Welcome to our new blog - a place for librarians, library staff, literacy providers,policy makers and researchers to share our work, our knowledge and experience and answer each others questions about literacy in our libraries.
This blog is one of the many positive outcomes of the Centre for Literacy’s Summer Institute in Montreal June 27-29, 2007.
This institute (more in a later post) was an opportunity for library folks across Canada, in the U.S. and as far away as the U.K. and Tasmania to share their perspectives , to exhange knowledge with literacy providers, and to bring each other up to date on the literacy work that is going on in libraries and to meet with and exchange knowledge with literacy providers
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July 13, 2007 at 2:56 pm
This literacy summit 2007 was very interesting. I not only learnt more about literacy but also enjoyed meeting many people especially Maria and Mary. This blog is definitely a positive outcome. Thanks for putting in the ground work to getting this off and running.
July 13, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Hi Ruyun – thanks for the comment – I hope this is the opening of a long and lovely conversation between libraries and literacy – I will try to post this w/end or early next week and do some more design work on the blog.
M.
July 24, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Hey, that’s me!…What fun to be present, in photo form, on the Librarires and Literacy blog. I thought I should add a print post to say that I, like Ruyun, learned an enormous amount about literacy and work in the field of literacy advocacy. Most of all, however, I really enjoyed meeting all of the other participants and being a (small!) part of the dialogue on furthering literacy work in our communities and libraries. I would like to play a role in getting other library school students here in Vancouver in on the discussion, too, and have told Paul that I can help with forming student editorial committees for the NALD site and this blog. Any other ideas/suggestions for how to involve librarians-in-training???
August 13, 2007 at 1:59 pm
After a bit of an absence, I am resurfacing from under my project priority. I am not forgetting my commitment to be the New Brunswick contact. As well, I am putting the finishing touches to a document highlighting the thought process that has occured for Michelle Bourque and myself – how can we better serve this user group in New Brunswick.
December 20, 2007 at 5:08 pm
The library at Literacy Alberta has also undergone a major change over the past year. In December 2006 the Literacy Alberta collection merged with the Calgary Learning Centre collection to become LearningLinks resource centre. The focus of the collection is on literacy, learning difficulties, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. We serve the literacy community in Alberta as well as teachers, parents and learners. Our catalogue is now online at http://learninglinks.calgarylearningcentre.com if you’d like to have a look.
There is still alot of work to do, but I think this resource centre has great potential and is a great partnership. I’d like to know if there are any other special libraries in Canada that have the same focus as LearningLinks… ?
I was very fortunate to have been able to attend the Libraries and Literacy workshop in Ottawa in 2006 and really enjoyed meeting people from across Canada and hearing what they had to say on libraries and literacy. Thank you to all of you who have worked so hard to put these meetings together! Here’s to working together!
December 21, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Hello and greetings from Brooklyn, NY.
I am very pleased to see this new blog. Although we have lots of news from our Library Literacy Program, at this time I just wanted to wish all of my colleagues working in literacy and libraries a joyous holiday season and a prosperous literacy filled new year!
January 2, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Hi, Susan. Happy New Year!! I’m so glad you like the blog, and I’m looking forward to hearing news from south of the border. I’ve just posted information about a library project in Indonesia that Dawna Rowlson sent me. I hope you enjoy it.
Mary Reynolds
January 2, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Happy New Year, Laura. The last time we spoke you were in the process of setting up the partnership with the LearningLinks Resource Centre. I’m glad to hear that your library amalgamation has ‘happened’ and that it is working out well for you. I like the look of your on-line catalogue, and am intrigued by the ‘Sounds like’ the ‘Pictures’ options.