The Cultural Engines\u00a0authors and designers\u00a0offer sincere thanks to Jean Foster, Director Community Development & Partnerships with the Windsor Public Library, who oversaw the project\u2019s implementation with valued insight and encouragement, Catharine Mastin, Director of the Art Gallery of Windsor, and Paul Meanwell, General Manager of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0 Corinne Despierre-Corporon, Project Web Developer with the Windsor Public Library, graciously gave her time as unofficial technical tutor and has established the Cultural Engines web environment.<\/p>\n
Staff from the Windsor Public Library, Windsor Symphony Orchestra and Art Gallery of Windsor staff cheerfully answered requests for research materials, assisted with fact-checking and offered editorial advice, chiefly Rob Eagan, Riverside Branch. We are grateful for help from Michael Fish, Tom Vajdic Mae Whaley, and Josie Hazen from the Central Branch of the WPL.\u00a0 We thank the staff of Windsor’s Community Museum; Nicole McCabe, Program Coordinator for the AGW;\u00a0 and Shelley Sharpe, Communications Manager, Windsor Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0 Former WSO conductor Dr. Susan Haig was also kind enough to answer questions and provide information. We would like to thank all those from these organizations and the community of Windsor and Essex who patiently allowed us to interview them.<\/p>\n
A special thank you goes to the representatives from each organization who participated in our very successful \u201cKids\u2019 Cultural Day\u201d project kick-off event in 2012: Ruth Wiebe and Melissa Loscher from the Windsor Symphony Orchestra; Mary Anne VanWatteghem, Art Gallery of Windsor; Janet Brown, Children\u2019s Librarian and Sue Perry, Self-Publishing Facilitator from the Windsor Public Library.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The authors wish to acknowledge the funding grant from Employment Ontario which made this project possible.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Rebecca Canty, Dean Corriveau, Sarah Jarvis.<\/p>\n
This Employment Ontario<\/em> project, is funded in part by the Government of Canada.<\/p>\n \u00a0Dedication:<\/b><\/p>\n The authors dedicate this project to the members of the Windsor Essex community who have supported these valuable cultural organizations through the decades.<\/p>\n Disclaimer<\/strong><\/p>\n Copyright 2013 Windsor Public Library. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n The opinions and interpretations in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Canada or the Province of Ontario. All digital materials in this website, including images, illustrations, designs, video files, photographs, and written and other materials are controlled or licensed by Windsor Public Library, unless otherwise noted. \u00a0Express permission from the Windsor Public Library is required if you wish to modify, copy, reproduce, republish, post, transmit or distribute the material in any way for any other purposes. \u00a0As a publicly-supported institution the Windsor Public Library generally does not own the rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of the material and cannot give or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material of its collections. \u00a0Users desiring to use material from the Cultural Engines<\/i> website bear the responsibility of making individualized determinations whether privacy and public rights are implicated by the nature of the materials and how they may wish to use the materials. The opinions expressed in the interviews are those of the interviewee only and are made available to the public with his or her express consent.<\/p>\n Photograph Credits<\/b><\/p>\n Every effort has been made to seek permissions for photographs used.\u00a0 A full list of sources is available from the webmaster of Windsor Public Library.\u00a0 Windsor Star <\/i>photos have been used with permission.\u00a0 Other credits and permissions: Josie Hazen, Corinne Despierre-Corporon, Windsor Public Library; Andrea Drummond and the Pohjola Family; Cultural Engines staff.\u00a0 Other credits to Warren Studios and Wild Studio, no longer in operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Cultural Engines\u00a0authors and designers\u00a0offer sincere thanks to Jean Foster, Director Community Development & Partnerships with the Windsor Public Library, who oversaw the project\u2019s implementation with valued insight and encouragement, Catharine Mastin, Director of the Art Gallery of Windsor, and Paul Meanwell, General Manager of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0 Corinne Despierre-Corporon, Project Web Developer with the Windsor Public Library, graciously Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1952\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}