News
Call for Volunteers: Guatemala 2016 Service Trip
News February 3, 2016
Librarians Without Borders (LWB) invites you to join the annual service trip to the Miguel Angel Asturias Academy in Guatemala.
New Issue of the YA Hotline Published
News February 2, 2016
This issue of Hotline is centered around the DIY (Do it Yourself) ethos. It includes articles on DIY programming ideas for teens, feature pieces on special kinds of DIY libraries, book lists, and craft ideas.
Call for Survey Participants: Young Adult Use of E-Books – An Analysis of Public Library Information and Resource Offerings
News January 31, 2016
Public librarians working in Youth Services or Young Adult Librarianship are invited to take part in a research project called “Young Adult Use of E-Books: An Analysis of Public Library Information and Resource Offerings”.
Inaugural Issue of Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship
News January 29, 2016
The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Libraries (CAPAL) today released the inaugural issue of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Canadian Library Association (CLA) Votes To Dissolve
News January 27, 2016
Today the Canadian Library Association (CLA) took the first formal step to establish a new unified national library advocacy organization.
Ontario Investing in Public Libraries
News January 26, 2016
The Government of Ontario is investing $1.6 million to support 10 projects in public libraries across the province that will improve services for Ontarians.
Access and privacy regulators call on governments to respect rights in information sharing initiatives
News January 25, 2016
Canada’s Information and Privacy Commissioners and Ombudspersons have called on all levels of government to protect and promote privacy and access to information rights when embarking on information sharing initiatives aimed at improving government services.
Information Commissioners call on governments to create a duty to document
News January 25, 2016
Canada’s Information Commissioners have called on their respective governments to create a legislated duty requiring public entities to document matters related to their deliberations, actions and decisions.
R. David Lankes: Thinking a library is about books is like…
News January 24, 2016
Thinking a library is about books is like seeing a hospital about blood and drugs and not health. — R. David Lankes (@rdlankes) January 24, 2016 Thinking a library is …
Future of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD) – Preliminary Analysis of Survey Results
News January 23, 2016
Preliminary analysis of returns from Canadian Committee on Archival Description’s (CCAD) survey on the future of the Canadian archival descriptive standard, the Rules for Archival Description (RAD).