Calendar of Events

This meeting is televised live on MCTV Channel 20 (Comcast), on Channel 99 (U-verse), and online at www.martin.fl.us/watch-mctv.

The Board will meet on Tuesday, July 23 if they do not finish reviewing the Fiscal Year 2024/2025 Budget that began on Monday, July 22, 2024.

Martin County's children's librarians love to read, but they also love to sing and dance.

According to Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library, singing, talking, and playing are also important for developing early literacy skills. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Martin County Library System, Inc.

Come and join us for a weekly cribbage game. Bring your own cribbage board or learn how to play this fun game. All levels welcome. No registration required.

This event will now be hosted at the Hobe Sound Civic Center (8980 SE Olympus Street). Starting May 15th, the Hobe Sound Public Library will be closing for renovations for approximately 3 months. For more information about the closure and renovation plans, please view the website https://www.martin.fl.us/hobe-sound-public-library.

Learning the Power of Poetry with Bestselling Author Elizabeth Acevedo (9th-12th)

Join us for live author talks each month featuring a one-hour interview with a bestselling author and a professional moderator. Questions are a mixture of those prepared by the moderator and those submitted by participants during the event.

This virtual event will be available for replay from our website.

Register for this author talk and check out other online author talks here: https://libraryc.org/martinlibrary

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Martin County Library System, Inc.

You’re invited to learn about the power of poetry with Elizabeth Acevedo! In this exciting author conversation and Q&A, Acevedo will provide a short reading from her National Book Award winning and New York Times bestselling novel-in-verse, The Poet X serving as the backdrop to this amazing chat!

The Poet X is about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.

With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.

A virtual author talk you don’t want to miss–come create out loud with Elizabeth Acevedo! Register now!

About the Author 

Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award. She is also the author of numerous other titles including Family Lore; With the Fire on High, which was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal; and Clap When You Land, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor book and a Kirkus finalist. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, Cantomundo, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her husband.

The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Martin County Library System.

Stumped by your device? The Library offers 30-minute technology appointments to help you with tech-related questions you might have in a one-on-one environment.

Please have a specific tech-related question, or a learning objective you'd like to accomplish. For more info, visit https://www.martin.fl.us/idea-lab-one-one-tech-help.

Stumped by your device? The Library offers 30-minute technology appointments to help you with tech-related questions you might have in a one-on-one environment.

Please have a specific tech-related question, or a learning objective you'd like to accomplish. For more info, visit https://www.martin.fl.us/idea-lab-one-one-tech-help.

Stumped by your device? The Library offers 30-minute technology appointments to help you with tech-related questions you might have in a one-on-one environment.

Please have a specific tech-related question, or a learning objective you'd like to accomplish. For more info, visit https://www.martin.fl.us/idea-lab-one-one-tech-help.

Want to learn how to use our sewing machine? Join us for this one-on-one tutorial where you'll get hands-on experience learning the basics of the Brother SE400 sewing machine.

You'll get hands on experience learning the basics, including how thread the machine, select different stitch types, and change different feet on the machine.

Registration required. For more information about the sewing machine, visit: https://www.martin.fl.us/sewing-machines.

If you are a teen who loves gaming, drop by the Exploration Lab for a fun gaming night with the Nintendo Switch, board games, or Dungeons and Dragons!

For ages 11 and up. This event is sponsored by The Library Foundation of Martin County, Inc. 

Join us for a chance to meet people from different cultural backgrounds and swap languages in a fun, flexible, and relaxed way! All backgrounds and languages are welcome! No registration required.

In this program, we attempt to pair you with a buddy who is a fluent speaker of a language of your choice and who wants to learn a language that you can fluently speak.

The Baby Café is a place for moms and pregnant women to receive one-on-one, as well as peer-to-peer support during their breastfeeding journey. A lactation consultant is available at the café, as well. The group will meet on Tuesdays, from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30pm.

An open game play for players of all levels with an understanding of the basics. Sponsored by the Friends of the Martin County Library System, Inc.

The National Mahjong League 2024 card and rules will be used for a 3-4 handed play. Bring a current 2024 card and set if you have one.

Stumped by your device? The Library offers 30-minute technology appointments to help you with tech-related questions you might have in a one-on-one environment.

Please have a specific tech-related question, or a learning objective you'd like to accomplish. For more info, visit https://www.martin.fl.us/idea-lab-one-one-tech-help.

It's a fact that children love music and movement. Join us for some musical activities that provide exercise, motor development and FUN!!!   All ages welcomed.

This event is sponsored by The Library Foundation of Martin County, Inc.

Martin County's children's librarians love to read, but they also love to sing and dance. According to Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library, singing, talking, and playing are also important for developing early literacy skills.

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Martin County Library System, Inc.