Long gone are the days when the library was just a place to borrow books. In 2025, if you asked 10 people what the library is to them, it’s possible you’d get 10 different answers.Sure, for some it is still just a place to borrow books. For others the library is where they borrow movies, music and video games.…
Since 2005, the Donna MacLean Library Fund at the Community Foundation of Southeastern Alberta has been a proud and strong supporter of Medicine Hat Public Library. Twenty years into that relationship, it’s entered a new chapter.The Community Foundation’s Donna…
We don’t think we’re overstating it when we say the art currently on display on our lower level is some of the most inspiring we’ve ever had here.It’s the Recovery Creative Artworks exhibition, pieces done by people in recovery and treatment at Medicine Hat Recovery Centre. Megan Pollard, a recreation therapist…
Things never seem to stop at the Honeycomb House, and October will be no different.It starts on Oct. 1 with the first of two Adulting 101 sessions. This first one will focus on helping teens write resumes, which will hopefully lead to a job interview. Naturally, the second session will go over interview skills…
Southeastern Alberta’s deep dinosaur connection is growing right here at Medicine Hat Public Library. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Royal Tyrrell Museum is establishing pop-up exhibits at libraries across Alberta starting in September. Medicine Hat Public Library is excited to announce our highlight…
Easy access to books is what we’re all about here and it’s doesn’t get any easier than the Little Free Libraries (LFL) that are scattered all over the city. Located in people’s yards and in greenspaces across Medicine Hat, they’re a very simple honour system-type library that doesn’t that doesn’t require users to have…
Medicine Hat Public Library’s main entrance will be closed next week as work begins to replace a crucial piece of the building’s heating and air conditioning system. Beginning Tuesday, workers will remove the heat coiling unit that is above the vestibule area at the library’s main upper-level door. The work is…
Edmonton-based artist Jessica “Seeka” Tyndale brings her Seeka Sings show to the Library Theatre for two free performances (July 8, 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.). Seeka Sings is an interactive children’s musical act by promotes early education, social-emotional learning, and inclusivity through a blend of jazz, folk, pop, hip-hop, and Afro-Caribbean sounds. Through the live show Seeka Sings and her debut TV series "Seeka's Skyway" (available on Telus Optik TV and YouTube), Seeka "champions early education, social-emotional learning, and diversity. With 20 years’ experience as a performer, four award-nominated…...read more
