British Columbia Library Association

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2011 BC Library Conference Call for Proposals
Author : Fiona Anderson, Program Planning Chair Publish Date : 8/13/2010

Please click here to download the Call for Proposals for the 2011 BC Library Conference. If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please contact Fiona Anderson at fanderson@virl.bc.ca. The deadline for submissions is October 12, 2010. The Conference will take place in Victoria Apri...

BC Library Association staffing news
Author : Alane Wilson and Marjorie Mitchell Publish Date : 8/11/2010

Sent on behalf of Alane Wilson, Executive Director, and Marjorie Mitchell, President. Dear BCLA members, we want to share with you news of staffing changes at the BCLA office. Alane has resigned as Executive Director, effective September 30, 2010. Marjorie called a meeting of the Human Resources ...

BCLA Letter on mandatory long-form census
Author : BC Library Association Publish Date : 8/6/2010

Below please find the text of a letter sent to Government of Canada Minister of Industry Tony Clement regarding changes to the mandatory long-form census. Thank you to Gail Curry, Carla Graebner, Marjorie Mitchell and everyone else who worked on it. The letter is also available as a black and...

Response from Ontario Premier McGuinty re: G20 letter from BCLA
Author : BCLA Office Publish Date : 7/29/2010

This is the text of a letter received July 28, 2010, from Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, responding to the letter sent to him and Prime Minister Stephen Harper from President Marjorie Mitchell and Intellectual Freedom Chair Jon Scop, about the curtailment of civil liberties during the G20 summit. ...

BCLA Letter to Prime Minister and Ontario Premier on G20 incidents
Author : BCLA / BCLA IFC Publish Date : 7/16/2010

Below is the text of a letter mailed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty on Friday, July 16, 2010. To see the letter as sent, please click here for a black and white pdf scan. July 16, 2010 The Right Honourable Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada Offi...

BCLA Browser Volume 2, no. 3 online
Author : Sandra Wong, Editor, BCLA Browser Publish Date : 6/30/2010

Hi all, BCLA Browser: Linking the Library Landscape. Volume 2, no. 3 is now online:http://bclabrowser.ca/index.php/browser/indexThe entire issue in PDF format is also available at:http://bclabrowser.ca/index.php/browser/pages/view/pdfThis issue of the BCLA Browser is sponsored by OCLC Canada.In thi...

President's Task Force on Strategic Sustainability
Author : Marjorie Mitchell Publish Date : 6/22/2010

The following message from President Marjorie Mitchell was sent to the members of BC's library community yesterday, June 21, 2010. As a critical step toward ensuring BCLA's ongoing relevance and viability, today I am announcing the formation of the President's Task Force on Strat...

BCLA Annual Report now available
Author : Alane Wilson, BCLA Executive Director Publish Date : 6/1/2010

Thanks to BCLA Browser Editor in Chief Sandra Wong and her editors, the BCLA Annual Report is available as a special issue of the BCLA Browser. There will be no print version of the annual report issued. The report may be viewed at http://bclabrowser.ca/index.php/browser/issue/view/10/showToc The ...

BCLA Office Hours from June 1 - Sept. 3, 2010 (additional information)
Author : BCLA Publish Date : 5/31/2010

Updated to add: Alane Wilson is on vacation and will return to the office on Monday, July 19. From June 1 - Sept. 3, 2010, the BCLA Office will operate on a compressed work week, as happened last summer. Regular hours will be 8:00 am - 4:30 pm from Monday - Thursday, and 8:30 am - noon on Fr...

Meeting with Deputy Minister of Education, James Gorman
-- Meeting with Deputy Minister of Education, James Gorman
Author : BCLA, H. Scoular Publish Date : 5/26/2010

On May 19th, representatives of the Ad Hoc Advocacy group met with Deputy Minister of Education James Gorman, and Assistant Deputy Minister, Partnerships and Planning Division, Ministry of Education. The following are the notes taken by the Chair of ABCPLD, Heather Scoular. ...

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