Our Career Center is United Way Contributor's Choice
number
4923.
Return to Community
Library home page: Tarentum
or Harrison.
General Services
- Public access to the Internet is provided. (For our full Internet
policy, click here.)
A periodicals database provides
access to thousands of periodicals and trade and professional journals.
- Copy-machine service is available for 15 cents per page. Copies
may be enlarged or reduced.
- FAX service is also available. (Call library for rates.)
- Requests for materials we do not own may be made through
interlibrary loan with the Electronic Information Network.
- Free income-tax assistance is available for senior citizens and
low-income young adults.
- Friends of the Library meet the first Monday of the month at 7
p.m. at Harrison.
Directions to the Tarentum site are directly below. For
directions to the Harrison site, click here.
Tarentum Directions
General location: Approximately 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The
Allegheny River laps at our shores.
From points south:
- Take Route 28 North to Exit 14.
- Turn right toward Tarentum.
- Turn left at the first stop light.
- Make the first right onto Lock Street.
- Follow Lock Street over the tracks.
- The library is in a building on the left-hand side with a red awning
(soon to replaced
with a blue one) across from
Omni Electric. The library entrance is a double white door.
Map to Tarentum site |  |
Harrison Directions
General location: Approximately 25 miles northeast of
Pittsburgh, near the Heights Plaza in Natrona Heights.
From points
south:
- Take Route 28 North to Exit 14 and bear right.
- Get in the left lane and turn left at the first light.
- Stay on that road (10th Avenue a/k/a Freeport Road) until the fourth
traffic
light. The library is a steel and glass block building.
Other landmarks: Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament Church, Rite
Aid, Cogo's, Highlands High School.
Map to Harrison site |  |
Public transportation to either library is also
available.
Consult PAT Transit (5A, 5B, 5C, 1A, AV, and AVN buses -- consult
schedules) or
Access
(senior citizens).
- Library membership is free to all Allegheny County residents.
- Residents of Westmoreland, Butler and other counties beyond Allegheny
County may become members and check out materials at no charge, providing
that a
valid library
card with a Pennsylvania Access sticker is shown.
- Non-resident fees, for non-Allegheny County residents without an
Access sticker or for out-of-county residents desiring Internet access,
are $25 for a personal membership and $30 for a family
membership.
- Most books are loaned for three weeks.
- Videotapes, audiotapes, new bestseller fiction, and high-demand
nonfiction are loaned for one week.
- Back issues of most magazines may be borrowed for one week.
- Current issues of magazines do not circulate.
- Newspapers do not
circulate and must be
used in the library.
- Most books may be renewed once.
- Seven-day nonfiction books are high-demand books and may not be
renewed.
- Books with a waiting list may not be renewed.
- Fines on books, audiotapes, and magazines are ten cents per item
per day overdue.
- Fines on videos are one dollar per video per day overdue.