The Hub Community Library

Welcome to the Hub Community Library

Our community library is housed on site (outdoors) at the HUB and is always open for community use! Scroll down to get answers to commonly asked questions and see our donating guidelines.

Library
Donations

Yes please!

  • Fiction

  • Poetry

  • Biography and memoirs

  • General interest non-fiction (e.g., history, social issues, spirituality)

  • Art, photography, etc.

  • Travel

  • Sports

  • Cookbooks

  • Gardening

  • Self-help

  • Health

  • Children’s Books

  • Young Readers and Young Adult

  • Foreign Language

No thank you.

  • Magazines

  • Comics

  • Textbooks

  • Dictionaries

  • Encyclopedias

  • Reference Books

  • Manuals

  • DVDs

  • CDs

  • VHS tapes

  • Audiotapes

  • Games

  • Jigsaw puzzles

We appreciate that you want to share your reading materials and know that all donations are with the best intentions. However, we are unable to manage all donations at this time. Please read the information below to understand what will best be used by our community. 

We may hope that someone will come along who will really want our damaged old book (or outdated textbook or dictionary) but the truth is that the chances of that person wandering through our little library are very small. Most likely, someone will have to dispose of the book. As book lovers, we understand how hard it is to throw a book away, and it’s even worse to think of it going into landfill.

  • Books generally can’t be recycled, not just because of the covers but also because of the glue used in the bindings. Magazines and stapled or spiral-bound books (with the spiral binding removed) can be recycled, but most books end up as landfill.

  • You can keep books out of landfill by removing the covers and then cutting off the spine which has glue attached, putting all that into household garbage, and then putting the loose pages in the recycle bin.

  • This is work – if a lot of books, then a lot of work! – but it’s a more environmentally-friendly solution than throwing the whole thing into landfill. (Think of it as a way of honouring the book while you say goodbye to it).

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The HUB Library is a place that offers a way for everybody in our community to share good books to read – favourite books for children, books to inspire young readers and intrigue young adults, and books that you would recommend to your friends. It is a place for books that can entertain us, teach us, guide us, comfort us. All of us can help by keeping our collection well supplied with good reading material.

  • he HUB Library belongs to the whole community – people who come regularly to The HUB and people who are visiting for the first time. Anyone can use it.

  • We are lucky to have book fairies! These are volunteer stewards who look after the library collection, keeping the shelves organized – loosely – and sorting through and putting out books that are donated or returned. All of us can help to care for our library by respecting the donation guidelines and by keeping the shelves tidy.

  • If you see something you’d like to read, take it. You don’t have to give a book to take one. You can keep it for as long as you’d like. When you are ready, you can bring it back here, or you can pass it on to a friend. You can of course bring some of your own books for others to read. Leave your books in the reshelving section and we will put them out into their subject areas.

Interested in helping out?