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Library update:

Masks are once again mandatory inside all public buildings in BC. Thank you for your cooperation. If you are unable to wear a mask, curbside book pick-up is available, please call 250-342-6416 to arrange.

After the long weekend, the library is returning to our late evening hours on Wednesdays and Thursdays, open from 10:00 am - 8:00 pm. We will be reopening our back mezzanine space for September 8th so you can work, study or read.
Saturday hours will remain 10:00 am - 2:00 pm for the time being.

Updated Hours
Mon, Tues: 10-5
Wed, Thurs: 10-8
Fri: 10-5
Sat: 10-2
Sun: Closed

BINGO Closes on September 4!

You can backlog any books you’ve read since July 1! Play now for your chance to win a dinner certificate or paddleboard rental!

Join in our Reading BINGO this summer! You can pick up a paper copy at the front desk or do the BINGO online through Beanstack! Earn double the ballots if you complete both!

Outdoor story time will continue into September! Our last special Pop-up location is at Serenity Farm in Windermere (4825 The Dell Road) on Sept. 3 at 10:30 am and we can’t wait to see you there! Then join us on the front lawn at the library for the rest of the month. Details on the rest of fall story time coming soon!

If you missed our story time with author Rhiannon Wallace, the Zoom video is available here until mid-September.

Thank you to our wonderful Friends of the Library for organizing another sale to wrap-up the summer!

And a HUGE thank you for all your hard work on this year’s record breaking BIG Book Sale which raised $14,455 for the library!!

This is the biggest fundraiser event for the library each year and the hard work of the Friends allows us to provide library programs to our community. Thank you Friends for helping make the library what it is!

Summer Reading Club 2021

Thank you to all our participants for helping us Crack the Case this summer! It was great to be able to offer in-person, outdoor programming again, and we had a ton of fun exploring the mysteries of dinosaurs, mummies, robots, historical figures & more!

This was our first year offering SRC in Edgewater and Canal Flats, and we had the same amount of kids at those programs as our Invermere ones most weeks, if not more! There is definitely a need to bring free programming to our outlying communities who can’t always make the trip to Invermere, and it was awesome being able to help bridge that gap this summer.
It’s also a good reminder that the library is more than a building full of great books, but a place where the community can gather, learn and play—whether that place is the library itself or a park!

We still have lots of Lego Figure prizes so you can drop off your Summer Reading Log until September 15!

Career & Post-Secondary Education Online Fair! Sept. 7-9, 2021

Back to School!

Did you know that once your child starts Kindergarten in the valley, they are eligible for their own library card?! Caregivers must already have a library card OR show proof of residency (ID with local address, 1-year lease agreement, or property tax assessment) to sign up your Kindergartener.
We can’t wait to give you your first library card!

1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Not quite in Kindergarten yet? Try our 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Challenge on Beanstack! Log the books you read with your little one and help set them up for success by building those early literacy skills!
1000 books might sound like a lot, but it's just 1 book a night for less than 3 years, 2 books a night for less than 2 years, or 3 books a night for less than 1 year! All books count, including rereads and storytime books!
Click the button below to get started or download the Beanstack Tracker app on your device:

Stay tuned for new fall challenges for all ages on Beanstack soon!

Printing and Fax services available

Please email us the documents and we will print for you to help limit contact. Email publiclibrary@invermere.net. In the email let us know if you want it in B&W ($0.25/page), Colour ($0.75/page), single or double-sided & a rough time of when you'll be by to pick it up. We are also happy to scan, photocopy and fax documents for you. Two computers are also available for use for 45 minute sessions only.

See printing & fax costs here. We are cash only.

Read Local Book Club on Zoom
returns for the fall!

We have a couple copies of this book available to borrow now, stop by or call 250-342-6416 to claim one. We are still waiting on indoor restrictions to ease up before we resume our in-person library book club. We are as eager as you are to start up again and we will as soon as we can!

Extra! Extra! Kootenay Teen News Needs YOU!

Libraries in the Kootenays are joining together to create the Kootenay Teen Newspaper and we need your help! Join the Local Journalism for Teens Workshop on Saturday, September 11, 11 am (MT) on Zoom. If you like what you learn, then there might be a spot for you with the Kootenay Teen Newspaper!
Please register by emailing Melodie Rae at mstorey@nelson.ca

Curbside Book Pickup

Even though are doors are open to come into the building, we are still providing curbside pickup service for the foreseeable future. Click the Library Takeout Bag for more details. You will also find a video showing you how to navigate our search catalogue & place holds from home!

We’ll bring your books to Canal Flats!

We have a holds shelf in the Canal Flats Village Office to bring books to you and save you the trip into Invermere. Contact us by Tuesday at the latest so we can get the books to the office for Thursday when they are open to the public. Books will be dropped off once a week and can be return to the orange drop box outside the office.

Free Ancestry Access from Home!

With this time at home, why not discover more about your family history and genealogy?
Remote access has been extended!
Ancestry has expanded its Library Edition database so that patrons can access it from home! Email us (publiclibrary@invermere.net) for the login info and click the link below for access. You can also DM us on Facebook or Instagram to get in touch! Click the logo to head to the login page.

Want to learn how to take professional level photos on your phone? Or take a course on Microsoft Excel? LinkedIn Learning is the place to go!
Choose from thousands of courses and videos to help build career, technology and creative skills.
Login with your library card and password for access to this great learning resource! Call or email us if you need your password reset at 250-342-6416 or publiclibrary@invermere.net.

Check out our Library of Things!

Find Sunshine Lamps, Kobo E-readers, Mindfulness kits & more!

We have been fine free since the beginning of the year. Overall, this has been well received and we plan to continue fine free service for book borrowing. However, we have decided to keep late fines on all of our loanable tech items. This includes Radon kits, LED Sunshine Lights, Geocaching kits and Kobo E-readers. These items are very popular and prompt return on the due date is necessary so others can have access to them.

The Library will be closed on Thursday, September 30th for National Truth and Reconciliation Day.

September 30 has officially been recognized as National Truth and Reconciliation Day and is now a statutory holiday. This addresses one of the 94 calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: “We call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, to establish, as a statutory holiday, a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour survivors, their families, and communities, and ensure that public commemoration of the history and legacy of residential schools remains a vital component of the reconciliation process.”

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation will be posting videos and stories (with accompanying lesson plans for classrooms) from Sept. 27-Oct. 1 to continue the conversation from Every Child Matters. Find details and registration here.

Below are a few of the titles on our shelf by Indigenous authors focusing on residential schools and their impacts still felt today.