Medicine Hat Public Library is putting an out-of-this-world spin on our adult summer reading program.Instead of our One Book One Summer program where everyone reads the same book after a public vote, in 2024 we’re challenging you to read multiple books within multiple themes. Which books are we challenging…
You don’t need a stage to bring great works of literature to life, and you don’t need an audience either.The Readers’ Theatre group at Medicine Hat Public Library is proof of that. The group has been meeting on Thursdays at the library for almost five years. The…
To help mark Pride Month, Medicine Hat Public Library is welcoming two speakers from the Prairie Pride Guild of Medicine Hat and District for a pair of presentations that will reflect on the…
NOTE: The survey has been closed. The Medicine Hat Public Library Board is working on a new
Plan of Service that will define the library’s priorities and planned
activities over the next several years.Under the province's Libraries Act, Alberta libraries are
required…
The City of Medicine Hat has a lot of construction and maintenance projects going on already this spring on roads and at city buildings. Medicine Hat Public Library is about to be added to its list.Starting on Tuesday, May 21, the city will be upgrading our HVAC…
Boxes piling up behind the theatre at Medicine Hat Public Library can mean only one thing: it’s book sale time.Yep, the Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale…
Medicine Hat Public Library has had a social worker in the library since 2021, and in that time some people have questioned if having a social worker on site attracts more problems than it solves.Krystal Eirich answers that in just one sentence.“I’m meeting the needs of the community where the needs are…
In one week we’ll be waving goodbye to the Lambeosaurus skull cast that's been at Medicine Hat Public Library for the past 12 months.To be removed on Sept. 24, the skull cast was on loan to us from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. As part of its celebrations to mark its 40th anniversary last year, the world-renowned museum established a Pops-Ups program and sent displays to 10 libraries across Alberta. The skull cast belongs to a nearly complete skeleton that was found at dig site in the Manyberries area, about 70 kilometres south…...read more
