Students in the Anglophone South and Anglophone West school districts returned to class in September without school librarians after those positions were eliminated last spring.
Most school librarians able to secure other employment after spring layoffs
Raechel Huizinga · CBC News
· Posted: Sep 18, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Griffin Barry is a Grade 9 student at Woodstock High School. (Tara King-Stewart/CBC)
Griffin Barry started his first year at Woodstock High School with the perfect book recommendation.
A lover of manga, computers and Dungeons and Dragons, his father suggested getting into science fiction with Ender’s Game, a late 20th-century novel by Orson Scott Card.
But when Barry went to his school library to find the book, there was no longer a librarian there to help him.
Students in the Anglophone South and Anglophone West school districts returned to class in September without school librarians after those positions were eliminated last spring.
Griffin Barry said he found the process of borrowing this book from Woodstock High School confusing. (Tara King-Stewart/CBC)
After seeking help from the school office,
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