Atwater Library and Computer Centre

On the eve of Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Atwater Library invites you to consult our Indigenous Collection of books and DVDs. We have over 400 titles to choose from.

Go here to see our online catalogue and enter “Indigenous Collection” in the search field:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

We’ve superimposed pictures of four books recently added to our Indigenous Collection on the Government of Canada poster.

Reading and Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

That’s the topic of our Lunchtime Series event THIS THURSDAY, October 1 at 12:30 pm.

ALLISON HANES, Gazette columnist, and RÉMY ATTIG, the new Executive Director of the Quebec Writers' Federation. will have a conversation about the impact of AI on human creativity.

It’s a hybrid event and everyone is welcome.

For in-person attendance there's no registration process. It's first come, first seated. Adair Auditorium, Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Ave.

To REGISTER and get the Zoom link, please click on this link, fill out and submit the form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-hTSkxnCAqPKSdBigc0lMPoJWz89e6drLlv2CcWUoCc/viewform?edit_requested=true

Our librarians chose these books and DVDs with the hope that you’ll fall for them.

FICTION
– from Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians, a saga of three generations of prairie Cree women connected by the storytelling tradition
– the audiobook of no. 2 in Randal Graham’s madcap and witty Beforelife series, this one imagining Isaac Newton in the afterlife; read by Raoul Bhaneja
– Amanda Peters’ novel about a Mi’kmaq woman’s journey from the city back to her home in the Annapolis Valley to learn about the lives of her foremothers
– the powerful conclusion to master storyteller Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, set in 1980s New York City

NONFICTION
– Irish TV critic John Doyle’s delightful memoir focusing on the impact on television on his 1960s and ‘70s youth
– from the eminent classicist and translator Emily Wilson, a new book with her thoughts on a variety of ancient texts

DVDs
– Season 2 of the psychological drama series about Navajo tribal police in the US southwest in the 1970s based on Tony Hillerman’s mystery novels
– a 2026 UFO thriller movie by Steven Spielberg starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor and Colin Firth

Link for our catalogue:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

Members can access our eBooks and audiobooks any time at all:

https://atwaterlibrary.overdrive.com/

For information and help:

514-935-7344

[email protected]

Drop in to the Atwater Library’s Adair Auditorium for FREE TECH HELP at these times:

– Tomorrow (THURSDAY) September 24 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm

– TUESDAY, October 13 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (followed by a group talk on Internet Security)

– THURSDAY, October 22 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm

Our tech-savvy staff and volunteers will answer your questions about phones, tablets and laptops. They'll also give demonstrations and share resources aimed at improving digital literacy skills.

Bring your own device or use one of our tablets or laptops.

It’s first come, first served. Everyone is welcome!

For more info, please send an email to: [email protected].

Today is the first day of Fall…and our librarians invite you to “Fall into a good book!”

The display in the picture is in our main lobby below the marble plaque commemorating the opening of our Atwater Avenue building in January 1920.

For most of our 198-year history, our organization was called “The Mechanics’ Institute of Montreal” but we’ve gone by the name “Atwater Library” for the past several decades.

Be entertained and enthralled by these new Atwater Library books and DVDs.

FICTION
– the audiobook of the 35th Agatha Raisin mystery set in the Cotswolds by R.W. Green (following the death of M.C. Beaton), narrated by Penelope Keith
– Booker-winner Marlon James’s new novel about the joys of gay life and murderous homophobia in the 1980s and ‘90s in his native Jamaica: a “masterpiece” – NYT
– an international espionage thriller by Ian MacKenzie starring an American woman spy probing the mystery of a previously unknown metal
– highly-praised short stories about Caribbean immigrants by Vincentian Canadian Chanel Sutherland, who lives in Montreal

NONFICTION
– Jared Diamond’s analysis of the impact of leaders on historic change with reference to politics, business, sports and religion
– essays about American abstract artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) and illustrations of her late-career work when she was living in SW France

DVDs
– Season 4 of the hilarious British TV series centred on a brilliant but socially inept doctor in a Cornish village populated by “characters”
– a 2025 Western based on Harry Whittington’s novel Desert Stake-Out about a US Army agent travelling through Apache territory to deliver medical supplies

Link for our catalogue:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

Members can access our eBooks and audiobooks any time at all:

https://atwaterlibrary.overdrive.com/

For information and help:

514-935-7344

[email protected]

QUEBEC ELECTION ISSUES: Panel Discussion at the Atwater Library on THURSDAY, September 24 at 12:30 pm.

Journalist and writer JULIAN SHER will ask questions of particular concern to Anglophones to a panel of astute observers:

– ROBERT LIBMAN, political commentator and Gazette columnist

– FRANCINE PELLETIER, journalist and author of Dream Interrupted: The Rise and Fall of Quebec Nationalism

– DANIEL WEINSTOCK, McGill University professor of philosophy and law

It’s a hybrid event and everyone is welcome.

For in-person attendance there's no registration process. It's first come, first seated. Adair Auditorium, Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Ave.

To REGISTER and get the Zoom link, please click on this link, fill out and submit the form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-hTSkxnCAqPKSdBigc0lMPoJWz89e6drLlv2CcWUoCc/viewform?edit_requested=true

The Atwater Library Bookshop is open Wednesday to Saturday from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm.

We have new stock that Dan Buda has priced to sell – novels, art books, history books, DVDs and a raft of CDs.

There are bargains galore…and some treasures!

🎶 Come to the cabaret…at the Atwater Library!

Tomorrow (Thursday), September 17 at 12:30

BERLIN TO BROADWAY: The Songs and Life of Kurt Weill

BREMNER DUTHIE, accompanied by pianist YUMI PALLESCHI, is performing Weill’s songs that move from the streets of 1920s Berlin to the dazzling lights of Broadway in the ‘30s and ‘40s.

FREE admission. Everyone is welcome.

Adair Auditorium (accessible by elevator). First come, first seated.

The concert will NOT be livestreamed. It’s IN PERSON ONLY.

For info, please send an email to [email protected].

Tuesday, October 6 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm we’re having a POETRY WORKSHOP for budding poets 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.”

We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Lectures LOGOS Readings for this special workshop.

This is 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: [email protected]