One Book, One Community

This year on Saturday, 16 June, The New Quarterly (TNQ) celebrates OBOC’s selection of Lakelands with a bus tour of nearby lakes. Our two destinations will be Sunfish Lake, where Edna Staebler made her home, and Conestogo Lake, a key part of our regional water system.  The day will begin at 9:30am as we depart [...]

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Share your memories of the lake(s) in your life with us!  Whether it’s a photo or a written (a couple of sentences will do) memory, we’d love to hear from you.  Simply email shall@wpl.ca. For example:  Lake Memories: “Maddie, our Golden Retriever, enjoying the wind in his fur on a cottage dock near Six Mile [...]

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We are pleased to announce that Kitchener Public Library now has 6 copies of Lakeland on Daisy** CD, on loan from the CNIB Library.  They may be borrowed for a standard Talking Book loan period of 6 weeks.  Holds can be placed on the title by eligible Talking Book customers by searching the catalogue.  To [...]

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The members of the One Book, One Community committee have created a list of resources to accompany your reading of Allan Casey’s Lakeland. Events, and there will be some fun ones, will be posted as details are confirmed. All participating libraries have extra copies of “Lakeland” in their collections, but you may need to place a [...]

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This morning, at a special event hosted at the John M. Harper Branch Library in Waterloo, the One Book, One Community committee announced that the 2012 selection is Allan Casey’s award-winning book, Lakeland. Lakeland, the winner of the 2010 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, is a thought-provoking book whose often playful prose reveal a passionate [...]

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