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CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES
(CASL)
328 Frank
Street, Ottawa, Ontario
K2P
0X8
The Canadian Association for School Libraries is pleased
to announce
British
ColumbiaTeacher Librarians’ Association
Executive
as the 2009 recipient of
the
Canadian Association for School Libraries/Angela
Thacker Memorial Award
This award honours teacher-librarians who have
made contributions to the profession through publications, productions
or professional development activities that deal with topics relevant to
teacher-librarianship and/or information literacy.
he British Columbia
Teacher Librarians’ Association Executive has worked
collaboratively with the British Columbia Public Library Services Branch
in support of a range of provincial initiatives on cross-sector
collaboration, database licensing, digitization, and literacy. The BCTLA
Executive and its members encouraged and challenged people across the
province
of British Columbia
to “Drop Everything and Read” for 20 minutes on October 27,
2008 to recognize National School Library Day. Also, the
BCTLA Executive has been funded by a grant from the Ministry of
Education to support a teacher inquiry project looking at evidence-based
practice in order to show the ways in which BC school libraries
contribute to learning.
The work of the
BCTLA Executive with British Columbia Public Library Services Branch
exemplifies the far-reaching and positive effects of collaborative work.
They are to be congratulated for their excellent contribution to
professionalism within school libraries. Individual
members of the BCTLA Executive are Heather Daly, Sylvia Zubke,
Karen Lindsay, Bonnie McComb, Angie MacRitchie, Moira Ekdahl, Amanda
Hufton, Bonnie Chapman, Al Smith, Val Hamilton, Halia Hirniak, Lauren
Craze, and Lynn Turner.
The Canadian Association for School
Libraries is a division of the CLA/ACB. The Canadian Library
Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques is
Canada’s largest national and broad-based library association,
representing the interests of public, academic, school and special
libraries, professional librarians and library workers, and all those
concerned about enhancing the quality of life of Canadians through
information and literacy.
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Media
Contact: Richard Beaudry, President,
CASL
Tel.: 604-534-4171,
rbeaudry@ireland.com
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