Ontario Public Libraries Week (October 16-20) highlights the important role public libraries and library workers play in our communities.
Our theme this year is “Libraries connect you to life.” This celebrates not only the spaces and books that make libraries a haven for the reader and a heaven for the imaginative. It celebrates the workers who maintain computers that link newcomers and temporary foreign workers to their lives in other countries. It celebrates the library staff who teach us how to use technology like 3D printers that inspire a new generation of engineers, architects and artists. It celebrates the workers who connect us with the information and resources we need to not only survive, but thrive.