We are excited for our 5th Annual author signing on January 14, 2012

We hope that you will make plans to stop by the library on this day to visit with all our wonderful Tennessee authors.

We are proud to offer our patrons a free service that will enrich your life or even help you find a job or provide further education for your current job.

We have over 500 online non-credit continuing education courses available for patrons of the library.

Check out our page explaining how to take advantage of this service.

Access your library or any library within 10 miles of you using your iphone or android phone.

Access My Library

Download it today from the Apple App Store

OverDrive Media Console for iPhone/iPad v2.2 optimizes the user experience for eBooks and audiobooks on the Apple tablet. Whether users are reading an EPUB eBook, listening to an MP3 audiobook, or browsing the OverDrive Media Console library, they’ll now have the fulliPad iPad screen utilized for their enjoyment.

Public, school, and college libraries now provide direct eBook downloads on the iPad® with the free OverDrive® Media Console™ app. The optimized app enables users at more than 13,000 libraries worldwide to wirelessly download and enjoy eBooks and digital audiobooks from a local library on the Apple® device. Popular and best-selling titles, including “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson, “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand, and “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, are a few of the Most Downloaded Books from the Library (www.overdrive.com/mostdownloaded). These digital books and more in popular genres like romance, mystery, thriller, and virtually every subject can now be borrowed from libraries and enjoyed in an optimized iPad app.
The OverDrive Media Console app for iPad is available in the App Store (http://bit.ly/OverDriveApp). To see if your library is a member of the OverDrive network, visit http://search.overdrive.com.
OverDrive’s app for iPad gives users wireless access to their library’s EPUB eBook and MP3 audiobook catalog without a PC. Users can find their library using the app’s “Get Books” feature, then browse for titles, check out with a valid library card, and download directly to the iPad. Brightness and text-size controls allow them to customize their eBook reading experience. Users can also create bookmarks and resume from the last point accessed. The eBook and audiobook titles from the library automatically expire in the app, so there is never a late fee.
The iPad app joins the previously released OverDrive apps for iPhone® and Android™, which have been downloaded by more than half a million users worldwide. In addition to iPad support, OverDrive’s app for iOS devices was updated to enable new features, including landscape and portrait orientation, support for hyperlinks, and an updated interface with a lending countdown calendar.
OverDrive provides digital distribution services for more than 13,000 libraries, retailers, and schools worldwide with support for Windows®, Mac®, iPod®, iPhone, iPad, Sony® Reader, NOOK™, Android, and BlackBerry®.

We are pleased to announce the opening of Tennessee Electronic Libraries for kids.

What if you spotlighted a day inside Tennessee Libraries?

This is that day October 7, 2010

All over the state of Tennessee libraries recorded in pictures and numbers the people who used the library on that day.
That day wasn’t any special day, it was just a day in a Tennessee public library.

Tennessee libraries are more than just books.

Support your library today.

Find all the data online here.

Data provided by U.S. Census Bureau.

Population Density: Includes Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia in population density rankings, 1 to 52.

Apportionment: Apportionment is the process of dividing the 435 seats in the House of Representatives among the 50 states. Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia are not included.

Alaska and Hawaii gained statehood in 1959. Arizona and New Mexico gained statehood in 1912. Data before those periods are not reflected on the map.

Congress did not reapportion in 1920. Therefore, the apportionment data shown for this decade replicates the data for 1910. There is no data reflected for the apportionment population in the 1920 “people per representative” chart.

We are happy to announce the following databases are now including in our Tennessee Electronic Library.

Agriculture Collection
Business Economics and Theory Collection
Communications and Mass Media Collection
Criminal Justice Collection
Culinary Arts Collection
Diversity Studies Collection
Educators Collection
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
Fine Arts and Music Collection
Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
General Science Collection
GLBT Life and Issues Collection
Home Improvement Collection
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection
Information Science & Technology Collection
Insurance & Liability Collection
Military and Intelligence Database
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
Pop Culture Collection
Popular Magazines
Psychology Collection
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Small Business Collection
US History Collection
Vocation & Careers Collection
War & Terrorism Collection
World History Collection

You can connect to TEL using this link

OverDrive eBooks Now on the iPhone and Android

OverDrive recently released an update to the OverDrive apps for iPhone and Android, which adds support for eBooks from your library. Now your customers will be able to download both EPUB eBooks and MP3 audiobooks directly to their iPhone, iPod touch, or Android phone/tablet. New users can search for “OverDrive Media Console” in the Apple App Store and Android Market, while current users will be alerted to update the existing OverDrive app on their devices.

OverDrive Media Console v2.0 for iPhone and Android provides two major enhancements that improve the end user experience. First, the apps now enable users to download and enjoy EPUB eBooks on their devices (in addition to the existing ability to download MP3 audiobooks). The eBook reading experience includes user-inspired features for bookmarking and adjusting brightness and font size. Additional features will be added as the apps develop, including highlighting, annotation, in-app text-to-speech, and more.

Second, both apps offer a built-in ‘Get Books’ feature. If a library customer has already downloaded audiobooks from your library with a previous version of the app, your library will be displayed when he or she selects ‘Get Books’. With a single click, the user can reach your site once again. If a customer is new to library downloads, he or she can quickly find your ‘Virtual Branch’ website and save it for single-click access going forward. Once users find your library using ‘Get Books’ feature, they can browse the ‘Virtual Branch’ website on their device, check out a title with their library card, and wirelessly download an EPUB eBook to the app.

Even with the release of OverDrive’s apps for iPhone and Android, we know that there are additional requests to support other devices, including iPad. Currently the iPhone app will work on iPad with iOS 4 and enables the full browse, check out, download experience. However, an optimized version for iPad-with improved resolution and additional features is coming soon, along with apps for BlackBerry and other mobile devices.

For more information on OverDrive’s apps, visit the software page on OverDrive.com.

As of July 1, 2010 we will no longer renew materials by telephone. Patrons may either have materials renewed by staff at the circulation desk, renew online from home or at the library’s OPAC computers.