Celebrate the centennial
It’s time for a birthday bash at City Library! This year, 2024, marks 100 years of library service in the City of North Vancouver. Help us celebrate this milestone year with programming for all ages including a community cookbook to be published later this year.
Sign up for the library's weekly enews and stay in the know about upcoming centennial events and programs at the library.
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Through the years
- 1924 — A library card cost $1 for a yearlong membership
- 1949 — Building moves to East 2nd Street
- 1966 — Library cards become free
- 1984 — Catalogue is digitized
- 1993 — Sunday openings added
- 2008 — Current building opened
- 2020 — Fines eliminated
Listen and read online
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West
The Greatest Air Battle
Dieppe, 19th August, 1942
My Country
The Remarkable Past
Before the Revolution
A View of Russia Under the Last Tsar
The Death of Elvis
What Really Happened
Slaughterhouse-five, or The Children's Crusade
A Duty-dance With Death
The Nickel Boys
A Novel
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Essays
The Lowland
A Novel
The Fellowship of the Ring
Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
Upcoming events
Open door community hub
Wednesday open door community hub
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead.
— Caitlin Moran
