West Lorne Library                               Winter 2025
Branch Open Hours
Sunday & Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 3:00pm - 7:00pm
Friday: 10:00pm - 4:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am - 1:00pm
One kind word can warm three winter months.
~ Japanese Proverb
Winter Reading Program
Early ON Story Time
Enjoy toys, activities, crafts, & of course, books!  For ages 0-6.
Join us for an EarlyOn Play & Learn partnership at the West Lorne Library on Fridays from 10am-11:30am.  Please call in advance to confirm.  
After the Bell - Children's Program
Join us for fun and creative activities!
Something different every week! 
Thursdays 4:00pm to 5:30pm 
Starts January 16th,2025
Drop In - Ages 5 to 12 years 
 
MARCH BREAK
                                           Ahoy Mateys! 
          Join us at the West Lorne Library for a week filled with                                                        PIRATEY FUN!
Do the hornpipe or dance a jig to the music of CAPTAIN FINN and the SALTY SEA DOGS! at the Dutton Library.
Watch for more details. MARCH 10th - 14th, 2025                       
 
                                            Take & Make
What will be the next surprise? 
Check out what all the fun is about!  Take and makes are loved far and wide by children and the young at heart.  Pick up yours and find all the materials you need inside to create and play!  (While supplies last).
 
 
Books and Baking 
Books and Baking Reading Club for
Older Adults
First Thursday of the month  
 February 5th, March 5th, April 3rd, May 1st, June5th 2024
West Elgin Community Health Centre - Hub Kitchen
Choose a book provided by library staff.  Read it and meet to discuss while making something delicious to eat. Registration Required by contacting the West Lorne Library. 
Sewing Machines 
Sewing Machines available to use 
Do you know we have Sewing Machines for your use at the Dutton, West Lorne and Rodney Library branches? 
 
If you're interested in learning how to use them please ask staff and they'll be happy to assist you. Learn, Create and Mend!  
 
Sewing machines and supplies were generously donated by the West Lorne and Rodney Kiwanis Clubs.
Income Tax Clinic
BOOKS FOR SALE
Visit our ongoing book sale cart at the Library filled with discarded books, DVDs, Magazines and more. Cost is by donation.
 
 
BOOKS 2 GO
Mobile Delivery for Homebound Patrons
Elgin County Library in partnership with the West Elgin Community Health Centre (WECHC) and VON Canada offers Books 2 Go, a FREE service that delivers library materials to those in need.  
 
To find out more, visit our website or call. 
 
ADULT BOOK CLUB
Discover New Authors & Join in Lively Discussion! 
 
Borrow the title for the Adult Book Club, share your thoughts with us or join in on the last Thursday of each month to chat!  We meet at 6:00pm.  Please let us know if you can join in - we look forward to seeing you!  Wonder what we're reading?  Check out the line up of great reads below:
January: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger 
February:  When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel 
March: If I Knew Then: finding wisdom in failure and power in aging by Jann Arden
 
The leftover woman
by Jean Kwok

Arriving in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, Jasmine Young, on the run from her abusive husband, desperately searches for the daughter taken away from her at birth, which forces her to make increasingly risky decisions.
Of women and salt
by Gabriela Garcia

The daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties. A first novel. 200,000 first printing. Tour.
The vanishing half
by Brit Bennett

Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
 
 
Book lists, social media & great resources!
*You'll need your library card number*
Universal Class 
Offers lifelong learning
courses so you may learn
at your own pace.
hoopla
Borrow movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks & comics.
Events Calendar
To see all library programs,
click this calendar.
West Lorne Library
160A Main Street
West Lorne, Ontario N0L 2P0
519-768-1150
www.elgincounty.ca/library