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Tyler Public Library
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Library Hours
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201 S. College Ave., Tyler, Tx 75702
Phone: 903-593-7323, Fax: 903-531-1329
E-mail: Tyler Library
Chris Albertson, City Librarian |
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Monday-Thursday
Friday
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10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
12 p.m. - 4 p.m.
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Click here for a map to our location.
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What's going on at the Library?
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Library Card Month
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Teddy Bear Picnic
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Talk Like a Pirate Party
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Dressed to Read
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Writing Workshop
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Deck the Shelves!
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Newsletter Upcoming Events Event Registration Kids Young Adults and Adults Library Event Calendar
Tyler Public Library distributes a bi-monthly newsletter in partnership with the Friends of the Tyler Public Library.
Click on the image below to read our latest edition:
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July - August
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September-October
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Upcoming Events
Free and open to the public
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Click here for information
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DayCare Story Share - Preschool storytime for childcares and camps
Tuesdays at 10:30 - Story Room
Sept. 21 - Dec. 1
Registration required for groups of 5 or more. (Click on link for online registration, call 903-593-7323 or email eventsignup@tylertexas.com.) |
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Read Aloud Crowd - Preschool storytime for families
Wednesdays & Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. - Story Room
Resumes August 11 and 12.
No registration required.
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American Girl - School age children and their adults
Third Saturday - 10 a.m. to noon - Taylor Auditorium
No registration required.
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Sept. 8 - Celebrate Constitution Week with Felicity. Special
guests from the Mary Tyler chapter of the Daughters of the Americn Revolution will be on hand to bring colonial America to life. |
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Oct. 16 - Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Josefina, a girl growing up in News Mexico in 1824. |
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Nov. 20 - No meeting. |
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Sunday, Dec. 5 - American Girl Holiday Tea - "dress-up" tea for girls and their mothers, grandmothers and other significant adults. Guest speaker, doll display and fashion show. |
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ArtCards - Adults
Tuesdays - 10:30 a.m. - Noon - Taylor Auditorium
A $10 supply fee is payable at the beginning of each class and includes all the materials you will need to make three projects each session.
Registration is required. (Click on link for online registration, call
903-593-7323 or email eventsignup@tylertexas.com.) |
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Sept. 28
Oct. 12, Oct. 26
Nov. 12, Nov. 30 (Holiday cardmaking)
Jan. 25
Feb. 8, Feb. 22
SATURDAY, March 5, 10:30 a.m. - Noon
March 8, March 22
April 5, April 19
SATURDAY, April 30, 10:30 a.m. - Noon
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Club Read - Adults
Last Tuesday of the month - 10 a.m. - Second Floor Atrium
No registration required.
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Sept. 28 - Olive Kitteredge by Elizabeth Stout |
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Oct. 26 - The Laws of Harmony by Judith R. Hendricks |
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Nov. 30 - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton |
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Dec. 28 - No meeting |
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Jan. 25 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson |
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Feb. 22 - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese |
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March 29 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield |
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April 26 - Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford |
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May 31 - A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick |
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June 28 - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson |
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Texas Writers Network - Adults and Young Adults
First Sunday, 2 - 4 p.m. - Taylor Auditorium
No registration required.
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Sept. 12 - Note date change due to Labor Day Holiday. Program to be announced. |
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Oct. 3 - Program: Jan Tucker, author of the newly-released non-fiction book The Sun Still Shines: Living with Chronic Illness, discusses her road to publication. |
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Nov. 7 - Program to be announced. |
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Dec. 12 - Note date change. Program to be announced. |
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Read Aloud Crowd Day Care Story Share American Girl
Read Aloud Crowd
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. in the Storyroom. Resumes Aug. 11 and 12.
Storyteller Evelyn McLane and friends share songs, stories, and simple crafts with preschoolers and their families.
No registration required. |
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DayCare Story Share
Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. in the Story Room.
Resumes in September.
Storyteller Evelyn McLane and friends share stories, songs and books with childcare groups.
Registration required. |
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American Girl
Third Saturdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. in Taylor Auditorium.
No registration required. |
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Club Read East Texas Genealogical Society Texas Writers Network
Club Read
Last Tuesday of the month. No registration required.
10 a.m. in the Second Floor Atrium |
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August 31 - The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
Will Truesdale, a rootless, handsome Briton, arrives in Hong Kong in 1941, and is swept up by Trudy Liang, the blithe and glamorous daughter of a Shanghai millionaire and a Portuguese beauty. They quickly become inseparable, their days spent in a whirl of parties and champagne, but when the Japanese invade, Will is interned and Trudy resorts to increasingly Faustian methods to survive. After the war, Claire Pendleton, the native wife of a British civil servant, arrives. She begins giving piano lessons to the daughter of a rich Chinese couple, and falls in love with their wounded and inscrutable driver: Will. Lee unfolds each story, and flits between them, with the brisk grace and discretion of the society she describes a world in which horrors are adumbrated but seldom told.
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East Texas Genealogical Society
The society meets the second Saturday of each month at 2 p.m. at the Tyler Public Library in Taylor Auditorium. Interesting and informative programs help members and visitors with their genealogical research. The Computer Interest Group (CIG) meetings, following the main meeting and refreshments, are of interest to those who use computers with their research. Visitors are always welcome!
Visit ETGS online at www.etgs.org
Registration is now closed for the Roots 101 classes.
If you would like to be notified when classes are offered again, please click here and fill out the form.
East Texas Genealogical Society and Tyler Public Library Sponsor Roots 101 Workshops
Beginning genealogists can get a few pointers from experienced researchers in August with a series of workshops sponsored by the East Texas Genealogical Society (ETGS) and the Tyler Public Library. Roots 101: Beginning Genealogy (Research for Rookies) will introduce the basics of family research each Saturday in August from 1-4 p.m. in the Tyler Public Library’s Taylor Auditorium
“The sessions are designed to introduce ‘rookie’ researchers to the basic concepts of family research,” said Evelyn McLane, Library Programming Associate. The course will help answer questions about getting started, organizing files, completing pedigree charts, and accessing Internet resources.
Beginning Aug. 7 with “The Basics”, Jim Sellers will introduce participants to pedigree charts, group sheets, census records and more. Jeanne Sellers will follow up with an introduction to Internet search engines and basic Internet searches.
On Aug. 14, during “The People”, attendees will be invited to meet with ETGS members for their monthly gathering to include a discussion by Aaron Holt about the National Archives and Records Administration, Southwest Region, in Fort Worth.
As the sessions continue on Aug. 21 with “The Resources”, the group will tour the Local and Family History section of the Tyler Public Library and begin computer research assisted by ETGS members.
At the last session on Aug. 28, “The Sources”, Frances Grochoski and Scott Fitzgerald will lead a discussion of various sources for genealogical information, including court house records, land records and church records.
The free workshops are open to anyone interested in starting family research. The public is welcome, but registration is required and is limited to 40 participants. For more information about the workshops or to register, go to the Library registration form or www.etgs.org. Participants can also register by phone: (903) 593-7323 or email: programs@tylertexas.com.
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Texas Writers Network
First Sunday - 2:00 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Taylor Auditorium
(New time!)
Join us for informal gathering of writers and aspiring writers for mutual support, critique, and networking!
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Viewing Account Information Online Renewing Materials Online Placing a Book On Hold Online
Viewing Account Information Online
Follow the instructions below to view your account information online.
- Click on the Library Catalog button above.
- You are now at the Tyler Library Catalog screen. At the bottom-right of the screen enter your library card number (the 14 digit number on the back of your card below the barcode) at the USER ID prompt.
- At the time you registered, the software assigned the word changeme (no space) as your PIN. If you have not since changed your PIN you should enter the word changeme at the PIN prompt.
- Click the "My Account" link near the top-right of the screen.
- Click on the links under "My Account" to view your account, change your PIN, renew your materials or change your address.
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Renewing Materials Online
Follow the instructions below to renew your materials online.
- Click on the Library Catalog button above.
- You are now at the Tyler Library Catalog screen. At the bottom-right of the screen enter your library card number (the 14 digit number on the back of your card below the barcode) at the USER ID prompt.
- At the time you registered, the software assigned the word changeme (no space) as your PIN. If you have not since changed your PIN you should enter the word changeme at the PIN prompt.
- Click the "My Account" link near the top-right of the screen.
- Click the "Renew My Materials" link
- You will see a list of materials you have checked out and their due dates.
- You may renew only selected items by clicking the appropriate boxes to the left, then clicking the Renew Selected Items button at the bottom of the screen. You may renew all the items on the screen by clicking the Renew All option above the title list, then clicking the Renew button at the bottom of the screen. The software will not allow you to renew any items that are overdue or that have already been renewed once. The only audio-visual materials that may be renewed are books-on-tape.
- When you have clicked the Renew button, a dialog box will appear showing whether you were successful and the new due date. The due dates shown on the overall list of titles may not be updated until the screen is refreshed (by logging back into your account or by clicking your browser's back button and the re-entering the renewal page).
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Placing a Book On Hold Online
Follow the instructions below to place a book on hold online.
- Click on the Library Catalog button above.
- Search for your book using the search fields.
- Click on the "Details" link of the book you want to place on hold.
- Click the Hold button
- Enter your 14 digit library card number and your PIN
- Click the Place Hold button
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How to Get a Library Card Suggest to Buy Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
How to Get a Library Card
To get a Library card, come to the Library at 201 S. College Avenue and bring photo identification and proof of your current address (driver's license, state i.d., a recent utility bill, etc.).
You will need to fill out a form at the Circulation Desk and you will be given your card. To make the process faster download the form, print it and have it ready for the Circulation Staff when you get here.
The process takes about five minutes, unless we are unusually busy.
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Interlibrary Loan is a FREE service where we ask other libraries if they have a book that you want in the event that we don't have it. If they do then they mail the book to us, we check it out to you, and then you return it back to us when it is due. We will then mail the book back to the lending library.
In order to utilize this service please speak to a library associate at the Information Desk.
Download a PDF copy of the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) policy.
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Please contact the Local History Desk if you have a question about genealogy, searching for your ancestors or the history of Tyler.
Ancestry Search database
The Ancestry database is licensed for use only in the Tyler Public Library building itself. No remote access is available to the public.
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Library Hours, Location and Closings Library Cards and Checking Out Items Library Materials Resources in Spanish Locating Resources in the Library Account Information, Renewing Materials, and Placing Holds on the Internet Computers Access for Disabled Patrons
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Ask a Librarian
Can’t find what you’re looking for on our website? Then ask a librarian by emailing the Library Information Desk. You may also reach us at (903) 593-7323. Ask for Reference.
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Adult Volunteers
The Tyler Public Library is currently seeking volunteers to serve on their Customer Assistance and Re-Shelving Teams.
Customer Assistance Team members assist Library visitors with locating and using the many resources available at the Library. These volunteers are available to assist with the computerized card catalog, direct visitors to the section where the requested material is located or just offer a friendly greeting and helping hand to the Library's valued guests.
Re-shelving Assistance Team members work with Library staff by returning materials to their proper places on the shelves.
Please contact City of Tyler Volunteer Services Coordinator Gary Lynch for more information about volunteer possibilities at the Tyler Public Library or other city departments.
Visit the Volunteer Tyler Web Page
E-mail Volunteer Services Coordinator Gary Lynch
Youth Volunteers
Applications will be accepted beginning Aug. 9 for autumn volunteer opportunities.
The Library has a very limited number of opportunities for youth 12 through 18 to volunteer to help with events and activities. If you are interested, please download and complete the forms provided below. Forms are also
available at the Library.
You may drop off the completed forms at the Library, fax them to (903) 531-1329 or mail them to:
Programming
Tyler Public Library
201 S. College Ave.
Tyler, TX 75702-7381
We cannot guarantee that your application can be accommodated. A Library staff member will contact you as soon as possible to let you know the status of your application.
Please click the links below to download forms.
Youth Volunteer Policies
Youth Volunteer Application
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