Quick Reads 2008 released today

 
Today marks World Book Day, and to celebrate the occasion, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) has released 10 new titles in its Quick Reads series for emergent readers.
 
Now in its third successful year, Quick Reads 2008 features works by well known British authors including Gordon Ramsay, Colin Jackson,  and Josephine Cox.  For sci-fi fans, there’s even a new [...]

Literacy Lessons at the Library – Sign up today!!!

Happy International Adult Learners’ Week!!! March 3rd-9th is International Adult Learners’ Week in a number of countries, including Canada, and there are number of events both here and abroad that I’ll be telling you about.

The first one happens this coming Thursday, March 6th, at 3:00 p.m. ET, when the OLA Education Institute will be presenting [...]

Golden Oak Audio Conference Rescheduled

If, in the midst of gearing up for the New Year, you missed your chance to register for the Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award audio conference, you’re in luck.  This exciting and information-rich audio conference has been rescheduled and will be presented by Brenda Livingston and Tina Natale, veteran Golden Oak facilitators from Toronto [...]

Indonesia update

It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted Dawna Rowlson’s account of Building a Library in Indonesia.  I logged into Dawna and Katherine’s Blog today for an update on what’s been happening since they took off from Pearson on January 4th to begin the third of their five missions to the Aceh  province of Sumatra, Indonesia.

This ’self portrait’ was [...]

Mark your calendars!!

Now in its sixth year, the Golden Oak program encourages new adult readers to read and discuss books that have been specially selected for them by librarians and literacy specialists.

 On January 16th at 3:00 p.m. ET, you can find out more about this exciting program and how you can encourage and promote reading for pleasure in your community by participating in [...]

Building a library in Indonesia

Two Toronto Public Library managers are working on a library project in Indonesia.  Katherine Palmer and Dawna Rowlson are participating in the Federation of Canadian Municipalities libraries initiative in Indonesia.  The project is focused on the Aceh province of Sumatra, Indonesia and specifically the public library in Sigli, roughly on the northern tip of the [...]

Time flies….

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), [...]

Libraries and Literacy: Making it Work

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 [...]