Read and win prizes!

Who says reading clubs are just for kids? Grab a book, audiobook or an eBook and join your library in the Adult Winter Reading Club. 

Every read is an entry to win prizes. 

Pick up an Adult Winter Reading Club package at your branch in January or February, print your own at home or try our Beanstack online reading challenge platform.

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New Sooke branch a picture of progress 

Construction of the new Sooke branch is in the home stretch. 

“This project has literally been years in the making and it is exciting to see it so near completion,” says Gaby Wickstrom, Chair of the VIRL Board of Trustees.

We hope to open the circular, state-of-the-art branch this spring. Click on the link below to find out what great features and services it'll offer. 

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Have fun in Storytime Corner!

Come and listen to our librarians read books and share rhymes for kids in our Storytime Corner Facebook group.

You can also find giveaways, book recommendations and more!

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Hey Book Lover! What's Your Sign? 

Hey Capricorn. This is your season and we've selected some great material that's sure to float your goat. 

Biblioscope

Love to write? Don't miss this session on the Blue Pencil Posse

Vancouver Island Regional Library and WordStorm Society of the Arts are launching a new, six-week virtual writing circle. 

The Blue Pencil Posse is a free, interactive group for fiction and poetry writers led by poet and author Richard Stevenson.

There's a limited number of spots! Find out more at an information session January 23, at 1 pm.

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Let NoveList help with New Year's resolutions

Many of us have New Year’s resolutions to exercise, quit smoking, or…read more novels. To find new books that remind you of old favourites, or to learn about a new genre, try NoveList.

It's an eResource to help you find book recommendations. Click on the link below to get tips on how you can best use NoveList to find your next read. 

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Indigenous Collection

Chief Thunderwater : An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places, by Gerald F. Reid, January 2021

From the publisher, University of Oklahoma Press:

On June 11, 1950, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an obituary under the bold headline “Chief Thunderwater, Famous in Cleveland 50 Years, Dies.” And there, it seems, the consensus on Thunderwater ends. Was he, as many say, a con artist and an imposter posing as an Indian who lead a political movement that was a cruel hoax? Or was he a Native activist who worked tirelessly and successfully to promote Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, sovereignty in Canada? The truth about this enigmatic figure, so long obscured by vying historical narratives, emerges clearly in Gerald F. Reid’s biography, Chief Thunderwater—the first full portrait of a central character in twentieth-century Iroquois history.

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