If you think your local library is as outdated as a card catalog... well you're mistaken.

"The library has what people want," Maureen Hirten, assistant director of the Capital Area District Library, said. "We have books, movies, music, access to computers and we have programming for the entire family."

And maybe the best part about the Capital Area District Library?

It's all free.

"It really surprises people when they walk into the library and once they have their card, they realize everything is free and there's no catch," Library Assistant Mark Buzzitta said.

So if you're looking to save some dough; think about a library card.

"We used to go to Barnes and Noble and sit down and we'd end up buying a book," Lansing resident Marcus Puccioni said. "We save lots of money because we don't spend $10 each time, it's free."

These aren't your grandma's titles either. They have brand new DVD's and books. Plus you can reserve any of them before they even are released.

"We have new release DVD's, we have movies, we have TV shows that are really popular right now," Hirten said.

That one little card also gets you into library events.

"We have puppets and jugglers and story tellers," she said, "but we also have adult programming like gardening, cooking."

Puccioni knows the value in the stacks.

"We have eleven books at home and then I think I got nine Cd's and I got 20 more books," he said.

And takes advantage whenever he can.

"It was all absolutely free," he said.