Testimonies 3

The council is studying various scenarios for a new library in a horizon of 1 or 2 years. Let us speak up and express our need and desire for a library as we deserve. Let us speak up and express our need and desire for a library as we deserve. Why do we believe our library to be important? What does she bring us? Or why are we not going? What would lead us to attend? What kind of library do we dream of? What inspiring and great libraries have we visited?

All your comments are important, be them short or elaborate, whether you are young or not so young. Thank you to indicate your name and city (and your organisation if applicable). The Coalition reserves the right to remove any comment demonstratring a lack of respect, with personal attacks and without signature or name of city. Go to the end of this message to write your own testimony. Click on "comment" to open the window if necessary.

 You can also send your comment by email (citbrownsburg-chatham@live.ca) as did this citizen from Saint-Léonard:

Reading is one of the best way to understand one's language. To speak it well, read it well and write it well. A library is a paradise of dreams, a knowledge space, a place of learning, a quiet place for meeting and sharing. The books, let's admit it, are very expensive. Who can really afford it? The budgets of individuals are often too tight and basic needs must be a top priority. Where is the reading in this case? Where can the parent find the books that will awaken and delight the children? Is not one of the criteria put forward by the Education Ministry: "Read to your children at an early age to teach them the joy of reading, desire to know and thus begin language learning"? With the "chatting" - conversations so often prized by the youth of today - we lose our language. The French will soon only exist in the form of verbal expression as the written one is getting lost.

My Library - St-Léonard - even offers a more personalized service to those unable to travel. It is obvious that not all municipalities have many points of service as does Montréal, where the books can move from one library to another. But is it not practical to have a place where you can "borrow" a book from another place? Saint-Léonard is not part of the library network in Montréal, but the library of Saint- Léonard can borrow a chosen book from Laval if it is to be found only there!

A library is important.

Good luck, do not give up.

Linda Bousquet

To read previous testimonies:

• http://citbrownsburg-chathameng.blogspot.com/2009/12/library-testimonies.html
• http://citbrownsburg-chathameng.blogspot.com/2010/03/testimonies-2-books-reading-from.html