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Our Library is housed in a 1910 Queen Anne style former residence.

A history museum, genealogical section and an extensive reference section emphasize the local area.

 

Hours

Monday 9 am - 8:30 pm
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 9 am - 6:30 pm
Thursday Closed
Friday 9 am - 4 pm
Saturday 9 am - 4 pm

Note: Library will be closed during inclement weather

Knoxville Public Library

112 E. Main Street
P.O. Box 277
Knoxville, PA 16928
(Tioga County)

Librarian: Ellen Williams Assistant: Elaine Van Sickle
Assistant: Deborah Berdanier
Phone: 814-326-4448
Email: kplibrary@verizon.net

 



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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
e-mail- kplibrary@verizon.net

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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.


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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
 

About the Library
  • We offer preschool story time in addition to the Summer Reading Program.
     
  • We offer free access to Pennsylvania's POWER Library, HeritageQuest, and Learning Express. 
     
  • We offer internet access to all patrons with a signed document available at the Librarian's desk. Parental permission is required for all under 18 years old.
     
  • Our museum of local items is quite extensive. It contains many Indian and other artifacts.
     
  • We maintain an extensive genealogy section.
     
  • We offer large type books and also audio books for the visually impaired.
     
  • We deliver books and other materials to anyone in the community who is housebound.

Current Board Members:

Eugene A. Seelye President
Viola Mortimer Vice-President
Susan Slade Secretary
Brenda Steadman Treasurer

Jane Glover
Eloise Kelts

Betty Parsons
Jace Steadman
Mary Stebbins

 

 
Knoxville Public Library Phone: 814-326-4448 Email: kplibrary@verizon.net