It’s been six months since we met at the Summer Institute on Libraries and Literacy and over five months since Maria Moriarty created this Literacy at our Libraries blog. Since that time, we’ve gone through a topsy-turvy time here AlphaPlus, what with the closing our library and the decentralization of our collections (more on that later), and a move to new office space. We did find time over the summer to submit a proposal to Knowledge Exchange Program of the Canadian Council on Learning. We asked for funding to develop this baby blog and help it to grow into a viable national/international community of interest. Unfortunately, the proposal didn’t ‘fly’ the first time round. But we’re going to revise it and try again in the New Year, and we’re hopeful that it will be successful the second time around.
In the meantime, we can, at least, begin to populate the blog with comments and updates on what we’ve all been doing and what we’ve accomplished in the area of library/literacy initiatives. Being able to show CCL that blogging is a viable vehicle for sharing knowledge and building community will be a big help to us when we re-submit – and so please do join the conversation, and show us your geographical presence by clicking on the Cluster Map that we added to the site earlier this week.
