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
The Clan of the Cave Bear
A Novel
The Mystery of the Blue Train
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
V for Victory
A Novel
The Sign for Home
A Novel
Lessons in Chemistry
A Novel
The Historian
A Novel
The Golden Mean
A Novel
A Deadly Education
A Novel
Normal People
A Novel
Slaughterhouse-five, or The Children's Crusade
A Duty-dance With Death
A Little Life
A Novel
The Reading List
A Novel
The Fox Wife
A Novel
Glass Beads
Stories
The Sentence
A Novel
The Poisonwood Bible
A Novel
Moon of the Crusted Snow
A Novel
Quiet Teacher
A Xenon Pearl Martial Arts Thriller
The Bandit Queens
A Novel
A Boy of Good Breeding
A Novel
The Water Dancer
A Novel
My Brilliant Friend
Book One, Childhood, Adolescence
Lessons in Chemistry
A Novel
The Sign for Home
A Novel
The Martian
A Novel
Upcoming events
Open door community hub
Sunday open door community hub
Sunday, December 29, 2024, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Open door community hub
Wednesday open door community hub
Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Open door community hub
Wednesday open door community hub
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
General
Capilano Universe: The importance of disinformation literacy for civic engagement
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm
Open door community hub
Wednesday open door community hub
Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Open door community hub
Wednesday open door community hub
Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 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
