Asian Heritage Month

Celebrate Asian Heritage Month with us!

We’ve curated a variety of materials in different formats for reading, listening, watching, and learning.

Whether you’re looking for historical tidbits of Asian Canadian history on Vancouver Island, authoritative websites focused on Asian Canadian history, great fiction by Asian Canadian authors, streaming videos or resources to learn Asian languages, we’ve got something for you!

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Congrats to the #VIRLShowdown Esports Winners!

On May 2, four contestants teed off in the first VIRL Showdown esports golf tournament!

In the end, Dan Cato of Campbell River took home the win. He is the lucky recipient of a $2,500 donated cash prize, a jersey (and bragging rights) and eternal golf glory.

Thank you again to all of the sponsors and everyone who played a role in making the first ever VIRL Showdown a big success!

Check out a copy of the game here (for PS4) in our catalogue:

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Scratch Coding Contest for Girls:
We Have a Winner!

Terra McGhee is the first prize winner of the Scratch Coding Contest for Young Women. The contest invited participants to use the code block building interface, Scratch, to build an animation, story, or video game on whatever inspired them.

McGhee is a 12-year old from Port Hardy who was excited to take home first place!

The contest kicked off on International Women’s Day (March 8), with the goal of helping young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st Century.

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Get Your British TV Fix Here

We have lots of British Drama series and movies available in our catalogue!

Grab a couple of DVDs for the weekend and binge your favourite shows and movies.  

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Canadian Newsstream

Are you a Canadian news connoisseur? Check out Canadian Newsstream, which includes 463 daily and weekly newspapers from communities across Canada as well as national newspapers. Great for keeping up on the news from your home town! Some publications are yesterday’s news — delayed by one day.

You can do keyword searches of all publications in Canadian Newsstream, making it a fantastic resource for conducting research.

Get started with Canadian Newsstream now!

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Hey Book Lover, What's Your Sign?

Taurus, as the world prepares to open up and you make plans for travel, prosperity, and romance in the second half of 2021 remember the words of your fellow Taurus, William Shakespeare: “This above all, to thine own self be true” (Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3).

Taurus: Those who are born approximately from April 20^th to May 20^th are born under Taurus.

Future: Anthony Bourdain’s World Travel: An Irreverent Guide| Taurus, this book will appeal to your love of art, luxury, and physical comforts, offering suggestions on what to eat, where to stay, and the all the reasons why Bourdain found each place “enchanting and memorable.”

Fortune: Build upon your sign’s stable, earthy nature that you got you through the chaos of 2020, and read Angela Duckworth’s Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance as you manifest your destiny in 2021.

Love: Love Factually: The Science of Who, Why, and How We Love by Laura Mucha | Benefit from Mucha’s ten years of interviewing strangers about love and learn the science behind who, why and how we love, as you reconnect with loved ones and form new connections in the waning pandemic.

Lucky Number: The new moon on the 11^th is a great day for launching new ideas, so the 11^th is your lucky number.

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Indigenous Collection

The Case of the Burgled Bundle, book 3 in The Mighty Muskrats Mystery Series by Michael Hutchinson, April 2021From the publisher, Second Story Press:

The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats - cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the memory bundle, the center of a four-day long ceremony, is taken, the four mystery-solving cousins set out to catch those responsible and help protect Windy Lake’s reputation! The history and knowledge passed down to each generation through the bundle is at stake! What’s worse, prime suspect and long-time bully Pearl takes off to the city with her older brother and known troublemaker, Eddie. If they’ve brought the burgled bundle with them, the Mighty Muskrats fear it may be lost for good. With clues pointing them in too many different directions, the cousins need to return the missing bundle before the assembly comes to an end.

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