Library Con: Lac La Biche County Libraries

Library Con 2024

Thank you to everyone who made our 2023 Library Con such a success. We had 162 attendees, vendors, volunteers, and staff at our main branch on Saturday, Jan 7th.

Library Con 2024

Lac La Biche County Libraries presents the Library Con theme for 2024: Science Fiction.

Throw on an out of this world costume and visit Stuart MacPherson Public Library on Saturday, January 6^th from 11:00 AM to 3:30 PM and join us for all the Sci-Fi activities.

Go on a space travel quest, make cool unique crafts, participate in the costume contest, and have a blast playing laser tag.

Vendors will be present!! Please check back often for updated information on who will be attending.

Sci-fi Video Contest

Enter in our sci-fi video contest!! Create a sci-fi video and submit by January 4th for a chance to win $80 Boston Pizza gift card, along with a family pass (up to 5 people living in the same residence, 2 adults max) to Portage Pool. There are 3 different age categories for the contest: Child (12 years & under), Youth (13-17 years), and Adult (18 years & over). Winners will be chosen by Viewer’s Choice and contest will end at 3 PM on January 6th.

Contest Rules:

Video must be no longer than 5 minutes
Absolutely no profane language, sexualized content, dangerous stunts, or extreme violence may be used
No material that is likely to cause offence to any person or to injure the name, reputation

or standing of any person in any way, directly or indirectly

Under no circumstances can alterations be made to videos once entered
No copyrighted materials (music, images, video clips, etc.) may be used in any way
File type submitted must be MP4 and uploaded via entry link (no USB submissions)
The closing date of the competition is January 4th, 2023 at midnight

Submit your video here: https://llbcl.wufoo.com/build/scifi-video-contest

For more information on our upcoming Library Con in 2023, please call us at bitly780-623-7467 or email your questions to info@llbcl.ca.

2023 Library Con: Renaissance

Thank you to everyone who made our 2023 Library Con such a success. We had 162 attendees, vendors, volunteers, and staff at our main branch on Saturday, Jan 7th.

Library Con 2023

Lac La Biche County Libraries presents the Library Con theme for 2023: Renaissance.

Throw on a costume and visit Stuart MacPherson Public Library on Saturday, January 7^th from 11:00 AM to 3:30 PM and join us for renaissance themed activities.

Go on a treasure quest, make cool unique crafts, participate in the costume contest, and have your fortune told by Chelsie Chiplin (owner Restore Wellness) as she consults her mystical tarot and oracle cards.

Our Vendors will be peddling their wares, trinkets and services!! Please check back often for updated information on who will be attending.

And of course no Renaissance Fair would be complete without a visit from royalty! The enchanting Mermaid Princess and Beauty Princess from A Charmed Affair will be holding court with all their library subjects from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.

Events Vendors:

Trending Peace - Crystals, crystal jewellery, and macrame
Christy Creek Honey – Honey and hive products
Heather Hamilton - Chain maille jewellery and crocheted dolls and toys.

Poetry Contest

Enter in our poem writing contest!! Write a poem about life during the Renaissance period and submit by January 6^th for a chance to win 2 large pizzas (Boston Pizza) and a 2L pop, along with a family pass (up to 5 people living in the same residence, 2 adults max) to Portage Pool. There are 4 different age categories for the contest: Mini (8 years & under), Junior (9-12 years), Youth (13-17 years), and Adult (18 years & over). Winners will be chosen by Viewer’s Choice and contest will end at 3 PM on January 7th. To submit your poem just click on the following link or hand in a physical copy at the Stuart MacPherson Public Library front desk.

Contest Rules:

Poem must be no larger than one 8.5" x 11" piece of paper.
Absolutely no profane language may be used.
The poet's name must not appear on the poem itself.
The closing date of the competition is January 6th, 2023 at midnight.
Under no circumstances can alterations be made to poems once entered.
Physical entries will not be returned, so please keep a copy.
Poems must be the entrant’s original work.
Acceptable formats are Microsoft Word or PDF.

Poetry Contest

For more information on our upcoming Library Con in 2023, please call us at 780-623-7467 or email your questions to info@llbcl.ca.

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Featured Items

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The hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy

By Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001, author

Ender's game

By Card, Orson Scott, author

Aliens and alien societies

By Schmidt, Stanley.

Chariots of the gods : unsolved mysteries of the past

By Däniken, Erich von, 1935-, author

Snow crash

By Stephenson, Neal, author

Ready player one

By Cline, Ernest, author

Out of the shadows

By Lebbon, Tim, author

Annihilation

By VanderMeer, Jeff, author

Binti

By Okorafor, Nnedi, author

All systems red

By Wells, Martha, author

Warcross

By Lu, Marie, 1984- author

Star Wars aliens, creatures & beasts

By Macri, Thomas, author

Rosewater

By Thompson, Tade, author

The luminous dead

By Starling, Caitlin, author

Exhalation

By Chiang, Ted, author

This is how you lose the time war

By El-Mohtar, Amal, author

House of earth and blood

By Maas, Sarah J., author

Cloud cuckoo land : a novel

By Doerr, Anthony, 1973- author

We are satellites

By Pinsker, Sarah, author

Never let me go

By Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-, author

In the serpent's wake

By Hartman, Rachel, 1972- author

The memory librarian : and other stories of dirty computer

By Monáe, Janelle, author

The impossible us : a novel

By Lotz, Sarah, author

Light years from home

By Chen, Mike, author

The violence : a novel

By Dawson, Delilah S., author

House of sky and breath

By Maas, Sarah J., author

Drunk on all your strange new words

By Robson, Eddie, author

Dead silence

By Barnes, S. A., author

Tell me an ending : a novel

By Harkin, Jo, author

Curious about aliens

By Olson, Gillia M., author.

The Kaiju Preservation Society

By Scalzi, John, 1969- author

The candy house : a novel

By Egan, Jennifer, author

Sea of Tranquility

By St. John Mandel, Emily

Dune : the official movie graphic novel

By Sturges, Lilah, author

Upgrade : a novel

By Crouch, Blake, author

The daughter of Doctor Moreau : a novel

By Moreno-Garcia, Silvia, author

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