Starting August 1st join our online book discussion group found on our website www.nflibrary.ca which will feature one book to discuss for the month. August’s book is “Rollback” by Robert J. Sawyer. Andrew Porteus and Carrie Chiaramonte will moderate this forum. On a first come, first served basis, online participants can pick up a copy of the book in person at the Victoria Avenue Library to use over the month of the online discussion, but you don’t need a library copy to participate.. Adults are invited to join in person one of our seven popular book discussion groups. The groups meet for about an hour once a month from September to April at the Victoria Avenue Library, Chippawa Branch, Community Centre Branch and Stamford Centre Branch. There are both daytime and evening sessions offered. Pre-reg ...
My wife and her girl friends and my daughter and her girl friends saw this summer’s popular movie “Sex in the City”. I didn’t see it but I know where to find related material - in the library! We have two novels by “Sex in the City” author Candace Bushnell. One is “ Lipstick jungle” and the other is “Trading up”. Beautiful and successful New York single women looking for love are the themes once again. Borrow the library’s copies of the first six seasons of the hit television show
The Rosberg Gallery in the Victoria Avenue Library features monthly exhibitions of many local artists. It has long been an important cultural space showcasing a variety of arts and crafts. Artist Mario Palombo’s exhibition in June was seen be many. The following is the schedule of artists exhibiting there for the rest of the year: July: Gary Crosby; August: Photographs by the Niagara Falls Camera Club; September: Niagara Handweavers & Spinners; October: Mary Friesen; November: Susan Lot; December: Cyrus Harchegani. The Onta ...
See the library display at Optimist Park on July 1 during the City’s Canada Day celebrations. I will be there with Systems Administrator Jan Leak who will bring her laptop to promote our website. She will also bring an interesting series of winter images of Niagara Falls. Maybe the cool images will help keep us keep temperatures down on what is traditionally a very hot day! The four libraries will be closed on Canada Day .Use the book return slots and visit anytime the library website www.nflibrary.ca to search the catalogue and databases, place reserves, loan renewals and much more. Borrow “Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies” by Ginger Strand which ...
Local resident Frank Long will launch his new book “A Century of Sports in Niagara Falls: Book II” at the Victoria Avenue Library on June 21 from 10am to 1pm. Autographed copies of the book will be on sale for $25 (tax included) and the public is invited to share their sports memories with the author. In 2006, Book I by Long was a bestseller and many local athletes and their families wanted a copy. After the official launch, the Library will once again be selling the book as a library fund raising project for $25 (tax included) at each of our four libraries (Chippawa, Community Centre, Stamford and Victoria Avenue libraries). The book com ...