Adult Library
The Adult Collection includes books, magazines, pamphlets, telephone directories, test preparation books as well as audiovisual materials such as video cassettes, DVDs and CDs. Also available are audiobooks, large print books, and international language books. The Library has a complete Reference Collection including full-text Electronic Databases such as: Magazine Searches, Newspapers Searches, Associations, Contemporary Authors, Discovering Authors and Discovering Biography.
Carpenters Collection
The Carpenters Collection comprises numerous CDs, books, songbooks, albums, videocassettes, a fan club newsletter series, and publicity materials. Many of the books, CDs and videos may be checked out. Other materials are housed in a display case located near the circulation desk.
Government Publications
The Downey City Library is a selective Federal Depository Library.
International & Spanish Collections
The International and Spanish Collections consist of fiction, nonfiction, and reference items. The International Collection is made up solely of Korean language books. The Spanish collection consists of items such as books, videos and audio books, totaling more than 3,000 items in the adult area alone.
Young Adult Area
A section of the Main Reading Room has been set aside for teenagers. Here you will conveniently find paperback classics, fiction, and popular magazines for teens, as well as CDs and study tables.
Children's Room
The children's room includes primary reading books, beginning reading books, nonfiction, fiction, international language books, videos, audiobooks, paperbacks, magazines and reference materials.
Magazines & Newspapers
The magazine room has recent issues of magazines on display racks and the back issues for all of our subscriptions; in most cases they are kept for two years. The L.A. Times, the New York Times and other popular newspapers are also available on microfilm. One coin-operated typewriter with correction tape is available at a rate of 50 cents for 20 minutes.
