The Saint-Lazare Access Card is free and gives you access to many municipal services.

Make a request

Overdrive - Access Your English e-books

1. Come to the Library to activate your online access. You will need a valid Saint-Lazare Access Card to log ont the e-book service.
   
   The staff at the Circulation Desk will:

1. 1. 1. Create your card or renew your card if necessary.
      2. Update your personal information and activate your online account.
      3. Give you a password to sign in with.

For iPads and Android Devices – Quick Start Guide

1. Download the Libby App (from Overdrive) from your App Store or Playstore.
2. Find the library closest to you (Saint-Lazare Library)
3. Enter your library card number and the password given by the library (remember this is case sensitive - enter exactly how it is on your card)
4. Find a book and click on Borrow and confirm.

*You can also use your browser at: libbyapp.com to access a streaming version of your book The Saint-Lazare Virtual Library's eBook collection.

You can also visit Overdrive Help by clicking on the Overdrive link on our website: https://bibstlaz.overdrive.com/

For technical support for e-books or to reactivate your account, you can write to comptoirbiblio@ville.saint-lazare.qc.ca or call 450-424-8000 ext. 260.

Access the library catalogue, consult your personal file, obtain ebooks, reserve a document, suggest a purchase, etc.

To obtain a user name, you must visit the library.

Catalogue

In the spirit of sharing and exchange, the Saint-Lazare library invites you to the third edition of its Jardinothèque. This year, in addition to offering a wide variety of flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables, we've added ancestral seeds. Come and rediscover these seeds that have adapted to the local climate and endured over time.

Consult the seed list

This project aims to:

• Promote and share the knowledge regarding our horticultural heritage
• Develop biodiversity in urban areas
• Transmit the passion and the know-how
• Disseminate and preserve our local species

Escape from industrialization for a moment by reconnecting with peasant seeds, and thus promote cultivated biodiversity.

Who can benefit from the Jardinothèque?

All library members (residents and non-residents) have access to this service ( Saint-Lazare Access Card required).

How to benefit from the Jardinothèque?

1. Go to the Jardinothèque section of the library;
2. Select the seed packet(s) you want;
3. Go to the circulation desk (with your Saint-Lazare Access Card in hand)
4. Register your selected items – not to return them, like books, but to allow us to maintain our inventory;
5. Plant everything (each envelope will contain instructions as to the planting of the seed, as well as the care to be provided for its growth);
6. Take advantage of a good harvest and gardening season;
7. Donate seedlings the following season, following your harvest (on a voluntary basis).

Limit

You are allowed to take a maximum of three (3) seed envelopes per day. This restriction is primarily intended to ensure balanced and equitable distribution to the entire population, while allowing you to take full advantage of our organic seeds.

Training Evenings

Training evenings will be offered at the library throughout the year to support users in their adventure.

The information concerning these special evenings will be published on our Activities Calendar and throughout our various communication channels.

The Saint-Lazare Library’s mission is to allow free access to various document formats and associated services to all its citizens, in order to answer their need to access information concerning education, culture and recreation.

More specifically, the library wants to:

• Offer documents in all fields of knowledge
• Respond to the cultural diversity present in Saint-Lazare
  
• Answer the community’s need to access information
• Encourage education and continued learning
• Promote personal development and improve their quality of life
• Promote the usage of various documentation formats as well as promoting the pleasures of reading
• Facilitate access to all services and documentation by providing competent and friendly personnel and a welcoming environment

Lire et faire lire is a true form of active citizenship!

The association offers an intergenerational reading program through its local branches across Quebec. The simplicity of the program is what makes it truly appealing. During the school year, seniors volunteer to read to children in one of their local schools once a week. Each volunteer reader is assigned his/her own group of 2 to 5 preschool children, kindergarten children, 1st graders or 2nd graders (ages 4 to 8).

Registration and information:

450 424-8000, ext. 212
mpiche@ville.saint-lazare.qc.ca
www.lireetfairelire.qc.ca

The Library services are free of charge to all Saint-Lazare residents upon presentation of Accès Saint-Lazare card. Qualified personnel are at your disposal to offer a wide variety of services:

• Reader assistance
  This service allows the reader to:
  • Obtain information concerning the operation of the Library;
  • Learn to use the computerized catalogue;
  • Learn how to find books and documentation in the Library.

• Reference section
  The reference section gives the user professional assistance thus enabling the production of all available resources within the Library on a specific subject.

• New acquisitions
  Readers are welcome to suggest the purchase of new volumes or periodicals. If the suggested volumes correspond to the current Library policy, they will be bought.

• Document reservation
  A user may reserve a document already in circulation. As soon as the document is returned to the Library, the reader will be advised and has two days to take possession of the document. However, this reservation service is limited to five (5) documents per person.

• E-Books
  The library of Saint-Lazare has a wide collection (+500 titles in English, +800 in French) of digital books (e-book). These digitized texts are meant to be consulted on an electronic medium, in particular a tablet or a computer. For more information, ask your librarian.

• Interlibrary loans
  In the case of more specialized or rare books, the Library will do its utmost to obtain the books through the interlibrary loan services.

• Vacation loans
  A 3 week loan period is in place to accommodate our users during their vacation period as long as the document has not been requested or reserved by anyone else.

• CD music collection (+800 titles)
  A collection of classical music and jazz is now available to introduce subscribers to these two musical universes.

• Collections for people with visual or hearing impairments
  You can find many collections for people with visual or hearing impairments. Namely you can find:
  • Digital books (+1200 titles in English, +3600 in French)
  • Audio books (+1200 titles in English, +600 in French)
  • Large print books (+600 titles in English, +100 in French)
  • DVDs for hearing impairment (+2200 titles in English, +1200 in French)
  • DVDs for visual impairment (+300 titles in English, +240 in French)
  • Guides to Braille Learning
  • Guides to Sign Language Learning

• Research on the Web
  To complete the information contained in the Library, the librarian has access to Internet. He can so produce a complete bibliography on a given subject or still draw the necessary information from a data bank. Furthermore, the users can reserve a period of time to surf the Web on their own.

• Wireless Internet surfing
  Subscribers can now bring their laptop and access Internet from anywhere in the library thanks to our high speed wireless Internet connection.

• Catalog consultation from home
  Transactions are updated every 30 minutes to give you a precise image of the collection and documents available.

• Programs and activities
  Story time, meetings with authors, reading club, exhibitions, contests.... Here are some of the activities we offer. Consult the activities' calendar.

• Book deposit box
  The Saint-Lazare Library has a book deposit box located next to the main entrance that members can use outside library hours.