Astronaut Space Walk

You couldn't ask for a bigger or better field trip destination!  There's lots of ways to explore the cosmos from your home or classroom.  So strap in and blast off!

Access Mars
NASA and Google have partnered to provide a 360 degree tour of the Martian surface.  It features the real surface of Mars, recorded by NASA's Curiosity rover.

Hubble Space Telescope
Take a peek at the out-of-this-world images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.  There are also some video links.

NASA Tour of the ISS
Tour the International Space Station via four short videos.

Slime in Space!
Nickelodeon sent its iconic slime to the International Space Station to evaluate how this non-Newtonian fluid reacted in microgravity. Astronauts performed a variety of demonstrations and captured it all on video! 

Stellarium Web
Stellarium Web is a planetarium running in your web browser. It shows a realistic star map, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Storytime from Space
Listen to a space story read by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

Target Age

It's time for books and blitzes at Hoover Public Library!  Football Family Fun is coming to the Plaza on Saturday, August 5, 2023 from 1-4 p.m.  Test your skill with a football toss, a football video game, or play the blast-from

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Summer Reading 2023 is coming to an end!  Don't miss your chance to finish up your reading logs, redeem your prizes, and enter the raffle drawings!  You have until 9 p.m. Read More...
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Summer Reading is winding down, and school is just around the corner.  And the library is hosting two events for students that are entering a milestone year!

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Our sixth and final week of Summer Reading shows brings another new act to our Library Theatre stage!  Beat'n Path Rhythm Events is a family-fun celebration of rhythm, story and song with percussionist Dave Holland.  Get ready to

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Our fifth week of Summer Reading shows welcomes more newcomers to the Library Theatre stage!  New to us, now -- NOT new to wowing large audiences.  Tapping into their GRAMMY-winning original catalog from rapper and hip hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo,

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Celebrate community helpers at our upcoming Day of Play on Saturday, July 8, 2023!  Visit the Kid Zone anytime from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and explore a variety of imaginative play stations.  

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Since the library is closed on Tuesday, July 4, 2023 for Independence Day, we will not be hosting a performer that week.  But fear not!  We will still have something fun happening in our Library Theatre!  We'll be showing a couple of movies on the big screen -- recent releases based on popular ch

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