Friends of the Knox County Library
The Friends of the Library (FOL) are dedicated to fostering a love of libraries, books and reading in the Knox County area by community outreach, advocacy and support of the Knox County Public Library system and staff.
"A library is richer than Fort Knox and everybody has the key."
- Robert Morgan, author
working together
The Knox County Public Library is consistently ranked at the very top of all county services and the Friends of the Library enjoy an exceptional position in our community. Through our volunteer efforts and financial support, our members foster literacy, education and lifelong learning, all strong indicators of overall quality of life. FOL is a nonprofit organization open to everyone who believes that a strong library system demonstrates a community's dedication to these values.
contact
info@knoxfriends.org
500 W. Church Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37902
865-215-8775 (P)
865-215-8772 (F)
Stay in the loop: to receive
e-mail notices about
specials at the book shop
and other Friends of the Library events,
send us an e-mail!
The Festival of Reading: Sat. May 19, 10 -3
Once again, the Friends will be supporting the upcoming Children's Festival of Reading on May 19 at the World's Fair Park; this is a great event for kicking off the summer reading program and the line up of authors and illustrators that will be on stage is really exciting. We hope you will bring your favorite young ones to this very special and fun day, and come by the Friends tent to buy a childrens book or two! See you there...
COMING UP...
Branch mini sale at Cedar Bluff Library
- Friday June 1st & Saturday June 2nd
- 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
- 9045 Cross Park Drive
- $1 paperbacks
- $2 hard covers
- all proceeds go to Cedar Bluff and FOL!
- e-mail here if you love Cedar Bluff & you'd like to help out... fun guaranteed!
May 2012: Barnes and Noble has donated 18 boxes of brand new, fancy books to our Shoebox Libraries program (click here to read more)
Annual Book Sale 2012 THANK YOU NOTE...
Thanks to our community partners and sponsors who provided critical support to our 2012 Used Book Sale, including Comcast, the Knoxville News Sentinel, WBIR-TV, the L&N Stem High School, Knoxville's Public Building Authority, and Knoxville's Amazing Food Co-op, Three Rivers Market. We look forward to another year of support that we can now provide to the Knox County Public Library, including special materials and programs for children, teens and adults.
join the Friends here!
FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE LIBRARIES:
"Tennessee Friends groups are working hard to close the gap between what our libraries need and what their funding provides."
Become a Volunteer
The Friends value volunteers and so does the library community. Our volunteers work in many areas such as volunteer readers in the community and as workers at our annual book sale. learn more...
Donate Today
FOL is a nonprofit organization dependent on the generous donations of others. make a donation...
