Free workshop with rappers SNRK

Acclaimed Indigenous rappers, Snotty Nose Rez Kids (SNRK), are joining us for an exclusive songwriting and production workshop. 

Youth aged 30 years and younger can sign up for a free, virtual workshop, a Q and A and pre-recorded performance happening on November 17 from 5-6:30 pm. 

Registration is now open and spots are filling up fast. 

Sign up now

NEW French-language eBooks

Readers looking for French-language books now have more selection, thanks to a new collection of eBooks and digital audiobooks. 

The new French-language collection has popular genre fiction, bestsellers, non-fiction and more that you can access in your web browser, on your Kobo using Adobe Digital Edition or on your phone or mobile device using the Aldiko App.

Start browsing

Up your money game!

Celebrate Financial Literacy Month by taking our money challenge.

We've created a fun new challenge on the Beanstack App that allows you to collect badges while building financial literacy skills to boost  your money game.

We also have lots of great books on investments, personal finances and financial overhauls to help with this challenge or for you to browse anytime.

Show me the money

National Novel Writing Month

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

It's a challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days and people across the globe pick up pens and take to keyboards to give it a try. 

If you're planning to take part this month, we have great writing resources to help.

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Big Library Read now on!

There's still time to join the Big Library Read. 

The Big Library Read by OverDrive is a global eBook club and this year, it's reading A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger. 

Borrow the eBook or digital audiobook on the Libby App without any waits until November 16 and then join the discussion online. 

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Thank you for library ideas!

Thank you to everyone who shared ideas and feedback about the future of Vancouver Island Regional Library. 

Our public engagement effort for our 2023-2027 Strategic Plan is now over and we'll be pulling your input into a report that we hope to show you soon.

A new five-year plan is expected to be approved in spring 2023. 

Strategic Plan

Hey Book Lover! What's Your Sign? 

Every month we share book picks based on your horoscope! This October, it's all about Scorpios. We've picked books to help ease anxieties, inspire you to lay low and work hard and to keep you company as you search for love. 

Biblioscope

Naxos Sheet Music 

Bibliothèque numérique from Cantook Station is a new province-wide French language eBook collection. It includes over 4000 eBooks as well as a limited number of audiobooks. There is something here for fluent speakers and language learners in every age group, with a collection that spans a multitude of popular fiction and non-fiction genres. Vancouver Island Regional Library cardholders have access with their library barcode and pin.

There are three simple ways to read our Bibliothèque numérique collection. 

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Indigenous Collection

Red Paint: the Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, by Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointe, March 2022

From the publisher, Penguin Random House: An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home.

Examining what it means to be vulnerable in love and in art, Sasha offers up an unblinking reckoning with personal traumas amplified by the collective historical traumas of colonialism and genocide that continue to haunt native peoples. Red Paint is an intersectional autobiography of lineage, resilience, and, above all, the ability to heal.

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