Ottawa Public Library recipient of surprise donations.
A representative from the Florida-based Levenger Foundation Inc. visited multiple Ottawa Public Library (OPL) branches recently to give them each a donation of $1,000. These gifts are a wonderful way...
View ArticleMy library is free, fabulous and forever!
My library is free, fabulous and forever! I have over almost 50 years of library under my feet and fingernails. My library has taken me places I didn’t know existed and exposed me to all sorts of...
View ArticleKnow your limit, collect within it.
Library book sales are such a temptation to the weak. I was just going to look, and then, I was just going to buy the one small book for my grandson. The title was Vancouver Canucks for goodness sakes....
View ArticleZane is Grey!
You’ve almost reached your limit, the librarian said kindly. Are you returning any books today? My limit?! How could I have sixty books out already? Mind you, I had staggered out to the car with a...
View ArticleAccess to the forbidden
I was a reader before I entered school but it was the store front public library that kept me supplied with books. My father introduced me to this small library in Pickering in the early sixties. Dad...
View ArticleLibrary memories
When I was a little girl I walked down to the library most every Saturday. It was a high-ceilinged, cold, cinder-block building, managed by an imposing matron who collected most of my allowance in...
View ArticleMy Library, My World:
I grew up in a small, farming community called Warner, Alberta. The current population sits at just under 400 people. Set in the middle of canola, wheat and hay fields, among the cattle ranches, this...
View ArticleWe thought everyone would say books!
Here is a project our community took part in to describe how much we love our library!
View ArticleCelebrate the Wonder of Libraries
When you step into a library, you’re not simply entering a vast archive of books, newspapers, periodicals and recorded media. Oh sure, libraries still have plenty of all those…particularly exciting...
View ArticleI Want Her Job – NOW!
The worst ever school librarian transformed my life. Once, long ago, I was 13 and fielding questions about what I wanted to do with my life. No month went by at my new school without another test to...
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