From ejohnson at pembinatrails.ca Wed Mar 10 07:50:43 2010 From: ejohnson at pembinatrails.ca (Edna Johnson) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:50:43 -0600 Subject: [Schlib] Amelia short list Message-ID: <82939C2FE002FD41B4F05690962BD3C90158C20008@AO-DIV-EXMB-1.valhalla.pembinatrails.ca> Good morning Everyone Well, they have finally been announced. Here are the finalists for the Amelia Award. These books will be discussed and voted on at the Amelia Read In in April. Please plan to attend and make your opinion count. The finalists for the 2010 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator?s Award, in alphabetical order by title, are: ?Have I Got a Book for You! / Illustrated by M?lanie Watt (Kids Can Press) ?The Imaginary Garden / Illustrated by Irene Luxbacher (Kids Can Press) ?It?s a Snap! George Eastman?s First Photograph / Illustrated by Bill Slavin (Tundra Books) ?Me and You / Illustrated by Genevi?ve C?t? (Kids Can Press) ?Perfect Snow / Illustrated by Barbara Reid (North Winds Press / Scholastic Canada) ?Pierre Le Poof! / Illustrated by Andrea Beck (Orca Book Publishers) ?Timmerman Was Here / Illustrated by Nicolas Debon (Tundra Books) ?Vanishing Habitats / Illustrated by Robert Bateman (Scholastic Canada) ?When Stella Was Very, Very Small / Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay (Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press) ?You?re Mean, Lily Jean / Illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton (North Winds Press / Scholastic Canada) Edna Johnson Library Technician / Acadia Jr. High 204-269-6210 From mifriesen at pembinatrails.ca Fri Mar 12 08:36:17 2010 From: mifriesen at pembinatrails.ca (Michael Friesen) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:36:17 -0600 Subject: [Schlib] Documentary Heaven Message-ID: Documentary Heaven is exactly what the title implies. Right now they have over 900 docs on a wide variety of topics, from History to Science to Biographies and more. It's an impressive collection, indeed. Take a look and see if there's anything you can use: http://documentaryheaven.com Mike Friesen Teacher-Librarian Shaftesbury High School Winnipeg, Manitoba 204-888-5898 ext 2020 http://shaftlibrary.pbworks.com http://thewiredlibrarian.pbworks.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mifriesen at pembinatrails.ca Fri Mar 12 09:20:22 2010 From: mifriesen at pembinatrails.ca (Michael Friesen) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:20:22 -0600 Subject: [Schlib] Documentary Heaven - Addendum Message-ID: Mona Lynne over at Vincent Massey very wisely pointed out that there may be copyright and public-performance rights-related issues with Documentary Heaven. The "about us" section seems to enforce that, stating very clearly that the purpose of the site is to entertain, but says nothing about education. Proceed with caution, if at all. Sorry about the false lead. 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Name: Customer Success Forum Invitation - 4-13-2010.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 328378 bytes Desc: Customer Success Forum Invitation - 4-13-2010.pdf URL: From ejohnson at pembinatrails.ca Mon Mar 22 18:42:01 2010 From: ejohnson at pembinatrails.ca (Edna Johnson) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:42:01 -0500 Subject: [Schlib] upcoming Library conference in Winnipeg Message-ID: <82939C2FE002FD41B4F05690962BD3C9015A0B14B5@AO-DIV-EXMB-1.valhalla.pembinatrails.ca> check out the following website for the conference program Edna Johnson Library Technician / Acadia Jr. High 204-269-6210