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We lost a great one over the weekend. RIP Cape Breton writer Alistair MacLeod.

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To mark Freedom to Read Week, CBC Books created this awesome infographic to list 30 books you may be surprised to learn have battled censorship in Canada (Gossip Girl?!).

Click here to see the high-res version! 

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I guess Canadians don’t think gossiping is very nice. (Sorry.)

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One down, one to go!

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It can happen!

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The Tar Ponds always give good sky. (at Whitney Pier)

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Soon to be Open Hearth Park.

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Woman reading book among shelves on balcony in American History Room in New York Public Library, 1944.

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“There’s a future in books…and a book in your future!” PSA brilliance via @brainpicker!

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Love these vintage book ads!

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One of a series of library education posters designed by Peabody Visual Aids in the 1930s and 1940s, which I salvaged from a throw-away pile at my library school in 2003. These were created under the supervision of visionary librarian Ruby Ethel Cundiff.

From: BiblioVox

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Summer

There are still a few weeks left of summer before classes begin. Lots of time left to enjoy the season. What's your favourite thing about summer?

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WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

The west/Pacific coast of Canada and the States.

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The @CBU_garden gets some compost.

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Weeding's gone meta.

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Our gardening team hard at work building gardening plots for the @CBU_garden last Friday.

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Libraries are our friends.

Neil Gaiman