Community Access Program

Community Access Program (CAP) 

The Community Access Program is a federal-provincial initiative administered by Industry Canada that provides funding to designated sites and organizations,  including school and public libraries, enabling them to offer free public access to computers and the internet while helping users to obtain the skills to use them effectively.

The Saskatchewan Provincial Library network of CAP sites consists of public access workstations in nearly 200 community libraries across the province. The Community Access Program and the Every Library Connected Program have provided funding for internet-enabled public access computers since 1988. The role of the Provincial Library is to manage its network of library CAP sites and to coordinate among nearly 200 CAP sites, 10 public library systems, the Provincial Library and Industry Canada.

Public library CAP sites provide some or all of the following services:

• Computer and internet access
• Email
• Access to online government services
• Use of software packages (such as word processing, spreadsheets, live homework help, etc.)
• Assistance or training
• Printing (a small fee may be collected to cover material costs)
• Access to digital cameras
• Use of scanning equipment.

Please contact your local community library to see which of these services (or additional services) are available to the public. Please note that some of the services listed here may also be available at libraries that do not participate in the CAP program.

For a list of library CAP sites near you, select the library system that represents your community. If you are unsure which one to choose, click on the map of public library systems.

For more information, contact

Phil Jeffreys
Saskatchewan Provincial Library
Ministry of Education
8th Floor, 1945 Hamilton Street
Regina, SK S4P 2C8
mailto:pjeffreys@library.gov.sk.ca
306-787-2959