The Quezon Provincial Library is located in the GintongYamanng Quezon Bldg., Belen Drive, Capitol Compound, Lucena City. It is a two-story building built in 1924 as the original hospital with five thousand fifty (5,050) square feet floor area. Most of the library’s collection is at the ground floor. The Gintongyamanng Quezon Museum, the province’s depository of cultural heritage is housed at the second floor. The library and museum can be reached through public transportation.

The Library is open to the public from all walks of life from pre-school, elementary, junior and senior high school, college students, out of school youth, professionals, researchers, senior citizens or any individual interested in reading books and using library facilities/equipment. Researchers should present a valid identification card upon entrance.

The Library is open from 8:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the afternoon during weekdays. However, it is close on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

1. Circulation Section

This service aims to strengthen its collection by making the needs of the community.

Activities with charging and discharging items borrowed from the library collection, generally for outside use.

The Quezon Provincial Library considers service to youth as a primary mission, to attract and encourage children and young adults to love books and reading.

This Section offers access services and resources related for the promotion of reading among children.

This section keeps a control record of the holdings of serial publications (international and local magazines, newspapers, journals, etc.) received by the library, and answers questions about holdings of specific titles.

This section serves as a repository of the country’s intellectual and cultural heritage.

It contains publications about the Philippines, in all its aspects—cultural, political, social, religious, economic, and others regardless of author and imprints.

This section houses a collection of extensive general reference materials, which are intended to be consulted for a particular question or query, rather than read thoroughly.

It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, almanacs, yearbooks, atlases, gazetteers, biographies and indexes.

A collection that refers to the Province’s past and present, social and cultural heritage, built heritage, residential growth and commercial development.

The aim of local historical collections is to acquire, store or preserve and make these available to researchers or to General Public.

A vertical file (sometimes referred to as a clippings file or pamphlet file) is a collection of material such as news clippings, booklets, maps, pictures, pamphlets, tourism brochures, and other grey literature, created and maintained by libraries and other organizations.

The materials are typically loose, separate pieces organized in folders and arranged by subject.

Vertical files are used as ready reference material to supplement other collections on topics not easily covered by conventional material such as books.

It aims to inspire and support development policy and practice for social justice and gender equality in compliance with Executive Order 273 (Approving and Adopting the Philippine Plan for gender responsive development, 1995 to 2025).

Established in March 2017 to provide references on Chinese history, art, culture and literature to the Filipino-Chinese community in the province.

A program assisting the public by promoting the understanding of the essential economic and financial concepts and issues affecting the country’s economy, through the exchange of information resources between and among its network members.