Beginning Wednesday, April 22 (2015) HotSpot devices were made available for rent at the Blount County Public Library. (Update: The Library announced the availability of new Internet capable tablets and updated mobile hotspots in April 2018.) The purpose of this program is to provide Internet access to areas of Blount County that do not have […]
Ex Libris
For fourteen years a dedicated team of volunteers has been reaching out and entertaining older members of the Blount County community. In February, 2004 the Friends of the Library received a request for a volunteer to “read to residents” at a local health facility. What resulted was a full-fledged outreach program designed to bring the […]
Book Discussion Group
The book discussion group currently meets the second Wednesday of each month, at 10:15 AM in the Board Room of the Library. Anyone who loves to read and talk about books is welcome to join in. When Barbara and Wayne Zurl moved to Maryville in 1994, Barbara looked in vain for a book discussion group. […]
Books for Soldiers
Books for Soldiers is a Friends of the Library project for sending books to our men and women serving in all our armed forces overseas. They make requests on a website; we, as official volunteers, search that site and fill requests where we are able from our surplus donated books. The need is great in […]
