Our Library of Things collection consists of objects, games, and more that can be loaned out to you – just like a book!
Tools/devices, electronics, instruments
Hiking backpacks
Kit includes: 45 L backpack with pack cover, 2 emergency bivvy sacks with whistles, 2 headlamps, 2 sets of trekking poles, First Aid Kit, compass, laminated packing guide and Trails to Timberline.
Created in partnership with BC Parks.
Birding backpack
Kit includes: 1 green backpack, 2 birding books: The Easy Bird Guide Western Region, and Birds of the Pacific Northwest Mountains; a waterproof notebook, and a pencil.
Ukuleles (purple, orange & woodgrain)
Each ukulele comes with a case or box and a mini tuner.
The Night Sky Planisphere
The Night Sky Planisphere is the most accurate and easiest to use star and constellation locating tool available. Perfect for beginners, great for pros.
Kids binoculars
Bring birds, worms and butterflies closer with their 4x30mm magnification. Each comes with its own carrying case and lens cloth.
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LG Blu-ray & DVD player
Box contains 1 Blu-ray/DVD player, 1 remote control, 1 sheet operation manual, HD power cable, 1 video cable
SEEK Thermal – Thermal Imaging Camera
Seek Compact is a highly portable, versatile and durable thermal imaging camera that plugs directly into your smartphone. This device translates thermal energy (infrared light) into a visible image on your phone.
Educational circuit boards, magnetic building sets, knowledge cards
Pacific Northwest Plant Knowledge Cards
This 72 card set highlights 65 edible and medicinal plants. The cards describe traditional Indigenous uses and ways of harvesting each plant and feature several Indigenous languages.
Barron’s GED Test Flash Cards
Test takers preparing for the GED High School Equivalency exam can brush up on their academic skills with this brand-new set of flash cards. The 450 cards are divided into categories that reflect the GED’s four test areas: Reading through Language Arts (RLA), Social Studies, Math, and Science.
Light and Shine – Playing with Optics
Light and Shine is a unique set designed to encourage open-ended play, trial-and-error exploration and teach problem-solving. All experiments are intended to help kids apply STEAM principals to the world around them, making math and science fun and relevant to things they experience everyday.
Magformers Sets
The chunky, colourful magnetic pieces are easy for little hands to manipulate but provide endless options for open-ended play.
LEGO: Make Your Own Movie
Bring your LEGO minifigures to life with this beginner-friendly guide to stop-motion animation.
Spintronics: Act One, Act Two & Power Pack
Spintronics is where build mechanical circuits to solve puzzles. Players feel the pull of voltage and see the flow of current as they discover electronics in a tangible and deeply intuitive way, using the first physical equivalent of electronics ever built.
Snap Circuits Jr.
With this building toy, young engineers can assemble over 100 different electronic circuit projects with just 30+ electronic parts.
Makey Makey Go
Turn everyday objects like bananas into touchpads. Connect the world around you to your computer. Setup takes just seconds. Just plug, clip, and play! No programing knowledge needed. No software to install. Works with Mac and Windows.
Board games, card games, puzzles & more
300 & 500 Piece “Imagination Puzzles”
Puzzle images include “Past Technology” (500 Pieces), “Polaroid Cameras” (500 Pieces), “Kaleidoscope” (300 Pieces), and “Video Game” (500 Pieces)
Turing Tumble
Players build mechanical computers powered by marbles to solve logic puzzles.
Timberrr!
Draw a block from the tower and place it on top until it tumbles down.
The Pigeon Wants a Match Game
Collect the most matching images from the books. Includes colour-coded tiles, extra turn tile, lose a turn tile, and scenes from Willem’s children’s books.
Sushi Go!
Grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by. Score points for making the most maki rolls or for collecting a full set of sashimi. Dip your favorite nigiri in wasabi to triple its value. But be sure to leave room for dessert or else you’ll eat into your score. Gather the most points and consider yourself the sushi master!
UNO
Uno is a four color card game where players can lay cards which match the same color or number. Whoever runs out of cards first wins.
Shuffle Grand Prix
Select your drivers to take advantage of their unique abilities. Play cards to slow your opponents and protect yourself against sabotage. The person who travels the furthest distance by the time the distance cards run out takes home the checkered flag.
Rory’s Story Cubes
In turn, each player becomes the Narrator. Throw the dice, and create a story starting with “Once upon a time…” using the nine symbols on the faces of the dice. Then, follow your imagination!
Scrabble (Original)
Score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns
Scrabble (with Power Tiles)
Shake up your Scrabble game with Power Tiles. Use them to boost your score, save spaces for future use or play blank tiles that you score as letters.
CSI: The Board Game
Be the first player to enter Grissom’s office with a correct arrest warrant, determining the suspect’s means, motive and opportunity to commit the crime. Visit colleagues in Interrogation, Autopsy, Identification, Trace, Ballistics, Forensics and DNA, to gather sufficient data to make an arrest.
The Office DVD Board Game
Featuring scenes from the TV show, answer questions about the clips to earn “Schrute bucks” as you move along a game board. There are seven different kinds of trivia questions for lots of variety.
Game For Fame
Work towards the red carpet by working in teams in a number of games such as trying to talk with your tongue hanging out your mouth or guess which accent your team is attempting. Players also have to backstab their team mates for solo cash prizes.
Labyrinth
Players move around the shifting paths of the labyrinth in a race to collect various treasures. Whoever collects all of their treasures first and returns to their home space wins.
Tribond
Players are given a list of three items and must determine the common bond. Landing on another pawn brings up a challenge situation, where the winner stays put and the loser moves back. The first team to bring their three pawns around the triangles wins.
Qwirkle
Qwirkle is as simple as matching colors and shapes, but also requires tactical maneuvers and a well-planned strategy. Players score points by creating lines of tiles that are all the same color or all the same shape-without duplicates. Create a line of six and you score a Qwirkle!
FAIL!
A player starts by reading one of the four category cards: (Mis)Leading Questions, (Im)Personal Trivia, Trivial Abandonment, or Bad-Libs. Other players discreetly submit their most awful answers, and the reader chooses the answer that FAILS! the most to win.
Xtronaut 2.0
Develop space missions, build authentic rocket systems, and explore the solar system. It contains elements of politics and strategy that are inspired by the real situations that space missions face.