After many years without any significant new developments, Regina Public Library has opened three new (or newly renovated) branches in a few short years with one more on the way by next year (and maybe more to come?)
Then, in August 2012, I was able to pop by the new Regent Place branch on its opening day while on my way home from work. Regent had been my home branch before I ever went to library school so this one was of particular interest to me and, of course, I ended up becoming the Branch Head at this location a year later in September 2013.
Little did I know on opening day that this would be my office a year later!
The good folks at GB won’t get to hold the “new branch” mantle quite as long as we did – the new Albert Branch library which will be part of the shared-use Mâmawêyatitân Centre in North-Central Regina will be opening sometime next year.
With all the new branches opening, renovations happening at existing branches and the possibility of a new Central Branch under discussion, these are very exciting times for library lovers in Regina indeed!
We had one brief hit a few weeks ago that went away but otherwise, November 29 is a pretty good day for posting this traditional blog post to commemorate the first snow of the year (the first that looks like it’s going to stick around anyhow)…
Books remain one of the strongest bulwarks we have against tyranny—but only as long as people are free to read all different kinds of books, and only as long as they actually do so. The right to read whatever you want whenever you want is one of the fundamental rights that helps preserve all the other rights. It’s a right we need to guard with unwavering diligence. But it’s also a right we can guard with pleasure. Reading isn’t just a strike against narrowness, mind control and domination: It’s one of the world’s great joys.
We’re pretty lucky that this house is about a block from our house. And doubly lucky because the unseasonably warm weather allowed us to walk over in light jackets to check it out the other night.
That let us hear the outside speakers and although this angle doesn’t show it, the kids also loved seeing Santa and Mrs. Claus in the kitchen window!
10. Buying a drink at a local drug store recently, I got asked if I qualified for the “55+ Senior Discount”? (Apparently I should’ve bought a kit to dye this 43 year old’s grey beard!)
2. Justin Trudeau is turning out to be exactly what I expected. Not really shitty news per se unless you actually believed that “sunny days” shit sandwich he served up after his election win.
