Western Counties Regional Library Celebrates 40 Years

Below you will find links to articles that appeared in regional newspapers leading up to the formation of the regional library in 1969.
Western Counties Regional Library celebrated its official 40th anniversary on Oct. 29, 2009.
To read the articles, just click on the headline links.

• Regional Library Advocates Not Out of the Woods Yet, Yarmouth Light-Herald, 1964



• Need Regional Library For All Western Nova Scotia, Yarmouth Light-Herald, Dec. 14, 1967



• Yarmouth Committee Studies Library Question, Shelburne Coast Guard, Feb. 22, 1968
  Group Meets with Director of Regional Libraries, Shelburne Coast Guard, Feb. 22, 1968
  Mun. council Decides "No Action Now", Shelburne Coast Guard, Feb. 22, 1968



• Regional Library Interest Continues to Spread, Yarmouth Vanguard, March 6, 1968



• The Regional Library, Yarmouth Vanguard, May 15, 1968



• Cost of Regional Library Plan to the Municipalities, Yarmouth Vanguard, Feb. 28, 1968
  Letter to the Editor, Yarmouth Vanguard, March 6, 1968



• Regional Library Plan Supported by Many of Town Organizations, Yarmouth Light-Herald, May 16, 1968



• Letter to the Editor, Yarmouth Light-Herald, July 27, 1968



• Digby Library Joins Regional Book Service, Chronicle-Herald, Feb. 5, 1969



• What Will the Regional Library Provide?, Shelburne Coast Guard, Aug. 16, 1969



• Library Notes, Yarmouth Light-Herald, July 10, 1969
  Regional Library Service Officially Opened, Shelburne Coast Guard, Nov. 6, 1969
  Digby Branch Opens January 15th, Yarmouth Vanguard, Dec. 3, 1969



• Now Establishing Western Counties Regional Library, Chronicle Herald, Aug. 13, 1969
  Books On Wheels, Chronicle Herald, Aug. 18, 1969



• Regional Library opens October 29, Yarmouth Vanguard, Nov. 5, 1969



• Shelburne Library Officially Opened, Chronicle-Herald, Feb. 14, 1970



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