"In true beauty, more depends upon right location..." -Mark Twain-1892

Annual Library Events

Mark Twain Library Book Fair - donations

Mark Twain Library Art Show and Gala

Frog Frolic - A Children's Country Fair

Services at the Library

Library catalog

Get a library card--Simply present proof of your Redding address to complete a brief address card.

Place a "hold" or a reservation for a book-- Have your library card handy. Then, from our library catalog, select your book and click on "Request Item". You will be prompted for your library barcode and then a Pick-up location.

Use Ancestry.com, available from all of our new computers here at the library for genealogy research.

Research Redding family and/or house histories. Check with our Reference Librian for help using the Wixted Collection and searching our amazing "Vertical Files".

Sign-up for programs, story times, etc.

Information Technology-- Wi-Fi is here. Connect to the internet from your laptop or use our computers. Please review the Library's Policy on Public Internet Access prior to using any of our internet connections.

Borrow music (CDs), museum passes, audiobooks, movies, books new and old, special collections, etc.

Buy books and materials before they are offered at the Book Fair (year-round).

View the display cases for exceptional exhibits!

Copier and laser printers

Meeting Room facility

Policies

Suggest titles that could enrich the collection

Library Services that also work from the comfort of your home Download Audio Books from home. Click here to get all the details.

From your home computer, peruse lists of books and of media, place holds/reserves, check on what you have currently checked out, whether any fines have accrued, and even renew your checked out items.

Check holdings in local libraries, and so much more.

The New Building After years of planning and generous contributions from the community, the new library is open for all to enjoy. The link to the left will take you to a sample page of photographs.
The New Building Layout This new facility lends the space to provide more and ever-improving services to Redding. The link to the left will show how the facility is laid out.