The Ontario Library Association is proud to announce the winners of the OLA Library Building Award – Library Architectural and Design Transformation for their exceptional library renovation projects. Congratulations to the library and design teams on their exceptional submissions. The award presentation was made at the OLA Annual Institute on the Library as Place event […]
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A New Partnership for the Next Phase of Freedom to Read Week
La version française suit la version anglaise. We are pleased to announce a new partnership between Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian Urban Libraries Council, the Ontario Library Association, and the Book and Periodical Council that marks a pivotal moment for the future of Freedom to Read Week.Freedom to Read Week will take place from […]
CULC/CBUC Members to Receive Awards at OLA Super Conference
Ontario Library Association Les Fowlie Intellectual Freedom Award Vickery Bowles, Toronto Public Library In July 2017 Ms. Bowles defended Toronto Public Library’s stance on a library room booking for Barbara Kulaszka’s memorial service. Ms. Kulaszka was a lawyer who had represented Holocaust deniers in her practice, and the booking was seen by many as allowing […]
CULC/CBUC joins 18 other Organizations in Endorsing a Statement of Qualities
In response to the recent resignation of the Librarian and Archivist of Canada, Daniel J. Caron, CULC/CBUC joined a large list of library, archival, and history organization in endorsing a Statement on the Qualities that would be seen as “Success Qualities” for a future Appointment of the Librarian and Archivist of Canada. This will be […]
LAC-BAC seeks input on ILL Future Iterations
Happy New Year – CULC/CBUC along with a number of member libraries, and many other industry associations (CLA, CARL, Federal Libraries, OLA, among others) have participated in a couple of working sessions with LAC-BAC staff to create some documents for the broader community to respond too. This has been going on also for the National […]
Annual Institute on the Library as Place
The OLA Annual Institute on the Library as Place is a Libraries 2020 initiative. Our second Institute is coming this July; early bird registration runs to June 1. There is lots of interest for public library staff, trustees and partners, with discussions about collaborative and interactive spaces, new technologies, joint use and heritage buildings, planning […]
eBooks @ OLA; and ACP Winter Meetings
More than 170 people came to hear what CULC/CBUC has been doing on the eBook file since the last public meeting in June at CLA-Halifax. The task force members gave some updates and talked about the challenges that the sector is seeing in Canada and abroad. CULC/CBUC was fortunate enough to have been debriefed by […]