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  About Swift Current Branch, Chinook Regional Library
  Our Mission

     Swift Current Branch Library provides materials, information services, and programs to assist patrons, to nurture literacy and life-long learning, to spark curiosity and to inspire dreams. The library board and staff are dedicated to public service, equitable access, and meeting the cultural, recreational and practical information needs of the community they serve. Swift Current Branch Library extends its services through the Chinook Regional Library and the provincial public library system. The Board of the Swift Current Branch Library affirms the Statement of Intellectual Freedom of the Canadian Library Association.

 
  Swift Current Branch Library Fast Facts
 
  • Location: 411 Herbert Street East. Swift Current, SK S9H 1M5
  • Phone: 306-778-2752
  • Fax: 306-773-8769
  • Website: www.swiftcurrent.ca/library
  • Size of collection: Over 48,395 titles. Largest Branch Library in the Chinook Regional Library System
  • Circulation (2009): 136,389 items borrowed, 4,038 interlibrary loans
  • Hours of Operation: Monday-Thursday 10am-9pm, Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday 1-4:30pm. Closed Sundays during July and August. For holiday closure, click here.
  Library Background

     Swift Current Library first came into existence on May 14, 1918 when a Reading Room was opened in City Hall. Since then, the library has existed in a school room, has been adjoined to the Beatty Collegiate Institute and finally in 1974 was moved to the R.C. Dahl Building. The building is shared with the Art Gallery of Swift Current.
 
  Library Board

     The Swift Current Branch Library Board is made up of nine citizens and one City Council Representative. The Board usually meets on the second Tuesday of each month from September to June, to direct the operations of the Library, as specified by the Saskatchewan Library Act.

     Members of the Library Board are responsible for making policies for the operation of the Library; for obtaining adequate funding for Library materials, services and programs; and for promoting the Library in the community.

     To contact the Swift Current Library Board, phone the library at 778-2752.
 

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