On October 3rd, 2016, Rotarian Shelley Vail introduced Vanessa Black, a graduate of Crandall University and Dalhousie University, and the new Librarian for the Sussex Regional Library.
Vanessa explained that the Sussex Regional Library is funded by the Province and by the Municipality. The Library systems in New Brunswick are all integrated, and books can be borrowed and interchanged among all branches through a shared universal catalogue system.
- The purpose of the library is:
- to provide equal access to information;
- to promote culture (history and language);
- facilitate social and community interaction;
- enhance personal wellness and lifelong learning;
- support early childhood development;
- support literacy skills;
- and enhance social and economic development.
Vanessa reviewed the resources that are available free at the library: – games, books, periodicals, sound collections, and databases...
Vanessa highlighted many of the changes in the focus of libraries in recent years to migrate from a “quiet reading space” to social programs, reading clubs, ESL materials, teen spaces and applications, aboriginal services, to name just a few.
Vanessa announced that October was New Brunswick Libraries Month.
Rotarian Ed Keith thanked Vanessa for her talk about the library. He mentioned that for future speakers at Rotary, the Rotary Club of Sussex would be donating a book to the library.