Looking for reading recommendations? Or something to watch? To listen to? You’ve come to the right place! Hot Off the Shelf is a staff-run blog that shares in-depth reviews on VPL’s collection, as well as commentary on culture, media, and current events.

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Meet our Bloggers

Adam

Adam is a Digital Creation Specialist – Children who never has enough shelf space for his board game collection, wall space for his photographs, or stomach space for his baking. Once he’s got a book in his clutches (preferably a fantasy, or humorous non-fiction one) absolutely nothing else is getting done that day. Working in a library is a blessing and a curse to his free time.

Claire

Claire is an Information Assistant at Vaughan Public Libraries. Avid cooker, concertgoer, coffee drinker, TV and movie watcher, washi tape enthusiast, and unabashed fan of romance in all its varieties (even Hallmark movies). 

Sumayyah

Sumayyah is an Information Assistant at the Vaughan Public Libraries. She’s also a bookworm and aspiring author, constantly dreaming up a multitude of different stories and wrestling with actually finishing any of them.

Maya

Maya is an Information staff member at Vaughan Public Libraries. If she isn’t scratching her head over the next sentence in her writing, she’s making art and stretching her creative legs. She’s a huge film buff and loves weird, fantastical fiction.

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