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Posted March 11, 2005.

Regina PL Board Officially Abandons Closures

Sixteen months after announcing a controversial plan to close three branches, the Dunlop Art Gallery, and its Prairie History room, the Regina (Sask.) Public Library board has dropped the idea. However, it’s now trying to raise money through partnerships with the business community and nonprofit groups to keep the library system solvent, CBC News reported March 8. One of the options is opening a coffee shop inside the Central Library.

After the closures were announced in November 2003, the library Friends group and local arts organizations attempted to stop the process by gathering petitions to force the city council to stop the plan.

Four library board members who favored the closures resigned last year, and the new board dismissed Library Director Sandy Cameron January 17. “Membership on the RPL Board has changed over the past few months and the library is moving in a new direction,” Board Chair Darlene Hincks announced. “We felt that we needed to have a change in the leadership of the library as part of our new approach to operating the library.”

Posted March 11, 2005.