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October is Canadian Library Month, and St. Catharines Public Library would love to know: how do you use the library? Whether it’s books, video games, or a hub to get to know new people and meet old friends, the public library can provide a wealth of opportunities to discover and explore. Submit a photo of how you, your family, or friends use the St. Catharines Public Library space, and you could win a prize.
Win a SCPL prize pack full of goodies, plus a gift card to Thistle Book Shop & Cafe.
Contest period: October 12 – October 25, 2025.
Submission form coming soon!
Entries will be accepted via an online submission form available on the SCPL website. Entrant information will remain private, with the exception of your first name if it is selected as a winner.
Entries will be narrowed down to five finalists based on photographic quality, visual impact, originality, and how well they express the theme.
St. Catharines Public Library’s mission is to provide spaces, resources, and experiences for all citizens to learn, grow, and connect. Your photo contest entry will help in emphasizing a connected and inclusive community across the city.
Five finalists will be selected and will be displayed publicly on SCPL’s social media channels following the Contest period (including the photo, first name and last initial).
By entering the Contest, you grant St. Catharines Public Library the non-exclusive right to publish, use, distribute, reproduce and publicly display your photograph, and to create derivative works from your photograph, in perpetuity, in any of its online, print or other media publications, materials or exhibitions, for purposes of promoting St. Catharines Public Library’s mission and awareness of its programs, including but not limited to editorial, advertising, publicity, and fundraising purposes, without payment of compensation unless prohibited by law.
You grant St. Catharines Public Library permission to provide your name when publishing, reproducing or otherwise using your photo and when identifying you as an entrant or prize winner in the Contest.
While St. Catharines Public Library will make every effort to credit photographers when using photos, there may be circumstances where it is not possible to do so.
Subject to the rights granted to St. Catharines Public Library, you retain all other copyrights and rights to future use of the photographs you enter into the Contest.
If your photograph includes an identifiable person or people, you must secure permission from each person (or in the case of a minor, the minor’s parent or guardian) to use their image in the Contest, and for the photograph to be used in various promotional activities by St. Catharines Public Library.
You must be able to provide copies of those permission releases to St. Catharines Public Library upon request. St. Catharines Public Library reserves the right to disqualify an entry if it finds, in its sole discretion, that an entrant has not secured a necessary release.
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