RSVP For The Halifax Holly Jolly!

November 16, 2011 Michael Steeleworthy

Halifax’s Library and Information Science Holiday Social is back – Join your friends and colleagues for an evening of great food, door prizes, fun, and holiday cheer at our annual Holly Jolly!

The Holly Jolly costs only $10, or $8 for students. We’ll be taking over Argyle Fine Art at its new Barrington Street location on Thursday December 8, from 6pm to 9pm. There are many door prizes to give away, and once again we’ll have excellent catering from Certainly Cinnamon. In the spirit of the season, we ask that Holly Jolly’ers bring a non-perishable food item(s) to support the Parker Street Food and Furniture Bank.

Creating a CLA Network for New(er) Academic Librarians

June 3, 2011 Michael Steeleworthy

As you know, The Canadian Library Association is undergoing organizational change right now; you can read about it on their CLA Future blog. One of the most visible and most important changes for the general membership is the introduction of networks. CLA Networks will be self-governed, self-initiated groups that meet the short-term and long-term goals of its members (see FAQ Q3 for details).

Information Literacy, Transliteracy, and other literacies

April 8, 2011 Michael Steeleworthy

This winter and spring, the library blogosphere has buzzed around the idea of transliteracy, which broadly encompasses critical thinking and writing (or perhaps “synthesizing”) across a multitude of formats and devices. You can read more about digital literacy at:

The Transliteracies Project
Libraries and Transliteracy
Transliteracy Research Group (note their concise definition in the left sidebar)

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