Upcoming Events
When The Prompts Are People: Hosting Tech Week Events in Your Library
By this presentation's end, one will have the tools, tricks, inspiration, and starting point to host a promotional week of events celebrating science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math in their public or school libraries. Workshops, career talks, maker space activities, fix-it cafes, sumo robot competitions... each feature provides a potential catalyst for investigation and growth.
Virtual: Reader's Advisory Divas & Dudes
Come and hear the Reader's Advisory Divas & Dudes for your collections this year and in the upcoming one!
Mentorship Program Launch
Meet your mentor or mentee and other library workers and students at McGill's Thomson house on December 1, 6:30pm-9:30pm. This launch event for the Mentorship program will feature a casual mixer with drink and food for purchase and a trivia challenge.
Thomson house - 3650 McTavish Street, Montreal Quebec, H3A 1X1
The ABQLA code of conduct will be in effect.
Rencontrez votre mentor ou votre mentoré ainsi que d'autres employés de bibliothèque et étudiants à la maison Thomson de McGill le 1er décembre, de 18 h 30 à 21 h 30. Cet événement de lancement du programme de mentorat comprendra une rencontre informelle avec boissons et nourriture à acheter, ainsi qu'un quiz.
Thomson house - 3650 McTavish Street, Montreal Quebec, H3A 1X1
Le code du conduite de l’ABQLA sera en vigueur.
ABQLA Annual Conference at CPI 2025
Let’s get together for a Spring Social! Join us at Selwyn House School’s Wanstall Library for our annual awards ceremony, a keynote speaker, and socializing. Appetizers, alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments will be served. Selwyn House School is located at 95 chemin de la Côte-St-Antoine in Westmount. Free parking is available onsite. The building has a wheelchair-accessible entrance; the library is on the 3rd floor and an elevator is available.The Spring Social is being generously sponsored by Babar Books.
ABQLA Spring Social
Let’s get together for a Spring Social! Join us at Selwyn House School’s Wanstall Library for our annual awards ceremony, a keynote speaker, and socializing. Appetizers, alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments will be served. Selwyn House School is located at 95 chemin de la Côte-St-Antoine in Westmount. Free parking is available onsite. The building has a wheelchair-accessible entrance; the library is on the 3rd floor and an elevator is available.The Spring Social is being generously sponsored by Babar Books.
Take a Bite of the Official RDA Toolkit Webinar Series - Part 3
Join us for a three-part lunchtime webinar series to get a taste of the Official RDA Toolkit. These half hour introductory webinars will explore topics such as: the IFLA Library Reference Model, differences between the toolkits, entities and elements, and application profiles.
These webinars will take place on Zoom on Wednesdays, April 9th, April 23, and May 7th from 12:00-12:30PM.
Take a Bite of the Official RDA Toolkit Webinar Series - Part 2
Join us for a three-part lunchtime webinar series to get a taste of the Official RDA Toolkit. These half hour introductory webinars will explore topics such as: the IFLA Library Reference Model, differences between the toolkits, entities and elements, and application profiles.
These webinars will take place on Zoom on Wednesdays, April 9th, April 23, and May 7th from 12:00-12:30PM.
Take a Bite of the Official RDA Toolkit Webinar Series - Part 1
Join us for a three-part lunchtime webinar series to get a taste of the Official RDA Toolkit. These half hour introductory webinars will explore topics such as: the IFLA Library Reference Model, differences between the toolkits, entities and elements, and application profiles.
These webinars will take place on Zoom on Wednesdays, April 9th, April 23, and May 7th from 12:00-12:30PM.
It’s Alive! Using Rare Books and Artefacts to Teach History
Join us for an unforgettable event, in collaboration with the ABQLA, the Jewish Public Library, and McGill.
Eddie Paul, from the Jewish Public Library, will be presenting a session on giving workshops which bring life to libraries’ rare books and artefacts.
The JPL’s rare book collection of approximately 1800 volumes has been the focus of an ongoing initiative for the last 11 years: rare book workshops conducted for universities, secondary and elementary students, churches, synagogues, community centres, and museums, often in collaboration with other rare book librarians and specialists. The overarching subtext for these workshops is storytelling about the lives of books, the people who wrote them, read them, produced them, and often divided them. This session will give you a taste of how these programs work and we’ve tried to confer meaning onto material history using narrative, anecdotes, and other strategies. Special Collections will be highlighted from both the Jewish Public Library and McGill.