Susie McIntyre is resigning as director of the Great Falls Public Library. She’ll assist with the transition for the incoming director as requested by the library’s board of trustees, which will begin the search process in the coming weeks with the assistance of the city’s human resources department. McIntyre will continuing serving as director until the new director starts, whenever
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The Great Falls Public Library is launching Kanopy video streaming for library card holders beginning July 1. The service is being funded through the Great Falls Public Library Foundation. Kanopy is a video streaming service that offers films, documentaries and educational videos, accessible for free through participating public libraries and universities. Kanopy has ad-free content, including critically acclaimed movies, foreign
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The Great Falls Public Library kicks off the Summer Music Series on July 1 from 7-9 p.m. in Library Park, behind the Library, with the pop/rock band, Savvy, from Bozeman. Each Tuesday in July and August, the library has a band performing in the park for free. Savvy, “…is the ultimate party band, delivering polished performances of all the pop and
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The Great Falls Public Library, with United Way of Cascade County, the Alexander Temple, NeighborWorks Great Falls, the YWCA, Great Falls Rising, the Cascade County Democratic Party and Great Falls Parks and Recreation are hosting a Juneteenth celebration in Gibson Park on June 21 from noon to 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. During the
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The Great Falls Public Library is hosting an Alzheimer’s awareness event culminating in a free showing of Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s in the Cordingley Room on May 29. The Weissman-Hood Institute, formerly McLaughlin Center, for free memory screenings and a research update at 5 p.m. Kyla from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services will lead free
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The Great Falls Public Library is offering the Summer Library Loot Box program. Teens ages 12-18 in Cascade County are invited to sign up for their free Library Loot Box. Each box contains three library books individually selected for them, plus prizes and candy to sweeten their reading. Readers who complete at least two of their three Library Loot Box
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As part of National Library Week, April 6-12, the Great Falls Public Library will show the new documentary “Free for All: The Public Library” on at 6:30 p.m. April 8 in conjunction with Independent Lens, Indie Lens Pop-Up and PBS. Door open at 6 p.m. in the Cordingley Room, with free popcorn and refreshments provided. “The public library is one of America’s
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The Great Falls Public Library is hosting six weeks of free in-person digital literacy workshops. The workshops will be held on Thursdays, every other week, from 1-2:30 p.m. in the small meeting room in the library’s basement, beginning Feb. 6. The program is provided by GFPL and the Public Library Association in partnership with AT&T. The workshops are geared toward
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Updated Dec. 3 City Commissioners will be asked during their Dec. 3 meeting to reject bids for the front door replacement project at the Great Falls Public Library. The library was awarded $20,000 in American Rescue Plan Act, or federal COVID relief funds, from Cascade County’s allocation in 2022. Library officials were planning to replace the front doors as a
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This year’s city Christmas ornament is the Great Falls Public Library. The Great Falls-Cascade County Historic Preservation Advisory Commission selected the library earlier this year as the 2024 ornament in the city’s series of collectable ornaments that feature historic places in the city and Cascade County. They city formally announced the ornament two days after the City Commission voted to
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