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Along with the art gallery projects, Cambridge Libraries (Idea Exchange) are undergoing a $13.5 million restoration project of a former post-office into a digital library. [72] The building was unused for some time before the city bought it for $950,000 and a Parks Canada grant of $800,000 restored some of the building. [ 72 ]
The Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture [1] has responsibility for the administration of the Public Libraries Act. [2] The ministry's Culture Services Unit provides support for the public library system and the Ontario Library Service [ 3 ] deliver programs on behalf of the ministry.
Canadian Libraries is a digital collection of ebooks and texts at the Internet Archive.This collection contains over 400,000 [1] items sponsored by Canadian Library Partners: [2]
Galt (Cambridge) Public Library Cambridge: Ontario: April 11, 1902: 23,000 1903: 34 Water St. N : by architect Frederick William Mellish, [40] Closed in 1969 and now owned by a private company. Glencoe Public Library Glencoe: Ontario: November 11, 1914: 5,000
The "Faith Collection" will have works from many different religious beliefs, including Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism. The Library's collections include some of the earliest Qur'an fragments on parchment, a section of devotional works and mystic treatises, a unique copy of the Kitāb al-Tawhīd by al-Māturīdī, and the first known Qur'an commentary written in Persian.
The CFLA-FCAB promotes and supports Canada Library Month in October, as well as Canadian Library Workers’ Day on the third Friday in October. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] This program was initially launched in 2006 by the CLA and is carried forward by the CFLA-FCAB, which announces an annual theme and provides promotional materials and resources for ...
The newly refurbished Philosophy Library was renamed the Casimir Lewy Library and opened by Edward Craig on 23 September 2000. [10] Casimir Lewy was a University Reader and Fellow of Trinity College who had been an inspirational teacher. [2] Many of his former students made donations towards the refurbishment of the Library.
VDX (standing for Virtual Document eXchange) is a software product for interlibrary loan (ILL) and document request management. [1] VDX was developed by UK company Fretwell-Downing Informatics, a company which in 2005 was taken over by OCLC PICA, itself wholly acquired by OCLC Online Computer Library Center in 2007. [1]