The Children's Songbook Index is an Internet accessible resource of individual song titles found in the book collections and anthologies currently available here at the Calgary Public Library.  The index includes almost 15,000 song title listings.

Some types of material included are:

• common children's songs
• traditional songs
• rhymes in song
• holiday songs
• children's hymns
• folk songs

A wide variety of books are included, from large thematic anthologies like Best Children's Songs Ever, containing hundreds of songs with music and lyrics, to picture books based on a single song or rhyme like Three Blind Mice, featuring lyrics and/or music in them.

Youth Services staff began the Children's Songbook Index in 1988 to help find specific song titles commonly requested by customers in our book collections.

Once you locate a book title you want to see, the next step is to check in the Library catalogue (WebPac) to determine which of the Calgary Public Library's 16 branches has the book.  The Library catalogue also shows whether or not the book is checked in and, if it is checked out, is the way to place a hold.