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Membership

Chinook Arch Regional Library System card holders have access to nearly 1,000,000 physical items, over 30,000 downloadable ebooks, audiobooks, and movies, 20,000 digital magazines and newspapers, and online courses.

Items at any library in the system can be delivered to your local library by placing a hold. Items borrowed at one library can be returned at any Chinook Arch member library.

Visit your local library to sign up for a library card, or sign up for an eCard online!

Membership Fees

  • Adult - $5
  • Family - $15
  • Juvenile - $2
  • Teen - $3

Lending Periods

  • Books and audiobooks: loaned for 3 weeks
  • DVDs: loaned for 7 days

Charges for Overdue Items

  • Books and audio materials: $0.05 per item, per day
  • DVDs, videotapes, and videogames: $1.00 per item, per day

Renewing Your Membership

Click here for information on renewing your library card.

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Get An eCard

Chinook Arch Regional Library System serves 33 libraries in 41 member municipalities across Southern Alberta, on traditional Blackfoot territory. 

If you are a resident of a Chinook Arch member municipality and are 18 years of age or older, you can sign up for an eCard. 

If you already have a Library card, you do not need an eCard. Your current library card can be used to access online resources and place holds. If your existing card needs to be renewed, please choose one of the following options:

  1. Renew your library card
  2. Visit any Chinook Arch member library
  3. Email ecard@chinookarch.ca

If you live outside of the Chinook Arch region, review these options to see how you can use the library.

Have questions about signing up? Visit our eCard FAQs page.

Ready to sign up? Complete our eCard Registration Form.

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Library History

In most cities and towns across Alberta, a library is part of public services, much like the essential services of the fire department or local police station. However, on First Nation Reserves, public libraries are not the norm, even though we know that when there is a library in the community, literacy levels rise and poverty diminishes. In 2010, the Kainai Board of Education Literacy Committee was established to promote literacy awareness, connect learners to literacy resources, and improve literacy levels of Kainai Board of Education students and their families. The Committee members included Linda Weasel Head, Connie Wells, Arlene Ward, Kathy Good Striker, Mary Weasel Fat, and Hali Heavy Shield. With the assistance of former Chinook Arch CEO Maggie MacDonald, the Kainai Board of Education entered into a partnership with the Blood Tribe Chief and Council, who issued a Band Council Resolution to allow a partnership to take place between the Kainai Board of Education and Chinook Arch Regional Library System. The Kainai Public Library opened in 2012, providing full library service and community programs to the Kainai First Nation.

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Southern Alberta Newspaper Collection

Digital copies of historical newspapers from regional communities including Lethbridge, Cardston, Magrath, Fort Macleod, Blood Reserve, Milk River, and Granum.

The Southern Alberta Newspaper Collection is a free resource courtesy of the University of Lethbridge Library Digitization Team.

It contains digitally archived copies of the following historical newspapers: Alberta Star, Barons Enterprise, Barons Globe, Cardston News, Cardston Record, Granum Adverister, Granum Herald, Granum News, Granum Press, Granum Times, Kainai News, Lethbridge News, Macleod Advertiser, Macleod Chronicle, Macleod Gazette, Macleod News, Macleod Spectator, Magrath Pioneer, Milk River Review & Sun Dance Echo. 

Print, save, or download single pages or entire issues of newspaper content as images or PDFs.

Back issues of The Lethbridge Herald

Lethbridge Herald (1905-1948)

Lethbridge Herald (1948-1963)

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LOTE4Kids
An orange and white owl with glasses perches on a sign reading "LOTE 4 Kids: Storytime in your language."

LOTE4Kids is a library eresource that allows kids to enjoy the magic of digital books in many languages from around the world, including sign language. Each book has an English translation to help develop multilingual reading and listening skills. 

Enjoy the stories, learn to read more fluently, and enhance your understanding of other languages! New books and languages are being added regularly.
LOTE4Kids is available as a website or an app. 

If prompted to search for your library, enter "Chinook Arch."

Sign in with your library barcode. 

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Newspaper Archive

Newspaper Archive is a collection of online newspaper archives from Alberta, including older issues of the Lethbridge Herald and Medicine Hat Times.

If you want to bookmark this resource in your browser, you'll need to bookmark this webpage, rather than the Newspaper Archive webpage you are directed to. 

To read current newspapers online, please visit PressReader.

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Read Alberta Collection

Instantly checkout ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines published in Alberta.

The Read Alberta Collection has over 2000 titles in a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction genres. Sign in with your library card barcode and PIN. Be sure to see how the site works by clicking Getting Started below. 

Included is the Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection, a selection of 230+ books written by Indigenous authors and published in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

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Udemy

On-demand learning for in-demand skills.

Gale Presents: Udemy offers more than 12,000 high-quality, on-demand video courses taught by world-class instructors across 75 categories for upskilling in the areas of business, technology, and design. You can also achieve personal success with courses on health and well-being, the arts, language learning, and more.

You can select the instructor and content that best addresses your needs and learning preferences and filter search results on course features, level, duration, topic, and ratings. Smart recommendations based on your previous in-app activities offer a personalized learning experience with suggested courses relevant to your interests. 

With an app for iOS and Android, you can download courses to watch offline, listen to courses with podcast-style audio, and watch courses using Chromecast or Apple TV.

Access to Udemy is free for Chinook Arch Regional Library patrons. You may be prompted to enter your access code when signing into Udemy - this will be your library card number.

*Content is powered by the Udemy for Business collection.

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