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ISSN 2369-4939
Volume 5 Issue 6
June 1, 2019
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Greetings on this first day of June,
It's hard to believe that we have come to the end of another year of SLA programming and board work. With a very successful conference under our belt and a slate of new board members ready to go, we are preparing for our board changeover meeting in a couple of weeks. This meeting will bid adieu to exiting board members and welcome a slate of new and eager leaders.
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Photo Credit: Anita Retzlaff
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SLA as an organization and a governing body still has a few positions and opportunities to fill. It is very exciting that we have the opportunity to represent SLA in various ways and in different sectors throughout the province. Please consider putting your name forward to help us represent our organization in different ways and in different places.
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Welcome to New Board Members
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Photo Credit: Amber Daigneault |
Amber Daigneault, Member at Large
Amber is the Aboriginal Library Services Coordinator for the Provincial Library and Literacy Office, a branch of the Ministry of Education. She works with the Public Library Planning Unit, focusing on developing, coordinating, and implementing policies and programs centering Aboriginal library services in Saskatchewan public libraries.
Amy Rankin, President
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Amy Rankin started her library career at the National Library (now Library and Archives Canada) as a co-op student, then as a contract employee, then as a term employee and finally as a "permanent" employee. During this time, she completed her MLIS online through Southern Connecticut University. Amy returned to Saskatchewan on a term with Provincial Library (now Provincial Library and Literacy Office).
Christina Winter, Member at Large
Christina Winter is the Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Regina. Previously, she worked at a special library at a law firm in Toronto. Christina currently serves as the SLA representative to CFLA-FCAB Copyright Committee.
Darrel Yates, Treasurer
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Darrell is a recent transplant from the Maritimes, having moved from Halifax to North Battleford in December 2017 to accept the position
of Executive Director and CEO of the Lakeland Library Region. He received his Master of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University and his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from Saint Mary's University.
Nicole Bergen, Member at Large
Nicole Bergen is a Reference Librarian at the Saskatoon Public Library, Frances Morrison branch. She graduated from the University of Western Ontario with an MLIS degree. She is new to the role of Librarian, only having started in November 2018.
Read more.
Thank you to Carol Cooley
Carol Cooley, Director and CEO for the Saskatoon Public Library has accepted the role of SLA representative on the University of Saskatchewan Senate.
Membership Inquiries
Effective June 1st, any inquiries about SLA membership should be directed to Marina dos Santos Candeia at
slaadmin@sasktel.net rather than Calvin Chiang at b-Creative.
Did you know SLA is on social media?
Don't miss out on our updates! We have some great new content coming out!
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Libraries Transform! Conference Memories
Check out some of the photos from the SLA Conference 2019!
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Michael Shires, James Hope Howard and departing Board Member Tony Murphy
Departing Board Member Brad Doerksen and SLA Executive Director Dorothea Warren
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Keynote Speaker Jack Saddleback
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Photo Credit: Catherine Young
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The exhibits were well
attended.
Conference Presentations
Did you miss any sessions at the SLA Conference?
Did you love a session and would like to see the PowerPoint again?
Click here to check out some of the presentations from the SLA Conference 2019!
Mary Donaldson Award of Merit
Nicole Riguidel
I am very grateful to be this years' recipient of the Mary Donaldson Award of Merit and to have had the opportunity to attend the 2019 Saskatchewan Library Association Conference. As attending post-secondary education comes with a huge financial burden, generous awards such as this are extremely helpful and will allow me more time to focus on my studies rather than stressing over financial constraints.
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 CFLA TRC Activities Survey: The Indigenous Matters Committee has developed a survey to collect information on activities that Canadian libraries are doing in support of the TRC recommendations. The next deadline for submissions is May 30, 2019. See the survey here.
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Name: Morgan Jones
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Photo Credit: Jessica Davidson |
Title: Community Services Manager
Born and lived: I was born in Saskatoon, but raised in the Estevan and Lampman area. I moved up to Regina during my schooling, and I am currently living in Weyburn.
Professional career and activities: I just finished my undergraduate degree in Film Production at the University of Regina, where I worked as the President of the Film Students' Association, as well as a coordinator for the Living Skies Student Film Festival.
Read more.
Welcome to 2 new librarians in Regina:
Kaetlyn Phillips
has been hired as a Liason Librarian at the Dr. John Archer Library, and Geoffrey Allen is RPL's new Manager of Collections.
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Children's Performer and Storytelling Tours
From May 2018 - April 2019 the Saskatchewan Order of Eastern Star raised funds for the Children's Performer and Storytelling Tours. They sold over 300 calendars with pictures of children's artwork. They sold 149 tickets on a raffle for themed baskets. They did a variety of raffles, sold jams, sold new-to-you clothing and did a Pick n Pay. The chapters and members donated funds to the project. At their annual session in April 2019 they presented SLA with a cheque for $6200 with more to come.
Funds raised by the Saskatchewan Order of Eastern Star will be distributed beginning in 2020.
The National Film Board (NFB) has compiled a list of films suitable for this year's TD Summer Reading Club (TD SRC) the
me. Interested libraries may contact the NFB to obtain a free DVD that includes all of the films listed below, complete with the necessary
public performance rights.
TDSR Club Materials
If you would like some extras, please contact Anne at the SLA office by phone at (306) 780-9409 or email at
They will ship directly to branches if you want more.
Culture Days Is Coming! 
Culture Days raises the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. With the support of volunteer groups at the national, provincial and local levels, hundreds of thousands of artists, cultural workers, organizations and groups, volunteers and supporters self-mobilize to host free participatory public activities that take place in hundreds of cities and towns throughout the country over the last weekend of September each year.
Culture Days will celebrate its 10th anniversary on September 27, 28 & 29, 2019, and will feature thousands of free, hands-on, interactive activities that invite the public to participate "behind-the-scenes," to discover the world of artists, creators, historians, architects, curators, designers and other creative people in their communities.
The Saskatchewan Library Association offers 10 $200 grants to qualifying libraries planning a Culture Days activity. The application form is here in
PDF
. Deadline for applications is July 12, 2019. For ideas and more information please visit the
SaskCulture website
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Saskatchewan Library Week 2019
October 20-26
The 2019 Saskatchewan Library Week theme has been chosen:
Libraries: Building the Future
Stay tuned for more information!
For those who didn't attend the President's Reception at the
recent Saskatchewan Libraries Conference, the 2020 selection has been made. A Geography of Blood by award winning Saskatoon writer Candace Savage will be our featured title in March 2020.
"When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to be found in the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants of this mysterious land - three coyotes in a ditch at night, their eyes glinting in the dark; a deer at the window; a cougar pussy-footing it through a gully a few minutes' walk from town.
But as Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality - a story of cruelty and survival set in the still-recent past - and finds that she must reassess the story she grew up with as the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of prairie homesteaders." (From Greystone Books). Watch the July issue of SLAte for more information.
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SaskBooks 2019
Join us in Saskatoon from June 6-8 at Station 20 West to attend presentations from: Alcuin award winner and head of Design and Production at the University of Alberta Press, Alan Brownoff; rights and sales specialist, Catherine Mitchell; award-winning publisher of graphic novels and KickStarter Thought-Leader, Hope Nicholson; and Director of Publishing at the Gabriel Dumont Institute, Karon Schmon.
Saskatoon Public Library Set to Kick Off Third Annual Knowlympics
Saskatoon Public Library (SPL) is looking forward to launching the third annual Knowlympics, an all-ages summer learning challenge. The Knowlympics features a wide range of challenges that encompass numerous learning areas, such as Digital, Arts, Math and Technology.
National Indigenous Peoples Day is June 21st. The Government of Canada has created many tools to help you with your celebrations and projects. Please use this link to find out more.
Saskatchewan School Library Association's 60th Anniversary
April 11, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Crave, Victoria Avenue, Regina
The event on April 11, 2019 at Crave in Regina was attended by about 35 people - many who had served on past executives and were past award winners, and many who are current executive and members. Past President, Charlotte Raine, provided comments and celebrated this opportunity to focus and celebrate the past and to look forward to the future and the many projects still to be undertaken.
Read more.
Rooster Finds New Home
Saskatchewan Arts Board staff just installed Joe Fafard's
Reveille on the second floor of the Frances Morrison Central Library in Saskatoon. The rooster was previously on loan to the City of Saskatoon for three years, displayed at Saskatoon City Hall.
Pat Roth Entertainment is interested in performing in the summer reading program! Pat offers a one hour comedy magic show and
creative balloon art.
Click here
for more information.
Learning Opportunities
Statistics Canada
Working on your training plan for this year? Want to update or develop new skills? Are you or your team involved in tasks related to data collection, analysis and reporting?
Statistics Canada is offering introductory professional workshops that may be of interest to you and/or your colleagues in the near future.
Newsletters from other cultural organizations
Check out the latest newsletters from the following organizations:
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Saskatchewan Library Association
15-2010 7th Ave.
Regina, SK S4R 1C2
Phone: 306-780-9413 or 306-780-9409
Fax: 306-780-9447
SLA reserves the right to change or edit any submission or to refuse publication in its entirety.
The deadline for receipt of submissions for SLAte is the 25th of each month.
Everyone, Including Culture, Wins When You Buy Lottery Tickets
The core funding that SLA receives through SaskCulture is part of the Lottery Trust where a percentage of every lottery ticket sold goes to support sport, culture and recreation groups within Saskatchewan. It appears that recent lottery sales are not meeting expectations, which will not have an immediate effect on SLA. However we encourage you to remind audiences and arts council members that buying lottery tickets benefits the entire community. Saskatchewan Lotteries has also launched an app that you can download in the App Store or Google Play. More information is available on the Saskatchewan Lotteries website.
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