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VPL Foundation is grateful for the support of our donors – your generosity enabled over 272,430 cardholders to learn, engage and connect this year.

VPL Spaces

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Central Children's Library Revitalization

Goal: $10,000,000
Raised: $7,000,000
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Central Library Entry Level Renewal

The revived main floor will serve as a dynamic gateway to the library.
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Collections and Services

Print Collections

As the third-largest library system in Canada, VPL has over 3 million physical books available free of charge to patrons.
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Accessible Services

Delivers reading and listening materials in a variety of formats to elderly or disabled patrons at their home or care facility.
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E-Book and Audiobook Collections

Passionate about histories? Love a good mystery? What excites you? Consider sharing your literary love with Vancouver by providing VPL with funds to build eBook and Audio Book collections!
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Programs and Collections for Children and Youth

Alligator Pie

The Alligator Pie Program provides valuable early literacy support from VPL librarians to daycare centres serving vulnerable children and families.
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Language Fun Storytimes

Language Fun Storytimes were developed in collaboration with Vancouver Coastal Health’s Speech and Language Pathologists. These programs provide opportunities for children with speech/language delays to learn and practice sounds, words, phrases and their social skills in an engaging learning environment alongside their peers and parents/caregivers.
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Mother Goose

Mother Goose is a referral-based program that brings families with young children together for an enriched early literacy experience over a series of sessions.
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Sensory Storytimes

Sensory Storytimes are small-group programs designed to create a welcoming environment for children who may not yet thrive in traditional library storytime settings. They provide early literacy experiences for children who have developmental disabilities, atypical sensory processing and/or other conditions.
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Man in the Moon

VPL’s Man in the Moon program provides opportunities for fathers and caregivers who are men and non-binary to learn ways to support early literacy and language development in their children through playing, singing, talking and reading together.
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Youth Digital Collections

The demand from young people for engaging materials that they can access from anywhere, at anytime continues increase dramatically.
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