Research assistance

Our virtual reference department is eager to help you with your research. Connect to a reference librarian using any of these methods:

Ask a Field Librarian

Live reference service is available 24/7 using our Ask a Field Librarian Service.

Ask a Field Librarian (email)

Submit a research question via the Ask a Field Librarian email service.

Research Websites

Perform your own research utilizing our subscription databases made available to our customers.  Contact us at the library to obtain the information you need to login to this service.

Telephone the base library: 919-722-5825 (DSN: 722-5825).

Fax your request to: 919-722-5835 (DSN: 722-5835).

The library and education center maintains a 23-station computer lab with broadband Internet access, Microsoft Office 2007 applications and a laser printer. Also, we have a workstation available for scanning your documents/pictures (the images must be saved to removable media, i.e. Flash drives, CD, or DVD.  In-house technical assistance is available.

Computers are now checked out using your library card number at the workstations.  You no longer need to visit the circulation desk in order to utilize the computer lab.

If the library doesn’t have the information resources you need in house, we can order the materials you need from other libraries and through document delivery services.  Just fill-out the below request form and return it to the library.

ILL Request Form

The library can place a hold on an item that is checked out to someone else. When an item you have on hold is returned, you will be notified and it will be reserved for you at the circulation desk.

Keep items longer by renewing them over the phone during library hours. Renewal is not available for items that are on hold for other patrons, nor for items that have been renewed twice already.

Book Clubs

The Brown Bag Book Club meets every Wednesday @ noon in the library young adult room.  Guides for the books the clubs are reading can be accessed HERE.

Public equipment

The library has available for patron use the following equipment: typewriter, video viewing stations, microfiche reader-printer, fax machine (local, toll-free or DSN faxes only), and a coin-operated photocopier ($0.10 per copy).

Library tours

Trained staff members are available to take groups on orientation tours of the library. Contact the library director to make arrangements.

Book exchange

Donate books and/or take books others have donated on the "no swap, no sweat" book exchange shelves.