Patrons must sign up in person and are allowed one 30 minute session per day. The library does not provide e-mail accounts. On our Internet menu we provide access to such sites as federal and state tax forms, the Boston Globe online, Medhunt health information directory, Searchbank periodical database, Massachusetts Physician Profiles, FastWEB scholarship search, telephone directories, job listings links, etc. The library provides three computers in the adult section for word processing. The work stations have Microsoft Word and Excel 2000 installed.
Printing is available on all three.
Materials available on microfilm include the Gloucester Daily Times from 1888 to the present, the Boston Globe from 1994 to the present, older Gloucester newspapers starting with 1827, the census from 1790-1920 and other materials. On microfiche we have vital statistics and some periodicals. If a patron wants an item that the library doesn't own it can be requested from another library through interlibrary loan. Books, audiovisual materials and periodical articles can be requested. Interlibrary loan materials circulate for 14 or 28 days and cannot be renewed.