Taylor Community Library

CANCELED - Wind Down Wednesdays
2024-06-26 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Detroit) | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
CANCELED – Wind Down Wednesdays
Wind down your Wednesday nights at the library! Enjoy a quiet designated space for you to read, journal, crochet, knit, scrapbook, diamond dot etc., every Wednesday this summer.
This is a bring your own quiet activity drop-in event. Some donated supplies will be available, but not guaranteed.

CANCELED - Adult Book Club
2024-06-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Adult Book Club
Join us as we read fiction from all walks of life and perspectives. For our next discussion, we’ll be reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab.

Hooks & Needles
2024-07-01 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-07-08 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-07-15 11:00 - 13:00 | Trolley (North) Unity Room, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Hooks & Needles
Come and join other yarn enthusiasts in our community who love to knit and crochet. This is a weekly event to share ideas, projects, and do a little yarning. Bring your own projects to work on.
Masks are required while attending indoor programming. If you need to request accommodation, please contact our director at least a week in advance.

LEGO Club
2024-07-01 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-07-08 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-07-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Taylor Community Library, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
LEGO Club
Do you love Legos? Join our Lego Club! Every Monday at 6 p.m. come in and start building. Everyone is welcome to free build. If you are up for it, we will provide a challenge or theme for you to make something related to that week’s challenge or theme. We will display your creation for one week and will tear them apart at the next event. This event is open to kids, tweens, teens, and parents. No registration is required, just stop in and build!

Summer Barbecue Demo Class
2024-07-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Summer Barbecue Demo Class
Join us for a 1-hour cooking demonstration with Chef Mary as she teaches us how to make “Red, White, and Blueberry Salad” and “Grilled Tilapia with Corn Salad”. Attendees will get to learn the recipes, see how they’re made, and enjoy samples of each dish.

Textile Lab
2024-07-02 17:30 - 19:30, 2024-07-09 17:30 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Textile Lab
Textile Lab is a weekly lab for textile crafters to come together and work on their projects. If you love to quilt, sew, knit, crochet, embroider, needlepoint, or any other textile crafting, this is the place for you! An instructor will be available to teach you how to quilt, or to guide you on your projects. This is a weekly lab that is open on Tuesdays from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Audio Described Movie Day
2024-07-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Trolley (North) Unity Room, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Audio Described Movie Day
Pop in the 1st Wednesday of each month to watch a new, popular film with the Audio Description (AD) narration track added.

Teen Volunteer Group
2024-07-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Teen Volunteer Group
Are you a teen who’s looking for volunteer hours? Join our Teen Volunteer Group!
Teen volunteers help plan, implement, and promote ways to improve services offered at TCL. Joining our group builds your resume, earns you volunteer hours, and gives you a chance to be heard. Tasks will include helping the library with collection maintenance, programming prep, maintaining the TCL Tiny Taylor Library, and more!
We meet every other Wednesday at 4 p.m. in person at the library.
Want to earn volunteer hours for this? Visit our Volunteer page to see if space is available and to sign up!

Wind Down Wednesdays
2024-07-03 17:30 - 19:30, 2024-07-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Wind Down Wednesdays
Wind down your Wednesday nights at the library! Enjoy a quiet designated space for you to read, journal, crochet, knit, scrapbook, diamond dot etc., every Wednesday this summer.
This is a bring your own quiet activity drop-in event. Some donated supplies will be available, but not guaranteed.

LIBRARY CLOSED
2024-07-04 | Taylor Community Library, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States

Adult Movie Night
2024-07-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Adult Movie Night
Come join us for our Adult Movie Night. This week we will be watching Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

Kids Movie Night
2024-07-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Kids Movie Night
Come join us for our Kids Movie Night. This week we will be watching The Little Mermaid (2023).

Lines, Shapes, and More on Canva
2024-07-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Lines, Shapes, and More on Canva
Want to learn how to elevate your Canva designs with lines, shapes, and more? Join us for a presentation where we will teach you how to add and edit lines, shapes, frames, grids, and draw. This class is beginner+ friendly.
We will have 10 Chromebooks to loan out for the program on a first-come-first-serve basis. Bringing a personal laptop or Chromebook is welcome!
All attendees must have or create a Canva account (free or pro) before attending the class. You can create one by clicking here. If you need help creating your account, please call and ask for Becky Price.
Click here to access the slides

Comic Art Fantasy
2024-07-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Comic Art Fantasy
Watch Marvel Illustrator Jerry DeCaire bring a comic to life from beginning to end. Some of your favorite superheros might be included from Thor to Iron Man.
Receive a comic strip and colored pencils to make your own comic and display it in the library!

Brown Bag Talking Book Discussion
2024-07-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Trolley (North) Unity Room, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Brown Bag Talking Book Discussion
The group discusses two audiobooks each month. Listen to both, one, or even none… everyone is welcome!
Meet in person or join in remotely.
To join remotely by phone, please Call: 267-807-9601 and use Access Code: [REDACTED], or join virtually by visiting bit.ly/TCLbtbcall

Titles are voted on 3 months in advance. This month’s titles:

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
DB116345
10 hours, 18 minutes. Suspense Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories, Bestsellers.
“Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realize that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home. But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat. Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
DB106614
10 hours, 26 minutes. Historical Fiction.
London, 1925. After Archie Christie tells his famous wife, author Agatha Christie, that he is having an affair and wants a divorce, Agatha disappears for eleven days. Based on these real events, this novel explores the story of Archie’s mistress, Nan O’Dea. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Commercial audiobook. 2022.

New attendees: Please call the library or click on the covers above to place copies on hold. Or current BTB members can use the Talking Book Order Form to have copies sent on cartridge.

Computer Basics
2024-07-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Taylor Community Library, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Computer Basics
This class is designed for those with little or no experience with computers. You will learn the parts of a computer, how to use a mouse, basic navigation with windows, the internet, apps, saving files, & printing.
Class size is limited to 8 participants on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Writing Sessions
2024-07-11 14:30 - 16:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Writing Sessions
Calling all writers! We will have one of the front Community Rooms available for those looking for motivation to start writing to come in and write every Thursday, from 2:30-4:30pm. It’ll be a quiet place with little to no interruptions, and enough space to spread out your notes and plotline maps. Are you up for the challenge?

CANCELLED - Tween Book Club
2024-07-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
CANCELLED – Tween Book Club
Tween Book Club is a monthly book club suggested for ages 10-14 where we will read age-appropriate titles from all genres.
Copies of our monthly book will be placed on hold and can be picked up from our front desk before our meeting. Most of the time they are also available on Hoopla or Libby
We will take time to share thoughts on the book and chat about our general reading interests!
This month’s book is Tessa Miyata is No Hero by Julie Abe.

Summer Reading Store Hours
2024-07-12 10:00 - 17:00, 2024-07-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Summer Reading Store Hours
Stop in to spend the Taylor Library Bucks you earned through the Summer Reading Challenge at our store. Our store is only open on certain weekends:

Friday, July 12th & Saturday, July 13th
Friday, July 26th & Saturday, July 27th
Friday, August 9th & Saturday, August 10th
Friday, August 23rd & Saturday, August 24th
Friday, September 6th & Saturday, September 7th

For more information, visit our Summer Reading Challenge page.

Adult Movie Night
2024-07-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Adult Movie Night
Come join us for our Adult Movie Night. This week we will be watching Edward Scissorhands.

Crafting Together
2024-07-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Crafting Together (Kids & Parents)
Monthly Crafting Together aimed to give parents and children the opportunity to use their creativity to create beautiful masterpieces and memories.

Kids Movie Night
2024-07-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Kids Movie Night
Come join us for our Kids Movie Night. This week we will be watching A Wrinkle in Time.

Sleeping Bear Legend & Speed Painting
2024-07-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Sleeping Bear Legend & Speed Painting
Join us to learn the Legend of the Sleeping Bear Dunes followed by a short 6-minute animated film, a 5-minute speed painting, and then a Meet the Artist Q&A with Martina Hahn. You will also get the chance to be a part of their Signature Painting Project. It is a large 4’x 5’ft canvas which all patrons are invited to sign or leave a mark upon in different colored pens. Once it reaches 10,000 signatures, it will show a colored image of the film.
