Athabasca County is a member of Northern Lights Library System which is a member of the Alberta Library. NLLS is one of seven public library systems in Alberta. It is unfortunate that the Government of Alberta has chosen to stop funding the Alberta Public Library Electronic Network (APLEN). This organization operated as a part of The Alberta Library (TAL) and provided good support for the systems and to larger public libraries in support of technology in public libraries. The work that APLEN did is supposed to be taken on by the Public Library Services Branch, but to date, very little seems to have happened and what has been done is not funded enough to do any good.
