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Job Posting: Interlibrary Loans Specialist

Peace Library System (PLS) is seeking an Interlibrary Loans Specialist for the Collection Services Department.

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2021 Annual Report Infographic

Check out an infographic summary of our 2021 Annual Report.

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New Reciprocal Lending Agreement with Parkland Regional Library System

TRAC and PRLS have agreed on a reciprocal lending agreement for use with OverDrive materials. With a TRAC library card, your patrons now have access to OverDrive ebooks and digital...

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Events

Peace Library System Board Room
Date: Saturday, April 22, 2023
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: TBA
Executive Committee Meeting

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Peace Library System Board Room
Date: Saturday, May 27, 2023
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: TBA
Board Meeting

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Land Acknowledgement

Peace Library System acknowledges that we are located on the Treaty 8 territory of the Cree, Beaver, and Dene people, and Region 6 of the Métis Nation of Alberta. We are grateful to live, work, and learn together on this land which has been home to many First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples since time immemorial. We recognize this land as an act of reconciliation, and we also commit to supporting and celebrating our local Indigenous communities while working to break down institutional barriers to make our libraries equitable and accessible.

Book Lists

100 million years of food : what our ancestors ate and why it matters today

Le, Stephen, author

Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal

Bittman, Mark, author

Canadians at table : food, fellowship, and folklore : a culinary history of Canada

Duncan, Dorothy

Candy : a century of panic and pleasure

Kawash, Samira, 1963-

Catching fire : how cooking made us human

Wrangham, Richard W., 1948-

Charlemagne's tablecloth : a piquant history of feasting

Fletcher, Nichola, 1951-

Cooked : a natural history of transformation

Pollan, Michael, author.

The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South

Twitty, Michael, 1977- author

A curious history of food and drink

Crofton, Ian.

Delizia! : the epic history of the Italians and their food

Dickie, John, 1963-

Eat my words : reading women's lives through the cookbooks they wrote

Theophano, Janet.

An edible history of humanity

Standage, Tom

Empires of food : feast, famine, and the rise and fall of civilization

Frase, Evan D. G.

Extra virginity : the sublime and scandalous world of olive oil

Mueller, Tom

Food : the history of taste

Lost feast : culinary extinction and the future of food

Newman, Lenore, 1973- author

Meathooked : the history and science of our 2.5-million-year love affair with meat

Zaraska, Marta.

Menus from history. Volume 1 : historic meals and recipes for every day of the year

Clarkson, Janet, 1947-

The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals

Pollan, Michael, author

The restaurant : a 2,000-year history of dining out

Sitwell, William (William Ronald Sacheverell)

Snacks : a Canadian food history

Thiessen, Janis, 1971- author

A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression

Ziegelman, Jane, author.

Sugar : a bittersweet history

Abbott, Elizabeth.

Sweet invention : a history of dessert

Krondl, Michael

The taste of empire : how Britain's quest for food shaped the modern world

Collingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), author
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Centre for Equitable Library Access

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“Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.”
— Jordan Urtso

“A school library is like the Bat Cave: it’s a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero. True, the superhero is more likely to be wearing a cardigan than a batsuit, but still…”

-Tom Angleberger

“A library is a house of hope. It’s a place where we all, whatever our situation, can feed our ideas and develop our dreams.”

-Doug Wilhelm

“The contents of a library can take you further than your own imagination could begin to imagine. To open a book is to open your mind.

– Amberle Cianne

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

– Mason Cooley

"A library outranks any other thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."

-Andrew Carnegie

"Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better."

-Sidney Sheldon

"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim."

-Linton Weeks

"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one." 

-Neil Gaiman

"A library is a good place to soften solitude; a place where you feel part of a conversation that has gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years even when you’re all alone."

― Susan Orlean

"I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library."

― Isaac Asimov

"I'll belong to libraries wherever I go.
Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets."
—Jo Walton

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
— Alice Hoffman

"The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world."

— Rita Dove

“A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.”

 –Lilian Jackson Braun

“Books break the shackles of time –
proof that humans can work magic.”

– Carl Sagan

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

— Frederick Douglass

"When I got my library card, that’s when my life began."

– Rita Mae Brown

"A library is infinity under a roof."
—Gail Carson Levine

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