Over the past decade, new and renovated public library branches have been showcasing our great Canadian architects and their most spectacular, innovative works. This is the first of a continuing series on stunning new and renovated library branches in Canada. So bookmark them for your travels. You will be inspired and warmly welcomed. The first set in the series includes:

• Brampton (Gore Meadows Community Centre and Library)
• Calgary (Nose Hill branch)
• Edmonton (Jasper Place branch)
• Mississauga (Meadowvale Community Centre and Library)
• Ottawa (Beaverbrook branch)
• Toronto (Scarborough Civic Centre branch)
• Vaughan Civic Centre Resource Library) and,
• Waterloo (John M. Harper branch).
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                                                 Beaverbrook Branch, Ottawa Public Library

READ Rosemount has written to Mayor Jim Watson and OPL Board Chair/Councillor Tim Tierney to request the City and Library commit to a plan that “will lead to a new Rosemount library that meets the community’s current and future needs.” The Rosemount branch library building (18 Rosemount Ave in Hintonburg/Kitchissippi Ward 15) will be 100 years old in 2018. It is heavily used and loved by the community it serves…but it is too small and only half the size of comparable serving branches.  It was expanded in 1932 and the only major renovation was completed in the 1980’s. It has the highest circulation/sq.ft and the third highest number of visitors/sq.ft. of all OPL’s 33 branches. However, it has no public, bookable meeting rooms (25 other branches have such rooms) and vastly fewer seats and public access computers than other branches of comparable activity. It is on the OPL board’s priority list for capital renewal. For further information contact READ Chair, Josh Nutt (readrosemount@gmail.com ) For the full text of the letter click here.

The next meeting of the READ Rosemount group will be:
Date:       Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Location: Plant Rec Centre Somerset and Preston,  930 Somerset W
Time: 7-9 PM
Chair: Josh Nutt
All members and newcomers welcome

READ Draft Agenda August 15th 2017            |           Minutes, July 17th meeting

READ Rosemount continues working throughout the summer. 
The next meetings will be:

Monday, July 17, 2017  7-9 pm
Plant Recreation Centre, 930 Somerset St. W., Booth Room
Monday, August 21, 2017  7-9 pm
Plant Recreation Centre, Booth Room

All members and visitors welcome.
Chair: Josh Nutt

READ Rosemount’s June meeting will be held:
Date:   Monday, June 12, 2017
Location: Plant Recreation Centre, Booth Room, 930 Somerset W.  (corner of Somerset and Preston)
Time: 7-9 pm
Chair: Josh Nutt

Visitors and new members welcome.

The May meeting of the READ Rosemount Group will be held:
Date: May 8th, 2017
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: Plant Recreation Centre (Corner of Preston and Somerset)  NOTE CHANGE FROM REGULAR LOCATION

Chair: Josh Nutt

All visitors and new participants are welcome.

READ Draft Agenda May 8, 2017       Draft Minutes of April 10

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Video: CNN’s Medical Correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta.  Have a look. 

The OPL 2016 annual report celebrates customer-first milestones and initiatives. READ is striving for a new Rosemount Library to be a milestone celebration in the near future. Here is the link to the report. Have a read.

A lecture from the Guardian explaining why using our imaginations, and providing for others to use theirs is an obligation for all citizens.  For more click here.