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To give library and information service professionals at all stages of their career an opportunity to participate, the SLA Mentorship Pilot Program has three roles accepting applications: mentor, mentee, and peer-to-peer mentor.
- A mentor is an experienced library and information service professional, with at least five years of experience working in the field.
- A mentee is newer to the library and information service profession or a library student and has less than five years of experience working in the field.
- A peer-to-peer mentor is anyone actively working in library and information services in Saskatchewan who would like to build a professional relationship with someone working at another library or organization.
The SLA Mentorship Pilot Program will match you with a mentor, mentee, or peer (depending on the role you apply for) and then you and your match get to decide how and when to virtually connect!
This pilot program will run from October 2024 through May 2025. Applications will open on August 19 and close on September 13, 2024.
The program is open to SLA individual members and is free to join. Applicants will be matched with a mentor, mentee, or peer-to-peer mentor as requested, depending on availability.
Have questions about this pilot program? Contact the SLA office by emailing info@saskla.ca.
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Past Webinar Recordings Available to Members
Did you know that SLA has a library of past webinar recordings? It's true!
As SLA hosts webinars throughout the year, recordings are made of any webinar where the presenter gives permission. These recordings are stored on SLA's website and are available at any time to all SLA individual members!
There are currently three recorded webinars available to watch on demand: Fundraising 101, Professional Ethics & Political Realities: Responding to Intellectual Freedom Challenges in Public Libraries, and Presenting Accessibly: Strategies for Creating Accessible Conference Presentations. More webinars will be added throughout the coming year.
Any individual member can access these recordings by logging in to their online account and clicking on "Webinar Recordings" in the left hand menu.
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Sask Library Week Grant Applications Closing Soon
SLA is currently accepting applications for Saskatchewan Library Week (SLW) program grants. Twenty-five grants of up to $250 each are available to SLA's institutional or individual members to support them and their library as they put on programming during SLW.
Grant applications close on August 6, 2024. Applicants will be notified about the outcome of their application by the end of August.
SLW is a province-wide, annual event that promotes the wonderful resources and services libraries have to offer. This year, the event will take place from October 13-19, 2024. Programs must take place during this week to be eligible for a grant.
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Summer Rider Reading Challenge Now Live
Registration is now open for the Summer Rider Reading Challenge!
This challenge, created in partnership with the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation, runs until August 29, 2024 and is open to all ages.
To enter the contest, the rules are simple!
- Visit your local public library and load up on books.
- Go to https://www.riderville.com/riderreadingchallenge and register for the Rider Reading Initiative.
- Read and record your daily minutes to be automatically entered to win a weekly Roughrider prize.
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Congratulations to Our Culture Days Grant Recipients
Congratulations to our 2024 Culture Days program grant recipients! Our winning libraries are:
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- Alex Robertson Public Library
- Glenavon Public Library Branch
- Grenfell Public Library Branch
- Outlook Community Library Branch
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- Lumsden Public Library Branch
- Oxbow Public Library Branch
- Shaunavon Branch Library
- Windthorst Public Library
- Yorkton Public Library
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Libraries across Saskatchewan will be putting on special programming during Culture Days, which runs from September 20 to October 13, 2024. Check in with your local library to see what will be happening in your community! | |
CFLA Copyright Committee Update
At the June 2024 meeting, the CFLA Copyright Committee discussed the following:
- Members of the CFLA Copyright Committee are working with international partners to draft a response to the Public Lending Right Scoping Study tabled at WIPO SCCR 45.
- Some members of CFLA Copyright Committee attended the User Rights Network symposium (June 11-13th, 2024) either online or in-person held by the American University, Washington, DC.
- Crown Copyright Working Group: Navigating Copyright for Crown-Published Works: A Code of Best Practices for Libraries is now on the CARL website in English and French. Amanda Wakaruk and Jennnifer Zerkee will present on this Code at ABC Copyright Conference on June, 20-21st, 2024 in Halifax.
- AI and Copyright– CFLA Copyright Committee are continuing work supporting a FAQ on Generative AI that outlines copyright considerations.
- Joint Taskforce On Ebook Sustainability was presented a document drafted by CIPPIC on fair contracting terms for ebooks offered to libraries from a provincial consumer protection perspective; this document will go through legal review before being presented beyond the working group. Consultation with BCLA on fair contracting terms for ebooks acquired by libraries and provincial advocacy are a next step for the taskforce group.
- The CFLA Accessibility Working Group's is now working through reviewer comments for Accessible Content: A guide to the Canadian Copyright Act on Searching for Accessible Formats and Producing and Distributing Alternate Formats. The CFLA Accessibility Working Group members Victoria Owen and Alexandra Kohn are presenting on their work on Reasonable Search at the ABC Copyright Conference (2024) June 20-21st in Halifax.
Copyright Committee update provided by Christina Winter.
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• Aug. 6 - Applications close for Saskatchewan Library Week program grants
• Aug. 19 - SLA Mentorship Pilot Program applications open
• Aug. 29 - Summer Rider Reading Challenge ends
• Sept. 17 - Regional Park Pass Lending Program ends
• Sept. 20 - Culture Days begins
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Hello everyone,
By the time you read this, my wife and I will have set up all our camping gear and will be comfortably ensconced in South Bay War Veterans Park, about half an hour south of Ile-a-la-Crosse, to attend the annual Metis Nation Saskatchewan Northern Region 3 Family Culture & Engagement Gathering. This will be their fifth annual gathering at South Bay, so to celebrate along at home, say the full name of the event five times fast.
Speaking of culture, congratulations to all recipients of our 2024 Culture Days Program Grants! We’re looking forward to some fantastic programming from our successful applicants during this year’s celebration of culture, running from September 20 to October 13. We’ll be sure to have lots of great Culture Days information to share with everyone in next month’s SLAte, so please watch for that.
And in the meantime, don’t forget about our summer program with the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation! The Summer Rider Reading Challenge is open to readers of all ages and runs until August 29, the final day to submit your reading minutes. Weekly reading prizes will be awarded all the way through to the end of the program and the reveal of the Grand Prize Rider Reader Party, which will be awarded to the library branch with the most accumulated reading minutes.
Some interesting trivia for you before I wrap up: Ile-a-la-Crosse is the second oldest settlement in Saskatchewan, having been established as a trading post in 1776, and so in 2026 the northern village will be celebrating its 250th anniversary. Can you imagine, 250 years! That’s about half as old as I feel when our nine-year-old tries to explain to us what a “Skibidi Toilet” is.
Until next time,
James Hope Howard
SLA President
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Children's Writers' Round Robin Celebrates 40th Anniversary
The Saskatchewan Children’s Writers’ Round Robin is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a public event and a children's reading contest this fall!
Since its beginning in 1984, members of the Saskatchewan Children's Writers' Round Robin have published more than 200 books. The organization invites you to celebrate its 40th anniversary with them by joining their public event or encouraging students to participate in a reading contest.
The public library event will be held on September 14, 2024 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm at the Regina Public Library's George Bothwell branch. The event will feature 11 members each giving a 10-minute talk on an aspect of writing that can apply to writing for any age. Stop by to talk to the authors, buy books, and enjoy some cake! The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom for those who cannot attend in person.
The Fly Into Reading! Contest will run from September 14 to November 1, 2024 and is open to all Kindergarten to Grade 12 students in Saskatchewan. Students can enter by reading one of the books published by a Saskatchewan Children's Writers' Round Robin member (many are available in libraries), write or draw a response, and enter online to win. Prizes include books for students and author readings for classrooms, libraries, or home school groups!
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Art Writing Mentorship Opportunity
Emerging writers based anywhere in Saskatchewan are invited to apply to CARFAC SASK’s 2024-2025 Art Writing Mentorship program with mentoring writers Emily Riddle (Edmonton) and Nic Wilson (Regina). The program aims to foster critical art dialogues in, for, and coming out of Saskatchewan. The program will run from November 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025 with two mentees working remotely with each mentor towards specific mentee-led art writing goals and outcomes.
CARFAC SASK is thrilled that, through partnership with Indigenous Curatorial Collective/ Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA), Indigenous and BIPOC mentee participants in CARFAC SASK’s Art Writing Mentorship program will have paid opportunities to publish writing about Indigenous art through ICCA’s Digital Publishing Program! Please prioritize your interest in this specific opportunity as part of your application, as applicable.
The application deadline is August 29, 2024. You can find program details, mentor biographies, and an online application form by clicking the button below.
If you are interested in promoting this program in your library, click here to download a PDF poster you can print off.
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Creative Writing Challenge for Kids and Teens
Story Studio, a charity based out of Victoria, BC, is inviting young writers from across Canada to participate in its Summer Creative Writing Bingo challenge.
This challenge invites young writers ages 9 to 17 to print off a copy of Story Studio's Summer Creative Writing Bingo card, where each square contains a writing challenge. Once all the challenges have been completed and your bingo card is full, fill out the contest entry form to be entered to win exciting prizes!
The deadline to submit an entry is August 31, 2024. All submitted stories will be featured in Story Studio's Summer Stories anthology.
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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 Lynn Penner at lpenner@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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