Library News

The curtain is coming up on several theatre productions in our area, and Knox County Public Library is excited to help provide access to some of them through the Read City Explorer Pass program.

We tried something different this year, and it was clearly an epic hit.

With 500+ kids screaming at the top of their lungs, you’d think the Beatles were in the house—or Taylor Swift. The enthusiasm was real, but the star of the show was books and reading.

When the Clarence Brown Film Festival takes place this fall, audiences will have the rare chance to see one of Brown's most renowned silent films, which had ostensibly gone missing for over 50 years.

Knoxville likes to flaunt her literary giants -- and rightly so. After all, what other town our size can claim a significant handful of Pulitzer Prize- winning writers and an Oscar nod or two? We do have a lot to gloat about.

In the category of it's never too late, we received an interesting package in the mail this month.

Over 200 students from West View Elementary School made the trek to their neighborhood park to help cut the ribbon on the Library's inaugural Storybook Trail on Friday, Sept. 16.

When Pastor John Unthank took the podium, the luncheon crowd was on their feet giving him a rousing ovation. On Thursday, September 15, the Advisory Board for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Knox County honored Pastor John at Cherokee Country Club for his work in children's literacy.

An ongoing project at the Calvin M. McClung Collection recently led to the discovery of the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Appalachian Exposition supplements.