use city directories, phone books and newspapers in genealogy research. Learn what kind of information can be extracted and how to use these resources together. This is part of the Billings Public Library 5-year anniversary celebration!

Go off the beaten track with LitCentric. This book group meets on the last Tuesday of the month between January and October, and uses a combination of self-purchased books and Library book club kits.

Join us in welcoming Kevin Kooistra, Executive Director of the Western Heritage Center, for a look at the Library's 117-year history, which began in 1901 as a donation by the Billings family in memory of their son Parmly. We'll look at how the Library shaped our city, and was shaped by Billings in return.

In the Taoist tradition, a person's health depends on the harmony of body, mind, and spirit. The Taoist Tai Chi arts exercise the entire physiology, including the tendons, joints, connective tissue and the internal organs. Attendees should wear comfortable clothing that allows movement, including grip-less, flat-soled shoes, and should be prepared to sign a waiver.

Tim Lehman, history professor at Rocky Mountain College, will be the guest speaker for a program about how our ancestors came to Montana via rivers, trails and railroads. Enjoy this informative presentation sponsored by the Yellowstone Genealogy Forum. This event is part of the Billings Public Library 5-year anniversary celebration.

The TECH Lab is the library's digital learning lab that's just for teens. Come to the lab to learn about 3D printing, use our audiobooth to record and mix music, build and program some robots, and much more! Teens can also come to hang out and be social, as we have lots of board games and gaming consoles. Plus, it's all free!

The Teen Japan Club is taking a break during the holidays and new year, and will reconvene for more sessions on February 6, 2019. See you then!

Come to the TECH Lab on Thursdays to work with our amazing volunteer Michael as he helps teens explore computer science! Learn how to program and control neopixels, write programs for arduinos, mess around with Lego Robots, and more. If you have any interest in coding or any computer science topic, this is for you! No sign up is required, just swing by the lab and start messing around.

The TECH Lab is the library's digital learning lab that's just for teens. Come to the lab to learn about 3D printing, use our audiobooth to record and mix music, build and program some robots, and much more! Teens can also come to hang out and be social, as we have lots of board games and gaming consoles. Plus, it's all free!

Join the Library's Teen Book Group. We meet once a month on Thursday afternoons. Snacks and drinks are provided. In January, we’re reading Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds, an action-packed science fiction thriller. Register and reserve your copy of the book by calling 657-8290.

The TECH Lab is celebrating the library’s 5 year anniversary in our new building with a month of our most popular STEAM programs! Every program will be on a Thursday from 5-7 pm in the lab, so be sure to sign up for anything that looks interesting! Call 657-8290 to sign up for any or all of these programs. For this program, take a crash course in photography basics, and learn about aperture, ISO, and shutter speed. We’ll also do some light painting and take some long-exposures shots!

The TECH Lab is the library's digital learning lab that's just for teens. Come to the lab to learn about 3D printing, use our audiobooth to record and mix music, build and program some robots, and much more! Teens can also come to hang out and be social, as we have lots of board games and gaming consoles. Plus, it's all free!

The TECH Lab is the library's digital learning lab that's just for teens. Come to the lab to learn about 3D printing, use our audiobooth to record and mix music, build and program some robots, and much more! Teens can also come to hang out and be social, as we have lots of board games and gaming consoles. Plus, it's all free!

The TECH Lab is the library's digital learning lab that's just for teens. Come to the lab to learn about 3D printing, use our audiobooth to record and mix music, build and program some robots, and much more! Teens can also come to hang out and be social, as we have lots of board games and gaming consoles. Plus, it's all free!

Learn how to code in Python and make your own games and programs! Classes will be non-linear, and our volunteer Brody will work with you teaching you based on your skill level. There will be class themes, but you can show up and ask Brody about any topic that interests you or you need help with. Python is also an easy to learn language, and a great way to get into programming and computer science. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s get programming!

The TECH Lab is the library's digital learning lab that's just for teens. Come to the lab to learn about 3D printing, use our audiobooth to record and mix music, build and program some robots, and much more! Teens can also come to hang out and be social, as we have lots of board games and gaming consoles. Plus, it's all free!

The Teen Japan Club is taking a break during the holidays and new year, and will reconvene for more sessions on February 6, 2019. See you then!

Come to the TECH Lab on Thursdays to work with our amazing volunteer Michael as he helps teens explore computer science! Learn how to program and control neopixels, write programs for arduinos, mess around with Lego Robots, and more. If you have any interest in coding or any computer science topic, this is for you! No sign up is required, just swing by the lab and start messing around.

The TECH Lab is the library's digital learning lab that's just for teens. Come to the lab to learn about 3D printing, use our audiobooth to record and mix music, build and program some robots, and much more! Teens can also come to hang out and be social, as we have lots of board games and gaming consoles. Plus, it's all free!