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The official lineup and schedule for Greenwood's Storyfest has been released.  This literary festival will take place in Hudson this October 6th to November 3rd.  You may download a copy of the official poster to see some of the authors who will be coming to town (they include Jane Urquhart, Jan Wong, Donna Morrissey and Maria Loggia).

Do you love your job?  Are you proud of what you do?  Share your stories!
 

IBBY CANADA cordially invites you to attend the awards ceremony for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver award, an award to be given annually in recognition of outstanding artistic talent in a Canadian picture book.

When: Thursday, September 17th, 2009, 5pm

Where: Grande Bibliothèque, 475, boul. De Maisonneuve Est, rm.515

Who: Christine Delezenne, for her illustrations of Angèle Delaunois' text, La Clé

How:  RSVP linagordaneer@gmail.com  by September 14th, 2009.

On Tuesday, November 3rd, the Dewey Divas are coming to town to share their picks.  Five of the Divas will be presenting a mix of adult, YA and kids suggestions.

They will be appearing at the Westmount Library from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Admission is $5

RSVP details will be sent out closer to the date.

ABQLA Public Library Section
Francine Golding & Melissa Tomecz

The Library Association of Alberta (LAA) has shared a recent presentation on marketing library services that may be of interest to Quebec librarians as well.  Here is the email we received from Renée Reaume, LAA President, and the link to the presentation.

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LAA is pleased to be able to share with the library community Marigold Library System’s publication Marketing 101: expanding the library’s customer base .

The ABQLA Youth Section is hosting a workshop entitled "Sitting still for storytime" on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 7:30 pm.

The School of Information Studies at McGill University is excited to welcome 2002 Quebec Laureate, author, historian, researcher, content developer, consultant, and SIS graduate Dr. Dorothy Williams as a featured speaker on Friday, March 20th for the Professional Partnering Program finale event.

You are invited to join us at 6 p.m. in the Thomson House ballroom at McGill University (3650 McTavish Street) for appetizers and conservation. A cash bar will also be open.

Monday, March 16th

1:30 p.m. (EDT) Online Table ronde nationale

Our organization – like so many others – is facing a new technological world and greater demands on our resources.

We really need to talk to you about how we can better serve you and with which services. Do our current ones work well for you or should we be taking advantage of new ideas that we haven't thought of?

Using a new online consultation process, we can speak to each other interactively through our computers, judge the values of the ideas we share and come to some conclusions.

Concordia University Libraries will be holding our 7th annual "Poster Forum" session on Friday, May 1st.

The deadline for submitting a proposal to be a presenter is Monday, March 16.

The purpose of the Poster Forum is to provide Librarians with an opportunity to promote interest in different kinds of research, to seek suggestions for enhancing their research interests, to possibly find new partners for projects, to test the effectiveness of their undertakings and generally to abet research activity in the academic library community.