TRACpac Road Trip

Michael, library manager of the public library in Edson, shares programming ideas, inter-library loan stories, and reading recommendations. 

Boyle Public Library is another one of the fantastic public libraries you can visit and borrow library materials from using your TRAC library card! 

Diane Babcock, from the Northern Lights Library System headquarters, chats with us about all the fun things she gets to do as a acquisitions librarian and she shares with us her current favourites and recommendations. 

Kat, from the Bonnyville Municipal Library, chats with us about libraries, inter-library loans, and staff reading and listening recommendations. 

Visual artist Sabine Lecorre-Moore has been setting up pop-up exhibitions across Alberta. The Painting Alberta Project came to the Cold Lake Public Library Reading garden this summer. She explains her goals for the project, and shares some suggestions on how artists and libraries can partner together for events or programs. At the end of the podcast, she shares the names of a few of her favourite artists and books. 

The author of the Lane Winslow Mystery series chats with the Cold Lake Public Library Book Club, and reads from her latest book. 

Courtney and Simone, from the Behind the Stacks podcast, talk about working at the Spruce Grove Public Library, their first library memories, and several of their favourite books and genres. Next time you travel by Spruce Grove, you can pack your TRACpac library card and borrow some of their materials. 

Gord Hunter is the author of No-Badge Killick: Life at Sea in Canada's Cold War Navy. 

What do you get when you combine librarians and their favourite songs? 

Today we talk to James MacDonald about his first job in the Northern Lights Library System, his new job, and the various jobs he's had in libraries during his career. 

Jessica Morris talks with us about TRACpac, book recommendations, her new job, and about some cool features that were at libraries she worked at in Saskatchewan.  

Let's listen as two children and a librarian (who all use TRACpac) share with us their favourite books from 2020. 

Visit the community of Carseland with your TRACpac card; it's a library in the Marigold Library System. 

Use your TRACpac library card in a library located in a town known as the honey capital of Canada. 

Travel to Innisfree, Alberta with your TRACpac library card and borrow items from their collection. While you are in the village, have a look for the famous penguin. 

Take your TRACpac library card on a trip to a public library in the Marigold Library System. Learn about the reading fish, and their Lucky Day collections. 

If you are one of the millions of people who visit Banff, Alberta every year, be sure to pack your TRAC library card and borrow some materials for the drive or to read while on vacation. 

Sign out material from the Morinville Public Library with your TRAC library card and stop in and visit their library chameleon and toads. 

Take your TRAC library card to the small village of Breton, Alberta and visit their library. 

The Calmar Public Library has so much to offer patrons with a TRAC card; they even have Dungeons and Dragons game kits to borrow! 

Learn a little bit about the Northern Lights Library System; one part of the seven regional library systems in Alberta. 

Don't forget to pack your TRAC library card if you are going anywhere near Edmonton. You can stop in the Redwater Public Library and borrow materials for the trip, or to enjoy from the comfort of your own home. On this episode there are fun stories about watermelon, and red shoes. 

There are so many new and interesting things you can borrow from the Lac La Biche County Libraries with your TRAC library card!

Bring your TRAC library card to Shannon Municipal Library, a library that has ties back to 1933, and sign out some materials to take home after browsing their collection, which right now, has a good sized homeschooling section. 

Sign out materials at the St. Paul Municipal Library with your TRAC library card and you might see Lemon and Lime, and the world's first UFO landing pad.