Ontario librarian creates online guide for teachers to find available Indigenous course content

Rhiannon Johnson, CBC News, 2018/07/20

In response to "the recent cancellation of Truth and Reconciliation curriculum writing sessions that were to build upon Ontario's curriculum by infusing Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy across all subjects and grades," a librarian at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) has compiled a list of available Indigenous course content. More...

How to solve the local news crisis? Look it up in the library.
Don Day, Medium, 2018/07/11

I live in a small town in Ontario where decisions about the local school and the local (badly paved) main road have a big impact. News was always a challenge in small towns, and now it's a major challenge. And contrary to what is suggested in this article, I don't realy see the library stepping in and filling the gap. More...

Le Centre national de la fonction publique territoriale (CNFPT), le ministère de la Culture et la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) s'engagent dans un partenariat visant à définir les modalités d' "accompagnement au changement" des bibliothèques territoriales dans plusieurs champs : la transition bibliographique (accompagnement à la transformation des catalogues et des données des bibliothèques), les évolutions numériques et leurs impacts métier, l'accompagnement des collectivités territoriales dans le développement de la lecture et dans la transformation des bibliothèques "aux nouveaux usages et attentes de la population". Plus...