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BCTLA Highlights and News

• The BC Teacher-Librarians' Association is provincial specialist association in British Columbia. We are part of the BC Teachers Federation. Here are some of our recent highlights:
  
  
• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Register now for the BCTLA Spring Webinar Series
• Presentations from the BCTLA 2011 conference now available
• Announcing the BC Teacher-Librarians Ning collaboration portal!


• PUBLICATIONS
• Fall 2011 Highlights now available
• 2010-11 BCTLA Annual Report now available
• "The Points of Inquiry" now available!
• 29th Annual Working and Learning Conditions Survey results
• BCTLA Communications and PD Survey results released


• MEMBER SERVICES
  • 30th annual Working & Learning Conditions Survey results being collated
• News from the BCTLA Spring Council meeting
• Communications and PD Survey results released



• BCTLA NEWS
  • BCTLA News Blog: http://bctlanews.blogspot.com/
  • BCTLA News from the BCTF Blog: http://bctlabctfnews.blogspot.com/

Member and Subscriber News!

• CHAPTERS
  • Chilliwack: "A New Chapter for Libraries: Funding Cuts Have Left..." (Chilliwack Times)
  • Cowichan Valley: "Sorry, the Library is Closed" (Cowichan News Leader)
  
  
• BCTLA MEMBERS AND SUBSCRIBERS: MEDIA
  • Judith Comfort: "In Focus: A Teacher-librarian in the Digital Age"(TC Magazine, pg. 30)
  • Judith Comfort: "Teacher-Librarian of the Year"(The Report Card)
  • Nicola Kuhn: "Kuhn an Inspiration to Others" (Trail Daily Times/Rossland News)
  • Al Smith: "Librarian 'simply the best'; Award created specifically to honour librarian" (The Daily Courier, Kelowna)
  
  
• RECOGNITION OF BCTLA MEMBERS AND SUBSCRIBERS
  • Congratulations to Marilyn Lunde, on receiving the Willis McLeese Award (article)
  • Congratulations to Arlene Anderson, on receiving a 2010-11 Prime Ministers' Award for Teaching Excellence / Certificate of Excellence
  • Judith Comfort receives the 2011 Follett International Teacher-Librarian of the Year Award (press release)
  • Heather Daly receives the 2011 CASL Margaret B. Scott Award of Merit (press release)
  • Moira Ekdahl receives the 2011 CASL Angela Thacker Memorial Award (press release)
  • Congratulations to Pat Parungao (Vancouver), receipient of the 2010 Follett International Teacher-Librarian of the Year Award
  • Michele Farquharson (Vancouver) is the 2009 receipient of the Follett International Teacher-Librarian of the Year Award
  • Karen Lindsay, BCTLA VP Advocacy, is the 2009 receipient of the CLA/ACB Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship
  • The 2009-10 BCTLA Executive is the 2009 receipient of the 2009 CASL Angela Thacker Memorial Award

BC School Library News and Articles

What's happening in British Columbia's school libraries?

• VIDEOS
  • BC Libraries: "The Learning Commons in BC"
  • Parkland Secondary (Saanich): "Drop Everything and Read"
  • Vancouver Teacher-Librarians: "Teacher-Librarians Supporting 21st-Century Learners"
  
  

• ARTICLES
  • Chris Kennedy: "My Take on Librarians"
  • Gino Bondi: "Our Learning Commons: One 'How To' For 21st Century Learning"

• STATEMENTS
  
  • On Family Literacy Day, Teacher-Librarians Lament a Decade of Cuts > statement
  • Chronic Underfunding is Creating Severe Inequities in BC School Libraries > statement
  • BCTF 21st-Century learning discussion paper released
  • BC Library Association Responds to 2009-10 Cuts > response
  • BCTF: FTE services decline > download document
  • Proposed Reductions of Teacher-Librarian Staffing (2009-10) > statement

National School Library News and Statements

What's happening in school libraries in Canada?

• VIDEOS
  • Anita Brooks Kirkland, Ontario: "Imagine Your Library"

• MEDIA AND OPINION
  • Publisher's Weekly: "Panel Examines Canadian School Library Crisis"
  • The Globe and Mail: "Ontario Kids Can Read Well, But They Don't Have to Like It"
  • Jian Ghomeshi (Q): "Who Will Speak for the Librarian?"
  • Toronto Star: "Libraries Shelved As School Boards Look for Cutbacks"
  • The Globe and Mail: "Librarians Fight for a Role in a Digital World"
  • The Globe and Mail: "How to Make School Libraries Relevant Again"
  • CBC News (Windsor): "Parents Don't Want Book Shut on School Libraries"
  • The Windsor Star: "Libraries Key to Learning"
  • Hamilton Spectator: "Libraries Shelved as School Boards Cut Back"
  • The Ottawa Citizen: "High School Libraries Enter the 21st Century"
  • Global TV Toronto: video clip
  
  
• STATEMENTS AND RESEARCH
  
  • Reading for Joy - People for Education (2011-12) > report
  • Canadian School Librarians and Libraries Under Siege (2010-11) > news release
  • CLA and CASL Alarmed At Cuts to BC Education (2009-10) > news release