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The Saskatchewan Library Association is currently seeking a new Member-at-Large position on our board!
Applications are open to individual SLA members willing to commit to a 2-year term and close on October 15.
For more information, please reach out to Executive Director, Tina Kleisinger at tkleisinger@saskla.ca or click on the button below.
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Book Spine Poetry Contest Closing Soon!
SLA's annual Book Spine Poetry Contest in conjunction with Culture Days is now running. This contest is a simple and fun way to promote literacy for anyone ages five and up.
The Book Spine Poetry Contest closes on October 13. Be sure to get your entries in before it's too late!
Please visit SLA's website to download printable contest posters, instruction sheets (English and French), and social media materials.
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Award Applications Close in October!
The Saskatchewan Library Association is accepting applications for two awards; The Maureen Woods Education Award and the Indigenous MLIS Student Award.
These awards promote the continued growth of professional librarianship and provide financial support. Applications close on October 31.
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Congratulations to the 2024 SLW Grant Recipients!
The SLA would like to extend a big congratulations to this year's Saskatchewan Library Week grant recipients listed below!
- Battleford Library
- Eastend Library
- Glaslyn Public Library
- Goodsoil Public Library
- Invermay Public Library
- Lafleche Library
- Loon Lake Library
- Lumsden Library
- Meadow Lake Library
- Melville Public Library
- Naicam Public Library
- Oxbow Public Library
- Paradise Hill Library
- Saskatchewan Health Authority Library
- Saskatchewan Hospital Library
- Wakaw Public Library
We can't wait to hear about the amazing programming made available as a result of these grants.
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Within Bars But Not Without Rights | |
To learn about the important work of the Prison Library Sub -Committee, please click the link below. | | |
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SLA's Prison Library Sub-Committee's quarterly book recommendation section in SLAte is an opportunity to consider Canada's justice system, the lived experiences of incarcerated people, and the importance of having accessible resources while incarcerated.
This month's recommendation is Reconciliation and Indigenous Justice: A Search for Ways Forward by David Milward.
This book provides an account of the ongoing ties between the enduring trauma caused by the residential schools and Indigenous over-incarceration.
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• October 13 - Culture Days & Book Spine Poetry Contest Close
• October 31 - Award Applications Close
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Hello everyone,
With visions of sugarplums beginning their annual dances in our heads, my recommendation is that you give yourself the gift of time for this Christmas season and start your holiday planning now in earnest. Write out your lists, get your online orders put in, start keeping an eye out for things that the people in your life would like whenever you’re out and about, eat whatever’s biggest out of your freezer to start making room for a turkey – really get proactive with it!
“James,” you are probably saying to yourself, “it is October.” And, yes, okay, sure, I know that what I’m saying probably sounds more premature than proactive right now – it is, at the time I write this, twelve weeks to Christmas – but this is a time of the year that will really speed along on you, especially since we’re entering one of the busiest stretches of our collective calendar.
Culture Days runs now through to October 13th, with events taking place all across the province! The annual Book Spine Poetry Contest also runs now through to October 13th! (It wraps up just three days before World Spine Day, on October 16, which I will pretend we aligned on purpose even though my wife just alerted me to its existence an hour ago.) We’re also entering the beginning stages of the provincial election campaign – a perfect time to check out the new SLA Advocacy Toolkit for Saskatchewan Libraries if you haven’t already had a look at it.
I know that Christmas planning is a lot to add onto your mental stack on top of all of that, but if James Patterson can be writing thirty books at once, I’m fully confident that you’ve got this. So I say that now is perfect time to get yourself into the Christmas spirit, because soon enough you’ll find yourself with what feels like no time left at all – staring at ten different Vinyl Café anthologies and trying in vain to remember which ones the person you’re shopping for does or does not have – and you’ll be very glad that you started getting stuff done now.
Until next time,
James Hope Howard
SLA President
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Call for Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence
The University Library at the University of Saskatchewan is seeking expressions of interest from Indigenous artists and storytellers to become the library's fifth Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence.
This flexible, part-time residency begins in February and runs for 8-12 weeks. The Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence is a paid position of up to $12,000. Deadline for submissions is Friday, October 18, 2024.
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New SLA Member Forums!
As a part of our ongoing commitment to improve member experience, the Saskatchewan Library Association is proud to introduce new member forums featured in the member's-only area of our website. We encourage you to click on the link below to engage with other SLA members.
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Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists Workshop: Copyright Basics
The Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists will hosting a one-day workshop on Thursday, October 10.
This workshop will focus on copyright laws and is aimed at archivists, librarians, and museum curators who are responsible for managing copyright in their collections, as well as users of copyrighted content.
For more information or to register online, please click on the link below.
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Climate Action
Climate Action Week is returning from November 2 - November 8, 2024.
Join libraries and other GLAM organizations across Canada to focus on the climate change related challenges and emergencies facing our communities. The goal is to raise awareness, answer our communities’ growing needs, and articulate clearly that libraries are places to connect people and access resources on climate change.
Climate Action Week (CAW) is hosted by the BC Library Association and driven by libraries and library staff like you! To learn more please us the link below.
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Upcoming Collection Development Workshops
The Education Institute will be offering two upcoming workshops in October and November of this year.
This brand new virtual workshop series focuses on important considerations in the process of building useful, balanced library collections: enhancing accessibility, Indigenizing collections, and navigating sensitive subject matter.
Please click on the link below for more information or to register.
| ACRL 2025 Call for Proposals, Scholarship Applications | |
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ACRL invites proposals for the ACRL 2025 Conference to be held April 2-5, 2025, in Minneapolis and online. ACRL 2025 will be a platform for us to engage in critical conversations and explore solutions-centered approaches to the challenges facing our profession. Community chat, lightning talk, poster session, roundtable discussion, and virtual presentation proposals are due October 18, 2024.
ACRL anticipates providing more than $90,000 of scholarships to subsidize in-person and virtual attendance at the ACRL 2025 Conference. Scholarship applications to attend the conference are due on Friday, October 11, 2024. To learn more and apply, visit the scholarships section of the ACRL 2025 website.
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Regina Public Library is pleased to partner with Sask Milk to run a standardized special edition scavenger hunt in celebration of Agriculture Week; October 6-12, 2024. RPL invites all library across the province to celebrate Agriculture Week alongside them with a fun Scavenger Hunt.
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Does your library have an exciting community partnership you'd like us to feature?
Please email your announcements to info@saskla.ca and we’ll spread the word in the next edition of SLAte.
Cutoff for submissions is the second last Wednesday of each month!
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SLAte Submissions
Have something you want to see in SLAte? Send us a submission! The deadline for SLAte submissions is the 25th of each month, and submissions must be emailed to Yasmin Dar at YDar@saskla.ca. SLA reserves the right to change or edit any submission, or to refuse publication in its entirety.
SLAte is an open-access publication under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY-NC-ND copyright license, excluding all logos and other material where indicated.
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