Media Inquiries
For all media inquiries, please contact David Carson, Director of Communications and Corporate Communications at 250.753.1154 ex 248, 250.327.3651, or dcarson@virl.bc.ca.
2022 Media Releases
- Thursday, July 21, 2022 – Exhibit Commemorating lives impacted by COVID in long term care coming to Nanaimo Harbourfront library
- Friday June 17, 2022 – It’s Summer Reading Club season at Vancouver Island Regional Library
- Wednesday June 15, 2022 – Haida author and storyteller, Kung Jaadee storytelling event
- Friday, June 3, 2022 – Sooke library grand opening celebration right around the corner
- Monday, May 9, 2022 –New date for the Sooke library grand opening celebrations
- Friday, April 22, 2022 – Ratified contract for BCGEU librarians approved by VIRL’s Board of Trustees
- Saturday, April 9, 2022 – VIRL re-engaging mediator in hopes of ending impasse
- Saturday, March 26, 2022 – VIRL/BCGEU bargaining update
- Thursday, March 24, 2022 – Union rejects VIRL’s latest offer, strike escalating
- Tuesday, March 22, 2022 – Sooke library grand opening postponed due to labour action
- Tuesday, March 15, 2022 – Vancouver Island Regional Library standing by for a revised BCGEU counter-proposal
- Monday, March 7, 2-222 – With strike on the horizon, BCGEU wage counterproposal signals movement away from an agreement
- Friday, March 4, 2022 – BCGEU Members Reject Latest VIRL Proposal
- Thursday, March 3, 2022 – Offer extended to BCGEU, awaiting mediator response
- Monday, February 28, 2022 – Correction to BCGEU Local 702 strike notice against Vancouver Island Regional Library
- Monday, February 28, 2022 – BCGEU Local 702 strike notice against Vancouver Island Regional Library
- Tuesday, February 15, 2022 – Winter Issue of Sea and Cedar
- Thursday, February 10, 2022 – New Sooke library set to open before month’s end
- Friday, Febrary 4, 2022 – VIRL Board of Trustees welcomes four new Trustees and elects Executive Committee
- Wednesday, January 5, 2022 – New Sooke library nears completion