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6 Ontario School Library Association The Editor's Notebook Diana Maliszewski Where there's smoke, there's fire -- but is it a blistering inferno at full power, or the dying embers of a blaze's last gasps? I have to admit that by June 2012, I was burnt out. It was an exhausting school year. During that last time morsel known as April-May-June, I was out of the building eleven times for worthwhile events such as the Manitoba Library Association's annual conference in Winnipeg (where I met the supremely awesome Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes of Unshelved fame), our Family of Schools' first ever Red Maple celebration (and our 4th Silver Birch Quiz Bowl) and several other commitments. Add completing the school yearbook, writing report cards, and some ill parents to the mix, and it was no surprise that I spent the first week of my summer vacation sleeping. I was concerned that my promise to help a team of teacher- librarians generate content for the Together For Learning website would not amount to much, as I had little energy left to offer. Thankfully, Anita Brooks-Kirkland is a metaphorical arsonist. She, Carol Koechlin, and Liz Kerr assembled an amazing team of teacher-librarians (Isabelle Hobbs, Jeanne Conte, Elizabeth Gordon, Sharon Seslija, Derrick Grose, Barbara White, Heather Yearwood, Andrea Sykes, and Cindy Matthews) to create documents to support the T4L implementation. It was an interesting couple of days. At one point during the process, Heather asked a pertinent and powerful question: "How is this different? How is what we are doing now and what we are trying to do now, different from what has happened before?" We hope that this question is answered on www. togetherforlearning.ca (www.ensemblepourapprendre.ca) and that it ignites some curiosity and spurs some challenge and change in school library programs. To help fan the flames, we have Lori McCannell's article about how a group of teacher- librarians in Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board have tried to implement the Learning Commons in their schools. In addition, many other fixtures and features in this issue of the Teaching Librarian will have you smokin'-- hopefully not in rage but with passion and excitement. P.S. We want to say farewell to Catherine Harris, and Sandra Ziemniak, two hard-working members of our editorial board. Catherine has just retired from William Berczy Public School in York Region and Sandra has accepted a central position in the Peel District School Board. Congratulations to both. Will you be able to help fill the gap their departure has left? Consider applying to become an editorial board member -- see Pages 26 & 27 for details. z Inside the Ontario Library Association boardroom during the Together For Learning writing day. TingL_20.1-draft3.indd 6 12-08-20 3:12 PM http://www.togetherforlearning.ca http://www.togetherforlearning.ca