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The Regional Automation Consortium

TRAC (The Regional Automation Consortium) is a partnership of Marigold Library System, Northern Lights Library System, Peace Library System, Yellowhead Regional Library, and their member libraries. Using TRACpac you can search a combined catalogue of over 170 libraries with holdings of nearly three million books, DVDs and other material.

TRAC also participates in Alberta-wide borrowing through ME Libraries. Patrons registered through ME Libraries may borrow materials from any TRAC library, subject to local policies and lending periods.

The libraries within TRAC wish to acknowledge Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 territory, as well as the Métis Nation of Alberta. The TRAC libraries are located on territory that provided a travelling route and home to many Indigenous peoples.

In the 1990s libraries across Alberta faced a number of challenges and opportunities, including the information explosion, the development of new technologies, the emergence of the Internet and a changing government philosophy.

A grassroots response to these challenges led to the creation of The Alberta Library (TAL) in 1997. Internationally recognized for cooperation and collaboration, TAL is a province-wide consortium that now serves 48 member libraries in over 300 locations across the province, including:

• public libraries
• regional library systems
• university libraries
• college, and technical institute libraries
• special libraries

Member libraries work together to take advantage of changing technologies, find creative solutions and seize new opportunities. As a result, Albertans at even the smallest library have access to more than 30 million resources.

 Kelly Huxley, Library Manager

 onowaylibrary@yrl.ab.ca 

 (780) 967 - 2445

Onoway Public Library is a welcoming community resource centre providing access to information, independent learning, and recreational reading through collections, programs and service.

Our library contributes to the well-being and health of our community by providing information, supporting literacy and bringing people together. Because of our participation in the Yellowhead Regional Library System, our library is a single point of access to millions of movies, books, CDs, DVDs, events and more.

We can help you find exactly what you are looking for!

• Intellectual Freedom
• Literacy & Lifelong Learning
• Service & Organizational Excellence
• Innovation
• Community Collaboration
• Accessibility & Inclusiveness

Onoway Community Library was opened in May 20, 1973 in a space less than 12 feet square, a small room in the old Village Office at the corner of 49th Avenue and 50th Street. The crowded shelves housed about 1,000 books, mainly donations from community members, some from Yellowhead Regional Library and some from the University's Extension Library. These books circulated about 3,000 times in that year. (In 1972 Onoway's population was 485.) The library was open eight hours a week and was operated by volunteers, each working two to four hours per month. The board responsible for launching Onoway's first library consisted of Jean Butler (Chair), Keith Clamp, Joan Koch, Elizabeth Rushton and Joy Thompson.

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