Join us for winter-themed songs, stories, and finger plays — just for babies during the holidays!
Read more about "Baby, It's Cold Outside"Dene Language of the Tsuut’ina Nation Created by the Tsuut'ina Gunaha Institute , t his app organizes language into 18 categorie s . Learning is made easy with fun illustrations and audio pronunciations from fluent speakers. Practice your skills with games , quizzes , and more. Download the iOS app Stoney Nakoda Language L e arn from the Elders of the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation with this dictionary . The app contains thousands of words and recorded pronuniciations , and can be searched in both Stoney and English. Discover new Stoney words daily with Word of the Day notifications. Visit the Stoney Language Dictionary website
Read more about "Dene Language of the Tsuut’ina Nation Stoney Nakoda Language"Bring your family and friends to play fun tabletop games in a relaxed, social environment. We have a great mix of board and card games available; you can see the list at...
Read more about "Family Game Time"Meet new people and learn new games in a fun, casual environment where everyone is welcome. Bring your own games or play one of ours; you can see the list at...
Read more about "Tabletop Game Café"La Encyclopaedia ofrece actividades prácticas que animarán a los estudiantes a interesarse en la investigación. Una guía de enseñanza, acompañada de temas de discusión y una matriz de evaluación, está disponible para cada actividad. Explore articles and videos from a variety of topics, learn new words from a visual dictionary, and try fun activities like making your own play dough.
Read more about "World Book Kids Encyclopedia in Spanish"Follow along with Serenity, a member of the Siksika Nation, as she teaches Ashley some words in Blackfoot.
Read more about "Siksika Nation"At 12 libraries across the city, there are 13 Early Learning Centres that offer opportunities for kids ages zero to five to learn, play, and take part in activities and games. Each Early Learning Centre, built around a distinct concept, is designed to be flexible, open-ended, and fun.
Read more about "Early Learning Centres are vibrant and interactive spaces."This program is an opportunity for school classes in Calgary to visit the Library location nearest them to see how it is a learning space and resource in their community. L
Read more about "Learn about the role libraries play in your community"Wakefield is a poet, spoken word artist, poetic interpreter, and Calgary's 2022-24 Poet Laureate. He has published a variety of poetry anthologies and spoken word albums and is one of Canada’s most powerful performance poets.
Read more about "Wakefield Brewster"Em Williamson is a lesbian poet, English MA candidate and writing instructor. She got her start in spoken word poetry but has since expanded into written word. She wishes to teach people how exciting poetry can be.
Read more about "Em Williamson"Learn to play a musical instrument at your own pace with free online music classes.
Read more about "ArtistWorks on Libby"Find thousands of full-text poems, short stories, novels, essays, speeches, plays, biographies, summaries, glossaries and more.LitFinder is an interactive research database. You can translate articles to over 40 languages, have articles read aloud to you, highlight and add notes, generate citations, and email, save or download selections and full articles to read later.
Read more about "A wealth of literary works and secondary source materials"If you're interested in volunteering, please complete an application and we will contact you as soon as possible.
Read more about "We're currently looking for volunteers for this program!"Eleven-year-old Esandi Babaranda loves Calgary’s libraries. She has been visiting libraries weekly for the past four years, ever since her family moved to Calgary from Vancouver.Esandi goes to Crowfoot Library, in the city’s northwest, most often. “It’s beautiful here,” she says.It’s hard for Esandi to pick her favourite thing about Crowfoot Library, because there is so much she likes to do.She enjoys reading, especially the Magic Tree House and Dragon Masters series. Her preferred reading nook at Crowfoot Library reminds her of the comfy leather couch she likes to read on at home.“I like that you can read quietly in those little cubicles,” Esandi says. “It’s my little secret hideout.” She also loves to play at the Library. “The best thing here is the family zone. I spend time with my brother, dad, and mom, making puzzles, playing on the play structures, and participating in Library activities,” she says. Esandi’s six-year-old brother Warun likes playing games on the play structure, joining Library programs, and reading books. Their father Lanka is also a big fan of libraries. Originally from Sri Lanka, he appreciates that Calgary’s libraries are about much more than books.“There’s tremendous opportunities here, for connecting with people, for joining programs,” he says. He has joined a Toastmasters club that meets at Crowfoot Library and taken online classes with Gale Courses.Esandi also gets weekly visits from the Library to her elementary school, thanks to the Book Truck. Esandi likes that she can return books she checked out from Crowfoot Library to the Book Truck, or sign out new books inside the mobile Library.Crowfoot Library is also a good place to study for school, Esandi says. Sometimes she studies at home using Solaro, an online Library resource that has course lessons, reviews, and practice tests. “It’s helped me lots,” she says.For Esandi, the Library is like a good friend. “I’m proud to be a friend of the Library,” she says.We want to know how the Library has made a difference in your life. Submit your own Library Story online.
Read more about "Stories ‘A Friend of the Library’ Esandi Babaranda explores everything a library can offer in her Library Story"