A d u l t   S e r v i c e s

The Cerritos Library offers a wide range of services, collections, and programs for the enrichment of adults. Individuals or groups can request adult services orientation tours from the Library’s friendly and helpful staff.

Adult Reference Desk services include answers to reference questions, as well as assistance with more extensive research projects. The Library has a strong collection of carefully selected business materials. These offer valuable information resources to investors, market researchers, small business owners, import-export companies, and business students.

Programs for adults include authors' presentations and classes on using research databases and the eCatalog. Computer workstations offer high-speed Internet access and a large selection of research databases, including full text articles from thousands of general reference, business, consumer health, and science publications. In addition, the library has back editions of some newspapers and periodicals on microfiche and microfilm.

The World Traditions area includes the Library's fiction and special language collections. Genre fiction collections include Mystery, Science Fiction, Western and Romance.  In addition to English, materials are available in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Spanish and Indian languages.

The Library is dedicated to the First Ladies of the United States and maintains an extensive collection of books written about them. The collection also includes displays of personal items such as purses and letters that were donated to the Library by some of the First Ladies.