Riverside Regional Library

Services & Programs

• Story Times for Preschoolers
• After-School Programs for Kids
• Saturday Programs for Kids
• Library instruction and tours for school classes
• Teen Read Week
• Summer Reading Program for kids and teens (every June-July)
• Winter Reading Program for kids and adults (every January)
• Annual Missouri Building Block Award program
• Book Discussion Group for Adults
• Special Programs for Adults
• Seasonal Programs, Displays & Exhibits
• Automated Library System
• Public computers with Internet access and Microsoft programs (Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Power Point), Encarta Encyclopedia, Magic School Bus programs and more!
• Reference Assistance
• Readers’ Advisory
• Inter-library Loan of books
• Library website  http://www.riversideregionallibrary.org/   with at-home access to library catalog and some online databases
• Photocopy Machines
• Fax Machines
• Microfilm Reader-Printers
• Meeting Rooms for public use
• Genealogy Collections at Perryville and Benton
• State & Federal Income Tax Forms
• Die Cut Machine for public use
• First Search & World Cat—gateway to catalog records held worldwide
• Laminator
• Overhead, slide, and opaque projectors to loan to groups
• Projection screens to loan to groups
• Voter registration
• Computer classes
• Exam proctoring
• Outreach programs to daycare centers and preschools in all three counties
• Outreach programs to public and private schools in all three counties
• Video magnifiers (for low-vision patrons)
• VERA reading & magnifying machines (for blind or low-vision patrons)
• Adjustable tables for wheelchair-bound patrons
• Subscription-based electronic databases available through library web page, accessible from library and/or home:

Heritage Quest (genealogy)

Learn-A-Test (practice tests for school and career exams)

NoveList (books)

EBSCOhost

Discovering Authors

Discovering Science

Discovering U.S. History

NewsBank

Ecola Newsstand