Award of Excellence

New Library Workshops

We've been working on some new workshops for library staff that we hope to release this summer. A Manga Primer:Japanese Comics for Schools & Libraries is designed to help those in libraries become familiar with this fascinating material. Undercover Acts of Readers' Assistance will provide a collection of creative ways to help your library visitors expand their reading choices. For those in libraries that catalogue their own materials, our new Cheater's Guide to Library Cataloguing from cataloguing queen, Jeannette Strong, will be a practical and valuable session.

We're hoping you'll enjoy these new offerings! If you have a topic that you feel would make a great workshop, please don't hesitate to let us know. Whether you are hoping to learn a topic or hoping to share a topic, we'd love to hear from you.

Making Learning Stick

Digital Literacy and Power Users

The Literacy in a Digital Age conference begins tomorrow and it will be a great opportunity to recharge, as well as see and hear some of the newest ideas and thoughts on the use of technology in education. If you haven't registered yet and can make it out to Kananaskis Lodge this weekend, hop over to their site and register online.

I am looking forward to hearing Ian Jukes and his thoughts on what many are calling "Power Users" - young people who are changing the social dynamics in education by the way they work and communicate using technology. I'm including a great site about Power Users in my next newsletter, but for those who want a sneak preview, here's the link in advance: Power Users of Information and Communication Technology This site provides all kinds of information about "Power Users" and how these young people are changing the way educators work.
Cynthia