Services

Barberton Public Library offers a variety of services to the community.  Click on the links in the following lists to find more information:

Customer Services

• After-hours book drops at both the Main Library and Community Health Library
• Faxing - send a fax for $.75 per page, receive a fax for $.25 per page
• Basic tax forms available in the lobby from January - April
• Bus schedules
• Golden Buckeye applications
• HEAP forms
• Voter registration forms
• Meeting rooms available for groups
• Volunteer opportunities
• Black & white copiers for $.10 per page
• Color copier for $.20 per page
• Black & white printing from computers for $.10 per page
• Word processor
• Résumé Wizard and résumé templates
• Internet access
• WiFi - wireless internet access
• NetNotice - Receive Clevnet account information via e-mail

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 Reference Services

• Assistance setting up email
• Assistance locating library items
• Assistance locating articles through databases
• Interlibrary loans - borrow items from other libraries throughout Ohio and the US
• Outreach to homebound library users
• Outreach to Parkview Center patients at Summa Health System Barberton Hospital
• Request items from Main Library to be picked up at Community Health Library
• Request items from Community Health Library to be picked up at Main Library
• Readers Advisory - get help finding a great book
• KnowItNow - 24/7 live chat reference service from Ohio librarians.

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Children's Services

• Early Literacy Station computer
• Early literacy promotion through lapsits and storyhours
• Teacher loan cards
• Traveling Storyteller to read or present a puppet show to your group
• Library speakers present programs to your group - importance of literacy, good children's books, and more
• Readers Advisory - get help finding a great book
• Summer & Winter reading club
• Born to Read - families with babies born at Summa Health System Barberton Hospital receive a bag of library- & literacy-related items

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Teen Services

• Readers Advisory - get help finding a great book
• A teen-specific collection of books, audiobooks, and magazines
• Clubs - Dungeons & Dragons, Anime

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Program Services

• Computer classes
• PS2 gaming sessions
• Movie screenings, including Book & Movie Discussion Group
• Book clubs - Day & Evening
• Adult summer reading club
• Library speakers present programs to your group - Local History, Health, and more
• Programs presented by outside groups, organizations, or individuals, such as musical performances, travel shows and author visits

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