Whitefish Community Library

We remember our Veterans on November 11. The Library will be closed on this day.

We will reopen on Wednesday, November 12 at 10 a.m.

Coming to you on Saturday, November 8th is another fabulous writing workshop for teens with Jess E. Owen! If you’re between the ages of 13 and 18, join Jess on Saturday, November 8, from 11 to 1pm for Fearless Feedback. No registration is necessary, but you’ll want to bring a writing sample. For more information on what that means, read more….

Have you tried out the Montana Shared Catalog app? If you use your phone and you frequent the Whitefish Library, it is amazingly convenient.

Once you have entered your card number and PIN into the app, you can:

Browse the Shared Catalog for books, music and DVD’s,

Renew books,

Place holds, and

Access the Montana Shared Catalog for physical items and MontanaLibrary2Go for downloadables.

See a book you like at the bookstore? Use “Scan ISBN Barcode” feature to find out if it’s in your local library.

Forget your library card? Tap “MY BARCODE” and your 14 digits will be displayed.

Our favorite app is available for free at any App Store and downloads in seconds.

This Saturday, swap your yarn and fiber crafting items at the Fiber Artists of Montana Yarn Swap and Sale. You can bring in what you don’t want and score a voucher to swap for the same amount. Sale begins one hour after the swap. Details are here.

Thank you to the unnamed donor who brought in this quilt to decorate the Library. It looks just right next to the circulation desk and is widely admired. Unfortunately, staff did not get the name of the donor, although there is a Linus Project patch affixed to the back. If you know who made this beautiful quilt, let us know. We’d love to send a “thank you.”

Interested Citizens:

Want to contribute to the future of Whitefish? Join our motivated and hard-working Board! Apply to be a Trustee-in-Training on the Whitefish Community Library’s Board of Trustees.

Trustee-in-Training is a non-voting appointment for one year after which a 5-year appointment as a voting member of the Board commences.

Trustees must reside within School District 44. The Board meets monthly in the evenings for an average of 10 months each year.

If interested: please submit a letter of interest by Wednesday, Oct. 1st to Library Director Mary Drew Powers via snail or email: 9 Spokane Avenue Whitefish, MT 59937 OR marydrew@whitefishlibrary.org

Questions about the Trustee-in-Training position? Please call Mary Drew at 406-862-9914.

Readers ranging in age from babies to great-grandparents made Whitefish Community Library’s “Relax and Unwind” summer reading challenge a great success. The 441 participants read through the summer with the incentive to win prizes and to earn donations for a local nonprofit.

For the fifth year, Whitefish Credit Union supported the challenge with a donation of $1 for every row readers completed on their reading log. All the readers combined to earn a record $2850 for the Miracle League – a free, summer baseball program for children and adults with a special need or disability of any kind or severity, while 40 readers won prizes generously donated by local businesses.

“So many businesses in the valley were so generous this year. We can’t thank them enough for supporting literacy for youth in the summer,” stated Gina Schiff, Youth Services Librarian. The extensive list of donors can be found HERE.

The summer program ended with a celebratory Ice Cream Party in the Depot Park Gazebo, with ice cream and all the fixings donated by Safeway.