by FOPLED | Oct 23, 2018 | FOPL News
Please see below. Can you please share with your various provincial networks as well as any organizations/associations that are aligned with libraries. The contract that OLA has explicitly cites ‘organizations that support publicly funded libraries’ as being eligible recipients. This was originally sent out when we were all in Calgary and it did not make it into broader distribution. It is a two year program and Interns approved now need not be completed by March 31, 2019 as has been the case in the past. Thanks. j Message en français suit ci-dessous Call For Applications October 2018 – DS4Y Cohort 1 The Ontario Library Association will be administering the new Digital Skills for Youth (DS4Y) program for publicly-funded libraries and not-for-profit library organizations that support publicly-funded libraries across Canada. General Information – ISED’s Digital Skills for Youth Digital Skills for Youth (DS4Y) connects underemployed recent post-secondary graduates with small businesses and not-for-profit organizations where they can gain meaningful work experience to help them transition to career-oriented employment. The DS4Y program will combine valuable work experience and training related to digital skills for underemployed recent post-secondary graduates so that they can successfully transition to the labour market. The DS4Y will enable organizations to provide youth with skills development opportunities and work experience that will facilitate transition to the labour market. Internships will allow youth to acquire technical and soft skills using digital technologies and will support a range of organizations that are looking to engage in online activities. This program is on a matching basis thereby leveraging the employers’ contribution to youth...
by FOPLED | Oct 20, 2018 | FOPL News
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Launches 2019–2020 Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP) October 18, 2018 Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Launches 2019–2020 Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP) Library and Archives Canada today launched the 2019–2020 funding cycle for its Documentary Heritage Communities Program. Eligible libraries, archival centres and other memory institutions have until January 8, 2019 to apply for a portion of the $1.5 million that will be allocated in 2019–2020. Since the Documentary Heritage Communities Program was created in 2015, Library and Archives Canada has invested $6 million in supporting some 170 projects submitted by 130 organizations. Some changes have been made to the program guidelines for 2019–2020: New maximum funding amounts for: Small contributions: Now below $25,000 per project for up to two years Large contributions: Now between $25,000 and $50,000 per project, per funding cycle for up to three years Additional support for organizations located in remote areas: small contributions up to $29,999 per project large contributions up to $60,000 per project, per funding year Amendments to the list of eligible organizations to be more inclusive Criteria used to assess the proposals Library and Archives Canada offers financial assistance to preserve and share your histories and documentary heritage October 18, 2018 – Gatineau, Quebec Library and Archives Canada announced today the launch of the 2019–2020 funding cycle for its Documentary Heritage Communities Program. Since this program was introduced in 2015, some 130 organizations have taken advantage of the financial assistance provided to enhance their capacity to sustainably preserve, share and highlight Canada’s documentary heritage. Every dollar invested helps to increase awareness of and access to local and regional histories that should be known...
by FOPLED | Oct 20, 2018 | FOPL News
Amazon is Bringing Something Unique to a Brampton Library https://www.inbrampton.com/amazon-is-bringing-something-unique-to-a-brampton-library by Paige Petrovsky on October 13, 2018 The Brampton Library has received a huge donation from Amazon. According to a recent press release, Amazon has donated $10,000 in technology to the Brampton Library new on-the-go STEM van. The donation will go towards Makerspace Brampton’s expansion of accessible STEM-based learning via the new on-the-go mobile STEM van. Makerspace Brampton is a collaboration between the Brampton Library, Sheridan College, and the city of Brampton. To celebrate the collaboration, local Amazonians will give Grade 4 and Grade 5 students from Mount Pleasant Village school an exclusive look at the new van. The van will include the latest tools that will help students develop real world skills, and give them an opportunity to get their hands on the technology before the van is fully available to the public. Donated items include STEM kits, coding robots, and a charging...
by FOPLED | Oct 20, 2018 | FOPL News
Click here for an Adobe PDF version of this article Canadian Cities’ Red Hot Library Development Continues | October 2018 Compiled by Barbara Clubb with files from Edmonton, Halifax, Kingston, Lethbridge, Markham, Montréal, Regina, Toronto, Vaughan, Victoria and Winnipeg library systems and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council. Second in an Ex Libris series about public library branch development in Canada. In 2018, Canada’s urban libraries are continuing their aggressive development of new and renewed branch facilities as innovative, interactive and integrated community hubs. Learn more about Edmonton’s, Calder branch, Halifax’s Dartmouth North and Musquodoboit branches, Kingston-Frontenac’s Rideau Heights branch, Lethbridge’s Main Branch Modernization Project, Markham’s Aaniin branch, Bibliothèques Montréal’s Benny branch, Regina’s Albert Branch at mâmawêyatitân centre, Toronto’s Albion, Amesbury Park and Eglinton Square branches, Vaughan’s Pleasant Ridge and Vellore Village branches, Victoria’s sxʷeŋxʷəŋ təŋəxʷ James Bay branch and Winnipeg’s Windsor Park branch. Among the 15 there are 2 LEED Gold and 4 LEED Silver designations. Many of these new or renovated branches are part of a larger community facility and share resources and spaces with municipal or corporate partners. There is a special emphasis on small but mighty spaces (6,000 SF and under) including Halifax, Kingston-Frontenac, Regina, and Toronto’s Amesbury Park. A word cloud about these facilities would include: striking design and artwork, LEED, community consultation, radical transparency, accessibility, lots of space and seating, respect for and acknowledgment of Indigenous culture, maker spaces, community responsive, early literacy, abundance of natural light, big windows, flexibility and adaptability, part of a larger complex, warm and welcoming, hub, a place to go. And a smaller but striking set of words would include:...
by FOPLED | Oct 16, 2018 | FOPL News
Here is another report on Education Partnerships that combines data and text fields. This report has three data and information sheets organized alphabetically by library. The first sheet in the report is on Education Partnerships and includes number, type of education partnerships (e.g. early childhood organizations, schools and school boards, colleges, universities and distance education), and education (text / write-in field) highlights. The first sheet also has a key at the foot of it, but I’ve included it in the text of this email below. The second sheet covers Other (additional) Education partnerships that libraries wrote in that they have. The third sheet covers library education programs and attendees focusing on programs for children and teens. There is a fourth sheet that shows the Annual Survey’s survey questions the report draws upon. Data and information in this report can assist FOPL and partner organizations in advocacy work for the sector, including reaching out to the education ministries. As always the same reports have been provided to Ministry policy staff for their consideration such as in work with the education ministries. Data in the attached report duplicates what you can locate in the existing provincial level Summary and Comparison Report and in Open Data to some extent. However, the attached report groups information on public library partnerships with the education sector and provides the information on a library by library basis. The text fields are not located in the published Ontario Public Library Statistics Open data or standard reports and provide qualitative / anecdotal evidence to draw on that supports and complements the data. Key noted in the foot of Education...
