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Applying for a Membership
One piece of government-issued ID is required when purchasing a membership. A child must have the signature of a legal guardian to obtain a membership.

About Library Memberships
Membership is open to all individuals residing in the town or county of Barrhead. A membership is valid for one year from date of issue and may only be used by the person to which it is issued. You may purchase multiple years of membership in advance.

Barrhead Public Library participates in the Welcome to Barrhead program. If you are a first time, new resident to our community, visit the library in your first 3 months and receive the first year of membership free.

A BPL membership may be used at any library within Alberta. If the library is among the Yellowhead Regional Library system, no extra steps are required! But to ensure your membership works in all other libraries, register your card with ME Libraries. ME Libraries lets you join other public libraries across Alberta and borrow their materials using ONE library card. Making the most of your library card and access more items for no additional cost!

Fines
Overdue items are subject to library fines. Fines for all items are $0.25 per day, per item. All outstanding fines must be paid before more items can be checked out on your account. Late fees can add up quickly! If you have overdue items, please return them as soon as possible, call the library to have your items renewed, or renew them online at www.tracpac.ab.ca.

Memberships and fines may be paid for by cash, cheque, debit or e-transfer to Accounts@BarrheadPublicLibrary.ca

Alberta wide borrowing is here! ME Libraries lets you join other public libraries across Alberta and borrow their materials using ONE library card. Make the most of your library card and access more items for free!

Library Board Members for 2022/23 are:

• Jane Kusal - Chair
• Terri Flemmer - Vice-Chair
• Ron Kleinfeldt - County of Barrhead Representative
• Rod Klumph - Town of Barrhead Representative
• Marlene Schmaus
• Margaret Krikke
• Stephen Bablitz
• Susan McLaren
• David Rowe
• Elaine Dickie - BPL Director
• Grace Huisman - Secretary
• Dagmar Visser - Neerlandia Library
• Brenda Gelderman - Neerlandia Library

View the current Barrhead Public Library policy manuals by clicking here.

All board meetings are open to the public and are hosted on the third Tuesday of every month. If you wish to observe please email us at Library@BarrheadPublicLibrary.ca

For review, read the Barrhead Public Library Strategic Plan 2020-2024 by clicking here!

Review the 2023 Stronger Together Conference replays by clicking here.

Yellowhead Regional Library provides services to 303,695 Albertans in 54 municipalities and 10,822 students in three school divisions. Our priority is to provide quality library services to our 43 municipal and 43 school libraries. We continuously strive to be responsive to the needs of our members. 

Our headquarters is located in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada.

Creating shared value

Yellowhead Regional Library’s (YRL) commitment to its member libraries is an active, ongoing approach that seeks to enrich the collections, resources and services offered to Albertans in the Yellowhead Region.

Simply put, YRL is always growing, learning and sourcing new resources to help make each member library the best it can be.

Find out more

The Regional Automation Consortium

TRAC (The Regional Automation Consortium) is a partnership of Marigold Library System, Northern Lights Library System, Peace Library System, Yellowhead Regional Library, and their member libraries. Using TRACpac you can search a combined catalogue of over 170 libraries with holdings of nearly three million books, DVDs and other material.

TRAC also participates in Alberta-wide borrowing through ME Libraries. Patrons registered through ME Libraries may borrow materials from any TRAC library, subject to local policies and lending periods.

The libraries within TRAC wish to acknowledge Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 territory, as well as the Métis Nation of Alberta. The TRAC libraries are located on territory that provided a travelling route and home to many Indigenous peoples.

In the 1990s libraries across Alberta faced a number of challenges and opportunities, including the information explosion, the development of new technologies, the emergence of the Internet and a changing government philosophy.

A grassroots response to these challenges led to the creation of The Alberta Library (TAL) in 1997. Internationally recognized for cooperation and collaboration, TAL is a province-wide consortium that now serves 48 member libraries in over 300 locations across the province, including:

• public libraries
• regional library systems
• university libraries
• college, and technical institute libraries
• special libraries

Member libraries work together to take advantage of changing technologies, find creative solutions and seize new opportunities. As a result, Albertans at even the smallest library have access to more than 30 million resources.

Our library contributes to the well-being and health of our community by providing information, supporting literacy and bringing people together. Because of our participation in the Yellowhead Regional Library System, our library is a single point of access to millions of movies, books, CDs, DVDs, events and more.

We can help you find exactly what you are looking for!

• Intellectual Freedom
• Literacy & Lifelong Learning
• Service & Organizational Excellence
• Innovation
• Community Collaboration
• Accessibility & Inclusiveness

Welcome to the Barrhead Public Library!

The Barrhead Library started as a community library in December of 1950 with a $200 donation from the estate of homesteader Jack McKerracher and additional government grants. Over the years the library has been moved to various locations, always within the school grounds. It has been housed in the corner of a school, in a one room and then a two room school and in the county office on the school grounds. It was then moved into the larger, specially designed setting where it is today. In 2010, the library celebrated 60 years of service to the Barrhead area community. Our library serves both the Town and County of Barrhead, as well as the school, and is unique in that it has always operated as a combined school and public facility.

A more detailed history of the Barrhead Public Library can be found in our 50th anniversary book ‘One of a Kind: the Story of the Barrhead Public and School Library.’ This title is available in our library collection.

Library Policies

Information about our library's policies can be found in our Library Board Policy Manual.

Library Strategic Plan

Please visit the Barrhead Public Library & Neerlandia Public Library Strategic Plans for 2020-2024.