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GET IN THE GAME FOR LITERACY SUCCESS CONTEST
In partnership with the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation, SLA is pleased to host the Get in the Game for Literacy Success Contest to promote literacy across the province.
Join in the Saskatchewan Library Week fun this year by showing off your Rider pride at your favourite local library! Take a photo of yourself in a library wearing Roughrider green, enter it in our Get in the Game for Literacy Success Contest, and you could win one of three great Saskatchewan Roughrider prizes! The prizes are an autographed football and two Family Packs (that include gift cards that can be used toward the purchase of game tickets or retail purchases). Prize winners will be randomly selected from all contest entries.
The contest will be open from Oct. 14-21, 2023, and it's as easy as 1-2-3!
Click the button below to access contest details and learn more about SLW!
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Book Spine Poetry Contest
Now Open!
SLA is running its annual Book Spine Poetry Contest in conjunction with Culture Days this year!
The contest is now open and closes Nov. 1. This contest is well-loved by people across the province, and is particularly popular with teens. We ask you to consider promoting the contest in your library or organization.
Printable Book Spine Poetry Contest posters and instruction sheets in both English and French are available to download on SLA's website. We also have a few social media graphics you can download and use to create your own social media posts about the contest.
Have questions? Please contact Milena by emailing mdzordeski@saskla.ca.
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SLA Seeking Two External Representatives
MULTITYPE LIBRARY BOARD
SLA is seeking a representative on the Multitype Library Board. The Multitype Library Board, established by The Libraries Co-operation Act, provides a forum for representatives from all types of Saskatchewan libraries to discuss ways to co-operate and enhance library services. The Board is composed of representatives from public, school, post-secondary, special libraries, and other information providers.
This role is a two-year term, and the MLB meets a minimum of three times throughout the year, including one in-person meeting.
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SASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNIC LIBRARY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SLA is looking for a member to provide representation on the Saskatchewan Polytechnic Library and Information Technology Program Advisory Committee. This is a two-year commitment, and meetings are held once per year (usually in the fall) and are a combination of face-to-face and virtual.
Your role as an Advisory Committee member would be to provide advice, recommendations, and guidance to programs on currency, relevance, and quality.
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SLA Seeking Presenters for 2024 Conference
SLA is now accepting session proposals for the 2024 Saskatchewan Libraries Conference.
Are you knowledgeable in an area that your colleagues are always asking you about? Do you know how to run a great program? Have you found a solution to a unique library problem? We want to hear your expertise!
The theme for this year's conference is "Libraries Create Community," inviting us to explore the many ways that libraries build, enhance, and empower their communities. Some of the ways that the SLA Conference Program Committee sees libraries creating community are:
- Developing library collections or services that reflect and support our province’s diverse communities;
- Creating relevant communities of practice for library workers;
- Library students sharing research projects with the broader library community;
- Providing instruction to create information-literate citizens in our communities; and,
- Gathering community in reconciliation and decolonization initiatives.
Have an idea for a presentation? We’d love to hear from you! The deadline to submit your session proposal is Nov. 17, 2023.
The 2024 Saskatchewan Libraries Conference will take place May 1-3, 2024 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Regina. All conference sessions will be held in-person at the conference venue. Submissions from within Saskatchewan and outside the province are welcome.
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Understanding Our Changing Copyright Landscape Webinar
There have been a lot of changes to Canada’s copyright landscape in the last couple of years. Join Kate Langrell and Christina Winter for an update on recent changes to the Canadian Copyright Act, a discussion of copyright considerations for artificial intelligence (AI), and copyright advocacy efforts from the Canadian library community.
Kate Langrell is the Copyright Coordinator at the University of Saskatchewan, and Christina Winter is the Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Regina.
This free webinar will take place on Nov. 9 from 12-1pm. The webinar is open to all SLA members, both individual and institutional.
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Share Your Library Story Survey
SLA's Advocacy & Development Committee has created a survey to be shared with companies, organizations, or institutions that partner with libraries or rely on libraries for product or service delivery in some way.
The purpose of this survey is to gather responses from a wide range of organizations and companies that highlight the value Saskatchewan’s libraries bring to many sectors. These responses will be used in SLA’s advocacy efforts to promote libraries across the province during Saskatchewan Library Week and beyond.
Does your library have any business or organizational partners? We invite you to send them the survey link (using the button below) to add their voice to why libraries matter.
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Two Bursaries Available for MLIS Students
Are you an MLIS student or do you know someone who is? SLA is pleased to offer two $5,000 bursaries for MLIS students each year: the Maureen Woods Education Bursary and the Indigenous Student MLIS Education Bursary.
These bursaries are open to anyone who, at the time of the award application, is accepted to or enrolled in an ALA accredited graduate degree program for a Master of Library and Information Science or equivalent.
The application deadline is Oct. 31, 2023.
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Happy Birthday to RPL's Prince of Wales Branch
Happy birthday to the Regina Public Library's Prince of Wales branch! The library held a community celebration on Sept. 23, 2023 as the branch marked its 110th birthday. The Prince of Wales branch has been serving Regina residents since 1913. Congratulations on this incredible milestone!
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• Oct. 15 - Culture Days ends
• Oct. 15-21 - Saskatchewan Library Week
• Oct. 23 - National School Library Day
• Oct. 31 - Application deadline for SLA's two MLIS student bursaries
• Nov. 1 - Book Spine Poetry Contest closes
• Nov. 17 - Sask. Libraries Conference Call for Session Proposals closes
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Hello everyone,
First things first, happy Culture Days! We’re now partway through the annual national celebration of arts and culture, and I hope that you’ll take the opportunity between now and Oct. 15 to check your local listings for fantastic arts lessons and cultural events happening in libraries all across the province.
The end of Culture Days also marks the start of Saskatchewan Library Week, which runs Oct. 15-21 this year, with a theme of “Libraries Create Community." So be sure to check out our website and Facebook page for updates on library programs running throughout the week, and enter our Get in the Game For Literary Success Contest for the chance to win some excellent prizes courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation.
And of course, while you’re visiting your local libraries, don’t forget to browse your shelves and get your submissions in for the Book Spine Poetry Contest! Running this year until Nov. 1, there are top-three prizes of Indigo gift cards up for grabs in each of our four age categories for the contest, offering free-verse fun and prizes for older and younger readers alike.
And then, just like that, October is… suddenly already over? It’s amazing how quickly a month can fly by like that. Well, I wish all of you a safe and Happy Halloween, and I look forward to catching up with you all at the start of November, at which point I will gladly trade you my boxes of raisins for literally anything else you have.
Until next time,
James Hope Howard
SLA President
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New Read Saskatchewan Catalogue Available
SaskBooks has just released its 2023 Read Saskatchewan catalogue, featuring a host of new Saskatchewan-published titles. Give it a browse! You might just find a few new local authors or titles to add to your collection.
You can order any of the titles in the catalogue at skbooks.com or by using the order form at the back of the catalogue.
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SCAA Hosting Oral History Workshop
What stories does your community have to tell? Are you interested in learning how to properly document oral traditions in your family or community? The Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists (SCAA) is hosting a Refreshing the Record & Keeping Stories Workshop. on collecting and keeping Oral Histories in Archives.
This in-person workshop will be held at the Moose Jaw Public Library on Oct. 24 from 10am to 4pm. The workshop will be led by Kristin Catherwood, Director of Living Heritage at Heritage Saskatchewan. Participants will learn about collecting and keeping oral histories in archives.
Early bird prices (before Oct. 3) are $100 for SCAA members and $150 for non-members. Regular prices (from Oct. 4-18) are $150 for SCAA members and $200 for non-members.
This workshop is designed for culture and heritage professionals and volunteers or anyone with an interest in documentation, including those who want to record family heritage.
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W. Kaye Lamb Award
Open for Applications
Ex-Libris and CFLA-FCAB are now accepting applications for the W. Kaye Lamb Award!
The W. Kaye Lamb Award is given out every two years and recognizes a library that has developed an ongoing service, program, or procedure of benefit to seniors and/or a design and organization of buildings or facilities that improve access and encourage use by seniors.
Any Canadian public, government, post-seconary, or special library is eligible for this award. The application deadline is Oct. 2, 2023.
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Peel's Prairie Province Collection Gets Website Update
The University of Alberta Library is excited to announce that the Peel’s Prairie Provinces Collection has a new website!
Peel’s Prairie Provinces is a collection of digitized materials related to western Canada and now includes over 30,000 postcards, 8,000 books and printed ephemera, 900 maps, and 66,000 historic newspapers. Although many materials are in English, the collection also includes numerous materials in French, Ukrainian, and other languages.
Originally hosted online through the University of Alberta Library, the Peel collection is in the process of being migrated to the Internet Archive platform. The new Peel website will provide context about the collection and tools to help find materials during the migration, while the full-text items will be hosted on the Internet Archive. Advantages of migrating items to the Internet Archive include the ability to easily zoom in and other viewing features, a flipbook for an easier reading experience and you can now download high-resolution files yourself.
If you have any questions or comments about the new Peel’s Prairie Provinces website, please contact digitization@ualberta.ca.
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CFLA Copyright Committee Update
At the June 2023 meeting, the CFLA Copyright Committee discussed the following:
- A sub-group of the Copyright Committee wrote a response to recent op-eds in the Globe & Mail and Hill Times titled "Don't Blame Copyright for Declining Revenue. It Won't Help Authors"
- Ebook collaboration with CULC is seeking to explore new avenues in different provinces such as B.C. and Saskatchewan for a further route for ebook licensing reform as Ontario has, for the time being, declined to address this matter in their Consumer Protection legislation
- Accessibility Working Group's Reasonable Search draft document has been reviewed by interested parties, including publishers and accessibility organizations. Feedback will be considered and incorporated.
Copyright Committee update submitted by Christina Winter.
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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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