Checking Out eBooks

Main Branch, Theatre Gallery
Wednesday February 22, 7:00-8:30 pm

Join us and learn how to get our eBooks onto your eReader.

Learn more about our eBook collection and online catalogue so you can find and read the books you want.

Adult Services Librarians will be available to help you with your eReader and any other questions that you have.


New Blockbusters Movies This Week

We have added new titles to our Blockbusters Collection!

Check out the following new titles: 
Paranormal Activity 3 IMDb
The Rum Diary IMDb
Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part I IMDb

Added last week:
In Time IMDb

Browse all available titles here!

 
 


Kirk Ramdath - Poetry Reading

Crossings Branch - Friends' Place

February 22, 2012
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Lethbridge Public Library and the Most Vocal Poets Society welcome you to join poet and spoken word artist Kirk Ramdath.

Presented through partnership with Lethbridge Public Library, Most Vocal Poets, and the Canada Council for the Arts.


Friday Night Films: The Guard

Main Branch - Theatre  Gallery
Free admission

 Feb. 24 7 pm The Guard (14A - coarse language)

                      This hilarious Irish crime comedy stars
                       Brendan Gleeson as a confrontational Irish          
                       policeman teamed up with an uptight FBI 
                       agent, Don Cheadle.  Can they work together
                       to solve a drug-smuggling case?                   


Weddings for a Month of Love

February is the month for smoochies!
Join us for some big screen wedding movies:

All movies start at 7:00pm at The Crossings Branch Library.


Homework blues? Here's the cure...

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Winner: Best Overall Database 2011 (Library Journal)


Mango in a Day

Monday March 5, Theatre Gallery - Main Branch

6 pm Get Talking with Mango Languages
Did you know we can help you learn a new language? Come learn how to use our free online tool, Mango Languages, an interactive and fun way to learn your choice of 34 foreign languages. Our Online Services Librarian will show you how to get started.

7 pm Life in a Day
After the Mango tutorial, we will be playing the Ridley Scott produced documentary Life in a Day. This Sundance Film Festival documentary was shot by filmmakers all over the world, submitted through YouTube, and depicts moments from a single day in July, 2010. It is intended to serve as a time capsule for future generations about what it was like to be alive today.
Rated 14A


Library Will Open at 11 a.m. on March 6

Library Staff Meeting
Please note that the Library,
Main Branch and The Crossings Branch
will not open until 11 a.m. on
Tuesday, March 6
in order for staff to attend their quarterly staff meeting.


Imagine. Create. Inspire. Chinook Arch's Writer in Residence - David A. Poulsen

Meet with Chinook Arch's Writer in Residence David A. Poulsen. Emerging writers can set up one-on-one consultations with David or participate in a program at their library.

March 8, 7 pm - Author Reading (Crossings Branch, Friends Place)

April 26, 7 pm - Author Reading (Main Branch, Theatre Gallery)
 
Videoconferences
April 5, 6:30 pm - The Write Stuff: Writer's Workshop Series (Crossings Branch, Friends Place)

April 12, 6:30 pm - The Write Stuff: Writer's Workshop Series (Crossings Branch, Friends Place)

For more information about this program, click here


Calendar of Adult Events

Week of February 20 2012

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
All day
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1845
21
 
22
 
23
 
24
 
25
 
26
 
12:00 pm
 
 
 
 
 
 
1:00 pm
 
 
 
 
 
 
5:00 pm
 
 
 
 
 
 
7:00 pm
 
 
 
 

Calendar Legend

ItemKey
Bookmobile
 
Main Branch
 
The Crossings Branch