Avi talks with Laura Lundy and Carina Costom of the Nelson at its Best End Poverty Initiative. This initiative created the Community Services Navigator program, and Carina is at the Library every Wednesday as a “System Navigator”, offering free consultations to help members of the public find their way in the system. This service fits naturally with the Library’s mandate to provide access to information! Listen in to this conversation to find out more…

Did you know that the Library loans many kinds of devices? Our ‘Library of Things’ contains all sorts of helpful devices, including Kill-A-Watt readers and radon gas detectors. Carmen Proctor, coordinator of the City of Nelson’s Eco-Save program, is here with Anne to talk about energy efficiency at home, Eco-Save assessment tools and services, plus more rebate programs…

Local municipal elections in times long past! Anne tackles this topic with a helping hand from Jean-Philippe Stienne, Archivist & Collections Manager of Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History. Further on, the discussion highlights our local history resources including ghost town newspapers…

Can public libraries play a role in social movements? Join Avi and Melodie Rae as they explore the various ways the Nelson Public Library is supporting the new wave of women’s rights, and they reveal a list of relevant reads for children, teens and adults…

In terms of literacy development in children, what is the “Summer Slide” and how does the Library help prevent it? Kyoko rejoins Avi in the studio to discuss this, and share more details on the great activities at Summer Reading Club this year…

Summer Reading Club 2018 has a brand new theme: “Motion Commotion”, and Claire and Kyoko are back to lead the program again! Hear an overview of this year’s plans, anecdotes from last year, plus what’s happening for adults and teens this summer at the Library…

Famous writers in our library! Guests Natasha Smith and Anne DeGrace talk about poet, novelist, and children’s writer Susan Musgrave, who, as Elephant Mountain Literary Festival writer-in-residence, will meet with local writers one-on-one and give a free public talk on the writing craft in July…

Anne interviews New Denver author Art Joyce about his new novel Mountain Blues, and about what it’s like to set your novel identifiably in your home town—characters and all—ahead of his book launch at the Library in May…

2017 was a very busy year for the Library, and our Annual Report to the Community has just been published! Check out this episode to hear its highlights, with Chief Librarian Tracey Therrien…

Preparations are again underway for the Human Library event! Anne consults two human “books”, to revisit their experiences in last year’s event, and looks ahead to this year. To learn more about becoming a “book”, please contact Anne at the Library…