Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library
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Your Community... your library! We have 8 local library branches located near you - Antigonish, New Glasgow, Pictou, River John, Stellarton, Trenton, Westville & Borrow-by-Mail! www.parl.ns.ca
September is one of our most favorite month's of the year at the library ... because it's #LibraryCard Sign-upMonth! 😁 💗 📚️ 🤓 Drop by, call or email us - and sign up for a library card! They're the best card you'll ever carry in your wallet, and it comes with a handy keytag card too. Perfect! 😉
After School Crafternoon is now After School Art, at the New Glasgow Library! Age 5 + Drop in at Fridays at 3 pm beginning on September 25th, to release your creativity with a fun art project. No registration required.
More Day 2 at #NSLA2026 at the #deCoste in #Pictou, with beautiful music over lunch with #SymphonyNS Woodwind Quartet ☺️🎶🎵🥰
We're excited! 🎶 ... it's Symphony Week! Drop by and join us today, Sat Sept 19, from 12:15pm to 12:45pm, as we host a woodwind quartet performance by members of #SymphonyNovaScotia at the Murray Family Public Library, in #Pictou, at the #deCosteCultureHub. 🎼 😊 #deCosteCentre
Day 2 , of the #NSLA 2026 conference! So pleased to welcome #NovaScotia Libraries, exhibitors, and library staff to the #deCosteCultureHub in #Pictou ☺️ And our Keynote speaker, Yaroslava S. with the #UkrainianLibraryAssociation 🩷📚
Saturdays are for book lovers! We’re launching Staff Pick Saturday to help you bypass the scrolling and jump straight into your next great read. Check out this week’s featured picks below. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher #StaffPickSaturday
The Stationary Station is waiting for you! If you love journaling, scrap-booking , origami , or any other paper craft, drop in to the New Glasgow Library to use our space and materials in a project of your choice. Age 16 +, no registration required. Thursday, September 24th, 6 to 7:30 pm.
If technology is getting you down, we can help at the New Glasgow Library. Make an private 45 minute appointment with our tech trainer on Tuesday or Thursday afternoons, or Wednesday evenings. Call 902-752-8233 to set up an appointment.
We’re pawsitively excited for Songs ’N’ Tails with Tia McGraff, coming up at the #Pictou Library! Join us for a special event featuring live music and a reading from Tia’s beloved children’s series, Jake the Road Dawg. Be sure to stop by on Friday Oct 16 at 11:00 a.m. for a fun morning!
✨️ 📖 Staff Pick Saturday is Here! 📖 ✨️ Ever wondered what your local librarians are actually reading when they're not busy shelving? Starting this Saturday, we're sharing our personal favourites! Get the inside scoop straight from the people who live and breathe books!
Congratulations to our Summer Reading Club grand prize winner, Oliver! He was the winner of our Shark, here at the #RiverJohn library. Thank-you to all the kids who participated this year, and to the Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program for their generous contributions to this program.
Family Story time at 10:15 am every Thursday at the New Glasgow Library. Songs, stories and a craft for kids 18 months and older. No registration required.
Congratulations to our Squishy Basket winners Henry and Edith, seen here at the #RiverJohn library with their mom Laura. Thank-you everyone for supporting our latest fundraising effort! For more information and how to donate, please visit www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
Congratulations to our Squishy prize winner at the New Glasgow Library! Thanks Maya for being such a great patron!
September is one of our most favorite month's of the year at the library ... because it's #LibraryCard Sign-upMonth! 😁 💗 📚️ 🤓 Drop by, call or email us - and sign up for a library card! They're the best card you'll ever carry in your wallet, and it comes with a handy keytag card too. Perfect! 😉
Babies and Books, every Wednesday morning at 10:15 the New Glasgow Library. Stories, songs and rhymes for babies up to 18 months.
Join us at the #Pictou Library on Fri Oct 16 at 11am for a pawsitively fun morning of stories and songs with Tia McGraff! Tia will bring her beloved children’s book, "Jake the Road Dawg", to life with an engaging reading filled with fun, followed by a selection of her original songs.
Friday Foreign Film - Rental Family - New Glasgow Library Friday, September 11th at 2 pm. Starring Brendan Fraser as an American actor attempting to make a living in Japan. In English and Japanese with English subtitles.
East Currants Music Circle Meets tomorrow, Wednesday, September 16th, at the New Glasgow Library at 1:30 pm. This is a songwriting circle for people who are unhoused, have been unhoused, or are in unstable housing. No musical experience or expertise required. No need to register.
Enter the Storyverse - Teen Book Group this Wednesday, September 16th, at the New Glasgow Library. We'll be talking about Raising Hare, and collecting our book for next month, The Fly. Drop in to check us out! Wednesday, September 16th, at 6:30 PM, at the New Glasgow Library.
Join us at the #Pictou Library on Tues Oct 13 @ 5pm.for a presentation by author A.J.B. Johnston In his talk "Serendipity: A Life in Words" Johnston will reflect on growing up in Nova Scotia during the '50s and '60s and how those experiences inspired his writing career.
We have lots of books out for sale this week at the New Glasgow Library. Very low prices the more you buy, the more you save! Fill a regular sized shopping bag for $6!
Autumn is just around the corner, so why not join us at the #RiverJohn library on September 17th and learn to paint the beautiful colours of the season. This month's project will be done in watercolour.🍁
Help us celebrate Agatha Christie's birthday this week at the New Glasgow Library. Drop in to follow the clues in a classic mystery in the library. If you correctly identify the means, motive, and murderer, you will be entered into a draw for an amazing prize. Drop in any time during open hours.
We are #hiring! Branch Assistants - Backup (casual) - #PictouCounty deadline for applications: 01 October 2025 + information: buff.ly/c6evyT3
It’s a full house today at the #Pictou Library, for Whit Fraser’s book launch, in conversation with Red MacKean, ‘From Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall’! Many thanks to Coles Highland Square Mall for selling the books ☺️
TODAY! Join us for an Afternoon Chat with Whit Fraser, in conversation with Robert "Red" MacKean - Sat Sept 12, 2026 at 2:30pm - at the #Pictou Library. (Doors open at 2pm) 📚️ Copies of Whit's new book will be available for purchase. All are welcome to join us! 😊
September is one of our most favorite month's of the year at the library ... because it's #LibraryCard Sign-upMonth! 😁 💗 📚️ 🤓 Drop by, call or email us - and sign up for a library card! They're the best card you'll ever carry in your wallet, and it comes with a handy keytag card too. Perfect! 😉
