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The library is an authorised test center for the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test (the Test of English for International Communication). For more information please visit our TOEIC page or to sign up go to the official ETS website.

If you would like more information about future tests please send an email to Peter Bolos  at collections@ellia.org .

Circulation & activities: what happens when and for whom…

Hours through July 31st:
– Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays : 1-6 p.m.
– Thursdays: 1-7 p.m

Circulation & activities: The library is only open for the circulation of materials until July 31st and will reopen on September 1st after the summer break. Only ten people will be authorized at a time to access the collection. Masks are mandatory.

Activities: No group activities will take place in the library until September. Selected activities are available online. See the listing of events below for more information.

The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people. This session will be held online with Zoom. Please click here to join the meeting with a Zoom link.

The June read for the group is Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson. In six masterly stories, delve deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. “Nirvana,” which won the prestigious Sunday Times short story prize, portrays a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finding solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous” – first included in the Best American Short Stories anthology – a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind.

Meetings are once a month on Saturday afternoons starting at 3 pm. Open to all library members. To sign up please contact the group coordinator at bookgroup@ellia.org.

Ready for Coffee House on Zoom? Coffee house is going online until further notice…this time by video conferencing so now you can come in your pyjamas! Book your Friday mornings between 10 and 11. These coffee houses will be simple gatherings and chats…sorry you will have to make your own coffee :( but we can recommend some nice coffee roasts!

Your coffee house host will open up the session at 10. You can connect via Zoom* by clicking here. 

*Zoom is a leader in video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing.

Ready for Coffee House on Zoom? Coffee house is going online until further notice…this time by video conferencing so now you can come in your pyjamas! Book your Friday mornings between 10 and 11. These coffee houses will be simple gatherings and chats…sorry you will have to make your own coffee :( but we can recommend some nice coffee roasts!

Your coffee house host will open up the session at 10. You can connect via Zoom* by clicking here. 

*Zoom is a leader in video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing.

We are sorry to say that the Garden Club visit on this day is cancelled due to Covid-19.

If you would like more information about future visits please send an email to Sylvie Leys  at elliagardenclub@gmail.com.

Ready for Coffee House on Zoom? Coffee house is going online until further notice…this time by video conferencing so now you can come in your pyjamas! Book your Friday mornings between 10 and 11. These coffee houses will be simple gatherings and chats…sorry you will have to make your own coffee :( but we can recommend some nice coffee roasts!

Your coffee house host will open up the session at 10. You can connect via Zoom* by clicking here. 

*Zoom is a leader in video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing.

“Books and Tea” is a weekly meeting (during lockdown) for bookworms and tea drinkers (you can sneak in a cup of coffee, nobody will know!). “Bring” a book you’ve really enjoyed and talk about it! The group meets from 2 to 3 on Zoom! every Thursday through May 7th…

Click here to join the Zoom session*! New members are welcome!

*Zoom is a leader in video communications with an easy cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. You can use it for free but you will need to download the software beforehand. Click here to start…don’t worry about using your “work email” any email address is fine. To see if your computer or other devices are compatible go to https://zoom.us/test for a quick test.

Covid-19 is all over the news and unfortunately, a significant number of fake news is going around as well. So, what better way than your Press Review (online version) to try to make sense of it all and exchange on what we have read, seen and heard?

Join library volunteer and journalist, Isma, for a bi-weekly meeting of the Press Review on Zoom. Bring your curiosity and some sources you may want to discuss.

Click here to join the Zoom session!* New members are welcome!

*Zoom is a leader in video communications with an easy cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. You can use it for free but you will need to download the software beforehand. Click here to start…don’t worry about using your “work email” any email address is fine. To see if your computer or other devices are compatible go to https://zoom.us/test for a quick test.

Ready for Coffee House on Zoom? Coffee house is going online until further notice…this time by video conferencing so now you can come in your pyjamas! Book your Friday mornings between 10 and 11. These coffee houses will be simple gatherings and chats…sorry you will have to make your own coffee :( but we can recommend some nice coffee roasts!

Your coffee house host will open up the session at 10. You can connect via Zoom* by clicking here. 

*Zoom is a leader in video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing.