Listen to Books - New Service
Browse hundreds of best-seller audio books to download and listen on your computer. Transfer them to a portable device, like an iPod or MP3 player and some titles can burn onto a CD for your listening pleasure anywhere, anytime. Try it, it's easy! It's free! (Login in using PL9395 + 3 digits on your library card ) Visit listentobooks.org
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Book Club New Members Welcome
Book club meets June 1,2009 at 7:00 PM at the knoxville Public Library
Reading the Glass Castle
Next Book club meets Monday July 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM at the Knoxville Public Library
Reading The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Call the Library @ 326-4448
Mon., Wed., Fri. for information
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Summer Reading "Be Creative at your Library"
Knoxville Public Library
Begins Wed., June 17, 2009 @ 10AM - Kick-off & registration
Wed., June 24, @10AM - "Pop-up" Art with Aleta Yarrow/Older
Paper art/Younger
Wed., July 1 @ 10AM - Bruce Weaver & Friends Puppets
Wed., Julu 8 @ 10AM - Create a garden with Master Gardeners
Wed., July 15 - NO MORNING SESSION
7PM "Puss-N-Boots" Puppet Show
by Summer Reading Puppet Team
Wed., July 22 @ 10AM - Rewards & wrap-up party
Read over thhe summer
Earn Prizes
Preschoolser & Pre-readers can participate
Current borrowers are urged to stop by the Library with I.D. to update their patron cards for use with the library's new computer system. The new system requires each person to update their information to get a new library card. Those under 18 need a parent to accompany them to update their information.
Health eLinks- Find quick answers to your health and wellness needs for you and your family using this colorful, informative and easy to use resource. No login needed. Start Here
Heritage Quest Online
(Login in using PL9395 + 3 digits from library card)
A treasury of Genealogy Resources
Use Heritage Quest Online to find your ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.
Provides over 25,000 family and local history books, the complete U.S. Federal Census 1790-1930, PERSI (the Periodical Source Index), a subject index to over 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals and Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. Users can search the material in a number of different ways.
Take a product tour | Genealogy 101
The Knoxville Public Library now has available for purchase a Table of Contents for the Centennial History of Knoxville written by Edwin A. Glover in 1951. This index makes looking for names and places in Knoxville's history much easier. The Table of Contents and Index can be used also for Glover's Knoxville History that appears in the 2001 Sesquicentennial History of Knoxville. For more information contact the Knoxville Public Library at (814) 326-4448.
RECYCLE
Inkjet & laser cartridges and old cell phones
Bring to the Knoxville Public Library
Call the library (814) 326-4448 for more information
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