Services

The services available to Montréal library users include Internet access, access to spreadsheet programs and word processing software, printing, digitization, and document photocopying.

Would you like to grow vegetables in a community garden? Several boroughs offer plots to their residents. Find out how to get one here.

The digital library offers access to thousands of online books, in French and in English, to listen to or read.

Montréal’s nature parks offer you stunning natural settings for film shoots of all kinds.

The home book loan service allows people ages 65 and over or people with limited mobility who have a library subscription to receive books or other documents at home free of charge, without having to go in person to the library.

The inter-library loan service with libraries outside of Montréal’s library network lets users have a book or a document delivered by another organization. This service is offered free of charge to all library subscribers.

A library subscription allows residents and non residents to benefit from the many services and resources offered across Montréal’s library network. Subscribers receive an individual library card.

Thanks to the Sun Life Musical Instrument Lending Library, Montréal residents can borrow a musical instrument from several libraries for a period of three weeks, with an option to renew.

The Nelligan catalogue lists all the documents and resources available in Montréal libraries. It can be accessed from library computer stations or from a personal computer, tablet or smartphone.

The digital library offers a vast selection of online courses in the form of video capsules, including on foreign language learning, music, and computer security.