Friends of Bloomfield Branch Library to hold first meeting

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Friends of Bloomfield Branch Library to hold first meeting

In 1941, the Bloomfield Library was profiled in the Ontario Library Review with a retrospective article written by librarian Filona Barker. Opened in 1896, the library had served the village until the First World War. As noted in the article, “War, however, having broken out, the demands of the Red Cross etc, made it necessary to cease operations of the library.” In 1923, the library re-opened with the support of the Women’s Institute and servic…