News from your Library

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• 🌐 Explore the collection↗

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• 🌐 Discover the digital library↗

📢 The library will be closed Monday, August 3rd for the Civic holiday.‍

📖 Reading news / Actualité de la lecture

• Storytime at Rideau Hall↗: Join us as guest readers bring favourite Canadian stories to life! This family-friendly event, held in the Tent Room, will include hands-on literacy activities. Storytime is hosted in collaboration with United for Literacy, Canada’s oldest not-for-profit literacy organization. August 1, 10am to 12pm

📖 Upcoming events / Programme à venir

🐳: Get Your Summer Read On with the TD Summer Reading Club for Kids

Tuesday, July 28

• 🐳10am At the Game Table: Games & Puzzles / Jeux de société et casse-têtes↗

• 1pm Parenting in Ottawa Drop-in↗

• 🐳2pm Zine Workshop / Atelier de fanzines↗

• 6pm Capital Region Writer`s Groups Write-In↗

• 🐳6:30pm Lisons avec Lego↗

Wednesday, July 29

• 🐳10:30am Conte en famille et jouons à la biblio↗

Thursday, July 30

• 6pm Library Trivia Night - July Edition - "All Aboot Canada"↗

Friday, July 31

• 🐳11:15am Bilingual Babytime and Stay & Play | Bébé à la biblio et jouons à la biblio↗

Saturday, August 1

• 🐳10:30am Family Storytime + Stay & Play↗

• 🐳2pm SEA you at the Craft Table: Treasure Map (Family 4+)↗

📌 Your next read - Fiction with Nature as a Main Character↗

Open yourself up to the sights, sounds and particularities of Mother Nature's character. Sometimes wild, sometimes soothing, she is ever present and actively contributes to the stories in these books.

📌 Famillies francophones - Polars à dévorer cet été↗‍ ‍

Vous avez un appétit particulier pour les frissons provoqués par les romans policiers et les thrillers? Découvrez notre liste des meilleurs romans policiers à lire absolument.