There has been a growing emphasis in the last few years on the role of public libraries as community spaces. To explore this idea, I spent the fall of 2012 speaking to public librarians from across the country to see what public libraries are doing in their communities, how they are changing, how they are staying the same, and the challenges they are facing. I found libraries that are overcoming barriers to access and libraries that take their role as public spaces very seriously. And in all my conversations I looked for community, to find out what it is and what public libraries have to do with it.

As part of Freedom to Read week, Considering Community will be broadcast on CKDU 88.1FM and online at ckdu.ca

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Wednesday February 27 @ 1:30pm

Friday March 1 @ 8am

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Saturday March 2 @ 8pm

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This project was completed as part of a Master of Library and Information Studies degree at Dalhousie University and supervised by Dr. Fiona Black of the School of Information Management.

For more information on the project or to share your thoughts and experiences on the topic please feel free to contact me: megan.clark@dal.ca