Special

Whether you joined us for our event featuring the film Screenagers or not, all Berkeley middle schoolers and their families are invited to watch Screenagers: Next Chapter and join a community conversation about social and emotional resilience in our digital age. 

6:45 zoom room opens
6:50-8 showing of Screenagers
8:05-9 community conversation

This is an online event that will happen on zoom. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/ScreenagersNextChapterBPL

The Bay Area Jazz Mobile is coming to the Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch/Tool Lending Library parking lot for a live concert! 

The Bay Area Jazz Mobile is a mobile/traveling jazz venue. A large van is filled with the necessary equipment to provide jazz concerts, clinics and workshops in parks, recreation centers, urban plazas, schools, farmers' markets, senior centers, cultural centers and city and county festivals throughout the Bay Area. 

We thank The Friends of the Berkeley Public Library for sponsoring this event.

Learn about the wonders of engineering with this online one day workshop for kids! We'll have a presentation and then a hands-on STEM activity! Register online.

In celebration of Black History Month, join us on the lawn at North Branch for African drumming, songs, and dancing! Masks are required for everyone's safety.

Join us for a Lunar New Year celebration with stories, crafts, lion dancing with Leung's White Crane Lion Dancers, and a Cal Taiko drum performance! All ages!

Spooky family story time at the Harold Way Pumpkin Patch at Harold and Allston Way. Join us for stories and, afterwards, a book giveaway!

Join us for this virtual puppet show: Tommy's Space Adventure (with a Halloween twist)!

Have you lost your health insurance? Want to learn more about signing up for health insurance?

Covered California has extended open enrollment until December, so you, your friends, and your family can still apply today!

The Berkeley Public Library has partnered with UC Berkeley's California Health Professional Student Alliance (CaHPSA) for virtual assistance in enrolling for healthcare through Covered California. Certified Enrollment Specialists will offer personalized, 20 minute, one-on-one sessions for you to receive information and help on health insurance enrollment.

Have you lost your health insurance? Want to learn more about signing up for health insurance?

Covered California has extended open enrollment until December, so you, your friends, and your family can still apply today!

Have you dreamed about doing a camping trip by bike? Then this is the class for you! The Bay Area offers a wide variety of beautiful outdoor recreation and we want to share some tips for you to enjoy it.

This one-hour class co-hosted by Berkeley Tool Lending Library will cover all of the basic skills needed to plan a fun, comfortable, and safe bike camping trip, whether it is an overnight stay at one of our many great local parks or a week plus long expedition. Learn what to pack, where to go, and what to do when you’re there!