Voices for School Libraries Network

For Canadian School Libraries

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Voices for School Libraries Network

Welcome to the Voices for School Libraries Network

The Voices for School Libraries Network was launched so that teacher librarians and school library staff across Canada can meet, discuss issues, ask questions, form like minded groups, (either by province or territory or by themes like Advocacy or Literacy Skills), post pictures and videos. Anyone working in or for school libraries in Canada is invited to join.
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Le VSLN offre une porte ouverte pour ceux ou celles qui travaillent dans les bibliothèques scolaires francophones au Québec et dans le reste du Canada. Nous vous invitons à nous joindre dans des discussions, à poser des questions, à joindre des groupes (par province ou par thèmes), et à ajouter des photos ou des vidéos. Nous invitons tous ceux et celles qui travaillent dans ou pour les bibliothèques scolaires francophones à nous joindre.

Important Notice!

To guard against spammers on the Ning network, we are approving memberships. If you plan on joining, we need you to please identify yourselves as a legitimate member working in a school library in Canada or a related field in your profile.

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Pour se protéger contre les spammeurs, nous vous demandons de vous identifier comme un membre légitime qui travaille dans une bibliothèque scolaire ou dans un domaine connexe.

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A community of school library specialists working in Canadian schools. Pour ceux ou celles qui travaillent dans les bibliothèques scolaires.

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Bibliothèque et Archives nationales Québec

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School Librarians As Facilitators of Learning

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The Last Bookshop

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Teacher Librarians at The Heart of Student Learning

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Forum

Let your voices be heard: Keeping the advocacy alive! 1 Reply

Started by Linda Shantz-Keresztes. Last reply by Marjorie Sinclair Apr 26.

What is meant by featured members on this site 2 Replies

Started by Tarvinder Singh Handa. Last reply by Tarvinder Singh Handa Aug 25, 2011.

Response to the CLA Future Plan

Started by Jo-Anne Gibson Nov 1, 2010.

Voices for School Libraries Network Support Team

The Support Team for 2012-13

L'équipe de soutien pour 2012-13

Co-Moderators for Voices for School Libraries Network co-modérateurs: Linda Shantz-Keresztes and Cindy Matthews

Éditeur de SLIC Editor - Derrick Grose
Éditeur d'Impact Editor - Vicky Pennell
SLIP-PiBS - Linsey Hammond

Editorial Board
L'équipe éditoriale

Judith Sykes
Vicky Pennell
Linsey Hammond
John Tooth
Derrick Grose

CLA Challenges Survey for 2012

This is the 7th annual survey of challenges to library materials and policies that is being conducted by the CLA Intellectual Freedom Advisory Committee.

Your responses will help inform the Committee's policy and advocacy work on behalf of the CLA membership. Results are shared widely, for example, with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, the Book and Periodical Council [of Canada], and the Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association. An anonymized version of the database is available without charge to anyone requesting it.

The purpose of the survey is to gather data about the nature and outcomes of challenges to library materials and policies (e.g., collection management, access to Internet and facilities) initiated in publicly funded, Canadian libraries (e.g., public, school, academic, and government) between JANUARY 1 and DECEMBER 31, 2012.

One form should be submitted for each challenge to an item or a policy.

Survey in English: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N55W6GC
Survey in French: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F8NM2VD

Please participate if at all possible by March 31, 2013.

If you have questions about the survey, feel free to contact me at alvin.schrader@ualberta.ca or 780-405-7546. Thank you for participating in this important work!

Alvin M Schrader,
Convenor, 2012-2013
CLA Intellectual Freedom Advisory Committee

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L’Association canadienne des bibliothèques – Enquête 2012 sur les défis et les politiques de défenses de la liberté intellectuelle dans les bibliothèques au Canada

Cette 7e enquête annuelle sur les défis aux matériels de bibliothèques et aux politiques est dirigée par le Comité consultatif sur la liberté intellectuelle de l'Association canadienne des bibliothèques.

Vos réponses aideront à informer le Comité consultatif dans nos discussions et dans notre travail de plaidoyer pour nos revendications. Les résultats sont partagés à grande échelle avec, par exemple, l’International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, le Conseil des livres et périodiques [du Canada] et le Bureau de liberté intellectuelle de l'Association américaine des bibliothèques. La base de données anonymisées est consultable gratuitement par tous ceux qui en font la demande.

Le but de cette enquête est de rassembler des données sur la nature et les résultats des défis aux matériels de bibliothèque et aux politiques (par exemple, la gestion de collection, l'accès à l’Internet et aux établissements) entamés dans les bibliothèques canadiennes publiquement subventionnées (par exemple, publique, scolaire, universitaire, et gouvernementale) entre le 1er JANVIER et le 31 DÉCEMBRE, 2012.

Un formulaire devrait être soumis pour chaque défi de matériel ou de politique.
En français : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F8NM2VD
En anglais: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N55W6GC

Veuillez s'il vous plaît répondre à l’enquête avant le 31 mars 2013 .
Si vous avez des questions sur l'enquête, n’hésiter pas à me contacter par courriel alvin.schrader@ualberta.ca ou par téléphone au numéro 780-405-7546. Merci de votre participation dans ce travail important!

Alvin M Schrader, Animateur 2012-2013 pour le Comité consultatif sur la liberté intellectuelle de l'Association canadiennes des bibliothèques.

New School Library Standards Document

The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is pleased to announce the approval, by its Executive Committee, of a project generated from Voices for School Libraries Network through the CLA School Library Advisory Committee, to develop a new standards document for school libraries in Canada. This endeavour was a focal point of discussions by school library leaders and practitioners across Canada, at “Treasure Mountain II”, a research retreat aligned with the CLA 2012 Conference in Ottawa.

The approved project proposal is not a re-write of Achieving Information Literacy, 2003, reprinted 2006, but a new document reflecting the present school library landscape and reaching into the next decade. CLA will publish the new document as an e-book, in English and French.

The project emphasizes nationwide participation, achieved primarily through provincial/territorial school library associations, in the formation of small volunteer writing committees that will contribute content based on a template to be shared in early 2013. The number of volunteer writers in the regions can differ, however the committee should as much as possible strive to represent an ideal school library "learning commons" team e.g. teacher-librarians, principals, library technicians, classroom teachers, parents, possibly students, and community librarians or other community representatives.

Provincial/territorial committees will review the content, along with the CLA School Library Advisory Committee and the CLA National School Library Standards Steering Committee (which include leadership from Voices for School Libraries Network) based on the following timeline:

• CLA Executive Council approves proposal – October 2012
• Invitations to participate sent to Provinces/Territories – December 2012
• Provincial groups formed – January 2013
• Writing Phase I – January-May 2013
• Editing Phase I – June-August 2013
• Writing Phase II – September-November 2013
• Edit II – Editors => SLN => CLA School Library Advisory – January 2014
• Launch e-book at CLA – May 2014

You may contact me for further information.

Judith Sykes
CLA National School Library Standards Contact/Project Co-ordinator
judith.sykes@shaw.ca

January 23, 2013