Information for New Cardholders
Welcome to Maplewood Public Library! Below is some information to get you started. Explore our website and visit our FAQ page for more information!
About your new card
The Maplewood Public Library is an independent library serving the community of Maplewood, MO. We are a member of the Missouri Evergreen Consortium and the Municipal Library Consortium of St. Louis County. Participating in these larger organizations gives our cardholders access to more materials across the state and digitally!
You can use your Maplewood Public Library card at any of the nine libraries in the Municipal Library Consortium. While you cannot use your Maplewood Public Library card at any of the St. Louis County Library locations, we have a reciprocal agreement that allows you to sign up for a card with them if you are a Maplewood resident. We have similar agreements with St. Louis Public Library and St. Charles City-County Library. If you are a resident of St. Louis County, St. Louis City, or St. Charles and would like more information on these agreements, visit our policies page and scroll to "Reciprocal Borrowing Program."
Books, eBooks, and more!
To search for materials, visit mlc-ma.modiscovery.org. You can also download the Missouri Evergreen app by searching for "Missouri Evergreen Discovery" in your app store. Physical and eMaterials will show up in your searches!
Your Maplewood Public Library card allows you to check out eMaterials from Libby, Hoopla, and Kanopy:
- Libby has a wide variety of periodicals, eBooks, and eAudiobooks. You can also access Scenic Regional Library's collection with your Maplewood card! See staff if you need help getting set up.
- Hoopla* offers eBooks, eAudiobooks, comics, music, movies, and TV shows! You can check out 8 items per month with your Maplewood Public Library card.
- Kanopy* provides Maplewood cardholders access to thousands of movies and TV shows to stream for free. Each month cardholders are granted 15 tickets to use to stream movies and TV shows (number of tickets needed to stream individual titles will be shown on the title's information page).
*Maplewood residency required to access these resources.
We're not just about books! We also offer a Library of Things that includes a tool box, puzzles, European travel plug adaptor, pickleball set, neckties, fishing poles, a telescope, and more! See staff to check out any of the items in our Library of Things.
We also offer Maplewood cardholders access to local and national newspapers digitally through NewsBank!
Events
Maplewood Public Library offers programs for all ages- Storytime for preschoolers, book clubs for adults, summer and winter challenges for all ages, Teen Hangout and more! Visit our event calendar for details.
Want to support the Library?
Join the Friends of the Maplewood Public Library! The Friends are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization independent of Maplewood Public Library. The Friends are a fundraising organization that provides funding directly to the Library for programming, databases, and more. For more information, visit the Friends of the Maplewood Public Library page.
