• Library Cards
• View Your Library Account
• Confidentiality
• Overdue Items
• Fines

• Catalog
  Books, magazines, music, and movies
• Kids Catalog
  Books, magazines, music and movies for children
• Online Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
  Start your online search with these databases.
• BPL Electronic Journals
  Full-text magazines and journals available through the BPL group of databases.
• Downloadable Audiobooks
  Download digital audiobooks anytime to your PC, PDA and many MP3 players.
• DVDs at BPL
  DVD database for browsing and searching by title or genre for dvds owned by BPL.
• Framed Art Collection
  Check out two art prints for 60 days

• Archives
  Collections of government records, business records, maps, photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and other primary material documenting the history and development of Birmingham, Jefferson County and the surrounding area of Alabama known as the Birmingham District.
• Digital Collections
  Photographs, books, magazines, newspapers, yearbooks and  maps
• Genealogy Resources
  Extensive collections of genealogically relevant material, including the Southern history collection.
• Government Documents
  Collection of documents and publications issued by federal, state, and local (Jefferson County and Birmingham) governments.
• Newspapers
  From Birmingham, Alabama and around the country
• Cartography Collection
  Contains original printed maps from the sixteenth century forward with a primary concentration on Birmingham and Alabama.

New Books at BPL
Look here for the entire Birmingham Public Library system new book lists. Some departments in the Central Library have created lists of new materials as well, these are available below.

• Arts, Literature and Sports (Central)
• Business, Science and Technology (Central)
• Fiction (Central)
• Government Documents (Central)
• Social Sciences (Central)
• Southern History (Central)
• Youth (Central)

• DVDs
• Downloadables
• Playaways
• Urban Fiction
  Sign-up to receive email notifications each month when the New Urban Fiction List is published on the library website and be the first to place your holds.

• Books by Mail
  A service to residents of Jefferson County, Alabama, who are unable to go to the public library in person.
• Best Sellers Club
  A program to provide quick access to new releases from best selling authors.
• Interlibrary Loan
  Interlibrary loan (ILL) acquires books, photocopies of non-circulating materials (such as magazine articles), and government publications not already owned by the public libraries of Jefferson County for library patrons.
• New Urban Fiction
  Sign up to receive e-mail notifications each month when the New Urban Fiction List is published on the library website and be the first to place your holds.
• Blind and Physically Handicapped
  Alabama Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped provides special format reading materials, playback equipment and other library resources to qualifying users.
  TTY (Text Telephone) 205-226-3732

• Best Sellers Club
  Sign up and we will put any new book from a list of 90 popular authors on hold automatically for you.
• Book Group Resources
  Book groups online and at area libraries.
• Book Letters
• Bookpage
• Birmingham City Schools Reading Lists
  Birmingham City Schools Summer Reading Lists K-8, High School
• Genre Pathfinders
  Authors, Catalog Topics, Web Sites and more by genre.
• Book News
  Sign up for one of our 30 e-mail newsletters.
• Author interviews
  BookLetters' author interviews and book reviews.
• Read the Books
  Connects kids with books.

• Book Groups
• Fiction Guide
• Subject Guides
• Library Databases
• Entertainment Weekly Books
• New York Times Best Sellers
• Oprah's Book Club
• Today in Literature

• Book Store
  Friends of the Library Book Store sells used books, magazines, selected media, and book bags all nominally priced. Proceeds assist in funding library programs.
• Genealogy Books
• Local History and Regional Interest Books

• Authors and Books
  Information about selling books to the Birmingham Public Library including guidelines for local authors and small presses.