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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).