Take your own tour of Ramstein Library

Take your own tour of Ramstein Library

Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday to Sunday.

• Go inside, turn right. There is a computer room, one hour use, for adults. There are 42 computers throughout the library, with 19-inch flat screen monitors. In 2006, more than 118,000 people used the Internet at Ramstein Library and every computer has a CAC reader.

• Immediately to the right of the computer room, there are 1,700 hot-off-the presses best seller titles, which are constantly updated.

• Behind the main counter are two computers for library registration. You can also sign up to use the Rosetta Stone Language Learning Program, available in 30 languages. (To buy it would cost upwards of $1,000.)

• If you need the College Level Exam Program, you’ll find all the subjects on shelves behind the library registration computers.

• Just to the left of the CLEP shelves are 4,000 video products and the Griots collection, books by African American authors.

• There is a group study room, the largest collection of reference books in USAFE, quiet study rooms with wireless Internet access and a new young adult section that is slowly being built up.

• In the Grimm Room, generally for children age 6 and under, there are two kiddy computers with software for language, music and art development, not to mention part of the nearly 16,000 juvenile books for children. P.S., if you look closely at the bricks in Rapunzel’s tower in the children’s room, you will see an Air Force symbol.

Special events
Summer Reading Program registration begins June 25. Children can pick up their packets at 10 a.m. June 27. Special guest from “Otis Spunkmeyer” handing out cookies.

Late Night @ the Library, June 30 is for adults only, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
 The Harry Potter Bash, July 20 to 21, for the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, book 7, includes costumes, wizard magic and readings. Starts late evening and runs to midnight, when the book can officially be released. Call your library for start time.