Art in the Library
The library walls and display cases feature art and artifact displays year round. The Hagopian Art Gallery on the 2nd floor features new exhibits each month.
Audio & Visual Media
Movies, music, and audio books for adults are available on the 2nd floor. Turn left as you exit the stairs or elevator. Those just for children are on the 1st floor in the Children's Room. Movies, music and audio books in Spanish are shelved with the Spanish Language Collection.
Book Return
The after-hours book return is located outside the building, at shoulder height on the outer wall just to the right of the library entrance.
Bookstore
The Serendipity Bookstore offers used books, audio books, and other materials at bargain prices. The bookstore is operated by the Friends of the Redwood Libraries. All funds raised are used for projects that support the library. The store is located on the 2nd floor. You will find the bookstore entrance to your left as you walk into the Audio Visual area.
Bulletin Board
A bulletin board is on the wall between the magazine area and the Children's Room. The board features flyers and announcements of non-profit, cultural, and educational public events in our community. A poster kiosk outside the library also provides community event information. To request that your notice be posted, please bring it to the Reference Desk.
Catalog Stations
You can find books and other library materials by using our Online Catalog computer stations. Catalog stations are scattered through the library, including in the Adult nonfiction area, in the Children's Room, and upstairs in the Media Room and Humboldt Room.
Children's Desk
Ask questions and get help in using anything in the Children's Room at this service desk, where you'll often find a librarian on duty. The Children's Desk is marked on the map as number 8.
Circulation Desk
You can check out library materials, get a library card, return books, pay your fines, and renew books here. This desk is marked on the map as number 3.
Computer Stations:
Computer workstations dedicated to a variety of uses are located throughout the library, including catalog stations, word processing stations, public internet stations, and more.
Copy Machines
On the first floor there's a copy machine near the reference desk, and another near the children's desk. On the second floor there is a copy machine in the periodical room. A color copier is available on the 2nd floor in the Humboldt Room; please ask staff to help you use the color copier.
Drinking Fountain
Two water fountains are located on the right hand side of the outer lobby as you enter the library. They are placed at different heights for your convenience.
Elevator
The elevator and stairs are located in the center of the library, across from the Reference Desk. The elevator is marked on the map as number 5.
Emergency Exits
In an emergency please go to the nearest exit. There are emergency exits in the children's room near the copy machine, in adult nonfiction on the West wall near the wi-fi plug-in counter, and upstairs in the media room and periodicals room. Emergency exits are marked (E) on the map.
Entrance
The library entrance features automatic doors that open at your approach. Step into the lobby to find a pay telephone on your left and drinking fountains on your right. Then there's another set of double doors, and you have entered the library lobby. Restrooms are to your right. The large meeting room is to your left. The library's indoor book return, circulation desk, and first floor are straight ahead.
Fiction Collection
The fiction collection is shelved in order by the author's last name. The fiction collection includes novels and stories to satisfy a wide variety of reading interests, from bestsellers to lesser-known literary gems, and from cult favorites to classics. Mystery, science fiction, and western genres are shelved as smaller collections in the adult fiction area. Paperback fiction is shelved along the wall at the back of this section.
Hagopian Art Gallery
Collections of work by local artists and photographers rotate through the library's art gallery. It is located on the 2nd floor.
Humboldt Room
This peaceful 2nd floor room, with a view of the harbor, is the showpiece of the library. This is our local history collection. Books, photos, maps, journals, yearbooks, rare documents and other materials for reference use are shelved here. A service desk, most often staffed by helpful and knowledgeable volunteers, is located just inside the door on your right as you enter. A copy machine is available for your use, featuring both black and white and color copies.
Internet Terminals
These are available for public use. Bring your library card or ask at the Reference Desk for a guest pass. You may print from these stations. Pay for your prints at the Reference Desk.
Japanese Language Collection
A small collection of books in the Japanese and Chinese languages is available in shelves built into the reference desk, along the public side of the back of the desk. This collection was first created in honor of Eureka's Sister City relationship with Kamisu, Japan.
Large Print Books
Books in large type are shelved along the north wall of the library. As you face the windows and enjoy the view of the harbor and bridge, you can see this collection along the walls to either side of the windows. This substantial collection runs around the northeast corner of the room and continues along the wall between the fiction collection and the Children's Room. The north wall and large print book area are marked on the map as number 4.
Literacy Collection
Readers that are more fun for grownups. A small collection of books for adults who are learning to read can be found at the reference desk. They are found on shelves facing out from the desk toward the 920 nonfiction area.
Magazines and Newspapers
Recent copies are found in the newspaper reading area on the first floor, which provides comfortable seats for readers. Older magazines and newspapers may be found on the 2nd floor in the Newspaper Back Files room beyond the Audio Visual collection. Check our
Magazine & Newspaper List to see what the library has in stock. Also, see our
eBooks page for eMagazines that you can download or read online, and our
Articles and Databases web page to search for full text magazine and newspaper articles by subject. The library subscribes so that you can get the information for free with your library card.
Meeting Room
The Large Meeting Room is located to your left as you enter the library. Meeting room use policies can be found online.
Microfilm Reader-Printers
Microfilm of local newspapers and microfilm reading and printing machines are available in the newspaper back files room on the 2nd floor. Printing from the microfilm costs 25 cents per page.
Mysteries
The mystery, science fiction, and western genres are shelved as smaller collections in the fiction area. This area is marked on the map as number 6. In the fiction section, as you approach the Children's Room down the fiction aisle, all of these small collections are on your right. Look at the small white signs on the ends of the shelves to find the correct section.
New Arrivals Shelf
New adult fiction and nonfiction are displayed to your left as you approach the Reference Desk from the library entrance. Fiction faces out, and nonfiction is on the reverse side of the shelf. The new arrivals shelf is marked on the map as number 2.
Nonfiction Collection
This collection supports the education, information and cultural needs of our community. You can check these books out. Books in the nonfiction collection are organized by subject, using the
Dewey System which assigns a number to each subject. Thus, in the Humboldt County Library and in most public libraries around the USA, you'll find books about tame animals at call number 636, and books specifically about dogs at call number 636.7,
Oversized Books
Most large books fit on the library's ordinary shelves, but certain volumes are so very large that they are shelved separately. You will find these on the north wall of the library, near the northwest corner of the building. As you face the windows showing a view of the harbor, the oversized books are on the wall to your left, near the corner of the room.
Paperback Fiction
Paperback fiction is shelved along the wall between the mystery books and the Children's Room.
Parenting Corner
For the convenience of parents, a small collection of books, pamphlets, DVDs, videos, and audiobooks on parenting issues is kept in the southwest corner of the Children's Room, near the door to the Story Room. As you step through the main Children's Room doorway, you will see the Parenting Corner on your right.
Ramp
Near the accessible parking area, a ramp leads to the library entrance. The emergency exits from the adult reading area and the Children's Room also feature ramps.
Reference Collection
Reference materials are especially useful sources of information that are kept by the library to be available to all library users. They include, but aren't limited to, the following resources:
- Atlases & Maps
- Auto Repair Information
- Databases
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias
- Government Documents of Local Interest
- Historical Documents of Local Interest
- Medical Reference Books
- Microfilm Copies of Local Newspapers
- Sources of Statistics
- Telephone Books
The Reference Collection Includes Free Access to Online Encyclopedias, Magazines, eBooks, and More.
Most can be used from home at any hour by visiting the library website Articles & Databases page. You will need a library card when using the library's online services.
Reference Desk
At the reference desk you can ask questions, get help with research, request books from other libraries, and get assistance in using books, computers, and reference materials. The location of the Reference Desk is marked on the map as number 1.
Restrooms
Men's and women's restrooms are located near the library entrance, on the right as you walk in. A child-sized restroom is available in the Children's Room. Restrooms are accessible to wheelchair users and feature hand rails and Braille signage.
Science Fiction
The Science Fiction, Mystery, and Western genres are shelved as smaller collections in the fiction area. As you approach the Children's Room down the Fiction aisle, Science Fiction is on your right. Look at the small white signs on the ends of the shelves to find the correct section. (The genre fiction area is marked on the map as number 6.)
Spanish Language Collection
This substantial collection is located to your left as you pass the circulation desk on entering the library. Turn left before you reach the New Arrivals shelf, walk past the Young Adult Room and you will find the books in Spanish in the large shelves to your right. You'll also find materials in Spanish for children in the Children's Room and Spanish-language materials for Young Adults in the Young Adult Room.
Story Room
This little room is used for cozy story times, and features stepped floor seating and a built-in puppet stage. You will find it just inside the entry to the children's room, the first door on your right. The Story Room is marked on the map as number 7.
Telephone
A pay telephone is located in the lobby, to your left as you enter the library.
Typewriter
There is a typewriter available for public use on the library's second floor in the Newspaper Back Files Room. There are also several word-processing computers located on the first floor.
Video Return
Next to the After Hours Book Return, this is a slot in the front wall outside the building, on the library porch and to the right of the library entrance, for after-hours returns of videos, dvds, and music.
Western Novels
The western, science fiction, and mystery genres are shelved as smaller collections in the fiction area. As you approach the Children's Room down the fiction aisle, westerns are on your right. Look at the small white signs on the ends of the shelves to find the correct section. This area is marked on map as number 6.
Word Processing Stations
These stations are located in the seating area west of the Reference Desk. These computer stations allow you more time, and feature a range of useful software including word processing, résumé software, and spreadsheets. The word processing computers do not connect to the Internet. Bring a USB flash drive or thumb drive to save your work and/or transfer it to the Internet. If you don't have a USB drive, they are available at the Serendipity Bookstore on the second floor of the library and cost less than five dollars. You may print from the Word Processing stations. Pay for your prints at the Reference Desk, 10 cents per page.
Young Adult Room
Located to your left as you pass the Circulation Desk on entering the library, this room is stocked with books, audio books and magazines of interest to teens. Seating is reserved for teens and family members who come with them.