Information About Electronic Reference

  • The Evanston Public Library's primary responsibility is to the residents of Evanston. Questions from Evanston residents, or about Evanston, will be given priority.
  • If you live outside Evanston, we suggest you contact your local library, unless your question relates to Evanston or to our collection. If you don't know how to contact your library, try the LibWeb directory of public libraries.
  • E-mail questions have the same priority as those submitted by phone or in person. The response time will depend on the nature of the question and the number of other questions we have waiting. You can usually expect a response within two days.
  • The personal information you provide to the Library is used to provide library services to you and to allow the Library to reply to your request for information. Customer information collected by the Library is used by the Library for the purpose it was collected and is not released to the public or other organizations except under a court order (see the Policies of the Board).
  • The Library may contact other organizations in researching the information you have requested, but the Library will not provide your personal information to another organization without your permission.
  • Please note: Your question and our answer may be retained to assist with future inquiries and added to a publicly searchable question database used to answer future questions. Your personal information or any identifying information will not be saved in such a database. Anonymous statistics about your request will be maintained for program management purposes.
  • We may ask for your feedback once the process is done. Please help us make this a better service by replying to our email. Your suggestions are welcome at any time, we'd love to hear from you. You may send them to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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