LEGO Club
2024-12-09 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-12-16 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-01-06 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Detroit) | 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!

Toddler Storytime
2024-12-10 10:30 - 23:15, 2024-12-17 10:30 - 23:15, 2025-01-07 10:30 - 11:15 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Toddler Storytime
Join us for stories, songs, fingerplays, and fun! Toddler Storytime is for ages 2-4, but older and younger siblings are welcome. Bring your toddler for a chance to learn and practice some early reading skills. We will reserve some time at the end for creative play or a craft.

Textile Lab
2024-12-10 17:30 - 19:30, 2024-12-17 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-01-07 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.

Brown Bag Talking Book Discussion
2024-12-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Papp (South) Community Room, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Brown Bag Talking Book Discussion
The group discusses two audiobooks each month. Listen to all, 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:

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
DB 116100
10 hours, 6 minutes. General Fiction.
Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he’s known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet’s straight-man facade is the story of an unhappy child’s runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian’s vocation, and of the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses. Bob’s experiences are imbued with melancholy but also a bright, sustained comedy; he has a talent for locating bizarre and outsize players to welcome onto the stage of his life.
Weyward by Emilia Hart
DB 113239
10 hours, 55 minutes. Historical Fiction
Three women. Five centuries. One secret. ‘I had nature in my heart, she said. Like she did, and her mother before her. There was something about us – the Weyward women – that bonded us more tightly with the natural world. We can feel it, she said, the same way we feel rage, sorrow or joy.’ In 2019, Kate flees an abusive relationship in London for Crows Beck, a remote Cumbrian village. Her destination is Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great Aunt Violet, an eccentric entomologist. As Kate struggles with the trauma of her past, she uncovers a secret about the women in her family. A secret dating back to 1619, when her ancestor Altha Weyward was put on trial for witchcraft…. Weyward is a stunning debut novel about gender and control – about the long echoes of male violence through the centuries. But more than that, it is a celebration of nature, female power and breaking free.

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.

Silent Book Club
2024-12-11 17:30 - 19:30, 2024-12-18 17:30 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Silent Book Club
Ever wanted to join a book club, but felt like it was too much pressure? Join this super low-key book club where you show up with a book of your choice and read! At each meeting the first and last 15 minutes will be designated for sharing what you’re reading/socializing with other members and then the hour and half in-between will be designated for reading. We will have an ambience room playing at low volume in the background and different options for seating. Feel free to bring a snack, beverage, or blanket to make this event extra cozy. This book club meets every Wednesday.

Writing Sessions
2024-12-12 14:30 - 16:30, 2024-12-19 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?

Holiday Gift Wrapping Station
2024-12-12 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-12-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Trolley (North) Unity Room, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Holiday Gift Wrapping Station
We are offering a calm spot to wrap presents away from prying eyes! Listen to holiday music and chill with us Thursday, December 12th and 19th from 5pm-7pm.
We will have some wrapping supplies available, but we encourage you to bring your own gift paper, bows, or gift boxes.

Tween Book Club Holiday Party!
2024-12-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Tween Book Club Holiday Party
Tween Book Club is a monthly book club suggested for ages 10-14 where we will read age-appropriate titles from all genres, have a snack, and do a book-related activity! This month is our holiday party, so we will discuss what our favorite reads of the year were, our new reading goals, and what we want to see next year from book club.
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 months book is Atana and the Firebird by Vivian Zhou

A mermaid, a firebird, and a witch become entangled with the mysterious and powerful Witch Queen, who may hold the key to each of their past in this epic middle grade fantasy by debut author Vivian Zhou. Atana’s island may be quiet and peaceful, but mostly, it’s lonely. With the outside world full of magic hunters who would stop at nothing to capture a mermaid like her, Atana has never been brave enough to swim far from her island’s shores and seek the answers to her mysterious past—until a firebird named Ren unexpectedly crashes into her life. Ren’s arrival does not go unnoticed, as it has been hundreds of years since a firebird last landed on Earth. Determined to both protect Ren and finally chase the answers she’s longed for, Atana embarks on an adventure that takes her and the firebird to strange new islands and entangles them with the powerful yet secretive Witch Queen. Generous though the Witch Queen’s offer of protection may be, an invitation to the Blue Palace can’t come without a price. And while the Palace’s splendid halls and library might hold the key to Atana’s past, will she be willing to pay the cost when it risks her chance of a bright new future?

Bark for Books
2024-12-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Bark for Books
Join us for our last Bark for Books of the year! Practice your reading skills by reading aloud to a trained therapy dog for 15 minutes. You can even practice presentations in front of them! From practicing speeches or book reports to just reading your favorite book aloud, these dogs love to hear stories and get a ton of pets. We will have two therapy dogs to read to from 3:00-5:00p.m. so, call or stop in the library to sign up for a time to meet these patient puppers. Registration begins November 29 at 10a.m. and we have 16 spots open.

Hooks & Needles
2024-12-16 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-12-23 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-12-30 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-06 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.

Canva Class: Drop-In
2024-12-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Canva Class: Drop-In
Have a specific question or need assistance with something on Canva? Stop by our Canva Drop-In Class. This class has no agenda other than answering any questions or problems you’ve encountered while using Canva. Feel free to stay until your question is answered or stay and learn more from others.

Special Library Board Meeting
2024-12-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Special Library Board Meeting
There will be a public special meeting of the Library Board at 7:00 p.m. at 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI 48180 to discuss the upcoming budget.
People who need special accommodations for the meeting should use our Contact Form, or call 734-287-4840 a week before the meeting. If you would like to contact board members before their meeting, please also use our Contact Form and indicate whether your message is for a specific board member or the Library Board as a whole.
Remote meeting attendance is available online by clicking this link or by calling 1(646)876-9923 and entering Meeting ID: 840 6243 1659 Passcode: ‪332064

Teen Volunteer Group*
2024-12-18 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!
*Registration Required

Adult Painting Swap*
2024-12-19 17:30 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Adult Painting Swap*
Join our Adult Librarian, Becky Price, for an adult painting swap. Each participant will get a canvas to start. You will have 5 minutes to set up your canvas for what kind of painting you’re attempting to get at the end of the night. Every 5-10 minutes you will swap paintings with the person next to you for them to add to it. At the end, you will get your brand new painting back with time to finish your painting (if needed) before taking it home. We will also be taking before and after photos to post on our Facebook and Instagram. This program is open to all skill levels.
*Registration is required to make sure we have enough supplies.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastPhone Number *City you live in *You do not need to be a Taylor resident to attendAre you an adult? *YesNoWould you like a reminder call the day before the event? *YesNoI understand that this registration only counts for one person and that it is strongly recommended I do not bring any non-registered guests. *YesSubmit

Cinema and Cocoa: The Polar Express
2024-12-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Cinema and Cocoa: The Polar Express
Come watch one our favorite winter movies: The Polar Express, and feel free to come dressed in your pajamas to match the characters on screen! We’ll have a small craft and your child will get to collect a Golden Ticket! Enjoy a nice cup of hot cocoa with fixings and some popcorn as well. Crafts and snacks are available while supplies last.
This event is for families and all ages.

LIBRARY CLOSED
2024-12-24 - 2024-12-25, 2024-12-31 - 2025-01-01 | Taylor Community Library, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States

Crafting Together
2025-01-04 11:00 - 12:00 | 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.
