Borrow movies, audiobooks, ebooks, tools, and so much more—all for free. Celebrate Library Card Days with us! Visit your favorite location to discover everything your library card can do. Get a new library card—or show your current one—and receive a FREE Bookbag while supplies last.

Rendering of Indianapolis Public Library card and key fob featuring the words "where every story is found."

We encourage you to get a library card so you may check out books and other materials to bring home or to access on your personal digital devices. Getting a library card from The Indianapolis Public Library is fast and free!

Ways You Can Use Your Library Card

Cut the cord or stop paying for expensive streaming services and watch movies and TV for free.
Use our world languages collection and check out a book in one of 25+ different languages.
Prepare for your book club with a book club in a bag.
Download the Libby app for e-books, audiobooks, and e-magazines.
Use the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis and see the stories that define Indianapolis.
Read newspapers online.
Check out tools, crafting supplies, sports equipment, Yotos, and more with our Library of Things.
Explore a Quick Read and level up your reading skills.
Suggest a title to be added to our collection.
Check out a Bunny Book Bag already full of 15 picture books OR a Baby Bunny Book Bag full of 10 board books.
Browse the Digital Indy Archives, which provide access to digital images and recordings of cultural and historical interest.
Borrow a mural from the Racial Justice Collection.
Check out a zine from the East 38th Street Zine Collection.
Use Hoopla, OverDrive, or TumbleBook Library to borrow an e-comic book.
Stream music directly to your computer or phone.
Check out up to 125 items at a time of our thousands of books, music, movies, and more, and get a staff suggestion.
Use our Interlibrary Loan Office to borrow materials from other libraries.
Start a garden with seeds from our Seed Library.
Visit a bookmobile and check out music, movies, books, and more.
Check out and take home a Hotspot.

AJ loves our Library. You will, too.

A tall boy and his mother stand in front of bookshelves at the Southport Branch

“Years ago, Susan welcomed AJ and his family to storytime, faithfully reading with him even when he was the only child attending. Today, AJ returned to the library as a grown man with a family member, and they both received new library cards, so I hope to see them again soon.”

Library Card Days 560 X375 — A smiling person wearing glasses holds a purple sign that reads “I GOT MY LIBRARY CARD TODAY!” inside a modern library, with bookshelves and other patrons in the background.

Library Card Days 560 X375 3 — A child grins big while holding an Indianapolis Public Library bag full of books and materials.

Library Card Days 560 X375 6 — New Library Card design featuring the words "Where Every Story is Found" in front of the Southport Branch.

Library Card Days 560 X375 1 — Three children smiling in a library holding a bright yellow “I GOT MY FIRST LIBRARY CARD TODAY!” sign with a bear illustration.

Library Card Days 560 X375 4 — CEO Gregory A. Hill hands a library card envelope to a Shared System school student.

Library Card Days 560 X375 2 — A smiling child holds a, I got my Library Card today!, sign.

Library Card Days 560 X375 5 — A group of adult students smiling at the camera. One holds a giant purple library card saying "I just got my Library Card."