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Welcome! Visit the Children's Library and borrow from our extensive collection of books, magazines, audio and video cassettes, CDs and CD­ROMs.

Meet our fish, attend a storytime or film program, or have fun with our puppets, puzzles, and bead table.

Our staff is always happy to help you.

• Promote a lifelong love of reading
• Serve the varied needs of Lexington's children, from birth through age 12
• Enhance the public school curricula
• Serve the needs of Lexington's parents, caregivers, and teachers
• Serve the needs of students, professors and publishers of children's literature

Our Reference Collection includes

• A collection of reference and professional books, encyclopedia sets and atlases
• A reference CD­ROM station with:
    My First Incredible Dictionary
    Encarta 99
    Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Nature
    The Way Things Work (David Macaulay)
    Grolier Encyclopedia
    Deluxe Compton's 3D Atlas
    Encyclopedia of Endangered Species
    Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
    Children's Encyclopedia
  
• An Internet terminal available to children