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_ (press release) _ Ottawa residents will soon have the opportunity to share what they consider most important when evaluating possible locations for the new flagship Ottawa Central Library. Two large in-person consultation sessions are planned for May 16 at Ottawa City Hall. ...

_ (press release) _ The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) will be hosting its fifth annual Awards Night & Video Screening for the Teen Tech Week Video Contest on April 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Centrepointe Studio Theatre, 101 Centrepointe Drive. ...

The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) Board today approved the initiation of the process that will be used to determine the best site for Ottawa’s new flagship Central Library, either as a standalone building or in a potential partnership with Library and Archives Canada (LAC). ...

_ (press release) _ The agenda, and associated documents, for the upcoming Ottawa Public Library Board meeting, scheduled for April 12, 2016, are now available at https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/opl-board-agenda-and-minutes At this meeting, which is open to the public and media, the Board will receive information on the next steps in the Central Library Development Project planning process. ...

_ (press release) _ The winners of this year’s Ottawa Public Library (OPL) Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest were announced yesterday, Tuesday, March 29, at Centrepointe Theatre. Prizes were handed out to honour Ottawa-area youth between the ages of 9 and 17 who submitted poems and/or short stories in French and/or English, between December 2015 and February 2016. ...

_ (press release) _ Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Ebook Pricing continue to advocate for more reasonable prices and terms for ebooks from multinational publishers with an open letter to Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. ...

_ (Ottawa Public Library) _ The Ottawa Public Library will be taking part in the Big Library Read program, which will be taking place until March 31, on a device near you.  Library card holders will be able to borrow and read American Sniper, the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U. ...

_ (Press release) _ The Ottawa Public Library is pleased that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has approved a resolution calling for action from the federal government on eBooks. This resolution requests that the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development investigate restrictive eBook prices to public libraries. ...

_ (via Ottawa Public Library) _ The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) is hosting its annual Teen Tech Week (TTW) Video Contest from March 6 to April 4. The popular contest, which is in its sixth year, celebrates technology and teens. ...

_ (via Ottawa Public Library) _ _ Ottawa Public Library partners with CBC to host Ottawa Human Library _ When is the last time you interacted with someone from a completely different walk of life? Or, had a frank conversation with someone whose life experience is far from your own? ...