Groan! Another article about another area of the world, this time my home base of Canada, where libraries are being reimagined and pushed into a corner; and the librarians quietly confined to obscurity. In this article, the library has become the ‘Curiosity Space’. I don’t know whether to vomit or…well, what?
Were the school libraries I have overseen, curated, loved and nurtured over the years not full of curious children and young adults, learning about the world around and within? I shout emphatically, ‘yes, they were’! Did these libraries not evolve over the years to meet the needs of their users? Again, I shout, “Yes, they did!”
Do I sound frustrated?
I think that is an emphatic "Yes," shouted to the indifferent universe!
