Learn about tragedy of early onset Alzheimer’s
Making a library wish list for 2018 has never been easier. While the weather is still quite frightful, you can sit back at home and make your library wish list and explore other great features of your library account on your cellphone, tablet, iPad or whatever device you’ve got on our mobile site. You can find these by going to the library website at my.nflibrary.ca and clicking My Account. Enter your library card number and your PIN code and click Log In. Once you’re logged in, you can customize your search and history, notification, and My Lists preferences all from within your Account Preferences. Creating and using a list through 2018 from the My Lists tab, will challenge your brain, keep you organized, encourage you in your pursuit of learning — something we at the library are happy to help you with.
Another great new feature of our new Evergreen system that you’ve been asking for is an email reminder when your items are coming due. For our customers who provide us with an email address, we now offer a reminder email about three days before your items are due. How convenient! We also offer up to three overdue email notices as well. Another great addition this year is that we can offer to email our customers their library receipts. Less paper and quicker checkout.
Niagara Falls Public Library will be hosting evening tax clinics as well as our one-day tax clinic in partnership with Canada Revenue’s Community Volunteer Income Tax Program. Please check in with the library any time after Jan. 15 to find out if you qualify for these free tax preparation services.
The colours are superb in the Rosberg Gallery at the Victoria Avenue Library during the month of January. Come and visit and view the outstanding artistic abilities of Rensheng Dou. Life-like drawing and paintings with vivid colours jump right off the canvas, be sure to take a look next time you visit.
January is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, an opportunity for all Canadians to increase their awareness of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, which continues to have a significant and growing impact across Canada. Join us for the feature fim — originally broadcast on TVO and directed by Canadians Christopher Wynn and Russell Gienapp — Much Too Young on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 6:30 p.m. at the Victoria Avenue Library. What does it mean to be a young adult faced with caring for an ailing parent? Much Too Young is a powerful and unflinching look at four families struggling to cope with an unexpected role reversal, and the complications that come with caring for a parent with early onset Alzheimer’s at a shockingly young age. Staff from the Alzheimer Society will be on hand after the film if anyone has questions regarding young onset Alzheimer’s. This is a free program, runs for 88 minutes and no registration is required.
Visit us online at my.nflibrary.ca, give us a call at 905-356-8080, send us an email at askus@nflibrary. ca or in person at one of our five locations. The NovelBranch(Gale Centre) 5152 Thorold Stone Road; Stamford Centre 3643 Portage Rd.; MacBain Community Centre 7150 Montrose Rd., Victoria Avenue, 4848 Victoria Ave. and Chippawa 3763 Main St., Niagara Falls.