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15025 S. Illinois St.
Plainfield, IL 60544
Phone: 815-436-6639
Fax: 815-439-2878
E-mail: Click Here

Text 'askppl' to 66746 for questions *

Mon - Thurs: 9AM-9PM
Fri - Sat: 9AM-5PM
Sunday (Sept - May): 1PM-5PM

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Reference & Reader Services Department staff members can answer your questions:

In person, at the reference desk on the Main Floor of the Library
Over the phone at 815-327-2515
Via email at reference@plainfieldpubliclibrary.org
(The Reference Department checks its email account daily and will respond to your email question within 24 hours.)
Via chat through the 24/7 Ask? Away service
Via Text Message
Text askppl to 66746 to ask a question.*
Questions received after hours
will be answered the following day.

Located on the main floor of the Library, the department features:

Trained, professional reference staff members who can assist you with your questions, research projects, locating books and materials, using the public computers and your other information needs
Fiction collections, including: large print, audiobook and foreign language fiction
Non-fiction collections, including: reference materials, local history, genealogy, oversized, audiobooks, instructional & informational DVDs and foreign language non-fiction
16 public computers with Internet access, 5 online catalog computer stations and 1 public reference station dedicated to library databases
Current and back issues of popular magazines and newspapers
Music CDs
Feature films on DVD
Graphic Novel Collection
Local History Room
Adult Quiet Reading Room

15025 S. Illinois St. Plainfield, IL 60544 • P: 815-436-6639 • F: 815-439-2878