Christmas Hours

Here are the Library's hours for the Christmas Season:

Saturday, December 24, Closed
Tuesday, December 27, Closed
Wednesday, December 28, 10am-3pm
Thursday, December 29, 10am-3pm
Friday, December 30, 10am-3pm
Saturday, December 31, Closed

Return to normal library hours begins January 3, 2012. Happy New Year!

101 Dalmatians

HUB Productions and the kids of Baysville present--

101 Dalmatians

Thursday December 8, 2011
6:30pm
Baysville Community Centre
Cost $10 each

Tickets available at the library. Call 705-767-2361.

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day is November 11.

This year will be a remarkable 11/11/11.

If you'd like to know more about war, Canada's veterans, or Remembrance Day itself, drop by the library. We have books on these topics for both adults and kids.

The Baysville Remembrance Day service will be held on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 2pm at the Gristmill Park cenotaph. The library will be open for November 11.

Learn To Sketch for Kids

Kids ages 8 and up are invited join Wendy at the library and she'll teach you how to sketch.

Saturday November 12, 2011
10:30am to 12:30pm
here at the library.

Cost is $2 per person, supplies included!

Don't miss this great opportunity to explore your artistic side.

Halloween Teen Reads

Want to read some Halloween themed books that aren't about vampires? We have some excellent new books in, and if you happen to like fantasy, or fantasy elements, in your fiction, these books are about witches, ghosts, Victor Frankenstein, and the undead. You'll find them in our Young Adult collection:

Witchlanders, by Lena Coakley

Five Days of the Ghost, by William Bell

This Dark Endeavor: the Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, by Kenneth Oppel

Die for Me, by Amy Plum

Books by Dragons

Are you a fan of the Canadian TV show Dragon's Den? Want to learn more from the dragons? We've just added these two new books to our collection:

Persuasion: A New Approach to Changing Minds, by Arlene Dickinson
Cold Hard Truth on Business, Money & Life, by Kevin O'Leary

We're Celebrating Ontario Public Library Week!

October 16 to 22 is Ontario Public Library Week. Stop by to see what special things we've got going on. (We're not going to tell you--we hope you will come in.)

Kids' Contest: What does the Library Mean to Me?
We invite all kids to either write about or draw a picture about what the library means to them. We'll give a prize to the winners. Pick up your entry paper from the library.

And did you know that October is Library Month? It is! This year's theme:

Your Library: A Place Unbound 

For more information, see the Canadian Library Association

Quilt Draw and Tea

Who will win the gorgeous quilt the Friends of the Library are raffling off? Come find out and have some tea too.

Friday, October 7
Tea at 1pm
Draw at 2pm