Writer’s Rooms Guidelines

Writer’s Rooms Guidelines Writer’s Rooms are available on an annual basis to Nashville writers through an application and selection process. Learn how to reserve a Writer's Room. Use Guidelines Writer's Rooms may be booked up…

Curriculum Kits

Educators and parents, borrow curriculum kits for your classroom. Each kit contains up to fifty books, audio, and videos based on popular classroom study topics. Over one-hundred topics including Asia, the Solar System, Composers, Weather, Art History. Kits are geared for either grades K -2, 3 - 5…

Jobs Lab

d Jobs Lab offers one-on-one computer help, extended computer time, and other resources to help you find a career. Jobs Lab resources are free and most do not require a library card.Book a LibrarianJobs and resume help is offered at several locations…

Salon@615

Salon@615 presents bestselling authors free to the public through a unique partnership among Nashville Public Library, Humanities Tennessee, Parnassus Books and the Nashville Public Library Foundation. Together, we nurture and celebrate the literary life of Nashville by presenting author talks and book signings to our…

Studio NPL

Studio NPL is an innovative, technology driven learning environment for teens aged 12-18. Daily workshops are mentor led, and focus on building 21st century skills in STEM, digital literacy, and career readiness. Studio NPL is an innovative, technology driven learning…

Wishing Chair Productions

Wishing Chair Productions, the library’s resident puppet troupe, continues the puppet tradition started in 1938 by Tom Tichenor. The troupe creates world-class shows that delight children and adults alike. See what's streaming now!

Bridgestone-Firestone Conference Center

Located in the heart of downtown Nashville, the Main Library’s Bridgestone-Firestone Conference Center can accommodate your group’s needs for pubpublic or private meetings, presentations, news conferences, and meal functions. Conference Center spaces are available during Main Library operating…

Meeting Rooms (Branch Libraries)

Nashville Public Library (NPL) meeting rooms are available to local non-profit organizations or groups of a public, civic, educational, literary or cultural nature and to governmental agencies free of charge. Groups may be asked to furnish a copy of their charter verifying non-profit status.Before…

Privacy Notice

Privacy Notice Nashville Public Library (NPL) has a legal and ethical duty to protect the confidentiality of patrons’ personal information and library records. This includes patrons’ checkout history, services used, visual image and…

Jobs

Jobs Full-time and Part-time PositionsFull and part-time job opportunities at Nashville Public Library are listed on Metro Nashville Career Opportunities, along with all Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County…

NPL Facilities Master Plan

NPL Facilities Master Plan Nashville's population is projected to reach nearly 847,000 by the year 2040. We can’t wait to welcome future Nashvillians into our library community. These new neighbors will join Nashvillians from across…

Library History

Library History In 1897, the Tennessee General Assembly passed the Library Law, which authorized cities of 20,000 or more to establish and maintain free public libraries and reading rooms. Before that time, city governments had no…

Margaret Ann Robinson

Margaret Ann Robinson A Message from the Nashville Public Library Family For thirty years, Margaret Ann Robinson poured her intelligence, wit, and energy into Nashville Public Library. She left an impression of grace and warmth…

Gale eBooks: TEL Collection

Search sources including Encyclopedia of World Biography, Encyclopedia of Small Business, Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations.

Allison Price

Allison Price, Librarian