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Books & Bytes - Life in the Library Learning Commons

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I’m Jenn, a teacher-librarian that loves to share ideas and tips about the library and technology!

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Here you will find programming outlines for children, teens, and new adults; book reviews; readers advisory tools; information literacy presentations; and lots of ideas.

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What if the biggest threat to humanity wasn't climate, disease, war, or monsters... but plants?

Thick, seemingly invincible black grass starts growing all over the world. It invades crops, destroys houses, and emits a dangerous pollen that everyone is allergic to. Everyone except for three young teens from British Columbia: Anaya, Petra, and Seth.... Read More YA Book Reviews: Bloom, Cinderella Is Dead, and Rules for Being a Girl

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Canada's Largest Recreational Reading Program!

The Forest of Reading® is Canada’s largest recreational reading program! This initiative offers ten reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages. The Forest helps celebrate Canadian books, publishers, authors and illustrators. More than 270,000 readers participate annually from their school and/or public library. All Canadians are invited to participate via their local public library, school library, or individually.

Numbers Speak for Themselves

Each year we keep trying to move these numbers up and get more people reading Canadian books - help us achieve our goals

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They provide the chance for library workers and supporters to share their experience and expertise while creating innovative solutions in a constantly changing environment. We offer opportunities for learning, networking, recognizing, influencing and celebrating within the library world.

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WE'VE MOVED: OLA's new phone number is 1-877-340-1730 and our new mailing address is 2080 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4C 1J9. Please note: this new location is not currently open to the public.

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First Nation Public Library Week: 2023. In the contemporary context, the 2023 First Nation Public Library Week theme and poster imagery reminds on-reserve and municipal public libraries that alliances and friendships exist and that reciprocal partnerships strengthen the public library sector.

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Ontario Library Service | Service des bibliothèques Ontario

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Resources Home: First Nation Public Library Week: 2023

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Resources Home: First Nation Public Library Week: 2023

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October is Canadian Library Month! During the month, libraries and library partners across Canada raise awareness of libraries’ valuable role in the lives of people in Canada.

Each week is a different theme!

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Ontario Public Library Week - Ontario Library Association

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Ontario Public Library Week – October 20 to 26, 2024 October is Canadian Library Month! During the month, libraries and library partners across Canada raise awareness of libraries’ valuable role in the lives of people in Canada. In Ontario, the first week of October features First Nations Public Library Week (October 1-4), and the third week … Ontario Public Library Week Read More »

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anadian School Libraries (CSL) is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to professional research and education in the field of the school library learning commons in Canada. CSL connects school library practitioners and educators across Canada in the collaborative pursuit of delivering exemplary practices reflective of current professional school library learning commons standards.

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Canadian School Libraries (CSL) is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to professional research and education in the field of the school library learning commons in Canada. CSL connects school library practitioners and educators across Canada in the collaborative pursuit of delivering exemplary practices reflective of current professional school library learning commons standards.

CSL Statement on the Role of School Libraries During the Pandemic
Énoncé sur le rôle des bibliothèques scolaires en temps de pandémie
Issued by the CSL Board of Directors on September 23, 2020

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NEW! CSL is pleased to sponsor a new podcast! Read Into This is about books, articles, fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, media texts, cookbooks, and everything in between. We will explore how we read and how what we read makes us who we are and helps us learn about those around us. Can't wait for you to join in and talk wordy with us. Your hosts: Alanna King, Beth Lyons and Lisa Noble. Connect to the podcast!

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Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada

Leading Learning provides a guide for the transition of school libraries to vibrant centres of teaching and learning responsive to the diverse needs of learners today and into the future. It also serves as a measurement tool to help schools determine where they are now with library facilities and programs and where they want to advance to.

Visit the Leading Learning website.

Carrefour d'Apprentissage

Ce site présente le document L'apprentissage en tête : Principes relatifs à la transition de la bibliothèque scolaire vers le carrefour d'apprentissage au Canada. Dans le futur, il comprendra des ressources pour la mise en place des carrefours d'apprentissage grâce à du contenu et des exemples en français.

Visitez le site L'apprentissage en tête.

Canadian School Libraries Journal

Canadian School Libraries Journal is dedicated to sharing knowledge about school library research and practice, and is published three times per year. The first edition, Volume 1, Number 1, was published in the spring of 2017. The CSL Journal website also contains the archived editions of School Libraries in Canada.

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Treasure Mountain Canada

TMC is a biennial research symposium and think tank. TMC invites researchers, school library practitioners, educational leaders and policy-makers to move forward together and collaboratively explore ideas, inspire each other and build collective knowledge of the learning commons approach as part of sustainable school improvement.

Visit the TMC website for information about upcoming events and access to papers and resources from previous symposia.

CSL Research Archive

ONE POINT OF ACCESS to scholarly and practitioner research about the school library learning commons in Canada. The Research Archive makes the cumulative work of all TMC symposiums findable.

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Provincial / Territorial School Library Associations
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Librarians without borders: For those of us who connect, teach, share, and lead in new information landscapes.

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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
by Christopher Paolini
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2020
Read courtesy of http://www.Netgalley.com

Although I usually don't enjoy fantasy, Paolini makes it accessible to me. He doesn't confuse me with featureless, flat characters with too many weird, similar names - that alone is a win for me. I really enjoyed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars since it falls in that nebulous alley between fantasy...

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Untold Mayhem (audiobook version)

I LoveLOVED this shory story collection by Mark Tullius. I listened to it as a recorded book, and the narrators were all appropriate for the stories they read. Very talented group! It's is difficult to end a short story, and the author didn't miss a beat; every story was solid. I'm not sure how appropriate it all is for my 9th and 10 graders, but the 11th and 12th graders...

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Influenceby Sara Shepard; Lilia BuckinghamPub Date: 05 Jan 2021Glad I stuck with it! Went from an almost DNF to 3 stars to 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Might have been my disinterest, disdain, or dread of the effect social media has on this generation of teens that initially had me turned off, but as the plot developed, there was a real story behind all of the 'influencing' going on. [Get your cringe ready for an "in my day" story... when I was a teen, we were only worried if our business got out there if the...
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Influence by Sara Shepard; Lilia Buckingham Pub Date: 05 Jan 2021 Read courtesy of http://netgalley.com

Glad I stuck with it! Went from an almost DNF to 3 stars to 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Might have been my disinterest, disdain, or dread of the effect social media has on this generation of teens that initially had me turned off, but as the plot developed, there was a real story behind all of the 'influencing' going on. [Get your cringe ready for an "in my day"...

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Aftershocks
by Marisa Reichardt
Pub Date: 29 Sep 2020
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⭐⭐⭐⭐Very enjoyable.

At first I wondered how the author was going to have a whole book told by someone caught in the rubble of an earthquake, but I was pleasantly surprised by the use of flashbacks and storytelling by the trapped characters. Then the narration changed as the story changed (I don't want to tell how, since that would be a...

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Book Review: Like Spilled Water
by Jennie Liu
Pub Date 01 Sep 2020
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This is a novel of regret, so it's a review filled with regrets.

I feel regret for the unlucky readers who found this book too long or too slow. It's not an action novel; it's an emotional one. It's reflective of the societal norms to not reveal one's troubles encapsulated into a story. I am grateful to have been able to...

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We have introduced lessons that we're calling "Upper School 101" that are taking place during our 9th and 10th grade study hall classes. We are focusing on skills and concepts that are important to student success but don't always fit seamlessly into a content area curriculum - particularly organization and tech skills. I did twoRead more

This week I've been working with one of our incredible Biology teachers on a research project focusing on Cancer Awareness. She's done versions of this project in the past, but wanted to take it to the next level with an enhanced research component and final product. I was beyond excited to get to work withRead more

Over the past few weeks, we've done some fun activities during middle school library visits to engage our readers with more books. 7th graders participated in a Book Tasting activity, which allowed them to spend some time reading from different genres. Many of them spent some time with genres that they don't typically read, butRead more

It seems that I'm emerging from my mid-career burnout, post-COVID slump. It's been two years since my last post, and long before then I was feeling a certain kind of way about things. While I still really loved my work and especially my school, I was just feeling tired and uninspired for a number ofRead more

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Librarians without borders: For those of us who connect, teach, share, and lead in new information landscapes.

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Weeklu Blogs with many videos, photos, and overall resources and inspiration!