Home Delivery of books on a three week rotation is provided to the manors. Nancy Neiman volunteers her time for this service.

Magazine delivery is made to 4 local businesses for their customers to browse through while waiting. 

A depository of paperback books is available in the lobby of Peoples Bank in Milo. This is a self serve check out system.

Classroom Book Rotation provides four rooms in the Milo Elementary School a box of 30 books each every 2 weeks for free time reading.  The Preschool and School Daycare are also receiving books. We would like to get our email address to the teachers so they could let me know any subjects they may be studying and may need additional materials for. There is always a push statewide to work closer with our school districts in sharing materials and resources.

Open Access program, which allows patrons with a current library card from any participating library in Iowa use of our materials, is gaining in popularity. They can also return the material to whichever participating library is more convenient for them. That library in turn is responsible for returning the material by mail to the loaning library. This is a state funded program, which pays the libraries per circulated item, and reimburses the returning library for its postage expense. This is the only way we get funding for the people who live in other communities who use our library. The City provides funds for its residents, Warren County provides funding for our rural patrons, and Open Access funding covers everyone else who uses our library.

Access Plus is another state funded program that encourages and supports multi-type library resource sharing through interlibrary loans and sharing of periodical articles. We are funded a small part of the cost of sending our library materials to other libraries in the state. This is now done online. Last year we borrowed 46 items and loaned 56 items to other libraries.

Summer Reading Program continues to be successful with 30 – 50 children participating. They spend 2 hours at the library for 4 sessions with story time, crafts, snacks, and games and songs. Our director this year was Renee Minton.   The theme last year was “Catch the Reading Bug”.

Reference service is available through the Central Iowa Library Service Area and with the funding cuts at the State Library and Regional Library level, this service is greatly diminished. We no longer are contracted with the Ames Public Library for this service.

This reference program was able to provide most answers by fax or phone within 24 hours at full funding. Now the reference staff has been drastically cut and the service takes much longer. The Regional Library has been offering more training for libraries on reference researching on the Internet to provide more reference service at the local level.

Fax Machine and Copier are available at the Library for public use.

Paula Is an Iowa Notary Public and provides notary services free of charge.

Outside book return for patron convenience.

Free video and DVD Checkout is offered.

Convenient hours are offered to our patrons.

The library is open six days a week for a total of 23 hours per week, which include evenings, weekend, and morning hours.