Borrowing Services
- We lend books, magazines, audiobooks and music on CDs, videocassettes and DVD's, book-and-CD, and Large Print books.
- Interlibrary loan - if we don't have it, we'll find it for you.
- Reserve service for titles that are checked out.
- Books for adult new readers.
- Maine State Library offers a federally-funded Talking Books program, which provides recorded books and special players free to persons who are blind, visually impaired, physically handicapped or who have a doctor-certified reading disability. Click here for more information on the program.
Reference Services
- Telephone and in-house answers to questions of all sorts.
- Online subscription resources and Internet access
- Reader's advisory service - if you're not quite sure what you want to read.
- Online Minerva catalog with access to MaineCat - a listing of our collection and the holdings of other Maine libraries.
- Newspaper index of the Journal-Tribune and the Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier.
- Genealogy resources, including census information, obituaries, and birth & marriage indices.
- Local newspapers on microfilm.
- Morningstar and Value Line investment information services.
Other Community Services
- Use of Community Room and Small Group Meeting Room for meetings and workshops.
- Museum passes to the Children's Museum of Maine and the Portland Museum of Art.
- Public computers with Internet access, Microsoft Office programs, and games.
- Building-wide wireless Internet access.
- Art exhibits.
- IRS and Maine tax form distribution service.
- SMAA Senior Advocate to assist seniors with applying for entitlement programs such as Medicare Plan D. Call 284-4181 for more information.
- Off-site deposit collections at area facilities serving the elderly
- BookShare outreach to day cares and preschools.
- Historic photograph and documents collections.
- Office space for the Biddeford Historical Society and the Franco-American Genealogical Society of York County.
Portland Public Library Cards
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Residents of York and Cumberland Counties may bring photo ID and proof of address to us and we will give you a Portland Public Library card. This will enable you to borrow materials from the state's largest public library and to take advantage of their many Internet-based services, including downloadable audiobooks and ebooks from Netlibrary and genealogical and business resources, among others. For a full description of these services, visit their website.
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