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Dublin: One City, One Book

Hello everyone,

For the 4th year running, the Dublin City Public Libraries is encouraging all Dubliners to read and discuss one book during the month of April.

This year: Dracula by Bram Stoker.

There will be events throughout the city for the month of April.

For more information: http://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/

Richard Beaudry
Librarian
Langley Secondary School

Added by Richard Beaudry on March 30, 2009 at 3:14pm — No Comments

Library of Congress embraces YouTube, iTunes

From the website NetworkWorld comes the following article.

Library of Congress embraces YouTube, iTunes
The Washington, D.C., library will begin uploading its digital materials to online services
By Grant Gross , IDG News Service , 03/27/2009

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032709-library-of-congress-embraces-youtube.html

Added by Richard Beaudry on March 28, 2009 at 7:14pm — No Comments

Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education

From the Information Literacy Weblog comes information on a new online professional journal for librarians in Norway:

Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education (NORIL) is a peer reviewed open access journal. Information literacy is a multidisciplinary field as it is the subject of both academic research, as well as of library pedagogical practice. The development of knowledge in the field is nourished by perspectives from different academic diciplines, such as… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on March 28, 2009 at 7:08pm — No Comments

New Issue of Educators Spotlight Digest

Hello everyone,

Here is an online magazine of interest for teacher librarians.

From the magazine:

The Educators’ Spotlight Digest is a free magazine for teachers of multiple literacies. It is published twice a year (fall/winter and spring/summer) by S.O.S. for Information Literacy, a project of Syracuse University's Center for Digital Literacy in collaboration with the American Association of School Librarians and the Association of College and Research… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on March 17, 2009 at 12:56pm — No Comments

27 Things To Do Before a Conference

Hello Everyone,

For those of us who attend and present at conferences regularly (many many people on this ning as an example) comes an article on Chris Brogan's Blog 'Community and Social Media'.

27 Things To Do Before a Conference
Chris Brogan
March 13th, 2009

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/27-things-to-do-before-a-conference/

Richard Beaudry
Librarian
Langley Secondary School

Added by Richard Beaudry on March 16, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Better Safe Than Sorry: Does Your Library Have an Online Acceptable-use Policy?

Hello everyone,

Here is an article worth reading.

Better Safe Than Sorry: Does Your Library Have an Online Acceptable-use Policy?
By Pat Scales -- School Library Journal, 3/1/2009

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6640437.html

Richard Beaudry
Librarian
Langley Secondary School

Added by Richard Beaudry on March 11, 2009 at 5:27pm — No Comments

International Women's Day

International Women's day is being celebrated for the 98th year across the globe. This year's theme is: Women and men united to end violence against women and girls. The official website can be found at this link:

http://www.internationalwomensday.com/

Added by Richard Beaudry on March 7, 2009 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

Latest issue of School Libraries in Canada (SLIC)

Hello everyone,

The latest issue of SLIC is available online in HTML or pdf format. SLIC is the professional Journal of the Canadian Association for School Libraries (CASL)

HTML: http://www.clatoolbox.ca/casl/slic/vol26issue3.html

pdf: http://www.clatoolbox.ca/casl/slic/SLICVolume26issue3.pdf

Richard Beaudry
Librarian

Added by Richard Beaudry on February 25, 2009 at 10:51pm — No Comments

CMEC Pan-Canadian Literacy Forum

Hello everyone,

On Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday (April 13th to the 15th) I was at the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada (CMEC) Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum in Vancouver. This was a rather unique experience in Canada. Educators, learners and literacy providers from West to East and into the North were gathered together to discuss themes such as Aboriginal Literacy, early literacy and workplace literacy.

Since we were meeting by webcast with people… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on April 19, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments

OSLA/OLA Superconference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hello everyone, I had the opportunity to attend the OSLA/OLA Superconference in Toronto, Ontario last week. It is considered to be one of the best librarian and teacher librarian conference in Canada. Mother nature threw us a major snowstorm of 20+ cm on Thursday but we managed well in the conference centre. I was present at two important launches while I was there. A group from the Ministry of Education in Ontario and the Ontario School Librarian Association have just tabled a draft document… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on February 6, 2008 at 1:30am — No Comments

WOW2 Show

Hello everyone,

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog comes the upcoming Wow2 Schedule.

From the Blog: Every Tuesday night at 9pm EST, I meet with three dear friends over at edtechtalk.com to co-host the Wow2 show. (See the archive of past shows and this is the RSS feed to add it to your podcasts.)

Put March 4 on your calendar: Doug Johnson AND Joyce Valenza are the invited… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on January 26, 2008 at 12:42am — No Comments

School Librarian wins Newberry Medal for Children's Literature

Hi everyone,

I am pleased to post this information. Congratulations to Laura Amy Schlitz from Park School in Baltimore. Additional information can be viewed below.

Park School librarian wins Newbery Medal for children's literature

Baltimore Sun

January 15th, 2008

By Mary Carole McCauley and Jill Rosen | Sun… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on January 15, 2008 at 4:40pm — No Comments

Some Positive News in the Press

Hi everyone,

I came across this article in the Grand Rapids Press. It describes librarians as thus:

"Today's librarians are high-tech information Hardy Boys and Nancy Drews, masters of mining cool databases and wizards at "wikis" -- a Web site or other online resource that allows users to edit content -- as well as social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace."

More information can be found… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on January 12, 2008 at 12:27am — No Comments

Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies

Since I spend quite a bit of time building and maintaining educational websites, I am always looking for software and tools to improve the experience for the end user. I just came across this research that I find quite interesting when contemplating building a new website.

From VirtualHosting.com Blog

Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies

By Christina… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on November 14, 2007 at 4:38pm — No Comments

Links of Interest

Hello everyone,

I am always on the lookout for resources for my students at university. Here are some links that may be of interest to this group.

Library Outreach Wiki - From the Information Literacy Weblog

This wiki has been designed by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Lisa Sloniowski to serve as a collaborative tool for instruction librarians to share ideas on best practices in outreach activities for libraries and instruction… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on July 9, 2007 at 5:31pm — No Comments

The CLA Conference in St. John's Newfoundland.

So much for promises to write during the conference. I discovered that being the new president of the Canadian Association for School Libraries meant that I had a lot of meetings and social gatherings to attend. This is rather late but here are some highlights.

School Libraries in Canada

Western Canada is holding its own with strong provincial associations in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Manitoba's provincal association is lacking members but the government still supports… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on June 7, 2007 at 12:04am — No Comments

The CLA Conference in St. John's Newfoundland.

Hello everyone,

The Canadian Library Association's Annual Conference is in St. John's, Newfoundland. That is as far East as this Vancouverite can go in one day in Canada. It will require a 9 and a half hour plane trip to get there. It will be worth it since it is a great opportunity to meet fellow school librarians as well as librarians from the other 4 divisions within the CLA.

As I go to meetings and sessions, I will keep you posted on interesting information and data… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on May 21, 2007 at 9:16pm — No Comments

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