You will receive a notification (email, phone or text) in whichever manner you selected when creating your account. You may change this by logging into your account in COSMOS.
Place items on hold and/or ask for a grab bag of items!
- To place holds
- Use our COSMOS catalog to search for items you would like to place on hold.
- Log into your account. [Video Tutorial]
- Place items on hold, and choose a Calvert Library location for pickup.
- If you need assistance please call 410-535-0291.
- Ask for a surprise grab bag – You can choose to get GRAB BAGS when you make your curbside appointment!
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- Pick a day/time for your curbside appointment, on the next screen you can check the box for a grab bag and tell us what type of books/movies you’d like. Be very general for Grab Bags (ex. 20 picture books, 5 adult fiction and 15 DVDs).
- These grab bag items will be randomly selected the day of your appointment and checked out to you.
- They will be included with any other items you’ve specifically requested to pick up at your appointment.
- Before taking your grab bag items with you, Take a look and make sure they’re a good fit for your and your family’s reading and viewing choices.
- Feel free to drop those you are not interested in back in the book return before you leave.
- It’s that EASY!
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- PS from Calvert Library – Personalized Suggestions
- If you’d like more specific recommendations, we have a service for that as well! Just visit our PS from Calvert Library page, before you make your curbside appointment, and tell us a little bit about what you are looking for. Our staff will create your own personal suggestions list that you can choose to place on hold. Once you get notified that they have arrived, you can make your curbside appointment to pick them up.
Wait for notification then make a curbside pickup appointment.
- You will receive a notification in your usual method (email, phone or text) when your hold is available for pickup.
- Once you receive notification, visit our curbside pickup appointment page to reserve your pickup day/time. Please have your library card available. Same day pickup may be available if requested 3 – 4 hours in advance.
- Can-Do Video: How to Make an Appointment
- Can-Do Video: Curbside Pickup
- Staff will checkout your items and package them for pickup.
Pick up day/time
- Table Pickup
- Table pickup is available in library vestibules.
- Your items will be in a paper bag labeled with your last name on the curbside pick up table
- Please deposit any returns in the book drop.
Enjoy your library materials!
Please place returns in the designated outside book return of each library location.
Want a mini-browsing experience! You can choose to get GRAB BAGS when you make your curbside appointment!
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- Just go straight to picking a day/time for your curbside appointment, on the next screen you can check the box for a grab bag and tell us what type of books/movies you’d like. Be very general for Grab Bags (ex. 20 picture books, 5 adult fiction and 15 DVDs). If you want more specific recommendations please check out our PS from Calvert Library program.
- These grab bag items will be randomly selected the day of your appointment and checked out to you.
- They will be included with any other items you’ve specifically requested to pick up at your appointment.
- Take a look and make sure they’re a good fit for your and your family’s reading and viewing choices.
- Feel free to drop those you are not interested in back in the book return before you leave.
- It’s that EASY!
For accommodations please call your library location.
- If you’d like more specific recommendations, we have a service for that as well!
- Visit our PS from Calvert Library page, before you make your curbside appointment, and tell us a little bit about what you are looking for.
- Our staff will create your own personal suggestions list that you can choose to place on hold.
- Once you get notified that they have arrived, you can make your curbside appointment to pick them up.
There’s nothing we love more! Below you will find several ways to find books and other materials (physical or digital) that you will enjoy. We hope you will try out our PS from Calvert Library-Personalized Suggestions. This service enables you to fill out a short form and a librarian will send you a personalized list of books/materials we hope you will love!
Want more???
Check out our Book Suggestion page that includes many librarian curated lists!
Calvert Library is FINE FREE but you may have fees on your account from past lost books. If you are able to pay these fees, you can do so on your online account. If you are not able to, please give the library a call at 410-535-0291 so that we can help.
Our check out limit is 75 items so if you are over that YOU ARE AN AWESOME POWER USER! Just give us a call and we will work it out.
I have gotten several notifications of holds, do I need to make a separate appointment for each one?
You only need to make one appointment. We will check out all holds that are available for your library card at one time. If you want to pick up your whole households’ materials, please enter all the library card numbers that have holds available in the library card field separated by commas.
You are welcome to make one appointment for all the notifications your household has received, please enter all the library card numbers that have holds available in the library card field separated by commas.