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.

TUESDAY Night Pajama Times at 6:30pm for all ages to snuggle up to listen to stories read. The 2nd Tuesday evening each month holds a Puppet Show beginning at 6:30pm.

There are currently two Thursday story programs:

THURSDAY at 10:30am Toddler Time – designed for toddlers and babies under 2 years, with music, movement, stories and play time.

THURSDAY at 2pm Preschool Story Time for 3-5 year old children – stories, flannel board activity, finger plays and crafts.

WEDNESDAY evenings at 6pm enjoy Family Night, for all ages, to craft, see a movie, enjoy storytelling, or make music. Pick up a schedule of Family events in the library.

Summer Reading Club is an eight-week program for ages two through twelve that runs from June through the middle of August. Toddler Time and Pre-School Story Time continue, while a Wednesday evening program for the whole family is added, as well as a Thursday afternoon program for teens. Each age group is encouraged to keep track of the time that they read or are read to or read to someone else. Each age group has its own criteria for earning prizes and summer reading t-shirts. Storytellers, magicians, and musicians perform at Family Night. Summer Reading is sponsored by The Friends of Driftwood Library, with help from the local merchants and the Noon Kiwanis Club.

The Children’s and Youth Services of Driftwood Public Library also reaches out to those children who cannot make it to the library. Children’s Outreach provides books and storytelling to a variety of after-school programs in the community. The Children’s Librarian also makes school visits several times during the school year to the elementary schools in Lincoln City.

Children’s and Youth Services celebrates Teen Read Week in October, Children’s Book Week in November, Love to Read Week in February, and Community Days in April. Special events and activities are held during those weeks and advertised in the local media.

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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 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 years. Simply put, if you can't come to the library, we'll come to you.

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 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. 

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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. Many volunteers come each week to work, 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 time, 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 library
• Fixing, mending, and cleaning books
• Processing paperback books and media for readers to use
• Internet instruction
• 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 week until you return with your card.
• Use of your library card by another person will be permitted only with your written permission.
• All library materials are loaned out for two weeks.
• If you are unable to return your items by the due date, you may call on or before the due date and 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 drops are located at the garage level of Lincoln Square for your convenience when the library is not open. Please return videos to the video drop near to the book return drop. Do not return recorded books and music media in the book return drop to avoid damages.
• 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. Residential address, including apartment number
3. Mailing address if you use a post office box
4. Home telephone number
5. Photo ID such as an Oregon Driver's License, State I.D., or Tribal I.D. Federal I.D. cards are also acceptable if patron does not have Oregon License or rent or tax receipt confirming local address.
6. The name, address, and telephone number of another person who lives at an address different from yours.
7. Parent or guardian's information and signature if you are under the age of 18.

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Internet Service

Using the Internet at our library.

Through the support of the Driftwood Library Foundation, your library is able to provide six public access 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. Use of the Internet stations is limited to one hour for research and either one half hour or fifteen minutes for email access. We ask that you use the short time email stations for that purpose and not tie up one of the four research stations.

Use of these free workstations is based on a space-available system. When you use one of the workstations, we ask that you sign in your beginning time and abide by the limitations for that station. We are very busy with visitor use (especially in the summer months) as well as regular customers so patience is a definite virtue for this service.

Computer Bay Learning and Research Center

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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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