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Friends of the Library Issue 188, November 2006 West Vancouver Memorial Library REDEDICATION EVENT Fifty-six years ago this community came together to build its first Library as a monument to the community's fallen soldiers from World War II. The dedication plaque speaks to the feelings of the community when the Library was built. During the renovation in 2005, a decision was made to move this plaque to a more prominent position outside the Library entrance. The recent rededication ceremony took place on October 14th, with a parade of veterans and cadets from the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 60. On behalf of the Library Board of Trustees, and the staff of the West Vancouver Memorial Library, Henry Greenwood gave the following eloquent speech: Seventy years ago, free citizens of the world were shocked to view in cinema newsreels and to read in daily papers about the acts of infamy being carried out by a totalitarian regime. University students, enticed by their masters were so inflamed with hatred against another race that they razed and ransacked libraries, burning books and destroying any documents bearing the names of non-Arian writers, scholars and philosophers. The world was given a preview of the dastardly deeds and horrors yet to come where the old civilization was being destroyed to make way for a new world order. As dark shadows were being cast across the world, young men and women from West Vancouver joined comrades in arms overseas and many failed to return, making the supreme sacrifice. On Remembrance Day in 1950, this Library was dedicated, the West Vancouver Memorial Library to their memory, this name being both appropriate and symbolic. As we gather here today, our liberty is once again being threatened but from agencies much closer to home and as the needless use of words like conspiracy and terrorism and security are being bantered about, we must be mindful of the ideals for which these veterans fought and died, and left for us to maintain and preserve. In this library and in libraries across the land, librarians have pledged to become the custodians of those ideals and have taken up the cudgel in defense against censorship and to protect your right to free expression. So, it is fitting that in rededicating this library, we express our gratitude to the librarians who serve there to serve you.