City of Upland, CA

Support the Upland Public Library on Saturday, June 30th just by shopping at Barnes & Noble in Montclair! To get more information and download a voucher, click on the PDF link below. Upland residents, look for the bright yellow voucher in your June utility bill. The store requires the voucher in order for the Library to receive a percentage of the sale. Thanks for your support!

The pick-up period for OverDrive digital books has been extended from 48 hours to 72 hours, for the benefit of patrons who cannot check their email accounts over a weekend. Your checkout and hold lists should remain the same, you just have a little more time to pick up your requested title. Enjoy!

First-time contenders The Highlanders (Upland H.S. students Jay Castro, Jay Chen, David Evans, and Taylor Gilbertson) won the 6th annual Literacy Trivia Bee on Wednesday, April 18! The big winner of the night, though, is definitely the Upland Library Literacy Program, which raised $23,460.

A new version of audiobook has come to town! Starting February 15th, the Upland Public Library will be offering Playaways. No cassettes, CDs, players, or computers needed. Just plug in your earphones and listen to a great story! For more information, download the PDF file below.

Upland's centennial book Century of Community Upland, California's First 100 Years is now on sale at the Library's circulation desk for $37.66 including tax. To view the book jacket click on the PDF button below!

Sign up at the Library's Circulation Desk to receive email notices of lists of soon-to-be-due, overdue, or requested (on-hold) Library items that are ready for your pickup! If you opt for this new service, which starts June 12, the email notices will replace the postal paper notices. Save yourself some time and the Library some money by signing up for email notification.

The Smartest Card - your library card - can deliver the world to you. The Smartest Card gives you access to books and information on just about any subject you can think of, from food to fundraising, from health to history, from tax forms to travel. Your library card is your free ticket to a world of opportunity, and your journey begins at the Upland Public Library. “Where else,” poses Library Director Kathy Bloomberg-Rissman, “can you get so much for free?”

TumbleBooks are now available from our web site! Help your child enjoy a lifetime of reading.

TumbleBook Library is an online collection of animated, talking picture books, which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book, which you can read or have read to you.

The Upland Public Library just got a whole lot bigger thanks to the NEW California Library Catalog! Logon Anytime, Anyplace! You can now go online and find books, CDs, DVDs, maps,government documents and more in libraries across California.

If you find what you're looking for at another library, just give our Reference Department a call at (909) 931-4205 and we may be able to borrow it for you through our Interlibrary Loan* service.
*There is a $2.50 fee for InterLibrary Loan and you must have an Upland Library Card. Not all materials qualify for this service.

Check out some of the Library's New Databases - just click on the button called Online Databases at the top of the page.

We have added Literary Reference Center, History Reference Center, and Health Source from EBSCO. We also have several other databases for magazine and newspaper articles.

The Upland Public Library's Online Catalog is called CITRUS. Want to find out more about it? Check our FAQ's page! Want to renew a book you have checked out? Try our Fast Renewal Link.

Babies at San Antonio Community Hospital are receiving books and their parents are learning about the importance of reading and the role libraries can play in their children’s lives through the Ready Set Read program. This program is a cooperative venture with San Antonio Community Hospital, the Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario and San Bernardino County Libraries and local donors. For more information call Kathy Bloomberg-Rissman at931-4201.

Looking for something to read? We have just the thing so put your feet up, relax and check out the Upland Public Library's Online Book Club without ever leaving your computer!

Do you read everything by a particular fiction writer? If so, you may be interested in joining our Bestsellers Club.  When you sign up and select the authors you want to read, reserves will automatically be placed on their new books for you. This way you will never miss out on a new book.

MyCause.com is a service that lets Internet shoppers direct a portion of their purchase price to the UPLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY when they go to MyCause.com before shopping with top Internet retailers! You can help support the Upland Public Library by visiting MyCause.com and spreading the word. MyCause lets you do a good turn while you shop and costs you nothing extra!