An Invitation to Participate

 A Message from Your Symposium Co-Chairs

Treasure Mountain Canada is a participatory event, and we are now ready for you to participate! 

Read, Reflect, Comment, Question and Network, network, network! You will never get a better opportunity to grow your professional learning network with teacher-librarians, school library professionals, and scholars from across the country.

In just two weeks we will be gathered in Toronto for the eighth Treasure Mountain Canada symposium. Many of the TMC8 papers contributed by enthusiastic and talented school library professionals and supporters right across the country are now published on our TMCanada Blog. We invite you to begin reading and responding to papers today. The paper writers will in turn respond to your comments and questions and others will join in with their ideas. These conversations are a very important component of the success of the TMC8. 

A note to those who prepared papers for TMC8. Please follow the conversations posted regarding your paper but also read other papers and respond to those that interest you. Participants who will be attending the Saturday symposium will be working with the papers and collaboratively responding to challenges designed to delve deeper into the issues of the day. However, there will be no time to read papers on Saturday. The expectation is that participants will already be very familiar with the ideas put forth in the papers.

And finally, an invitation for the CSL community, please read, enjoy, and learn with us. Encourage colleagues who are not attending in person to follow events on our TMCanada Blog and/or follow us on Social media -  X, Blue Sky and Instagram #TMCanada2025. We need to hear everyone’s voice and build our commitment to advance school library learning commons in Canada from coast to coast to coast.

This TMCanada Blog is where we present the papers submitted for your consideration, and where the true collaboration that makes TMC so unique begins. Please visit the blog regularly, as papers continue to be added. Participate in the discussion.

Please Note: We request that you always identify yourself when commenting. Anonymous comments risk being deleted by the blog moderator.

CSL Awards to be Presented at TMC8 Dinner

Canadian School Libraries presents awards every other year, at Treasure Mountain Canada symposiums. We are pleased to be presenting the following awards at TMC8, 2025.  

The Angela Thacker Memorial Award

The Angela Thacker Memorial Award has been established in memory of Angela Thacker, teacher-librarian, library coordinator, and school library colleague, mentor, leader and advocate who served the Association for Teacher-Librarianship in Canada (ATLC) and the Canada School Library Association (CSLA) in many capacities. This award honours teacher-librarians who have made contributions to the profession through publications, productions or professional development activities that deal with topics relevant to teacher-librarianship and/or school library learning commons. 

The recipients of the 2025 Angela Thacker Memorial Award are Jenn Brown and Diana Maliszewski. 

Read more about Jenn Brown and Diana Maliszewski.

The Donald Hamilton School Library Advocacy Award

The Donald Hamilton School Library Advocacy Awardwas established in memory of Donald Hamilton, (1938–2023), a leader in the field of school libraries and teacher-librarianship throughout his long career, and a strong advocate for the crucial role of school libraries in student learning. The Donald Hamilton School Library Advocacy Award was established in 2023 in honour of Donald’s outstanding legacy. This is the inaugural presentation of the Donald Hamilton Award.

The recipients of this inaugural Donald Hamilton School Library Advocacy Award are Wendy Burch Jones of the Ontario School Library Association, and the Executive of the British Columbia Teacher-Librarians' Association.

Read more about the BCTLA Executive and Wendy Burch Jones.

 Welcome to the TMCanada Blog – Action Central for TMC8 2025!

TMC8 takes place on January 31 and February 1, 2025 in Toronto, as part of the Ontario Library Association Super Conference.

This TMCanada Blog is where we present the papers submitted for your consideration, and where the true collaboration that makes TMC so unique begins.

We are close to publishing TMC8 papers for you to read ahead of the symposium. Please stay tuned for updates!