Chief Executive Officer
Calgary Public Library

Calgary Public Library

Calgary Public Library is an award-winning network of 21 locations. It is one of the largest library systems in North America, receiving more than 7 million visits annually. Calgary Public Library offers library services, community space, outreach, and access to technology and programs for every age, ability, ethno-cultural group, and socio-economic status. The strategic vision of the Library is potentials realized and the Library seeks to achieve that vision by connecting people to ideas and experiences, inspiration, and insight. In operation for over a century, the Library now has over 720,000 active members, with an annual circulation over 15 million.

In 2019, Calgary Public Library unveiled a new four-year strategic plan. Potentials Realized is the unifying vision of this plan, which promotes the values of Inclusion, Curiosity, and Collaboration and strives to improve the quality of life for Library members. Each strategy contains three priorities that shape the Strategic Initiatives for each year of the plan.

We recognize that the place we now know as Calgary has a deep history. In the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation, we recognize the ancestral territories, cultures, and oral practices of the Blackfoot people, the Iyarhe Nakoda Nation, the Beaver people of the Tsuut’ina Nation, and the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. Calgary Public Library serves the community on this traditional land and we honor all people who share, celebrate, and steward the Treaty 7 territory of Southern Alberta.

Read more about the Calgary Public Library and many exciting activities underway on their website at https://calgarylibrary.ca/.