Welcome To Your Library!
The Bayfield Carnegie Library is your choice for information and community networking. Our philosophy is that "the Bayfield Carnegie Library should consider itself neither too small to be a bulwark of freedom, nor too big to be a friend of the citizen who loves and uses it."
The library's mission is to be a creative learning center for the Bayfield community and to nurture the love of books and reading.
- We have over 20,000 items available for checkout, including DVDs, books on tape and CD, over 2000 videos and magazines. Requests may be placed directly through the Internet from your home computer or you can ask our friendly staff for help. If we don't own the item you need, we can get it for you through interlibrary loan. Most of these out-of-town materials are delivered to the library within three days.
- The library also has five public computer work stations with high speed internet access and word processing. You have complete access to up-to-date reference resources.
- There is a meeting room for public use, kitchen facilities and a large children's area with our "reading nook" for kids.
- We have an expanded collection of sailing, kayaking, boat building, and other materials on marine subjects (including lighthouses!).
- The Bayfield Video Archives collection is available for checkout. These are over 150 videotaped interviews of Bayfield area residents created through the assistance of Mary Rice for the Bayfield Heritage Association and directed by John Hanson.