Whitefish Community Library

Each year, Whitefish Community Library’s Summer Readers contribute to a local nonprofit by reading, reading, and reading some more. In previous years, Summer Readers have contributed over $1500 to Meals on Wheels, Whitefish Lake Institute, and Good Grief Camp by reading for the equivalent of 7 months, 24 hours a day. We’re betting that our readers will do it again this year, and so is our sponsor, the Whitefish Credit Union.

Can you guess which nonprofit our Summer Readers will help this year? Here’s a clue:

Thanks to North Valley Music School and Humanities Montana, the Library is able to host musician Chris Sand, who will perform from his first-ever children’s music CD, “Magic Beans.”

Cruise in to the Community Room on Saturday, May 11 by 10:30 a.m. (the Library will open at noon) for this very special concert.

The Whitefish Community Library Board of Trustees will meet at 7 pm on Wednesday, May 8th in the Library’s Community Room. The public is invited to attend in person or via ZOOM.

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82847257008?pwd=YU9OSm11M3VTazVTSklmSWdVUDd5QT09

Meeting ID: 828 4725 7008; Passcode: books4all

Download May meeting agenda

If you’ve been waiting for the Montana Shared Catalog App to return, your wait is over! And if you haven’t used the app before, you might want to check it out. The Montana Shared Catalog app is free in any app store. Download it and search the catalog, place holds, and renew items.

Swipe left to view all 3 pages and view MontanaLibrary2Go to access downloadable audiobooks and ebooks, visit the Montana History Portal, or explore Montana’s State Publications and Natural Heritage Program.

Features we love:

The barcode scanner will scan the ISBN barcode on the back of any book and tell you if it’s available from the Library.

“My Barcode” on the bottom of all three pages keeps your library card number with you at all times.

Chris La Tray visits Whitefish Community Library on Friday night, April 12th, at 6 pm in the final program of the Winter Writers Series. The audience will be a partner in this event: La Tray will read from his works, and responded when asked about his program, “I prefer to lean more toward discussion with a little reading mixed-in.”

La Tray is Montana’s Poet Laureate for the biennial 2023-2024. His first book of poetry, “One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large” received the Montana Book Award.

Read more about Chris La Tray.

The Whitefish Community Library Board of Trustees will meet at 7 pm on Wednesday, April 10th in the Library’s Community Room. The public is invited to attend in person or via ZOOM.

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82847257008?pwd=YU9OSm11M3VTazVTSklmSWdVUDd5QT09

Meeting ID: 828 4725 7008; Passcode: books4all

Download Agenda.

What do you know about historic women writers of Montana – Mary Ronan, Nannie Alderson, May Vontver, or Mary Maclane? Writer Caroline Patterson tells the stories of these writers, and leads a workshop to bring out the stories that participants can tell of the remarkable women in their own lives. Join us in the Library’s Community Room, Thursday, March 28 at 6 pm. Free and open to the public.

More about Caroline Patterson

(Picture of Mary Ronan from MT Historical Society)