Jasper Municipal Library staff
The library is closed to the public. Staff are available Wednesdays and Thursdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Reach us at 780-852-3652 or [email protected]. No contact pickups and e-resources are available. The book drop is open. Items go into isolation for a week before checking in. Free library memberships can be done by phone.
National Volunteer Week
National Volunteer Week starts April 18. The library would like to recognize and thank the many volunteers who make it possible for us to offer library services in Jasper.
The Municipality of Jasper library board members are volunteers selected by Jasper’s Municipal Council to manage the library. They are responsible for making sure the library meets its responsibilities under Alberta’s Library legislation and regulations.
Jasper Friends of the Library Society are volunteers who advocate for local, regional, and provincial library services, and fundraise for local library collections and programs.
To the many people who support us year after year. Your hours in the library, donations to the collection, offers of assistance and calls to say “hi” were much appreciated. Thank you.
Jasper Pride Festival
In celebration of the Jasper Pride Festival, the library invites you to check out some of our many e-resources for people interested in LGBTQ2S+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and two-spirited) history and culture. Follow the e-resources link of our website, www.jasperlibrary.ab.ca.
- Hoopla features movies, audiobooks, comics and graphic novels, e-books and TV series featuring LGBTQ2S+ content.
- Alberta Research Portal contains archives of sexuality and gender, including LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940.
- Cloud Library has extensive ebook and audiobook collections of LGBTQ2+ fiction for children, teens and adults.
- CELA (Centre for Equitable Library Access), a public library service for Canadians with print disabilities, has fiction titles and biographies in various formats in their LGBTQ2+ collections.
- Pressreader features publications of special interest to LGBTQ2S+ communities.
And here are few staff favorites from our shelves:
- Worm Loves Worm (picture book) by J.J. Austrian, Illustrated by Mike Curato. A worm meets a special worm and they decide to marry.
- “No matter the opinions and criticisms of others, Worm and Worm hold fast to what is important to them: each other.” -Mike Curato
- A Plan for Pops (picture book) by Heather Smith, Illustrated by Brooke Kerrigan. A positive and realistic representation of both a wheelchair user and an elderly, interracial gay male couple. -Kirkus Reviews
- This Wound is a World (poetry) by Billy-Ray Belcourt. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His work also appears in our Read Alberta eBooks: Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection.
I’m Afraid of Men (essays) by Vivek Shraya. A trans artist (and University of Calgary writing professor) explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl and how we might reimagine gender for the 21st century.
