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Featured events

Lego Club

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm

North Regional Library (221 Milton Rd)

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Upcoming program Paper Hot Cocoa Crafts for Kids

Tuesday, January 20
4:30 – 5:15 p.m.
South Regional Library
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Upcoming program Empowering the Neurodivergent Student to be Successful on Exams

Tuesday, January 20
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
North Regional Library
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Upcoming program ACT Test Prep

Saturday, January 17
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
North Regional Library
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Book club SciFi & Fantasy Book Club

First Wednesday of the month
Main Library

Upcoming reads:

The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin
January: A Wizard of Earthsea
February: The Tombs of Atuan
March: The Farthest Shore

The Great Courses - never stop learning. Find it in Libby.

Online resource The Great Courses

Unique video courses to capture your curiosity or enrich your interests – free with your Durham County Library card! Find it via the Libby app under “Extras.”

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Upcoming program Tweens & Teens: Make Pink Flamingo Snow Globes!

Monday, January 12
4:30-5:30 p.m.
East Regional Library
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Upcoming program Family Crafternoon: Snail Clay Art

Tuesday, January 13
5:30-6 p.m.
East Regional Library
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At our locations Tax preparation

AARP Tax-Aide will offer sessions at Main Library from January 30 – April 13, 2026. Make a Tax-Aide appointment online >
For appointment help, call 919-695-7548 or email durhamtaxaide@gmail.com.
Please do not call the library for an appointment.

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Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report

Get this year’s snapshot of some of the many things the library has been up to – Stanford L. Warren Edition:
Annual Report – English
Annual Report – Spanish

Covers of books with strategies for managing the complexities of life that interfere with our ability to focus.

Book list Stay Focused

Covers of books looking at the future and alternate realities through a Black cultural lens.

Book list Afrofuturism

Covers of nonfiction books about tyranny and propaganda. Lots of red and black in the color scheme.

Book list On Tyranny

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