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The 2008 annual report of the ABQLA is now available, in English and French.

Registration and housing for the WILU 2010 conference, to be held May 12-14, 2010 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, will open on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 10 a.m. EDT. WILU is Canada's annual information literacy conference. This year’s theme, Design Play Learn, explores best practices in instructional design, games and 21st century fluencies, and features keynote speakers Dr. James Paul Gee (Arizona State University) and Dr. Steven J. Bell (Temple University).

Ottawa – Media Awareness Network (MNet) announced today that Alberta Education has licensed its award-winning interactive game – Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) – making the resource available to 1,800 elementary and middle schools in the province.

A new report from UNESCO on Indicators for Information Literacy has been released and can be downloaded from the following link: http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/cscl/InfoLit.pdf

Bring in Spring with your colleagues as President of the QWF and author of Because I Have Loved and Hidden It, Elise Moser, will be giving a talk with Executive Director Lori Schubert about the history of the organization and the special programs it offers.

This event is presented by the Public Library Section of the ABQLA and will take place on March 15th, 2010 (17h30-19h30) at the Atwater Library, 2nd floor auditorium.  The cost is $5.  Please RSVP with Melissa Tomecz by March 11th.

For the first time in Quebec:
One day seminar March 12, 2010- Montreal
By The Corporation of Professional Librarians of Quebec in partnership with the Association of Quebec Public Libraries
What is the impact and success of your library?
Measuring and communicating the value of your library in good economic times and bad.

Le prochain congrès des milieux documentaires du Québec se tiendra sous le thème «Imaginer de nouveaux partenariats » Vous êtes invités à prendre connaissance du contenu de l'appel à communication et à en faire une large diffusion.

Appel à communications
Date limite 5 mars 2010

Congrès des milieux documentaires du Québec
Imaginer de nouveaux partenariats
Palais des congrès de Montréal

For the first time students from Université de Montréal’s École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) and McGill University’s School of Information Studies (SIS) will be holding a joint Career Fair. We welcome organizations from all information fields. Whether or not you currently have jobs available, we want to see you there!

2010 EBSI-SIS CAREER FAIR
Thursday, March 18, 2010, from 1 to 5 p.m. 
Grande Bibliothèque, 475 De Maisonneuve Blvd. East, Montreal (Quebec)

Dear ABQLA members,
We encourage you to join in the global relief efforts to help the Haitian people if you have not already done so.
 
Now it is our turn to support the Haitian survivors of the earthquake by making a financial donation to any registered Canadian charitable organization.  You may wish to consult the CRA Charities Listings , or to donate to the Canadian Red Cross Haiti Earthquake fund.  Donations can be made online at www.redcross.ca/helpnow.
 

A new year has begun and the 3rd Annual Web 2.You Conference is only a month away, so it's time to start thinking about registering. Web 2.You is a full-day event featuring international and local speakers on the implications of Web 2.0 technologies in professional information settings. Professionals who attended Web 2.You in past years were blown away by their experience and we are confident that this year's speakers will take it to the next level.