Shared System
The Shared System is an interlibrary collaboration between The Indianapolis Public Library, 76 schools, and five special libraries (including three museums*). The System allows members and students to use their Indianapolis Public Library cards to borrow materials from their own library, other Shared System libraries, as well as The Indianapolis Public Library's collection.
*Museum collections are reference only. Library users may visit the museum libraries to view the materials found in our catalog.
Students at Shared System member libraries have access to their own library's collection as well as over 2 million additional IndyPL books, resources, and databases. These students have unique access to a city's worth of resources without ever having to leave their school or community library.
Additionally The Indianapolis Public Library shares its catalog with three local museums, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, the Indiana Medical History Museum, and Newfields. All three museums’ collections are for reference use only. By sharing our catalog with them, all of our library users, theirs and ours, can find books on topics of interest. Their librarians are wonderful resources and would be happy to welcome you!
Current Members
Amy Beverland Elementary
Anna Brochhausen School #88
Arlington Middle School
Arsenal Tech High School
Belzer Middle School
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School
Broad Ripple Middle School
Brook Park Elementary
Brookside Elementary School # 54
Butler Lab School #55 at Eliza Blaker
Butler Lab School #60
Cardinal Ritter High School
Cathedral High School
Center for Inquiry School #2
Center for Inquiry School #27
Center for Inquiry School #57
Center for Inquiry School #70 at Mary Nicholson
Center for Inquir Schooly #79 at Carl Wilde
Center for Inquiry School #84
Central Catholic School
Charles W. Fairbanks Elementary School #105
Christel House Academy South
Christel House Academy West
Christian Park School #82
Clarence Farrington Elementary School #61
Covenant Christian High School
Crestview Elementary
Crispus Attucks High School
Daniel Webster School #46
Decatur Central High School
Eiteljorg Museum
Eleanor Skillman School #34
Ernie Pyle School #90
Fall Creek Valley Middle School
Forest Glen Elementary School
Frederick Douglass School #19
George Washington Carver School #87
George Washington High School
H L Harshman Middle School
Harrison Hill Elementary
Heritage Christian Elementary
Heritage Christian High School
Herron Riverside High School
Holy Angels Catholic School
Holy Cross Lutheran School
Howe Middle School
Indian Creek Elementary
Indiana Medical History Museum
Indiana School for the Deaf
Indianapolis Museum of Art
James Garfield School #31
James Russell Lowell School #51
James Whitcomb Riley School #43
Jewish Community Library
Jonathan Jennings School #109
Lawrence Central High School
Lawrence North High School
Lew Wallace School #107
Longfellow Middle School
Mary Evelyn Castle Elementary
Meredith Nicholson School #96
Merle Sidener Academy
Nativity Catholic School
Northwest Middle School
Oaklandon Elementary School
Oaks Academy at Brookside
Oaks Academy at Fall Creek
Oaks Academy Middle School
Oaks Academy Preschool
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School
Ralph Waldo Emerson School #58
Riley Hospital for Children
Robert Lee Frost School #106
Rousseau McClellan School #91
Shepherd Community Academy
Shortridge High School
Skiles Test Elementary School
South Grove Intermediate School
St. Anthony Catholic School
St. Barnabas Catholic School
St. Joan of Arc Catholic School
St. Matthew Catholic School
St. Philip Neri Catholic School
St. Richard Episcopal School
Sunnyside Elementary School
Theodore Potter School #74
Thomas Gregg Neighborhood School
William McKinley School #39
William Penn Middle School
Winding Ridge Elementary School
