Role of Libraries in Remembrance Week
These soldiers could have been farming or mining or reporting the news or teaching school or inventing the internet or fighting for Aboriginal rights or writing books or volunteering or being artists, politicians, doctors nurses, bus drivers, public servants or librarians, instead they died so we could do those things..... They deserve more than a poppy and a closed for the holiday day sign on our websites. Start planning how you and your organization will help educate and remember "their" contribution to Canada. Why should libraries go out of their way to include something to remember veterans and those that gave their lives for Canada? Libraries have many roles today but one of their biggest is contributing to an educated population. Part of the education process is understanding how we got to where we are today. A vital part of how we got to where we are today were two World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, many Peace Keeping missions and participation i...