Browse Our New Speed Reads Section!

You’re looking for that hot new book. But you can’t find it in the New Books section. You speak with a staff member or use the CW MARS app to place a hold. But a ZILLION people are in line before you. And with a three week loan and one renewal they could each take as long as six weeks to read it. FRUSTRATING.

Enter our new Speed Reads section!

Visit us in person any business day and find a new collection right next to the Main Circulation Desk that will offer popular and in-demand fiction and non-fiction titles on one-week loan with one renewal and NO HOLDS. Now you stand a chance at finding that hot new book when you walk in the door. And if someone else has it already, you know that one of the next titles on your list will be waiting to tide you over.

This is just one of several things we’re doing to get the materials you want in your hands as fast as possible:

• We’re purchasing more copies of physical books on hold to fill your request faster.

• We’re purchasing more e-books and e-audiobooks to fulfill your Libby requests faster.

• We’ve focused our displays to highlight available new fiction and non-fiction.

• And in the coming weeks all new materials will start to circulate on a two-week loan with one renewal to turn titles over more quickly.

Have any other ideas about things we can do to improve your library experience? Complete our Strategic Planning Survey to help guide the future of the Ayer Library!