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Carol Off, CBC radio personality and journalist extraordinaire, recently came to Castlegar to present at the Selkirk College, Mir Centre of Peace. Off talked about the importance of reclaiming…
Renovations are notorious for being unwieldy and disruptive. Renovations in a busy public library even more so. But for Saara Itkonen, director of the Creston Valley Public Library, it was…
The very first CATS (Children and Teen Services) conference happened in the programming room of the Nelson Library on a charmingly beautiful September day in 2017. We had all…
Meet Laura Zaytsoff: artist, birder, bibliophile, and the Children’s, Youth and Outreach Librarian at the Castlegar Public Library. But chances are, if you work at a library in the Kootenays,…
Libraries typically get a lot of kudos. I remember a lawyer turned politician once telling me that he envied librarians’ social capital, our reputation in the community. As a…
The history of the library profession mostly consists of staggering from one technology to another. With the emergence of AI, we are smack dab in the middle of one of…
How do we make our libraries as accommodating to neuro-divergence as possible so that everyone in our community feels welcome? In Canada, 1 in 50 are on the Autism spectrum.…
At their worst, territory acknowledgments can be cookie cutter, performative, empty gestures. At their best, territory acknowledgements can be an authentic, meaningful step towards decolonization. They are a way to…
The Safety and Security Working Group of the Canadian Urban Libraries Council / Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada (CULC/CBUC) announces the release of a Safety and Security Toolkit to…
Gen Z and millennials have some surprising attitudes and behaviours regarding media consumption and library use. Thanks to an important new study that has been released we can use the…
