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YOUR TOP, TRUSTED COMMUNITY ASSET ...
AND PARTNER
In Ontario’s over 305 public library systems,
there are 1,158 public library branches serving
99.34 per cent of Ontario’s population,
including Indigenous communities.
With 200 million visits per year, 548,000
visits per day, and 22,831 visits per hour,
that comes to 381 visits per minute! There’s
simply no other public institution which
gets 6.34 visits every second, all year long
24/7/365.
Ontario’s public libraries offer so many fantastic
programs equitably for all – over 300,000
in 2017, which attracted over five million
residents! We’ve grown over 82 per cent in
10 years. The public value goes on and on:
Early literacy and early learning, career skills
and job help, genealogy, business, entrepreneur
and community development, Summer
Reading Club, homework help, teen programs,
newcomers to Canada, seniors’ programs, book
clubs, Culture Days, Makerspaces, and so many
more! Choose to visit and learn!
Ontario’s Public
Libraries:
Check Us Out!
A Visit
Will Get You
Thinking.
Federation of Ontario Public Libraries FOPL.ca Ontario Library Association AccessOLA.com
Southern Ontario Library Service SOLS.org Ontario Library Service - North OLSN.ca