ASHCROFT LIBRARY
Computer courses
A reminder that the final computer course of the season, before the sessions end for the summer, will be a Windows 10 course on Saturday, June 24.
Participants will learn how to use the start menu, organize tiles, and search for files, apps, and settings. Discover the Windows store and the new method of finding, downloading, and installing apps, and find out about Microsoft accounts and how they affect the Windows 10 experience.
It is recommended that participants have basic computing skills before taking part in this course. Seating is limited, and registration is necessary. To register, visit the library during regular hours, or contact branch head Deanna Porter at dporter@tnrd.ca for more information.
The computer courses will start again in September.
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Pawsitively great partnership
The TNRD Library System has partnered with the BC Wildlife Park to provide a BC Wildlife Park Family Pass for each library branch (including the Bookmobile) in the TNRD.
Each pass is valid for one visit of two adults and two children, and can be borrowed—at no cost—for up to one week. Patrons can also place a hold on the pass through their local library’s website.
Late fees of $1 per day are designed to encourage swift return of the passes, as they are likely to be in high demand. Patrons will need to show the family pass, and their TNRD library card, to staff at the Wildlife Park for admission.
“This partnership is a perfect fit with this year’s summer reading club theme of ‘Walk on the Wild Side’,” says chief librarian Judy Moore. “And it’s a wonderful jumping-off point for library partnerships of this kind.”
Adult summer reading club
Another TNRD Library System reading club—this one for adults—is encouraging participants to “get wild” this summer. The adult summer reading club is open to all members of the TNRD Library System who are 18 or older, and registration is now open.
Participants can sign-up online at www.tnrdlib.ca/adultsrc or at their local branch. Each person will get a summer reading club booklet (which can be downloaded and printed at the address above, or picked up at any branch), which outlines how you can receive entries in the draw for Chapters gift cards. Participants get five draw entries for fulfilling each of several challenges, such as reading or listening to a banned or challenged book, a book written in the decade they were born, or a book in a genre they would not normally read. Participants can also receive one entry for every fifteen minutes of reading (or listening to) a book that they do, and 10 entries for colouring in the cover of the booklet (maximum of 60 entries per person).
The adult summer reading club runs through August 31, 2017, and all booklets must be submitted by September 8 to be eligible for the draw (booklets can be dropped off at any branch, put in an envelope labelled “Adult SRC” and dropped in a book drop, or photographed and sent electronically).
For more details, or to register and download the booklet, visit the website above or your local library branch.
