Educators
The Altadena Libraries are dedicated to connecting with educators and students in our community.
If you’d like to sign up for a Teacher Card, please stop by either our Main Library or the Bob Lucas Memorial Library with official school identification or a private school affidavit to sign up in person!
You can also download library card applications for your child/students! Our application is available in English and Spanish.
Teacher Card
With a teacher card, you have special borrowing privileges:
Check out: up to 75 books, 10 DVDs/Audio Materials/Magazines, 5 Library of Things, and 2 video games at a time!
Checkout duration: 6 weeks + standard renewal time
Card must be renewed annually, August 1
Full access to downloadable books and online resources
No overdue fines
General Library Card
Check out: up to 50 books, 10 DVDs, 5 Library of Things, and 2 video games at a time!
Full access to downloadable books and online resources
No overdue fines, but you/your parent or guardian will be responsible for any lost or damaged items
Requires a parent signature for anyone under 14 years old
Teachers, Schedule a Visit!
Tours
School visits and small groups can arrange for a tour and Storytime at our library. Please call our Children’s Reference Desk at (626) 798-0833 Ext. 108 or fill out our Library Tour form.
Outreach
Our Youth and Family Services staff attend community and school events, as time and staffing permits. If you’d like to schedule a visit to your school or at an event, please fill out our Community Request Form.
Request a Library Tour
Digital Resources
Brainfuse, Databases
We offer a number of online study tools for teachers and students, from National Geographic Kids to Brainfuse Help Now, an online resource with live tutors, study aids, writing lab, and more! You can view all of these databases at www.altadenalibrary.org/databases.
Beanstack
The Altadena Library uses Beanstack to create online reading challenges. We can even create one for your school!
Using the Library After School
The Altadena Library is a great place to find fun activities and lots of things to read after school. However, here are a few tips and rules for using the Library after school.
The Library’s Unaccompanied Child policy stipulates that children aged 9 and under must be at the library with a caretaker who is over 14 years old. If you are 9 and under, you must have a grown up at the library with you at all times. This includes during movies, programs, and other events.
Anyone who is 10 or older and who is at the Library on their own will be held responsible for their own actions and behaviors at the library and will be subject to the consequences of those actions. That means, if it’s warranted, a child at the Library on their own may be asked to leave the Library for the day.
The Library believes strongly in the right to privacy, and this extends to all of our patrons, regardless of age. As such, the Library is unable to give out information on a patron’s whereabouts or library usage habits to anyone who calls on the phone or who comes in asking about a particular patron.