Encouraging Discovery
Connecting the Community
Leading in Literacy
Today’s hours
- Main Library 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM
- East Regional 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM
- North Regional 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM
- South Regional 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM
- Southwest Regional 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM
- Stanford L. Warren 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM
- Bragtown 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
- NC Collection 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
New! Sunday Hours
Main Library will be opening for Sunday hours beginning October 5, 2025. Please visit us from 1-6 p.m.
Upcoming program Empowerment Unleashed
Monday, September 29 – 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Main Library
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Upcoming program Once Upon a Fall Ball
Saturday, October 11 – 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
North Regional Library
Upcoming program Morbid Tales: A Night of Horror & Heavy Metal
Thursday, October 2 – 7 p.m.
Moon Dog Meadery
1104 Broad Street
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Upcoming program The Life of a Showgirl
Friday, October 3 – 3-5:30 p.m.
Main Library
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Upcoming program Horror Film Streak: Staff Favorites
Wednesday in October
5:45-8 p.m.
South Regional Library
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Upcoming program Ready, Set, Game Time: Just Dance Kids
Friday, October 17 – 4:30-5 p.m.
East Regional Library
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Upcoming program Supa Dupa Fly: Missy Elliott’s Black Feminist Worldmaking
Monday, October 13 – 6-7 p.m.
Main Library
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Upcoming program The Potion Lab
Monday, October 13 – 6-7 p.m.
Stanford L. Warren Branch Library
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Featured service Get a library card
September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month! Your Durham County Library card gets you access to books, online resources, and much more. Don’t have one yet? Learn how to get started.
At our locations Litter Kits for Checkout
Your Durham County Library card lets you check out a kit to pick up litter and help beautify our community! Kits include a litter picker, vest, gloves, and trash bags. To get started, visit the checkout desk at your library location.
Kits are offered in partnership with Keep Durham Beautiful.
Library Fest 2026 logo design contest
It’s time to vote for the logo that will represent Library Fest 2026. Who will win in the staff versus patron showdown?!
Online resource Brainfuse HelpNow
Online tutoring, free with your Durham County Library card!
These Routes Are Made for Walkin’: Exercise Challenge
September 19th through October 31st
Discover the deep roots of Durham with our 2025 exercise challenge that celebrates the story of Bull City’s history. Pick up your tracker at South Regional Library.
At our locations Location tour: Bragtown Branch Library
Upcoming program Learn to Play Mahjong
Wednesdays, 12-3 p.m.
North Regional Library
Book list Celebrate Neurodiverse Minds
Book list Disability Justice
Book list Stay Focused
Book list Examining the End Times
Book list The Last of Us
Book list Afrofuturism
Book list White Lotus
Book list On Tyranny
Book list Choose Kindness
