Book Club Meeting: March 14th
Theme: Diary novels
Read: Perks of Being a Wallflower, Go Ask Alice, or a title of your own choice

Toronto Children's Literature Roundtable Event, Feb 12

Toronto Children's Literature Roundtable
presents "How a Picture Book Comes Together"
featuring Editor Tara Walker and Senior Designer Karen Powers
of KidsCanPress.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Everyone is welcome!

7:30 to 9:30 pm at the Canadian Children's Book Centre
40 Orchard View Blvd.
Suite 101, Toronto
416.975.0010

$25/year or $7/session
$15/year for students and seniors or $4/session

For information about the TCLR visit the website

Click here (Right click - Save Target As...) to download a podcast of January's "Working Together" tea. Special thanks to the Inforum for producing the recording.

Working Together Tea

"Working Together" Tea (January 10, 2007)
hosted by YPFIS and the Life and Times Committee

Join us for tea and a conversation about "Working Together". Our guests will be Heather Davis, Area Manager and Sonia Pacheco, Community Outreach Librarian with Toronto Public Library along with their colleagues from across the country.


Working Together is a federally funded demonstration project taking place in Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax and Regina. Community development librarians from the four public libraries are working with socially excluded communities and individuals to articulate their needs for library service and to engage with them to develop those library services.

Working Together bases its work on a community development approach which encourages and promotes philosophies, strategies and empathies that build and strengthen relationships between socially excluded community members and the library. The approach also contributes to the growth of responsive and relevant library services and models that focus on library-community connections.

Staff from the four sites are developing insights, tools and approaches to share with Canadian public libraries to build relationships with the socially excluded as an important aspect of library service. Through connections with the urban poor, people in half-way houses, new immigrants, street people and people in isolated communities within a large city, the librarians are testing ways to foster access to and inclusion in our libraries. As the project nears its conclusion in April 2008, it will provide a model and toolkits as resources for libraries to be able to transform their services in their communities.

I WAS HERE: A Photography Exhibit

I WAS HERE: A photography exhibit presented by the National Film Board of Canada and Young Parents No Fixed Address Network

more info at: http://www.nfb.ca/Iwashere
The results of "a media workshop that puts digital cameras and photoblogging websites into the hands of young parents...All have had experience with homelessness.