Pierce County Library System
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Library Card Drive

 

Your friends and neighors posted on the Library’s Facebook page:

• “My library card unlocks a whole world of learning for my family!”
• “It is like going shopping for free! My family loves the library.... they are like family!”
• “I love reading and learning. What better way to do both without breaking the bank.”
• “My library card is my permanent ticket to get a bunch of FREE education and entertainment:)”

What do you like about your Pierce County Library card? Share on the Library's blog, Twitter or Facebook page!

You can get a card:

• Online 24/7.
• At one of 18 library locations.

Whatever your age, baby to adult, you can choose between many different styles of Pierce County Library cards.

With your smartphone, you can use a card app from either CardStar or KeyRing and take your library card everywhere on your phone.

Your Pierce County Library card will bring you the world of information and imagination!

• 1 million books, movies and more.
• Online help in real time from professional tutors and coaches for help with homework and getting jobs.
• E-books, audiobooks and songs to download. Download e-books for free to iPad, Kindle or other readers. Download audiobooks for road trips or to escape traffic nightmares.
• Credible, reliable information from e-sources of subscription magazines and databases such as Consumer Reports, Morningstar Investment Research Center and Chilton car repair. Home access to e-sources would cost you $1,000s without a library card.
• Museum passes to Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum and Washington State History Museum.

You are eligible for a free library card if you live or own property in unincorporated Pierce County or a city or town annexed to Pierce County Library System – Bonney Lake, Buckley, DuPont, Eatonville, Edgewood, Fife, Gig Harbor, Lakewood, Milton, Orting, South Prairie, Steilacoom, Sumner, University Place or Wilkeson – or you live on a military base, tribal land or national park within unincorporated Pierce County.

If you live in Puyallup, Roy or Tacoma, you may also get a free card through borrowing agreements with Pierce County Library.

• “When I needed to take a license for a boiler test, the library had the books I needed to pass the test. I’m retired now and download audiobooks and e-books to my iPad2 all of the time. I am 65 years old and have had a library card from the time I was in the third or fourth grade.” -- Lawrence Becker
• "The microfilm reader at Lakewood Library has a digital capacity to copy this rare microfilm to a flash drive, a technology I did not know existed--neither did my professional techie son." -- Ruth Peterson
• "My family has always struggled to pay rent and have food on the table, so we've never had the money to buy a computer. The library gives me access to information and entertainment that would otherwise be unavailable due to our low income." -- Jason Rogers
• "I need the library to easily get books that my online school cannot mail to me in time, and I also enjoy using the library to get informative DVDs on topics I'm studying, since it can sometimes be difficult learning only by text." -- Felicia Kolhage
• "Libraries offer so many things that are helpful to me for school and job searching. I check out books for my daughter or movies. Having audiobooks on my phone has made downloading even easier." Kristin Wilcox
• "Free access to so many great reads!" -- Melody Scott
• "Downloading free music!" -- Gail Henricksen
• "Fabulous thing, a library card. Just picked up three new books, downloaded ebook yesterday, transfer to iPod for audio today, and was forgiven for thinking I'd returned a book when I actually had it in my car. What's not to like!!!!!" -- Becky Bianco
• "Being able to find books and electronic material online." -- Karen H Grew
• "Audiobooks, audiobooks, audiobooks! Whether it's CDs or digital, I love having classic books like "To Kill a Mockingbird" read to me." -- Sara Waters
• "Movies and online use!!" -- Marcie Mckee-Laudadio
• "The graphics on it." -- Carolyn Snyder
• "That I'm able to use it online." -- Christina Welsh
• "Overdrive on my phone!!" -- Jessica Reed
• "Perhaps the question should be, what *don't* I like about my library card? But then, I'd have nothing to say. ;)" -- Abbie Anderson

Have questions? See Pierce County Library FAQ.

Find more information:

• Get a Library Card
• Library Account FAQs
• Lost your Library Card
• Renew Online or by Phone