GELA New Year’s Brunch and Talk

Date

January 23, 2016 11:00 - 13:00

Location

Edmonton

Details

Website: http://gela.ca/gela-new-years-brunch/

Join GELA for brunch and a talk by Edmonton Public Library CEO Pilar Martinez at the historic Yellowhead Brewery, January 23, 11am-1pm. Proceeds from the event go towards supporting the GELA Prison Project. You will have a unique opportunity to directly support the storybook project, where inmates record themselves reading aloud, and their recording is sent to children in their families, by bidding on a book.

EPL’s Community-Led Service Approach: Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead

EPL was one of the first public libraries in Canada to implement a system-wide, integrated community-led service approach in 2008. Pilar will discuss the framework for the community-led approach, how it has been implemented and evaluated. She will highlight some of the things EPL has learned in the last 7 years, the successes, the challenges and what’s in store for the future.