April 2024

CONNECT FEST, coming up April 26-30, is a five day celebration of lifelong learning and connection presented by SFU, the City of Burnaby, BCIT and many organizations, including Burnaby School District,  MOSAIC, United Way, Burnaby Public Library.

Sessions, workshops and tours presented by BCIT include:

Guichon Creek Restoration and Renewal Tour Presented by Adam Dickinson
From There to Here: A Poetry Reading with Rattle Woman Presented by Rattle Woman (Candy Zazulak)
Daybreak: Envision our Climate Future with a Board Game Learning Experience – session 1 Presented by Abhirami Senthilkumaran
Everyone is More Interesting than Me! Presented by Theresa Lalonde
Daybreak: Envision our Climate Future with a Board Game Learning Experience – session 2 Presented by Abhirami Senthilkumaran
Stories Untold by Generative AI Presented by Ian Linkletter, Erika Ram and Bahareh Shahabi
Plants in Our Urban Places : A Tour of Trees and Shrubs of Deer Lake Presented by Julia Alards-Tomalin
How to Get Published in Nine Million Easy Steps Presented by Michael Bourne
3D Printing with Mimi Presented by Mimi Xia(this is already full!)

All Festival events are open to Burnaby community members, free of charge, and most require registration.
Register for any of the BCIT events listed above here: https://bcit.libcal.com/

Find all the amazing Festival sessions here – https://connectfest.ca/all-events-at-a-glance/

Next time you are browsing the BCIT Library’s (awesome) Popular Reading collection look for these stickers. They indicate books with Indigenous authors or Indigenous content.

Libraries often use stickers to highlight content and draw the eyes of patrons. The BCIT Library has a few that we use including one for BCIT authors! The Indigenous authors and content sticker project has been a labour of love contributed to by many on the BCIT Library staff including the MediaWorks team, Librarians, and of course, the Technical Services Team.

Some Library staff are continuing to promote Indigenous works in our collection by writing book reviews on the BCIT Library blog. Watch for the tag Indigenous Authors and the Indigenous author logo on this blog for some fantastic and heartfelt recommendations from BCIT Library staff.

If you are on a journey to learn more about the experiences of Indigenous peoples in Canada (and beyond) I encourage you to borrow some of the titles in our collections. Suggestions of books to enhance our collection are always welcome. Thank you for reading. Please share your favourite books by Indigenous authors with us on Instagram and Facebook.

Free workshops, tours and events

Indigenous author & Indigenous content stickers in the Library

Archives for April 2024