Atwater Library and Computer Centre

Our Annual Benefit Cocktail Party is set for Wednesday, October 28 in our own building. Please join us for a gala evening in support of our educational programs for the community.

Go HERE to buy Party tickets and donate via CanadaHelps. You’ll get your tax receipt right away by email.

In conjunction with the benefit party, we’re having an Online Auction from Friday, October 16 to October 28. Bidding closes as the Party winds down.

For more info and help purchasing tickets, contact Lavina Alonzo at lavina@atwaterlibrary.ca or 514-935-7344.

Let us help you upgrade your command of digital technology.

Click HERE for our schedule of useful courses and workshops.

Our patient and well-qualified instructors will give you confidence and useful skills.

Our class sizes are small (maximum 8, average 4) and we have the latest in equipment.

To book courses, please contact Taegan Schell: taegans@atwaterlibrary.ca or 514-935-7344.

Our volunteer-run Bookshop is open FOUR days a week – Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday – from 12 noon to 3:00 pm (except for statutory holidays). We’re selling donated books, DVDs and CDs at bargain prices.

The Bookshop is located in the sous-sol near our Tupper Street entrances.

Our Lawn Book Sale on August 4, 2026 was a big success. Thanks to all who contributed!

We welcome donations of books in good condition and ask donors to use our Tupper Street accessible entrance for deliveries.

Calling budding poets! Registration is now open for a workshop on TUESDAY, October 6, 2026 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm in the Atwater Library Bookshop Meeting Room.

Poet and performer Deanna Smith aka Ms. D-NA will lead participants in an exploration of discovered truths and family stories: “Quiet As It’s Kept. Secrets, Stories, Metaphors, and More.”

It’s the first in a new series of creative writing and art-making workshops being funding by Canadian Heritage of the Government of Canada.

Places are limited. For more info and to register, please send an email to: awe@atwaterlibrary.ca.

From mid-July 2026 to mid-February 2027, we’re conducting a digital collage storytelling project for English-speaking seniors in the Montreal area. The “History We Call Home Project” merges digital literacy, visual communication and personal history as participants learn how to use Google Slides to make a collage about their Montreal origin story. Zoe Welch is the project coordinator.