| Over 84,000 books are available to you. These include outstanding fiction as well as non-fiction materials in both the adult, teens and children's areas. In addition, we have an expanding collection of reference materials offering the most up-to-date information. We are increasing the size of our audio-book collection; these abridged and full-length audio-books have proven to be very popular. |
| Story hour sessions for pre-school children are held three times each week. Each summer the Children's Department sponsors a summer reading program for children and teens, with children receiving reading incentives at summer's end. The Children's Department also offers movies, special holiday programs and craft programs. You may reach the Children's Department by calling 939-6710 x108. |
| Community groups are invited to use our meeting room which can accommodate up to 160 people. The Library Community room may be used for meetings and programs, upon request. |
| The Port Chester Public Library has personal computers and internet access, printers and assorted software for public use at no charge. Other computers in the library support library databases, providing access to the catalogs of other Westchester County public and academic libraries. |
| The Library provides ESL classes each week, free of charge, for adults in the community. |
| For those persons in Port Chester and Rye Brook who are unable to come to the library, we will select books of their choice and other materials, such as DVDs, and deliver them as needed. |
| The Port Chester Public Library is linked to a Westchester County-wide borrowing system, which includes both public and academic libraries; several million items are available to you through this cooperative program. If you need a book that we do not own, we can send out a request to another library. Materials, which cannot be found in any Westchester library, are also searched for in the New York Metropolitan area and, if necessary, in the New York State region. |
| The Port Chester Public Library owns nationally known magazines, including children's, business, scientific, sports, hobbyist and general news magazines. The library also maintains subscriptions to local area and state newspapers as well as major national papers and business journals. The library also has newspapers, magazines and databases online. |
| The library has two photocopiers. Materials may be copied for a charge of $0.15 per page. We also have one microfilm reader-printer; copies are $0.15 per page. |
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The Library's Reference Department
offers a variety of print and computer resources to fulfill the
informational needs of Port Chester and Rye Brook residents. Our
most frequently sought print sources are located in our Job
Information, Business, Health, Local History, Fine Art and Consumer
Information collections. Online information systems at the
Library provide access to the Internet, a full-text magazine database
indexing 1,500 + publications, a newspaper database covering 115 +
newspapers throughout the world, a literature database and a variety of
online business, health and education resources. In addition to a diverse collection of recreational reading, including multiple copies of bestsellers, the library offers circulating books on computers, resume writing, health, Spanish and English as a Second Language collections, leisure activities, the arts and many more. The Reference Staff offers assistance both in-person and by telephone. Come in or call with your questions. We will be glad to help you with your information and research needs. With our extensive range of databases and online searching capabilities available through our system, we can call upon a vast amount of outside resources if we do not have the answer on hand. You can call our reference librarians directly by dialing 939-6710 x103 or x110. Through our affiliation with the Westchester Library System, we can also utilize the five million listings of the 38 public libraries in the county. |
| For those persons in Port Chester and Rye Brook who are unable to come to the library, we will select books of their choice and other materials, such as DVDs, and deliver them as needed. In addition, AARP volunteers also offer a tax assistance program to senior citizens. There is also free blood pressure screening on the first Wednesday morning of every month. |
Your Port Chester-Rye Brook Public
Library
offers the following:
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| The Port Chester Public Library has videos & DVDs, including classic and new-release films for adults, teens and children. In addition, we have videos and DVDs on a variety of subjects-travel, how-to, history, sports, literature, art and music. They are shelved on the main floor next to the circulation desk. |
| A wide variety of services are available through the Teen Services Department to help students in seventh through twelfth grades meet their unique educational, informational and recreational needs. Materials, including fiction and non-fiction books, videocassettes, and audiocassettes are selected specifically for teens. These materials coupled with the frequent school and library communications allow Librarians to successfully assist students with homework, projects and summer reading. Specialized reference services, bibliographic instruction and readers' advisory are also provided by the professional staff. Programs, such as Internet Instruction and Babysitting Workshops, are held for teens. |