BC libraries
Victoria: Culture Days take centre stage
The Greater Victoria Public Library is accepting applications for musical performers of any age or style to compete for an opportunity to perform during a month-long celebration in September. The GVPL Central branch courtyard will be alive with music every Saturday afternoon in September during Culture Days, a nationwide celebration of the arts. For more [...]
Vernon: Library plans proceed with contract awarded
The task of building Vernon’s new library has been given to a company familiar with constructing new facilities in the city. Burnaby-based TASK Construction Management has been awarded a contract up to $11 million to build the new library at 2808-30th Avenue. They will also act as the project and construction management team. TASK built [...]
Rossland reads opens up
As the summer finally hits the Alpine City a few page-savvy readers are gearing up for another chapter of Rossland Reads, encouraging the young and old to pick some fiction books and dive right in. Rossland Reads started to promote the local library and the joy of reading Canadian fiction. Four distinguished local panelists have [...]
Vancouver: A library for the future: Bing Thom’s design for Central City site ‘raises the bar’
Surrey’s new City Centre Library will be an extension of the home, its architect said Thursday. “It’s a community room. It just happens to store books,” Bing Thom told The Province. Vancouver architect Thom was scheduled to talk about the library Thursday night at an event at the Simon Fraser University Surrey campus. The 77,000-square-foot [...]
B.C. libraries venture into online reading
British Columbia public and school libraries are making books available online for the coming year in an experiment that will test the consumer taste for online reading. All the books involved are works of non-fiction from British Columbia publishers who are participating in a collaboration with the libraries. The project went online Wednesday with 12 [...]
City Centre library: A new chapter for Whalley
Imagine a library. Now dismiss that thought and any traditional design concepts that could limit the potential options for a learning facility. It’s that blank slate being worked on by Surrey library staff and award-winning architect Bing Thom as they plan construction of a $30-million library in North Surrey. If successful, the facility is hoped [...]
Geof Glass: Art and culture create the spaces we live in
The B.C. government is cutting funding for libraries and the arts. Libraries suffered a 22 percent cut, while community arts, culture, and sports groups are facing cuts of close to 90 percent over the next couple of years. For the government, this is not a lot of money. For the groups and communities it affects, [...]
So long to the paper chase as library buys new e-books
Musty no longer: The Vancouver Public Library is preening to attract a new kid of customer with the introduction of 1,000 e-books to its collection, the library’s largest purchase of electronic books ever. The collection, available on the VPL website beginning April 1, spans genres including health, fine arts, business and literature. The titles will [...]
