News from the Library

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This week's highlights 

• 📢 Important notice: Children's programs will be suspended between August 22 - September 15 as we prepare for our Fall Programs. The children's area including scavenger hunts are still open and awaiting your visit.  

• 📝Literary news: Craving CanLit. Celebrate Canadian authors with this list of fiction and graphic novels published between October 2024 and September 2025.   

• 🎉 Special events: 📚  Mammoth Book Sale, 📚  Saturday August, 23, 10 am – 2 pm. Save the date! The Friends of the OPL Used Book Sale offers the best deals on gently used books, DVDs, CDs and more for all ages. Proceeds support special library projects and programs.  

🎯 Upcoming programs and events 

For adults

• 💼 Employment support at the Library: Friday August 22 10:30 am - 12:30 pm. Drop-in.  

• 🌈Ottawa’s Capital Pride Parade! Weekend of August 23-24: Come say hi to OPL staff at the Street Fair on Bank Street.  

For families

🐻Bilingual Babytime and Stay and Play: Friday, August 22, 11:15 am - 12:15 am. Drop-in. 

👶Parenting in Ottawa drop-in: Tuesday, August 26, 1 - 3 pm

For teens

🎱The Drop Zone / La zone libre: August 25, 7 - 8:30 pm. Drop-in for ages 13-17.   

🎮 Teen Gaming/ Jeux vidéos pour ados: Wednesday, August 27, Drop-in anytime between 1:30 pm– 4:30 pm.  

🎨Teen Art Contest deadline: August 27th - Pick up an entry form and rules at the Ruth E. Dickinson branch. Make sure to drop-off your art by Wednesday, August 27th at 5 pm

💻 Digital resources: #AskALibrarian 

Thursdays at noon on X (Twitter), consult librarians from across the continent (including ours) for personalised reading recommendations. 

📖 Staff picks and recommendations: 😕 Books everyone loved... except you!  

You know the one. That prestigious prize winner, that NYT bestseller, the book your friends tell you you HAVE to read. The book that you didn't care for... 

💡Library services spotlight - 💳 Suggestion to purchase  

Did you know that you can help librarians build the OPL library collection?  You can suggest buying: 

• Material that we missed buying 

• Books from new or little known authors or publishers 

📗Familles francophones - 🔪Thrillers francophones  

Vous êtes à la recherche de frissons cet été? Si vous n'avez pas froid aux yeux, procurez-vous un des livres dans cette liste.