Southwest Bakersfield Branch Library serves 407,600 residents in the City of Bakersfield, and it is part of the Kern County Library System. The library system maintains over 920,000 volumes and circulates 1.2 million items per year. Southwest Bakersfield Branch Library offers books, periodicals, reference materials, CDs, DVDs, e-books, audiobooks, movies, online resources, wireless internet access, wireless printing, public computers, interlibrary loan, printing, copying, and faxing services.