Taylor Community Library

Teen Volunteer Group*
2025-09-24 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-08 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Detroit) | 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! Teens must be ages 14-18.
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!

Silent Book Club
2025-09-24 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-01 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-08 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.
This event is intended for: Adults

Adult Computer Classes: Internet Basics
2025-09-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Youth Section, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Adult Computer Classes: Internet Basics
This is the third installment in our Fall Computer Class series. This class will focus on the basic principles used when navigating the internet, and will be offered on a first come, first served basis. The class will take place on the Youth Side Computers on Thursday, September 25th, from 1:00-2:00 P.M.
This event in intended for: Adults

Bark for Books*
2025-09-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Bark for Books
Read aloud to a trained therapy dog for 15 minutes. Children and teens can also use their 15 minutes to practice book reports or speeches for school, or whatever you think will build their confidence in their reading and speaking skills. There are 16 slots open to read or speak aloud to a therapy dog and registration is required. They love to hear all the stories and get all the pets, so call or stop in the library to sign up starting 10 a.m. September 11! This program is for beginning readers, kids, tweens, and teens.
*Registration Required

Ghosts & Goosebumps
2025-09-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Ghosts & Goosebumps
Join us for a ghost scavenger hunt, Storytime, and craft to kick off the spooky season.
This event in intended for: Kids and Families

Canceled - Flashback Frights Movie Day
2025-09-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Canceled – Flashback Frights Movie Day
Treat yourself to a free, frightening film, where you don’t have to bother with sneaking in snacks. Come join us, bring your own snacks, and enjoy some time away from home. We will be watching Casper (PG).

This event in intended for: All Ages

Hooks & Needles
2025-09-29 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 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.

This event is intended for: Adults, but anyone who knits’ or crochets’ is welcome!

LEGO Club
2025-09-29 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 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!

Books & Bites Book Club*
2025-09-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Books & Bites Book Club*
Books & Bites is a monthly book club that reads and discusses YA books with adult crossover and Adult books with teen crossover — anyone who is a fan of these genres can attend. Copies of the next book are passed out and checked out at each meeting. You can also get a copy from our front desk and most of the time they are also available on Hoopla or Libby.
This event is intended for: Adults
This month’s title: “I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons” by Peter S. Beagle

Dragons are common in the backwater kingdom of Bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (who would much rather people call him Robert) has recently inherited his deceased dad’s job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, a career he detests with all his heart in part because he likes dragons, feeling a kinship with them, but mainly because his dream has always been the impossible one of transcending his humble origin to someday become a prince’s valet. Needless to say, fate has something rather different in mind…
*This book club is currently waitlisted. To join our in-person meetings, please fill out our waitlist form below. In the meantime, feel free to join our Facebook group for announcements and general bookish chat. You can also participate virtually using the Fable app.
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Sew Crafty
2025-09-30 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Sew Crafty
Sew Crafty 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! This is a weekly lab that is open on Tuesdays from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. This is a collaborative, inter-generational crafting group intended for kids, teens, and adults. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Fall Reading Challenge Begins
2025-10-01 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Fall Reading Challenge Begins
For more information, visit our Fall Reading Challenge page.

Audio Described Movie Day
2025-10-01 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.

October’s film:
The Woman in the Yard

Chair Exercise for Seniors
2025-10-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Chair Exercise for Seniors

Join us for this 6-week chair exercise course where we will focus on gentle movement, balance, and mindful mobility. Dates include: September 10, 17, 24, October 1, 8, and 15. This event is partnered by Leaders Advancing & Helping Communities.
This event is intended for: Seniors
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Halloween Costume Swap
2025-10-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Halloween Costume Swap
Want to save some money this Halloween and get your child a new-to-them costume? Come to our Halloween costume swap! We will be accepting donations of your gently-used, like-new conditioned children’s Halloween costumes through the month of September. You can drop your costume donations off during library open hours on the youth side near the youth reference desk. We will take donations until the day before the swap, Tuesday, September 30th. Any leftover costumes from the swap will be up for grabs for the month of the October on the youth side.

Puzzle Exchange
2025-10-02 10:00 - 19:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Puzzle Exchange
Tired of doing the same old puzzles? Stop by our puzzle exchange and swap them for new ones! From 10am till 7pm we will have one of our community rooms designated for puzzle swapping. Simply stop in, place the puzzles you no longer want on the table, and grab the ones you do want. There is no limit to how many puzzles you can drop off or take home. Don’t have any puzzles to donate? Feel free to stop by any way and see if there is something you’d like to take home.
THE FINE PRINT: Please only donate puzzles that have all their pieces to the best of your knowledge. Any puzzles not taken by the end of the event will either be put in our puzzle collection for circulation or recycled. You can drop off your puzzles ahead of time as early as Monday, September 29th.
This event is intended for: All ages

Passionate Parents Book Club
2025-10-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Passionate Parents Book Club
This is a monthly topic-based book club for picture books and board books. We will share our favorites, which ones the kids liked more, parents can share other resources music, crafts, etc. they use to help their child.
This event is indented for parents

Creepy Crafts
2025-10-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Creepy Crafts
Kick-off October by stopping in to the library to make some spooky crafts. We will have a few spooky-themed crafts to choose from and make while supplies last. We will be making paper roll mummies and bats, pumpkin sensory balloons, and witch cauldron paintings. These crafts are gear towards toddlers to elementary aged kids, but of course are just as fun for tweens and teens if they wanted to make some, too. This event is while supplies last.

Gargoyles, Grotesques, Graveyards and Ghosts
2025-10-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Gargoyles, Grotesques, Graveyards and Ghosts
Join photographer and historian Jeff Morrison as he shows more than 200 pictures of some of the most macabre examples of architectural sculpture to be found in the state of Michigan. You’ll visit churches, cemeteries, mansions and more, and learn about the meaning behind the sculpture found on these structures, and the artists, artisans and architects that made these buildings possible. You will also hear interesting stories about some people who may have stayed behind after their mortal lives ended, including jealous spouses, the possible second life of a murder victim, and the story of a ghost that wasn’t a ghost after all. The presentation is based on information that came to light while Jeff was researching and writing his award-winning books, Guardians of Detroit: Architectural Sculpture of the Motor City (Wayne State University Press, 2019) and Guardians of Michigan: Architectural Sculpture of the Pleasant Peninsulas (The University of Michigan Press, 2022).
Biography
Detroit
Jeff Morrison is a photographer and writer who has been taking pictures since his parents gave him his first camera at age nine. He has a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in art from Eastern Michigan University and over thirty years of experience as a graphic artist. Jeff’s first book, Guardians of Detroit: Architectural Sculpture in the Motor City, was published by Wayne State University Press in 2019. It won a State History Award for Outstanding Michigan History Publication from the Historical Society of Michigan and was honored as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan. His second book, Guardians of Michigan: Architectural Sculpture of the Pleasant Peninsulas, was published by The University of Michigan Press in 2022. It was honored as a 2023 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan and received the Stuart D. and Vernice M Gross Award for Literature in Regional History from Saginaw Valley State University. Jeff lives in Oxford, Michigan, with his lovely wife Susie.

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Toddler Storytime
2025-10-07 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.

Brown Bag Talking Book Discussion
2025-10-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 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 magnificent lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
DB 107797
14 hours, 37 minutes. Historical Fiction.
Marjorie Post glued cereal boxes in her father’s barn as a young girl. No one could have predicted that C. W. Post’s Cereal Company would grow into the General Foods empire, with Marjorie as its heiress and leading lady. Not content to stay in her prescribed roles of high-society wife, mother, and hostess, Marjorie dared to demand more. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2022.

The lost coast by Jonathan Kellerman
DB 123155
8 hours, 22 minutes. Suspense Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories.
“It’s been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner’s bureau. Now he’s on his own, working as a private eye…Clay is brought a fraud case that begins with a man surprised to learn that he’s been named the executor of his grandmother’s estate. Her accounts are a mess, and not everything is adding up…As Clay dives deeper into a decades-old scheme targeting the vulnerable, his investigation leads him to a bizarre town buried in the remote California wilderness. The residents don’t care much for outsiders. They certainly don’t like Clay asking questions. And they’ll do just about anything to shut him up.”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2024.

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.

No-Sew Halloween Plushies
2025-10-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
No-Sew Halloween Plushies
Come and learn how to make 3 different spooky no-sew plushies and then use your creativity to make your own! You can keep them as singular plushies, or make a few to make a spooky plushie garland. This event is for ages 10-17 while supplies last.

Adult Computer Classes: Email Basics
2025-10-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Youth Section, 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
Adult Computer Classes: Email Basics
Join us in our fourth installment of the Fall Computer Class series! This class will focus on all you need to know to set-up and operate an email account. The class will be located at the Youth Computers on Thursday, October 9th, from 1:00-2:00 P.M. It will be offered on a first come, first served basis.
This event is intended for:

T(w)een Book Club
2025-10-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Rooms (Papp & Trolley), 12303 Pardee Road, Taylor, MI, 48180, United States
T(w)een Book Club
T(w)een Book Club is a monthly book club suggested for tweens and teens ages 12-17 where we will read age-appropriate titles from all genres, have a snack, and do a book-related activity!
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 The Curse of the Eelgrass Bog by Mary Averling
