LIBRARY SERVICES

Children and Youth Services

Driftwood Public Library is committed to reaching out to the children and youth of North Lincoln County with a variety of programs that benefit babies through teens.

Programs for Toddlers are now Saturday mornings at 10:30am. Lasting a little less than ½ hour, toddlers and their folks can sing, clap, listen and move about with books, songs, fingerplays and more.

Preschool Story Times are Thursday and Saturday mornings from 11:30am until noonish. Picture books, fingerplays, songs and crafts are some of the activities at these lively 30-40 minute events.

Tuesday evenings throughout the year a Pajama Time is held at 6:30pm. This story time is for children preschool through 1st grade and their parents, with stories, songs, flannel board, fingerplays and crafts.

Puppet Shows are held once a month. Please check the library calendar.

Summer Reading Club is an eight-week program for ages 2 to Teen that runs from June through mid August. Toddler Time and Preschool story times continue throughout the summer with theme-based Family Nights added on Wednesday evenings during the summer program months. Children can participate by signing up and reading alone or with family participation to earn prizes and a summer reading club shirt. Storytellers, magicians and musicians perform at Family Nights. Summer Reading is funded in part by a Ready To Read grant with help from the Friends of the Driftwood Public Library and local merchants' donations. Sign Ups for Summer reading begin June 1st.

The Children and Youth Services of Driftwood Public Library also provide outreach to afterschool programs and school visits to private and public Kindergartens and Preschools in Lincoln City.

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Outreach Service

Driftwood Public Library of Lincoln City provides outreach service to city residents who are homebound or temporarily hospitalized. Outreach service also provides rotating paperback book collections to a number of senior retirement centers, adult foster care homes, weekly book delivery to the Senior Meal Site, and stops every other week at Lincolnshire Dorchester House with a "traveling" library collection.

Driftwood Public Library also maintain a large print collection, and can certify people with visual disabilities for books-on-tape, a federally funded program operated out of the Oregon State Library in Salem. We also have a large collection of Bi-Folkal Kits. Each kit contains a series of slides, narrative tapes, music tapes, and hands-on materials to be passed around to people living in care facilities or senior retirement centers. These kits, each based on a different theme, can be checked out by volunteers, teachers, and recreational directors.

Driftwood Public Library has always shown a strong commitment to the members of its community who are unable to get to the library. We have been providing outreach service to Lincoln City residents for over 20 yeras. Simply put, if you can't come to the library, we'll come to you.

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Volunteer Service

Volunteers make a major contribution to the library !!!

Volunteers are an integral part of the library and add to the community spirit as well as providing practical help for our readers. Many volunteers come every week to work, at regular tasks but others come for a one-time special job, seasonally when they are in town, or when they have free time.

There are sitting jobs, mildly active jobs, and the very physical shelving of books. Jobs and times can be customized to your schedule, skills, and interests. New volunteers go on a complete tour of the library. An intake interview and a tour of the library will show you the various jobs available. We talk with you about your interests and availability.

A few jobs available to trained volunteers:

• Shelving books and periodicals
• Helping with the Monday book sales
• Typing labels and cards
• Looking up collection information in the library catalog
• Fixing, mending, and cleaning books
• Processing paperback books and media for readers to use
• Hospitality for events
• Word processing - book lists, signs, brochures
• Organizing community information display in lobby
• Stamping, sorting, folding ...
• Doing whatever needs doing that day
• Completing many specialized projects as needed

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Circulation Service

How to Borrow and Return Library Materials

• Present your library card with the items you want to check out. If you do not have your library card with you, we will hold your items at the check out desk for one day until you return with your card.
• Videos and DVDs checkout for one week; all other library materials are loaned out for two weeks.
• If you are unable to return your items by the due date, you may call to renew them and avoid a fine of 5 cents per day. However, interlibrary-loan materials from non-CRSN libraries or items for which others are waiting will not be renewed. Please have the items to renew near the phone when you call.
• A book and video return drop is located at the garage level of Lincoln Square for your convenience when the library is not open. Please return videos, DVDs, CDs and audio books to the video drop side and not the book drop side.
• Please notify the library if your library card is lost or if you change your name, address, or phone number.
• Please return items on or before due date. If you receive an overdue notice, please return items promptly.
• Please report damage to anything you borrow, whether it was damaged in your care or before you borrowed it.

Library Card Application

Our library cards are fee free to residents of Lincoln County and north Lincoln County (from Depoe Bay to Tillamook border). To apply for a library card, we need you to provide the following:

1. Your full name
2. Physical residential address, including apartment number if applicable
3. Mailing address if you use a post office box
4. Home telephone number
5. A current, valid photo ID such as an Oregon Driver's License, State I.D., or Tribal I.D. Federal I.D. cards are also acceptable if you do not have an Oregon License. If your photo ID does not have current, local address, an alternative proof of physical address will be needed such as a property tax receipt, rental agreement or utility bill.
6. The name, address, and telephone number of another person who lives at an address different from yours.
7. For patrons under the age of 18, a parent or legal guardian must be present at the time of sign-up.

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Internet Service

Using the Internet at our library.

Through the support of the Gates Foundation, your library is able to provide ten public Internet stations for you to access your email and search the Internet. There is no charge to use the Internet except for the cost of printing out search results: $.10 a sheet from the Internet network printer. You will need a Driftwood library card to use an Internet station at our library. Library card applications are available at the front desk.

Use of the Internet stations is limited by a time management system to one hour per day for general use. Use of these free workstations is based on a space-available system. When you use one of the workstations, you will be asked to enter your library card number Your session will begin at that time; you will be notified automatically when your session is about to end. Should you need to leave before your hour is up, you may return if a station is available and use the rest of your hour.

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Library Policies

Clicking on these policies will open another page.

• Facility Use Policy
• Emergency Response Policy
• Electronic Access Policy
• Public Relations Policy
• Personnel Policy

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