Library

The Navy MWR Digital Library is always open. With more than 25 online services, it gives sailors, their families, retirees and civilians 24/7 access to a wide variety of material. The Navy MWR Digital Library and ashore and afloat libraries provide academic, research and career-development resources. Sailors can earn college degrees and certificates. They can update promotion packages, prepare to transition or retire and more.

The Navy MWR Digital Library portal has e-books, audiobooks, newspapers and 10,000 full-text journals and magazines. It offers one-on-one tutoring, Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support tests, and College-Level Examination Program practice exams and study guides.

Ashore MWR libraries and resource centers are available on 31 naval bases. Eligible customers can check out a variety of print and audiovisual materials. The libraries provide free access to computers and Wi-Fi. Some have story hours, summer reading programs, classes and book clubs.

Afloat libraries include collections of print and audiovisual materials. They vary in size by vessel. Carriers may have collections as large as 15,000 volumes. Submarines may have collections with only a few hundred items. The fleet gets monthly shipments of paperback books. As a part of afloat library support, the Navy General Library Program provides an “opening day” collection for new ships entering the Navy's active fleet under an agreement with the Naval Sea Systems Command.

All Defense Department service members and their families have access to the DOD MWR Libraries. These free, online libraries are available 24/7 and offer an incredible collection for both adults and children. Access tutoring, finance and language classes, career transition assistance, car care advice, legal forms and much more. Visit Military OneSource today to see what the DOD MWR Libraries can do for you and your family.

Customer Service Hours:  Days opened: Saturday – Thursday, hours of operation – 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

 Services Offered:

1. Faxes
2. scanning
3. B/White & color printing
4. Xerox copies
5. Laminating
6. Typewriter
7. Stand alone computers internet access
8. Free Wifi access
9. Newspapers
10. Magazines

 Circulating items:

1. Fiction & Non-Fiction Books
2. Travel Books
3. MCPON Reading books
4. Navy Reading books
5. Commandant’s reading books
6. Educational materials such as ASWAB, CLEP, SAT Etc
7. DVDs for adults & kids
8. Music CDs for adults & kids
9. Inter Library Loan between the NAVEUR Libraries

 Programs offered:

Read to your kid Program:  We realize many children don’t see their deployed parent for great lengths of time.   There is a plan to get connected through reading. Read to them as if you’re there.  WE VIDEOTAPE, YOU READ! Call and schedule the date and time for this program. Great selection of Kids books!  Hand puppets available!

Library based language Learning Rosetta online Program:  Looking to learn a second language? or a third, or a  fourth? Registering with NSA Library, you can get a head start on that goal and build language skills at your own pace. Library patrons can now gain free access to a number of online language programs on the Rosetta Stone site from their home computers any time and for any length of time. It is as simple as checking out a book.

NKO Language Lab:  This Lab features with six stations with laptop computers, headphones and built-in web cams, networked for NKO programs through an ADSL and wireless. Additionally, printing services are also available. Patrons will be able to reserve and use stations in two hour use time blocks. This is a great enhancement of educational support program with the advent of access to NKO. Users can also learn or be exposed to 32 Different languages.

Other programs:  Ongoing Basic Computer Classes, Ongoing Cross stitch /Crocheting Classes for Teenagers, Bookclubs, Adults & Kids Reading Challenges, Weekly ongoing Story time for kids, Weekly ongoing Family Story time, Summer Reading Program for Adults & kids, and Monthly Activities for Adults and Kids.