The 2020 Massey Lecture is going to be presented soon! Due to the covid-19 pandemic, this year’s lecture will be presented digitally in November (although it will also be broadcast as usual by CBC Radio). 2020’s lecture, titled Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society, is by Ronald J. Deibert; Deibert will be talking about... Continue Reading →
Read This Next – Spotlight on Indigenous Authors
Notes from the 26 June 2020 edition of Read This Next. Watch this and past episodes on the TBPL Facebook page or our YouTube channel. Highlights from cloudLibrary: THE MARROW THIEVES by Cherie Dimaline In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to... Continue Reading →
Looking to the Future at the Thunder Bay Public Library
Seven Fallen Feathers: racism, death, and hard truths in a Northern City is the most borrowed book from Thunder Bay Public Library. When Tanya Talaga launched this book at Brodie Library in 2017 TBPL offered to help write the next chapter of hope for the future. TBPL must be, and must be seen to be,... Continue Reading →
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward by Tanya Talaga
Tanya Talaga, the author of Seven Fallen Feathers, which tells the story of seven Indigenous youth who died in Thunder Bay, is presenting the 2018 CBC Massey Lectures. The first of these was delivered at the Community Auditorium in Thunder Bay. Her theme is suicide among Indigenous youth in Canada, the United States, Norway,... Continue Reading →
Community Led and Needs Based
TBPL is working on its next five year Strategic Plan for the period 2019 – 2023. Previous plans have been produced by external consultants, but this time around we are doing it for ourselves. We are using a tried and tested method of community consultation – known as community conversations - which was developed in... Continue Reading →
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