Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library

About this app

With the BPL app, you can access Brooklyn Public Library at any time! Search our catalog, place holds, pay fines or renew your materials, find your local branch and discover upcoming events and programs for all ages. You can also browse our eBook/eAudio collection and use the Library's digital resources. Check the online calendar to view events by location, date or topic, and find detailed information about our neighborhood libraries including hours and nearby public transportation. And if you’re at a BPL location, use your digital library card to check out materials at the desk or any self-check machine.

*We’ve launched mobile checkout! Scan your next read right off the shelf. Find it under My Account.

*eBooks now appear in search results, though we're still working out some bugs with our vendors!

*The BPL app is now available in four languages (English, Spanish, Chinese and Russian), and you can now add multiple library cards to your account.

*Bug fixes in 1.0.4: Missing pickup locations for holds.

Ratings and reviews

Too many bugs. The application would pireodically freeze, then crash, the UI is very glitchy, every time you enter one of the options it overlays another page over the original then crashes. Majority of links do not function. But overall it's decent of an application, for what it's supposed to do. (Uninstalling the application didn't necessarily help, nor reseting the cache).

Uploaded the ap to my phone. It asked if it could take pictures or videos. I said no. It immediately began to show the same page, flipping repeatedly, without stopping. Eventually, I uninstalled the ap. When I reinstalled it a few minutes later, I gave a different answer to the initial question, but the same thing happened with the page flipping non stop. So I uninstalled it again.

some of the new features look interesting, like mobile checkout. The catalog has become almost useless in the mobile version, and the ebook search functionality has been rendered useless by forcing me to search for a title across multiple individual platforms. The search in the earlier myBPL app had its problems, but having a global filterable search seems like a baseline feature for a library app. I hope the request function is a bug, this is a 1 star review if not fixed.

What's new

Minor bugfixes