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Chinook Arch Regional Library System Hours

Sunday Closed

Monday 8:30am - 4:30pm April 1: (Closed)

Tuesday 8:30am - 4:30pm

Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm

Thursday 8:30am - 4:30pm

Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm March 29: (Closed)

Saturday Closed

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Chinook Arch Regional Library System

2902 7 Ave N Lethbridge T1H 5C6

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A group of people all holding a book sit around a living room and discuss the book.

Book Club Kits include everything you need to run a book club: 12 copies of a book (including one large print when available) and reading guides with author information, discussion questions, and read-alike suggestions. You’ll also find tips on starting and running a successful book club in each kit.

Anyone with a Chinook Arch member library card can check out Book Club Kits, by placing a hold in the catalogue or asking library staff for help. Book Club Kits can be checked out for 6 weeks, and renewed once. 

Patrons with print disabilities can access books for book clubs through CELA - the Centre for Equitable Library Access.

Titles for Book Club Kits are selected by a committee of librarians from Chinook Arch Regional Library System and Lethbridge Public Library. To learn more about our selection guidelines or to suggest a title for consideration, please contact us at arch@chinookarch.ca.

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Oil on canvas painting of a medicine wheel by Grant Spotted Bull.

Oki. Tanshi. Hello.

Chinook Arch is located on lands of the Blackfoot people. Chinook Arch pays respect to the Blackfoot people past, present and future while recognizing and respecting their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship to the land. This land is also home to the Metis Nation of Alberta, Region III.

Members of the Kainai and Piikani First Nations are eligible for full Chinook Arch library service. To get a library card, please visit our Get an e-Card page.    

eResources

Prairie Indigenous Ebook Collection

Voices of the Land

Image credit:
Grant Spotted Bull, Medicine Wheel Series, 2014, oil on canvas

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Print Disabilities

If you have impairments of sight or hearing, the inability to hold or manipulate a book, or a disability relating to reading comprehension, you can ask your local library staff about being registered as a patron with print disabilities. Chinook Arch offers library patrons with print disabilities access to information in formats including:

  • Large print books
  • Audiobooks
  • DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) CDs
  • ebooks with resizable text
  • Descriptive video
  • Braille

Additional materials can be accessed from the National Network of Equitable Library Service (NNELS) and the Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA).

NNELS

The National Network of Equitable Library Service maintains an online collection of downloadable audiobooks and other accessible formats. Once you are registered with your library as a patron with print disabilities, you can download free content from the NNELS catalogue.

Getting Started with NNELS

CELA

The Centre for Equitable Library Access maintains a collection of books, magazines, newspapers, videos, audiobooks, and ebooks in accessible formats. To register as a CELA patron, ask for help at your home library or register here. Once you are registered, you can download titles to your computer or mobile device, download books to a DAISY player, or receive audio CDs, Braille books, or described movies through the mail.

Getting Started with CELA

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A person's arm can be seen holding a miniature version of the Canadian flag. The sky is blue with fluffy white clouds and a tree can be seen in the background.

New to Canada? Your library can help! With a library card you can:

  • Checkout books, movies, passes to local events, even sports equipment!
  • Access our eLibrary
  • Learn a new language with the Pronunciator app.

If you don’t have a library card, you can still:

  • Read books and use resources inside the library
  • Use library computers and wireless internet
  • Attend programs offered at your library
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A package is on the doorstep and a person's feet can be seen in an open door, as if they are bringing the package inside.

Library to You (L2U) is a free service for people who have mobility or access barriers to visiting a public library. You can sign up for L2U with your Chinook Arch member library card, and receive up to six books at a time, delivered to your home in a postage-paid mailbag. When you’re done reading, simply mail the books back in the bag.

To register, complete this form and send it to your local library. Chinook Arch will submit your request to Marigold Library System, the administrators of L2U.

For more information and a catalogue of available titles, visit Marigold’s L2U site.

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Presented by Chinook Arch Regional Library System with funding from the Government of Canada, the Fundamental Digital Literacy Skills Program seeks to teach the skills that have become integral in every Canadian's life. This online content will give viewers a foundation in the basic understanding of computers, mobile devices, and the internet which they can build on as they engage in the digital economy safely and with confidence.

Class Guidebooks

Quick Tips

Digital Citizenship for Kids

Fundamental Digital Literacy Skills Class Videos

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Online Privacy and Access to Information Statement

Introduction

Chinook Arch Regional Library System is a collaborative network public libraries in southwestern Alberta. This statement addresses your online privacy and access to information through the Chinook Arch Integrated Library System (ILS) and website.

The Chinook Arch Library System is subject to the Libraries Act and Regulation R.S.A. 2000 Chap. L-11 and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP), and uphold the Canadian Federation of Library Associations’ (CFLA) Statement on Intellectual Freedom and Libraries.

The Chinook Arch Library Board’s bylaws and policies are publicly available, including its Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) bylaw and Information Technology policy.

Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information

The System only collects the amount of personal information needed to conduct library services and programs. Personally identifiable information contained in the patron record may include:

  • Name

  • Address

  • Phone number(s)

  • Email address

Inactive patron records are purged after two years.

The System does not collect personal information for commercial marketing or distribution to private organizations. The System will only disclose personal information:

a. to law enforcement in response to a court order, such as a warrant, subpoena, or other legal compulsion.

b. in partnership with other Alberta libraries and library systems for the purposes of sharing materials under conditions defined in existing resource sharing agreements and programs (e.g. interlibrary loan agreements, TAL Card, ME Libraries), collecting fees or fines, and retrieving borrowed materials.

Tracking and Security

Cookies – When you visit a website it may deposit a piece of data, called a web cookie, with the temporary web browser files on your computer. If you wish, you can change the settings on your web browser to deny cookies, or to warn you when a site is about to deposit cookies on your hard drive.

Encryption – The System’s website links patrons to their My Library. This service uses encryption during the login process/transmission of a patron’s login information.

eResources – The System subscribes to various databases found under the eLibrary tab of the System’s and our libraries’ websites. The administrative software of the databases may identify individual patron barcodes with specific titles read, however the System only uses the information anonymously to aggregate usage by patron’s registered library. The System does not analyze individual patron usage. Users may read the databases’ privacy policies on their home pages.

External Links – The System’s website links to other websites and eResources that may collect personal information. Users should review the privacy policies of these sites before providing them with personal data.

Reading History – Patrons can save their reading histories if they so desire. These lists are private unless the patron chooses to share them, and the System will not share these lists, except when in response to a law enforcement court order, such as a warrant, subpoena, or other legal compulsion.

Usage Statistics – The System uses Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to discover usage of the System’s and our libraries’ websites. Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity use cookies. Users may read Google Analytics’ and Microsoft Clarity policies on their respective websites.

Parental Responsibility for Minors

Chinook Arch does not act in loco parentis. Parents and legal guardians take responsibility for what their children access on and through the System’s website. No age restrictions or filters apply to the System’s databases, eLibrary, or links to external sites.

Programs and Events

Online Forms and Electronic Communication with System Staff – The System may provide online forms for facilitating services or resource acquisition suggestions. These forms will require some user personal information. The System will gather only the personal information necessary to facilitate the registration or request, and the personal information will not be used for any other purpose. Personal information provided to System staff through any other electronic communications, such as email, text, etc. will be used only to facilitate the request submitted.

Photographs – The System posts a regular newsletter to its website, which may contain photographs from its Board’s activities or its member libraries’ public programs and events. Attendees should speak to System or Library staff in advance if they do not wish to have photographs of themselves appear in the System’s newsletter.

Social Media

The System may provide access to social media. Users posting comments to the System’s social media should be aware of the public nature of such posts and of their responsibility to exercise caution when sharing personally identifiable information over social media.

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Digital copies of historical newspapers from regional communities including Lethbridge, Cardston, Magrath, Fort Macleod, Blood Reserve, Milk River, and Granum.

The Southern Alberta Newspaper Collection is a free resource courtesy of the University of Lethbridge Library Digitization Team.

It contains digitally archived copies of the following historical newspapers: Alberta Star, Barons Enterprise, Barons Globe, Cardston News, Cardston Record, Granum Adverister, Granum Herald, Granum News, Granum Press, Granum Times, Kainai News, Lethbridge News, Macleod Advertiser, Macleod Chronicle, Macleod Gazette, Macleod News, Macleod Spectator, Magrath Pioneer, Milk River Review & Sun Dance Echo. 

Print, save, or download single pages or entire issues of newspaper content as images or PDFs.

Back issues of The Lethbridge Herald

Lethbridge Herald (1905-1948)

Lethbridge Herald (1948-1963)

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15 March, 2023
Chinook Arch celebrates innovative library initiatives.
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