Conference Highlights

Join us in the Highland Heart of Nova Scotia with the Pictou–Antigonish Regional Library as we host the annual Nova Scotia Library Association conference. With the theme, “Festival of Writers: from parchment to podcast”, the conference offers a variety of informational programs for management, technical department and front line staff. As well as a full line up of gifted and well-respected speakers, the conference will offer:

  • Figures of Literature costume contest with grand prize of two nights free accommodation at any Delta Hotel in Canada
  • live music social with Antigonish's Mishra's Dream, a quartet of gypsy-jazz musicians playing instrumental tunes in the style of Django Reinhardt
  • wine and cheese social with live jazz duo
  • early morning "Start the Day Laughing" workshop with Rene Robichaud and morning nature walk with owl authority, Randy Lauff
  • and most important, 70% cocoa chocolate bar door prize for each program!

Door Prize
(8X10 in 12X14 inch frame)
PARL board member and photographer, Conrad Poirier, has generously donated one of his framed prints as a door prize to be given away at the NSLA key note address and lunch on Saturday, September 22.