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Authorfest 2015
Authorfest, an annual UBC children’s author panel, will take place in Scarfe 100 on Monday, November 23, 2015 from 4:30-6:00 pm.
This year’s panel of speakers consists of Robert Heidbreder, Dan Bar-El, and Shar Levine, and is hosted by the UBC Education Library and the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable.
See you there!
BC Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge, Oct. 26th, 2015
October 26th, 2015 is the 9th anniversary of the BC Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge!
DEAR began when the BC Teacher-Librarians’ Association (BCTLA) challenged schools in BC to participate in twenty minutes of simultaneous reading on a Monday morning in October. Over the years DEAR has gathered momentum and involved:
- athletes
- business leaders
- politicians and
- provincial and municipal government offices.
The simple, but powerful idea of DEAR is to promote the importance of literacy by having as many students and adults as possible read at the same time on the same day.
The DEAR Challenge for October 26th, 2015 is for EVERYONE in BC to put down their work, turn off their computer screens, pick up a book, magazine or newspaper and read for 20 minutes.
You are invited to join BC teachers and students on October 26, 2015 as they Drop Everything And Read!
Please add this event to your calendar.
National School Library Day Colloquia, October 27 5-6pm
Please join with us in celebrating National School Library Day! We are honouring Professor Judith Saltman.
The Place and Space for Canadian Children’s Literature in Our Lives and Libraries”
Panel presenters: Maggie DeVries, Jan Hare, Yukiko Tosa, Judith Saltman
Why should we care about Canadian Children’s literature in our lives and libraries? Is Canadian identity critical in a digital, global, pop culture world? Do parents, teachers, teacher-librarians, librarians and young people really care whether they read Canadian or not? Join with our panel presenters as they discuss these questions and more. Maggie DeVries will offer her perspective as a writer for children who has situated both her fiction and non-fiction in BC. Jan Hare will comment as a First Nations scholar and Associate Professor of Indigenous Education at UBC. Yukiko Tosa will provide insights into public and school library collections in her role as head of Britannia Community School Library. Judith Saltman will conclude with remarks based on her research as a Canadian children’s literature scholar.
Where: Room 185, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
When: 5:00-6:00 p.m., Tuesday October 27, 2015
