Tennessee Libraries

Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair that’s happening now through Friday, June 21st. The Scholastic Book Fair is going in the atrium of the Library.

Public librarians from the nine northwest Tennessee counties recently met for a workshop at the Tennessee State Library and Archives Obion River Regional Library Center at Martin to learn more about reliable legal resources available to Tennesseans...

"... Why puppets? Well, it turns out that in addition to being known for music and Goo Goo Clusters, Nashville has become quite a puppet town. Maybe the best puppet town in America. And it turns out the prime reason for that is Wishing Chair Productions, the Nashville Library’s puppet troupe, led by a remarkably talented visionary named Brian Hull. ..."

Yay First Lady Cissy Haslam of Tennessee!

 

Last paragraph: " As part of the 2013 Scholastic Summer Challenge, kids "Read for the World Record" by logging their minutes online at www.scholastic.com/summer or using the Scholastic Reading Timer smartphone app...'

Friends of the Library of Johnson County were a recipient.

"Mayor Karl Dean and Predators officials said on Monday that the facility will also include an expanded branch library..."

"be hosted by the Friends of the Library from 8 a.m. until 12 noon on Saturday, June 22, in the basement of the Fayetteville/Lincoln County Public Library..."

"... Mayor Karl Dean and Predators officials said on Monday that the facility will also include an expanded branch library, new regional community center and park at the site of the former Hickory Hollow mall, now known as the Global Mall at the Crossings. ..."

"Brenda Baker of Obion has left her legacy all over this area — from writing her name in the cement on the pillars of the Obion County Public Library..."

"...Because the TML no longer will supply general liability insurance, Niota has shut down its police department, parks department, street department and library. ..."

 

"Things are really booming at the Argie Cooper Public Library -- literally and figuratively -- as the summer reading program is well under way..."

"... Now known as the Imagination Library/Books from Birth partnership, United Way of Metropolitan Nashville is assuming operations from Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, which has run the program since its inception...."

Speaker: Jennie Ivey - Civil War historian, comedienne
free refreshments

public welcome

 

Bedbugs in the Knox County libraries? Not anymore, officials say. And they want to keep it that way.

"... it will be donated to the Nashville Public Library later this summer. ..."

Sketch Bourque is the artist whose work is on display at the Spring Hill Library for the month of June.He is a displaced native of Louisiana, and has been living in Tennessee for 7 years. He has a...