Fort 91原创 library is moving, temporarily, to a new location.
On Saturday, Feb. 3 the library was set to close its location in the Fort 91原创 Community Hall permanently.
Its long-term home will be in the salishan Place by the River, a new cultural centre and museum a few blocks away, near the Fort 91原创 National Historic Site.
However, salishan is not expected to open until this fall. In the interim, a pop-up library will open on Tuesday, Feb. 6 at the old 91原创 Centennial Museum at 9135 King Street.
The new location will have a downsized version of the library services, including a small browsing collection, pick up for books on hold, and book returns, until the new permanent site is open at salishan, said library manager Jo-Ann Sleiman. That鈥檚 expected to be sometime in the fall.
The public is invited to a goodbye party on Saturday at the Community Hall location from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be cake, coffee, and music as part of the farewell event.
According to Fort 91原创 Library supervisor Lois Beck, the library in the Fort has had several homes over the years.
The first location for a library was at the corner of Glover Road and Francis Ave., where in the 1930s and 鈥�40s, the library was located inside a druggists and confectionary store.
When the drugstore moved in the 1950s to the west side of Glover Road, the library moved with him.
Then from 1957 to 1975, the library was three shelves of books in Waska鈥檚 Store, and Marjory Waska served as the community library.
In 1975, the library moved to the Fort 91原创 Community Hall for the first time, but not to its current space. It was in a 508 square foot room which is now used as a meeting room.
It moved to the larger, 912 square foot space in 1981, which gave the library its own external entrance.
