Past Events in "January 1, 2013"

Your days of being baffled by the Internet will soon be over. Learn all the basics and more at this hands-on session held at Parkgate Branch Library.

Free; no registration required. For more information call 604-929-3727. All equipment for computer classes is provided.

Learn the basics of Facebook, and what social media is all about at this class held at Lynn Valley Main Library. For those who have never used social media before.

Free; registration required. Call 604-984-0286, ext. 8144 to register. All equipment for computer classes is provided.

Learn how to set up an account and all the basics about corresponding by email at this hands-on session held at Capilano Branch Library

Free; registration required. Call 604-987-4471 to register. All equipment for computer classes is provided.

Your days of being baffled by the Internet will soon be over. Learn all the basics and more at this hands-on session held at Capilano Branch Library.

Free; registration required. Call 604-987-4471 to register. All equipment for computer classes is provided.

Learn how to set up an account and all the basics about corresponding by email at this hands-on session held at Parkgate Branch Library. This class will use Gmail to demonstrate setting up an account.

Free; no registration required. For more information call 604-929-3727. All equipment for computer classes is provided.

Drop by the fireplace area of Lynn Valley Main Library for an informal chat with North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton.

Free; everyone welcome. No registration required.

Free; registration required. To register, call 604-984-0286, ext. 8144.

Join author Claudia Cornwall, as she discusses her new book, At the World’s Edge–Curt Lang’s Vancouver: 1937–1998, at a book talk at Lynn Valley Main Library.

Part biography, part memoir, At the World’s Edge tells the story of a man, Curt Lang, and a city, Vancouver. The book includes over thirty of Curt Lang’s unpublished photographs of Vancouver, as well as previously unpublished drawings, paintings, and poetry.

Free; registration required. To register, call 604-929-3727.

Join historical writer Daniel Francis at Parkgate Branch Library for a discussion and illustrative slide show about the aggressive promotional campaigns used to “sell” Canada to its residents and the world.

Francis will discuss his new book, Selling Canada, and speak about three campaigns to “sell” Canada at home and abroad between 1880 and the 1930s. These campaigns persuaded millions of immigrants to make Western Canada their home, and convinced over 500,000 men to become soldiers. Tourists too were “sold” on visiting Canada’s awe-inspiring scenery.

Free; registration required. To register, call 604-987-4471.

Come and enjoy an evening at Capilano Branch Library with Catherine Gildiner, author of After the Falls: Coming of Age in the Sixties.

Catherine will recount her remarkable 1960s coming-of-age story with the same wit, candour and flair for storytelling that made her previous memoir, Too Close to the Falls, a New York Times bestseller.

Set against a backdrop of social change and historic events from the death of JFK to Vietnam anti-war protests, After the Falls is the memorable and ultimately extremely moving story of a young woman’s awakening in a time of unbridled change.

The Friends of the North Vancouver District Public Library are hosting another one of their legendary book sales this October at Lynn Valley Main Library in the Community Meeting Room.

At this sale you’ll find a huge variety of books and audio visual materials at bargain prices ranging from 50 cents to $2. On Sunday, everything is half price! Plus, on Sunday, you can get a bag of books for $3, or a box for $6!

Please bring your own bag to the sale to carry your purchases.Sale proceeds will provide book prizes for the Summer Reading Club and The Trick is to Read Halloween program.

For more information about the Friends, visit www.nvdpl.ca/about/friends.