Libraries enlivened by Grande Bibliothèque

At first afraid of the centralizing effect of the Grande Bibliothèque, neighbourhood libraries are seeing a resurgence of life; in recent weeks there’s been news of the Lachine library being renovated (it’s being called the Saul Bellow library even though Bellow left the area permanently at age 9, yet we can’t get a library named after Mordecai Richler), the new Rosemont library (running short of money already, but at least the new neighbourhood east of the metro will have a library) and a new slightly garish library for NDG. More on architecture for these new libraries.