Shasta County Library Collections

Shasta County
Public Library Collections

Books on Tape and Audio Cassettes

Each branch has a collection of books on tape available for checkout. A small collection of music cassette tapes is also available. Many more audio cassette tapes are available by ordering from our Listen-In catalog.

California Indian Collection

Copies of rare and out-of-print books, documents, photographs, and recordings made from the extensive materials located in the research collections of the University of California, Berkeley.

The collection is available at the main library for in-library use only. Indexing of the collection is available at the main library and branches.

Census Microfilm

Census microfilm for Shasta County is available at the main library for the 1790-1920 censuses.

For other census films, the Library can borrow microfilm from the California State Library and the Sutro State Genealogical Library, for use in the main library or in branches.

College Catalogs on microfiche

The catalogs of over 4000 accredited schools in the United States and its territories are available on microfiche. This includes undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. Besides the nation's colleges and universities, it also includes junior, technical, and community colleges.

Consumer Information

The Library has a wide variety of consumer information which includes "Consumer Reports", "Kelly Blue Books", small claims court resources, how-to manuals, and pamphlets from various government agencies.

Genealogy

The Library has a collection of reference genealogy materials which include family name sources, geographical sources, census microfilm, and the California Death Index.

A Shasta Genealogy Society volunteer is available to assist patrons every Wednesday from 1-4 p.m.

Government Documents

The main Library is a depository for selected Local, State, and Federal documents. The Library was designated a selective Federal Depository for Congressional District 2 in 1956.

Large Print Books

Large print books are available at the main library and all branches.

Local History

Each branch has a collection of Shasta County history materials, including the "Covered Wagon" and its indexes. The main library has an extensive collection of Northern California history and Californiana.

Magazines

The Library subscribes to over 300 magazine titles. Articles in titles not in our collection are usually available through interlibrary loan photocopying.

Magazine Article Summaries, a CD-Rom index available at the main library, indexes 499 current, popular magazines. The main library and the branches also offer a paper index to magazines called Readers Guide.

Newspapers

The Library subscribes to all County newspapers. In addition, the main library subscribes to the Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor. There is no newspaper indexing available.

The main library maintains a collection of Shasta County newspapers on microfilm beginning with 1852. Some issues of the Anderson Valley News are available on microfilm at the Anderson branch.

Telephone Directories

The main library maintains a collection of directories for all of California and major U.S. cities. The branches maintain smaller collections of directories.

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