Hello, "When is this year's QSLiN Library Symposium?" you may have been asking yourself. Well, wonder no longer! We are happy to announce that the 11th Annual QSLiN Library Symposium is taking place on Thursday March 28th. The location will be the same as the previous few years; the Pointe-Claire Holiday Inn. This year’s theme
Wish you could take part in the 2018 QSLiN Library Symposium but can't make it to Montreal on Thursday April 12? Then watch the live-stream of the opening keynote on the QSLiN YouTube channel from 8:45-10:00 AM! https://www.youtube.com/user/qslinchannel This will be a first for us. We hope that all goes well and that this opens
We are happy to announce that registration for the 2018 QSLiN Library Symposium is now open! This is our tenth year and we hope you can join us. The theme of this year’s Symposium is “Communication and Collaboration”. Like in previous years, all school library personnel (librarians and library technicians) and many of their educational
Every year at the Library Symposium, we like to give local Quebec library personnel the opportunity to see some of the great things that are taking place in our school libraries through poster sessions. Sometimes this could be examples of different types of programming taking place, maybe a great club activity, new ideas on what
Back at the QSLiN Library Symposium in March 2017, in addition to Pam Harland (http://www.pamlibrarian.com / @pamlibrarian) giving our keynote presentation, she also gave a second great presentation entitled "Leading from the Library". There was so much great information in that presentation that we have edited it into three separate videos, each focusing on a
Back at the QSLiN Library Symposium in March 2017, in addition to Pam Harland (http://www.pamlibrarian.com / @pamlibrarian) giving our keynote presentation, she also gave a second great presentation entitled "Leading from the Library". There was so much great information in that presentation that we have edited it into three separate videos, each focusing on a separate theme
Back at the QSLiN Library Symposium in March 2017, we had Diana Maliszewski come and talk to us about the various ways that she helps English Second Language learners in her school. While it may seem like a difficult task to reach these students and help them develop a love of reading, Diana gave us
A little over two years ago, in April 2015 to be precise, we visited with Joan Fraser-Burton at Harmony Elementary, the first school in the New Frontiers School Board (in the Châteauguay valley; just south-west of Montreal) to experiment with going from a traditional DDC organization in their library to a more "Dewey-Lite" system. We
*This conference is no longer available Library Journal is hosting a FREE (yay!) global virtual conference on October 18th: Tech Knowledge Virtual Conference: Creating Equity Through Technology. The program has many exciting sessions available to checkout but of particular interest to school library professionals there is: From the Newsroom to the News Feed: How Do
Back at the QSLiN Library Symposium in March 2017, we had Diana and Mary Maliszewski come and talk to us about the idea of Cosplay Makerspaces. With the continued growth in our schools and libraries of both Cosplay and Makerspaces, combining the two seems like a great idea. An idea that will surely lead to
