Full time residents of Gulf Shores, sixteen years of age or older, will be issued a Resident library card after providing proper identification (current ID showing a Baldwin County address) and verification that there are no outstanding charges due at any of the libraries in the county. Children under the age of sixteen will be issued a library card after providing the signature of a parent or guardian. Adult privileges will be granted when the child turns sixteen. Parent and child cannot have any outstanding charges at any Baldwin County library.

Baldwin County property owners that do not live in Gulf Shores will be issued a Non-Resident library card after providing proof of ownership and current ID.

Visitors (those staying up to four weeks) will be issued a card after providing a current ID, in addition to a local and home mailing address.