Library News

There's nothing better than a personalized, home-made gift. Get creative and make something special this year with the Cricut Explore Air 2! Now bookable for one-hour time slots, you can pick up your materials and come in to the Library to get crafting. 

On November 23, the Simcoe Muskoka region was placed in the Orange zone for COVID-19 precautions. Learn what this means for the Barrie Public Library. 

Looking for help navigating services during COVID-19? Our Community Information Database has up-to-date information on topics like financial relief, mental health resources, grocery & food delivery, legal questions, and more. 

Have you heard? Our new catalogue myBPL is launching December 1 and you can get a sneak preview now! Each week we will share tips, tricks and feature highlights so you can get familiar with it. This week we're talking about recent arrivals and on-order items.

Our new catalogue is coming November 30th.  Try out the new features and help us test the new system!