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Alberta Library Conference 2011 Marian Logan French & Distance Learning Teacher Lesley Doell French Language Consultant, 2010
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French Learning Resource Centre
Transcript of Alberta Library Conference Part 1
Alberta Library Conference 2011
Marian LoganFrench & Distance Learning Teacher
Lesley DoellFrench Language Consultant, 2010
Lire c’est grandir!
Outline
• Overview & History• Collection development• Delivery System• Maintenance• Vision
Is a 2nd language useful?
• On the job!
• IRL
Overview & History
• 2004 received a grant from Heritage Canada for just under $500 000 matching dollars over three years.
• to explore ways to improve language services for students in French as a second language.
• 2009- renewal of the Official Languages in Education protocal.
• Coming from the Roadmap for Canada’s Linguistic Duality 2008-2013
• to invest $938 million over four years in provincial bilateral agreements for minority and second language instruction.
• Awarded bridge financing for one year
• Awarded 1.2 millions dollars of matching dollars for another 4 years.
• Roadmap to Linguistic Duality
• Commencing sixth year of FRLC
Collection development
French Resource Centre• Over 10 000 quality French resources at
Grande Prairie Public Library
• Approximately 6700 were in circulation last year
• Inter-library loan, promotion provincially
• Teacher, teen, children and adult collections
FLRC-French Language Resource CentreApril 1, 2010 - April 1, 2011
• Collection Circulation:– Annual circulation for French Resource was 6718
(1.4%). – for French-Adult - 1008 (0.23%). – for French Books for children - 4058 (0.83%) – French-Young Adult was 221 (0.05%). – French Resource and French Books for Children
circulate well considering that Grande Prairie is does not have a high Francophone populaiotn.
– The library’s total circulation was 487,126.
Circulation 2010-2011
Collection Circulation Size % circulation Proportion: circ/Taille
FLRC 6718 6012 1.4% 1.12French-Adult 1008 1994 0.23% 0.51French Books for Children
4058 3442 0.83% 1.18
French-Young Adult
221 643 0.05% 0.34
All FSL Resources on Authorized List from Alberta Grade 4 to 12
• DVDs, CDs, magazines, novel studies, kits, reading collections, DELF prep books for FSL, Immersion and Francophone resources.
