We're Online To Help You Find What You are Looking For 

• Use our online library tools at the library, at home or at some other Internet Connection.
• Use your own laptop or use one of our computers to check your email, research the Internet, or browse our resources.
• Join our discussion forums to talk about issues important to our local library

Register With Your Library Card

• If you have a library card, you can register on this website (look below the calendar on the left).  Once your card is approved, you can login on this site to use the card catalog and join the discussion forums
• If you do not have a library card, go to the library and submit an application.  You can also select a pin number which will enable you to make reserves on our online catalog.

We Have Books and More Books and More

• Over 30,000 books in Centerville and over 10,000 books in the East Hickman Branch
• Printed books, Electronic Books, Magazines, and Newspapers, too 
• Historical and Genealogical Records
• Recommended Reading Lists to offer suggestions

Kids Programs

• Summer Reading Programs
• Imagination Library
• Books for Life

Community Activities

• Advancing the Arts
• Sponsor of the Clay Harris Theatre
• Community Meetings 

In 2006, the Hickman County Public Library entered into a partnership with Clay Harris, local playwright and director, to produce and present a play based on old obituaries from newspapers. The play, aptly called Obituary, premiered in Centerville in September, 2006 where it played to two sold out crowds. The reception of the play was such that Harris and the cast decided to take it to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, where their audience almost filled the Polk Theatre in April, 2007. Grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission have also helped produce three historical productions and childrens’ theatre projects, all written and directed by Clay Harris. An encore performance of Obituary was performed April 5, 2008, at the East Hickman High School in Lyles, Tennessee. 

The dinner theatre just finished its second season and has produced 14 plays utilizing the talents of local citizens.  Four performances of each show are given with an audience capacity of 80 for each show.  Dinner is prepared and served by The Farmhouse Restaurant and the performances take place in the Farmhouse Cellar, which is very "Off Broadway" in ambience.

For information on the Clay Harris Theatre productions, or to purchase tickets, contact the library at 931 729-5130 or visit the website www.clayharristheatre.org 

Thanks to our sponsors for making the Summer Reading Program possible!

Hickman County's Imagination Library is an initiative of the Hickman County Economic and Community Development Agency in partnership with the public library.  

The Facts

• The Imagination Library provides one book per month to all registered children from birth through age four.

• These books are provided at no cost to the child's family.

• The Governor's Book's from Birth Foundation matches all local contributions dollar for dollar

• Local educators are commenting on the positive aspects of this wonderful program.

Join us in giving your child free books from birth to five years of age.

• There is absolutely no cost to you. If you live in Hickman County, simply fill out one registration form for each child in your family who is under the age of 5.

• Each registered child will receive a new book every month with the first book being The Little Engine That Could. The final book will be Look Out, Kindergarten, Here I Come to be mailed when your child turns 5 years old.

• These books are designed to become your child's personal library. Children registered in the program may receive up to 60 books. Perhaps this home library will be passed down to his/her children one day!

• Each new book will be mailed directly to the Hickman County address listed on the registration form.

Remember: It's Free. It's never a cost to you.

You can pick up a registration form at the library or other public places. Or, you can fill out the online registration form on this website.

Learn more about becoming a sponsor below.