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YOUR PLACE IN THE CENTRAL LIBRARY & The Central Library’s place in citymaking Judy Hare, former CEO, Halifax Public Libraries RSVP HERE
Join Citizens Academy as we connect with Judy Hare, the former CEO of the Halifax Public Libraries! As Ottawa plans a new central library, it’s the perfect time to learn about and be inspired by the library being talked about the world over: the Halifax Central Library.
Join us for a generative and provocative public conversation on the potential of a central library as a multi-use community hub and a meaningful public place for shared citymaking. We will learn from Judy how participatory processes with citizens, throughout each stage of development, informed the design and fuelled community ownership and pride. No doubt, she will share lessons learned as well.
We want to hear from Ottawans: what burning questions remain for you as we move through the central library process?
As a panelist for the Royal Society of Canada’s “The Future Now: Canada's Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory”, Judy has a national vantage point from which to understand the power of the public library as an essential part of our civic infrastructure and community capital.
WHERE: FSS 4007, University of Ottawa
WHEN: Feb 18, 2016, 5-8 pm
Presentation 5 – 6 pm
Citizen-led conversation 6:30- 8 pm
RSVP HERE
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Judith Hare is the former CEO of the Halifax Public Libraries and has led public libraries in Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Hare received the Ontario Library Association’s Angus Mowat Award for Library Innovation in 1993 for “One Place To Look”, the first strategic plan for Ontario’s Public Libraries. She joined an Oxford Round Table to examine the American Patriot Act. She speaks frequently public engagement, pod-camp and social media, community-led service development, the Halifax Central Library and library leadership and has been featured at the Canadian Library Association, the Ontario Library Association, Metropolitan Libraries and the International Federation of Library Associations. Hare is a member of both the Canadian and American Urban Libraries Councils.
