Didsbury Municipal Library - Didsbury, Alberta
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The Didsbury Municipal Library is located at 2033 19th Avenue.
Waymark Code: WMPHZQ
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 09/04/2015
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The Didsbury Municipal Library serves the needs of approximately 5,000 residents.
They offer Children's Books, Juvenile Fiction and Non Fiction, Young Adult Books, Adult Fiction and Non Fiction, Large Print Books, eAudiobooks, Music and Videos on CDs, and Magazines and Newspapers.
There are continuing additions to the collections.
History
The Didsbury Library is one of the oldest small libraries in Alberta. The first meeting of "The Didsbury Free Library Board" was held on January 25, 1908.
The Annual Report for 1910 showed that Mrs. Long was paid $5.00 for three months' service as librarian. The number of books circulated for 1910 was 1500. In the early 1940's the library moved from the school to a room above what is now "Steve's Place"; and in 1946 to the Town Office (then) but what is now the "Westerdale Building" across the alley from the post office, and now the home of the Didsbury and District Chamber of Commerce.
In 1964 the Town Office moved, and the library solely used the building. In 1974 the library moved to the old "Royal Bank" (now the Green Bamboo Restaurant), who donated the building to the town to use for the library. In 1985, the library board started discussing the options of renovating or building a new facility. It was decided we would build, and in February 1987, the library moved its present location next to the Town Office. The official opening of the new building was April 25, 1987. After a year of entering all the book data and catalogue records into a computer, September 1993, the library was automated.
By 2001, the library had been fully integrated into the regional and provincial library resource sharing networks and has an online public access catalogue as well eight public computers for accessing the Internet, searching data bases and CD ROMS, and producing reports, resumes and other documents.
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