Fun fact: September is Literacy Month in British Columbia — including New Westminster, following an official proclamation by city council. What does this mean? Every year, Decoda Literacy Solutions leads a province-wide awareness and fundraising campaign known as Literacy Month. Funds raised go towards supporting community-based literacy programs and initiatives across the province. Your donation, […]
Not to be outdone by the kids’ and teens’ summer reading clubs, we are pleased to announce the Adult Summer Reading Club (or ASRC). ASRC is fun, free, challenging and adds another way for you to enjoy great reads from the library this summer. Plus, there are great prizes! To participate, pick up your ASRC: […]
After a quick hiatus for a spring refresh, we’ve reopened our 2nd floor at Main Branch on schedule — and all services upstairs have resumed. We are excited to welcome you back and reveal the addition of more new desktop computers for public use, as well as a physical reconfiguration of all computer workstations, which […]
The 2nd floor of our Main Branch will be closed from April 13-27 while we refresh some of the furniture and layout. The refresh includes new public computer workstation configuration and a relocation of printing services. Optimizing the space and furniture layout will help us serve you better and improve your library experience. We look […]
At New Westminster Public Library (NWPL) we recognize April 2 as World Autism Acceptance Day and are excited to amplify autism acceptance throughout the month. According to Autism BC, autism “is widely misunderstood. Many people still think of it as a disorder, a flaw, or something that needs fixing, but that couldn’t be further from […]
We invite you to join in celebrating Freedom to Read Week February 22nd to 28th, an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom. Borrow a book that has been challenged in Canadian libraries from one of the displays in our Main Branch or browse titles from this […]