There’s no question that volunteers are at the heart of our organization. Without them we wouldn’t have three great book sales each year or the friendly faces in the book’mark store. We wouldn’t be able to accept donations, send thank you cards or express our support for the Vancouver Public Library either. Literally ever aspect […]
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 […]
Great books. Great prices. December 1, 2 and 3. Don’t forget to stop by book’mark The Library Store to check out all the holiday stock! Details:
Open to Friends Members and VPL Staff only: Every year the good people 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 hi, enjoy the festive spirit, and know all proceeds go to support the Vancouver Public Library! Thursday […]
Last May $4,100 was approved by Friends members at the AGM to purchase new patio furnishings for the Kitsilano VPL Branch. We’re proud to see that the new furniture is in place! The new picnic table and benches on the branch’s patio are made of stone and concrete that are more durable and require less maintenance […]
What a weekend! Our September sale was interrupted by a deluge early in the morning of Friday September 16. The sale was cancelled on Friday, and resumed at noon on Saturday after our volunteers cleaned up and moved thousands of books from the moat up to the Concourse. We lost a number of our specialty […]
Friends of the Vancouver Public Library Fall Book Sale! Choose from a wide variety of gently used children’s and adult books, CDs, DVDs and vinyl, all at great prices. Thurs, Fri. Sat. September 15/16/17, 10am – 5pm, in the Lower Level of the Central Library, 350 W. Georgia. Everything half price on Saturday. Please bring […]
We’re late getting this out but happy to report that at the Spring AGM Friends approved donations of $46,000 to the Vancouver Public Library and $20,000 to the VPL Foundation to support programs, services and spaces! From Left to right: Chief Librarian Sandra Singh, Friends President Judith Neamtan, Friends Treasurer Zhe Xuan Choo, VPL Board […]
