The City of Toledo offers its residents an excellent Library. The Public Library has about 40,000 items available for borrowing. It has access to 160,000 items through its membership in the Chinook Library Network, a cooperative including public and community college libraries. Further, the Toledo Public Library offers users a sophisticated interlibrary loan program. Using a database of over 10,000,000 items, book requests extend to Libraries throughout the United States. The Toledo Public Library offers storyhours for children (as well as an outstanding Summer Reading Program), internet access and the use of word processing computers for young and old.
