the big house library

a sweet student named preet asked a very good question on our guestbook page. "how do we request books from other high schools?" preet, your ? reminds me that i need to put a f.a.q. page on our site for times just such as these! so thanks for that. but for now, here's how you do it!

1. click the catalog tab at the top of this page

2. then click where is says "click here to search our online catalog"

3. then click the catalog tab at the top of that page

(all these extra steps are annoying, i know, and i'm working on ways to skip them but, for now, you just have to keep clicking, sorry!)

4. where it says "look in" select "petaluma city school district"

5. type in the search box the title of the book you want and see where it's at -- to do this look to the right of the screen. it will say "no local copies" and below that  something like "1 of 1 available off-site" click that! it's a link! =)  you really don't have to do this, but this will tell you for sure that it is indeed somewhere else in petaluma. if there are no off-site copies, it means none of our schools has that title and you should email us or tell us this title so we can put it on our list of books to buy.

6. last step! =) come back to bighouselibrary.com and click the contact tab at the top of the page and email us the title of the book you want. or just go up to the circ desk in the library and tell miss helen or me! =)

p.s. you can only request to borrow  books from other petaluma city schools, i.e. petaluma high school, petaluma junior high school, and kenilworth junior high school.

so, that's how inter-library loan works @ casa, preet! thanks for asking & thanks for reading! =) 

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