The Hastings Highlands Public Library had a fantastic turnout of over 115 people at our Sciensational Sssnakes presentation, put on by...

Our Summer Reading Challenge is on! Both adults and kids can participate in this challenge for a chance to win one of four prizes. All...

We will be hosting a movie night on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 in celebration of National Canadian Film Day! Originally launched in 2014, National Canadian Film Day celebrates the diversity of Canadian filmmakers and Canadian cinema by making films available to libraries, schools, retirement residences, community centres, and other organizations for free. We invite members of the public to come out to the library for one or both of our movie showings that we will be putting

A celebration of staff years of service was held on Tuesday, October 18th for Kristin Seaborn and Tiffany Dalley in front of the...

A local group of musicians who meet in the library every Friday morning to perform together joined us on Friday, June 24th to celebrate the launch of our very first "Library of Things," an Instrument Lending Library featuring a variety of instruments that will be available to the public to borrow with their library card. Our collection of instruments currently includes a children's violin, guitars, ukuleles, an accordion, a dulcimer, and several handheld percussion instrument

Welcome to Hastings Highlands Public Library! Be sure to ask the librarian for an entry form for one of our many prize draws being held...

Looking for a good read but want to try something new? Visit our Patron Picks book display! These titles are recommended favourites...

On Thursday, August 8th, Toronto author Dave Meslin came out to the Hastings Highlands Public Library to talk about his book "Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy From The Ground Up." Over 25 people were in attendance to learn democratic solutions to give a voice to ordinary people. Marlena Zuber, local artist and illustrator of "Teardown," gave an inspirational reading to kickstart the evening before Dave started the discussions. "From environmental activism to public space advoca

Members of the Maynooth Community have celebrated Pride in August for 28 years, and this marks the second year that the Hastings Highlands Public Library has partnered with the LGBTQ community to offer special events for all to attend. On Thursday, August 1st, members of the LGBTQ community read excerpts from the books that changed their lives and presented the library with an honorary rainbow flag in thanks for providing the space and support for this event. It was a lively

Hastings Highlands Public Library will be celebrating Harry Potter's birthday (July 31st for you muggles out there) for the entire month...

On May 27th the Maynooth Trading Post hosted their very own "Free Clothing and Textile Repair-a-Thon" as a Transition Town Maynooth Initiative at the Hastings Highlands Public Library. The primary objective of this initiative was to reduce the amount of materials being thrown away in the local dumps. Each item was weighed and recorded to determine the physical weight of materials being diverted from the dumps by choosing to mend them instead. To achieve this goal, volunteers

Every month, our library features a different artist's work in our Cultural Corner display. Over the years, these displays have ranged...

Last Thursday at the library, Leslie Hysert and Lesley Eden hosted a Hugelkultur Gardening workshop for free to any who wanted to come out and listen. For those of you who haven't heard of this type of gardening before, it refers to the technique of using raised garden beds for planting. Those who attended were also able to learn about large scale food production, food preservation, and more. The program room at the library was packed with locals interested in learning more a

This week at Hastings Highlands Public Library has been action packed and fun, thanks to the volunteer work of Korbin and Landon Paradis, Katie Gavrylec and Colin Montgomery. All week at the library, kids have been invited to design marshmallow structures, play with OSMO, create with LEGO, and make their very own slime, play-doh and ooblik to take home. There was also some gym time set aside for kids to play games like Hungry Hippos and more. If you recognize the names of our

The wonderful volunteer cast of last year's Murder Mystery fundraiser, who will be getting together again this November for another night of laughter and intrigue. Last year, it was the death of lighthouse keeper Willard Dobbs that brought these colourful characters together as they tried to prove their innocence to the audience - and each other - throughout the evening. For those who have never been to a Murder Mystery Dinner, the concept is straightforward enough. A group o

Science fiction author Marcus Shields will be hosting a reading at the library on Saturday, October 27th at 11am and again at 1:00pm. Marcus recently moved to the community with his wife and generously donated his series 'Angel Brings Fire' to the library for patrons to try. The Angel Brings Fire series is about a mighty alien being who may be Earth's only hope against total annihilation. The Angel brings the unique gift of the 'Holy Fire' that will forever change the course