Canada: New Charlottetown Bookstore Acts as Library For Immigrants
From CBC:
Family & Bookland, a new Charlottetown business, may look like an ordinary bookstore, but inside it’s a library and gathering place for the Island’s Chinese, immigrant and local communities to come together.
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[Jia] Wang moved to Charlottetown from Beijing last April, and it didn’t take her long to figure out she wanted to create a space that would bring the Island’s multicultural communities together.
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The store operates on a membership system, and costs $15/month, or $140 for the full year.
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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