When buying a PC, you are faced with a lot of choices, laptop or desktop, how many cores in the processor, Intel or AMD processor, size of storage, how big a monitor, is it better to buy a faster processor or more memory…

Chris Taylor, President of the Ottawa PC Users' Group will help sort out the choices so you can buy the computer that is right for your needs. 
 

Learn how to more effectively tell the story of your vacations through pictures. Regardless of what kind of camera you use (cell phone, tablet, DSLR, etc.), Lynda Buske from the Ottawa PC Users' Group and the Orleans Photo Club will show how to use light, foreground, people, framing, and more to create a descriptive picture that needs no captioning.

The Beaverbrook Branch is excited to welcome author Charlotte Gray, one of Canada's best known non-fiction writers, to talk about her most recent work, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Live of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt. 

The presentation will be followed by a Q & A and book signing with the author. 

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Charlotte Gray, a graduate of Oxford University and LSE, is one of Canada’s best known non-fiction writers. In twelve bestsellers, including biographies such as Sisters in the Wilderness and Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life of Alexander Graham Bell and intriguing narratives such as Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike and The Massey Murder, she has brought our past to vivid life. She has won many awards for her work, including the prestigious Pierre Berton Award for a body of historical writing and the UBC Medal for Biography. Charlotte is an adjunct professor at Carleton University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Member of the Order of Canada. She lives in Ottawa.

Presented in partnership with CFUW - Kanata and Perfect Books.

Recognizing that individuals who struggle with chronic pain & chronic illness face their mortality differently and daily, Home Hospice Association's Spoonie Death Cafés provide the opportunity for people with chronic pain & chronic illness to come together to talk about death, dying, and grief, and whatever these topics may bring up.

Drop-ins welcome, but registration preferred.

Ottawa Public Library is partnering with the Home Hospice Association to offer death cafés with various themes. Check out the OPL website for upcoming death cafés.