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LIBRARY SERVICES
Children and Youth ServicesDriftwood 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.
Outreach ServiceDriftwood 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.
Volunteer ServiceVolunteers 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:
Circulation Service
How to Borrow and Return Library Materials
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:
Internet ServiceUsing 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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