Shorter waits. More titles. More formats.
With your support, VPL can grow the digital collections your community depends on.
Digital use has skyrocketed from 1 million to 5.8 million downloads each year over the past decade.
Buying digital publications costs the library up to five times more than buying physical books.
You can help VPL bridge this gap with a gift to grow digital collections.
Your gift today means more people can find comfort, connection, and joy in reading.
Without the wait.
Your donation to VPL’s digital collections will:
Get popular titles into more hands, faster.
Make reading accessible for all, in the formats that work for them.
Bring more voices, stories, and ideas into the collection.
Curious why digital copies cost the library more?
Licensing agreements mean that the library has to pay for book access either by a set time limit or by number of downloads. VPL is not able to own the title outright. These agreements make offering digital books to community members cost up to 5 times more than a physical book.
Libraries across North America, including VPL, are advocating to change this and make digital collections more affordable to libraries.
