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Q: Where do I park, and for how long?
A: Parking is available for up to 2 hours in the Library Parking Lot, located adjacent to the South Side of the Library building, on 7th street.

Q: Can I use other library cards at the Pomona Public Library?
A: The Pomona Public Library is a municipal library, and is not a branch or member library of any other city or countywide system. Library cards from other libraries are not valid at the Pomona Public Library. However, library cardholders from member libraries of the Southern California Libraries Cooperative (SCLC) have certain borrowing privileges at the Pomona Public Library. For more information, please inquire at the Circulation Desk, 909-620-2043

Q: Can I connect on the Internet to the library's catalogue from home?
A: The Library's on-line catalog is available on the Internet at the following URL: http://www.pomonalibrary.org. Use the Library's on-line catalog to search for a book, or find out more information about the Library, including a calendar of events, hours of operation and information about each Library department.

Q: When I connect to the Library's catalog from home, what else can I do besides search for a book?
A: Library card holders can examine their Library account to see if they owe any fines or fees, view a list of items that they have checked out and when they are due, as well as renew these items. Library cardholders can also place a "hold" on a book. [see below]

Q: If an item is being used by another borrower, can I be placed on a waiting list to see it next?
A: Yes. For a 50 cent per item fee the Library can reserve a book for you when it is returned by the current borrower. You will be notified at home by mail or e-mail (if you've given us your address) when the book is returned. Hold requests can be made in person at the Library, over the Internet through the Library's catalog. [see above]

Q: Can your library help me borrow materials from another library?
A: Yes. Our Inter Library Loan Department can make these arrangements, for a nominal per item-fee of $2.00.

Q: Can I search the Internet or do word processing at the Library?
A: Pomona Library Card holders may use workstations in the Library for this purpose for free. There are 22 workstations available in the Computer Lab, located on the Lower Level of the Library. Additional workstations are available in the Adult Reference Department and the children's Room. The cost of printing from any workstation is 12 cents per page. Your work product can be read from or saved to floppy disc.

Q: Do you have photocopy machines?
A: Black & white Copiers are available in the Adult Reference area, and in Special Collections. These cost 15 cents per page, using coins or bills, or 12 cents per page with a copy card.

Q: Do you loan entertainment or feature film videos?
A: The Library's video collection consists only of instructional and educational videotapes on a variety of subjects. Videos are loaned for a three-day period, and may be renewed only once. There is a 50 cents per day per item charge for overdue videos.

Q: Can I listen to audiotapes at your library, or watch videotapes?
A: The Library does not have listening or viewing facilities.

Q: How do I find magazine and newspaper articles at your library?
A: The library has both printed indexes and computerized databases to assist patrons in identifying and obtaining magazine articles. A variety of magazines and newspapers are available in the Library in their original paper format, as well as on microfilm, microfiche, and in electronic format. Librarians can assist you in the use of these materials. Library cardholders can also access our newspaper and magazine databases over the Internet at this URL: http://www.youseemore.com/pomona/databases.asp

Q: I am unable to come to the library. Can you answer questions by phone or by e-mail.
A: To speak to a Reference Librarian call the Library at 909-620-2043. Reference Librarians can briefly answer requests for factual information over the telephone, or consult the Library 's catalog to locate useful book titles. The staff however cannot give detailed answers to difficult or complicated questions by phone. Patrons are encouraged to come to the library for this level of assistance. Patrons can also send us a question by e-mail at this address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . We will try to respond to your question within 24 hours.

Q: Does the library use volunteers?
A: Yes. Volunteers are accepted for work in all areas of the Library. The library does not accept court ordered volunteers. For more information, call 909-620-2043 (ext 2701 - Mabel Cross)

Q: How can I work at the library?
A: Begin by contacting the City of Pomona's Department of Human Resources (909-620-2291). This is the hiring agency for all positions with the City

The Pomona Public library will consider requests by individuals and community groups engaged in educational, cultural, informational and artistic activities to make use of the library's exhibit cases and display areas.  By accepting a display or exhibit, the library does not endorse or advocate the viewpoints of exhibits or exhibitors. Displays and exhibits will be accepted and scheduled for view by the Director of the Library, or by a designated staff member. The Library reserves the right to designate and limit the space, size, location, and duration of displays and exhibits. The Library will have the final decision on the content and arrangement of all exhibits, and reserves the right to reject any part of an exhibit or to change the manner of its display.
 

• Scheduling for all displays and exhibits must be made in advance with the Director of the Library or a designated staff member. Space and exhibit scheduling will be done on a first-come first-served basis. 

• Exhibits must not interfere with the general operation of regular library activities.

• Exhibits must contribute to and not detract from the general appearance of the library.

• Exhibitors are responsible for creating their displays, setting them up and removing them as scheduled. Assistance will not be provided by library staff.
  If the Library staff is forced to dismantle a display, the Library is not responsible for any damage.

• Labels for exhibit items are provided by the exhibitor. They must be neat and attractive, and may not be attached to a wall or exhibit case. Labels may not contain prices. Exhibitors may not post signs or posters for their exhibits in the library, unless approved by the Library Director or designated staff beforehand.

• In return for the Library's approval of an application to allow a display and/or exhibit at the Pomona Public Library, Exhibitor expressly agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Library and/or the City and their officers, agencies and employees from and against any and all rights, claims, liabilities, damages, costs, attorney fees, judgments, actions or losses of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be sustained or suffered by or secured against the Library and/or the City and its officers, agencies and employees arising out of or related in any way whatsoever to the display and/or exhibit for which the Exhibitor is applying, including, but not limited to, the loss or damage of said display and/or exhibit.

• The Library assumes no responsibility for the preservation, protection or possible damage or theft of any item displayed or exhibited. All items placed in the Library for exhibit are so placed at the owner's risk.

The Friends of the Pomona Public Library is a 501(c)(3) organization which supports the Library's programs and services. 

A number of Library programs include:

• Grandparents and Books - Seniors reading to children and children reading to them in the Children's Room
• Children's Summer Reading Program
• Teen Summer Reading Program
• Book Talk discussion group
• Trivia Bee for Literacy Program
• Lobby ("Book Nook") Sales
• Monthly book sales
• Bridge and Games earns money to support Library programs
• Fundraising projects

Meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of every month, except July and August, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in the Library Conference Room.

The Membership year runs from July 1 to June 30. Membership is open all year.

Individual Lifetime Membership = $100.00
Annual Dues:

• Individual Dues = $10.00 
• Couples = $20.00
• Contributing Membership = $20.00 
• Patron Membership = $50.00 
• Organizations, Business, Merchant = $75.00

For further information, write the Friends of the Pomona Public Library at:

Visit them online at friendspomonalibrary.org

Personal computing workstations, complete with Internet access, word processing and spread sheet programs, and a variety of educational, informational, and entertaining software programs, are available in the Children and Adult Reference areas of the Library. These workstations are available without charge for use by Pomona Public Library Card holders only during all hours of the Library's operation.

In addition, there is a computer lab, consisting of 22 PC workstations, located on the Lower Level of the Library. These workstations are available for use by Pomona Library Card holders only on a regularly scheduled basis.

These Public Access computing workstations, were provided to the Pomona Public Library by a generous grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Learning Foundation.

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