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  • General Questions

    Please check the Hours & Locations, opens a new window tab for up-to-date information about the operating hours of each of our four library branches. 

    Check out the full history of RDPL, including when the library branches opened to the public, here!

    The Downtown Branch is about 4,000 square meters.  The Dawe Branch was 631 square meters, but grew to 966 square meters in the recent renovation (2010). The Timberlands Branch is 440 square meters.

    About 79% of the Library's $5 million budget comes from Red Deer's municipal tax levy (residential and business property taxes).
    About 11% comes from the Provincial Library Grant, a per capita grant administered by the Libraries Section of Alberta Municipal Affairs and Housing.

    The remainder, about 10%, is generated by the Library itself, from user fees, fines, room rentals, interest, photocopying, and the Library's fee-for-service projects.

    Red Deer Public Library receives no money from any municipality outside of Red Deer.

    The logo and tagline "Open for Discovery" come from an exciting process of stakeholder planning in 2000 and 2001. 

    The logo was designed by DNA Design of Calgary.  It is based on the 1930 painting "Open Book" by Paul Klee [pictured below], which is in the Guggenheim Gallery in New York. 

    The logo was revamped in 2020 with new colors (the same blue and green from the original design remain, but two new corporate colors, an orange and a pink, were added) and a new font (Montserrat).

       

    Our foyer gallery is located adjacent to the Snell Auditorium in the lower level of the Downtown branch. The gallery offers 53 linear feet of wall space and has café tables and lounge furniture. Gallery hours are the same as the Downtown library hours. 

    In 2009, Red Deer Public Library and the Red Deer Allied Arts Council (now Red Deer Arts Council) became partners in the Kiwanis Gallery exhibit space. The Red Deer Arts Council programs the exhibit space and is involved with the gallery community's First Friday events. These visual arts exhibits range from 2D to 3D works in a variety of media. Two exhibits showcase the talent of Middle Schools and High Schools in Red Deer. There is a yearly Salon Show and Sale and a special Celebration of the Arts exhibits in the fall to help promote and fundraise for the Red Deer Arts Council.

    Check out the Red Deer Arts Council website at http://www.reddeerartscouncil.ca/ for a list of exhibits and the call for entry for this space under the Visual Arts and Kiwanis Gallery tabs.