National School Library Day 2016 In The News

By |2016-10-27T15:45:07-04:00October 28th, 2016|Blog Posts, School Libraries|

This past Monday was National School Library day in Canada, a day to celebrate the hub of literacy in any school. Whether it's encouraging boys to dive into reading, helping students find answers to their questions or enjoying the creative mind at work, school libraries are necessary...and awesome. Check out the following articles about school libraries published

All things Halloween

By |2016-11-07T10:57:32-05:00September 21st, 2016|Blog Posts|

That marvelous day of fright and delight is soon to be upon us. There are numerous ways of tying in libraries, reading and goblins, and I am certain you have thought of a few. I came across programs that are tied specifically to reading. Sometimes it takes just a few well-chosen lines to create a

New QSLiN Hangouts: Merging Two Libraries, Parts 1 and 2

By |2016-11-07T10:57:32-05:00June 17th, 2016|Blog Posts, Howtos, Library Hangouts, School Libraries|

In 2015, JPPS Elementary School in Montreal sold its building and began the planning process of moving into Bialik High School.  It was decided that the Bialik High School library would merge with the  JPPS Elementary School’s collection so that there would be resources and services available for all grade levels.  In the two videos

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

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

Who’s Afraid of the Library Learning Commons?

By |2016-11-07T10:57:46-05:00December 17th, 2014|Blog Posts, School Libraries|

If I were a library volunteer or doc-tech or an older librarian who had never been comfortable with new technology, the video displayed here might scare me a bit.  It's a great promotional video for the Library Learning Commons in that it suggests exciting possibilities of what students might achieve in this revised library space, but

“Bistro Library” at Alexander Galt Regional High School

By |2016-11-07T10:57:47-05:00October 25th, 2014|Blog Posts, Library Hangouts, School Libraries|

After promoting a Healthy-Selfie month, Judith Munger, the library tech at AGRHS's library received an interesting request from her students: Last May, we received many comments from students about the cafeteria that was loud and they wished for a more zen place to eat, more proper to good digestion hence the idea for the bistro.

Ebook usage report

By |2014-11-27T16:09:17-05:00June 11th, 2013|Blog Posts, QSLiN Updates|

The 2012 School Library Journal report on the state of ebooks in 1427 U.S. school libraries. It also links to reports on public and academic libraries. http://www.thedigitalshift.com/research/ebook-usage-reports/

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