The lending library at Westcoast houses British Columbia's most comprehensive, publicly accessible collection of materials related to child development, child welfare, and early childhood education and care.
You can browse our catalogue of more than 14,200 titles online!
Borrowing
Westcoast subscribers in good standing with the library may borrow materials.
We regret that we cannot provide service to anyone who does not either live or work inside the City of Vancouver, except ECE students (current subscriptions outside Vancouver will be honoured until their expiry date).
library SUN, MON, TUES: closed
WED: 12 - 8pm
THURS, FRI: 12 - 5pm
SAT: 10am - 3pm
materials can still be returned any time in the drop-slot out front at 2774 E. Broadway (next door to Westcoast), except oversize or fragile items.
The loan period is four weeks. Most items may be renewed by e-mail once, if they are not already overdue and if there is not a hold on the item.
Fines are charged for materials returned after the due date, and damaged or lost materials must be replaced or paid for by the subscriber.
What is in the library
The Westcoast Library comprises information books, magazines, videotapes, audiotapes, posters, dolls, puppets, matching games, concept cards, puzzles, story books in English and in other languages, felt board stories, stories with props, story kits, seasonal kits, and multicultural resource kits. We also have a reference section and an extensive file collection of articles, brochures, and other ephemera. The following list gives an overview of some of the topics in our collection.
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