• Bookmobile Service
  Bookmobile service to stops at community centers, schools, neighborhoods, parks and senior citizen residences. For more information about the bookmobile service, please contact Joanne White at 831.646.3710. Click here for the complete schedule of Bookmobile stops.
   

• Reference Services
  The Library offers reference and referral service to guide you to resources for all your information needs.
  Call 831.646.3933 or e-mail the Reference Services Desk.
   

• Youth Services
  The Library offers a full range of professional services to children of all ages and their families, including reading readiness, homework and school project resources, information, and assistance with reading selections. The Born to Read program celebrates the birth of your baby and helps babies and their families get a head start on a lifetime of reading with storytimes and special activities. Check out the schedule of Youth Programs and Storytimes. For service by telephone call 831.646.3934 or e-mail the Youth Services Desk.
   

• Check-out Desk
  Find books and more, place holds and recommend items you would like the Library to consider acquiring. Visit the Check-out Desk for information about how to obtain a library card, to renew materials, or Log into Your Pals Account to see your own record and select whether you would like to receive circulation notices (holds and overdues) via postal or e-mail. For more information contact Inga Labeaune at 831.646.5602.
   

• Readers' Services
  Borrow from a collection of over 120,000 books, video and audio cassettes, CDs. Guidance to recommended reading, literature discussion groups. For information contact Inga Labeaune at 831.646.5602.
   

• Cultural Programs and Events
  "Stories for Adults" series, lectures, exhibits, book discussion, workshops and special events. Here is a schedule of the upcoming events. For more information call 831.646.3949 or e-mail Special Services Coordinator Jeanne McCombs.
   

• Interlibrary Loan Service
  If the Monterey Public Library doesn't own the specific book or other item that you want, we will try to borrow it for you. Click here to submit a request. For more information contact Bridget McConnell 831.646.3743.
   

• Meeting Rooms
  The Library offers two meeting rooms Which may be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis by non-profit organizations for meetings and events. Click here for information about how to reserve the meeting rooms or contact the Administration Office by phone at 831.646.5669 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

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• Local History Collection
  The California History Room contains a valuable and unique collection of books, selected magazine and newspaper articles, maps, government documents, photographs and archival material pertaining to the City of Monterey and the Monterey Peninsula. For information contact Library Archivist Dennis Copeland at 831.646.3741.
   

• Internet Service
  Monterey Public Library offers free access to the Internet from workstations in the Library. The Library's Web pages provide useful links to recommended sites, including online tutorials to help new Internet users learn how to search for information. Special pages for kids are linked to carefully selected sites appropriate for the whole family. Here is the Library's Internet Policy. If you have suggestions or concerns please contact Library Director Kim Bui-Burton at 831.646.5601.
   

• Laptops
  Laptop computers may be checked out for use in the Library building. Microsoft Word is installed on the laptops, and Internet access is provided by the Library's free Wi-Fi service. You can save files on a flash drive or burn a CD. (If you don't have your own, you can buy flash drives and blank CDs at the Library Store.) Printing is not yet available, but we're working on it. Laptops check out for two hours. To borrow a laptop, you need a current Monterey Public Library or Pacific Grove Public Library card, and you must read and sign a Laptop Computer User Agreement. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian must also sign the User Agreement.
   

• Online Catalog
  The Library's online catalog of holdings can be accessed on the Web, The catalog features the combined holdings of the Monterey Public Library and our neighboring Library in Pacific Grove, the book collections of Colton Hall Museum and the Monterey History & Art Association's Mayo Hayes O'Donnell Library.
   

• Outreach Service
  Volunteers deliver books and other Library materials to people prevented by physical disabilities or other handicaps from visiting the Library or the Bookmobile. For more information about receiving outreach service or for information about becoming a volunteer, contact Joanne White at 831.646.3710.
   

• Teen Services
  The Library welcomes teens and makes available a variety of services to teens. Services include a TeenZone space that invites teens to socialize, find a variety of books, magazines and DVDs especially chosen for them, as well as to work on their studies. Events are offered to teens throughout the year, including contests, summer programs and a TeenZone blog. Homework help is offered through Youth Services and Reference librarians, Live Homework Help and links to a variety of homework help Web sites. For service by phone call 831.646.3934 or e-mail the Youth Services Desk.

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