About SJCPL

Our Service Points Are Not Just Our Bricks and Mortar Locations

We provide access to our collections through telephone service, Online Reference, home access to databases, and sometimes even taking our collections to a patraon.

We provide telephone service to our patrons who may need quick answers from our Reference and Online collections.  Our librarians hold or reserve materials for telephone patrons.  We have also established Electronic Reference services in our public service departments to answer questions and provide information through e-mail and Live Reference Chat services.

We provide access to electronic resources such as the Internet and locally created and leased databases for patrons.  We design our Internet web pages to serve as portals as we organize and evaluate the resources of the World Wide Web for our patrons.  We select Online Databases to complement our materials collections or to fill gaps in free Internet resources.  Wherever possible, we provide access to these resources for our home users and at all of our library locations.

For individuals and groups of people who are unable to come to one of our buildings, we provide Homebound Delivery service of library materials.  The Special Services staff in the Adult Reading Center strongly supports and works closely with local literacy agencies by providing learning and teaching materials.  We provide mobile collections to introduce materials and programming to at-risk children.

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