Welcome to the Cooper-Siegel Community Library Adult Services Page!
Our Community Stories
Our Community Stories is a multi-year local oral history project where we collect and organize audio stories and related photographs share from our rich social and cultural history around the Aspinwall, Blawnox, Fox Chapel, Indiana Township, O’Hara Township, and Sharpsburg communities. Check out the website to hear some of these stories and consider contributing your own!
April Book Clubs
Cooks and Books | Thursday 04/10 @ 7:00pm
Join your fellow cookbook-obsessed-peeps as we read, cook, chat and EAT! We’ll meet once a month on the 2nd Thursday from 7-8:30 PM. Each month, we’ll read the same cook book or choose a common ingredient or cuisine. We’ll each cook something to share and gather to eat and talk!
This month, we’re whipping up a Mexican Fiesta with these fun and inspired cookbooks:
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Tu Casa Mi Casa: Mexican Recipes for the Home Cook by Enrique Olvera
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My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes and Convictions by Gabriela Cámara
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Provecho: 100 Vegan Mexican Recipes to Celebrate Culture and Community by Edgar Castrejón
Booked for Lunch | Friday 04/11 @ 12:00pm
This group meets in person on the 2nd Friday of the month. We read fiction, nonfiction, memoirs etc!
In April we are discussing How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley. Register here
Horror Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Wednesday 04/09 @ 7:00
This month we’re reading the social horror novel set in a full-contact haunted house, Reprieve by James Han Mattson. It’s one of the Summer Scares selections provided by the Horror Writers Association. Register here.
Tome Raiders Book Club (Nonfiction) | Wednesday 04/23 @ 6:30pm
Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The Tome Raiders Book Club is for you! This month we’re readingThe Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara which covers the captivating story of Milicent Patrick, the trailblazing artist behind Creature from the Black Lagoon. This book is a blend of biography, film history, and feminist exploration that will leave you informed, inspired, and probably a little more than outraged.
This event occurs after the library is closed so please park in the back lot and use the doors on the far right. Copies are available for you at Cooper-Siegel’s Front Desk (or try an eBook for your Kindle or iPad)! The audiobook version is also available on Libby. Register here.
Evening Book Group | Monday 04/28 @ 7:00pm
This long-standing monthly book group is always looking for new members! We read mostly adult fiction and have a great time learning what we liked and didn’t like about each month’s book. Stop in or call the library to get a copy of the current month’s book. This month we’re reading Heft by Liz Moore. Stop in to get a copy of the book. Register here.
Sharpsburg Sleuths Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Tuesday 04/29 @ 7:00
Get a clue with the Sharpsburg Sleuths! We read all mysteries, all the time.
This month we’re reading the true crime story of the Long Island Serial Killer in Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker. Register here.
This group meets in-person in the Fiction Room at the Sharpsburg Branch. Zoom available for those who prefer to meet virtually.
Events and Programs!
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- Zumba 6-Week Workshopon October 12, 2025 at 6:58 am
10/13/25 @ 1:00pm - 10/13/25 @ 2:00pm Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room) Cooper-Siegel We are not able to offer refunds for cancelations for paid programs. Adults 21+ only please. If this event is full, please stop in or call the library @ 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL) to be placed on a waiting list. Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program. Registration is required. Registration starts: 08/29/2025 @ 9:09am Registration end: 10/06/2025 @ 1:00pm Join instructor, Shelby Camptella for a 6-week Zumba session! Zumba takes the work out of workout by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style dance party. Once the Latin and World rhythms take over you'll see why Zumba is exercise in disguise. Enjoy a total body workout combining cardio, muscle conditioning, balance and flexibility, boosted energy, and a serious dose of AWESOME when you finish.No experience necessary! This 6-week workshop is $35.As a trainer and group fitness instructor since 2014, health and wellness have always been important part of Shelby's life. She became a Zumba instructor because of her love for Latin music, having felt a connection to it all her life. She's most rewarded by the lively music and inspiring students to become the best versions of themselves! She makes sure her students enjoy themselves, get stronger, gain confidence, and dance their hearts out!
- Game Nighton October 12, 2025 at 6:58 am
10/13/25 @ 6:00pm - 10/13/25 @ 7:30pm Community Room Sharpsburg Drop-ins welcome as space permits. Registration is required. Registration starts: 12/31/1969 @ 7:00pm Registration end: 10/13/2025 @ 6:00pm Suffering from board-om? Get your game on at the library! We'll have a selection of curated board and card games for you to play each month on the 2nd Monday - we'll vote what to play at the beginning of the session. If we have a large group, multiple different games may be happening simultaneously.This meet-up group is geared for adults and facilitated by a library patron.Library parking is limited. If the library lot is full, we recommend parking at the 13th Street municipal lot. We're also conveniently located on the 91 and 1 bus routes.
- Beginning English Class with Hello Neighboron October 12, 2025 at 6:58 am
10/14/25 @ 12:00pm - 10/14/25 @ 2:00pm Community Room Sharpsburg Adults 21+ only please. Welcome to Sharpsburg, neighbors! Our friends at Hello Neighbor will be hosting Beginning English Class twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Through these lessons, you will learn to express your needs, ask and answer basic questions, and talk about your families, homes, health, and work.Each class session is 2 hours long. Class is FREE to participants. For adults 18+.To register, contact the instructor Zhenya directly by calling 412-654-1742 OR emailing zhenya@helloneighbor.ioThere will be an English assessment for each participant at the time of registration.Library parking is limited. If the library lot is full, we recommend parking at the 13th Street municipal lot. We're also conveniently located on the 91 and 1 bus routes.
- Poetry Groupon October 12, 2025 at 6:58 am
10/14/25 @ 12:30pm - 10/14/25 @ 2:30pm Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room) Cooper-Siegel Adults 21+ only please. Drop-ins welcome as space permits. Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (SCL). Registration is required. Registration starts: 09/10/2025 @ 4:35pm Registration end: 12/14/2025 @ 12:30pm This kind, energetic group meets every other week and focuses on nourishing and sustaining our creative practice. No experience writing or reading poetry needed! We spend time reading and discussing poetry, as well as writing together in response to prompts. Expect to receive and share meaningful, positive feedback. Bring a poem on paper (we can make copies) if you'd like to workshop your work. Anyone and everyone is welcome to come anytime. Registration requested but drops-in are certainly welcome!Kelley Beeson holds a Master of Fine Art in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Library and Information Science from The University of Pittsburgh. She is the recipient of the 2023 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award for her book Undress. Her work appears in Kestrel, Rogue Agent, The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain: A Pittsburgh Poetry Anthology (City of Asylum), Kaliope, Pittsburgh City Paper, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. She writes as a mad-proud member of the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops since 1992.
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