Frequently Asked Questions

Please check our Locations page for Bucks County Free Library branch and District member library hours.

Yes. Certain foods and drinks are allowed. Covered drinks and peanut-free, dry snacks, such as crackers or cookies are allowed in the library as long as all trash is thrown away or removed from the library.

Please visit the Library Cards page for help with getting a library card or resetting your card’s PIN.

Please visit the Online Account page for help with setting up an online account password and using your online account.

Please visit the Borrowing and Returning page for questions about holds, due dates, fines, suggesting a purchase, and more.

Yes. For information about library equipment, please visit the Technology page.

All branches of the Bucks County Free Library offer half-hour appointments to help with personal devices and computers.

For help getting started with e-books, audiobooks, digital magazines, and more, please visit the Downloads and Streaming FAQ page.

Libby (OverDrive) can be used by library cards with a home library of the following district member libraries: Free Library of New Hope & Solebury, Free Library of Northampton Township, Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library, Pipersville Free Library, Southampton Free Library, Township Library of Lower Southampton, Warminster Township Free Library.

Please contact any of the 7 participating libraries to more get information or email clebucks@buckslib.org.

In order to focus on funding high-demand print materials and the county’s e-book and audiobook collection, Bucks County Free Library does not offer museum passes.

Museum passes can be borrowed from the following libraries: Free Library of New Hope & Solebury, Free Library of Northampton Township, Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library, Morrisville Free Library, Riegelsville Public Library, Southampton Free Library, Township Library of Lower Southampton, Village Library of Wrightstown, and Warminster Township Free Library.

Please contact the library for their museum pass policies.

Yes, you can use our online form to book a meeting room or study room.

Yes. All of our quiet study rooms are open.

Yes. The library offers online tutoring, test prep, and many more study tools through HelpNow.

Yes. The library offers online resume help and many more career services through JobNow.

Yes, passport services are available at the Bensalem branch. Learn more or book an appointment.

Bucks County’s public libraries are not set up to do that type of archival research. We do provide in-library access to Ancestry.com and remote access to Heritage Quest.

The Bucks County Historical Society in Doylestown has extensive archives extending back to the beginning of the county through the present day. They can do research for outside parties. Visit their website to view available resources, services charges and hours of operation.

Bucks County Free Library and the Library of Accessible Media for Pennsylvanians (LAMP) offer various kinds of reading materials for people with visual impairments and other disabilities.

Learn more about accessing these items at your local branch or through LAMP.

Friends groups periodically conduct book donation drives at many libraries in Bucks County. Contact your local library to see if their Friends group is accepting donated books.

A limited number of books can be added to the Little Free Libraries outside each Bucks County Free Library branch.

If your local library is not accepting book donations, please do not bring them to your library. You can hold on to them or donate them to another library or organization, such as GreenDrop, The Salvation Army or Goodwill.

If your library is accepting donations, please do not donate materials that are moldy, mildewed, discolored or torn. These items are also not accepted at Bucks County Free Library branches:

• Reference materials
• Textbooks
• Puzzles
• Board games
• VHS tapes
• Video games

Blu-Ray discs or DVDs may be accepted at your branch – contact your library to find out.

Bucks County Free Library is accepting volunteer applications. It may take up to 4 weeks for an applicant to hear from the library.

Please visit the Library Jobs page to learn more and apply.

Bucks County Free Library branches host regular community information fairs and local author fairs, designed to connect local organizations and writers to library users. If you’d like to receive an email when applications for these events are available, please contact us.

Local organizations are invited to add a flyer for upcoming events in the Community Events binder located at each of our branches. This Get the Word Out page contains contact information for newspapers and locations that may print or distribute information about your upcoming event.