Online Services
A popular library service for eBooks, this service also offers Audiobooks and Streaming Video.
What is Overdrive?
Books with a red 'Pow' label go in this section.
What is the adult graphic novel collection?
Printed 2 times a day, this document alerts staff what items have been requested by patrons.
What is the Router list?
Taylor is home to this county-wide service.
What is the Braille and Talking Book Library?
This is the cooperative of libraries serving Southeast Michigan (mainly Wayne and Oakland county).
What is The Library Network (TLN)?
This online service allows users to download current and past eMagazines.
What is RBDigital? (Formerly known as Zinio).
These are the 4 parts of each book which require a library address stamp.
What are the top, bottom, front page, and last page?
Opposed to CARL.X, this web-based system allows us to link books and media.
What is CARL Connect?
To qualify for NLS service, you must have this.
What is a print disability?
The number of participating libraries in TLN.
What is 75?
This service allows you to stream music and download songs to supplement your music library.
What is Freegal?
This popular section between the Short Stories and the Mysteries houses books set in a city-landscape (also known as street lit).
What is Urban Fiction?
This BRB (big red box) will pop up if a patron owes more than $15.
What is a Hard Block?
These are defined as print disabilities.
What is a visual impairment, blindness, organic reading disability, or physical disability?
Of libraries sharing the same ILS system, these 2 have opted out of granting temporary cards to nonresidents.
What are Romulus and Flat Rock?
Promoting 88 different languages, this interactive language-learning service also provides citizenship testing.
What is Pronunciator?
These shorter books feature two yellow letter spine labels and are sorted alphabetically.
What are the children's picture books?
These are the 6 ways to look up a patron's existing account.
What are library card number, ID number, name, home address, phone number, or email?
We offer translation and embossing in this format.
What is Braille?
Displaced when their library closed last year, this city's residents can get full privilege library cards at the Taylor library.
What is Inkster?
Offered to all TLN card holders, this service offers free and discounted admission to hundreds of Michigan state parks, campgrounds, museums, trails, arts & cultural destinations, and more.
What is the Michigan Activity Pass (MAP)?
DVDs featuring this receive a raised braille spine label with the movie's or show's title.
What is audio description?
Like an ISBN, every item record is assigned this unique code.
What is a CARL BID?
This system allows you to search nationally and locally produced special media (braille, audio, etc.).
What is the Voyager Catalog?
These 5 Wayne County communities offer full walk-in service to TLN patrons, but have their own ILS system.
What are Canton, Plymouth, Dearborn, Westland and Grosse Pointe.