Baie-D'Urfé Library

Hours

Monday 2:30-5:00pm & 7:00-9:00pm
Tuesday 2:30-5:00pm & 7:00-9:00pm
Wednesday 10:00am-12:00pm & 2:30-9:00pm
Thursday 2:30-5:00pm & 7:00-9:00pm
Friday 2:30-5:00pm & 7:00-9:00pm
Saturday 1:30-4:00pm
Sunday 1:30-4:00pm
Click here for a list of holiday closures.

Location

20551 ch. Lakeshore Baie-D'Urfé (Québec) H9X 1R3

The Library is located in the Whiteside Taylor Center, situated between the Fritz Farm Community Center and the Red Barn along Lakeshore Road in Baie-D'Urfé, Quebec.

About Us

The BDU Library is a recreational library carrying non-fiction and fiction books, magazines, DVDs, and CDs for both adults and children. We offer WiFi as well as a computer with internet access. The daily operations of the library are provided by volunteers from the community with staff focused on cataloging and other technical aspects of the library’s operation.

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Library Programs

Library Services

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Children

Chess Club

The Chess Club meets the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month at 2pm. Come play chess! The next club meeting is October 20th!

Lego Club

Join us on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 7pm for creative play and Lego building challenges. No registration required. The next club meeting is September 25th!

Activities at the library

Book Talk with author Barbara Burgess

Join us Wednesday October 3rd at 7:00pm for a visit with author Barbara Burgess. She will be reading from her new book The Cacouna Caves and the Hidden Mural.

Baie-D'Urfé Library Book Club

The Book Club meets the 1st Thursday of the month at 2:30pm. Registration is required. Please contact the library for more information

October 4 we will be discussing "Precious Cargo" by Craig Davidson.

November 1 we will be discussing "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer.

Computer Skills Workshops

Come improve your computer skills at the library! We now offer two courses:

Microsoft Word Basics for PC: Tuesday, September 18th at 7:00-8:00

Microsoft Excel Basics for PC: Wednesday, September 19th at 7:00-8:00

Sign up at the library! Before registering for the workshops, make sure you can bring your own laptop, and that you have one of the Microsoft Office programs installed!

Knit Night: Third Friday of the month from 7pm-9pm

Bring in your knitting projects, your questions, your expertise! All welcome. September 21, October 19, November 16.

Chess Club

The Chess Club meets the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month at 2pm. Come play chess! The next club meeting is October 20th!

NFB Film Club

Documentaries from the National Film Board of Canada

Screenings take place on the second Thursday of the month at 7pm

On October 11: Unarmed Verses: This feature documentary presents a thoughtful and vivid portrait of a community facing imposed relocation. At the centre of the story is a remarkably astute and luminous 12-year-old black girl whose poignant observations about life, the soul, and the power of art give voice to those rarely heard in society. Unarmed Verses is a cinematic rendering of our universal need for self-expression and belonging.

Click here to sign up for our monthly newsletter. You can also opt-in to receive additional messages about Adult English, Adult French, or Children's programming in the library.

Baie-D'Urfe Language Group (BULG)

BULG meets in the library for converstaional language learning. For more information visit their website.

Exhibitions

Artworks by Golnaz Namazi and Joyce Yan will be on display in the Library in September.

Artists interested in diplaying work at our library, please contact us at biblio@baie-durfe.qc.ca


Library Services

Membership:

Library membership is free to all residents of Baie D'Urfé, and each member may borrow up to 9 items for 3 weeks. Non-Resident user fees are posted at the library.

Borrow from a wide range of Fiction and Nonfiction books, as well as Magazines, Music CD's, Talking Books and Videos/DVDs for both Adults and Junior members.

Library members can now renew loans and place reserves online!Click here for instructions to access your account online.

Fines:

Overdue adult books and all audiovisual materials are fined $0.20 per day per item with a maximum of $4.00. Overdue children's books are fined $0.10 per day per item with a maximum of $2.00.

Home Library Service

We offer a delivery service for Baie-D'Urfé residents who cannot come in to the library. Click here for more information.

Inter-Library-Loan

We participate in inter-library-loan service, which allows our users to access some books we do not have in our collections, by borrowing them from other public libraries in the province. For more information about this service, please see our policy, or call the library to speak with the librarian.

Computers:

We offer public access to one iPad, one computer, and a printer/scanner. We also offer free public WiFi.

Click here for instructions on how to connect to our WiFi. Click here for our terms of service.

Volunteers:

The Town of Baie-D'Urfé prides itself on its vast number of community volunteers, and the library is part of this volunteer network. The library welcomes all willing volunteers!

Click here for our annual report of activities and statistics for 2017.

The library is funded by

the town of Baie-D'Urfé

Baie-D'Urfé

and the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications Québec.

Québec

Their support is gratefully acknowledged.