Collection A selection of fiction, nonfiction, picture books, beginning readers, magazines, video and audio cassette tapes, and paperbacks are furnished for children and young adults at all branches. Booktrails Booktrails, a quarterly newsletter published for children, parents and teachers, includes annotated lists of books suggested for children of all ages. Return to the Top of this page. A comprehensive computer database supplemented by books and videocassettes are the foundations of the new Health-Medical Information Center located near the second floor reference desk of the SLO City Library. Print materials include directories of specialists, medical dictionaries and texts.
Videocassettes cover a wide variety of health problems and treatments.
The computer database offers an index to hundreds of consumer health periodicals and selected medical journals with full text to many of those articles. Updated monthly, the computer database provides invaluable, easily accessible health information. The HMIC is available during regular library hours and is a major project of the Friends of the Library. It is expected to become the principal source of health, nutrition and medical information for County residents as it grows . Career Action Center provides materials on job hunting, resumes, life survival skills, local training, educational programs and small business operation.