Librarians from the Québec Association of Independent Schools (QAIS) have collaborated to create a list of book recommendations for various ages. Check out these videos for ideas for your next read! You can contact your school librarian or public library for help finding eBooks or AudioBooks while the libraries are [...]
Hello, As many you you may have heard, Élise Gravel was on “Tout le monde en parle” on Radio-Canada on Sunday October 20, 2019. It is a very interesting 14 mins and 41 seconds. If you haven’t had the opportunity to see the interview, you can see it at the link [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A few months ago, our colleagues in the Digital Citizenship Initiative put together two videos aimed at elementary school students. The first one is on how to take notes and the second is on quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. These videos are available in both English and French. Hopefully, you and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Back at the QSLiN Library Symposium in March 2017, we had Pam Harland (https://twitter.com/pamlibrarian & http://www.pamlibrarian.com/) as our keynote speaker. She gave a great inspiring presentation entitled "Keep it Simple". With so many great ideas, it was decided to make her presentation into a few short videos that will allow [...]
As part of an ongoing desire to share with the world how school libraries can contribute to educational teams and what they can do to help students succeed, we started asking different people in education, (including administrators, consultants, and of course school librarians and library technicians) about why school libraries [...]
