Ms. Janice Coles

by Janice Coles, Rural Branches Librarian

Janice Coles served on the Rural Breast Health Network Library Project in partnership with the Health Unit and Breast Cancer Action Kingston.
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Janice Coles continued to write her Bookmark column for the Frontenac News.
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Kimberly Sutherland Mills and Janice Coles were featured in articles in the Frontenac Gazette.

Janice Coles, the Rural Librarian, took over the writing of the Bookmark column for the Frontenac News.

Partnerships

We were approached to join the Rural Breast Health Coalition to look at making current breast health materials readily available to rural women.A funding proposal was initiated to look at purchasing some of these materials.

Janice Coles attended the first "Future of Rural and Small Libraries Conference" in Columbus, Ohio.

by Janice Coles, rural branches librarian

By day Janice Coles is the rural branch librarian for the Kingston Frontenac Public Library.By night, however, she indulges her passion for light operatic song performed in the late Victorian style.Last week at St. James Major in Sharbot Lake, she performed in the first half of a concert that was billed as "An Evening of Victorian Song and Melodrama".

The premise of the evening was that it was 1901 instead of 2002, and Ms. Coles addressed the audience as if this were the case, speaking of the latest fashions in puff sleeves and singing about "the new x-rays" and the rage for moustaches.

She was introduced to the audience by Peter Ashton as a "sumptuous, serendipitous songstress".Her songs also required acting, which she played up for effect without going completely over the top.Her skill at irony avoided sentimentalizing the mores of the early 20th century, and it was great fun going back 100 years.It took a couple of numbers for those of us in the audience not accustomed to this kind of music to fully appreciate it, but by the end of the set, her strong, pleasant voice and the inherent musicality of the material brought the fair-sized audience to their feet.

Contact the KFPL Rural Branches Librarian, Janice Coles, at 613-549-8888, ext. 1500 for more information.