Gibsons & District Public Library
470 South Fletcher Road V0N 1V0 Gibsons, BC, Canada

Tomorrow, May 5th is a day to raise awareness regarding missing & murdered Indigenous Women. Join us in wearing red in their honourl

Join the Tween Book Club May 19th on Zoom as we discuss When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller. Contact the library for more details. Contactless delivery available by request.

Join the Teen Book Club May 6th on Zoom as we discuss Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi. Contact the library for more details. Contactless delivery available by request.

We hope you have a lovely Easter Weekend. Please note the library will be closed tomorrow Friday, April 2nd and Monday, April 5th. As always, check our website for amazing databases, resources and events listings at www.gibsons.bclibraries.coop

Let's sing about spring! Join Pippa in this family friendly virtual storytime with songs and stories about spring.

Join the Teen Book Club April 8th on Zoom as we discuss Running by Natalia Sylvester. Contact the library for more details. Contactless delivery available by request.

Thursday means Virtual Storytime! Join Pippa as she celebrates the coming winter season with stories and songs. Want more? Check the website for the full back catalogue.

From the whole team at the Gibsons Library, we want to wish you Happy Holidays. May your wintertime be warm, safe and cozy.

Don't miss our first Coastmasters Toastmasters event this Thursday from 6:30-8:00pm on Zoom. Bob Miller reading from A West Coast Christmas about a Roberts Creek Christmas from long ago. For the Zoom link and more info visit https://gibsons.bc.libraries.coop//coastmasters-toastmas/

Our Movie club will be meeting on Zoom on Wed., Dec. 16th, 7-8pm to discuss the Canadian documentary Moses Coady by Kent Martin. This film from 1976 documents the rise of the cooperative movement in Antigonish, Nova Scotia in the first half of the 20th century. A must-see for anyone curious about social movement and adult education. Watch it for free on our NFB collection ahead of the meeting.

Did you miss Emma Dakin's virtual public reading last Saturday? Don't worry, you can find the recording on our YouTube page. https://youtu.be/QMceNinCs0A

Thanks to Fred and Bozena of the Sunshine Coast Humanist Society for decorating our tree with book cover images.

Looking for an interesting movie to watch? Check out Miss Juneteenth and hundreds of other titles in our free online Kanopy collection. https://gibsons.kanopy.com/product/miss-juneteenth

Thursday means Virtual Storytime! Join Pippa as she sings songs and reads stories about cats. Want more? Check the website for the full back catalogue.

Stop by the library this Saturday, Dec. 12th, between 2-4pm for a socially distant book signing of Crime in Cornwall by local author Emma Dakin. More info: https://gibsons.bc.libraries.coop//book-signing-with-emma/

Looking for your next book to read? Check out My Art is Killing Me by Amber Dawn. https://bgi.bc.catalogue.libraries.coop//opac/r/126208243

In collaboration with the Coastmasters Toastmasters, we will be hosting a virtual public speaking night on the third Thursday of every month from 6:30-8pm. More info at https://gibsons.bc.libraries.coop//coastmasters-toastmas/

As a library, we take pride in providing access to frequently banned and challenged books. Feel free to come and borrow one. Find a list of the most frequently banned and challenged books here. http://www.ala.org/advoca//frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 #bannedbooksweek

A library cataloguer finds a knife in the stacks. Watch the short film Bad Habits to see what happens next. Free as part of our IndieFlix collection. #librarymonth #shortfilm https://watch.indieflix.com//mo/49-zwmaued2fwbm-bad-habits

Imagine a world in which the Great Library of Alexandria did not burn down. Join a cast of intrepid characters in this dystopian present where the printing press was never invented and where private ownership of books is illegal. #yanovel #librarymonth #ebook https://bcpl.overdrive.com/bcpl-gibsonsdist//media/2006249

Wanna learn more about the history of book censorship in Canada? Peruse through our multiple databases such as EBSCOhost to find digitized versions of publications such as the Lambda Book Report. Jul96, Vol. 5 Issue 1. #bannedbooksweek http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail#

Happy Canadian Library Month!!! To all our patrons (past, present and future), we want to say a warm thank you. Honestly, our library would be nothing without its patrons. Join us in the celebration and let us know in the comments below what the library means to you.

Our book club is meeting this Saturday, October 3rd, 10am-12pm to discuss We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib. Can't wait to hear what you have to say about the book. Zoom link: https://bit.ly/gdplsbc

Wanna read more books from Indigenous authors and about Indigenous perspectives? We created a list of some of our favorite books from our collection. https://bgi.bc.catalogue.libraries.coop/eg/opac/results

Looking for your next book to read? Check out Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton.

Looking for your next audiobook? Why not try a classic such as Dracula by Bram Stoker. This title and many others are available on the Libby app and our Overdrive collection. https://bcpl.overdrive.com/bcpl-gibsonsdist//media/479503

Tomorrow is a day to wear orange to join together and raise awareness of the terrible effects of the residential school system and the resulting intergenerational trauma.

Dreaming of adventures? Download this issue of Backcountry magazine. Available for free to library cardholders via our RBdigital collection. https://gibsonsbc.rbdigital.com/magazine/1377/416559

Looking for your next book to read? Check out Can You Hear the Trees Talking? by Peter Wohlleben. This is the young reader's edition of the bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees.

Looking for an interesting movie to watch? Check out Helvetica and hundreds of other titles in our free online Kanopy collection. https://gibsons.kanopy.com/product/helvetica-2

Looking for your next eBook to read? Check out In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott. This title and many others are available to our patrons via the Libby app or Overdrive website. https://bcpl.overdrive.com/bcpl-gibsonsdis//media/4901028

Looking for your next book to read? Check out Relationship Goals by Michael Todd.

Looking for your next audiobook? Why not try a classic such as Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. This title and many others are available on the Libby app and our Overdrive collection. https://bcpl.overdrive.com/bcpl-gibsonsdist//media/479501

Looking for something to read? What about Teen Vogue? Library cardholders can download the magazine for free via our RBdigital collection. https://gibsonsbc.rbdigital.com/magazine/7993/376608 #teenvogue #magazine #rbdigital #gdpl #gibsonslibrary

Looking for your next book to read? Check out Whose Story Is This by Rebecca Solnit.

Masks are highly recommended and greatly appreciated! Thank you everyone for keeping each other safe :)

New children's books celebrating diversity! A big thank you to Krista Wollen Schultz who gifted the library $500 for antiracist youth materials . More titles on the way.

Looking for an interesting movie to watch? Check out Ida and hundreds of other titles in our free online Kanopy collection. https://gibsons.kanopy.com/product/ida

Looking for your next eBook to read? Check out Surviving Canada, edited by Kiera L. Ladner & Myra J. Tait. This title and many others are available to our patrons via the Libby app or Overdrive website. https://bcpl.overdrive.com/bcpl-gibsonsdis//media/3440094