News from the Library
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This week's highlights
📢 Important notice: Summer closure Monday, August 4 - Colonel By Day
🎉 Special event: Stories of Summer Adult Reading Challenge↗
⛺ Special event for francophone families and French learners: L'ABC du camping avec Parcs Canada↗
🎯 Upcoming programs and events
For adults
🎲Too hot outside? Visit the library and help us complete the community puzzle in our air-conditioned library!
📝 Looking for a quiet place to study, read, work or tutor? The library has study carrels with privacy panels, comfy armchairs and tables waiting to welcome you.
For families
🐻Early literacy programs:
👪Family storytime↗: Saturday, July 26th, 10:30-11 am. Drop-in.
👪Family storytime↗: Thursday, July 31st, 10:30-11:00 am. Drop-in.
👶Babytime↗: Thursday, July 31st, 11:15-11:45 am. Drop-in.
⭐Chinese family storytime and stay & play | 親子中文故事時間及親子遊戲活動 | 亲子中文故事时间及亲子游戏活动↗- Mondays at 10:30 am. Drop-in.
🐯 Wild Planet Adventures: Animals↗ – Wednesday, July 30th, 10:30-11:30 am. Drop-in program. For ages 4-6.
For teens
💻 No-bake desserts↗ (online program): Friday, July 25th, 1-2 pm, Ages 13-17
📒 Zine Workshop / Atelier de fabrication de fanzines↗: Saturday, July 26th, 3-4 pm. Register online.
🎱The Drop Zone / La zone libre↗: July 28th, 7-8:30 pm. Drop-in for ages 13-17.
🎮 Teen Gaming / Jeux vidéos pour ados↗: Wednesday, July 30th, Drop-in anytime between 1:30 pm– 4:30 pm.
💻 Digital resources - 📚NoveList Plus↗
NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction. It is a database that includes: author read-alikes, book discussion guides, book talks, recommended reads, 'What We're Reading' and lists of award winners. All included with your library card.
Pro-tip: NoveList K-8 Plus↗ gives reading recommendations for children.
💡Library services spotlight: Suggestion to purchase
We don't have the book you are looking for? You can make a “Suggestion to purchase” for books published in the past 2 years that have been published in Canada. Find out more HERE↗.
📗Familles francophones
👪Heure du conte bilingue pour bébé et jouons à la biblio↗ : le vendredi, 25 juillet, 11h15-12h15, Portes ouvertes. Pour les enfants âgés de 0-18 mois avec un parent ou gardien.
📖 Staff pick and recommendation
Title: Dogtown↗ by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko
Target audience: Juvenile Fiction
'“A wonderful story about a three-legged dog, a robot dog, and a mouse, best friends who live in Dogtown - a dog rescue shelter.”
- Librarian Agata