At the library this week
Ruth E. Dickinson will be closed:
Friday, March 29 - Good Friday
Sunday, March 31 - Easter Sunday
Monday, April 1 - Easter Monday
🐸 For families
📚LISEZ EN FAMILLE: Bilingual Family Storytime / Heure du conte bilingue en famille on Saturdays at 10:30 am.
Check out other programs for children of all ages
🍟 For teens
🐲Register for Dungeons and Dragons Saturdays at 10 am
☕ For adults
Employment Assistance - Saturday March 30th, 2024 at 10 am - 12 pm: Drop-in to meet one-on-one with an Employment Counsellor from the Pinecrest-Queensway Employment Services team.
📣Coming soon: Advance Care Planning Workshop (Presented by Dying with Dignity Canada) on April 3rd. Register online
Free Tax Preparation: The library is partnering with the CRA to host tax clinics for modest earners with simple tax situations. The clinics are first come, first served. Click here to see if you qualify.
April 17th: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
April 11th, 18th and 25th: 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
💚 Franco à la biblio
📖 Découvrez les Coups de coeur franco - Printemps 2024 | Ottawa Public Library | BiblioCommons
📚OPL Literary News – 🥇The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 🥇
Fans of Carol Shields will recognize the name behind the prize. American-born and Canadian-based author Carol Shields was committed to the wider recognition of writer’s voices and lives, and so the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction was born: her name a perfect match for the new preeminent literary prize for writers in the United States and Canada. View the prize longlist HERE.
🤗If you are unsure about the book you are reading, weigh the prose and cons.