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Read more about "Library loans for three weeks."Explore accessible art Calgary Public Library is helping increase access and remove barriers to arts and culture in our community through an exciting new partnership with Contemporary Calgary art gallery. The Contemporary Calgary Art Pass is an interactive book that can be checked out at all Library locations, giving Library patrons free access to visit Contemporary Calgary with the opportunity to add their own creations to the book. Explore the full story
Read more about "Explore accessible art"The perfect books to read on a park bench with leaves falling all around you.
Read more about "Cozy Fall Reads"Find a book list of English literature classics, adapted for ESL learners to enjoy.
Read more about "Best Novel Adaptations for ESL Readers"Wordfest’s fall Imaginairium festival is back. Check out their books!
Read more about "Wordfest 2023"We were a large and connected community. We turned to books and read a lot. We found new ways to connect safely. The Digital Library became even more important. We gathered to learn and interact online.
Read more about "Stories A Look Back at the Past Year at Calgary Public Library Over the past year, we've altered and innovated our services, adapted to a new normal, and come together as a community."Here’s your invitation to spend an entire evening with the 2020 Booker Prize-winning author. Wordfest’s Opening Night Showcase, which includes an audience Q&A and book signing...
Read more about "IMAGINARIUM by wordfest: An Evening with Douglas Stuart"Suzy is an editor, writing coach, and the author of “The Fountain” series. She is very involved in the Calgary writing community, and founded the Wicked Good Fiction Bootcamp, a virtual program for writers completing their first book.
Read more about "Suzy Vadori"Aboard Calgary Public Library’s Story Truck, you’ll find storytime, song and rhymes, play time, and of course books — all for children from 0 to five years of age.
Read more about "Library on wheels"We were a large and connected community. We turned to books and read a lot. We found new ways to connect safely. The Digital Library became even more important. We gathered to learn and interact online.
Read more about "Stories A Look Back at the Past Year at Calgary Public Library Over the past year, we've altered and innovated our services, adapted to a new normal, and come together as a community."The show will feature a special presentation by Kate, which includes music by Peter Macinnis. A short conversation with Calgary comic book artist (and environmental engineer...
Read more about "Wordfest presents Kate Beaton"Get on the path to find a job, build your own website, start a business, improve your English, write your book, brush up on your computer skills, prepare for college, and more.
Read more about "Free, interactive, instructor-led online courses. "As a little kid in the 1980s, I had assumed public libraries only existed on television — that they were part of a dream world that was totally unattainable in my own life as a child of Chinese immigrants. But when I was eight-years-old, a friend’s mother suggested we go get some books at the Library. In Calgary? Really? We had more than just school libraries here?Roaming among shelf after shelf of books, I was hooked. I memorized the location of the Thorncliffe Library (now called Judith Umbach Library) and asked my mother to bring me back for my own Library card the following week. For a shy bookish girl, it was a dream come true.I read almost everything, but my favourite books were by Beverly Cleary, Roald Dahl, and Judy Blume. As I got older I enjoyed reading The Baby-Sitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and other series. It was a treat to find them at the Library, since $3.95 for a book was pretty much an impossible sum of money to me as a kid.Now as a mother of three, I have become a regular Library user again. At first, I signed up for a card so I could attend a baby class at Country Hills Library with my eldest, but then I got the Library app on my phone and everything changed.It’s so easy to put books on hold through the app, and it has revitalized my reading. Last year I read 64 books, and most of those books were from the Library. I bring my kids to Country Hills Library at least every other week — sometimes more! — and they love to pick out all sorts of reading material. We take out about 20 books at a time. My girls, ages eight and seven, are big readers, and my three-year-old also loves to be read to. The Library has always represented limitless possibility to me — so many books waiting to be read — and all that reading has inspired me to write my own book manuscript, a graphic memoir on postpartum depression. While working on the book, I borrowed a lot of graphic novels and memoirs from the Library so I could get a good sense of other books in the genre. And I just want to say that whoever is responsible for acquiring graphic novels for the Library is doing an excellent job. The Library has been an invaluable resource for me both personally and professionally.Follow Teresa and view her drawings on Instagram at @by_teresawong.We want to know how the Library has made a difference in your life. Submit your own Library Story online.
Read more about "Stories "I Read Almost Everything" Discovering the Library was a dream come true in Teresa Wong's Library Story"Join us for free activities and programs to celebrate and recognize Canada’s many stories. Activities will include a special storytime, musical performances, The Big Book Borrow...
Read more about "Canada Day at the Central Library"Whether you’re running for mayor, voting for mayor, or just care about the place that you live, here are the books to spark the ideas for a brighter future.
Read more about "Big Ideas, Building Community"