Services

The Alberta Library offers key services to the provinces's library community that meets the needs of Albertans through collaboration and resource sharing. 

m TAL Online

A discovery service that enables Albertans to discover library resources across the province as well as place interlibrary loan requests for them.

f TAL Card

A card that provides borrowing privileges at all TAL Card participating libraries across Alberta.

d The Toolshed

A joint venture between The Alberta Library and The Association B.C. Public Library Directors, hosted by the B.C. Libraries Coop. The Toolshed is an online platform for library staff to share, download and comment on library training resources.

q Licensing

TAL negotiates licensing agreements so member libraries can offer library users several digital resources including newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, ebooks, "how to" databases and more.

g Discovery Link

Discovery Link is an opt-in licensing program that allows you to choose which databases best suit your K-12 school/school board.

p EZproxy

Allows access to licensed resources by providing a way to log into their accounts from outside the library's network.

b Find A Library

A comprehensive directory for all Alberta Libraries.