The video collection covers a broad variety of ages and interests. Entertainment videos include recent hits, foreign films, Academy Award-winning classics, and animated features. Nonfiction categories include history, informational, education and guidance, and instructional. In 1986, this Library was the first in the area to offer compact discs . Other categories include musicals, movie soundtracks, radio programs, and sound effects.
Music tapes are also available.
Bettendorf residents may borrow audio-visual equipment . The Library's reference collection includes a number of electronic databases as well as a broad variety of print resources. The Business Reference collection contains local and national business directories as well as investment guides such as Value Line and Morningstar .