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Libraries
Anchorage’s municipal libraries serve the
Anchorage community through Z. J. Loussac Public
Library, the headquarters facility in midtown,
and branch libraries in the Dimond, Muldoon,
Mountain View, Girdwood, and Eagle River areas.
Children’s services and reference assistance are
offered in every library. Telephone reference is
available weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at
1-907-562-7323 (READ).
The library collections contain more than a half
million books, magazines, newspapers, videos,
cassettes, compact discs, and art prints. The
library system is a designated depository for U.S.
patents and trademarks and for federal, state and
municipal documents. The Alaska collection includes
most commercially published English language
materials on Alaska. Reference librarians offer free
classes on using the library and its resources, and
publish "Topic Trails" to guide
independent research.
The on-line library catalog provides access to
the collection: to indexing and the full text of
articles on business, health, and general interest
magazines: and to the Internet. The catalog can be
reached through the computer modem dial-in at
1-907-562-3463 (FIND) or at www.library.ci.anchorage.ak.us.
The Alaska Resources Library and Information
Services (ARLIS) houses an extensive collection
of Alaska’s natural and cultural resources with an
emphasis on Alaskan and arctic issues. The
collection contains many government agency reports
and journals on a variety of topics including:
wildlife, fisheries, ecology, pollution, and land
use issues. State-of-the-art computer technology
includes CD-ROM indexes and Internet access to the
library catalog.
The Consortium Library on the University of
Alaska Anchorage campus serves UAA students, Alaska
Pacific University students and Anchorage residents
alike. For non-students, a deposit is required to
secure a guest library card. The library collection
is comprised of nearly half a million bound volumes
and government documents.
Special collections are kept on Alaska and the
polar region, and there is a tremendous collection
of archives including unpublished personal records
on the development of Alaska. The library can
perform computerized searches charged at cost and
can conduct inter-library loans. The Consortium
Library also has a local area network, which allows
for more than one user on a system.
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