Everything tagged: School librarianship

The LAA has written to Alberta’s Minister of Education and Childcare expressing concern about the stated involvement of Action4Canada in the recent announcement about school libraries and requesting a meeting to ensure librarians are consulted re new policies for school libraries.

LAA is surprised and concerned by the Government of Alberta’s news release yesterday that it intends to ban books in Alberta school libraries starting in September.

“While public input can be valuable, it is quite concerning that there appears to have been no attempt to get trained professional input, or any attempt to understand under what criteria the books were selected.”

“We are writing to express our concern about the cuts to school library staff in New Brunswick’s Anglophone School District West. It is disheartening to imagine school libraries trying to be run without trained library staff.”

« Nous vous écrivons pour partager notre inquiétude au sujet des réductions de personnel dans les bibliothèques scolaires du District scolaire anglophone Ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick. C’est décourageant d’envisager que les bibliothèques scolaires tenteront de fonctionner sans personnel qualifié. »

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) believes that every child in Canada deserves access to an excellent, professionally staffed, and fully-funded school library.

La Fédération canadienne des associations de bibliothèques (FCAB) croit que chaque enfant au Canada mérite d’avoir accès à une excellente bibliothèque scolaire, entièrement financée et dotée d’un personnel professionnel.

Rebecca Robinson, Learning Resource Coordinator for the Lloydminster Catholic School Division

What support do schools need to successfully implement Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada?

L’Association des bibliothèques de l’Ontario (OLA) est profondément préoccupée par le nombre croissant de tentatives de restriction de l’accès aux livres par certains conseils scolaires.