Second Avenue Free Library

07/20/2022

Our library will be closing at the end of July.
Please come and take some books to keep.
And thank you for sharing 10 years of books and friendship.

06/17/2022

Our house has heen sold. If you like the Second Avenue Free Library please leave some notes for the new owner saying you want it to stay.
Thank you.

10/21/2020

In East Vancouver.
Cozy, cat-friendly, one bedroom suite is available for January 1st. Lots of natural light and ample storage. Private grassy yard. Bike storage if needed.
In a quiet neighborhood within walking distance of 7, 16 and 99B Line buses. A short 15 minute walk to the shops and cafes of Commercial Drive and the East Village.
Monthly rent includes heat, electricity, wi-fi, cable, microwave and on-site washer and dryer.
Strictly non-smoking, non-vaping, non-420.
Message if interested.

01/21/2017

Are you spring cleaning? We are taking donations of books, CDs, and DVDs. While you're here, take a book or two to read.

01/21/2017

Hats off to all the women marchers this morning. Combat ignorance and intolerance with education. Check out our shelves full of great reads in 10 different languages. Snow is gone; library is back open!

03/30/2015

Libraries pick up the slack in the digital age.

The library features the largest circulating collection of sheet music in the city.  

10/15/2013

Graphic novels, fan fiction, web comics and novel series such as the Hunger Games have changed teen reading since I was that age. October 13-19th is Teen Read Week!
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Seek the Unknown at your library this Teen Read Week with YALSA!

10/11/2013

Hats off to Alice Munro -- Canada's newest Nobel Prize winner. Her perfectly-crafted stories tell us that "short is beautiful".

We asked a number of writers what Alice Munro’s fiction has meant to them. Here’s what they said.

09/18/2013

This is like Libby, our calico,who manages the Second Ave. Free Library. She's a hard working librarian to be sure.

Kuzya is a real go-getter. When the street cat wandered into a library in Novorossiysk, Russia, staff were reportedly so impressed with his moxie that they recruited him as their pet.

09/15/2013

Our most recent donations, left under cover of darkness... New DVDs and books.

09/09/2013