Crafty Corner
2025-12-09 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-16 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Southeast Steuben County Library, 300 Nasser Civic Center Plaza, Corning, NY, 14830
Drop in every Tuesday for a simple craft to make and take home.
No need to sign up, just stop in.
Suggested for ages 3-10 years.

Mah-Jongg
2025-12-10 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-17 13:00 - 15:00
The game Mah-Jongg, originating in China during the Qing dynasty, is a game of skill, strategy, and calculation involving a degree of chance. Join us for an American style Mah-Jongg group. Whether you are an experienced player or would like to learn, join us and check it out!
Mah-Jongg meets every Wednesday from 1 to 3 pm.
For more information please call Michelle at 607-936-3713, x209, or email her at: wellsm@stls.org

ATLAS: LED Holiday Cards
2025-12-10 15:30 - 16:30
The ATLAS program provides a relaxing environment to wind down after school, work on homework, play games, use library resources, and participate in guided MakerSpace projects.
This week, we will make beautiful LED Holiday Cards: holiday cards with little, tiny lights!
For Middle and High School students
Registration for this free class is required, please sign up using the form is below.

FTC: First Tech Challenge
2025-12-10 16:30 - 18:30, 2025-12-17 16:30 - 18:30
Join the 2025 First Tech Challenge Library team: Code, Design, and Compete with Robots!
FIRST® Tech Challenge students work together with their mentors to design and build robots to compete in a dynamic and exciting challenge released every September. Teams program classroom-scale robots to follow autonomous commands before student drivers take control in two-on-two matches. On and off the field, students develop STEM skills, engage in community outreach, practice engineering innovation, and build confidence to help them succeed. For ages 13-17 only.
Contact Kayla Crane at cranek@stls.org or 607-936-3713 x 2416 with questions.
Discover more about First Tech Challenge here.

Happy Tales
2025-12-10 17:30 - 18:30
Read to certified therapy dogs! Suggested for children 5 to 10 years old, beginning to read on their own. This program is held in the The Mary Lu Walker Children’s Room
No need to sign up, just show up!

Corning Adult Writer’s Group
2025-12-10 18:00 - 20:00
Writing can be a lonely pursuit, but it doesn’t have to be. Join a group of fellow writers for conversation, inspiration and feedback. The Corning Adult Writer’s Group has been encouraging and supporting fellow writers for over 12 years.
Writers in all genres welcome. The group offers a hybrid meeting option: in person at the Library for those who are comfortable doing so, and online via the Zoom video platform for those who are not yet ready for in-person. The group meets every Wednesday from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Interested in joining the group? Contact Michelle Wells via email at: wellsm@stls.org.
Be sure to include your name and writing interests, and she will get back to you. (Members must sign up to attend, either to receive the Zoom link, or to sign up for the limited in person seats.)

Adult Dungeons and Dragons
2025-12-10 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-12-12 19:30 - 21:30
Looking for a local D&D group with other like-minded adults? Join us at the Southeast Steuben County Library on Wednesday and Friday evenings. Hosted by Dungeon Master Robin, bring your characters and dice.
Got any questions? Email Robin at: lashr@stls.org.
We will meet on the second floor of the Library building. Take the elevator upstairs, and head across the lobby. If this will be your first time attending this program, please sign up using the form below; once you have completed the form, you shouldn’t need to do it each time.

Coffee, Tea and English: Book Club
2025-12-11 10:00 - 11:00
The Coffee, Tea & English Book Club is intended for international people. The book is chosen by the facilitator with the group’s needs and language skills in mind. Participants read on their own and then meet weekly to discuss the material as prompted by prepared questions. This serves as another opportunity to practice English language skills in a relaxed environment.
This is an online program, on the Zoom platform. To get the Zoom link, please email Maryalice Little at: littlem@stls.org.

Homeschool Ice Skating
2025-12-11 10:00 - 15:00
On Thursdays, between 10AM and 3PM, homeschoolers can skate at the Nasser Civic Center Ice Rink for a reduced rate of $3, with a skate rental of only $1 (if you don’t have your own skates).
There will be no homeschool ice skating discounts on December 25th or January 1st.

Corning Duane Eddy Circle
2025-12-11 15:00 - 16:00
The Corning Duane Eddy Circle meets monthly at the Library to discuss Corning-born, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Duane Eddy and his music.
We have two main goals:
1) To find ways to raise awareness that Duane Eddy was born in Corning, and spent his first 13-years living in our area, and
2) To have fun!
We would love to have you join us
The Corning Duane Eddy Circle meets at the Southeast Steuben County Library, in Corning, New York, on the second Thursday of the month from 3:00 – 4:00 PM.

All Aboard!
2025-12-11 17:00 - 18:30
Join us in the Community Room as we partner with our wonderful friends from the Nonnie Hood Parent Resource Center for a special showing of the animated classic film, The Polar Express. You can enjoy pizza and popcorn while supplies last.
No need to sign up, just show up.
The Polar Express | 2004 | G | 1h 40m
The Plot: On Christmas Eve, a young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express, while learning about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas.

Adult Book Club: “Small Things Like These" by Clarie Keegan
2025-12-12 15:00 - 16:00
This month’s book will be Small Things Like These by Clarie Keegan.
About the book: It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.
About the Author: Claire Keegan’s works of fiction are internationally acclaimed and have been translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award—then the world’s richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. So Late in the Day was longlisted for the Story Prize. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland (2022), Author of the Year (2023), the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters, and the Siegfried Lenz Award (2024).

The Adult Book Club meets in-person at the Library on the second Friday of each month (this month is an exception). If you have questions about the Book Club, please email Linda Reimer: reimerl@stls.org
Check our calendar for future dates and book selections.

Friday Movie (for Kids!)
2025-12-12 15:15 - 17:00
Every Friday afternoon Miss Sue will show a new movie for kids. All the films will start at 3:15 PM and will be rated G or PG.
What movie will Miss Sue show? You have to be there if you want to know!
No need to sign up, just show up.

Christmas Cookie Decorating
2025-12-13 09:30 - 10:30
Join Miss Sue for a fun morning of Christmas Cookie Decorating! Where else can you eat your “art” after you make it?
All the cookies and decorations will be provided at the event once you have signed up.
There are limited spaces and they will fill quickly, so sign up using the form below.

Saturday Morning Movie
2025-12-13 11:00 - 13:00
Come spend the morning watching a movie on the big screen with surround sound.
No need to sign up, just show up
Best Christmas Pageant Ever | 2024 | Rated PG | 1h 39m
The Plot: Nobody is ready for the mayhem and surprises that ensue when six of the worst youngsters disrupt the town’s yearly Christmas performance.

Teen Dungeons & Dragons with Dungeon Master Robin
2025-12-13 14:30 - 16:30
Led by Dungeon Master Robin, this gathering is suitable for ages 13-17. All levels of experience will be welcomed in this safe space. Come to one or all gatherings.
If you have questions about D&D (campaigns, settings, etc.) contact Dungeon Master Robin at (607)936-3713 x2413 or email: lashr@stls.org
To be put on a waiting list, call Kayla at (607)936-3713 x2416 or email: cranek@stls.org.

Agriculture in the Classroom: Poinsettia Farms
2025-12-15 10:30 - 11:00
In partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension, we’ll learn more about how our food and agricultural products are produced.
This month we will learn about Poinsettia Farms.
Suggested for ages 4-8 years.
No need to sign up, just show up.
This program is made possible by a donation in memory of Shirley Smith.

Brick by Brick
2025-12-15 15:30 - 16:30
See if you’re up to the challenge of a Lego build.
Suggested for ages 4-12 years.
No need to sign up, just drop in!

Coffee, Tea & English: Vocabulary
2025-12-16 09:15 - 10:15
This is a class for English language learners, an informal, relaxed time to learn new English words and expressions, share cultures and make new friendships.
Coffee, Tea and English: Vocabulary is held in person at the Library.
Contact Maryalice at littlem@stls.org for more information or to be added to the email list.

Storytime with Miss Sue
2025-12-16 10:00 - 10:30
Join us as for stories, songs, rhymes and fun. Suggested for ages birth to age 3. After storytime go upstairs to the PRC for playtime and a themed craft project.

Coffee, Tea & English: Conversation
2025-12-16 10:30 - 11:30
This is a group for English language learners, an informal, relaxed time to practice speaking English in small groups with a native speaker.
Coffee, Tea and English: Conversation is held in person at the Library. Contact Maryalice at littlem@stls.org for more information or to be added to the email list.

Scrabble Club
2025-12-16 13:00 - 15:00
Exercise those brain cells with a game of Scrabble every Tuesday from 1 – 3 PM.
For more information please call Michelle at 607-936-3713, x209, or email her at: wellsm@stls.org

GATLAS
2025-12-16 15:00 - 16:30
This is a safe and supportive space to talk about gender, sexuality, and what’s going on with you and teens like you. There is usually a craft or project as well!
Open to anyone ages 13-18 / Grades 8-12
Every Tuesday, 3:00-4:30 PM at the Southeast Steuben County Library.
This program is in partnership with BLOOM and Planned Parenthood of Greater New York.

NO Sticky Notes Today
2025-12-17 11:30 - 12:30
There will be no Sticky Notes Today.
We will see you all next month, in the new year!
Simply pick a book to read related to our monthly theme in some way. Fiction, non-fiction, any genre; then come and tell the Sticky Notes group all about it – what was it about? What did you like, or not like? Each meeting will vote on the following month’s theme.
Sticky Notes: Thematic Book Club is currently being held in-person at the Library and online on the Zoom meeting platform; please email Michelle Wells to receive a Zoom link: wellsm@stls.org.
Meetings are generally held on the 4th Wednesday of each month, but this December will be held on the 3rd Wednesday due to the Christmas holiday.
Questions? Contact Michelle Wells at the email address above.

ATLAS: Air Dry Clay Ornaments
2025-12-17 15:30 - 16:30
The ATLAS program provides a relaxing environment to wind down after school, work on homework, play games, use library resources, and participate in guided MakerSpace projects.
This week, we will make beautiful Air Dry Clay Ornaments! Once dry, they can be painted, covered with glitter, whatever you like.
For Middle and High School students
Registration for this free class is required, please sign up using the form is below.

Snowflake Painting
2025-12-17 16:00 - 17:00
Did you know that no two snowflakes are identical? Every snowflake is unique, just like you!
Join Miss Angel and Miss Sue to paint your own special snowflake.
All of the materials will be supplied for the program once you have signed up; please sign up using the form below.
