🎄 Holiday Cardmaking Workshop 🎄 Get into the holiday spirit and create beautiful, hand-crafted greeting cards! Join us to design and make personalized cards using die cuts, holiday-themed shapes, and fun layering techniques. Perfect for sharing with friends and family or keeping as festive keepsakes. 📅 Date: Friday, December 5⏰ Time: 1:00–3:00 p.m.📍 Location: Beaverton Branch💵 Materials Fee: $5✅ Registration required Don’t miss out—register now and make your holidays extra special!

We are excited about all of the enthusiasm for this workshop. Please continue to check our website frequently so you don't miss out on other new programs. 🌿 Deep Sleep Aromatherapy Pillow Workshop 🌙 Create your own aromatherapy pillow in this relaxing, hands-on workshop! Using soothing herbs and soft fabrics, you’ll craft a personalized pillow designed to help you unwind and enjoy a deep, restful sleep. ✨ Great for handmade holiday gifts! 📅 Friday, November 21🕠 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.📍 Cannington Branch💰 $5 materials feeFULL - No longer accepting registration

“All the world’s a stage…” and this month, the stage is set for As You Like It! 🌿💫 Join us for a lively and welcoming reading of Shakespeare’s sparkling comedy of love, wit, and mistaken identity in the enchanted Forest of Arden. Whether you’re a seasoned Shakespeare fan or completely new to the Bard, everyone is welcome to take part or simply sit back and enjoy the magic of the words. 📅 Saturday, November 1🕥 10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.📍 Cannington Branch💬 Drop-in — no registration required! Come for the laughter, stay for the language, and rediscover why Shakespeare’s stories still resonate today. #BrockLibraries #ShakespeareClub #AsYouLikeIt #CommunityPrograms #CanningtonLibrary #LiteraryLife #TheBardLivesOn

Love reading and talking about books? Join our brand-new Junior Book Club, designed for readers in Grades 5–8. 📍 Location: Cannington Branch📅 Dates: September 26, October 24, November 28🕓 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.💡 Format: Drop-in | Meets: One Friday each month Each month, we’ll read a new book and come together to share thoughts, ideas, and fun discussions. Copies of the book are available at the Cannington Branch, or you can place a hold to have one sent to your closest library branch for pickup. ✨ No registration required—just bring your love of reading and join the conversation!

Calling all young artists! Join us for Creative Kids Club, a fun and inspiring program designed especially for children in Grades 1–5. 📅 Dates: September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14📍 Location: Beaverton Branch🕕 Time: 6:15 – 7:00 p.m.💡 Format: Drop-in | Day: Tuesday evenings Each week, kids will explore different artistic techniques and materials—from painting and folding to sculpting and creating with textures and colour. With projects that may span multiple weeks, regular attendance is encouraged so participants can fully enjoy the creative process. ✨ No registration required—just drop in and get creative! This program is part of our Family Programs lineup.

June is Indigenous History Month, a time to reflect, learn, and deepen our understanding of the diverse histories, cultures, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. To support this journey, Brock Libraries has curated a thoughtful resource list featuring powerful stories, scholarly works, and essential reads that highlight Indigenous voices and experiences. Whether you're just beginning or continuing your learning, these resources offer a meaningful starting point. The list is linked directly to our catalogue. Click on any title and place a hold! This initiative also helps prepare our community for the Witness Blanket exhibit, coming to Cannington this fall. The exhibit is a moving national monument that weaves together items from residential schools, churches, and cultural sites to tell the truth about a difficult past and foster dialogue and healing. 🧡 Start exploring our resources here: The Witness Blanket WebsiteDownload Let’s read, learn, and honour together. #IndigenousHistoryMonth #BrockLibraries #TruthAndReconciliation #WitnessBlanket…

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CBC Corner - Discover the best Canadian shows, stories & more Brock Libraries is very happy to announce that we've added a new digital resource to our website! Developed especially for public libraries, CBC Corner is a digital portal that brings CBC's audio, video and news content together in one place for a more streamlined experience. Have a few minutes? Not sure what you are looking for or just want to browse around? With trusted news, local stories and radio shows, entertaining TV shows, documentaries, movies, award-winning podcasts, latest sports news and special reports, and much more, CBC Corner has something for everyone and every taste! Do you have children? CBC Corner has tons of safe, educational and entertaining content for children and youth of all ages including tv shows, free online games, fun quizzes and activities as well as news articles made by kids for kids. As a parent, you will also…

As the grateful recipients of a mini-grant from the International Dyslexia Association, Ontario, Brock Libraries is pleased to showcase our newly purchased decodable book collection! Decodable books are written in a format that builds reading skills and confidence in all readers, but especially struggling readers and those with Dyslexia. This is accomplished by encouraging learners to read ordered books while they increase their knowledge of letter and sound combinations building on what they already know. While the whole language approach to reading has students learn whole words through context (often using pictures to decipher or guess at unknown words and/or memorize common words by sight), decodable books offer learners a more structured approach to reading by learning letter and sound combinations (phonics). Find these items by typing decodable in the search bar of our library catalogue or look for the red decodable spine label amongst the shelves. A sampling of titles to explore: