Luzerne Libraries

Your free library card entitles you to:

Free Access

Library catalog and/or resources from home

Internet / Wi-fi access

Additional internet access or space for assisted learning, tutorials, meetings

Word processing programs - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access

Photocopier

CloudLibrary:

e-Books

Audiobooks

e-Magazines

Databases:

Mango - language learning

Heritage Quest - genealogy research

Archived copies of The Sunday Independent

Learning Express Library - providing citizenship, college or GED prep tests

Power Library w/ EBSCO Host – Includes full-text access for nearly 1750 general reference publications - as far back as 1975)

Adult Programs

Mystery Book Club

Kids Programs (storytimes and programs for kids from birth to age five):

Infant Storytime

Books & Babies’

Toddler Storytime

‘Laptotts’

Preschool Storytime

Summer Reading Program – summer reading activities

Borrow

Borrow materials at one library and return at any member library in Luzerne County

Books (large print, regular print, oversized, foreign language - Spanish, French, German, Chinese, etc.)

ILL (inter-library loan) materials - borrow books from any nationally-participating library

Audiobooks (cd, playaway, or digital)

Blu-ray, DVD, CD, VHS

Wifi HotSpots

Library of Things (pickup at Osterhout Free Library’s main location only):

Puzzles

Games

Magazines

Guitars

Drill

Tent

Sewing Machine

Digital Camera

Peruse

Local History Files – newspaper clippings (as far back as 1972)

Microfilm Readers / Printers