Two objectives: A Municipal Library up to Standards and the Preservation of the Roussell House

Brownsburg-Chatham, Québec, Canada
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About Us

We are a non-partisan coalition of citizens of Brownsburg-Chatham, who have at heart the fate of our library and our architectural heritage. We believe that the library should be relocated to a bigger house, better equipped and be endowed with sufficient human resources to meet the needs of the population. The Roussell house (Principale/des Érables) is one of the last heritage building of interest to be located downtown.

The coalition has acknowledged the lack of support among the population for the relocalisation of the library in the Russell house. We now consider them as two separate files.

Luc Bélisle, Hélène Boivin, Michel Brisson, Jean Careau, Gilles Desforges, Cynthia Dubé, Anik Ferland, Pierre Gagnon, François Jobin, Sophie LaRoche, Diane Leduc, Mylène Mondou, Gilbert Poupart, Maurice Rochon, Claire Thivierge, Kathleen Wilson.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Invitation to the Municipal Council

The coalition We Deserve Better had to celebrate the World Book and Copyright Day on this April 23. Inspired by the initiative of the writer Yann Martel, who has been mailing twice a month for the last 2 years now a selection of books to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the coalition invites the City Council members to visit our library. Here is a list of titles that are available:
  • Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec : un siècle d'histoire / Denis Goulet. This comprehensive work, lavishly illustrated, is an important contribution to the history of public libraries and research libraries in Canada.
  • Historique de la corporation municipale de Brownsburg
  • Dix animations lecture en bibliothèque jeunesse / Solange Aleberteau ... [et al.] ; sous la direction de Christian Poslaniec. The library appears in this work as an actor at the heart of the city, because it goes out in the street to bring in readers, it brings them together in clubs of young critics, or because it organizes literary prizes, the library is located at the crossroads of initiatives from various institutions and as such plays a unifying role.
  • Le roi de la bibliothèque / Michelle Knudsen ; illustrations de Kevin Hawkes
  • Le parfum : histoire d'un meurtrier / Patrick Süskind
  • Le prophète / Khalil Gibran
  • Le vide / Patrick Senécal
  • Stupeur et tremblements / Amélie Nothomb
  • Une vie de toutes pièces / François Jobin
  • La Détresse et l'enchantement / Gabrielle Roy
  • All Henning Mankell
  • Kamouraska / Anne Hébert
  • Library Mouse / Daniel Kirk
  • La belle et la bête / Giulia Baiocchi; illustrations de C. Cernushi et Martha Buga
Also, other readings of interest suggested by the coalition and friends: 
  • S’appauvrir dans un pays riche. For author Richard Langlois, economic growth is no guarantee of a fairer distribution of wealth in society.
  • Quand votre enfant apprend à lire /Anne Froissart et Noëlle Herrenschmidt. So that reading becomes a celebration and not a chore.
  • Savoir écouter / A. Conquet. Opening quotation taken from the Book of Wisdom: "Listen, kings, and understand! Listen, you who command the crowds. "
  • L’Administrateur public, un être «pifométrique » / Alphonse Riverin et al. A book praised by Gilles Boulet, former president of the University of Quebec, which celebrates the creativity and imagination in public administration.
  • La Grande Bibliothèque / Michèle Lefebvre et Martin Dubois
  • État des lieux du livre et des bibliothèques / Institut de la statistique du Québec
  • Revue de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec / Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
  • Recyclage architectural à Québec / École d'architecture de l'Université Laval
  • Une politique de la culture et des arts / Groupe-conseil sur la politique culturelle
  • Avancer dans le brouillard (full text in French)
  • Max ou le sens de la vie / François Jobin
  • La deuxième vie de Louis Thibert / François Jobin
  • Farenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
  • Les rayons de l'aube (Les lois naturelles du corps, de l'esprit et de l'âme) / Dr. Thurman Fleet
  • Cent ans de solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • L'Étranger / Albert Camus
  • All Arthur Rimbaud
  • Les Fleurs du mal / Charles Beaudelaire
  • Le Petit Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Le Monde selon Garp / John Irving
  • Des souris et des hommes / John Steinbeck
  • Kafka sur la plage / Haruki Murakami
  • Soie / Alessandro Baricco
  • Les Fourmis / Bernard Werber
  • All Colette
  • L'Avalée des avalées + L'hiver de force / Réjean Ducharme
  • Le Procès / Franz Kafka
  • Almost all Dostoïevki
  • 1984 / George Orwell
  • En attendant Godot / Samuel Beckett
  • Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert
  • Le Vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour / Luis Sepulveda
  • L'Amant de Lady Chatterley / D.H. Lawrence 
  • Tropique du cancer / Henry Miller
  • Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov
  • Sur la route / John Kerouac
  • Le Nom de la rose / Umberto Eco
  • Le Monde de Sophie / Jostein Gaardner
  • La Vie devant soi / Émile Ajar
  • Le Deuxième Sexe / Simone de Beauvoir
  • Confucius

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