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Pick up your books at the centre county libraries after hours

BELLEFONTE, PA (August 7, 2024) — Do you find yourself unable to make it to the library when it’s open? Between work and school schedules, sometimes it’s hard to do something as simple as pick up the books you want (or need) from the library. Thankfully, you can now pick up your requested books even when the library is closed with Centre County Library & Historical Museum’s new Library Pickup Lockers! 

These lockers are now available at the Bellefonte Library, Centre Hall Area Branch Library, and the Holt Memorial Library. To use them, just request the books you want to read and when you are notified that they’ve arrived, give your library a call. The books will be checked out to your account and put safely inside a locker outside of the library for you to pick up within the next two days. No fuss.

Public libraries offering pickup lockers as a service in Centre County is a wonderful step into the future. The idea has already been implemented in different library systems throughout the United States and Pennsylvania as an effort to make libraries even more useful for community members. The option to pick up books from the library after hours greatly increases each library user’s access to the large collection of items that they share inside public libraries. Now it’s time for Centre County residents to get a taste of this increased access!

The installation of the Library Pickup Lockers was made possible by a generous grant from the Downtown State College Rotary Club.

For media inquiries please contact

Elizabeth Schwartz

Communications Manager

eschwartz@centrecountylibrary.org

814-355-1516 x1016