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| 2009 Coming Events
North Central Shared Facility Open House & BBQ Saturday, October 3rd Come and go from 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM Albert Scott Community Centre, 7th Ave & Athol St. Displays & drawings, talk to project leaders & partner organizations See our News page Prince of Wales Library- Visioning Sessions Tuesday, October 6th at 7 PM St. Augustine Community School 2343 Edgar Street Public Meeting to gather input from community residents & RPL users. See our News page Central Library First Concept Designs Public Viewing Late November See our News page Regina Public Library Board Board Meetings Tuesdays at 4:30 PM October 27, November 24, December 15 Boardroom, 2nd Floor, Central Library Canadian Library Library Month Saskatchewan Library Week October Friends of Regina Public Library Annual General Meeting Saturday November 7, 2:00 PM CACA Building 2900 - 13th Ave 2nd floor Guest Speaker TBA New members welcomed The FRPL Board of Directors 2009 Contact FRPL Mail: FRPL, 2208 Rae Street, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4T 2E9 Telephone: (306) 790-8528 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
North Central Shared Facility
Plans are moving ahead for the North Central Shared Facility to be located at the site of Scott Collegiate. The Albert Library is part of this project. The facility will provide services from a shared facility focused on youth and families. The project is a partnership between community, schools and service providers. The project held a Learning Café May 28, 2008 and a Design Festival October 4, 2008. Reports from these events are available on their website. http://www.northcentralsharedfacility.ca/index.html While the shared facility idea has received positive support, City residents have expressed concern about the possible tearing down of the historic Scott Collegiate building. The North Central Shared Facility Open House & BBQ will be held Saturday, October 3rd at Albert Scott Community Centre, 7th Ave & Athol St.. It will be a come and go event from 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM. There will be displays and drawings of the new facility, and an opportunity to talk to project leaders and partner organizations. http://www.northcentralsharedfacility.ca/docs/NCSF_Postcard_final.pdf For further information, contact the North Central Community Association. http://www.nccaregina.ca/index.php/article/north_central_shared_facility Prince of Wales Library at Core Ritchie Prince of Wales Library is to be relocated to a new building attached to the Core Ritchie Neighborhood Centre. Because it is City property, public consultations were held in April 2009 about the location. The location was approved by the public at that meeting and was subsequently formally approved by the City. An architectural firm has been chosen - Resource Planning Group Inc. of Vancouver. (See http://rpg.ca) The Library will be holding a Public Meeting at 7 PM on Tuesday, October 6th at St. Augustine Community School, located at 2343 Edgar Street. This will be a visioning session to gather the ideas of community residents and RPL users about the library design. This is an opportunity for residents and library supporters to contribute to the planning of this new building and everyone is encouraged to attend. For further information, contact the Regina Public Library. http://www.rpl.regina.sk.ca/pow New Central Library - Concept Designs A major expansion of Central Library is being planned. ON April 29, 2009 the RPL announced that it had hired P3 Architecture Ltd. http://www.p3arch.com and Harvard Developments Inc. http://www.harvard.ca of Regina to lead the redesign of Central Library. The plan will either replace or expand and renovate the current building. The RPL hopes this will be part of a mixed use development. http://www.rpl.regina.sk.ca/central_library/index.html Over the summer there was an opportunity to participate in an on-line questionnaire. In August some very basic ideas for options of what the block would look like were presented. Pictures were shown that had features such as a tall building to the west of Westminster Church a building encircling the Federal Building on Smith Street a building encircling or replacing the Mason’s Building an office tower / condo west of the current Central Library completely replacing the current Central Library building. A further opportunity to comment on some more detailed concept designs will occur in late November. Public input is needed as this will be a major development changing the entire block bounded by Victoria Avenue, Lorne Street, 6th Avenue and Smith Street. It will affect the Mason’s Building, Westminster Church and the Federal Building. History Book Project - Full Steam Ahead! Many interesting stories are emerging from the interviews with former Library staff, and the Board minutes - starting back one hundred years ago! A DVD may also be produced. To date, the History Project has received funding support from:
The book is scheduled for publication in 2010 For more details link to FRPL activities page Library Services Plan The RPL announced approval of a new Services Plan, in October 2009 SHOULD BE 2008, based on a review of services and some public meetings. These identified 4 areas of activity: reading, viewing and listening pleasure, early literacy and making the library a comfortable place for lifelong learning. http://www.reginalibrary.ca/blogs/index.php?blog=35 A concern of some library users is how and when certain service decisions are being made, how and when they are communicated to the public, and how their impact is measured. For example, the decision to eliminate the Library video collection and only lend DVD’s. Friends of the Dunlop Art Gallery Friends of the Dunlop Art Gallery introduced the Dunlop Advisory Board in the spring of 2008, consisting of members: Don List, Linda Payeur, Christine Ramsay and Rachelle Vader Knowles. |
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