Thursday Evening: Libraries and Marginalized Communities

thursday evening: On Thursday evening, Lisa Freeman will offer a talk about her three-year research into how libraries are changing, according to Metro News. The lecture, at SFU Harbour Centre, is entitled Re-defining the Public in Public Libraries. According to a Simon Fraser University geographer, public libraries in fact reveal a lot about a society. Freeman argues that libraries are playing a new societal role amidst escalated housing prices and times of austerity cuts to social services, particularly for immigrants and other marginalized communities. But libraries are actually changing to meet the different needs people have now. As technology changes, people might ask, Why do we need public libraries if we can find everything on Google she said in a phone interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.