2:00 - 3:15 PM

The Role of Friends Groups in Preserving and Developing Library History in Canada

To preserve and publicize collections related to library history in Canada is one of the major objectives of Ex Libris.

3:45 - 5:00 PM

Community Economic Development the Public Library Way

Speaker: Janice Murray-Gill, River John Friends of the Library

The story of Community Economic Development the Public Library Way. A rural community of 1,200 led by the River John Friends of the Library took up the challenge of a $600,000 project to build, finance and own a new building in their community to house the River John Public Library & Innovation Centre.