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Edmonton Public Library’s 100th Anniversary: A Century Of Collecting Magic Edmonton Public Library has a great past and a promising future. By Mark Kandborg
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t’s been said that after fire, mankind’s most important invention was language. One can only imagine how much more enjoyable that fire was to sit around when fears, plans and ideas could finally be shared. Rather than merely stare at the flames, our ancestors now had a portal for the thoughts haunting the inside of their heads. It must have seemed like magic.
Through the millennia, languages and the ideas encapsulated by them have been recorded, collected and expanded upon. For centuries, libraries have served as cathedrals to humanity’s spiritual, cultural and intellectual journeys. Linda C. Cook, Edmonton Public Library CEO since 1997, knows that a library is much more than a book museum and