The Alberta Library

Created in 1997, The Alberta Library (TAL) is a not-for-profit consortium of 49 member libraries and library systems in over 300 locations in the province of Alberta. Members include public, post-secondary, government and special libraries.

The Alberta Library's mission is to strengthen communities through collaboration. The organization acts a focal point of collaboration by engaging the library community to create dynamic services so that all Albertans have easy access to a wide range of library resources and programs. Member libraries work together to take advantage of changing technologies, find solutions and seize new opportunities.

TAL provides a variety of services to (or through) its members, including:

a library card distributed to library patrons by member libraries that can be used at any other member library (the TAL Card)
a search engine that provides a single interface to search all member library catalogues (TAL Online)
negotiating pricing for licenses to electronic resources
an annual library technology conference (Netspeed)

TAL also administers the Online Reference Centre (ORC) which provides free digital references resources for use in Alberta K-12 schools. The ORC is funded through Alberta Education.

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