Sir Lowry’s Pass Library was among the winners at the Western Cape Cultural Affairs Awards at the Artscape Theatre on Wednesday 9 September, which presented the opportunity to showcase the diversity of the province’s cultural landscape, particularly in respect of cultural and linguistic heritage.
The local library won the Climate Culture in Action Award for its Cool Space Pilot project, which reflects the innovative role libraries can play in responding to the environment and the needs of their communities.
René Walker (Area East head of Library and Information Services) was on hand to receive the award on behalf of the library staff from Karen Shippey (chief director at the Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning). This year the awards drew nominations from 375 public libraries.
Other winners from the City of Cape Town were the municipality’s Library and Information Services (Reading and Literacy Champion Award for their 1 000 Stories before School programme); Lonwabo Mabele of Brackenfell Public Library (Digital Literacy Champion Award); and Athlone Library (Neville Alexander Award for an outstanding contribution towards the promotion of multilingualism for the Digital Reading Den).
