Library Services
Children's Services
- Copies - Delivery -
FAX
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Interlibrary Loan
Microfilm -
Multipurpose (Meeting) Rooms
Newspapers -
Reader's Advisory Services - Reference Service
Quiet Rooms - Suggest a Title - Wireless Internet Access
Virginiana
Children's Services
All branches of
the library offer preschool Storytimes for children ages three
to five, and many of the branches also offer story times for
two-year-olds with an accompanying adult. Storytimes are
an opportunity for young children to experience books, poetry,
music, finger plays, activities and crafts in a small group
setting. Storytime schedules with weekly themes are
available at the library.
A
Summer Reading Club
for children preschool through
high school is offered every summer. Reading is encouraged
by awarding incentives for listening to books and for time spent
reading. Weekly programs with storytellers, musicians,
puppets and other performers are presented to encourage visits
to the library over the summer.
Books for Babies is a program funded by
the Friends of the Library and made possible in cooperation with
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Hospital. New parents can
receive a free board book for their baby by bringing a Books for
Babies coupon to any branch library. For more information
about the Books for Babies program, call or visit your local
branch library.
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Copies
Each branch library has a copier machine and one or more printers connected to its
public computers for your convenience. Copies are $.15 per page, payable
at the circulation desk.
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Delivery
The library
attempts to make its resources available to all patrons at the
place most convenient to them. If books or materials
that you want are available at another Pamunkey Regional Library
branch, we can usually deliver them to your branch within two
working days. Books and other materials marked "Reference"
cannot be transferred between libraries.
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FAX
Public facsimile services for business and personal
purposes are sometimes made available through local businesses
such as office supply companies and printing/copy businesses.
When no such services are available in the library’s community
or in the cases of emergency, business and personal fax
transmission and reception on library equipment is available,
when the equipment is not in use for library purposes, for a fee
per page set by the Library Board.
To send a FAX -
$3.00 for the first page
$1.50 for each additional page
No charge for cover sheet
To receive a FAX -
$1.00 per page received
(The library will discard unknown and unsolicited fax transmissions.
Please call or visit the library to let a staff member know when the FAX
will be sent.)
Please note: Ashland, Goochland, Hanover,
King & Queen, King William, and West Point government officials and staff,
members of Hanover Interagency Council and members of the Goochland
Interagency Council may use the machines to send and receive official
business free of charge.
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
When desired
material is unavailable from the branches of the Pamunkey
Regional Library, we will try to borrow it from another library
system for you. Please ask your local branch staff for the
"Materials Request" card or use our convenient
online request form.
We offer this service free to our patrons.
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Microfilm
The Richard S. Gillis, Jr./Ashland Branch Library has a
35mm microfilm reader, printer, a microfilm collection of
Herald-Progress issues from 1919 to the present and a number of reels
on United States and Virginia history.
See the
list of microfilm titles.
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Multipurpose (Meeting) Rooms
Educational, civic, cultural, government groups and individuals
may use library multi-purpose rooms for meetings if they agree, in writing, to
follow all rules and regulations established by the Library Board for the use of
the rooms. The multi-purpose rooms are available on equal terms to all in
the community regardless of their beliefs and affiliations. For a list of
Multipurpose Room rules and regulations, please click
here.
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Newspapers
Current newspaper subscriptions/drop-offs received by our branch libraries
include the following:
360 View (King & Queen and
Upper King William)
Central
Virginian (Goochland and Montpelier)
Chesapeake Bay Journal
(Upper King William)
Country Courier
(Hanover, King & Queen, and Upper King
William)
Daily Press
(West Point)
Goochland Gazette
(Goochland, Hanover, Montpelier, and Rockville)
Herald Progress
(Ashland, Atlee, Hanover, Mechanicsville, Montpelier, and
Rockville)
Mechanicsville Local
(Atlee, Hanover, and Mechanicsville)
New York Times
(Ashland, Atlee, and Mechanicsville)
New York Times - Sunday Only (Hanover)
Rappahannock Times
(King & Queen)
Richmond Times Dispatch (All Branch Libraries)
Tidewater Review
(Upper King William and West Point)
USA Today
(Ashland, Hanover, and Mechanicsville)
Wall Street Journal
(Ashland, Atlee, Mechanicsville, and Rockville)
Washington Post
(Ashland, Goochland, and Mechanicsville)
A number of branch libraries keep back-filed newspapers
available in print for our patrons. The Goochland Branch
Library keeps issues of the Goochland Gazette from 1975 to 1985
and daily newspapers are kept for one month. The
Mechanicsville Branch Library keeps some of their newspaper
titles for two months or more, including the Richmond
Times-Dispatch, the Herald
Progress, and the Mechanicsville Local. The Hanover Branch
Library keeps bound copies of the Herald Progress back to 1984.
The Herald Progress is also available on
microfilm at the Ashland Branch Library.
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Readers' Advisory Services
Looking for something good to read? Our friendly circulation staff
will be happy to make recommendations based on your reading interests or
favorite authors.
When you visit your local branch, ask to see our
staff Readers' Advisory notebooks. You will find reading
suggestions about books on biography, fantasy, historical
fiction, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, and travel.
We also have Readers' Advisory resources on our
Web Sites for Book Lovers page.
Don't forget to check out
NoveList Plus for
recommendations on fiction and non-fiction titles, too!
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Reference Services
The library
provides general reference collections in each branch library
and more specialized collections at the
Ashland, Atlee and Mechanicsville branch libraries. Reference Librarians
are available to assist with research and reader's
advisory. You can e-mail your questions to our Reference
Librarians at
ask@pamunkeylibrary.org or use the
Ask-a-Librarian form. The
Librarians also answer questions on meebo, either in the chat
box located on our home page or add
prl_librarian to your meebo buddy list.
Our Reference Librarians also proctor tests and exams. For
more information, please see our
proctoring guidelines.
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Quiet Rooms
In addition to its Multipurpose/Meeting Rooms, the most branch libraries
also provide areas available for individual or small group
use. Please check at your local library for availability.
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Don't see a title you want in our catalog? Please ask your local branch staff for our "Materials Request" card or use our convenient online request form.
Wireless Internet Access
Using your
own wireless enabled laptop, you can now access the Internet throughout our
library branches. Although steel shelving may cause some interference in
some locations, you should be able to pick up the wireless signal in most areas
of our branches.
More information about wireless internet
access at the library
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Virginiana
The
Hanover Branch
Library
houses a special collection of books on the history of Hanover
County and the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Hanover
Branch Library is happy to answer your Virginiana questions by mail at
Hanover Branch Library, P.O. Box 119, Hanover, VA 23069, Attn: Virginiana.
See a partial list of our collection in Google Books or check out
My Library.
