Donate Your Yearbooks to the Library

The Visalia Library is seeking school yearbooks for addition to the History Room's yearbook collection. Yearbooks from any year and any school or college in Tulare County will be accepted*, but we do have a special need for yearbooks from the 1970s to present.  Individuals interested in donating are asked to leave them with a librarian at the Reference Desk (located near the young adult area) during regular business hours, or upstairs with the History Room staff, Tuesday through Friday from 1pm to 5pm.  Gift receipts are available upon request.

Click here to view a list of our current yearbook collection.

*Once donated, yearbooks become the property of the Tulare County Library and may be assigned or transferred to other branches in the Tulare County Library system. Items that are not suitable for addition to the libraries' collections will be discarded or donated to charitable organizations. Click here to read the library's complete gift books policy.

Libraries closed on July 4th

All libraries in the Tulare County Library System will be closed on Wednesday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day.

Thursday June 14th: Children's Summer Reading Program at the Visalia Branch Begins!!! E &M Reptile Family @11am & 3pm

June 14th 11am & 3pm- Children's Summer Reading Program! E &M Reptile Family "E&M’s Reptile Family provides a very unique, fun, and highly educational one-hour program.We arrive with an exciting and diverse menagerie of living Arthropods (creepy-crawlies), Amphibians, who are never sad and always hoppy, and Reptiles, featuring snakes, lizards, turtles and tortoises. Our show is very hands-on and tons of fun"

Friday, June 15th 2-5pm! Family Fun Fridays @ the Visalia Library!!!

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!! Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together! When: Every Friday 2pm-5pm Movie @ 2pm & 4pm: Journey 2: The Mysterious island (children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.) Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm (Kinect is for ages 6-13) Board Games available to play in Children's Wing: Candy Land, Chess, Checkers and Backgammon, Chutes and Ladders, Clue, Connect 4, Dominoes, Go Fish card game, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Memory, Regular playing cards, Scrabble, Sorry!, Uno Cost: Free!!! Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch Who: Children and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program) *Parents must stay with children under the age of 14. *No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times.Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

First Tuesday Book Club, July 3

Visalia Library
6:30pm - 7:45pm

The Tiger:  A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

Book Summary:

A haunting, gripping exploration of predators and prey, and an intimate portrait of a remarkable animal increasingly threatened by interaction with humans, this work recreates the hunt for a man-eating tiger across the forbidding landscape of Russia's Far East.

Socrates Cafe, June 12

Every second Tuesday of every month, the Visalia library hosts a Socrates Cafe* at 6:30 pm in one of the library's meeting rooms.

This month's topic: "My neighbor? My problem?!!

Join the dialog! Bring your point of view and a question ...

*Socrates Cafe is a gathering of people who--with the help of a facilitator--engage in lively conversation about philosophical questions, posing questions, listening to others, raising challenges, and considering alternative answers.

Wednesdays @10am- Preschool Storytime at the Visalia Branch!

Wednesdays @10am--Preschool Storytime Join us for stories, songs and fingerplays at our preschool storytime every Wednesday @ 10AM. *No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times.Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2732

Friday, June 8th 2-5pm! Family Fun Fridays @ the Visalia Library!!!

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!! Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together! When: Every Friday 2pm-5pm Movie @ 2pm & 4pm: Disney's Dinosaur (children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.) Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm (Kinect is for ages 6-13) Board Games available to play in Children's Wing: Candy Land, Chess, Checkers and Backgammon, Chutes and Ladders, Clue, Connect 4, Dominoes, Go Fish card game, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Memory, Regular playing cards, Scrabble, Sorry!, Uno Cost: Free!!! Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch Who: Children and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program) *Parents must stay with children under the age of 14. *No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times.Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Help Someone Learn to Read!

Over a third of Tulare County residents lack basic literacy skills.  The Library Literacy Center works to reduce that number, but we need your help.  We offer free one-on-one tutoring and are looking for more volunteers to be tutors.

A new tutor training will be held on July 6, from noon until 4 pm at the Literacy Center, 417 N. Locust Street in Visalia.  Tutoring takes place in the Center or in the branch libraries throughout the county.

Please call (559) 713-2745 to sign up for the training.  Give someone else the benefit of your knowledge!