The Calgary Public Library is a distributed library system featuring 17 branch locations including the Central Library. It is the second most used system in Canada (after the Toronto Public Library

Toronto Public Library

Toronto Public Library is a public library system based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest public library system in Canada and in 2008, had averaged a higher...

). This is despite the fact that the Calgary Public Library is only 21st in per capita funding in the country, receiving as little as half the money of other Canadian public libraries.
The Calgary Public Library Board of Trustees was established on May 18, 1908.