Author Archives: Anita Brooks Kirkland

Think It. Do It! Looking Forward to Super Conference 2015

Two weeks from today is the first day of Super Conference 2015, and I am tremendously excited. As the 2014 president of the Ontario Library Association, I have had the great pleasure of being directly involved in conference planning. The … Continue reading

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The Virtual Teacher-Librarian

For quite some time, I’ve been promoting the possibilities for using video as a teaching and learning tool. The notion of the flipped classroom – making content available for students to consume outside of class time, freeing up valuable face-to-face … Continue reading

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Library Day at Queen’s Park

Yesterday I had the great pleasure of participating in the first ever Library Day at Ontario’s legislature, Queen’s Park. The event was organized by the Ontario Library Association (OLA), with the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries (FOPL), and facilitated by … Continue reading

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