How To Register Library Card

About your membership

Your library carte du jour opens the door to a globe of information, imagination, and amusement.

3 Things to know nearly your library card

Yous tin borrow items from our seven branches urban center-wide: books, audiobooks, DVDs, video games, and and then much more.
You can browse the online catalogue of our collections and create your own online account for easy borrowing.
Yous can place holds, renew items, download eBooks, stream movies & music, read digital magazines & newspapers, take courses—anywhere, someday.

And at your library...

You can use the Internet for free at all locations and we take wireless access everywhere except Kilbride.
Become informed and entertained at a library event. Nosotros have corking virtual programs for all ages, such as computer classes, author visits, volume clubs, and storytimes and STEM workshops for kids.
You can blueprint, introduce, and fabricate things at our makerspace creativity studio. Equipment includes a laser cutter, vinyl cutter, vinyl printer, 3D printer, and an embroidery machine.
You lot tin infringe books and DVDs in many world languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Urdu.
Y'all can utilize computers at all locations with Microsoft Office, specialized pattern software, and upgrades apps similar VLC Media Player, Google Earth, and Adobe Reader. Colour and black & white printouts toll twenty¢ per page. Bring your ain USB memory stick.
Yous can rent meeting space for upwards to 250 people (temporarily unavailable due to COVID-19 restrictions).

It's the all-time deal in town! The library is free to join if you live, piece of work, go to school, or pay holding taxes in Burlington—and parking is complimentary at all our locations.

Using the library

Your library menu number:

When yous utilise online, there is no plastic carte that exists with your unique menu number—and you don't need i to use the library. The 14-digit eCard number is the but number you need to access resources online and infringe items from the physical collection.
If you practice want a plastic card, visit any BPL co-operative and bring along your Ontario driver'south licence or two pieces of identification. Staff will requite you lot a replacement card. Whatever number is on the plastic bill of fare will supersede your digital card number.
Make sure you e'er have your library card number handy every time you visit so you tin borrow items, utilise a computer, and pick up items on hold for you.

Your My BPL online account:

In one case you take a library card number, you'll need to set upwardly your online My BPL business relationship. One time you set up up this account, you can place holds on and renew library items, access online resource, and annals for virtual library programs.
Yous need your library card number, PIN (last iv digits of your phone number), and just a few minutes to create your My BPL account.Y'all will exist asked to create a user name during the account set-up procedure. Please practise not apply your library card number equally your user name. Nosotros recommend something short and easy to remember.
It's also useful to take admission to your My BPL account so that y'all can keep your contact information upward-to-date and receive notifications near your due dates, holds, and important updates about library services. Yous can also discover your library card number here if yous ever demand it.

Your library visit:

We desire your library experience to exist nifty. It's important to the states that the library is welcoming, comfortable, and safe for anybody who visits. In return, we expect that our visitors volition be respectful of the building and everyone within.
While you're here, it's okay to socialize at an advisable volume—we actually don't expect you lot to whisper. And feel free to bring in a lidded beverage or pocket-sized snack to enjoy; but be tidy about information technology. Meals are non permitted.
We aim to meet your needs by providing services, resource, and technology so that you can use the library with ease. Delight tell united states of america how we tin can all-time assist you lot. Service animals are welcome at all library locations. All library locations provide accessible parking spaces.

How to become a FREE library card

Come into your local library co-operative and bring along your Ontario commuter'due south licence or 2 pieces of identification—or self-register now for a library card past completing the online application. Every bit a fellow member, you tin have one 14-digit library bill of fare number but, either provided through online registration or on a plactic library card that you get at a branch.

Students may use their student carte du jour, YMCA menu, nativity certificate, current written report carte du jour, or Social Insurance Number (SIN) card for ID.
A parent or legal guardian needs to sign the library card for their child upwardly to and including age 12.

When you utilise online

In one case you lot have successfully applied online y'all volition receive an electronic mail with your library card number and important apply information. If you do not receive the email, please check your spam folder. This library carte du jour number is for your personal apply only.
When you lot want to borrow items from the concrete collection, please visit whatever BPL branch and bring along your 14-digit library number and valid ID.
You merely demand to show your ID to staff the first fourth dimension you borrow from the physical collection using your online library card number. We want to verify that y'all live, piece of work, attend school, or pay holding taxes in Burlington.

Types of membership

If y'all piece of work, become to schoolhouse, or own property in Burlington only don't live here

Bring proof of employment, enrollment, or property tax payment. You will have full borrowing privileges at BPL including access to online resources and Interlibrary Loan service.

If you're a fellow member of Hamilton, Halton Hills, Milton, or Oakville Public Library

If you lot are currently a member of a neighbouring library organization, you have total borrowing privileges at BPL except online resources and Interlibrary Loan service. Please visit whatever BPL branch in-person and bring in your valid HPL, HHPL, MPL, or OPL card and photo ID with your current address. Nosotros will create a BPL business relationship for y'all.

If y'all alive or work outside of Burlington and want full membership benefits

Non-resident members are welcome merely must pay an almanac fee of $57 to become a BPL card with full borrowing privileges including admission to online resources and Interlibrary Loan service. This fee is equal to the almanac per capita amount the City of Burlington contributes to support the Library'south annual operating budget.

If you are new to Canada

If you don't have identification with your Burlington address, you can get a library card with full borrowing privileges including online resources and Interlibrary Loan service. Please show us your passport and one of the following items: Work or Pupil Visa; Refugee Claimant (no decision); Convention Refugee (protected person); Land Document IMM one thousand; Permanent Resident Carte; Canadian Citizenship Carte du jour; Denied Refugee (under appeal); or, Sponsored Person (immigrant)

Things every member needs to know

When you become a library member, you agree to follow the rules, regulations, and policies of Burlington Public Library. Exist responsible for items borrowed on your business relationship, fifty-fifty when a library carte is loaned to a friend, or becomes lost or stolen. Anytime a card is used, we assume the cardholder has permission to employ it.

Fair access to library materials for all our customers is important to us. The timely return of borrowed items makes this possible. We exercise not accuse a daily overdue fine; however:

When you owe more than $0: You lot can no longer infringe concrete items, such as difficult or softcover books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, etc.
When you owe $l or more than, or when an item is unreturned 59 days later the 30-days-overdue bill detect is sent: A collection agency will contact you lot to collect the missing item or the replacement fee. The agency will not credit written report, only they will accuse you lot $xv/item for their services.

Your privacy is our priority. Only the cardholder may make changes to the library account, for example, change of proper noun or address. When you don't have your library menu number or appropriate identification, you may borrow two items maximum.

When picking up a hold item for someone else, you must nowadays the library card number belonging to the person who placed the hold. You lot may not borrow the item using your library carte du jour.

To help u.s. maintain authentic records, some types of library cards will automatically expire every year or after a set menstruum: temporary cards, non-residents cards, and institution cards. You lot practise not need a new card when it expires, merely you do demand to come into a branch with your BPL menu and identification to verify your personal information and reactivate your membership.

Employ online for membership now

Download the library membership form to complete and bring in

Borrowing information

Create your My BPL online account

Identify a hold on But Arrived and On Order items

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