Why #LibrariesMatter series

By |2017-05-29T13:28:20-04:00January 30th, 2017|Blog Posts, Conferences, Videos|

In addition to our QSLiN Library Hangouts, and a few other videos, we are now releasing a new series of short videos about why school libraries matter. We hope that these unscripted, personal interviews can be helpful to remind everyone about the importance of school libraries and the role they, and their personnel, play in

Sawyerville Elementary School Library Moving Ahead – New QSLiN Hangout

By |2017-11-13T12:30:40-05:00June 23rd, 2016|Blog Posts, Library Hangouts, Videos|

In May, we shared a hangout with Sawyerville Elementary School’s principal, Norma Humphrey in which she shared her vision for her school’s library.  In this subsequent film that was made eight months later, Principal Humphrey and library volunteer, Linda Mills talk about the progress that they have made this year in cleaning out old posters

Another New QSLiN Hangout: PCHS Listening to Students and Meeting Needs for Technology

By |2017-09-26T10:58:57-04:00June 9th, 2016|Blog Posts, Library Hangouts, School Libraries, Videos|

In this video, Caroll-Ann Steele, Documentation Technician, Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School, Lester B. Pearson School Board, describes how she approached students at every grade level to find out what services they hoped for in the school’s refurbished library learning commons.  As a result of her informal surveys, laptops, desktop computers and filming equipment were purchased

New QSLiN Hangout: PCHS: Modernist Open Concept School Library to an Innovative Learning Commons

By |2017-09-26T10:55:42-04:00June 7th, 2016|Blog Posts, Library Hangouts, School Libraries, Videos|

In this new QSLiN hangout video, we encounter a new problem: lots of space!  You may not think that this is much of a challenge, but as Caroll-Ann Steele, Documentation Technician, Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School, Lester B. Pearson School Board explains, students can have difficulty navigating around a large area. This school library is part

New QSLiN Library Hangout – Macdonald High School Library: Going Digital

By |2016-11-07T10:57:32-05:00May 31st, 2016|Blog Posts, Library Hangouts, School Libraries, Videos|

This short video is long on ideas for making a library, which was built at the beginning of the 20th century, a digitally friendly centre. Maria Cavaiuolo, Documentation Technician, at Macdonald High School in Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec (Lester B. Pearson School Board) shows how this bring-your-own-device school makes it easy for students to log on with

Principal Jad Deegan and Macdonald High School’s Library Learning Commons – New QSLiN Hangout

By |2016-11-07T10:57:32-05:00May 24th, 2016|Blog Posts, Library Hangouts, School Libraries, Videos|

Principal Jad Deegan (Macdonald High School, Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Lester B. Pearson School Board) enthusiastically points out the advantages of the newly refurbished library learning commons in supporting pedagogy at Macdonald High School. He highlights the advantages of having spaces for collaboration as well as student-friendly computer stations, and laptop or mobile device counters that facilitate

Edwardian Era Library to 21st Century Library Learning Commons

By |2016-11-07T10:57:33-05:00May 19th, 2016|Blog Posts, Library Hangouts, School Libraries, Videos|

Converting a space to a library learning commons presents many challenges. Most schools were built at a time when the card catalogue and the encyclopedia were the primary means by which students tracked down the information that they needed or found the books that they wanted to read. Many school libraries may still be arranged

A Principal’s Vision for a Rural School Library – New QSLiN Hangout

By |2016-11-07T10:57:36-05:00May 17th, 2016|Blog Posts, Library Hangouts, School Libraries, Videos|

In this new QSLiN hangout, we leave the city and go to Sawyerville, a small village in the Eastern Townships of Quebec where we meet Norma Humphrey, the principal of Sawyerville Elementary School and Pope Memorial Elementary School that are within the Eastern Townships School Board. At the time of this filming, Sawyerville Elementary School

New QSLiN Film: Quebec Principals on the Importance of School Libraries

By |2016-11-07T10:57:36-05:00April 28th, 2016|Blog Posts, School Libraries, Videos|

The QSLiN team has been filming great features of school libraries in Quebec for close to two years.  Over time, members of the team have spoken with principals who are very eloquent in expressing the importance of the libraries in their schools to students, teachers, and to all in the learning community. Some of these

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