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Flickr photo roundup: Book Camp, Paul Watson, and Other Goose

Here's a quick roundup of some recent event photos posted in the Q&Q Flickr pool: Photographer Fleur-Ange Lamothe posted a couple of images from Brantford Book Camp 2007. It was a three-day event in mid-August ... Read More »

September 17, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Flickr event roundup: McKay, McKay, and Dowling

By Q&Q Staff

Photographers from across the country have been contributing to our new Quill & Quire Flickr Pool. Below is just a sampling of recent additions. Poet Don McKay – who was just nominated for the Griffin ... Read More »

April 3, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Etiquette advice for Google Book Search

By Nathan Whitlock

Dan Blacharski, a columnist for ITworld.com, has weighed in on the Microsoft vs. Google book search debate, pointing out that while it is fashionable to bash Microsoft as a corporate bully, the Microsoft Live Book ... Read More »

March 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Flickr event roundup

By Q&Q Staff

Photographers from across the country who contribute to our Quill & Quire Flickr Pool have been busy! Photographer Frances-Anne Solomon captures Caribbean-Canadian author Rachel Manley (third from left) surrounded by fans at the Toronto launch ... Read More »

March 13, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Event photos: The Book Lover's Ball

By Nathan Whitlock

CanLiterati and friends came to the Book Lover's Ball in black-tie elegance or costumes inspired by their favorite books on Feb. 15. ... Read More »

February 20, 2007 | Filed under: Events

World may not be totally nuts after all

By Leigh Anne Williams

Update: an Ontario Catholic school board has restored David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars to its library shelves, after considering one parent's complaint about "bad language." Craig MacBride in The Mississauga News has the ... Read More »

February 8, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Family Literacy Day

By Alison Jones

This Saturday, Jan. 27 is Family Literacy Day, a national event created by ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation in 1999 to promote the importance of families reading together. According to the official website, the program celebrates ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

All hail the information alchemists

By Leigh Anne Williams

This Is London reports on a British councillor, Alex Aiken, who has called on the library field to redefine itself. Mr. Aiken, a former policy director for the Tories, told a conference of the Public ... Read More »

December 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Gay book yanked from high-school reading list

By Cassandra Drudi

The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported today on the removal of a gay-themed book from a Webster, N.Y. high-school summer reading list and the author's subsequent accusation that the Webster Central School District officials are ... Read More »

August 29, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Snakes on our blog

By Cassandra Drudi

PW Daily has a story about Sterling Publishers' cashing in on the marketing behemoth that is Snakes on a Plane by churning out -- wait for it -- Snakes on a Sudoku. According to the ... Read More »

August 23, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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