Two LISNews readers sent in stories about Canadian libraries this week. Janet Clark points us to The Globe and Mail
Friendships in Claresholm [Alberta], a town of 3,622, have dissolved. Smiles on the street have been replaced by people who shuffle by with their heads down.
News of screaming matches and an anonymous leaflet campaign swept through the streets like a prairie grass fire. A flood of letters poured in to the weekly newspaper.
The municipality wound up in court recently, pitted against some prominent citizens.
All over a library.
Meanwhile, zamiel gives us a CBC item about library closings in Regina, Saskatchewan:
REGINA – The Regina Library System recently announced that it will close the Dunlop Art Gallery and three library branches in 2004. Patrons are questioning the decision, which will eliminate 27 jobs and a number of library services.
“I really feel that this is a blow to the city and the province,” said art historian and Dunlop Gallery patron Annie Gerin. “To me, this is not just related to the library. There’s a much broader cultural issue here that hasn’t been discussed at all by the board.”
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