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Read, Listen, Watch

Read: Ebooks are available from Overdrive or Hoopla to download or read online. Flipster provides access to digital versions of your favorite magazines.

Listen: Overdrive and Hoopla provide audiobooks you can download or stream online directly from your device. Hoopla offers audiobooks and music.

Watch: Kanopy provides movies and documentaries. Hoopla offers movies and television series.

Digital BookPage

Research, Learn

Browse the JCLC Databases for a number of different online resources, including Consumer Reports and SAT/ACT prep.

Morningstar Funds, Heritage Quest, and Universal Class are services we provide exclusively to Mountain Brook residents.

Morningstar Funds provides information on investments.


Heritage Quest provides genealogical research similar to Ancestry.





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Staff Recommendations

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  • Fiction
    • The Mercies, by Kiran Millwood
    • Pew, by Catherine Lacey
    • The box of delights
    • Nothing To See Here, by Kevin Wilson
    • Leave the world behind
    • The house of mirth
    • In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella Haasse
    • The Good Lord Bird
    • mad honey
    • our wives under the sea
    • room
    • my best friend's exorcism
    • the butcher and the wren
    • the dark between the trees
    • lessons in chemistry
    • how to sell a haunted house
    • horse
    • southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
  • Non Fiction
    • Inferno : a doctor's ebola story by Steven Hatch
    • Escaping the delta by Elijah Wald
    • American predator by Maureen Callahan
    • Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski
    • This common ground : seasons on an organic farm by Scott Chaskey
    • Once upon a flock : life with my soulful chickens by Lauren Scheuer
    • The library book
    • i'm glad my mom died
    • don't blow yourself up
    • born to be hanged
    • south to america
    • the last slave ship
    • speckled beauty
    • shaking the gates of hell
    • fabric
    • gone
    • lords of the flyl
    • coddling of the american mind
    • power of regret

Study Spaces

Dedicated quiet room - This room on the second floor provides a space for those who need quiet in our vibrant community library.

Group study rooms - Our group study rooms are available on a first come, first served basis to individuals and small groups.

Tables/chairs and study carrels througout the second floor.

Computers, Internet, Print/Copy/Scan

Public Use Computers

We have about 20 public use computers with 23" monitors and USB drives. Simply use your library card to login to a public computer for two hours of access (additional time available if no one is waiting).

Standard software includes: Office 2010 Suite, Chrome, Firefox, Adobe Reader, Ancestry, Morningstar Funds, Internet Explorer.

Wireless Internet

We provide complimentary high speed wireless internet access. Occasionally during peak times, we cannot allow music and video streaming. 

Print/Copy/Scan

Color printing/copying (50 cents per page), B/W printing/copying (15 cents per page), scanning (5 cents per page)

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Wed, Apr 01, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
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Fri, May 01, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Alys Stephens Center - Jemison Concert Hall

Fri, May 01, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Sat, May 02, 10:30am - 12:00pm
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Sat, May 02, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Mon, May 04, 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Tue, May 05, 10:00am - 11:00am
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Sat, May 09, 10:00am - 2:00pm
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Mon, May 11, 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Tue, May 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
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Tue, May 12, 10:00am - 11:30am
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Fri, May 15, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Sat, May 16, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Tue, May 19, 10:00am - 11:00am
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Tue, May 26, 10:00am - 11:00am
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Tue, May 26, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
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Thu, May 28, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Mon, Jun 08, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
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Tue, Jun 30, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
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Smart Directions Series

Smart Directions @ O'Neal Library is a series of seminar style programs on personal finance and investing. This program is made possible by a grant from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation through Smart investing@your library®, a partnership with the American Library Association.

Smart Directions Program Archive
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