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A newspaper article about "Count Week" at the Bradford Public Library.

"The last week of October was "count week" at the Bradford Public Library. Each year the province requires that we report on what happened during the year..."

A newspaper article about "Count Week" at the Bradford Public Library.

"...If you visited the Bradford Public Library during the week of October 27 - 21 you counted for something. The annual statistics 'Count Week' was held at the library and almost everything that happened was tallied up. Adrienne Price the librarian, needed all those numbers to fill out the annual statistics form based on a s sample week of activities in the library..."

A newspaper article about the creation of the Gwen Taylor Memorial Library as a community library in Newtown Robinson. The library was conceived after the Newton Robinson branch of the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library was closed.

"The Gwen Taylor Memorial Library is an example of what a community can achieve, when it pulls together. The community library in Newton Robinson was opened by residents of the hamlet, after the local branch of the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library was closed by the Library Board..."

An article about the creation of a "Booketeria" in order to help provide library services to the Bond Head area.

"What is a Booketeria? It's a self-serve mini-library, a new and innovative way to make library resources more available in a small community. With the help of the Bond Head Post Mistress Judith Baguely, room was found in the tiny Bond Head Post Office for shelving that holds approximately 450 paperback books, ranging from adult titles to kids' literature, and from romance and murder mysteries, to the latest works by Canadian authors..."

A panoramic photograph of the Bradford Public Library, taken by Sheryl Cheshire.

Photograph of the reception for the opening of a meeting room at the Bradford Public Library, when the library was on John Street in Bradford.

Left to right, standing in foreground:
Ron Simpson (Builder, BWG town councillor 1991-2000, 2003-2014), Maurice Allen (Director of the County of Simcoe Library), Ron Mackenzie (Director of Georgian Bay Regional library system)

A photograph of Bradford Public Library Librarian/CEO Alannah Hegedus in 1995 during the beginning of automation at the Library.

Photograph a office in the Bradford Public Library.

Photograph a young woman reading books in between library bookshelves/stacks.

Bradford resident George Jackson speaking at the official opening event for the new Bradford Public Library on November 6, 1988.