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All-day birthday
party scheduled for October 23

TORONTO (Friday, October 18,
2013) – Toronto Public Library’s Bloor/Gladstone branch, a much-loved community cornerstone, will celebrate 100
years of service at an all-day birthday party on Wednesday, October 23, exactly
100 years to the day the library originally opened. Everyone is invited to join
in the centennial celebration.

“Bloor/Gladstone branch has been a community cornerstone
for the past 100 years and is busier than ever today”, said Toronto Public
Library Board Chair Councillor Paul Ainslie. 
“Almost 400,000 people of all ages visited the branch last year to read,
study, work, relax, meet and attend programs – and to borrow almost half a
million library materials.” 

All-Day Birthday
Party Details:

10:00 am                     Soli & Rob sing-along concert for preschoolers
3:00 pm                       Family entertainment
with a performance by Centre of Gravity.
                                    Meet
a local police officer on horseback and have your picture taken on a
                                    Toronto Fire Services fire truck.
4:00 pm                       Strolling magician
Shane Cobalt inside the library.
6:00 pm                       Meet Toronto Public
Library Board Chair Councillor Paul Ainslie, local                                     Councillor Ana Bailão and
Bloor/Gladstone Branch Head Gloria Jacobs
6:30 pm                       Official ceremony
6:50 pm                       Refreshments and entertainment the Mark Sepic Trio

To mark the centennial, artist Derek Wong has created and
donated a new work to be the centrepiece of the Bloor/Gladstone branch’s east
reading room. "This branch has served the community for one hundred years!
I'd like this artwork to welcome all visitors to this beautiful reading
room," said Derek Wong.

Toronto Public Library Foundation will also announce a
Bloor/Gladstone Branch Centenary Project to raise $15,000 to complete the
installation of a new KidsStop in the branch. 
KidsStops are interactive, early literacy areas designed to develop
pre-literacy principles in children five and under. 

Bloor/Gladstone joins three other Toronto
Public Library branches providing a century of service to their communities:
Yorkville (1907), Annette Street (1909) and Riverdale (1910) branches.

Toronto Public Library is one of the world's busiest urban public
library systems. Every year, 19 million people visit our branches in
neighbourhoods across the city and borrow 32 million items. To learn more about
Toronto Public Library, visit our website at torontopubliclibrary.ca or call
Answerline at 416-393-7131. To get the most current updates on what's happening
at the library, follow us on Twitter @torontolibrary.

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Media Contact:
Edward
Karek, Communications Officer, 416-397-5925
media@torontopubliclibrary.ca