Serving residents since 1873, the Indianapolis Public Library system currently consists of 23 branches throughout Marion County, the Central Library downtown and bookmobile services.  The library's physical collection of over 2.1 million items includes a variety of books, audio books, magazines, large print materials, CD's and DVD's. The downloadable or streaming collections offer a wide range of ebooks, eaudios, emusic, emagazines and evideos. Foreign language materials are an integral part of the library's collections. Items may be checked out by patrons with a library card, which may be obtained free of charge at any library location.