by FOPLED | Feb 11, 2022 | Advocacy Updates
The first few weeks of the year have been very busy as FOPL and a few our of member libraries attended budget consultations for the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs and The Ministry of Finance consultations. Thank you to everyone who applied for...
by FOPLED | Feb 11, 2022 | Advocacy Updates
Pre-Budget consultation hearings by the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs are in January. We would like representation from each region at the meetings to ensure that Public Libraries are heard. We are working with Counsel Public Affairs to develop...
by FOPLED | Feb 11, 2022 | Advocacy Updates
We continue to make progress with our government relations priorities and craft our messages for the various political parties. Our meetings with Stephen Del Duca and the NDP Platform Party Chair are forthcoming so we will be focusing on those in the next couple of...
by FOPLED | Feb 11, 2022 | Advocacy Updates
November 2021 FOPL and OLA will be meeting with Liberal Party leader Stephen Del Duca at the end of the month. I am VERY excited for this meeting and speaks to the success of our meeting last month with Kate Graham. We have also been invited to meet with NDP platform...
by FOPLED | Feb 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
FOPL’s Indigenous Library Partnership Working Group has formally endorsed and recommends the CFLA’s Truth and Reconciliation Report and Recommendations. This report was published by CFLA’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee which exists to promote...
by FOPLED | Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Le français suit As you may be aware, there has been much in the news as of late, especially in the USA, regarding censorship in schools. It appears as though there have been some regressions here by way of intellectual freedom. The Canadian Federation of Library...
by FOPLED | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Le français suit A message from our friends at Library and Archives Canada: Subject : Report on Provincial and Territorial Measures to Support Official Languages in Libraries in Canada Dear colleagues, I want to inform you of the publication of the report, entitled...
by FOPLED | Jan 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
The pandemic has our communities consuming e-books and e-audiobooks at a record pace. But many publishers highly inflate prices for e-books or won’t sell to libraries at all; which of course means that not everyone has the same access to information through...
by FOPLED | Jan 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dalhousie–Horrocks National Leadership Lecture: Library Engagement in a Pandemic & Post Pandemic Virtual World – Dr. Carla Hayden February 1st at 12:00 PM AST.Bio: Dr. Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress on September 14, 2016....
by FOPLED | Dec 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Municipal World recently formed a partnership with the Association of Municipalities of Ontario to create a new resource. The Municipal Knowledge Portal will help municipalities find and share documents like by-laws, policies, reports, and more – all in one...
