We greatly care about the health and safety of both our fellow book lovers and our hardworking Friends volunteers. Due to the COVID-19 virus and the uncertainty as to when the Central Library will reopen, the upcoming Spring Used Book Sale (May 28-30) has been cancelled.
Early in February, Friends of the Vancouver Public Library gathered in the Alice MacKay room at Central branch to celebrate a year of great volunteering successes. This brunch is hosted annually by the Friends board of directors, and honours all those who have committed time, skills, and enthusiasm to the Friends mission. We were joined […]
It is my great pleasure to cordially invite you to our 22nd annual Stay at Home and Read a Book Ball! Each year Friends of the Vancouver Public Library like you curl up with a great book and dive into new worlds of romance, mystery, adventure, and more—all from the comfort of your home. Whether […]
To refresh the books on your shelves or buy books for gifts, come to the Friends’ Christmas Used Book Sale. Volunteers are busy sorting and pricing approximately 8,500 donated books as well as CDs and DVDs for the November 30 to December 2 sale on the Promenade of Central Library. Everything in the sale including […]
Open to Friends Members and VPL Staff only: Every year the wonderful staff and volunteers of book’mark do a little something special to to recognize members and VPL staff for supporting the library all year long. Come in and say hello, enjoy the festive spirit, and know all proceeds go to support the Vancouver Public Library! […]
The Friends of the Vancouver Public Library’s Fall Used Book Sale is coming soon! Choose from a wide variety of gently used children’s and adult books, CDs, DVDs and vinyl, all at great prices. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, September 21 – 23, 10am – 5pm, at the Central Library, 350 W. Georgia. Everything half price on […]
Join us this Saturday April 29th, 2017 at 3:30pm in the Alice MacKay Room of the Central Library. From Broadway hits such as Oklahoma to Matilda and Wicked, some of the best musicals are based on popular books! Friends of the Vancouver Public Library and APPLAUSE! Musicals Society present a special concert of songs from […]
Chief Librarian Sandra Singh, and our Stay at Home and Read a Book Ball guest of honour, has recommended The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King for you to stay at home and read. We hope you will join us at the Ball by making a donation […]
Our Stay at Home and Read a Book Ball guest of honour Heidi Schiller, has recommended The Wonder by Emma Donoghue for you to stay at home and read. We hope you will join us at the Ball by making a donation and curling up with a book. (Perhaps this one!) The Wonder, by Emma […]
Sam Wiebe, the Vancouver Public Library’s 2016 Writer in Residence and one of the Stay at Home and Read a Book Ball guests of honour, has recommended One or the Other by John McFetridge for you to stay at home and read. We hope you will join us at the Ball by making a donation […]
One of of Stay at Home and Read a Book Ball guests of honour, Desiree Baron, has recommended Light Years: Memoir of A Modern Lighthouse Keeper by Caroline Woodward for you to stay at home and read. We hope you will join us at the Ball by making a donation and curling up with a […]
We invite you to our annual fundraiser, the Stay at Home and Read a Book Ball. We asked our “guests of honour”, VPL’s Writer in Residence and three VPL librarians, what books they are going to stay home and read. Curl up with one of these four books by Canadian authors or one of your […]
