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Read more about "Return your books and then find your next great read."A Message from our CEO As we launch our new 2023 – 2026 Strategic Plan, it provides an opportunity to reflect on our achievements, lessons, and growth over 110 years of service. Today, Calgary Public Library is proud to be an internationally respected leader in library service and innovation, and we are just getting started. We emerge from years of disruption and transition and see a community that needs us more than ever. We are a city facing urgent issues that require many voices around the table. That table where everyone is welcome is your public library. We see this strategic plan as a powerful roadmap to create space to drive action and ensure equitable outcomes. We provide the space for people to access new ideas and inspiration, find valuable community connections and supports , and work together to create a strong future where everyone can find success and belonging. We are where literacy and learning live. We create places for people to become neighbours , and we work every day to address barriers so everyone can realize their potential. The future we envision is bold and optimistic because we know what our community can accomplish when we work together. As our city grows, we will always be there to help you fall in love with reading, start a business, navigate a new country, learn a new skill, or have a conversation with someone new. Our promise is that everyone belongs at the Library because the Library belongs to you. Sarah Meilleur CEO
Read more about "A Message from our CEO"Kate Andrews Committee membership: Governance; Strategy and Community Term end: 2026 Some of Kate’s earliest memories are of hours spent in the A.C. Hunter Children’s Library in her hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland, where she and her parents relied heavily on the guidance of librarians to supply age-appropriate material for a voracious early reader. Kate’s love of reading helped carry her through law school at the University of Calgary, and she continues to devour a wide variety of fiction in her “spare” time. She has also passed her love of libraries down to her two children, who regularly accompany her to the Guiffre Family Library and Central Library locations. Kate sees libraries as exemplifying the best of our society and is excited to contribute to the growth and vibrancy of Calgary Public Library as a member of the Board.
Read more about "Kate Andrews"Sage Hill Library opened on June 16, 2017, at 19 Sage Hill Passage NW as a starter location for the quickly developing community of Sage Hill. At just 1,700 sq. ft. this Library is small but mighty.
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Read more about "Rosetta Stone Library Solution"1950s 1950: Glengarry Library opens. 1952: The Bookmobile begins service in October 1952. 1954: Alexander Calhoun Library opens in the South Calgary neighbourhood. 1959: Louise Riley Library opens in the Hounsfield Heights-Briar Hill neighbourhood.
Read more about "1950s"You’re a dyed-in-the-wool book lover. Imagine sitting down and talking books with the head of a university English department. Sounds like some kind of book lover’s dream, right?Now imagine if that English professor was just as eager to sit down with you and discuss, say, the latest book by Elizabeth Strout, creator of the literary characters Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton.Well, she is.Jacqueline Jenkins, Head, Department of English, at the University of Calgary, has joined the Calgary Public Library family of volunteers.“I love books. I love reading books. I love talking about reading books,” says Jenkins who began volunteering with the Library’s Book Discussion Group program in January of this year. “Working with the Library on something I love to do, but that is different from what I do every day, lets me meet an entirely new set of book lovers and engage with a whole new world of ideas and perspectives.”A confluence of events—including a talk by Mayor Nenshi during which he encouraged Calgarians to look for opportunities to do three things for Canada as part of the sesquicentennial, as well as working with two University staff as they developed program content for the Library—occurred at just the right time and gave Jacqueline the encouragement she needed to look into volunteer opportunities with the Library.“Calgary is a city of volunteers and, for me, volunteering with the Library provides a perfect way for me to give back to a city that has given me so much,” says Jenkins, an Ontario-born resident of Calgary for 20 years.Her tip to Calgarians looking to volunteer with Calgary Public Library? From the myriad opportunities available, find the thing that resonates with you and makes the best use of you. Then give what you can to make it meaningful to you and those around you.Jacqueline Jenkins has done just that.
Read more about "Stories Meet our Volunteers: Jacqueline Jenkins Jacqueline has found a whole new world of ideas and perspectives to engage with through volunteering"Celebrate the launch of “Olya & Olena Escape the Invaders” with author readings and an instrumental concert by Volodymr Shyba streamed from Ukraine. The book is about two young...
Read more about ""Olya & Olena Escape the Invaders" Launch Party"You and your young one can look forward to warmer weather and outdoor explorations with these fantastic reads
Read more about "Say Hello to Spring"Read and listen to picture books in 65+ languages, including English, French, Spanish, Ukrainian, Punjabi, Tagalog, Arabic, German, and Russian.
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