Library News

  • Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas

    The Grief Library is closed for the holidays. We return on Monday, January 6, 2025 from 11-2. Wishing you and your loved ones comfort and joy this Christmas season.

  • Playaway Audio Books

    Playaway Audio Books

    Thank you to Canadian Virtual Hospice for the Innovation Challenge Award. With the prize money, we purchased Playaway Audio Books. Playaways require no device and no Internet connection to listen. We also purchased earbuds which borrowers get to keep. They’ve arrived at the Grief Library today! This award has helped us increase the accessibility of…

  • Valley Journal Advertiser

    Valley Journal Advertiser

    A delightful interview with Kirk Starratt resulted in this article in the Valley Journal-Advertiser. Thanks Kirk!

  • Halifax Examiner

    Halifax Examiner

    This detailed article by Yvette Robichaud of the Halifax Examiner describes our win at the Innovation Challenge at McGill’s 2024 International Palliative Care Congress. (Subscriber login is required.)

  • New shelving

    New shelving

    We installed new shelving on November 18th. From a previously bare wall…through a few growing pains…and now a set of professional grade shelves, with room to grow. We are very proud to support Ven-Rez which has been supplying high quality shelving from Shelburne, Nova Scotia, since 1948.