It's vital to raise level of reading

Victoria Times Colonist: 2011 August 8

The details are sketchy, but Education Minister George Abbott's effort to involve teachers in improving children's reading is a positive step. Abbott sent a mass email to teachers to launch

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North Vancouver librarian done with keeping quiet

North Shore News: 2012 August 3

STARTING Aug. 8, a Canyon Heights elementary librarian is planning to run roughly 22 marathons in 22 days to protest Bill 22 and challenge funding cuts to public education in British Columbia.

Kootenay Lake School District chops Nelson Resource Centre

Nelson Star: 2012 June 28

Wendy West has her work cut out of her in the next month.

Since the Kootenay Lake School District cut her position as district librarian, she’s been tasked with closing down the curriculum resource centre where she’s worked for 17 years. That means sorting and packing more than 20,000 learning materials that used to be shared between schools and, in many cases, picking one school to take care of them.

Cuts to N.S. librarians match trend seen in Ontario

CBC News: 2012 April 15

A Nova Scotia school board's proposal to cut all of its 41 librarians to balance its books highlights a larger trend at some Canadian schools as libraries become victims of continued budget cuts, a development that some argue is having an impact on the quality of children's education.

School librarians are becoming an endangered species

School librarians are becoming an endangered species

Maura Large trains students at Eliot Middle School in Altadena in the language of dictionaries, encyclopedias and almanacs.

They might soon be able to find her title — credentialed teacher librarian — listed under “extinct species.”

What’s our future – school libraries and librarians

Brave new world: 2012 April 3

It disturbs me that we are not seriously thinking about the future of school libraries. This statement will receive incensed objections; teacher librarians are, after all, talking about changes in what we do and how we do it at conferences and in their own libraries. 

Vancouver's bookstores look to thrive in uncertain times

Straight.com: 2012 April 11

The announcement some weeks ago of the demise of the four remaining Book Warehouse outlets would seem to be the latest sign of the impending doom of the stand-alone bookstore.