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One Book One Province

Libraries Nova Scotia is planning a province-wide reading event for adults to promote a love of reading and “unity reading,” with many people reading and discussing the same book. The One Book One Province project will take place next fall in October 2012, just in time for Canadian Library Month.

Many places have successfully carried out “One Book One City” programs in various sized communities throughout the world. CBC’s Canada Reads program is a broad example of a community reading program for adults. The One Book One Province project actively involves public, university, and community college libraries, as well as the Nova Scotia Provincial Library, the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, and booksellers.

What book should we all read? The chosen book must be:

  • written by a living Canadian author
  • able to generate discussion and the exchange of ideas
  • appealing to a broad range of adult readers of varying ages, literacy levels, and life experience
  • in print and available for purchase
  • strongly written with compelling story, characters, and setting that will generate excitement among readers

Libraries Nova Scotia needs your help! If you have a suggestion for One Book One Province please submit it using this form.

The survey will be open until December 1st, 2011. May the best book win!

App of the Week: Read It Later

When you come across an article or website you’d like to read but just don’t have time for, save it to your Read it Later list. You can then read it whenever you have a moment, wherever you are, even without an internet connection. Search, sort, tag, adjust font alignment; Read It Later even remembers where you stopped reading and will pick up where you left off.

And it’s FREE!

Ebooks. Print Books. What’s Your Preference?

The latest issue of the Dal Gazette features a lead article on the Dal Libraries quarter-of-a-million-and-growing electronic book collection. Reading books online is becoming increasingly the norm–it’s great to be able to access what you want when you want it, no matter where you are. But there are issues with ebooks. The vendors from whom we buy them often place restrictions on how many people can access an ebook at one time, or on how much of the ebook can be printed off.

How do you you feel about electronic versus print books?

Showcasing Dal Students at Killam

7:30 pm Thursday September 30
Special Collections Reading Room
5th floor, Killam Library
494-3615 for more info

The Killam Library is delighted to host a literary reading by two Dalhousie students, both in their final year of the MLIS program in the School of Information Management. Nicole Dixon and Danny Jacobs are published writers who have won awards for their creative talents.

Nicole Dixon won the Bronwen Wallace Award and was short-listed for the Journey Prize and a CBC Literary Award. Her fiction has appeared in Grain, The Fiddlehead, and The New Quarterly. Her first book High-Water Mark, a collection of short stories, will be published by Porcupine’s Quill in 2012. This winter, Nicole will teach CRWR 3001 (fiction) for the Department of English. Nicole will read from her upcoming story collection.

Danny Jacobs’ poetry has appeared in CV2 and Grain, where he placed first in the 2009 Short Grain Contest. Recently, he was shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2010 Far Horizons Award for poetry. He has poems forthcoming from The Fiddlehead. Danny is currently finishing his MLIS degree from Dalhousie. He will read a selection of his most recent poems.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!

Read the Dal News article on Nicole and Danny

matt robinson Reading at Killam

matt robinson7:30 pm, February 18, 2010
DUASC Reading Room
5th Floor, Killam Library
Dalhousie University
494-3615 for more info

Halifax poet matt robinson will read from the manuscript of his forthcoming poetry collection Against the Hard Angle (ECW Press, April 2010), as well as from his recently released limited edition chapbook (Greenboathouse Press, 2009). Against the Hard Angle is robinson’s fourth full-length volume of poetry.

robinson’s poems have won many awards including the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. They have appeared in numerous anthologies and been featured in programs such as HRM’s Art in Public Places initiative.

matt currently lives in Halifax and works as a Residence Life Manager with Dalhousie University. Check out this Dal News article about matt!

Visit the CLCP Public Reading Series webpage for more information about this reading, and to see which other authors we’ve featured at the Written Word Coming To Life series.