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This week's highlights
📢 Literary news: The Booker Prize Longlist 2025 has been announced. Place holds HERE.
🎉 Special events: 🐻 Teddy Bear Picnic Party, 🐻 Thursday, August 21st, at 2 pm
Celebrate the end of Summer Reading Club with a Teddy Bear Picnic Party! We will be enjoying a storytime, doing a craft, playing a game, and having a snack before closing with show & tell. Bring your favourite stuffie with you and anything you want to present for show & tell! Drop-in program. Family program.
🎯 Upcoming programs and events
For families
📝 School supply swap, Saturday, August 16th, 10 am – 4 pm.
Drop-in to our branch during the day and donate common school supplies, or pick-up what your students might be missing. 🐻Bilingual Family Storytime, Saturday, August 16th, 10:30 – 11 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 - Monday, August 18th at 10:30 am. Drop-in.
For teens
💻Online program: Embroidery, Beading and Sequins, Friday, August 15th, 2-4 pm, Ages 13-18, Register online.
🎮 Teen Gaming/ Jeux vidéos pour ados - Wednesday, August 20th, Drop-in anytime between 1:30– 4:30 pm.
💻 Digital resources - Online printing from home
With mobile printing, upload a variety of file types to the cloud from home and print them at any of OPL's 33 branches. Printing in black and white on letter size paper available. Load money on to your card at any library or by adding funds online. You're welcome!
📖 Staff picks and recommendations: 🍅 Cooking in Season
Farmer's Markets are now overflowing with seasonal produce. We've rounded up some of our favourite cookbooks that put fresh produce front and centre.
💡Library services spotlight - 📚FOPLA used bookstore and donations
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library sells donated used books in 5 volunteer-run book stores and over 20 self-serve book stalls in library branches across the city. At Ruth E. Dickinson, discover adult books on the second floor while children's books are available outside the Children's Department on the 1st floor. Also visit the monthly Mammoth Used Book sale.
🔵⬜🔴 Bonne fête nationale des Acadiens!!!
Le peuple acadien, pionnier et bâtisseur du pays, souligne la Fête nationale de l'Acadie le 15 août depuis 1881. Lisez de leurs œuvres dans la liste ci-haut.