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Siskiyou County Library
Services and Collections
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- The library has a rotating collection of books on cassette and books on CD that are
available for three week check-out.
- You may place requests on any BOC's or Books on CD that are in the
library's catalog.
- Many more audio cassette tapes, and Books on CD are available by ordering from a Listen-In , a
service of the North State Cooperative Library System. The catalog is
available online and in our local branch libraries.
Census Microfilm
- Census microfilm for Siskiyou County is available at the main
library for the 1790-1920 censuses.
- For the entire State of California, film is available up to 1920 and available for some counties after that date.
- For census films for other states, the Library can borrow
microfilm from the Sutro Genealogical Library, for use in the main library or in branches with microfilm reading equipment.
Computer Access
- Public Internet terminals are available in all libraries during open hours.
- Call your local branch library for information regarding available computer time.
- The Library does not currently have wireless access available, although laptops maybe used for work off of the Internet.
Genealogy
Indian Collection
- The Siskiyou County Indian collection is available at the Yreka Library for in-library reference use only.
- The collection was made up of extensive materials located in the research collections of the University of
California, Berkeley.
- The collection includes audio tapes, photograph files, and large document files.
- Indexing of the collection is available, but due to the size of the collection, please allow adequate time for researching in it.
The print materials are included in the Library's online catalog.
Interlibrary Loan
- The Siskiyou County Library is a member of an international network of libraries which have made their collections available on-line.
- Computer searching can locate an item in any of these libraries, and in many cases, we can borrow the item for you.
- Also available through interlibrary loan are articles from scholarly, technical or medical journals.
- In some cases, lending libraries may charge a fee for
their services. The Siskiyou County Library charges a $2.00 fee for items that
are borrowed from libraries outside of our Northern California library system.
Magazines and Indexes
- The main library provides online access to 400
current, popular magazines via the Magazine Index.
- The Library currently subscribes to over 200 magazines, with many more available through interlibrary loan photocopying.
Music
- Music CDs are available throught the County Library system.
- The Listen-In program maintains a significant library of recorded music that
may be borrowed.
Newspapers
- The main library maintains a collection of all extant
Siskiyou County newspapers on microfilm, back to the year 1854.
- The Siskiyou County Newspaper Index is available via the Internet. The index
index covers 1995 to the present, plus incomplete indexing for 1990 through 1995.
- There is no index to the earlier Siskiyou County newspapers, except for
the Obituary Index.
- The main library subscribes to Sacramento, San Francisco, Redding and Medford papers, the Wall Street Journal, as well as all County papers.
Obituaries
- The Siskiyou County Obituary Index covers a selection of obituaries which appeared in County newspapers from the year 1854 to 1990.
- The Siskiyou County Newspaper Index covers obituaries from 1990 to the present.
- While not covering every single obituary, the Obituary
Index is a good place to start for historical or genealogical research.
- Library Staff are not able to do obituary look-ups, however the film is available in Yreka or may be interlibrary loaned offsite
Siskiyou County History
- The Library has an online version of the complete Siskiyou Pioneer Index.
- The Library also maintains a Gold mining index for early mining information in
Siskiyou County.
- The main library has a very good reference collection of County historical materials.
- Most materials can be sent to branch libraries for use in the library.
- The collection includes a complete set of the Siskiyou
Pioneer, many of which are circulating volumes.
- Also included are works by Wells, Jones, Bancroft, Kroeber and other historians.
- An obituary index is also available both at the library and online.
- The Siskiyou County Museum and Historical Society
is another useful source for local history information in Siskiyou County
- The Digital Library of Siskiyou County History features digitized primary sources.
Videos and DVDs
- Each library has a small rotating collection of videos and DVD's available for checkout for one week.
- A large catalog of videos that can be ordered from the North State Library System is also available.
- These films include classics, documentaries and current films.
Local branch hours and services vary. For more information please contact your local branch library.