The Edmonton Multicultural Society, which helps immigrants adjust to their new home, is searching for a new home itself.
"It's very, very hard," said executive director Nyambura Aamina. "We're not going to give up."
After 20 years on the sixth floor of the downtown Stanley Milner library, the library refused last June to renew the society's lease.
The library would not tell her why, but Aamina thinks the library had issues with some of the society's clients.
Library officials won't comment because a dispute with the society is about to go to court.
City councillor Jane Batty, who helped mediate between the two groups, also refused to say what's behind the dispute, saying only the Edmonton Public Library tried hard to work out its differences with the society.
The non-profit space at the library building was convenient for new immigrants, said Aamina.
"It's hard for some of our clients to have to find our secondary office in the west end," she said.
The group is approaching the provincial courthouse as a possible new location.
"We work from the courthouse," said Aamina. "The computers there are free. We can file all the documents and we can write emails to people from the courthouse."
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