Hay River Public Library

The Northwest Territories Public Library Services is a unit of Education Operations and Development within the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Under the direction of the Territorial Librarian, it provides leadership in coordinating public library services throughout the Northwest Territories.

The PLS provides the automated library system for the NWT Library Network (Public Libraries, Legislative Library, Aurora College Libraries, Aurora Research Institute Library and PWNHC Reference Library). It provides collection development and technical services for all public libraries. A central library collection is maintained and used to rotate current material to public libraries. Service delivery is provided to residents in communities without libraries through access to the PLS web site and online catalogue, and Borrow by Mail service. PLS coordinates some special programming and provides training and support to all NWT community libraries.