Reference and Information Services
VBPL offers citizens multiple ways to ask the library for assistance: telephone, in person, email. Telephone, in person and email assistance are available during normal library hours:
- Monday - Thursday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
- Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- Saturdays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Sundays 1 - 5 p.m. (1st Sunday after Labor Day - May)
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Famous quotes containing the words reference, information and/or services:
“I am more and more convinced that, with reference to any public question, it is more important to know what the country thinks of it than what the city thinks. The city does not think much.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The information links are like nerves that pervade and help to animate the human organism. The sensors and monitors are analogous to the human senses that put us in touch with the world. Data bases correspond to memory; the information processors perform the function of human reasoning and comprehension. Once the postmodern infrastructure is reasonably integrated, it will greatly exceed human intelligence in reach, acuity, capacity, and precision.”
—Albert Borgman, U.S. educator, author. Crossing the Postmodern Divide, ch. 4, University of Chicago Press (1992)
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)