Tax Forms and Free Tax Preparation in Dubuque in 2024

Updated: January 5, 2024

Tax Forms & Printing at Carnegie-Stout Public Library

The Iowa Department of Revenue is not distributing paper tax instruction booklets through Carnegie-Stout Public Library this year, and the selection from the IRS is very limited.

Library staff can help you find tax forms and instructions on the Internet and print them for 10 cents per side of a sheet. For more info call Carnegie-Stout Public Library at 563-589-4225 and ask for the Reference Desk.

Iowa Tax Forms

Iowa tax forms are available online at tax.iowa.gov/forms.

Help with Iowa forms and tax questions is available by calling 515-281-3114 or 800-367-3388.

Federal Tax Forms

Federal tax forms and instructions are available online at www.irs.gov/forms-instructions.

You can order free forms to be delivered to you by mail at www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/forms-and-publications-by-us-mail or by calling 800-829-3676.

Tax help is available by calling 800-829-1040. According to the IRS, live phone assistance is extremely limited at this time.

Free Tax Preparation in Dubuque

HACAP (Hawkeye Area Community Action Program) at hacap.org/taxes provides free and confidential tax preparation for individuals with low to moderate incomes. For details, please call HACAP in Dubuque at 563-556-5130 or send an email to taxes@hacap.org.

FY21 Library Budget Presentation Video

Carnegie-Stout Public Library Director Susan Henricks gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council last evening about the Library's Fiscal Year 2021 budget recommendations.

Here's a link to the video of Susan's presentation. For more information, see the City of Dubuque's Fiscal Year 2021 Budget page.

FY20 Library Budget Presentation Video

Carnegie-Stout Public Library Director Susan Henricks gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council last evening about the Library's Fiscal Year 2020 budget recommendations.

Here's a link to the video of Susan's presentation. For more information, see the City of Dubuque's Fiscal Year 2020 Budget page.

Staff Review: "Addicted to Outrage" by Glenn Beck

We live in divisive times, my friends. Recent polling data shows that a majority of Americans believe that American politics have reached a dangerous low point. It is easy to become outraged at nearly anything these days. We see or hear something that has been said or posted on the internet and, if the offender differs from us politically, we can easily work ourselves into a lather and express our virulent disagreement without really listening or trying to understand where that person is coming from or what they are trying to say. In his new book, Addicted to Outrage, Glenn Beck makes the case that we are just that.

With a background in talk radio and a television resume that includes a nightly show on both CNN and Fox News, Glenn Beck is a political commentator who is reasonable, educated, and often entertaining and enlightening. He is a conservative, but any liberal readers out there should not eschew this book due to a difference of politics. In fact, Beck wrote this book  in an attempt to bring individuals of disparate political beliefs together and to encourage diversity of thought and reasoned discourse. He is appropriately critical of both sides of the political spectrum (including his own past use of outrage to discredit opponents) and their reliance on outrage to push their agendas and inspire ire for the other side. Beck encourages Americans to truly listen to one another, do their own research, check their outrage at the door, and attempt to come together as a nation. 

In this book, Beck gets back to the basics in an examination of those three documents that set America apart from every other nation that has emerged on this planet: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. He asserts that these three documents continue to guarantee that which has made America the greatest country in the history of the world: liberty for the individual. Let's not squander that over the things that divide us; rather, let's have a real conversation, sans the mudslinging. Our politicians could learn a lot from this book.

Beck urges his readers, regardless or even in spite of political disagreement, to give these ideas a try. The author asserts that the American Experiment is too important to allow to fall into disrepair due to what often amount to petty differences. If, dear reader, you feel the same I recommend this book. The author's ideas just may help us overcome our addiction to outrage and begin to come together as Americans.

~Ryan, Circulation

FY19 Library Budget Presentation Video

Carnegie-Stout Public Library Director Susan Henricks gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council last evening about the Library's Fiscal Year 2019 budget recommendations.

Here's a link to the video of Susan's presentation. For more information, see the City of Dubuque's Fiscal Year 2019 Budget.

Staff Review: The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams stands a very good chance of being my 2017 best book of the year. I loved it so much I'm about to read it all over again. The book combines all my favorite genres: history, nature writing, memoir, travel. Published in 2016 to coincide with the National Park Service's centennial celebrations, The Hour of Land is a very personal tour, conducted by Williams herself, through a dozen of the nation's 58 national parks.

And what a tour guide she is. A naturalist, writer, and native of Utah, Williams is probably best known for her 1992 memoir Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place about losing her mother to cancer just as the Great Salt Lake floods, threatening the migratory birds Williams treasures. She's extremely knowledgeable, she loves wild places with a passion, and she possesses what I can only call a beautiful spirit: generous, gentle, peace-loving, compassionate. Plus, she's a terrific and highly poetic writer.

It's a pleasure to tour the country in her company, even when she's surveying wrenching scenes like the damage inflicted on Gulf Islands National Seashore by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 or the encroachments of the Bakken oil fields on Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. More often what she surveys is sublime, from Alaska's Gates of the Arctic and Wyoming's Grand Teton to Acadia National Park in Maine. She even makes a stop at Effigy Mounds National Monument here in Iowa.

Particularly pleasurable is the variety of approaches Williams takes to her park descriptions, focusing closely at times on ecology or American history, then shifting her lens to her own life and family. She includes letters, emails, and journal entries to fine effect and provides a wonderful personal anecdote about Lady Bird Johnson. Modern readers, who may be unaware of how our great park system got started, learn about the unflagging philanthropic and environmental efforts of such National Park greats as Laurence Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, Stewart Udall, and many others. This book's a lavish banquet of luscious park detail and I, for one, could not get enough of it. How I wish Williams had visited all 58.

~Ann, Adult Services

FY18 Library Budget Presentation Video

Carnegie-Stout Public Library Director Susan Henricks gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council last evening about the Library's Fiscal Year 2018 budget recommendations. Here's the video:


For more information, see the City of Dubuque's Fiscal Year 2018 Budget.

FY17 Library Budget Presentation Video

Carnegie-Stout Public Library Director Susan Henricks gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council last evening about the Library's Fiscal Year 2017 budget recommendations. Here's the video:


For more information, see the City of Dubuque's Fiscal Year 2017 Budget.

Colorful, pocket-sized copies of Carnegie-Stout Public Library's Annual Report are available for free at the library.

FY16 Library Budget Presentation Video

Carnegie-Stout Public Library Director Susan Henricks gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council this week about the Library's Fiscal Year 2016 budget recommendations. Here's the video:

For more information, see the City of Dubuque's Fiscal Year 2016 Budget.

Copies of Carnegie-Stout Public Library's Annual Report are available for free at the library. This year's report is in the form of an attractive calendar with historical photos, facts and figures, and upcoming library events.

Dubuque County Elected Officials 2014

From the office of the Dubuque County Commissioner of Elections, Denise M. Dolan:

Dubuque County Elected Officials 2014

This 48-page pamphlet includes contact information for federal, state, county, township, city, and school officials. It also has an election calendar for 2014.

See also The Dubuque League of Women Voters 2014 Political Directory.

FY15 Library Budget Presentation Video

Carnegie-Stout Public Library Director Susan Henricks gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council last night about the Library's fiscal year 2015 budget recommendations. Here's the video:


For more information, see the City of Dubuque's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget.

You can pick up a copy of the Annual Report for Carnegie-Stout Public Library by stopping in, or on our website.

Dubuque League of Women Voters Political Directory

The Dubuque League of Women Voters 2014 Political Directory includes the contact information for many city, county, state, and national elected officials, including:

• U.S. and Iowa Elected Officials
• Dubuque County Board of Supervisors
• Dubuque County Officials
• City of Dubuque Staff
• Dubuque Mayor and City Council
• Western Dubuque County Community Schools Board
• Dubuque Community Schools Board
• Political Parties
• Voter Registration
• Election Schedule for 2014
• And more!

DLWV 2014 Political Directory

See also Dubuque County Elected Officials 2014.

The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, one of the most memorable events of the Civil Rights movement. On August 28th, 1963, around 200,000 gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in support of Civil Rights, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who famously told the world about his dream of a better and more equal world.

2013 is, in many ways, very different from 1963, and even more so than 1863 when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. There are many great resources available for you to learn about the ways in which our nation has changed, and the stories of those who participated in the 1963 March. Stop into Carnegie-Stout to check out our display of books and DVDs on the first floor, or explore some of these great online resources:

C-SPAN is offering live coverage of today's celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, both on their television channel and through online streaming: officialmlkdream50.com

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, a division of the National Archives, includes an interactive overview of the Civil Rights movement: civilrights.jfklibrary.org

You can also browse through the National Archives online collection of materials related to the 1963 March on Washington: tinyurl.com/NARAMLK50

The Smithsonian's Museum of American History has information on the March on Washington and the Emancipation Proclamation: http://ow.ly/olk8q

NPR has a series of articles and interviews with participants in the 1963 March on Washington: www.npr.org/series/213897602/the-march-on-washington-at-50

PBS has created a documentary on the 1963 March, as well as a variety of online resources related to the March available on their website here: www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/march-on-washington/#.Uh4EGj-1d8E

FY14 Library Budget Presentation Video

Carnegie-Stout Public Library Director Susan Henricks gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council last night about the Library's fiscal year 2014 budget recommendations. Here's the video:


For more information, see the City of Dubuque's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget.

Books to Help You Stay Healthy, or Maybe Just Make you a Hypochondriac

It's cold and flu season, and if you didn't get a flu shot, hopefully you're washing your hands regularly. But if you've come down with some bug, we've put together a display of some books and movies to entertain and inform. Although, if you think you might be contagious, it might be better if you browse our collection of eBooks on OverDrive first.

For more on the current flu outbreak:
Iowa Department of Public Health, Influenza Home
For the latest information on the influenza outbreak here in Iowa, along with helpful tips for how to stay healthy at home, work, and school.

Flu.gov
The U.S. government's one stop site for information on influenza, current outbreaks, prevention methods, tips for recovery, and more!

It's not too late to get a flu shot, and this handy widget will help you discover where to go to get one:


For more on the science behind flu, viruses, and epidemic diseases:

Flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it by Gina Bari Kolata
(614.51809041 KOL)

Guns, Germs, and Steel : the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
(303.4 DIA)
Also a DVD


A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer
(616.91 ZIM)

Inside the Outbreaks by Mark Pendergrast
(614.4 PEN)

For soup recipes:

An Exaltation of Soups : the soul-satisfying story of soup, as told in more than 100 recipes
(641.813 SOL)

The Culinary Institute of America Book of Soups : more than 100 new recipes from America's premier culinary college
(641.813 CUL)

The Secrets of Jesuit Soupmaking : a year of our soups
(641.813 CUR)

For home remedies and alternative medicine:

The Everything Guide to Herbal Remedies: an easy-to-use reference for natural health care
(645.321 CON)

The People's Pharmacy : quick & handy home remedies
(615.321 GRA)

National Geographic Guide to Medicinal Herbs : the world's most effective healing plants
(615.321 NAT)

And there's even more on our Pinterest Board!

FY13 Library Budget Presentation Video

Carnegie-Stout Public Library Director Susan Henricks gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council last night about the Library's fiscal year 2013 budget recommendations. Here's the video:



For more information, see the City of Dubuque's Fiscal Year 2013 Budget.

Swine Flu Information

The following websites contain information about swine influenza, including daily updates, frequently asked questions, fact sheets, planning tools, and state and local news. Note: Swine flu is also known as H1N1, Influenza A(H1N1), and Novel Flu.

City of Dubuque Health Services Department
H1N1 Information for Dubuque

Dubuque Community School District
Dubuque School Nurse Flu Information

Iowa Department of Public Health
Novel Influenza Virus (H1N1 Swine Flu) General Public Information

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Flu.gov

FluGov on Twitter.com

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)

World Health Organization
Global Response to Influenza A(H1N1)

Welcome to Dubuque, IBM

Welcome, Big Blue!

1,300 JOBS: Dubuque woos IBM, which plans to hire hundreds
Eileen Mozinski, Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Thursday, January 15, 2009

IBM Aims to Bring 1,300 High-Tech Jobs to Dubuque, Iowa
IBM Press Release, 15 Jan 2009

Historic & Transformational Announcement
Greater Dubuque Development Corporation

Governor Culver Announces IBM To Bring 1,300 High-Tech Jobs To Dubuque
Iowa Governor Press Release, Thursday, January 15, 2009

IBM Company Profile, AccessDubuque.com
IBM Company Profile, AccessDubuque.com

IBM To Open Center, Bring New Jobs To Dubuque
Dean Borg, NPR Morning Edition

Don't forget to sign up for library cards when you get here!

~ Mike, Adult Services

Dubuque 2008 Annual Report

The City of Dubuque's 2008 State of the City and Annual Report is now available:

2008 City of Dubuque State of the City and Annual Report

Enjoy!

Recycle Your Compact Fluorescent Lights

The Dubuque Metropolitan Area Solid Waste Agency (DMASWA) has a new free program to recycle compact fluorescent lights (CFLs).

For more information about this recycling program, including a complete list of drop-off locations, please visit the DMASWA website.

Note: At this time, Carnegie-Stout Public Library in Dubuque is not a drop-off location. Please do not bring your CFLs to Carnegie-Stout Public Library.