Celebrate the wonder of libraries – October is Canadian Library Month!

Thursday, October 16, 2014

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 when you are young and eager to read, read, read and keep on reading. But libraries are so much more.

Push open the front door of a local library and you’re entering a research centre...a computer lab...a meeting place...an e-book provider...a classroom cultivator of young minds...a crucial building block in any city, big or small.

Public libraries can enliven and invigorate the young and old, longtime Canadians or recent arrivals to our country, the knowledge seeker, the voracious reader or the job searcher.

That libraries can inspire us all is behind this year’s Canadian Library Month, which is being celebrated this October. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Libraries Inspire!”

Join in the festivities by checking to see if there is an event taking place near where you live or reading tales about how libraries can change lives or even by sharing a personal story of your own on what libraries mean to you. If you work at a library, there are quite a few tools to help spread the word, including website banners, bookmarks and templates to proclaim October Canadian Library Month and to announce your support of this initiative.

Canadian Library Month is a joint effort of 19 provincial and national organizations, including the Canadian Library Association.