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TTLL: Tell us about any outstanding moments for you in your career. PPRR:: There have been many: Meeting and introducing people such as W.O. Mitchell, Sue Hinton, Timothy Findley, Kevin Major, Nino Ricci, Margaret Atwood (I spent an hour with her alone in her hotel room in Niagara Falls) was certainly classic. As chair of the Hamilton Public Library Board, I spearheaded a local task force on coopera- tion. It was through that group that we brought together three school boards, three public library boards, Mohawk College, and McMaster University, along with a number of commercial partners, to create the Hamilton Wentworth Information Network (HWIN). This model of cooperation helped land us a $660,000-Ministry grant to create a technologi- cal infrastructure and a resource-sharing framework which still operates today and has provided our school libraries with a base that would never have been accomplished and supported otherwise. My last outstanding moment was my retire- ment reception where my grade 9 math teacher, my grade 13 Italian teacher, Fr. Cote, (who was my high school principal and who also hired me), my director of education, my long time friend and mentor Larry Moore from the OLA, my Chief Librarian from the Hamilton Public Library, and many friends were all in the same room. That was neat! TTLL: Can you share your dream for school libraries in Ontario? PPRR:: It is my dream that we will have school libraries in every school in this province, including Native schools, that we will have well-educated and effective teacher-librarians who have been supported by Ministry of Education regulations. I also firmly anticipate an Information Studies curriculum embedded in all courses with clear expectations that are measurable and are reported to parents. I see the day coming when information literacy will become a regular part of both student educa- tion and all teacher professional training. TTLL: Can you share your favourite reads or viewing habits? PPRR:: In the last few years I have graduated from young adult novels (which I always enjoyed, especially after meeting their authors) to con- centrating on adult Canadian material that we also used in our OAC English program, such as Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees, David Adams Richards' Mercy Among the Children, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, Timothy Findley's The Piano Man's Daughter, Guy Vanderheage's The Englishman's Boy, Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints and Shyam Selvadurai's Cinnamon Gardens, to name just a few. What great literature we have here in Canada! I am anticipating enjoying Yann Martel's The Life of Pi next. z Peter Rogers is pictured here when he was OSLA President, 1983-85. He subsequently became OLA President in 1988-89. After becoming Chair of the Hamilton Public Library Board, he went on to become President of the Ontario Library Trustees' Association in 2002. Adele Kostiak, Lynn McLeod on the School Library / Public Library Cooperation Task force that Peter chaired in the early '90s.