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Library Link: October forecast looks literary

Libraries across Canada use the month of October to raise awareness of the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in the lives and communities they serve.
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The theme for October’s Canadian Library Month is “One card, one million possibilities.”

October is Canadian Library Month!

While that may not be high on most people’s list of celebrations, we here at Airdrie Public Library (APL) always get a warm and fuzzy feeling when October comes around.

Libraries across Canada use the month of October to raise awareness of the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in the lives and communities they serve. More than just books, libraries are an inclusive landmark destination that engages the mind, strengthens community, and enhances quality of life.

The Canadian Library Week Council created the first celebration in 1959 to encourage Canadians, who were increasingly spending their money on televisions and radios, to keep them reading.

This year’s Canadian Library Month theme, “One card, one million possibilities,” carries on from previous years – and for good reason. Your free APL card opens a door to a world of endless possibilities for lifelong learning, imagination, and creativity.

Canadian Library Month became a month-long celebration in 2006 to provide more opportunities for libraries to promote their services to the communities they serve.

Using themes such as “A visit will get you thinking,” “Libraries inspire,” and the recent, “One card, one million possibilities,” they connect people to learning and to each other.

For instance, in 1966, Canadian Library Week was an opportunity to demonstrate how a TWX teletype machine, an electromechanical device used to send and receive typed messages, could be used to connect Vancouver to Fredericton. According to an article in Librarianship, (an online library community), the purpose was to show how the “nation’s vast distance problems could be cut down to size and reference problems solved.”

How times have changed. Here at APL, our patrons have 24/7 access to their library and its resources on their smartphone or tablet anywhere in the world they have an internet connection.

Now that’s something to celebrate.

For more information on APL programs and services, visit airdriepubliclibrary.ca.

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