September 5, 2023 The New Westminster Public Library announces What Housing Means to Me, a photovoice exhibit running through the entire month of September 2023. The exhibit includes photographs and recorded stories of a number of women experiencing housing precarity and/or homelessness. The project was originally facilitated by Artist-Mentor photographer Mihailo Subotic with funding realized […]
RAIN AWAKENS – NEW WEST PUBLIC LIBRARY – RAIN PIERRE (SɬəMƏXw) Public Art Project Outline 2023 DETAILS: It is time to have your part in this amazing project in the library community! We are hosting an art competition for a collaborative public art project in the library with Rain Pierre. It is time to start […]
Beginning May 17, 2023, the New Westminster Public Library is launching an exciting new podcast recording service that will make it possible for members of the community to record and share their own stories and ideas through the creation of their very own podcasts. Podcasting has grown in popularity in recent years with more than […]
Press Release of March 31, 2023 The New Westminster Public Library has just been notified that it will receive a one-time, targeted Enhancement Grant of almost $200,000 from the BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Public Libraries Branch to be spent over three years. This is in addition to our annual Provincial Public Library Grant, which […]
Joining the ranks of several libraries across Canada, the New Westminster Public Library is thrilled to announce the launch of a Seed Library, beginning February 11, 2023. “We hope people will take some seeds, grow a garden however and wherever they are, then bring some of the seeds they produce back to us for sharing,” […]
New Westminster – New Westminster Public Library is excited to announce it will no longer charge overdue fines on library materials. As part of the roll-out to this new policy, the library will be granting a one-time amnesty that will erase all fines from all accounts that were in place prior to September 10, 2022. […]
We’re looking for volunteers to help suggest some changes to our website! We want to make it easier for you to find what you need on our website. To do this we would like to meet with you (virtually via zoom, or in person one-on-one) for no more than 15 minutes. You will be taken […]
There are two construction projects currently underway at the library. We have provided some details and information related to each below: Building Envelope Repair When will the construction occur? November 15 – January 2022 What is being done? Work will be done to repair a leak into the lower level of the library and apply waterproofing […]
We are thrilled to welcome our new Chief Librarian, Jorge Cardenas, who started at NWPL just after Thanksgiving. Jorge comes to us from Burnaby Public Library where he was the Manager of Community Development. So who is Jorge and what does he have planned for the NWPL? We wanted to know as much as you […]
On May 26, 2021 the library will be performing system maintenance that will affect public access to some library card services. The process is expected to take most of the day but in the event we are able to restore services earlier, we will post a message on our website’s home page notifying you that […]
