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AWARDS and NOMINATIONS- APRIL 1st, 2010

The British Columbia Teacher-Librarians' Association honours teacher-librarians for their outstanding committment to school libraries and education. This dedication is evident by the range of awards given within BC and the BC recipients of external national recognition. ALL NOMINATIONS DUE BY APRIL 1, 2010

 

OFFICIAL NOMINATION FORM FOR BCTLA OFFICERS: 

2009 - 2010 TERM

Send completed form to:   Communications Officer- Halia Hirniak haliah@shaw.ca

Only members of the BCTLA may allow their names to stand for office.  A person may be nominated by five BCTLA members.

 

Bookmark submissions

The Bookmark staff is collecting content for the next issue -Winter 2010. We appreciate material such as lessons, articles, events, photos, or news. Editor: amacritchie@shaw.ca  More >
The deadline for any submissions is: January 29, 2010

 

 

EXECUTIVE MEETING-JAN.8-9

Your Executive team met Friday and Saturday last week. They concluded a successful list of tasks including reports, AGM proposals, constitutional changes for BCTF approval and advocacy strategies.

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THANK YOU RICHMOND TEACHER-LIBRARIANS of SD38

Congratulations! For a very successful provincial conference. Over 300 educators listened to keynote speaker, Roch Carrier, and participated in a range of workshops at Richmond High School. Thank you to SD38 and RHS faculty and staff for their assistance.

FALL CHAPTER COUNCIL MEET-OCT.24

The teacher-librarians Fall Council met in Richmond.
Inquiries? Share ideas? > Chapter Reps >Contact Us or visit BCTLA Forum

PROVINCE-WIDE CHALLENGE:
DROP EVERYTHING AND READ! 

For many years, teacher-librarians have organized special school events to mark National School Library Day (NSLD) on the fourth Monday in October. On Monday, October 26th, 2009 the British Columbia Teacher-Librarians' Association is challenging schools, trustees, and members of the legislature to "Drop Everything and Read!" for 20 minutes.  The BCTLA hopes adults across BC will organize their workplaces to “Drop Everything and Read!” on October 26th as well.  In most schools, the event is held between 11:00 and 11:20 a.m., but the timing is not as important as involvement.

Last year, dozens of schools across the province met the challenge on National School Library Day.  Hundreds of BC students engaged in silent reading that day, and the response was terrific. The Vancouver Sun, trustees, MLAs, the Minister of Education and the Premier joined us as well. With your support, we hope to double the participation this year. Please display the enclosed poster prominently, and promote DEAR within and beyond your school. Make sure your PAC hears about the event, and that your LSA sends a copy to your Superintendent, trustees and your mayor. Take lots of pictures to promote the value of reading throughout the year. ( Send us your photos here )

Again this year, the BCTLA has created a Facebook page to allow people to make their reading count.  Go to http://tinyurl.com/ly7uwz to join in all the “Drop Everything and Read!” excitement!

Yours truly,

Karen Lindsay, Vice-President, Advocacy

British Columbia Teacher-Librarians’ Association

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For members:  BCTLA poster to be distributed by BCTF in the fall.
limited reprinting permitted for school use only.

letter tabloid poster
letter size tabloid 11x17 size poster size 24x36

by Al Smith July 2009 ©

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l'affiche Français Nouveau (pdf)

 

October 2009 is Library Month. Read. Read with your family.
October 26yh is National School Library Day.

Share-Celebrate-Advocate.

Everyone can participate: 

 

BCTLA Bookmark journal's 50th anniversary edition!

Now available!: 50th Bookmark Vol 50 Issue 1 



BCTLA CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • BCTLA Chapter Reports 08-09 - [ submit here now ]
  • National School Library Day Monday, October 26 http://www.cla.ca/
  • Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2009- http://bctladear.blogspot.com/
  • theBOOKMARK journal -Winter 2009 Edition June 2009 Edition 50th Anniversary Edition-October 2009
  • BCTLA Conference: Champions of Literacy 2009- Richmond - Register Now

  • WebJunction BC is a BCTLA members-only service, available with currently active BCTLA membership (renew here!). We would like to invite members of BCTLA to join WebJunction BC.
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THIS SERVICE HAS RECENTLY BEEN PART OF THE BC GOVERNMENT CUTS TO LIBRARIES.

    WebJunction BC Includes:

    • Personal profile: create your own profile and engage in dialogue with other B.C. and other North American teacher-librarians, librarians, trustees, and volunteers.
    • Share resources and create groups: find and share resources under the themes of "Technology", "Library Services", and "Library Management".  Create and join groups for focused discussion on topics such as Follett's Destiny, and for fun!  Drop in to see what is happening in libraries throughout North America on the WebJunction partner pages and join other state and provincial groups not requiring registration.
    • Course Catalogue: engage in self-paced online courses on computer applications, library skills, library services and management, including some courses on school libraries.  Additional courses and content for teacher-librarians will be added over time.  Enrollment in courses is free, as per the guidelines on the Courses page.
    • BC Libraries: view and add information to the BC School Libraries section which currently has links, a discussion list, and publications (issues of The Bookmark).

Teacher-librarian News

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Teacher-Librarian Brag Book... Celebrating collaboration, innovation and professional excellence!

 

BC Teacher-librarians Drop Everything and Read with MLA's
Monday October 26, NSLD > BC Legislature DEAR

http://bctladear.blogspot.com/2009/10/hansard-house-blues-monday-october-26.html

BC Teacher-librarians study in Italy.
This August, BCTLA's Moira Ekdahl and Chris Evans led a troupe of TL colleagues made a pro-dev road trip to the International School Libraries Association Conference 2009 in Padua Italy.

Congratulations to Chris Evans and Michelle Farquharson
Chris and Michelle participated in their first 2009-2010 BCTLA Executive Meeting Friday/Sat. Sept. 25/26 in Richmond. Chris
is your new Treasurer and Michelle is Continuing Education Rep. Michelle has been one of the authors of the BCTLA's K-12 Benchmark  Project- re-writing a framework for information literacy and technology skills.

http://infolitbctla.pbworks.com/

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CLA awards: The Canadian Association for School Libraries is pleased to announce
British Columbia Teacher Librarians’ Association, Executive
as the 2009 recipient of the  
Canadian Association for School Libraries/Angela Thacker Memorial Award

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The Canadian Association for School Libraries is pleased to announce
Michele Farquharson
as the  2009 recipient of the
Canadian Association for School Libraries/Follett International
Teacher Librarian of the Year Award

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The Canadian Association for School Libraries is pleased to announce
The BCTLA's Second Vice-President, Advocacy, Karen Lindsay, has been announced as the 2009 winner of the CLA/ACB Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship.
Named in honour of Ken Haycock, the award honours individuals who have significantly contributed to the, "public recognition and appreciation of librarianship".

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