The Library will have regular hours this week except for the first day of the New Year, when we will be closed (Wednesday, January 1)!
For a more detailed look at our schedule throughout January, download our calendar.
Download January 2025 calendar
Happy Holidays to You!
Published on 12/20/24
Here is the schedule for Whitefish Community Library during the December 2025 Holiday week:
Monday, December 23: OPEN usual hours, 10 am to 7 pm.
Tuesday, December 24: CLOSED – Christmas Eve.
Wednesday, December 25: CLOSED – Christmas Day.
Thursday, December 26: OPEN usual hours, 10 am to 6 pm.
Friday, December 27th: OPEN usual hours, 10 am to 6 pm. At 11 am, Story Circle celebrates Chanukah, with special visitor, Chana Wolf, representing Chabad of the Flathead Valley.
Saturday, December 28th: OPEN usual Saturday hours – 12 to 5 pm.
From our homes to yours, we wish you a safe and peaceful Holiday season - The Staff of Whitefish Community Library
Traveling? Bring a Magazine Along!
Published on 12/06/24
With over 3000 magazines to choose from in Montana Library 2 Go, there is something for everyone to enjoy during the Holiday travel season. It’s easy. Find the link to Montana Library 2 Go on our Montana Shared Catalog page, or just use the link RIGHT HERE.
After you choose a magazine, you can download it to your device, all ready for Travel Day.
Enjoy!
Thinking about Family….
Published on 12/04/24
HeritageQuest is a searchable database featuring the US Census up to 1950, a plethora of family histories, selected Revolutionary War records and more. It’s easily found on our website, just below this post on the left – the red rectangle with a tree. While in the Montana Shared Catalog you’ll see the same red rectangle on the right.
It’s fun to explore HeritageQuest. All you need is your 14-digit WCL card number.
Thanksgiving and Heritage Day closures at WCL
Published on 11/27/24
Whitefish Community Library will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 28 and 29, so staff can enjoy the holidays with friends and family. The Library re-opens Saturday, November 30 at noon.
Whitefish Library Staff wish you and yours a peaceful holiday!
Norman Rockwell painting courtesy of St. Louis Art Museum. Find out more.
Who Are All the Newcomers?
Published on 11/26/24
Perhaps you read the local news article about the influx of newcomers to Montana affecting the recent election. If you are curious about that, check out our Virtual Visit program this week: “Who Are All the Newcomers?” on Wednesday, November 27th at 6:30 p.m.
Join Tara Mastel of MSU Extension Service as she drills down on who is arriving in Montana, from where, and why they are coming here. She’ll share information from a recent study by MSU reseachers to give you the answers.
Virtual Visits are Zoom programs with topics of interest to Montanans, curated by the Montana State Library. Registration is free, and you will join residents from all over Montana for an interactive program.
Find out more and register HERE.
Tara Mastel is Program Lead for Community Vitality at MSU Extension
Closed for Veterans Day
Published on 11/09/24
The Library will be closed on Monday, November 11, for Veterans Day. It will reopen Tuesday, November 12 at 10 a.m.
Did you know that Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day, in remembrance of the day hostilities ended in “The Great War,” now known as World War I? Fighting ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 – although the treaty to end the war was not signed until the next year.
Learn more about the fascinating history of Veterans Day on the Department of Veterans Affairs website.
For the personal histories and memories of veterans across our Nation’s wars from The Great War through recent conflicts, look over the Veterans History Project on the Library of Congress website. The letters of Captain Allen Melancthon Sumner, Jr. (pictured below) are one instance.
The staff at Whitefish Community Library wishes you and yours a peaceful weekend!
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