Drop-in to the Secret Lab with a digital photo of your pet, either on your phone or your USB drive, and we'll help you print and press it onto a tote bag using our heat press!

We'll provide one tote bag per person. You're welcome to bring a t-shirt or tote bag of your own to press!

Since their publication in the first half of the twentieth century, the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold millions of copies. The television show “Little House on the Prairie” has thrilled viewers for fifty years. Based on his eight years of research, John J. Fry will discuss how Laura’s down-to-earth faith and Christian morality influenced her life and work. A Prairie Faith, Fry's biography of Wilder, was published this year by Eerdmans publishers.

Join us for the opening reception of Family Foundations: Four Stories of Black Washtenaw County Community Building, 1850 to 1950, on display from Saturday June 8, to Sunday July 28 in the Downtown Library 3rd floor exhibit space.

Desai's presentation explores U.S. media representations of the Third World, the global bloc of decolonizing nations in Asia and Africa during the Cold War, through the development of the mid-century music genre known as Exotica. Emerging after the Second World War, Exotica was a popular form of ersatz “world music” which, he argues, responded to anxieties around racial integration and the decolonizing world.

Nate Powell showcases different approaches to fiction and nonfiction in comics storytelling to tackle common themes of myth-making, memory, freedom, and the power of expression in the new graphic novels Fall Through and Lies My Teacher Told Me.  

The Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo (AACME) is back and you're invited! Come celebrate the maker movement that ranges from traditional technologies like weaving all the way to our future in robotics! Our keynote speaker this year is designer, artist, and maker Sophy Wong, who will be speaking on the intersection of technology and clothing design. Enjoy hands-on demos from local maker spaces, learn about ham radio, solder an LED badge, see an upholstery demonstration, use our heat press, and so much more!

In this interactive session, publishing expert Brandi Larsen will answer your questions about how the book business works. Driven by the audience’s interests, she’ll share insider stories from the center of the publishing industry and her best strategies on how you can be a part of it.

Submit your question in advance here

Come and meet the local teams of the FIRST robotics league! You'll get to see the robots in action and meet the student engineers and drivers.

This event is part of the Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo. Find out more here.

Try out the library's heat press and create for yourself a canvas tote adorned with this years AACME logo.

This event is part of the Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo. Find out more here.

Drop by the Multi-Purpose Room in the Downtown Library and engage with FIVE THOUSAND DOMINOES! Build a domino run, or a house, or anything you can think of! Wait, there are also SO MANY LEGO! Build a spaceship, a goat, or even a giant domino!

This event is part of the Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo. Find out more here.