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Ottawa – Back in June, we launched our annual TD Summer Reading Club (TDSRC) for kids, and WOW! 18,455 kids have registered so far.

Ottawa – The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) will be hosting the Digital Bookmobile National Tour on Saturday July 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Ottawa - This July, the Ottawa Public Library is hosting the Rag & Bone Puppet Theatre to bring your favorite Canadian songs and stories to life on the occasion of  Canada’s 150th birthday!

Ottawa – To mark Canada’s 150^th anniversary and continue our year-long celebration of storytelling, the Ottawa Public Library is hosting a Dominion Day Strawberry Social at the Nepean Centrepointe branch, 101 Centrepointe Drive, on Saturday, July 8 from 12:00 –

Ottawa – The Ottawa Public Library’s (OPL) Bookmobile will be piloting changes to its routes and schedule starting July 3, 2017.

The changes include:

o   The addition of pilot stops at

Ottawa – It’s that time of the year again! Summer is almost here, school is almost out, and the free, summer reading fun is about to begin!  The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) invites all kids 12 years old and under to participate in the TD Summer Reading Club (TDSRC).

Ottawa – From June 19 to October 19, the Ottawa Public Library is offering card-free WiFi in all of its 33 branches and Bookmobile.

Ottawa – To celebrate National Aboriginal History Month, and as part of our Canada 150 programming, the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) is hosting an online Indigenous Book Club all month, and inviting readers to jo

Ottawa – The Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa Public Library will be closed from Monday, June 19 to Wednesday, June 28, inclusive. The branch will reopen on Thursday, June 29.

Ottawa – The Ottawa Public Library (OPL), in partnership with the Association canadienne-française de l’Ontario (ACFO), invites French-speaking fans of stand-up comedy to come out to the Shenkman Arts Centre’s Richcraft Theatre on Tuesday, June 13 at 7 p.m. for a

Ottawa – The Ottawa Public Library, in partnership the Ottawa International Writers Festival, is pleased to present an exciting author event as part of OPL’s à la carte food literacy project on Thursday, May 25 at 7 p.m.

Ottawa – As we roll into May, OPL’s celebration of Canada 150 turns to storytelling through theatre, cinema and popular media.

Ottawa – The Ottawa Public Library will once again be part of Ottawa Comiccon, at the EY Center from May 12 to 14. This will be the Library’s sixth year at the convention.

Ottawa – The Ottawa Public Library, in partnership with the comic book store Wizard’s Tower,  is pleased to welcome Canadian comic creators Meags Fitzgerald, Ryan North, and Josephine Rioux for an all-day event: Comics in

Ottawa – The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) now has a subscription to the New York Times (NYT) online. OPL customers can access any article published in the NYT from 1851 to 1922, and from 1981 to the present. 

Ottawa – The Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa Public Library will be closed over two periods this spring and summer for improvements. The first closure is from Monday, May 8 to Thursday, May 18, inclusive. The branch will reopen on Friday, May 19.

Ottawa – The Ottawa Public Library 2016 Annual Report describes a year of customer-focused innovations and new research dedicated to better understand OPL’s impact on the communities it serves.

Ottawa –The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) will be hosting the 6^th edition of the New Entrepreneurs of Ottawa Networking Event (NEON) on April 26, from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Ben Franklin Place.

Ottawa- Spring is almost here and the festivities for Canada150 continue at the Ottawa Public Library. Our theme for April is Storytelling through Poetry –whether through haiku, limerick, sonnet, or spoken word; we hope you get inspired!

Ottawa – Are you 50 years old or more? Do you have a story inside of you that you want to share? If so, join the Ottawa Public Library’s annual 50+ Short Story Contest. This year, the contest will be running from April 5 to May 31, 2017.