Gary Dimmock explains how the new downtown library will offer more than your typical library: from 3D printers to a genealogy department.

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The new Ottawa Public Library is slated to open in the summer of 2026. It’s called Ādisōke — storytelling in Algonquin — and it’s not your grandma’s library, or maybe it is. It’s farm-field far from just a library. It’s billed as a place for everyone, to do almost anything. It’s a joint production with three partners — Library and Archives Canada, the Ottawa Public Library Board, and the city. So let’s check it out. Article content Article content Article content

Well, for starters, the bunker down on Metcalfe is dank. And the big concrete building has outlived its purpose. It was built in 1974, and its brutalist design doesn’

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