From the Long Beach Public Library’s home page, click on the words Click Here to Access, enter your card number, and phone number (with or without the dash) or password in the fields in the upper right corner of the catalog’s welcome/search page.  If your phone number has the same area code as the library, you will not need to enter it.  Click on the Log In button.  Select My Account to view your account details.

Follow the steps to logging into your account.  See “How do I login to Apollo?” Once you are logged into your account, click on the My Account button.  Search for the book you want to reserve and choose Reserve this item from the options within the title.  (Remember, in Apollo, if a title is highlighted in pink, it is unavailable.  If it is highlighted in green, it is available.)  Either way, you will be placed on reserve for this title.  Click on My Account again.  Then click on the Reserves/Requests tab.  You will see in the fourth column from the left the status of that hold.  You can also cancel the hold if you like by clicking the Cancel button all the way to the right.

Follow the steps to logging into your account.  See “How do I login to Apollo?” You may email a request for a hold to be placed on a book by doing the following.  Click on Place Hold and enter “Hold on (insert title)” in subject field.  In the text field of your email, include your name, library card number, title and author of book, plus any information specific to that hold.  (Example:  If you only want the large print version, you could enter “large print version only”.)  You will receive an acknowledgement of your request within 48 hours

Follow the steps to logging into your account.  See “How do I login to Apollo?” Once you are logged into your account, click on the My Account button.  The first tab to come up is the Account Info tab.  From here, you can get to many of the new system’s options.  Clicking on Display your scannable barcode will show you your personal library barcode.  This is handy in case you ever forget your card, but have your smart phone with you and need to check out books.  You can also set a password from this tab rather than using your phone number to log in each time.  You can add another phone number and what type of phone number it is (cell, work, home), add another email address or update the one listed to a more current one.  Also check out the Notification tab.  This is how you are contacted by Apollo for all the important things:  Over dues, 3-day notices before items are due, Reserves, and how you receive your checkout receipt.

Payments can only be made by cash or personal check.

Your driver’s license or photo ID card and something with your name and current home address will be enough to get a new card.  Examples include: a piece of mail or a bill.

If you are updating your card with us, you will still need to provide something with your current home address.  If you are replacing a lost card, the cost is $2.00 for a replacement card.   Other updates to your account can be made by you through our new Apollo system.  See above section on APOLLO FEATURES.

All we would need is your photo ID and we can issue you a temporary pass for computer use only.  Temporary passes are good for 3 months, so once it expires you will have to get a regular library card.

For new patrons or first time card holders, the first time you check out you are allowed 2 items.  After those items are returned, you are allowed up to 25 items.  This includes limits of the following: DVD (limit of 5 disks), CD or KIT (limit of 10), 3 per author or series, and 3 per subject.

You can keep books, CDs, KITs, and most items for 2 weeks.  DVDs are allowed out for 3 days.  You can renew books twice, and DVDs once as long as there are no fines on your card or there is not a reserve on the item.

No, rather than being a branch system, we are one of two libraries in Mississippi that are what is known as Independent or City Owned.

We do not currently have someone on hand to notarize documents for the public.

Our library does not carry tax forms.  You can find the latest federal tax forms at the Internal Revenue Service and tax forms for the state of Mississippi at Mississippi State Tax Commission.

At this time we are only taking books, DVDs, audios, and magazines with the copyright years of 2020-2023.

Currently, we only have the the Teen Room available.  The main meeting room is being used to house furniture for the Quarles House.  If you need to use the meeting room, please call ahead and make sure it is available.  Please read the Reservation Form for our Meeting Room Usage Policies.  A signed form indicates agreement with these policies and needs to be on file at the Library.  You can click here to download and print the form or come by to fill out the form in person.  Contact the Director via email or call (228) 863-0711 to confirm availability for the desired dates.

An Interlibrary Loan service (also known as “ILLs”) is a service that your library offers you when a book or material you are in need of is not available at your local library but may be obtainable at another library.  Most materials are available for lending through other libraries, but there are restrictions sometimes concerning the materials.  The majority of most libraries will not loan: newly published books, DVDs (or other audio/video materials),  and genealogical materials.

You may request an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) by coming to Long Beach Library and filling out a request slip.  Most of the time, an ILL can be found with just the following information: Title, Author, and Year Published.  However, the more information you give us, the easier it is for us to locate your request.

Yes, you can.  Click on Request Interlibrary Loan and follow these instructions.  Include in the text of your email the following applicable items: your name, phone number (if you entered “ILL request for Patron”), and library card number , the date, title/subject, and author of the material, the type of material you are requesting (book, video, large print, dvd, audio, other), any specific information to that title (Example:  If you only want large print, please specify.).

Follow the steps to logging into your account.  See “How do I login to Apollo?“Once logged in, click on the Reserves/Requests tab.  You will see a sentence that says, “Is the library missing something?  You can request that we purchase it or borrow it from another library (Interlibrary Loan/ILL).”  Click on the word “request” and fill in the information required for our librarian.  Also, please make sure that your preferred method of contacting you once your Interlibrary loan is received has the correct information.

There is no longer any charge to our patrons for requesting a book through Interlibrary loan.

Lending periods vary from library to library; most allow at least two weeks.  It is best to pick up your ILL request as soon as you are called and told that it is available.