The California State Library selected the Lompoc Public Library System to participate in a project called Zip Books to help library users get better access to books they want.
The program helps libraries purchase requested books they don’t own and then have them shipped to the user directly. Books checked out through the Zip Books program can be returned to the library like other books.
According to Lompoc Library Director Sarah Bleyl, the city that the Zip Books program could effectively expand the size of the Lompoc Library exponentially.
“We are happy to launch Zip Books at our Lompoc Library, enabling the library to provide our community members with virtually any book they are looking for,” she said in a press release. “We hope community members will take advantage of this great, easy-to-use resource to expand their reading.”
Zip Books is funded by a grant from the California State Library. The Lompoc Library is one of 30 libraries statewide participating in the Zip Books program.
This article appears in Feb 22 – Mar 1, 2018.