Federal Income Tax Forms

The library has Internal Revenue Service federal tax forms for you. The standard 1040, 1040A & 1040EZ and few other forms are available and are free while the library has them in stock. These forms are located in the lower level foyer of the library. You may park in the back and enter at the first door. If the form you are looking for is not available, you may go to the Computer Department service desk and have them reproduced if available from the Internet for the cost of printing. You can also log onto http://www.irs.gov and print your forms at home. Tennessee Tax Forms are also available at the Reference and Computer Services Desks or you can print them from http://www.tennessee.gov/revenue/forms/indinc/index.htm.

Listen and Read Along with TumbleBooks!

TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books, which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book, which you can read, or have read to you. Each title available also has a game or puzzle, which can be easily done by children.

TumbleBooks is available on the library Web site at http://www.artcircle.crossville.com. Click on Children’s Services and then on the blue TumbleBooks icon to access the site.

“Baby It’s Cold Outside — Let’s Stay In and Read”

The second annual Winter Reading Club for adults kicked off Monday, Jan. 5, and will continue through Tuesday, March 31. Be sure you turn in the number of books you read or listen to each week. The more you read, the more entries you will have in each week’s drawing. A new drawing will be held each week. All participants will be entered into the final drawing on April 1.

“Once Upon a Time”

The next story time will be Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 10 a.m. Be sure to join “Miss Patty” for “Once Upon a Time.” All pre-school age children and their parents or caregivers are invited to attend. The Library’s Community Room is the location of the story time which includes music, movement, finger plays, crafts and best of all the reading of some great books by the children’s librarian.

Dolly Parton Imagination Library

Did you know that your pre-school child (from birth to their fifth birthday) can receive a free book each month through the mail? If not, come by or call the library to enroll your child in the Cumberland County Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Over 1,550 of the eligible children in Cumberland County are enrolled and receive an age appropriate book each month! It is very important that you let the Imagination Library staff know if you have a change of address. If not, your child will NOT receive their books. You can e-mail books4kids@frontiernet.net or call the library at 484-6790.

You can also sponsor a child for $30 per year. Sponsorship forms are available on the library’s Web site or your donation may be made at the library.

The Imagination Library is a phenomenal program that opens the wonderful world of reading to children. I love to watch a child when they are talking about the books that they receive in the mail their eyes positively glow. Parents tell me that when their child receives a book, everything is put on hold while they sit down and read the book.

Public Access Internet Computers

With the beginning of the New Year and homework assignments, parents please come in to the computer lab in the lower level of the library, fill out an application and sign a consent form if you want your child/children (17 and under) to have access to the Internet using the public access computers. We continually have students who need to obtain information for school reports from the Internet but do not have an agreement signed by a parent or guardian on file. We must have a user agreement signed by a parent or guardian for children and teens between the ages of birth to 17 years in order for the child or teen to use the public Internet computers.

Volunteers Needed

The library needs you! Volunteers are needed at Art Circle Public Library. Shelvers are needed now! If you enjoy being around books and want to familiarize yourself with the library’s collection, we need you! As you put the books and other media back on the shelves, you learn first-hand what is new at the library. Come by the library today and sign up!

You can contact the library by visiting the Art Circle Public Library at 154 East First Street, Crossville, TN 38555; by phone at 484-6790, by fax at 484-2350, or check us out on the Web at http://www.artcircle.crossville.com, or by e-mailing James Houston, interim library director – jshouston@crossville.com; Patricia Dalton, children’s librarian – pjdalton@crossville.com; Margo Brown, reference librarian – mlbrown@crossville.com. Library hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday – 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Wednesday and Saturday – 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

New to the Library Shelves:

Adult Fiction

Born to Run by James Grippando

Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich

Eclipse by Richard North Patterson

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough

The Man Who Died laughing and the Man Who Lived By Night by David Handler

The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Woman Who Fell From Grace by David Handler

The Last of the Honky Tonk-Angels by Marsha Moyer

Adult Non-Fiction

Guilty by Ann Coulter

All Pets Go to Heaven by Sylvia Browne

American Thighs by Jill Conner Browne

Freedom From Disease by Peter Morgan Kash

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

Moonshine Man: the Life of Church Lester by Thomas Swafford

Whiskey Wars: the Life of Jim Hamilton by Thomas Swafford

American Mortgage: Everything You Need to Know by Trevor Rhodes

American Landlord: Everything You Need to Know by Trevor Rhodes

American Foreclosure: Everything You Need to Know by Trevor Rhodes

Young-Adult Fiction

InkSpell by Cornelia Funke

InkHeart by Cornelia Funke

InkDeath by Cornelia Funke

Young-Adult Non-Fiction

Careers for People on the Move by Marjorie Eberts

Careers for Animal Lovers by Louise Miller

Careers for Persuasive Types by Jan Goldberg

Careers for Fashion Plates by Lucia Mauro

Careers for Nature Lovers by Louise Miller

Careers for Aquatic Types by Blythe Camenson

Opportunities in Electronic Careers by Mark Rowh

Opportunities in Dental Care Careers by Bonnie Kendall

Opportunities in Carpentry Careers by Roger Sheldon

Opportunities in Psychology Careers by Donald Super

Opportunities in Petroleum Careers by Gretchen Krueger

Opportunities in Library and Information Science Careers by Kathleen De La Pena McCook

Opportunities in Laser Technology Careers by Jan Bone

Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating Careers by David Stearns

Opportunities in Landscape Architecture, Botanical Gardens, and Arboreta Careers by Blythe Camenson