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Ithaca, NY 14850
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An image of a smartphone and a desktop-style calculator superimposed over a shelf filled with books. The smart phone shows the screen for the TCPL Shelf Serve App. The calculator has LCD-style text that reads "TCPL"

TCPL Launches Mobile Checkout App and Online Library Savings Calculator

Tompkins County Public Library is expanding its digital tools for patrons wit

An image showing Professor Michael Dorf at TCPL, speaking to a crowd. Behind him is a red screen with the word "Discussion" prominently featured.

Cornell Law Professor Leads Discussion on Bill of Rights & Constitutional Amendments

"It was like taking a college class for free!"

That's how one patron described the first program in your library's new series, "The Constitution: Rights to Know" that focused on the Bill of Rights.

Three pictures. One is the current blue TCPL library card design. The second is the library card design that features a painting of an elephant and other elements. The third is a blank library card covered with paint splatter and a question mark. Text reads "Choose the next library card! Vote in-person through Oct. 4 or online through Oct. 5"

Vote now for the next library card designs

Celebrate

An image of a TCPL library card in front of an image showing the adult collection. The library card features illustrations of an elephant, giraffe, duck, and a lemur.

One Card, Endless Possibilities: Celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month this September

This September, Tompkins County Public Library invites you to celebrate Libra

A chalkboard, covered with brown shades of leaves. Text reads "September"

Youth and Family Programs at TCPL in September!

We hope everyone had a wonderful summer with their families and are ready for

What we were reading over the summer

During Color Our World Summer Reading, it wasn’t just patrons leaving reviews

Ithaca Is Books to Bring Authors and Special Programming to TCPL in September

The fifth annual Ithaca Is Books Fes

An American flag background, with copies of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights spread across the bottom. Text reads "The Constitution: Rights to Know." It also includes the insignia for Tompkins County Public Library and the office of the Tompkins County Historian.

New Series 'The Constitution: Rights to Know' to focus on the Bill of Rights, Voting, Citizenship and Immigration

Starting Constitution Week in September, Tompkins County Public Library, in p

Registration open for TCPL Foundation's READATHON 2025

Registration is now open for a signature fundraiser that gives the community

2025 Ithaca Is Books Festival Planned for September 11-14; Events with Bestselling Authors Eve Ewing, Cory Doctorow Among Highlights

The fifth annual Ithaca Is Books Festival is scheduled to take place in downt

The phone charging locker. It is a big white, rectangular shaped metal box that has six small locker-style doors on the left, a touchscreen on the right, and two large doors at the bottom.

Get a Charge From TCPL's New Device Charging Locker Station

As part of the reopened Howard P.

Librarians Tom (left) and Kate (right) at the Circulation Desk. It is a large wooden desk, with a tan-colored wall behind it that has a sign identifying it as the Howard P. Hartnett Circulation Desk.

It's Back! The Howard P. Hartnett Circulation Desk is Now Open

The Howard P. Hartnett Circulation Desk is back open!

The TCPL library card featuring artwork by Jane Dennis. The drawing includes an elephant's head leaning through a window, with a duck sitting on the elephant's head and another on its trunk, while a giraffe and a lemur look on from another window. Through a center window a tree is visible, with an elephant off in the distance.

TCPL Board of Trustees Approves Changes to Lending Guidelines

The Tompkins County Public Library Board of Trustees has approved updates to

An image showing the Howard P. Hartnett Circulation Desk at TCPL. It is a large wooden desk, with alternating panels of dark and light colored wood.

TCPL to re-open Howard P. Hartnett Circulation Desk

Tompkins County Public Library is working to re-open the Howard P.

A colored-pencil portrait by Yamilka Pororreal showing Betty Spero. In the portrait Betty is smiling, and wearing a green shirt with a floral design at the center, and is also wearing a yellow cardigan sweater.

New Art Exhibit Combines Portraits with Storytelling, Vulnerability and the Passage of Time

A multimedia art exhibit now on display at Tompkins County Public Library is