Save Money by Using the Library

Feeling the economic pinch these days? Looking for ways to save money?

As this video from the NBC Nightly News shows, many Americans are turning to the free services offered by their public libraries.



MSNBC.com "Libraries offer free relief from tough times"

Your Palo Alto City Library offers free books, DVDs, CDs, computer and Internet access, family storytimes, and more!

At PACL you can:

• Enjoy the entertainment at our community programs.
• Find books, movies, and music through our catalog.
• Read newspapers from around the world.
• Get magazine articles.
• Use a computer.
• Learn a language online.
• Download audiobooks.
• Volunteer to serve your community.

How have you used the library to save money? Share your tips!

Get your library card and join us in person at any of our five branches conveniently located throughout Palo Alto, or online anytime!

What Are You Free2 Be?

We have joined other Bay Area libraries in a campaign to demonstrate how libraries are empowering our lives every day. Visit the Free2 web page to see short videos of real library customers giving their testimonials about what the library has added to their lives.

You can enter to win a prize by telling us what the library has made you Free2 do! The contest goes through May 15, 2008, and is simple to enter.

Feel free2 express your opinion on how you like the look of the new logo!