Freedom to Read Week is being recognized in libraries across Canada from Feb. 22-28, an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.“Despite having strong traditions of free expression and free inquiry,…
Elizabeth McNally and the team at Real Estate Collective are once again celebrating Library Lovers Month by sponsoring library cards at Medicine Hat Public Library and helping keep cards free for the community.Through…
Save-On-Foods set Medicine Hat Public Library’s Honeycomb House and its teen users abuzz last week.The national grocer’s Medicine Hat store will be keeping the shelves stocked and the teens fueled for a long, long time. “Save-On-Foods have come forward and…
Old-time music on banjo, guitar, jaw harp and his own invention the contrabass harmoniphoneum. We promise you this will be a performance unlike anything you’ve seen before. Lotus Wight will be on the Library Theatre stage on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m. Tickets,…
In less than one week the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour lights up the big screen at the Esplanade.In partnership with the Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre and thanks to our local sponsor Cancarb, we present three unique nights…
Medicine Hat Public Library is a busy, busy place. The proof of that is in the January-February What’s On program book that stretched to 24 pages.“I’ve been there for about two years now, a little over two years, and this is the first time that book’s been more than 20 pages. So, that just show that I guess people…
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
