City of Peru residents and property owners may obtain a free library card at the library's circulation desk. 

Bring a current form of identification showing your Peru address. You can check out items the same day you apply, but it will take approximately 10 days for your card to be processed at which time you will need to pick up your card at the circulation desk.

Children who don’t have a library card must have a parent or guardian with them when they apply in order to show name and current address. 

Residents living outside of Peru need to acquire a library card from their home library. Peru will honor these cards.

Residents living outside of Peru who do not have a home library may qualify for a card at the Peru library if Peru library is the closest public library to the patron's principal residence within the school district in which the patron lives. 

Your library card will be honored at all of the participating Prairie Area Library System libraries.

If you have any questions about getting a library card please call us at 815-223-0229.