Friendswood Public Library

Now open regular hours!

Monday-Thursday 10:00am-9:00pm
Friday-Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm
Sunday-Closed

City of Friendswood Coronavirus Information

Please use the library’s online catalog to access the library’s collection of items or call the library at 281-482-7135 to request specific items to be held for pick-up at the library’s drive-through.

Also, the Children’s Department has assembled book bags with favorite and popular books for children of various ages. Call 281-482-7135 and request a book bag be placed on hold for you to pick up at the drive-through.

Don’t forget about the Library’s vast virtual collection of e-books, audiobooks, streaming video, magazines, and homework/research databases, at www.friendswood.lib.tx.us

OverDrive – eBooks and audiobooks for all ages.
RBdigital – classic eBooks, popular titled audiobooks, magazines, AcornTV, IndieFlix, and Quello Music
Kanopy – stream more than 30,000 of the world’s best films, including award-winning documentaries, rare and hard-to-find titles, film festival favorites, indie and classic films, Great Courses, and world cinema.
Kanopy Kids – stream educational and enriching videos for children.
Tumblebooks – children’s online eBooks – fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles including math stories and read-alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration), and National Geographic videos.
VidCode – Learn Coding from home. Through self-guided projects, you will write the code to create slideshows, memes, filters and more using Javascript programming language that can be shared. To get access to the lessons, click on this link, on the next page click on Student, and then click on “Sign up with an email”.

Don’t have a library card? Click here to obtain a temporary Friendswood Public Library card to access the electronic resources.

For assistance with any online services, please call the Reference desk at 281-482-7135 or email reflib@friendswood.lib.tx.us