BCLA

The British Columbia Library Association leads the library community in advocacy, professional development, and support of intellectual freedom. We ensure that all British Columbians have equitable access to information, ideas, and works of the imagination.

Help Us Increase Provincial Library Funding for Public Libraries!

As part of the $20M in 2020 campaign the BC Public Library Partners want to demonstrate the many ways that BC public libraries support government, specifically the provincial poverty reduction strategy. (if you…

$20M in 2020: Public Library Funding

Many of you are aware that provincial funding for public libraries in British Columbia has not increased for the past decade. In preparation for the BC Government’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and…

Call for Submissions: The Barriers Issue of BCLA Perspectives

Let’s talk about barriers. For the next issue of BCLA Perspectives, we want to address barriers to patrons using the library such as fines, opening hours, digital access, rules and conduct expectations and…