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Northern College Library Service Partnership by Rebecca Hunt

On March 1, 2022, the deposit library collection at the Northern College Haileybury Campus Library location opened to the public. This satellite service is available to Temiskaming Shores Public Library cardholders, and to students, staff and faculty members of Northern College.

The partnership came about when the Temiskaming Shores Public Library made the difficult decision to amalgamate and close both former branches of the library to help fund the renovation and move into a newly renovated,...

Spring is in the Air by Alison McCorkle

Spring is definitely in the air these days.  I hear the birds singing in the mornings, the icicles are dripping, snow is melting and puddles are forming.  A much-missed colleague and friend who passed away a few years ago, Catherine Gillier, often wove the weather, flora and fauna into her blogs for the library. Just by reading this over, made me immediately think of her.  Words have a way of doing that.  Words can evoke images, fragrances and memories of all kinds just with a few simple...

Fiction to Celebrate International Women’s Day by Elesha Teskey

Yesterday, March 8th, was International Women’s Day. As stated on the International Women's Day website, the day “..is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.”

Today, more than ever before, the publishing industry seeks books with strong female characters, women who don’t rely on a man to save them or solve their problems, women breaking free from typical gender roles, basically...

Biographies at TSPL on Black Lives and Experiences by Sharren Reil

February is Black History month in Canada, so I searched our biography section to see what I could find.  As I have mentioned before, I am reading more nonfiction now than ever before but the biography section is really not my “go to” area.  I am trying to change that because just looking for books for this blog made me realize there are at least fifteen biographies I HAVE to read!

The following books are a few of the selections we hold that speak to black experiences.  I hope all of us use this...

Freedom to Read Week by Cole McNaughton

We here at the Temiskaming Shores Public Library invite our patrons to participate in celebrating Freedom to Read Week during February 20 to 26, 2022. By taking part in this annual event it encourages us to reaffirm our commitment to intellectual freedom.

Over the past decades there have been hundreds of books that were challenged across Canada. Our library houses a number of these titles and we would like to share them with the community. By reading below you can see a visual booklist of the...