Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

 

Drag Queen Storytime is back in the Library! Celebrate Pride Month with The Devereaux Dolls Family!

Enjoy stories and songs that celebrate inclusivity!

 

Saturday, June 11 

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

 

Free. Drop-in. No registration required.  See the Eventbrite page here. 

Come to the library to get free Butterflyway Project Garden Kits! 🦋🌱

 

... while they last!

 

This is a volunteer movement that’s bringing nature to communities throughout Canada, one butterfly-friendly planting at a time.

 

With the assistance of local Butterflyway Ranger Kathy Howitt and the Healthy Communities Committee, the Library is hosting its own garden and encouraging residents to plant one as well.

 

These kits contain five varieties of native seeds and instructions.

 

For more information about the Butterflyway project, please click here. 

 

Butterflyway Garden Seed Kits will be available for pick up at the BWG Library while supplies last.

 

🦋 The Project's History:

 

The Butterflyway Project, and its sister L’effet Papillon campaign in Quebec, began in five Canadian cities in 2017. They recruited a team of volunteer Butterflyway Rangers in each community, whose mission was to plant native wildflowers in yards, schoolyards, streets, and parks to support bees and butterflies. The goal was to establish local “Butterflyways” by planting at least a dozen pollinator patches in each neighbourhood.

 

We're happy to be planting one, too. We hope you can join the project -- and bring nature to our community!

Looking to study? In addition to our many study spaces throguhout the library, you can also book a study room space. 

 

Feel free to read our study room guidelines here and click here to book a study room for up to 3 hours. 

 

 

BWG Library is delighted to once again offer (ILLO) Inter-Library Loan service to our cardholders.

 

If you are looking for a book or audiobook that we don’t have in our collection, just request it using our online form (from the tabs on our homepage, choose Services, and then click on Purchase or Inter-Library Loan Requests). We’ll try to borrow it for you, from another Ontario public library.

This is a great way to find older, more rare books and audiobooks. Or to source titles from a series you’re enjoying. Our collection just got a lot bigger!

 

 

Giant Gardening Challenge 2022! 🌻

 

In celebration of the Year of the Garden 2022, BWG Healthy Communities Committee and the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library is challenging everyone to grow the biggest vegetable in one of five categories for bragging rights and prizes. 

In the autumn, we will ask area residents to show us their largest garden specimens, but to participate you must start growing your giant vegetables now! 
Competition categories and how they will be judged: 

    🎃 Pumpkin (weight) 
    🍠 Other squash (weight) 
    🥔 Root vegetable (weight) 
    🌻 Sunflower (diameter) 
    🥒 Grower’s choice - any large plant/vegetable specimen (judges’ discretion) 

Watch the BWG Library website and social media for updates and tips for growing large vegetables and for the final details on how we will celebrate. Also be sure to check out the BWG Seed Library  - your source for open pollinated seeds (especially large varieties such as Big Max Pumpkins and Mongolian Sunflowers).

 

We are so happy to introduce our 2022 Seed Library, with so many varieties of seeds to choose from! 

 

Click here to browse through our seeds and select your own to pick up. 

 

 

Come join the #BookTok #BookClub where we'll be reading the most popular books recommended by #BookTok readers.

 

This book club is for teens and young adults. We'll chat about the book and have a good time!

 

If you signed up to pick up a book, come pick it up once you get an email that it's ready to pick up. You will be able to pick up the book 4-6 weeks before the book club date! If you have the book at home already or have read it before, just sign up and join us.

 

The book club will be taking place at the Bradford Public Library. Register by clicking here.

 

Sign up and join for the dates below. You can join for 1, 2, or all 3 book club dates! You can register for all 3 by selecting all the dates:

 

April 27th at 3:30 pm - Six of Crows

May 25th at 3:30 pm - We Were Liars

 

...and a special Pride Month 🏳‍🌈 read:

 

June 29th at 3:30 pm - They Both Die at the End

 

Recommended age: 14+ (but depends on the reader/book)

 

 

 

Monday - Friday 

9:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

 

Saturday

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

 

Sunday

1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

 

Upcoming Holiday Closures

 

Sunday, May 22

Monday, May 23