Learn how to download ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines, as well as stream videos with our YouTube walk-throughs:
- Getting started with Libby
- Getting started with Tennessee READS & Your Kindle E-reader
- Getting started with Tennessee READS & Your E-reader
- Getting started with Hoopla
Check out these helpful tutorials:
- How to scan a document using your iPhone
- How to Wirelessly Print a Document or Photo at Kingsport Public Library
- How to Wirelessly Print an Email Attachment at Kingsport Public Library
Get creative with our crafting videos:
- Kusudama Flower Tutorial
- Scary Sweets: Vampire Cookie
- Scary Sweets: Graveyard Cupcake
- Spooky Sweets: Jack-o-Lantern Brownies
- Scary Sweets: Eyeball Cookies
- Bayeux Stitch Jack-o-Lantern
- Haunted Happenings Makeup Tutorial
- Spooky Sweets: Skull Deviled Eggs
- Spooky Sweets: Spiderweb Cupcake
- Brick Stitch Candy Corn Pouch
- Spooky Sweets: Witch Hat
- Spooky Sweets: Rice Crispy Brain
- Blackwork Pirate Octopodes
Find your next read in our 1 Minute(ish) Reviews:
- Network Effect by Martha Wells, The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede, and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, and Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
- Becoming by Michelle Obama, Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters, and A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, The Shack by William P. Young, and Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noel Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Shannon Watters
- Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, Cribsheet by Emily Oster, and Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden, and Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson, and The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen, and Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood
- The Subtle Art of Standing Still by Bekah Harris, Tales from the Loop by Simon Stålenhag, and Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
- Devolution by Max Brooks, Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and A Murder for the Books by Victoria Gilbert
- The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston, The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, and And the Killer is… by G.A. McKevett
- Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America by Tommy Tomlinson
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, Die for Me by Luke Jennings, and The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Author interviews:
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- View our interview with local author Bekah Harris
- View our interview with local author Amy N. Edwards and illustrator Mara Buchanan
- View our interview with local author Charles Dodd White
- View our interview with local author Angie Hyche
- View our interview with local author Robert Gipe
- View our interview with local author Dr. Kellie Brown
- View our interview with local author Larry Thacker
- View our interview with local author J. Dianne Dotson
- View our interview with local author Kirstie Goode
- View our interview with local author Rita Sims Quillen
- View our interview with local author David Hrivnak
- View our interview with local author David Hoover
- View our interview with local author J. Dianne Dotson
- View our interview with local author J. Dianne Dotson
Check out this book from local author Melinda Scott (more info)
Learn how to use Zoom
Friends of the Archives Gail Hale Memorial Lecture series held on May 12 featuring Hunter Wright
“Rotherwood Memories” presented by Virgealia ‘Jill’ Ellis
Listen to podcasts provided by the Library of Congress.
Reading Rockets has videos and podcasts of author interviews.
