Reading Spaces

Sex & The Library: Progressive Librarian: London Chapter Event

Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 2:30. Visual Arts Centre 100.

Emma Donoghue reading at FIMS November 15



The Faculty of Information & Media Studies and The Book Store at Western, are honoured to host a reading event featuring London, Ontario literary sensation, Emma Donoghue on Monday, November 15 at 4:30 pm.

Donoghue's recent book, Room, has been nominated for a number of prestigious literary awards this year including the Man Booker Prize, (for a novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published in the United Kingdom), The Governor-General's Literary Award (for Canadian English-language fiction) and the Roger's Writers Trust Fiction Prize (for the year's best Canadian novel or short story collection). For more information about Emma Donoghue and her writing please visit her website at http://www.emmadonoghue.com.

The reading will take place at The Faculty of Information & Media Studies, North Campus Building, The University of Western Ontario, in room 117 at 4:30 pm and will be followed by a question and answer session and book signing. Seating is limited.

Copies of Room will be available for purchase at the event. All are welcome. This is a free event.

Questions?
Please contact: Paulette Rothbauer at prothba2@uwo.ca

CLA and CLASY event in Ottawa: Libraries and Teens: January 14, 2011

A new date (January 14) with a schedule of events is posted at the CLASY site. Online registration available.

There is a new event sponsored by the Canadian Library Association and Canadian Libraries Are Serving Youth (a new advocacy group started by MLIS students at the University of Western Ontario). Libraries and Teens. There's a hefty price tag but should be well-worth the $$. For more information see the notice on the CLA site and the CLASY blog.

 

A new book by Martha Brooks

Lucy Silag reviews Queen of Hearts the new novel by Canadian writer Martha Brooks, published by Groundwood. Martha Brooks is, hands down, is one of my favourite writers of any genre, but in my opinion, she's also one of the very best of the ya genre. Can't wait to read this one. And there's a Ben McNally event at The Dora Keogh on October 4 to celebrate the launch

Knowledge Ontario eResources Portal

English and French language portals to information resources to support General Research, College & University & Professional, Kindergarten to Grade 6, and Grades 7-12. Buttons and widgets available for mobile devices too! via eresources.knowledgeontario.ca

Canadian Online Teen Reading Club needs your attention

A Canadian online reading club for teens with benefits for its member libraries needs your help to continue. Erin Walker has a post about its value to teens and libraries. There might be an opportunity here for a new funding line -- perhaps "Friends of the Teen Reading Club" that would enable individuals (i.e., non-institutional members) to make a contribution? Although the teenrc is run by the Greater Victoria Public Library system, it is national in its scope and audience.

A depressing update on the Teen RC

CLASY Professional Development Day talk

On Friday, 28 May, 2010, Canadian Libraries Are Serving Youth (CLASY) held its inaugural event, a professional development day for people interested in library services to young adults and teens in Canada. More information about the impetus, and the organizers (Stephanie Vollick, Erin Walker and Sarah Noyes) can be found over at the CLASY blog.The organizers will be blogging about the day's activities.

I was honoured to be invited to participate in the day's event and gave a 30 minute introduction entitled "Taking Our Place at the Table Today: Working with and for Youth in Canadian Libraries". I've included a draft of the talk here: Download CLASY Introduction

Unfortunately, I was not able to stay for Stephen Abram's presentation or for the think-tank exercises and discussions but I've heard from a number of people that the day was a resounding success. I was excited to see a room full of lively and engaged people and I was honoured to be a part of what I hope are renewed efforts to network with others in Canada interested in public library services to teens.

Queer Research Day at Western April 29

See the attached poster ( Download QRD_3 ) for Queer Research Day 2010, which takes place this Thursday, April 29, starting at 1:30pm in UC 224A. The program is pasted below.

 Program

 

1:30: Introduction and welcome

                Rob Stainton, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

1:45: "Bring Your Research out of the Closet using Scholarship@Western"

                Adrian Ho, Western Libraries

2:15 Refreshments and Posters

2:45 Panel: Bodies and Pleasures

“Queering the Body in William Blake: Towards a Hermeneutics of the ‘Bottom’”

                Elizabeth Effinger, English

"Bad Romance: Sex/Romance, the Politico-Queer and Agential Realism"

                Joshua Morrison, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research

“‘Like Joining a Sisterhood’: Public and Private Pleasure Reading in The Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Female Readers”

                Jen (J.L.) Pecoskie, Library and Information Science

4:00 Panel: AIDS and Health

“The Health in Middlesex Men Matters Project: Phase One Preliminary Findings”

                Todd Coleman, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

 “Epitaphs and Epidemics: The Hermeneutics of AIDS in ‘Post-Crisis’ Discourse”

                Jeremy Greenway, English

Canadian Libraries Are Serving Youth: PD Event May 28

Details will continue to be posted as this exciting event develops, but here is the initial invitation. Everyone with an interest in teen library services is invited to attend and participate. CLASY is a grass-roots group spearheaded by Stephanie Vollick, a new MLIS grad from FIMS at UWO.

You are cordially invited to the first Professional Development Day offered by CLASY (Canadian Libraries Are Serving Youth).

The event will take place May 28^th from 10:30-4:30 at the University of Western Ontario. Anyone with an interest in youth services in libraries is welcome to attend. We will discuss emerging issues in library services for teens and all participants will be invited to share ideas about the kind of work a Canadian network of library staff, students and educators interested in working with and serving young adults could and should accomplish. The day will be a combination of speaker presentations as well as "think tank" and agenda setting activities. More details about the speakers and activities will be provided closer to the event.

 

CLASY is newly established and hopes to develop a vibrant and active, national network of library professionals serving young adults. It aims to assist library staff working with teens by offering program ideas, pathfinders, bibliographies and professional development.

 

Event Cost, including lunch and refreshments:

 

Professionals: $20

MLIS students: $10

 

Register for the event

 

Stephanie Vollick

Founder of CLASY

svollick@shaw.ca

 

Facebook Group for CLASY

CLASY Twitter Feed

CLASY Blog with a Petition asking for signatures in support of a network for youth services librarianship in Canada

Connections 2010 Conference: at FIMS, UWO May 15-16

Hosted by doctoral students in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Connections 2010 is happening on May 15-16 2010. John Budd will be the keynote speaker. Registration is only $50 Cdn/US. Download Connections Poster