Library Events

Join us from 10am-12pm on June 3rd at our Hattiesburg Branch to get registered for summer reading! Our kickoff party will consist of fun activities, light snacks, and a starter lanyard for summer reading!Our 2023 theme is "Adventure is Out There"!

Join us from 2pm- 4pm on June 3rd at our Petal Branch to get registered for summer reading! Our kickoff party will consist of fun activities, light snacks, and a starter lanyard for summer reading!Our 2023 theme is "Adventure is Out There"!

The Museum of Natural Science will be joining us with a few furry (or maybe even scaly) friends and other fun ways to learn about science and animals!

The Museum of Natural Science will be joining us with a few furry (or maybe even scaly) friends and other fun ways to learn about science and animals!

12pm: Computer Basics Class / Meeting RoomCovers the following Windows PC concepts:  Terminology Desktop elements File management Settings Free resources to continue your technological education.1pm: Practice & Troubleshooting / 2nd Floor Computer Lab Use one of our computers to practi...read more

Join us every Wednesday at 10am for storytime at our Hattiesburg branch for rhymes, songs, scarves, and more all followed by a craft!The target age range for storytime is from birth to Kindergarten, though older kids are still welcome! 

Join us every Thursday at 10am for storytime at our Petal branch for rhymes, songs, scarves, and more all followed by a craft!The target age range for storytime is from birth to Kindergarten, though older kids are still welcome! 

Movie Description:In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.

Bring your kids for an afternoon of fun and a craft that they can take home with them! We will be making cardboard tube binoculars! 

Join us at the Hattiesburg Library for the grand opening of our new Teen Center! For the first time, The Library will have a dedicated space for teen gaming, clubs, and social connection. The new Teen Center will provide four state-of-the-art gaming PCs & two Nintendo Switch gaming systems for t...read more

Calling all teens: Get ready to get 'lit' (haha, get it?) at your library on June 9th for a summer kickoff party. There will be music by The Library's own DJ Shhh Happens & DJ Read-N-Rainbow. Join us for dancing, glow sticks, and more. Neon & Glow apparel encouraged. Light r...read more

Bring your kids for an afternoon of fun and a craft that they can take home with them! We will be making cardboard tube binoculars! 

Join us for a fun kid's film! Light refreshments will be served – or feel free to bring your own!

Drop off your stuffed animals for a plushie sleepover at the library! When you arrive the next day to pick up your animal, the plushie will have a name tag and pictures will posted of all the activities your plushie got into during their night at the library! Drop off for the plushies is all da...read more

Join us for Adult Coffee and Coloring at 10 am. Come and enjoy some coffee/hot chocolate, conversation, coloring and puzzles at Hattiesburg Library.  Coffee/hot chocolate, refreshments, puzzle, coloring pages, and coloring supplies will be provided.

Start of your morning right by bringing your kids in for a craft in our courtyard! There will be craft fun as well as coloring with chalk and dancing in front of our bubble machine! 

Our Nonfiction Book Club will be reading Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora. We will meet in person June 13th at 5:30pm in the Hattiesburg Library Board Room (2nd Floor). Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk of Hattiesburg Library. New members are welcome - feel free to email emma...read more

Join us every Wednesday at 10am for storytime at our Hattiesburg branch for rhymes, songs, scarves, and more all followed by a craft!The target age range for storytime is from birth to Kindergarten, though older kids are still welcome! 

Join us every Thursday at 10am for storytime at our Petal branch for rhymes, songs, scarves, and more all followed by a craft!The target age range for storytime is from birth to Kindergarten, though older kids are still welcome! 

Movie Description: Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

Join us for a night of fun for the whole family! Show up ready to win at a variety of boardgames and cardgames for all ages!  

Join us for a fun kid's film! Light refreshments will be served – or feel free to bring your own!

Book Description:Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of ...read more

Festival South joins us to present Marcus Pfister’s beloved children’s book Rainbow Fish with a theatrical spin on the classic story.

* This event will take the place of storytime at our Hattiesburg branch on Wednesday, June 21st at 10:30 am** **No storytime June 21stFestival South joins us to present Marcus Pfister’s beloved children’s book Rainbow Fish with a theatrical spin on the classic story.

Join us every Thursday at 10am for storytime at our Petal branch for rhymes, songs, scarves, and more all followed by a craft!The target age range for storytime is from birth to Kindergarten, though older kids are still welcome! 

Do you want to have an UP-CLOSE encounter with a wild animal at the Petal library? Come and see our fuzzy, furry, scaly friends from the Hattiesburg Zoo!

Do you want to have an UP-CLOSE encounter with a wild animal at the Hattiesburg library? Come and see our fuzzy, furry, scaly friends from the Hattiesburg Zoo!

Join us for a fun kid's film! Light refreshments will be served – or feel free to bring your own!

Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

Start of your morning right by bringing your kids in for a craft in our courtyard! There will be craft fun as well as coloring with chalk and dancing in front of our bubble machine! 

Come and learn how to become a camping pro, and create your own camping picture frame! 

The Wednesday Noon Book Club will be reading Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet for their June meeting. The meeting will take place in person at the Hattiesburg Library Meeting Room. Copies of this month's book are available at the Hattiesburg Library Circulation Desk. New members are always welcome...read more

Come and learn how to become a camping pro, and create your own camping picture frame! 

A forgotten childhood favorite - shrinky dinks are back in style! Join us at Petal Library on June 30th at 2pm. Create your own design or trace something you love to create jewelry or keychains. All materials will be provided to participants.