INDIANA – The Indiana State Library has announced that the newest version of the Indiana Library Passport – a digital experience that encourages everyone to visit libraries across the Hoosier state – will launch on May 8 with many upgraded features. The passport, open to everyone, showcases more than 140 main libraries and branches to explore in an easy, mobile-friendly way.
Library patrons can visit a dedicated mobile passport landing page where they can sign-up for the passport by providing their name, email address, and mobile phone number. A link is then sent to their mobile phone, which opens the passport and directs the user to add the button icon to their home screen. There is never anything to download and no bulky apps take up space on a user’s phone. On the landing page, click the Learn More button to see all of the libraries on the passport. Once downloaded, participants then use the location services on their phones to check in to participating libraries once per week.
In addition to the returning quarterly prize drawing for participants who check in to libraries on the passport trail, this year, passport users will have an opportunity to claim a limited-edition Indiana Library Passport mug. When users check into a library, they will be awarded 100 points. Once a user earns 2,000 points, they can redeem those points for the mug, while supplies last.
Also new this year, users will now be able to see the distance from their current location to any library on the passport. Additionally, a new advanced filtering option lets passport holders sort by name and by libraries near them. Carnegie libraries are also filtered out as special attractions. Finally, the passport now displays the weather of a user’s current location.
Please note that the previous version of the Indiana Library Passport will be retired on May 8 as the new version launches. Current passport holders will need to sign up for the new version of the Indiana Library Passport on or after May 8, as their information will not automatically be transferred.
Click here for detailed instructions on how to sign up and on how to use the passport. Click here to read the Indiana Library Passport FAQs. Read more about the new passport here.
The 2023-24 Indiana Library Passport program is sponsored by the Indiana State Library Foundation.
Please contact John Wekluk, communications director at the Indiana State Library, with any questions.
