Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library Why ask a librarian from rural Nova Scotia for advice? Well, city slicker, because Eric Stackhouse, chief librarian of the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library, is a few steps ahead of us. His library system, along with a local architect and multiple community partners, are in the homestretch of building a new 16,000-square-foot library […]
The new library
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Channeling history
The wind’s whipping pedestrians into shape, insisting they play its game of Dodge the Debris. Another kind of detritus tells a story of the city. Susan McClure, HRM archivist since 2005, calls it “the byproduct of people’s activity.” For Dawn Sloane, some of those byproducts could end up in a Halifax history museum. “What we […]
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Community building
This week’s Coast takes a detailed look at the intriguing possibilities for Halifax’s central library—everything from the potential for an inspiring new building with beautifully designed public spaces to the opportunities for a vigorous balance between old and new media. Our reporting celebrates what we see as a victory in the clash between town and […]
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What do you want to see in the new library?
So many Coast readers submitted suggestions, complaints, wishes and dreams into our suggestion box, and here are just a few. And keep them coming—there are no late charges, either. A LEED standards building, a fair-trade cafe, a small theatre and a large auditorium, a rooftop garden, space for public art, the best Canadian literature section […]
