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Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday 9:00AM - 9:00PM
Friday & Saturday 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Sunday 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Office Phone:
Circulation: (302) 736-7030
Office Fax: (302) 736-5087
Reference: (302) 736-7077
Interlibrary Loan: (302) 736-7031
Children's Services: (302) 736-7034
Office Fax:
(302) 736-5087
Director:
Sheila Anderson
Contact us:
Citizen Action Center CRM
Mailing Address:
45 South State Street
Dover, DE 19901
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The Dover Library Building is located at 45 South State Street.
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Library Catalog
www.kentnet.org
Have a question? We have answers! The Dover Public Library operates the Kent
County Reference Center. Call us at 736-7077 with your questions or send an
e-mail message to the following address: answerline_kent@lib.de.us
DelAWARE databases, maintained by the DE Division of Libraries, provides
full-text magazine articles, newspaper articles, reference resources, and
more! You must have a Delaware library card and a pin number is order to
access the databases: www.lib.de.us
Answer Online!
Virtual librarian service
Access "AnswerOnline," our live chat service! Librarians are available to answer reference qeustions from 3 PM -- 8 PM seven days a week. This service is supported by a Federal Library Services and Technology Act grant awarded through the Delaware Division of Libraries.
Library Volunteers
The Dover Public Library is seeking volunteers to assist with shelfreading and
other tasks. If interested, please contact Joan Stover, Librarian, at
jstover@lib.de.us or at 736-7185.
Library Overview
In general, this division of Parks, Recreation & Library Department acquires, organizes, and provides access and guidance to a wide variety of information and materials which help to fulfill the educational, informational, recreational, and cultural needs of the residents of the City of Dover. Under contract with the Kent County Levy Court, the division provides full library services to all residents of Kent County and is responsible for the following tasks:
- Selects, catalogs, and processes books and a wide variety of other
print and non-print materials, primarily through purchases.
- Loans a broad spectrum of adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction
books selected to meet the basic reading habits and desires of the diversified
community.
- Provides a selection of current newspapers, magazines, and paperback
books for browsing and leisure reading.
- Provides a Reference Center with up-to-date materials and professional
reference staff to aid patrons in locating materials and finding information
needed. Materials consist of encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and
automated indexes to magazines and books, all reserved for in-library
study and research. The Reference Center is available all hours the
library is open and is accessible in person and via telephone to all
residents of Kent County through a grant from the Delaware Division
of Libraries.
- Provides a Local History/Genealogy center containing published materials
about Delaware and Delaware families of use to patrons doing family
history research.
- Provides a Children's Services Center with staff to conduct story
times, a summer reading program, Dial-A-Story, and other educational
and recreational programs throughout the year for children through age
12.
- Provides a Young Adult Librarian to conduct outreach, administer programs,
and develop the library collection for young adults ages 13 through
18.
- Provides adult programs reflecting the interests of citizens and organizations
and promoting use of library materials.
- Makes available a variety of audio-visual items such as compact discs,
audio cassettes, video cassettes, DVDs, audio books, and audio-visual
kits to meet additional cultural and informational needs of the diversified
community.
- Provides an interlibrary loan service to accommodate patrons in obtaining
additional items not in the library’s collection.
- Provides a fully automated circulation system with an online public
access catalog available both in the library and remotely from patrons’
homes or office computers. This system, provided in conjunction with
the Kent County Department of Library Services, connects seven libraries
in central Delaware and provides access to the catalogs of the Wilmington
Public Library, the New Castle County Library System, the Sussex County
Library System, the University of Delaware, Delaware Technical and Community
College, and Delaware State University. The library also offers graphical
access to the World Wide Web and the Internet via public-access computers
within the library.
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