News from the Library
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This week's highlights
📢🌞Summer closure: Monday, August 4 - Colonel By Day
🎉 Special event: Take a virtual tour of the new Central Library: Adisoké↗
🎯 Upcoming programs and events
For adults
🎨 Visit the library to colour in our air conditioned library
📚 Looking for a great reading recommendation? Fill out a Reader's Advisory survey and have reading suggestions delivered to your inbox
For families
👪Bilingual babytime + Stay & Play↗: Friday, August 1st, 11:15 am -12:15 pm. Drop-in.
🐻Bilingual family storytime↗: Saturday August 2nd, 10:30-11 am. Drop-in.
👶 Parenting in Ottawa Drop-in↗: Tuesday August 5th, 1-3 pm
🐘 Finders & Seekers - Safari↗: Wednesday, August 6th, 2-3 pm. Ages 7-9. Drop-in
For teens
💻ONLINE PROGRAM: Gender-Neutral Makeup Basics↗: Friday Aug. 1, 2-5 pm, Ages 13-17, Register online.
🎲 Youth Scrabble↗: Tuesday, Aug. 5th, 4:30-6 pm. Drop-in. For Ages 10-18.
🎮 Teen gaming/Jeux vidéos pour ados↗: Wednesday, Aug. 6th, Drop-in anytime between 1:30 pm– 4:30 pm.
💻 Digital resources - 🌐LinkedIn↗
LinkedIn Learning for Library provides continued lifelong learning opportunities for all of our Clients.
Over 16,000 video tutorial courses led by experts in Business, Creative, and Technology. Some tutorials are available in English, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish.
💡Library services spotlight: The Ottawa Room↗
The Ottawa Room at the Main Branch is our largest and most comprehensive local history resource. The Ottawa Room collection covers Ottawa and the entire Ottawa Valley, in Ontario and Quebec. It includes over 17,000 books, periodicals, newspapers and maps about the architecture, biography, culture, genealogy, geography, history and heritage of the area.
📗Familles francophones
✨Livres les plus demandés à la BPO↗ Feuilletez les livres francophones les plus demandés par les lecteurs d'Ottawa.
📖 Staff picks and recommendations
🍁Adult Staff Recommend: Canadian historical fiction↗ - Let Canadian authors whisk you away this summer with these historical novels.
Target audience: Adult Fiction