Albion District Branch Toronto Public Library Board Presentation April 30 th , 2018
The Community
The Community Top-10 Non-Official Home Languages Community Profile Population : 48,697 (Ward 1) Punjabi (Panjabi) 3,100 Mother tongue – 41% English, 1% French, 58% Non- Gujarati 2,380 Official Languages spoken at home: English 49.7 % Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 2,010 Punjabi 10.1 % Tamil 1,145 Gujarati 4.7 % Arabic 1,140 Tamil 2.7 % Arabic 2.2 % Spanish 1,020 Urdu 875 Age of residents (branch catchment) 22% children Italian 675 15% youth Hindi 495 53% working age Somali 495 11% seniors
Community Partners
Branches in the Albion District Humberwood Rexdale Humber Summit Northern Elms Weston
Albion – Through the Years 1973 1965 1980-2016
2017
Post Reno
Post Reno - Successes
Flexible Spaces
KidsStop
KidsStop
Discovery Zone
Discovery Zone
Digital Innovation Hub
Design Awards • Canadian Architecture Award of Merit in 2015 for Design • American Institute of Architecture 2018 Top 10 buildings from the Committee on the Environment
After School Club & STEM
Youth Programs
Youth Hub
Outdoor Spaces – Flexible Programming
Learn to Camp
Service Innovation – Headset Pilot and Mobile Service Desk
Service Innovation – Community Librarians
Service Innovation – Wi-Fi Hotspot Lending Wi-Fi Hotspot Lending • Albion is part of the Wi-Fi Hotspot Lending. • Participants receive a Wi-Fi device with unlimited data usage
Upcoming Events
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