Annandale Area Public Library

Materials available through GRRL include: 

• Books (Nonfiction, Reference, Fiction, Young Adult, Children's, Large Print, Literacy Materials, Best Sellers)
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Music Cassettes
• Spoken Word Cassettes Kits (book/tape)
• Compact Discs
• Videos (Information and Entertainment)

Great River Regional Library patrons also have access to Searchbank, a subscription magazine index.  This index, accessible from the Internet at the library or from your home, has over a million current articles to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc. Another database available to library card holders is the Health Reference Center. This database may be used to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

To access these databases, users go to the public GRRL home page at www.griver.org and enter a current GRRL barcode (the numbers on the library card), using all the digits in the barcode.  To apply for a library card, just present identification with current address information.