How to get a library card
A Mark Twain Library card will be issued to any Redding resident who demonstrates proof of residency in Redding. Acceptable proof of residency includes a piece of mail delivered to your address in town, a Connecticut driver's license showing your Redding address, property or rental documents, etc.
Please come into the library with your proof of residency, and fill out a short application form. You will be immediately issued a library card good for five years, renewable at the end of the five-year period. This card can be used to borrow materials from any public library in the state of Connecticut.
Children may apply for library cards when they turn five.
Connecticut residents who work in or regularly visit Redding can borrow material from the Mark Twain Library using their hometown library cards. (If they prefer, individuals who work in Redding may apply for a Mark Twain Library card rather than using their hometown library cards; this is required of New York State residents.)
How to renew items online
All Mark Twain Library items - and any items borrowed from other Bibliomation libraries - may now be renewed online.
Renew by going to our online library catalog, click on the tab for "My Account" and type in your library card barcode. All the items you have borrowed from the Mark Twain Library and other Bibliomation libraries will be displayed. Mark the items you would like to renew and click "renew".
Please note that:
- DVDs marked "new" cannot be renewed
- Library items may only be renewed twice
- If a request has been placed on an item you have borrowed, you will not be able to renew that item.
Click here log-in to your account
How to request items online
Mark Twain Library card holders now have fast access to the 2,500,000 books, movies and CDs in the Bibliomation library consortium.
Request them by accessing our online catalog, clicking the tab for Bibliomation Libraries Search, and searching for the desired item. When the catalog record for the item appears,
- click request item
- enter your library barcode, and click "login"
- click request on request confirmation screen.
If you prefer, you may place a request on an item in the Mark Twain Library collection by following the procedure described above, but without clicking the Bibliomation tab (thereby limiting your search to our home library collection).
The item you requested should arrive at the library in 3 to 4 days; you will be contacted when it arrives. (Brand-new items and books that do not have copies "checked in" at other Bibliomation libraries may take a bit longer.
If you cannot locate your desired item in the Mark Twain Library collection or the Bibliomation consortium, then use the ICONN REQUEST catalog, which searches all public libraries in the state. Do this by accessing our online catalog, but this time click the tab for the Statewide Library Catalog. Enter the website by logging in with your library barcode. When you locate your item in the "main catalog", click request the item and follow instructions to have the material sent directly to the Mark Twain Library in a week to ten days
(While the Mark Twain Library does not take requests for theatrical-release DVDs, some other Bibliomation libraries do. Therefore, you can request a DVD using Bibliomation Libraries Search, but expect to wait a little longer for its arrival.)
Click here for catalog
Account Alert Service (from Library ELF): Receive email notification of due dates and holds - for all members of your family!
Library ELF is an independently-operated library service which helps families and individuals to keep track of their library loans and holds. Library ELF:
- sends email reminders before library items are due, and when they are overdue
- sends email notices when requested items are available for pickup
- allows families to receive notices for all family members in one combined family account
You must register for this service on your own. Click here to learn about Library ELF's privacy policy and find answers to general questions about the service.
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