BIG 5: GoPros, DVDs, ebooks, downloads, FitDesks all available at library

YorkRegion.com
Jan. 30, 2017
Tim Kelly  

Five things you can get at the library, besides books:

1. Downloads and digital offerings: Thousands of ebooks and digital audiobooks are available at most York Region public libraries with the use of your library card. Books come in digital form now in addition to paper.

2. Portable GPS navigators and GoPros: You can borrow a portable Garmin six-inch GPS navigator preloaded with maps of Canada and the U.S. You can also borrow a GoPro video camera from your local VPL location with a loan period of seven days.

3. FitDesks: The Pierre Berton Resource Library in Vaughan offers a combination desk and exercise bike so patrons there can stretch their legs, improve health and relieve their stress while reading, working or studying.

4. Videos and CDs: Virtually every library offers videos and CDs for you to borrow. Some libraries, like the Vaughan and Richmond Hill public libraries, to name two, offer movie nights or days, when members of the public can come and watch a movie together at the branch.

5. 3D certification lab: The Vaughan Public Library offers a 3D certification lab to teach 3D printing, creating and preparing a file using equipment safely. It also has hack labs where tiny gadgets can do "some pretty big things. You can learn how the Makey Makey, Arduino and Raspberry Pi can be used to make cool projects with lights, motors and sensors."