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Library Services for Schools

The Youth Services Department offers a number of services and resources for teachers at schools that serve residents of Tinley Park or Orland Hills. We are dedicated to reaching out to our community schools, providing services for teachers to enhance the classroom experience and to promote an ongoing relationship between area schools and the public library. You can contact any of our school liaisons about the programs and services we have to offer to schools at youthservices@tplibrary.org.

Get the most out of our online resources

Our librarians have collected and designed tutorials for the resources that will be most useful to you and your students.

Academic Search Complete

Business Resources for High Schoolers

CultureGrams

Driving Practice Tests

Language Arts Resources for High Schoolers

Language Learning

PebbleGo

Resources for Middle Schoolers

Scholastic Teachables

Social Studies Resources for High Schoolers

TumbleBook Library

World Book

Battle of the Books

Our librarians visit various schools with Tinley Park or Orland Hills students in attendance every spring for the Battle of the Books competition. The contest revolves around the current year’s Association of Illinois School Library Educators books and is generally offered to Grades 3–5 (who will read and be quizzed on books nominated for the Bluestem Award) and Grades 6–8 (who will read and be quizzed on books nominated for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Award). The school hosts the competition and organizes the competing teams, while the library sends two representatives to the school to run the actual battle. We prepare and bring questions for these battles only. Battles should be scheduled well in advance. If you are interested, please contact the school liasons at youthservices@tplibrary.org or call the Youth Services Department at 708.532.0160, x 2.