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Grant applications are now open and will close on April 22, 2024. Applications will be assessed on how well the program aligns with the National Indigenous Peoples Day theme of recognizing and celebrating the history, heritage, and diversity of First Nations and Métis peoples in Saskatchewan. | |
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Summer Programming
SLA is pleased to once again be offering Summer Programming grants of up to $300 each for member libraries. These grants are generously sponsored by SaskTel and can be used to put on programs for children and teens between July 1 and August 31, 2024.
Preference will be given to applications that demonstrate commitment to a number of key areas, including literacy, diversity and inclusion, and creating community and social connections.
Grant applications are now open and will close on May 3, 2024.
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Webinar Panel Discussion for Library Leaders
Are you looking to learn more about how to lead in your library? Join us for the webinar Unstuck in the Middle: Lessons for Leading Up, Down, and Across in a Library.
This panel discussion led by Mark Black, Branch Manager at Regina Public Library's Central Branch, features library leaders in various stages of their career as they discuss the importance of showing leadership while operating in the middle of their organization. The panel will examine how you can expand leadership qualities in your team, help your department navigate through institutional structures and procedures without going rogue, and move your team through difficult situations.
The webinar will take place via Zoom on April 16, 2024 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm. It is free for all SLA members, both individual and institutional, and $25 for non-members.
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2024 Conference Registration Deadlines Coming Fast
Are you planning to register for the 2024 Saskatchewan Libraries Conference, and just haven't had a chance to yet? Now is the time! The delegate registration deadline is April 18, 2024, so be sure to sign up before then.
Information on our conference speakers, a full event schedule, and descriptions of each session are available on our website!
We also still have a few spots available for conference exhibitors, but hurry! The registration deadline for exhibitors is April 12, 2024.
We also want to extend a big thank you to those who have already partnered with us as sponsors and exhibitors for this year's conference! Our 2024 event sponsors and exhibitors are:
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Sponsors:
• CVS Midwest Tape - Hoopla Digital
• Library and Archives Canada
• Library Bound
• Regina Public Library
• Saskatoon Public Library
• United Library Services
• University of Regina, Dr. John Archer Library & Archives
• University of Saskatoon, University Library
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Exhibitors:
• Canadian e-Resource Solutions Inc / Infobase
• Carr McLean Ltd.
• Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA)
• Clarivate
• Creative Kids Saskatchewan
• EBSCO Information Services
• Insignia Software Corporation
• JerBear Books Ltd.
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• Law Society of Saskatchewan
• OverDrive
• Provincial Library & Literacy Office
• Saskatchewan Council for Archives & Archivists Inc.
• Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation
• SaskBooks
• Shadowpaw Press
• University of Regina Press
• Whitehots Inc.
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Prison Library Program Book Donation Opportunity
Does your library have any weeded materials that could use a new home? The SLA's Prison Library Sub-Committee (PLSC) is collecting book donations at the Saskatchewan Libraries Conference in Regina! These materials will be provided to incarcerated individuals at the Regina Correctional Centre, White Birch Remand Centre, and Paul Dojack Youth Centre.
To facilitate donations from around Saskatchewan, members of the PLSC will be available to help with book drop-offs on Thursday, May 2 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm in the Capital A Room at the conference. An outdoor location will be available for vehicles to pull up and unload larger donations.
Please ensure that all donated books are paperback, in good condition, and something that someone would want to read! There is a particular demand for popular fiction self-help, Indigenous authors (fiction or non-fiction), Manga and other graphic novels.
Please contact Marika Hunter, the Prison Library Sub-Committee Chair, by emailing marikahunter@gmail.com if you have any questions.
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OBOP Events Happening
Across Saskatchewan
April is the month of One Book One Province! Author Jennifer Wallace will be participating in eight events in six communities across Saskatchewan to discuss her book Miss G and Me.
The event dates are:
- April 3 in Saskatoon (at the University of Saskatchewan over the noon hour and at the Saskatoon Public Library in the evening)
- April 4 in Weyburn
- April 5 in Moose Jaw
- April 8 in Regina (at the University of Regina in the afternoon and at the Regina Public Library in the evening)
- April 9 in Prince Albert
- April 10 in Watrous
- April 25 in Regina (a memoir writing workshop)
Join in the celebrations this month by reading Miss G and Me and participating in an event near you!
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Two CFLA-FCAB Positions Open
SLA Representative to CFLA Cataloguing and Metadata Standards Committee
The Saskatchewan Library Association (SLA) is seeking a representative to join CFLA's Cataloguing and Metadata Standards Committee.
This committee is responsible for engaging with existing communities and/or CFLA member working groups to foster collaboration and maximize the impact of advocacy on cataloguing and metadata issues and promoting cataloguing and metadata training, among other things.
This position is a two-year term from Winter 2024 to Winter 2026. If you are a librarian with cataloguing experience and this opportunity interests you, please submit a letter of expression and your resume to info@saskla.ca before April 12, 2024.
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CFLA Intellectual Freedom Committee
CFLA-FCAB's Intellectual Freedom Committee is searching for two new members. The Committee strives to include a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, uniting individuals who value the principles of intellectual freedom and their application in the present context.
This committee typically meets monthly between September and June, with additional meetings as required. Appointments to the committee are for a three-year term, renewable once, with terms beginning in both October and April.
Anyone interested in joining the committee should send a resume and statement of interest to Kelly Lauzon at kelly.lauzon@airdriepubliclibrary.ca.
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CFLA Copyright Committee Updates
At the March 2024 meeting, the CFLA Copyright Committee discussed the following:
- Jennifer Stirling (special guest) discussed the recent work of the Joint Taskforce on eBook Sustainability which is exploring provincial legislative opportunities to support sustainable purchasing of electronic resources for publicly funded Canadian libraries. The Taskforce wanted CFLA feedback on which provinces offer the best option for advocacy efforts regarding their consumer protection legislation and government friendliness towards the issue of ebook sustainability.
- An ad hoc sub-committee presented the Draft of their 2024 Recommendations suggesting changes to the WIPO Good Practice Toolkit for Collective Management Organizations.
- On the CFLA Copyright Committee recommendation, the CFLA Board endorsed the Access to Knowledge Coalition, letter dated March 5th representing educators, researchers, students, libraries, archives, museums, copyright academics, and other knowledge users and creative communities around the globe. This letter outlined the need for protection of broadcasting organizations; limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives; limitations and exceptions for educational and research institutions and for persons with other disabilities; and other matters including investigating copyright related to the digital environment and recommended more consideration of Generative Artificial intelligence issues.
- Crown Copyright Working Group: Crown Copyright Code of Best Practices is close to completion.
- Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Working Group submission to the Federal Government's recently announced CFLA Response: Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence is public on the CFLA website in English, and is currently being translated to French. The group has followed up with ISED to see when the submissions (due Jan. 15th, 2024) will be made public. Group continues to work on a re-analysis of submissions from 2021 to align with the 2024 consultation.
- The Accessibility Working Group document: Accessible Content: A guide to the Canadian Copyright Act on Searching for Accessible Formats and Producing and Distributing Alternate Formats is currently under a review and comment process, some reviewers have completed their review.
- The PLR Working Group's Public Lending Right Position Statement has been approved by the CFLA Board, and will be published soon on the CFLA website. Public lending right (PLR) is a system that provides payment to creators whose works are available in public libraries.
Copyright Committee updates are provided by Christina Winter.
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• Apr. 1 - One Book One Province month begins
• Apr. 1 - Applications open for National Indigenous Peoples Day and Summer Programming grants
• Apr. 3-25 - various One Book One Province events happening across Saskatchewan
• Apr. 12 - 2024 Sask. Libraries Conference registration deadline for exhibitors
• Apr. 16 - Unstuck in the Middle: Lessons for Leading Up, Down, and Across in a Library webinar panel discussion led by Mark Black
• Apr. 18 - 2024 Sask. Libraries Conference registration deadline for delegates
• Apr. 22 - Deadline to apply for National Indigenous Peoples Day program grants
• May 2-3 - 2024 Saskatchewan Libraries Conference in Regina
• May 3 - Deadline to apply for Summer Programming grants
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Hello everyone,
Happy April! We made it! I hope that you're all enjoying some nice, warm, satisfying spring weather right now, wherever you may be. Up here in the La Ronge area the month of March came in like a lion and then went out like a meaner, blusterier lion, which is usually not how that saying is supposed to go.
Some fun Canadian trivia for you: Groundhog Day predictions across the country are made by six live groundhogs, one groundhog hand puppet, two plush marmot toys, three human-sized groundhog mascots, and one live maritime lobster. Their combined predictions, according to The Weather Network's available tracking data on record since 2000, have about a 47.6% success rate – so if you're wondering now in retrospect whether they'd got it right for this year, the answer is essentially 'yes and no.' (I give it two years tops before the sports channels start running advertisements encouraging you to bet money on them.)
So, onward to spring! Following a wonderful launch event at Government House in Regina on March 21, the One Book One Province author tour will begin in earnest on April 3 and feature events across the province throughout the month of April. The full schedule of OBOP events is available on the SLA website, so please have a look to find the event closest to you when you have the opportunity. And of course, don't forget about the book itself, Miss G and Me, available through your local library!
Until next time,
James Hope Howard
SLA President
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Tickets Available for 2024
Sask Book Awards Gala
The Saskatchewan Book Awards is hosting its 2024 gala on Friday, May 3, 2024 at 7:30pm at the DoubleTree Hotel & Conference Centre in Regina — the same venue as the Saskatchewan Libraries Conference!
If you'll already be in Regina for the conference, consider sticking around for the Friday evening to take in this wonderful time of celebrating Saskatchewan authors and enjoying delightful desserts.
Admission is $80 per person and tickets are now available for purchase.
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Sask Children's Festival Seeking Library Partners
The Children's Festival of Saskatchewan is developing a new program to bring the joy of its annual festival to more provincial audiences, and is seeking library partners to help them do that!
Since the onset of the pandemic, the Children's Festival of Saskatchewan has offered a variety of virtual programming options. Now going into its 5th year, they continue to offer their Virtual Festival as a way to ensure all children in Saskatchewan can access quality arts programming for free. This year, they hope to expand access to the Virtual Festival in a way that can help address digital poverty with their Provincial Outreach Program (POP) Events by partnering with libraries across the province.
The Children's Festival of Saskatchewan is looking for libraries willing to host events where one or more festival videos can be streamed during this year's festival from June 6-9, 2024. The videos will be free for libraries to access, and Teacher's Kits with additional programming ideas to accompany the videos are also available for free upon request.
Sound like something your library might be interested in? Contact Olivia Johnston, the festival's Classroom and Community Coordinator, by emailing community@childrensfestsk.ca before April 30, 2024.
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SLAte Submissions
Have something you want to see in SLAte? Send us a submission! The deadline for SLAte submissions is the 25th of each month, and submissions must be emailed to Lynn Penner at lpenner@saskla.ca. SLA reserves the right to change or edit any submission, or to refuse publication in its entirety.
SLAte is an open-access publication under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY-NC-ND copyright license, excluding all logos and other material where indicated.
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