Orders will be filled within 2 days.

Construction underway. See map below for directions to pickup door at the back of the main building.

Step One: Place an order

• Online: Click the "place hold" button next to an item in the library catalog (see how) or the Vernon Library app (see how).
• ​​By Phone: Call 847-634-3650

Step Two: Wait for a notification

We will notify you when your items are ready — by email if we have one for you, otherwise by telephone. Your order is not available for pickup until you receive a notification.

Step Three: Pick up your items

• Pick up your order within 6 days of receiving a notification. After 6 days, your items will be returned and put back on the shelf.
• ​​For pickup:

Write your last name, first initial, and phone number on a piece of paper and place it in your vehicle window.

​You do not need your library card to pick up your items. They're already checked out to you.

Enter the parking lot from Olde Half Day Rd.

Keep right and follow the signs to the pickup location at the back of the lot.

For pickup: pull into the fire lane and stop at the blue sign. Stay in your car. Display your name and phone number on the driver's side. A library worker will retrieve your order and place it in your trunk or unoccupied back seat.

​If you also have items to return, you will find a drop box as you exit.

For returns without pickup: do not enter the fire lane. Continue around the bend and back toward the entrance. You will find a return box on your driver's side after you round the turn.

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Returning your items

• Return most library materials to a drive-up return box:
  • At the library, you will find a return box as you proceed through the main parking lot
  • If you are picking up materials at the library, there is another return box as you exit the curbside pickup area
  • A remote return box is located in front of Sunset Foods in Long Grove
  • Another remote return box is located at the Grove shopping center in Buffalo Grove on the northeast corner of Lake-Cook and McHenry roads

• Items marked "return to the desk" — things that are large or breakable — may be returned to the open-air bin in the curbside service lane. The bin is available only during curbside service hours. If it is raining or snowing, this option will not be available. If you have questions, call 847-634-3650.

• All returned materials are quarantined for 7 days before they are checked in by staff. Please allow up to 10 days for your account to be updated.
• Remember: This library does not charge overdue fines!