Phone: 862-9914    FAX 406 862-1407   9 Spokane Avenue, Whitefish, Montana

The Whitefish Community Library is open:

Monday - 10 AM to 7 PM

Tuesday - 10 AM to 6 PM

Wednesday - 10 AM to 6 PM

Thursday - 10 AM to 6 PM

Friday - 12 Noon to 6 PM

Saturday - 12 Noon to 4 PM

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Latest news from the Whitefish Community Library!

• Winter Hours The Whitefish Community Library has listened to your input, and is changing the hours it will be open to the public through the winter, beginning on Thursday, December 1st. The library will be opening earlier in the day, at 10 AM on Monday through Thursday, and will close on Monday's at 7 PM. Closing will be at 6 PM on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The Friday and Saturday opening time will remain the same as they are currently, at 12 Noon. Saturday's closing will remain at 5 PM.

  Storytime will be moved to 11 AM on Thursdays. If you have any questions about this change, please call the library at 862-9914.

• DID YOU KNOW? If you click on the ONLINE CATALOG button, you will be taken to the Montana Shared Catalog, Whitefish Community Library. Here you can search for books or other materials you might want to check out. But there's something you may not have noticed - on the right side of the screen is a box with the title, Library Info. Right below this title is a link to New Books. Check here often to see what new items have been added to the WCL collection.


• For all you Family Historians! It was a struggle, but all the players involved finally took care of business, and HeritageQuest is available online for the Whitefish Community Library Patrons to access from wherever they may be. Your library card is needed, as you will need to enter your barcode from the back of your card to gain access to HeritageQuest's inner sanctum. The first number you enter is a 2, followed by 9914, and then the rest of the numbers on your card. Do not enter any spaces between any of the numbers. You will enter a total of 14 digits, then hit the "Connect" button. Once you've done that, you can begin your search for your missing relative who was last seen running down to the grocery for a loaf of bread - in 1942!


• DID YOU KNOW? If you want to call the Whitefish Community Library, just dial "86" and then the first five numbers of the barcode number on your library card. "How can this be?" you ask. Well, the Montana State Library assigns every library across the state a unique identifier number, and ours is 9914. CenturyLink was able to assign the phone number 862-9914 to the Whitefish Community Library, which was very kind of them. So if you've got your library card, you've got WCL's number.


• New! Click on the Book Reviews button on the left to find Joan G. Smith's excellent recent reviews!


• The Whitefish Community Library has successfully accomplished the following major milestones in the past several months:
  • A well-qualified and extremely talented Board of Trustees have successfully managed the transition to a community-based library.
  • Very personable and qualified staff has been retained by the Whitefish Community Library, mostly those who had been working in the Whitefish Library prior to the transition. These people truly understand and identify with the needs and desires of the Whitefish community.
  • The Whitefish Community Library applied for and was accepted to become a part of the Montana Shared Catalog.
  • The Whitefish Community Library enrolled in OCLC, a library resource database that is invaluable in operating a library in today's world.
  • As of mid-September, the Whitefish Community Library is a part of the largest Montana Partners Group, a consortium of libraries scattered across Montana. The collections of two dozen libraries is available to the Whitefish Community Library Patrons upon request, increasing the available holdings to well over 900,000 items that may be checked out with your WCL card.
  • The WCL Staff and volunteers have processed and introduced approximately 5,000 new items into the WCL materials collection in the past several months.
  • All of the computers and ancillary equipment have been replaced and upgraded, and are noticeably faster and more use-friendly. The number of computers available for public use has been nearly doubled.
  • A number of programs have been initiated, including Story-time. (see below).
  
  
• If a motto were to be selected to depict the Whitefish Community Library from one of the books in the Children's Section, it would be a variation on the theme of "The Little Engine That Could" - We knew we could, and we did! The future is now ours to unfold.

Obtaining a Whitefish Community Library card is easy to do. A brief form needs to be filled out, and after you have completed this form, you will receive your beautiful new library card. You may print and complete this form at home to bring with you to the library, or ask a librarian for the form at the checkout desk.

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