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BookHives

24/7 Library Hold Pickup Lockers

Can’t make it to pick up your holds during the library’s open hours? Lacking transportation or live too far to walk to a library location? Try our BookHives!

BookHives are library material pickup lockers that are available for patron access 24/7.

Free, open WiFi internet is also available at each BookHive site.

A 2022 grant funded by the State Library of Ohio and the Institute of Museum and Library Services was used to purchase two of the BookHives.

Adelphi

Adelphi BookHiveThe Adelphi BookHive is located at 11879 Main St., Adelphi, near the Adelphi United Methodist Church.

Clarksburg

Clarksburg BookHive

The Clarksburg BookHive is located at 10849 Main St., Clarksburg, right outside of the village Municipal Building.

Massieville

Massieville BookHive

The Massieville BookHive is located at 2410 Massieville Rd., Chillicothe, at the Glo Fiber substation.

Northside Branch

Northside BookHive

The Northside BookHive is located outside of the entrance to the Northside Branch Library at 550 Buckeye St., Chillicothe.

  

How To Use the BookHives

The process to use a BookHive to pick up library materials is easy:

  1. Register for a free library card online if you need one.
  2. Search the library catalog for books, movies and more, and, when placing a hold, select a BookHive from the drop-down menu for the Pickup Library.
  3. We’ll let you know when your items are ready to be picked up from the BookHive.
  4. Next, visit the BookHive, scan your library card or enter it and your PIN on the BookHive screen’s keypad, and a locker door will pop open with your materials.
  5. Retrieve the materials, close the door, and a checkout receipt will be printed. That’s it!

If by chance, you happen to close the locker door before retrieving your materials, you will be locked out and will need to call the library for assistance. Please call 740-702-4111 and a staff member will assist you.

The BookHives are stocked twice per week. If you return books in the BookHive book drops, please allow additional time for them to be scanned in and removed from your account.

Library book returns and pop-up stops from The Bee Mobile Library are also provided at BookHive locations.

For more information about the BookHives, contact the Outreach Department at 740-702-4111 or outreach@crcpl.org.