On The Web
The library's Web site had more than four million visits in fiscal year 2008. You can search for, put holds on, and renew books, listen to author interviews, get virtual reference help and review your account. Over 70 authoritative databases, 50,000 eBooks, 4,000 eAudiobooks and 400 eVideos can be accessed through the library's Web site.

eMedia to Take Everywhere You Go
In the library's catalog type in eBooks, eAudiobooks or eVideos and click on Subject to browse the titles in our collection. The library's eAudiobooks and eBooks can be downloaded and used for 21 days with a maximum of 10 titles allowed at one time. The borrowing period for eVideo is seven days.

CDs, Cassettes and DVDs on Your Commute and in Your Home
Wherever you have a CD or cassette tape player, you can listen to a book. The library has over 93,000 books on CD, 36,000 books on cassette and 270 music CDs. The DVD collection has expanded to over 54,000 including movies, documentaries, self-improvement and more.

Helping Children Get Ready to Read in Childcare Centers
The library is committed to providing access to books and reading to all Fairfax County children. The library's Ready-to-Read program provides outreach services through library staff and specially trained volunteers so children are ready for school at age five.

Book Deliveries to Senior Centers
Did you know that people in more than 30 senior living facilities, nursing homes and adult care centers in Fairfax County enjoyed library services last year? Through the outreach program of the library's Access Services branch, almost 14,000 books and other library material were loaned to residents in various facilities through its book deposit program. Access Services staff provide a selection of material to facilities on a rotating basis. The material is borrowed and returned at each residence. In addition, some customers who are unable to travel to their library branch, receive their books via a home delivery service.

Volunteers in Every Branch
The library has over 1,300 volunteers who work side by side with staff in many library activities. There is an ongoing need at most branches for help checking books in and out, sorting and shelving, assisting with special projects, demonstrating new technologies to the public, answering phones, shelf-reading (Adopt-a-Shelf), gardening and more. See the entire list of positions. For more information, contact the Volunteer Coordinator at the branch where you are interested in volunteering.

Businesses and Individuals Support the Library through The Fairfax Library Foundation
The Fairfax Library Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation committed to providing supplementary support to the Fairfax County Public Library. While reinforcing the need for continued and increased public support for the library, the Foundation serves as a catalyst for attracting private funding from individuals, businesses, organizations, Friends groups and foundations to enhance library services for our community.

Friends of the Library in Every Neighborhood
Every branch of the Fairfax County Public Library – 23 branches in all – has an associated nonprofit group, the Friends of the Library, dedicated to serving that branch by raising money for various programs or services the members feel would enhance the library's service to the community. Many Friends groups are also able to support library-wide programs or community-wide programs which focus on literary events such as Fall for the Book.

Library Outreach: Special Programs and Events

Tysons Corner Center
A Read-a-thon was held at the Tysons Corner Center on April 14, 2009 as part of the celebration for National Library Week. Local VIPs read from books to an enthusiastic crowd.

Library Appreciation Day
Show the library staff how much you appreciate them on Library Appreciation Day, April 18, 2009. A word of thanks, a kind note, a handshake will let staff members know how much their customers appreciate their dedication to the community.

Alden Theatre
The Alden Theatre at the McLean Community Center is a partner of the Fairfax County Public Library providing the venue for the library's Perspective Series each year and the concerts sponsored by the library and the Music Friends of the Library.

All Fairfax Reads
Everyone in the county is encouraged to read the same book. Last year the county chose Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader. In 2009, the county hopes to participate in the Big Read.

Summer Reading Program
Last summer, over 60,000 students of varying ages participated.

Books are Mobile
Whether you choose a traditional book to take with you or use electronic versions on your iPod, on your computer, in your car or elsewhere, you can take books with you . . . on the Metro, on a plane, on the couch, to the park . . . we're everywhere you are!

Where do you read, listen, or view library materials? Tell us about it!

Send us a photo of someone using the library and we'll put it on our Web site!

In your e-mail, tell us the who is in the photo, what they are doing, and, if in a library, which library.

*NOTE: By submitting a photo, you give permission to Fairfax County Public Library to post the photo on its Web site and/or to use it in other promotional materials.*

Fairfax County Public Library, celebrating 70 years in 2009!