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Current highlights include books, movies, and physical materials, e-books and audiobooks, downloadable music, online resources, public internet computers, fine-free core borrowing, take-home citizenship, book-club, early-literacy, and hands-on STEM kits, Personal Librarian selections and research assistance for adults, youth, school assignments, papers, and other topics, job-search, resume, interview, worker-rights, training, and career-guidance resources, LinkedIn Learning, 110-plus-language learning, and live Tutor.com homework help, in-library accessibility aids including magnifiers, high-contrast keyboards, an event listening device, and a mobility scooter at Loussac.","benefit":{"description":"No-additional-cost access to books, movies, and physical materials, e-books and audiobooks, downloadable music, online resources, public internet computers, fine-free core borrowing, take-home citizenship, book-club, early-literacy, and hands-on STEM kits, Personal Librarian selections and research assistance for adults, youth, school assignments, papers, and other topics, job-search, resume, interview, worker-rights, training, and career-guidance resources, LinkedIn Learning, 110-plus-language learning, and live Tutor.com homework help, in-library accessibility aids including magnifiers, high-contrast keyboards, an event listening device, and a mobility scooter at Loussac.","estimated_value_usd":null},"discovery":{"focus":"public-service","has_estimated_dollar_value":false},"access":{"relationships":["Eligible Anchorage Public Library cardholder"],"requirements":"Municipality of Anchorage residents and property owners can receive a library card under current identity, residency, age, guardian, verification, and partner-library rules. Specific licensed resources, passes, loan limits, age rules, availability, and in-person verification vary.","activation":"Apply for or verify a library card, then use the card number and PIN online or check out physical benefits through a branch.","cost_basis":"no-additional-cost","cost_basis_label":"Included with a qualifying relationship","cost_basis_context":{"classification":"included","definition":"The benefit adds no separate charge, but the user must already have an eligible card, account, insurance plan, library card, membership, employment, or similar relationship that may itself cost money.","agent_instruction":"Say included or no additional cost, not universally free, and name the qualifying relationship.","variation_patterns":null,"does_not_mean":null},"fees":"No card fee for eligible residents; nonresident, replacement, printing, damage, or lost-item charges may apply.","personalized":false,"regions":["US","Anchorage, Alaska"],"expires":null},"status":"verified","last_checked":"2026-08-04","claim_url":"https://www.anchoragelibrary.org/about/using-the-library/library-cards-borrowing/get-a-library-card/","source_url":"https://www.anchoragelibrary.org/about/using-the-library/library-cards-borrowing/","source":{"primary_url":"https://www.anchoragelibrary.org/about/using-the-library/library-cards-borrowing/","evidence":[{"source":"Anchorage Public Library","url":"https://www.anchoragelibrary.org/about/using-the-library/library-cards-borrowing/","kind":"provider","checked_at":"2026-08-04"},{"source":"Anchorage Public Library","url":"https://www.anchoragelibrary.org/books-plus-movies-plus-music/find-it/kits/","kind":"provider","checked_at":"2026-08-04"},{"source":"Anchorage Public Library","url":"https://www.anchoragelibrary.org/resources/learn-explore/job-career-help-center/","kind":"provider","checked_at":"2026-08-04"},{"source":"Anchorage Public Library","url":"https://www.anchoragelibrary.org/services/in-the-library/personal-librarian/","kind":"provider","checked_at":"2026-08-04"},{"source":"Anchorage Public Library","url":"https://www.anchoragelibrary.org/services/in-the-library/accessibility/","kind":"provider","checked_at":"2026-08-04"},{"source":"Anchorage Public Library","url":"https://www.anchoragelibrary.org/resources/learn-explore/online-training-tutorials/","kind":"provider","checked_at":"2026-08-04"}]},"parent":null,"coverage":{"level":"local","family":"libraries","jurisdiction":"Anchorage, Alaska","maturity":"direct"},"web_url":"/benefits/anchorage-public-library-cardholder-benefits","taxonomy":{"version":"1.0","url":"/api/v1/taxonomy"}}