Outreach Services

The Outreach Department provides non-traditional library services – beyond the brick and mortar!

Home Delivery

If you can’t come to us, let us bring our library to you! Peoria Public Library offers a special home delivery service to those who either on a permanent or temporary basis are incapable of visiting one of our five locations. We will work to find titles just for you and deliver them to your home on a monthly basis. This is a free service open only to Peoria residents.

New parents are also invited to take advantage of home delivery for your entire family for up to one year.

Please call us at (309) 497-2068 or email outreachteam@ppl.peoria.lib.il.us for more information or to apply.

Suggest A Purchase

Please fill out this form so we can be in touch. Fields with an asterisk (*) are required.

Also, Peoria Public Library cannot promise you that we will purchase the titles you request. Some titles may be out of date or we may determine they do not meet our Collection Development policy.

We will, however, make all attempts to connect our patrons with the materials they request. Be that through purchase or Inter-Library loan.

We only consider purchase requests from Peoria residents.

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Senior Services

Our Outreach staff bring a rotating supply of books to several area senior living facilities and nursing homes throughout Peoria. These mini collections of Large Print titles contain all genres and are available for 90 days for the residents’ use. One of our librarians also makes monthly visits (except for December) to eight memory care facilities, bringing music, crafts and books for the residents.

Talking Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Anyone unable to read standard print material due to a permanent or temporary visual or physical disability is eligible to receive free talking books or braille materials, including the necessary equipment (shipped for free) through this program offered by the Illinois State Library. Open to all ages. Our staff can help you with the state’s application process as well as help you choose from more than 150,000 book and magazine titles.
Please call us at (309) 497-2068 for more information.

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