Important Dates

• 1939: BC School Librarians’ Association founded
• 1958: The BC School Librarians’ Association begins publishing The Bookmark journal
• 1976: The Ministry of Education “Sources and Resources” project begins to develop a Handbook for BC school library professionals
• 1978: In Vancouver, Ken Haycock and others develop a new term—”teacher-librarian”—to describe the professional in the school library and express the teaching role of the school librarian
• 1981: The annual Working and Learning Conditions surveys begin
• 1983: Name changed to BC Teacher-Librarians’ Association
• 1986: BCTLA publishes Fuel for Change: Cooperative Program Planning and Teaching
• 1987: BCTLA submits a brief to the Royal Commission on Education
• 1990: Developing Independent Learners: The Role of the School Library Resource Centre is published by the Ministry of Education
• 1991: Literature Connections: The Teacher and Teacher-Librarian Partnership is published by the Ministry of Education
• 2000: BCTLA publishes The Research Quest
• 2011: BCTLA publishes The Points of Inquiry: A Framework for Information Literacy and the 21st-Century Learner
• 2014: BCTLA publishes From School Library to Library Learning Commons: A Pro-Active Model for Educational Change

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