Get to know your library with a photo of BMPL glass entry doors with a royal blue background

We offer a wide variety of materials for all ages, including books, audiobooks, DVDs, magazines, ukuleles, and mobile hotspots. Our growing Library of Things features items like pickleball and disc golf sets, board games, and video games bringing fun, learning, and connection beyond traditional collections.

As part of Evergreen Indiana, patrons can request materials from libraries across the state. We also provide digital access through Libby, Hoopla, and Kanopy, offering e-books, audiobooks, magazines, and streaming content on personal devices.

The library offers free public computers, internet, and WiFi, along with welcoming spaces for study, meetings, and collaboration. Through engaging programs for all ages, our Mission and Vision is to “assist our patrons with their pursuit of information and lifelong learning while preserving the past, serving the present, and shaping the future.”

Our new Arts & Innovation Hub expands these opportunities with a makerspace, podcasting equipment, and flexible spaces designed to inspire creativity, innovation, and community connection.

We are committed to continuously improving, expanding, and enhancing our services to meet the evolving needs of our community. LEARN OUR LIBRARY’S HISTORY.

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THE COMMUNITY

Children at a table creating fireworks with glue, salt and watercolor. Parents are helping.
Library staff posing for a pictures with tie dye shirts that say libraries are life and some are holding books
A group of adult library patrons sitting around tables using felting needles and brown loose wool
Batesville Library's New building project called Arts and Innovation HUB. It has a wall of glass windows and white brick with patrons standing on the sidewalk outside viewing the building

Library Management

The library is governed by a seven-member Board of Trustees and overseen by Library Director Kim Porter.

Batesville Memorial Public Library Board of Trustees

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General Information

Because the Batesville Memorial Public Library is part of the Evergreen Indiana Consortium, card holders in our library district can search for and borrow materials from any of the other 100 or so Evergreen libraries in the state.  Click the links below for more Evergreen Indiana information:

The BMPL subscribes to numerous searchable databases that our card holders can use for free. Most of these databases require your library card bar code and/or a PIN. To reset your 4-digit PIN call or stop by the library.