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Title: Benefits of VSB and VPL Partnerships - Interview with Joy Francescini
Contributor(s): Francescini, Joy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-06-23
Language: English
Description: Joy talks about her experiences working at the Strathcona Library Branch and the partnership between the Vancouver School Board (VSB) and the Library that facilitated various author storytelling visits and how she feels grateful to be a part of the development of the children who visited the branch over the years.
Extent: 00:02:50
Subject(s): Creative community, Vancouver Public Library - Strathcona Branch, Books and reading, Authors, Indigenous peoples
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Books and Bridge - Interview with Florence Beytin
Contributor(s): Beytin, Florence (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-11-21
Language: English
Description: Florence describes finding connection and making friends through books and bridge.
Extent: 00:03:56
Subject(s): Books and reading, Contract bridge, Community centres, Kerrisdale Community Centre, Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, VanDusen Botanical Display Gardens, Jewish Canadians
Location(s): Kerrisdale
Time Period: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Connections - Interview with Fay Fergusson:
Contributor(s): Fergusson, Fay (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-11-28
Language: English
Description: Fay explains how she finds joy in theatre, art and books and how she strives to maintain connection with others.
Extent: 00:05:07
Subject(s): People with disabilities, Theatre, Artists, Artists with disabilities, Art - Exhibitions, Books and reading, Family, Social interaction, ConnecTra Society
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Episode 5 - 2002: Vancouver's Book Club Choy(ce):
Contributor(s): Hanomansing, Ian (Speaker), Choy, Wayson (Interviewee), McMillan, Tim (Speaker), Lakefield (Musical group) (Performer)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2015-07-21
Language: English
Description: This episode of Vancouver Special we explore the year - 2002 - with a look back at the launch of Vancouver's first city-wide book club, One Book, One Vancouver. CBC's sets the scene for 2002 and award-winning author Wayson Choy visits us in studio to talk about having his highly acclaimed bestseller selected as One Book, One Vancouver's inaugural title. Popular with readers across the city and beyond, VPL's One Book, One Vancouver was created to promote and encourage a culture of reading and discussion in Vancouver. From 2002 to 2010 the program featured ten amazing books and dozens of imaginative programs – from author readings and neighbourhood walking tours to dinners in the heart of Stanley Park and boxing demonstrations in a regulation-size ring at Library Square – each designed to bring each book's theme's alive. Wayson Choy's first novel, The Jade Peony, spent six months on The Globe and Mail's national bestseller list in 1995 and won the 1996 City of Vancouver Book Award. In 2002, it chosen as the inaugural book for One Book, One Vancouver. And, VPL librarian Tim McMillan brings is back to bring it all together with some great reads you can find at your library. The theme song is “North Wind” by Vancouver band Lakefield, from the album Sounds from the Treeline.
Extent: 00:13:09
Subject(s): One Book, One Vancouver, Book clubs, Books and reading, Libraries
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Vancouver Special

Title: I Want to Work at the Library One Day - Interview with Lily Gee:
Contributor(s): Gee, Lily (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-06-24
Language: English
Description: Lily recounts her childhood visits to the Library Book Mobile in the 1950s and 1960s and how it inspired her to become a Librarian.
Extent: 00:00:59
Subject(s): Vancouver Public Library - Strathcona Branch, Book mobile, Books and reading, Early literacy, Careers
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: My Daughter is a Bookworm Thanks to the Library - Interview with Colleen Boudreau:
Contributor(s): Boudreau, Colleen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-06-24
Language: English
Description: Colleen talks about her daughter's experience growing up with the Strathcona Library and what it has meant to the family.
Extent: 00:01:01
Subject(s): Vancouver Public Library - Strathcona Branch, Books and reading, Early literacy
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Summer Reading Club - Interview with Colleen Boudreau:
Contributor(s): Boudreau, Colleen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-06-24
Language: English
Description: Colleen talks about the impact the Vancouver Public Library's Summer Reading Club has had on her daughter through the years.
Extent: 00:00:43
Subject(s): Books and reading, Early literacy, Vancouver Public Library - Strathcona Branch
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Teaching at Strathcona - Interview with Ted Watkins
Contributor(s): Ted Watkins (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-12-23
Language: English
Description: Ted discusses his experience teaching at Strathcona Elementary School.
Extent: 00:03:21
Subject(s): Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Schools, Elementary schools, Multiculturalism, Teachers, Books and reading
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Visiting the Carnegie Library and Chinatown - Interview with Rosemary Holman
Contributor(s): Holman, Rosemary (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Rosemary recalls going to the Carnegie Library and Chinatown as a child.
Extent: 00:01:45
Subject(s): Vancouver Public Library - Carnegie Branch, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Books and reading, Bamboo Terrace (Restaurant), Newspapers
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Young Adult Life - Interview with Fay Fergusson:
Contributor(s): Fergusson, Fay (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-11-28
Language: English
Description: Fay describes the joys and challenges of being a young adult with disabilities.
Extent: 00:05:13
Subject(s): People with disabilities, People with disabilities - Pensions, College students with disabilities, Education, Books and reading, Langara College
Location(s): Oakridge
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Story City