Find your library

Type a ZIP code and you get the buildings you could walk into today, nearest first — all 17,615 public library buildings in the country are in here, not just the 9,249 organisations that run them. Then look at the three layers above your own library: the county system, the state library, and the programmes open to anyone in the country. Most people stop at the first one.

Find your library

Two ways in. Either one lands you on the same answer: what your own library is confirmed to offer, what sits above it, and what you can join from where you are.

Your state, then your town

Your town

The town list fills in once you pick a state, and only lists towns that actually have a system in the survey.

17,615Library buildings

9,249Organisations running them

33,886ZIP codes mapped

2,898hoopla confirmed

303Libby confirmed

Not confirmed means we do not know, not that they do not have it. We can confirm a service only where we found your library in the provider’s own registry. We managed that for 32.5% of systems. For the rest, the honest answer is that we could not check — and your library may well offer all three. The fastest way to find out is to ask them.

Buy into a better library

If your local library is thin, you can often pay a modest annual fee to join a much bigger system and get its whole digital collection. This is the best-value move on this page. It is also the one most riddled with stale information elsewhere, so every entry below was read on the library’s own site on 2026-09-29.

Read this before you go shopping. Of the systems we checked, only 2 will actually sell a card to an out-of-state person who cannot travel there. Most “non-resident card” programmes require an in-person visit with photo ID, and several of the ones still listed in other directories have been discontinued outright. We have kept the dead ones here, clearly marked, precisely so you do not go chasing them.

2 of 24 programmes

Fairfax County Public Library

On sale now

Fairfax, Virginia

$50 for 1 year, $75 for 2 years, $100 for 3 years

Open to anyone in the USApply from anywhere

Who: Anyone living in the United States whose home address is not in Fairfax County, the City of Fairfax, or a reciprocal jurisdiction. No age requirement is stated.

You get: Online resources only, including eBooks and eAudiobooks. This card does not include physical borrowing. The library's pages do not name which apps (Libby, hoopla, Kanopy) are included, so treat the specific platform list as unconfirmed.

How: Apply online. The application is processed within 7 business days, then you are emailed an account number and payment instructions. The card does not work until the fee is paid.

The strongest remote option found: a genuinely out-of-state card you can buy without travelling. Corroborated at askthelibrary.fairfaxcounty.gov/faq/190502 and /faq/190589.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Queens Public Library

On sale now

Queens, New York

$50 per year

Open to anyone, worldwideApply from anywhere

Who: Their page: for an annual fee of $50 all non-New York State residents, including international users, can purchase an account. No age requirement stated, no in-person visit required.

You get: Digital only: research databases, e-journals, digital media and downloads (eBooks, audiobooks, eMagazines, video, music). No physical borrowing, because a physical card additionally requires a New York street address.

How: Start the eCard form online, answer No to "Do you live, work, go to school, or own property in New York State?", then pay $50 by Visa, Mastercard or Discover. Account number and PIN arrive by email.

The other genuinely remote option. Corroborated at queenslibrary.org/library-card/apply-online-payment.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Free, and open to more people than you would think

Several large systems give cards away to anyone in their whole state, and a handful give them to young people anywhere in the country. None of these costs a penny.

Books Unbanned

Free

Brooklyn Public Library · Anywhere in the US

Who: Teens and young adults aged 13 to 21 anywhere in the United States, outside New York State.

You get: A free eCard giving access to the library's e-books and audiobooks.

How: Apply online.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Nonresident Instant eCard

Free

Las Vegas-Clark County Library District · Anywhere in the US

Who: Anyone living outside Clark County, Nevada.

You get: Limited access to online resources: databases and learning tools. Their page states explicitly that nonresident eCards do not give access to the eBook and eAudiobook collections in Libby and hoopla.

How: Instantly online. Identity is verified through a third-party data vendor.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Free card for any New York State resident

Free

Brooklyn, Queens and New York Public Libraries · New York residents

Who: Anyone who lives, works, attends school, or pays property taxes in New York State, at all three New York City systems.

You get: Full membership of whichever system you join. You can hold cards at more than one.

How: Online, with in-person verification for full access at some systems.

Upstate New Yorkers routinely miss this. The three New York City systems are open to the whole state, not just the city.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Free Free Library of Philadelphia card for any Pennsylvania resident

Free

Free Library of Philadelphia · Pennsylvania residents

Who: Anyone who lives in Pennsylvania. Adults and teens 13 to 17 can register online; under-13s in person.

You get: Physical borrowing, databases, e-books and audiobooks, streaming video and music, digital learning, and public computers.

How: Online at catalog.freelibrary.org/register.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

MyLink card

Free

Houston Public Library · Texas residents

Who: Any Texas resident.

You get: Instant digital access to eBooks, e-audiobooks, digital magazines and music via a 7-digit number emailed to you. Physical borrowing requires a visit with photo ID.

How: Online.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Free Los Angeles Public Library card for any California resident

Free

Los Angeles Public Library · California residents

Who: Any California resident, not only Los Angeles residents. Under 18s are not asked for ID.

You get: A 30-item checkout limit. Note that the free e-card is restricted to Los Angeles City residents by vendor licensing, so a Californian outside the city needs the physical card.

How: In person: LAPL does not issue cards by mail.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Oregon Library Passport Program

Free

Participating Oregon libraries · Oregon residents

Who: Oregon library cardholders, giving reciprocal access across 100+ Oregon libraries. Each library sets its own limits.

You get: Borrowing at participating Oregon libraries.

How: Use your existing Oregon library card.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

TexShare

Free

Texas State Library and Archives Commission · Texas residents

Who: Cardholders of participating Texas libraries.

You get: Reciprocal borrowing at participating Texas libraries. Fort Worth's page lists TexShare visitors as having no digital item access, so do not assume it carries e-books.

How: Ask your own Texas library for a TexShare card.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Books Unbanned

Free

The Seattle Public Library · Anywhere in the US

Who: Ages 13 to 26 living anywhere in the United States. Explicitly not for people who live or work in Seattle or already hold a Seattle card.

You get: The entire e-book and audiobook collection, e-books and audiobooks only. Ten checkouts at a time, five holds, 21-day loans, card valid one year and renewable. Readable on Kindle or in Libby.

How: Apply online.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Books Unbanned

Free

Boston Public Library · Anywhere in the US

Who: Ages 13 to 26 living in the United States. No Massachusetts connection required, unlike Boston's ordinary eCard.

You get: Boston Public Library's entire OverDrive collection through Libby.

How: Apply online.

The Books Unbanned coalition site describes this as challenged and banned titles only; Boston's own page says the entire collection. We follow Boston's own page.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Books Unbanned

Free

San Diego Public Library · Anywhere in the US

Who: Young people living anywhere in the United States. San Diego's own page says ages 12 to 26; the coalition site says 13 to 26. Both are official, so treat the lower bound as uncertain.

You get: Banned and restricted e-books and e-audiobooks, delivered through cloudLibrary rather than Libby.

How: Apply online.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Books Unbanned

Free

Long Beach Public Library · Anywhere in the US

Who: Ages 13 to 19 living in the United States and outside Los Angeles County.

You get: The entire Libby collection. Valid one year, renewable.

How: By email to LS-Books-Unbanned@longbeach.gov. There is no web form.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Books Unbanned

Free

LA County Library · California residents

Who: California residents only, ages 13 to 18.

You get: The entire digital e-book and audiobook collection on Libby. Five checkouts at a time, valid one year.

How: Apply online.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Open Library card

Free

Internet Archive · Anywhere in the US

Who: Anyone, anywhere. Requires only an email address, screen name and password. No library card and no geographic test.

You get: Ten books at a time. Loans are one hour for browse-only titles or 14 days for fully borrowable ones, readable in the browser or downloadable as DRM-protected PDF or EPUB. Any borrowable book is also available in audio. Not Kindle-compatible. There is an optional application for print-disability access through a qualifying programme.

How: Sign up at openlibrary.org/account/create.

The lowest-friction option on this page: no card, no residency, no fee.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Boston Public Library eCard

Not stated on the page, so we do not describe it as free

Boston Public Library · Massachusetts residents

Who: Anyone who lives in Massachusetts, resides there part-time to attend school, owns Massachusetts property, or works for a Massachusetts employer and is physically present there for some duty days. Remote workers who never physically work in Massachusetts are not eligible, and registrations from outside the United States are refused.

You get: All online resources including Libby and Palace. No physical items. Upgradeable to a physical card at any branch with photo ID and proof of a Massachusetts address.

How: Online.

Often described as open to all Massachusetts residents. The two cross-border routes worth knowing are property ownership and working for a Massachusetts employer. Boston's separate in-person research card is confirmed free and is the realistic out-of-state route.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Free card for any Ohio resident

Free

Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library · Ohio residents

Who: Ohio residents statewide, plus cardholders of affiliated libraries.

You get: Borrowing in branches and online, plus meeting and study rooms.

How: Online, through a four-step form.

Their page does not say whether out-of-state residents can get any card, so that remains unknown.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Look above your town

Most people know their town branch and stop there. There are usually three more layers above it, and the higher ones often carry the better databases.

Public library service in the United States is layered, and most people only ever use the first layer. A municipal library is funded by one town's own tax and usually gives the fullest rights to that town's residents. A county system is funded by a county-wide levy and typically runs branches and bookmobiles, often covering towns with no library of their own. A regional consortium or cooperative is generally not a library at all but a shared catalogue, shared interlibrary loan and shared delivery among independent libraries. A State Library is usually a government agency, serving the legislature, administering federal funding and licensing statewide databases, rather than a neighbourhood lending library, though many do issue a limited walk-in card. An independent library district with its own elected board and taxing power is a fifth structure, common in the Midwest and West. What varies by state, and should never be assumed from one example, is whether county systems exist at all, whether a town library and the county system are mutually exclusive, whether reciprocal borrowing is statewide or regional or absent, whether statewide databases authenticate by card barcode or by geolocation or by IP address, and where services for print-disabled readers sit.

Your State Library is probably giving things away

Ranked by how little you need in order to get in. The top of this list needs no library card at all. We verified 10 state-level programmes outside New Jersey; everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom rather than guessed at.

Michigan eLibrary (MeL)

Michigan

No library card needed

Who: Any Michigan resident. This is the lowest bar of any state we checked: you can authenticate with a valid Michigan driver's licence number or State of Michigan ID card number, or simply by being on a Michigan IP address. A library card works too but is not required.

You get: AtoZdatabases, Explora, NoveList Plus, Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, PebbleGo, World Book Kids, Academic Search Complete, Hobbies and Crafts Source, LearningExpress Library and eJournals via EBSCOhost. The site shows a partial list only.

How: Go to mel.org and authenticate with your driver's licence number, or just browse from a Michigan connection.

Cost: No fee is described. The pages we read do not use the word free, so we do not claim it outright.

A statewide eBook programme could not be confirmed. MeLCat is statewide interlibrary loan for physical items.

Library of Michigan →source read · 2026-09-29

NOVELny

New York

No library card needed

Who: All New York residents. Inside the state you are let in by geo-IP with no username, password or card number. From outside New York you log in with a public library card.

You get: Gale Academic OneFile, Gale In Context (Elementary, Middle School, Opposing Viewpoints), Britannica School, the New York Times Digital Collection, Gale Health and Wellness, Gale Business: Entrepreneurship, Peterson's Test and Career Prep, and 30-plus further Gale OneFile collections.

How: Just open novelnewyork.org from a New York connection.

Cost: Free

The New York Times Digital Collection alone is worth more than most people's annual library spend. A separate New York State Library resident borrower's card also exists, but its cost and terms could not be confirmed because the State Library site had a TLS certificate error when we checked.

New York State Library →source read · 2026-09-29

Ohio Web Library

Ohio

No library card needed

Who: Ohio residents. Authentication is by library card pattern matching or, as an equity-of-access alternative, by geo-location, so an Ohio connection is enough.

You get: EBSCOhost, Business Source Premier, Consumer Health Complete, World Book, Literary Reference Source, Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Chilton Library for car repair, CultureGrams, and the genealogy set: Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest and Fold3.

How: Open ohioweblibrary.org from an Ohio connection.

Cost: Free

The genealogy trio is the standout. People pay real subscription money for Ancestry and Fold3 without realising Ohio hands them over on geo-IP alone.

OPLIN and the State Library of Ohio →source read · 2026-09-29

PINES card and GALILEO

Georgia

Sign yourself up, no local library

Who: Any Georgia resident is eligible for a free PINES library card, which then unlocks GALILEO, the state's virtual library.

You get: PINES covers 300 libraries in 52 systems across 145 counties, over 11 million items, with free statewide delivery to your home library. GALILEO adds databases, journals, ebooks and video. Georgia Download Destination provides over 100,000 shared ebook and audiobook titles, alongside the Palace Project, Libby, hoopla and TumbleBooks.

How: Apply for a PINES ecard at gapines.org.

Cost: Free

GALILEO does not publish its database list on the pages we could read, so the specific titles are unconfirmed.

Georgia Public Library Service →source read · 2026-09-29

POWER Library E-Card

Pennsylvania

Sign yourself up, no local library

Who: Pennsylvania residents. You can sign yourself up for a POWER Library E-Card without joining a local library; separate registration paths exist for adults and under-18s. A local PA library card also works.

You get: SIRS Discoverer, cloudLibrary audiobooks, OverDrive and Libby, MyHeritage for genealogy, Auto Repair Source, PA Photos and Documents, and the statewide catalogue.

How: Register for the E-Card at powerlibrary.org/ecard.

Cost: The homepage describes the resources as free. The E-Card page itself names no fee.

The E-Card is database-only: it will not let you check out or reserve physical items at your local library.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania →source read · 2026-09-29

Washington State Library card

Washington

Sign yourself up, no local library

Who: Any Washington resident. The card is an alternative to a local library card, not a supplement, and you apply online.

You get: LinkedIn Learning with 16,000-plus courses in seven languages, Northstar Digital Skills assessments, GMetrix, Cisco Networking Academy, Microsoft LEARN, and certification pathways for CompTIA, Intuit QuickBooks and Microsoft Office Specialist. Also a digital resources hub of digitised Washington newspapers, genealogy and government publications, and the AskWA virtual reference service.

How: Apply online through sos.wa.gov/library.

Cost: Free

The physical library in Tumwater closed to the public on 1 July 2025 after losing funding. Limited access is by appointment on Thursday afternoons. Online services continue.

Washington Secretary of State →source read · 2026-09-29

Florida Electronic Library

Florida

Needs a card from a member library

Who: Public library cardholders and students in Florida public K-12, university, college or independent institutions. The state frames this as eligible-user access rather than universal resident access.

You get: Homework help, health research, career and job assistance, small business support, and a reference ebook library. Gale is a confirmed content provider.

How: Through your Florida library or school.

Cost: Described as free for eligible users.

The database count and the geolocation details often quoted elsewhere could not be confirmed from the state's own page.

Florida Division of Library and Information Services →source read · 2026-09-29

Statewide databases and the LEA ebook collection

Massachusetts

Needs a card from a member library

Who: Massachusetts library users. The FY2026 page does not state whether a card is needed, so we cannot confirm the gate.

You get: For FY2026 the state still funds Britannica, Gale Academic OneFile plus 26 OneFile collections, Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, and PebbleGo. LEA, the statewide ebook and audiobook collection, continues, as do the Commonwealth Catalog and Digital Commonwealth.

How: Through your Massachusetts library.

Cost: Free

Massachusetts is mid-disruption and any list published today may go stale. Twenty products were cut, including most Gale In Context databases, the Boston Globe Archive, Peterson's test prep and Transparent Language Online. Substitutes now route through Boston Public Library's Library for the Commonwealth role, with the Globe via PressReader and Peterson's via LearningExpress. The rescue was funded partly by reallocating $500,000 away from the state's own LEA ebook grant.

Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners →source read · 2026-09-29

NC LIVE

North Carolina

Needs a card from a member library

Who: Framed as every North Carolinian, with 24/7 access and no paywalls, but you authenticate through one of the 200-plus member libraries.

You get: 1.8 billion full-text articles, ebooks, streaming video, digitised newspapers, language learning, test prep, career development, nursing and health, small business and literacy resources. Individual database brand names are not published on the pages we read.

How: Through your member library's website or nclive.org.

Cost: Free

The State Library of North Carolina separately offers a free Government and Heritage Library card for family history research and circulating materials. NC Kids Digital Library could not be confirmed: its pages returned 404.

North Carolina's statewide library cooperative →source read · 2026-09-29

TexShare databases and the TexShare Card

Texas

Needs a card from a member library

Who: Genuinely gated: you must be a patron of a participating Texas library. The databases are licensed for the exclusive use of Texas libraries and their patrons, and each member institution chooses which resources to enable and sets its own credential policy.

You get: Databases, which TSLAC does not list inline on the pages we could read. Separately the TexShare Card lets cardholders borrow physical materials from more than 500 libraries across the state.

How: Through your local Texas public or academic library.

Cost: Not stated on any page we read.

Texas State Library and Archives Commission →source read · 2026-09-29

What we have not checked. We checked twelve state libraries beyond New Jersey and could not verify all of them. Rather than fill the gaps from memory, here is exactly what is missing and why. If your state is not listed anywhere on this page, that means we have not checked it yet, not that it offers nothing.

California: library.ca.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated requests on every path we tried. Nothing about California is published here.
Illinois: ilsos.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated requests. Search results repeatedly describe a 2026 statewide EBSCO programme called IRIS, said to give all Illinois residents access to 50-plus databases, but we could not open a single official page to verify it, so we publish nothing.
New York: NOVELny is verified, but the New York State Library's own site had a TLS certificate error, so the resident borrower's card terms and cost are unconfirmed.

The remaining states and territories have not been researched at all. There are 56 state and territory codes in the directory below and 11 state libraries verified here.

New Jersey in detail

The home state, worked through properly, because the county rule here is genuinely counter-intuitive and gets repeated wrongly everywhere else.

In New Jersey, having a town library usually means you cannot get a free county card. New Jersey library law lets a municipality that runs its own library opt out of the county library tax. Camden County's own site puts it plainly: municipalities with their own library need not pay the county library tax, and the county system lends free of charge to people in the towns that do pay it. So the county card most people assume they are entitled to is, in most counties, tied to a line on the tax bill their town does not pay. The consequences differ county by county, which is exactly why a single rule of thumb fails here.

Monmouth

No free card for residents of exempt towns. $100 a year, or $75 for veterans with a DD214. source →

Burlington

Free in 37 participating municipalities. Moorestown, Mount Laurel and Willingboro residents must apply in person and pay. source →

Hunterdon

Free in the service area, but Flemington Borough and Lambertville are excluded because those towns fund their own libraries. Flemington residents can get limited use through their local card. source →

Ocean

The exception that proves the rule: free to Ocean County residents other than Beach Haven, and free to Burlington and Monmouth County residents too. source →

Camden

Free in 24 member municipalities. Residents aged 65 and over in a non-member Camden County town get free annual membership anyway. source →

Mercer

The system covers only 7 of 12 municipalities. Trenton, Princeton and Hamilton run their own libraries and are not in the online card list. source →

Counties with their own system: Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Somerset, Sussex, Warren.

Where a consortium does the job instead: Bergen, and parts of Essex, Hudson and Passaic — BCCLS, a consortium of 78 public libraries in northern New Jersey; Passaic, Essex and Hudson — PALS Plus, a consortium of 29 public and academic libraries across 21 communities; Gloucester, Cumberland and Salem — LOGIN, whose members honour each other's cards.

Twelve county systems are listed by LibraryLinkNJ; Morris and Cumberland also operate county libraries but are not on that list. Union and Middlesex are served by consortia (LUCC and LMxAC) whose own sites we did not read, so treat those two as unconfirmed.

JerseyCat statewide interlibrary loan

Who: New Jersey library users.

You get: A statewide virtual catalogue: search other New Jersey libraries and have items delivered to your own library for pickup.

How: Through your local library.

Cost: Free

Described here from Newark Public Library's page because the State Library's own JerseyCat page was rate-limiting requests when we checked.

New Jersey State Library and LibraryLinkNJ →confirmed indirectly · 2026-09-29

JerseyClicks

Who: New Jersey residents, students and public library users. Remote access needs a library card barcode from a New Jersey public library, not geolocation.

You get: 25 databases free of charge, including Consumer Reports, Reference Solutions (Data Axle), Academic Search Premier, Business Source Elite, ERIC, Health Source, Legal Information Source, NoveList and NoveList K-8, Newspaper Source Plus, Referencia Latina, Teacher Reference Center, Peterson's Test and Career Prep, and HeritageQuest.

How: Get a card from any New Jersey public library, then sign in with the barcode.

Cost: Free

Consumer Reports alone is worth roughly the price of a subscription. jerseyclicks.org now redirects to this page.

New Jersey State Library →source read · 2026-09-29

New Jersey State Library card

Who: In person: any New Jersey resident aged 17 or over, anyone employed in New Jersey aged 17 or over, state university employees, and college students attending school in New Jersey. Online registration is open only to state employees and to Thomas Edison State University students, staff and mentors.

You get: For a member of the public the card is deliberately limited: use of computers and databases while visiting the State Library in Trenton, and borrowing of one item at a time from selected collections. State employees and TESU affiliates get remote database access, eBooks and interlibrary loan.

How: At the circulation desk, 185 West State Street, Trenton. Bring a New Jersey driver's licence or state photo ID, or a current utility bill or lease plus a state-issued photo ID.

Cost: Not stated on the page. We do not describe it as free because the library does not.

New Jersey State Library →source read · 2026-09-29

Open Borrowing

Who: Any resident with a valid card from a participating Open Borrowing library.

You get: In-person borrowing at more than 75 public libraries in northern New Jersey, across the Main Library Alliance, PALS Plus, STELLA and SWELL consortia.

How: Use your existing card at a participating library.

Cost: Free

Regional, not statewide. New Jersey has no single statewide reciprocal walk-in borrowing card.

Participating northern New Jersey consortia →source read · 2026-09-29

Talking Book and Braille Center

Who: New Jersey residents of any age with a visual impairment or blindness, a physical limitation affecting reading or holding a book, or a reading disability.

You get: Home-delivered talking books and braille as a regional library of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled at the Library of Congress. Materials ship postage-free.

How: Apply online via the TBBC page. New members complete an application and have it certified to confirm eligibility. 2300 Stuyvesant Avenue, Trenton NJ 08618, 800-792-8322.

Cost: Free

New Jersey State Library →source read · 2026-09-29

The Palace Project

Who: Anyone in New Jersey. This is the one New Jersey programme with no library card requirement: sign-up needs only an email address and geolocation anywhere in the state.

You get: Over 20,000 free e-books and audiobooks curated by the Digital Public Library of America and the State Library, plus a New Jersey Topics shelf.

How: Download the Palace app and authenticate by location. The app creates a virtual library card for you.

Cost: Free

The clearest contrast in New Jersey: Palace needs no card, JerseyClicks needs a barcode.

New Jersey State Library and LYRASIS →source read · 2026-09-29

Museum and zoo passes, and the catch nobody mentions

Plenty of public libraries lend free admission passes to local museums, science centres, zoos and aquariums. It is one of the best things a library card does and one of the least advertised. Availability is entirely local: it depends on what your library has negotiated, so check your own library's site rather than assuming.

A borrowed zoo membership does not travel. Reciprocity may be excluded for library-borrowed zoo/aquarium memberships. An individual or family must own the membership to receive reciprocal admissions. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums runs the reciprocal network that normally gets a zoo member discounted or free admission at other member zoos. A pass or membership borrowed from a library gets you into the institution that issued it, but it does not carry you through that reciprocal network. If you are driving three hours to a different zoo on the strength of a library pass, check with that zoo first.

Association of Zoos and Aquariums →confirmed indirectly · 2026-09-29

aza.org returns HTTP 403 to automated requests behind a Cloudflare interstitial, which we confirmed ourselves. This wording was read directly on AZA's page in a browser on 2026-09-29 and could not be re-fetched programmatically, so we mark it confirmed indirectly rather than claiming we read it as a machine.

The Seattle Public Library

Any cardholder can reserve one pass per calendar month, free. Eighteen participating institutions, including Woodland Park Zoo (admits up to four) and the Seattle Aquarium (admits up to four).

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Somerset County Library System of New Jersey

Museum passes are a borrowable item for cardholders. Worth knowing: people using SCLSNJ through a reciprocal borrowing agreement rather than holding their own card are excluded from museum passes specifically.

Read it on their site →source read · 2026-09-29

Can we tell you which libraries offer Kanopy?

No, and we would rather say so than guess. Kanopy has a public JSON API at www.kanopy.com/kapi, but its searchable institutions endpoint returns academic institutions only: searching for Seattle returns 26 colleges and no public library, and searching for Brooklyn returns Brooklyn College rather than Brooklyn Public Library. Public libraries do exist in that API and can be fetched one at a time if you already know the exact subdomain, but there is no published list and no way to enumerate one without thousands of sequential requests, which we will not do. The find-your-library page is a JavaScript shell whose own lookup call returns 404.

Freegal: The library chooser endpoint returns HTTP 401 and requires OAuth. Not publicly usable.
cloudLibrary: A JSON-RPC service exists with library-list methods, but they need an anonymous token we could not obtain. Unconfirmed.

This is why the Kanopy column in the directory below reads unknown for every library. We would rather leave it blank than fill it in with guesses.

Shared Libby collections

892 live Libby sites could not be tied to one library system, and 214 of them are consortia — shared collections that dozens or hundreds of member libraries buy into together. If your library is small, there is a good chance its Libby catalogue is actually one of these. That is a feature: you get the buying power of the whole group.

1SFG (A)A Look at LibbyANGUSaliveAWA - a Christchurch and Selwyn shared collectionAbashiri City LibraryAbdul Hameed Shoman Public LibraryAbilene PL & Tom Green CLsharedAbu Dhabi Department of Culture And TourismAcross Colorado Digital ConsortiumsharedAgeo City LibraryAjax Public LibraryAkershus, Buskerud and Østfold County LibrarysharedAkkeshi Information LibraryAkron-Summit County Public LibraryAlachua County Library DistrictAlamance County Public LibrariesAlaska Digital LibrarysharedAlbury City LibraryAlingsås LibraryAlliance Digital Media LibrarysharedAnan City LibraryAneurin Leisure TrustAnsan City LibraryAnseong-si Public Library

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Browse every public library in the country

17,615 library buildings, bookmobiles and postal services, run by 9,249 organisations across 56 states and territories. Search by the name on the building, by your town, or by the organisation that runs it — all three work.

State

Library, branch, town or county

Only where we confirmed

Kanopy is missing from this filter on purpose: it publishes no list of its public libraries, so we could not confirm it for anybody. And filtering on a service hides every library we simply could not check — which is most of them.

Pick a state, or search for a library, branch, town or county, and the matches appear here. All 17,615 buildings and all 9,249 organisations are searchable.