Reading Recommendations
- Try our Rock Island Library BookMate service, your personal reading matchmaker! Answer a few questions on our form. Within a week, we'll send you a list of five books chosen just for you!
- Ask our staff for great ideas! We can help you find new authors, read-a-likes to authors you already follow, and figure out what order a book falls in a series.
- Visit our Reference Desk at our Downtown Library for help finding the book you want, or call 309-732-7341.
Need Ideas from our Staff?
Imagine Your Story Reads for Adults - Great Summer Reads to try. Magical, Mystical, Mythical, or just plain good!
Adult Reading Blog - Suggestions from our Adult Services staff on Tumbler
Teen Reading Blog - Reviews and Suggestions from our Young Adult Librarian on Tumbler
Librarian Picks From the Stacks - Personal Shopper Form for both Books and DVDS
Bookletters
Use our free
Bookletters service to get free emails about new books, audiobooks, and DVDs.
- Sign up for the lists you want, and unsubscribe anytime
- See something you like? Search our catalog right from the newsletter!
Bookletters also offers book awards lists, "As Seen on TV" book recommendations, and lists of books in a series.
NoveList Plus and Novelist Plus K-8 Reader Services
Looking for a good book? Log into NoveList Plus from home with your Rock Island Library card or from any Rock Island Library computer.
Looking for something that's not in our catalog?
Our staff can request a special InterLibrary Loan for you. Call our Reference Desk at 309-732-7341 or
email us.
Know someone who needs talking books?
Connect to the Illinois
talking books program for persons with visual or physical impairments.