Headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA
Serving the 12 Far Northern
Counties of California
The North State Cooperative Library Catalog helps you find the library materials you need, no matter where they are located in libraries in the North State region.
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NSCLS has boxed sets of multiple copies of books with discussion questions available for community books clubs to borrow. The book club in a box sets are available for checkout to any NSCLS member library through the Butte County Library.
24/7 access to articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Databases include: General Reference Center Gold, Virtual Reference Books, Chilton's Automotive Repair and Testing & Education Reference Center. You must have a library card from your local library to access.
Provides a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian- selected Internet resources, serving California, the nation, and the world.
View the latest report or borrow a past issue.
Indexes the music collections of the California Library System Reference Centers and some of the libraries in their systems.
Friends groups can use the Friends of the Library Book Sales Website to sell quality used books. This site also features a helpful glossary of book terms.
The California State Library's Rural Initiative is an LSTA funded project that directs additional resources to the state's geographically isolated public libraries.
The Wyoming State Library has produced an informative, humorous program that can be used to introduce rural library board members to their new responsibilities. "Trustee Trouble: The misadventures of a new library board member" is a series of 10 segments with Dan, a new library trustee, launching himself into this new role. The video presentations, online at the Wyoming State Library’s web page, run from six to 12 minutes and are followed by guided discussion.
These materials may be borrowed by request from the North State Headquarters.