Services @ the Didsbury Municipal Library
The Didsbury Library is funded primarily through your tax dollar. The Town of Didsbury provides and maintains the facility. The Library Board, uses an annual appropriation from the Town, the annual Library Operating Grant and the Rural Services Transfer grant from the Province of Alberta, and an annual per capita grant from Mountain View County, to staff and operate the library.
We are proud members of Parkland Regional Library, Alberta's oldest cooperative library system, est. 1959. Our membership in a regional library system enables us to purchase books and other library materials more economically and to share with other libraries more efficiently.
The Alberta Library Card:
The Alberta Library (TAL) is dedicated to universal, barrier-free access to information for all Albertans. Your regular library card is a TAL Card and can be used at libraries throughout Alberta to borrow books. Books borrowed from other libraries may be returned to Didsbury Library.
Audio Books:
A wide range of fiction and non-fiction is available on cassette or CD.
Interlibrary Loans:
We can access books from within the region, around the province and across the borders!
Multilingual Collection:
We currently have a blocks of books in Filipino, Korean, Italian, and Cree! Didsbury is able to access rotating block of books from the Provincial Multilingual Collection Consortium, in sets of Juvenile and Adult fiction and non-fiction in 30 different languages. (At this time, we are not able to request specific titles.) Please let our staff know if you would like books in your native language or in a language you are learning.
Language learning:
Sets of CD's or cassettes and phrase books in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Thai, Japanese, and Chinese are available for extended loan periods.
Interlibrary Loans:
Request library items to be reserved for you by the staff, or by yourself at the Online Public Access Catalogue or online.
Photocopying:
Photocopying, faxing and laminating are all available at reasonable cost.
Public Computers:
We offer 8 computer stations for patrons to use free of charge. They are equipped with internet access, word processing and spreadsheet software.The computers may be used for email, chatting, gaming, research and browsing. The library is also a wireless hotspot which you can use to access the internet on your own laptop or PDA.
We also provide one accessible workstation, with a large print monitor, trackball mouse and adaptable keyboard. Accompanying this workstation is a reader/magnifier donated by the Luft Family in memory of Georgina Luft.
Reference:
Almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, local histories, and encyclopaedia: most material is in print form, but some CD ROM resources are available.
Reference Services:
We offer trained library staff, access to online databases, and support of professional librarians at regional headquarters.
Subscriptions:
DML maintains subscriptions to over 60 magazines and newspapers.
Teen Zone
Young people are encouraged to hang out in the library's Teen Zone - enjoy a cool slection of books and graphic novels, comfy lounge seats, and a place to do homework
