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Fri, 11/25/2022 - 11:09am

Stories of Lexington's history told through the Kentucky Room archives.

The Marksbury Family Branch Makerspace, located at 2197 Versailles Road, is an inclusive space where customers of all ages can come to learn, create, and explore together, free of charge. Outfitted with current high-tech and low-tech tools, the Makerspace is designed to promote education and cultivate a do-it-yourself spirit for the whole family. Customers ages 7 and under must be accompanied by a responsible caregiver. Planning to bring a group of 10 or more? Please contact us by calling 859-231-5500 ext.2822 or using the link below.

Sample projects

Engrave a bookmark for your next read, design matching t-shirts for your family vacation, personalize a coffee mug, embroider a t-shirt, or print fun stickers for your new business.

Library meeting rooms are available for individuals, non-profit, for profit, study groups, and community organizations seeking to hold meetings, trainings, and workshops.  Meeting rooms are free of charge.  Sterno and other tools/equipment that have an open flame are prohibited.

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Central Library - Meeting Room D

Let us build creative confidence, reduce waste, and support a healthier system for our environment.

Please bring your clean ready for recycling materials, and we will “upcycling” and repurpose the materials together.

We will focus on projects with toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, egg cartons, CD discs, and glass jars. 

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Beaumont Branch - Large Meeting Room
Drop in and make your own Kid Kit like the members of the Baby-Sitters Club! Use it for a babysitting job now, or keep it for one in the future. For ages 7 and up. No registration required.
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Marksbury Family Branch

Lexington Public Library, PNC Bank, and KET host a national early childhood initiative from PBS Kids. Families can enjoy a craft station, a station where families work on a community service project, other fun activities, and a space where kids can meet and take photos with Daniel Tiger.

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Tates Creek Branch - Large Meeting Room

Keven McQueen is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at EKU and the author of 27 books on history, biography, the paranormal, and historical true crime. He will be sharing stories from his book, Creepy Kentucky, with an audience Q & A to follow.  

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Eastside Branch - Medium Meeting Room

Authors Juniper Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena is a literary darling while June is a nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls?, June thinks.