TD Summer Reading Club Library Awards

Past Winners

2009 Winners

Winners of the TD Summer Reading Club Library Awards for the 2009 program Agent 009 are as follows:

• First place in the English division is Chelsea Library, Chelsea, Québec.
• Second place winner is West Lorne and Rodney Libraries, Elgin, Ontario.
• First place in the francophone division is Bibliothèque L'Octogone de Lasalle, Ville Lasalle, Québec.
• Second place is Bibliothèque Lamartine de St-Eugène, Islet, Québec.

Libraries that achieved a nomination of Special Mention are:

• Bibliothèque Léo-Pol-Morin, Cap-St-Ignace, QC
• Bibliothèque Municipale Saul-Bellow, Lachine, QC
• Bibliothèque Publique de la Municipalité de Nation, St. Isidore, ON
• Carleton Place Public Library, Carleton Place, ON
• Glen Abbey Branch, Oakville Public Library, Oakville, ON
• Springfield Library, Springfield, ON
• Thompson Public Library, Thompson, MB
• Wainfleet Township Public Library, Wainfleet, ON
• Wapiti Branch, Reid Thompson Public Library, Humboldt, SK

2008 Winners

Library and Archives Canada and the TD Summer Reading Club are pleased to announce the winners of the TD Summer Reading Club Library Awards for the 2008 program, Laugh out Loud. Four prizes were awarded - a first and second prize in both English and French. First prize winners each receive $5000.00 to invest in their libraries and second prize winners receive $2000.00.

The first prize winners are the Point Alexander Branch, Laurentian Hills Public Library in Deep River, ON (English) and Bibliothèque de Dudswell, Marbleton, QC (Francophone). Second prize winners are the Wapiti Branch, Reid-Thompson Public Library, Humboldt, SK and Bibliothèque Léo-Pol-Morin, Cap-St-Ignace, QC.

The awards were presented in Montreal on June 1^st at the closing session of the annual conference of the Canadian Library Association.

Congratulations as well to those libraries who received Honourable Mention for their exceptional programs: Bibliothèque Madeleine-Doyon, Beauceville, QC; Bibliothèque municipale Saul-Bellow, Lachine, QC; Carleton Place Public Library, Carleton Place, ON; Georgetown Branch, Halton Hills Public Library, Georgetown, ON; Govan Branch, Parkland Regional Library, Govan, SK; Fort McMurray Public Library, Fort McMurray, AB; and Springfield Library, Springfield, ON.

Thanks to all of the libraries who participated in the TD Summer Reading Club during the summer of 2008 and especially to those who shared their ideas through their outstanding submissions to the TD Summer Reading Club Library Awards 2008!

2007 Winners

We are pleased to announce that La Bibliothèque de Chelsea in Chelsea, Québec has won first prize for the francophone division and Bibliothèque L'Octogone in Lasalle, Québec has won the second prize. We are equally pleased to announce that Springfield Public Library of Springfield, Ontario has won first prize in the English division and that Garden River First Nation Public Library, Garden River, Ontario has won the second prize.

We would like to congratulate these libraries along with the libraries that received Honorable Mentions: la Bibliothèque de l'Île Perrot, la Bibliothèque de Dudswell, both in Québec and Orillia Public Library and finally Essa Public Library, Angus Branch, both of Ontario.

The following libraries are also commended for their excellent initiatives: Stratford Public Library, Thorold Public Library, Cochrane Public Library and Innisfil Public Library.

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