Whitefish Community Library

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.

Story Circle will take a break on Friday, August 22, and Friday, August 29, so that Miss Gina can take a well-deserved rest after the most successful Summer Reading Program in WCL’s history!

Our readers read enough to place 2,850 baseball stickers on the baseball field mural, triggering a donation of the same amount by the Whitefish Credit Union to the Miracle League of Northwestern Montana.

Story Circle will resume on Friday, September 5th at 11 am as usual.

Above: Miracle League Banner before 2,850 stickers.

Below: Miracle League Banner after 2,850 stickers.

Toddlers will discover whooooo lives on the trail – a 1/2 mile hike to the Whitefish Legacy Partner Learning Pavilion. We will meet at the Trailhead at 10 a.m.

This hike is targeted to ages 2-4 and their caregivers. Space is limited – please REGISTER HERE.