City of Takoma Park

Check our library catalog. Please call us at 301.891.7259 to ask us to put any book aside for you to pick up, or to place a book on hold.

Browse approximately 2,000 magazines, including full text articles from about 700 of them.

Try eLibrary for free access to articles from hundred of newspapers, magazines, transcripts and reference materials. (Includes the Washington Post)

Books in Print now has reviews, synopses, book awards, the ability to do subject searches, and many other features. You can even maintain your own ongoing list of books you want to read.

Booklist is published by the American Library Association and includes thousands of book reviews.

Info To Go has links to some of the most interesting and useful places on the web. All hand selected by reviewers. Browse intelligently.

Issues and Controversies is produced by Facts on File and has background information on many current points of debate.

Look through some local Takoma Park information prepared by our reference staff.

Want some tips on finding information? See a list of our online databases? Follow what we are doing at the desk?

Programs: Tuesday mornings at 10: Circle Time
Other special programs are offered throughout the year.
Please check the calendar, our childen's room and adult web logs, and the City Newsletter.
additional information on programs | online registration.

Books (fiction, non-fiction, children's, reference); magazines; newspapers; books-on-tape; tape players; music on CD and on cassettes. Reference CD/DVD and Internet workstations; book loans from other libraries; book reserves; renewals by phone; story programs; a summer reading adventure program for children 6-14; family events with dancing, drums, noise, and story-tellers; summer evening salons; science fair workshops and free Wi-Fi.

Want to sample authors and titles? Please subscribe to the Online Book Clubs

Please read our policy

What else can you do to help other library users?

Try to return your books within reasonable proximity to the due date. Your neighbors may be waiting for that very book. Please remember that you are a community of users and this is your shared library.
Please try to respect other users when you are in the library.
Treat books and other library materials with care. Do not spill food or drinks, fold down corners, write or highlight, or do anything else to cause harm.
Be sure you return your books to the right library. We are an independent municipal library, not a county library branch - so please do not return our books to a county (or DC) library or their books to us. Not only will you accumulate fines, the books are meanwhile not available to others who may want them.

Takoma Park Maryland Library · 101 Philadelphia Avenue
Takoma Park Maryland 20912 USA · 301.891.7259