Library Databases & Online Catalogue

Library Databases  & Online Catalogue

Databases 
The Library is offering a class in how to use the Library databases, which are free to access with your library card. There is a wide selection of databases—mechanical, medical, literature, and more—available for home access.
March 8 • Thursday • 7:00 P.M. 

Online Catalogue 
Interesting in ordering library items from home? Come on down to the Library to learn how to use the online catalogue to find books, order in items, and what to do when you just can’t find the title you want!
March 22 • Thursday • 7:00 P.M. 




Shellbrook Public Library 
Drop in or phone 747-3419 to register.
Admission free and refreshments provided.

Shellbrook Library Preparing for Its Diamond Anniversary

Librarian Alanna Carswell holds "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White and "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C. S. Lewis, two notable children’s books from 1952, the year the Shellbrook Public Library opened. © Shellbrook Public Library

The Shellbrook Public Library is gearing up to celebrate its 60th Diamond Anniversary in late March. The Library has a colourful past history of locations to share. The Library is also presenting programs on how to use the Library’s databases, March 8, and the online catalogue, March 22, both at 7:00 pm.

This is a diamond year for the Library as it opened its doors to serve the community on March 26, 1952. It is one of the oldest branches of the Wapiti Regional Library which opened as the North Central Saskatchewan Regional Library in 1950 (renamed Wapiti in 1975). Vesta Massey was the first librarian and at the time the hours were 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Thursday to Friday. Massey would serve the library for the rest of the 1950s and the year 1960 along with Dorothy Loth. In 1961 Doris Smith became the librarian and she would serve the community throughout the 1960s.

The first location of the Library was in Manville Hardware (renamed Halliwell Hardware in 1955) located in the area where Woodland Pharmacy now stands at 9 Main Street. From Halliwell Hardware, the Library moved into the Ladies Restroom, a small building on the west side of the Elks Theatre before moving into the Theatre proper after a time. Next locations were Dorothy’s Floral Shop and Norman Smith’s Furniture Store, 33 Man Street which is presently Dee Gee’s Confectionary. The Library remained in Norman Smith’s Furniture Store for about fifteen years before the 1977 move into the basement of the Shellbrook Credit Union, 31 Main Street which is presently Affinity Credit Union.

Notable fiction books published in the year the Library opened, 1952, were “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck, “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway, “Charlotte's Web” by E. B. White, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (The Chronicles of Narnia series, #5) by C. S. Lewis, “The Mystery at the Ski Jump” (Nancy Drew series, #29) by Carolyn Keene, and “The Secret of Wildcat Swamp” (Hardy Boys series, #31) by Franklin W. Dixon.

The Library is offering a class in how to use the Library databases, which are free to access with your library card, on Thursday, March 8, at 7:00 pm. There is a wide selection of databases—mechanical like the Auto Repair Reference Centre, medical like the Health & Wellness Resource Center, literature like NoveList, and more—available for home access. Openings are limited to available computers at the Library so hurry to register by dropping in or phoning Librarian Alanna at 747-3419.

Interesting in ordering library items from home? Come on down to the Library on Thursday, March 22, at 7:00 pm to learn how to use the online catalogue to find books, order in items, and what to do when you just can’t find the title you want! Openings are limited to available computers at the Library so hurry to register by dropping in or phoning Librarian Alanna at 747-3419.