WELLINGTON COUNTY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER | January 2022
Stack of magazines with tablet
Let's Get Digital
NEW! Instantly read the latest issue of your favourite magazine on your computer or mobile device. 
Digital magazines have no wait lists, do not count towards checkout limits, and are renewable. Choose from more than 3,000 magazines, including:
  • Style at Home
  • Zoomer
  • Canadian Living
  • Reader’s Digest Canada
  • Elle Canada
  • HELLO!
  • The Hockey News
  • Cook’s Illustrated
Search our online catalogue, connect through OverDrive, or download the Libby app.
Alert icon
SERVICE UPDATES
All branches are closing at 2:00 pm December 31 and closed January 1.

Please note our temporary hours of operation. Pick up service continues until further notice. Please call your local branch to arrange a time.

Computer access and help with vaccination QR codes are available by appointment. Masks, screening, and proof of vaccination are required.
We’ve Gone Fine-Free!
Effective immediately, overdue items will no longer incur late fees. Eliminating this fine means a more positive relationship with our communities, including an increase in returned items and improved access for everyone.
Please note the following conditions apply:

  • Items will still have due dates and overdue notices continue
  • Items with no holds can be renewed up to three times
  • Cards with 5 or more items overdue will be blocked until returned
  • Long overdue, lost, or damaged items will be billed
County Staff Picks of 2021 
Votes are in! Here are some of the top-rated books that County staff read in 2021. For a complete list of titles, visit our online catalogue starting January 4.
Untamed book cover
by Glennon Doyle
If I Knew Then Book Cover
Rose Code book cover
by Kate Quinn
Call for Writers!
Wellington County Library and Wellington County Museum and Archives want to celebrate writers from our community!
Local writers and writers of books relevant to
Wellington County are invited to apply to the

Applications will be accepted between January 17 and February 1. Participation may include opening, closing, and one local event.
Orange typewriter on blue background
Festival Opening
Saturday, April 23
Wellington County Museum and Archives
Festival Closing and
Summer Reading Launch
Saturday, June 25
Hillsburgh Branch, Wellington County Library
by Stanley Tucci
Do yourself a favour and let Stanley Tucci read you his amazing memoir about food.

In a velvet voice, Tucci relates gorgeous and witty tales of meals he loved, choice recipes, and the harrowing bout of throat cancer that threatened it all. A staff favourite of 2021! Available in hardcover, eBook, audio CD, and digital audiobook.
Taste book cover
For more recommended reads, check out monthly Staff Picks through our online catalogue or register for our weekly Book News email.
Wellington County Library Logo
#WellingtonCountyLibrary
on social media!
Alternate formats available upon request.
OM Official Mark of The Corporation of the County of Wellington