The Ohef Sholom Temple Library is one center of community life at OST, offering opportunities for people of all ages to learn, know, gather and grow. The library is a dependable source of reliable information and of challenging ideas that enlighten and enrich, and of materials in many formats that enhance leisure time and expand knowledge of Judaism, Jewish history and thought. The library encourages the love of reading and the joy of learning, with a Jewish perspective in mind, and offers the assistance people need to find, evaluate, and use electronic and print information resources that help them live successful and rewarding Jewish lives. All members of OST are well served with the recent separation of children's resources from adult resources, so that each can focus more narrowly on their respective constituent's needs.

A beta version of the new Electronic online public access card catalog system has been created as of November 2006 - click here to try it out.

Ohef Sholom Temple Library, containing over five thousand volumes, is the largest Judaic book collection in Hampton Roads.

The Temple Library is open Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Friday. The Religious School library for students is open anytime Sunday school is in session.