PREPARED FOR: Cenovus Energy Creating a Community of Learners through Library School, supported by Cenovus Energy PREPARED BY: Tracy Johnson, CEO, Calgary Public Library Foundation Rachael Terner, Manager, Communications, Calgary Public Library Foundation October 15, 2019 CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION Central Library 800 3 Street SE Calgary, AB T2G 2E7 P 403 221 2002 www.libraryfoundation.ca ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT — LIBRARY SCHOOL October 15, 2019 | Page 1 IN THIS REPORT YOUR INVESTMENT ................................................................................................................. 3 2018/19 PROGRAM RESULTS ................................................................................................. 6 ALBERTA CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS ............................................................................... 8 2018/19 TESTIMONIALS ..........................................................................................................10 PROFILE AND RECOGNITION ................................................................................................11 SUMMARY ...............................................................................................................................12 ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT — LIBRARY SCHOOL October 15, 2019 | Page 2 YOUR INVESTMENT As an existing supporter of the Campus Calgary program, we are grateful that Cenovus Energy decided to extend its support to the Calgary Public Library to create the Cenovus Classroom and launch Library School at Central Library. This program creates an immersive and dynamic learning experience for Calgary’s children in our city’s award-winning Central Library. Your $400,000 philanthropic investment has enabled the Library to provide students across Calgary with hands-on, experiential learning experiences about the Library system and their community through Library School, supported by Cenovus Energy. Additionally, your investment has allowed the Library to build the Cenovus Classroom, a flexible and welcoming learning environment where students can work and gather to reflect on their experiences. ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT — LIBRARY SCHOOL October 15, 2019 | Page 3 LIBRARY SCHOOL, SUPPORTED BY CENOVUS ENERGY Library School offers my students the valuable opportunity to extend, enrich and deepen the learning that has taken place in our classroom this year.” Vicky Fernandez, Grade 1 Teacher, Copperfield School With your investment, the Library has hired a full- time Library School Coordinator who delivers an array of programs designed to encourage the exploration of new ideas through deep inquiry and first-hand experiences. Your support also enabled a pilot of the program that began at the former Central Library in 2018. Learnings from the sixteen pilot weeks informed the launch of the full program at the Central Library in January 2019. As of June 30, 2019, this cultural hub for learning and innovation has already seen more than 1.75 million visitors, welcomed 39,174 new Library members and hosted more than 950 programs. The Central Library is our city’s largest community gathering space, and children attending Library School have a unique opportunity to explore not only the building, but are exposed to and interact with our larger community. With more than 240,000 square feet to explore and discover, notable student experiences within the Central Library include learning about legacy media and making connections to how media is used today in the vintage media lab. Students are also able to observe and journal in key areas in the library such as in the TD Great Reading Room, the Simmons-Harvie Community Living Room, at the Education is the New Buffalo installation and near the Past/Present/Future Indigenous Placemaking Mural. ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT — LIBRARY SCHOOL October 15, 2019 | Page 4 CENOVUS ENERGY CLASSROOM Library School Classes are based in the Cenovus Energy Classroom—a learning environment where students gather to investigate ideas and reflect on their experiences at Library School. The Cenovus Classroom was designed to accommodate 30 students at a 3:1 student to adult ratio, which includes lots of space and materials to help them seek answers to their questions. When students arrive in the morning, they first visit the "coat room" to hang their coats, lunches, backpacks, switch from outdoor to indoor shoes and gather their journals. The coat hooks are at varying heights to meet the needs of students of a variety of ages. This space helps promote ownership of their space and time at Library School. The classroom was created with an emphasis on natural and neutral materials, implying a connection to the land. In addition to being a bright space with large windows and sightlines that look out to City Hall and downtown, it features a quiet corner for reading with "sit-upon" seats woven with a light brown/beige bamboo material. Student work is displayed on shelves, which also provide easy access to related books and resources (such as renderings of the building). The Cenovus Classroom functions as a gateway to the entire Library system. With community libraries across the city, kids who participate are inspired to continue exploring interests sparked during their time in the program, even after it ends. ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT — LIBRARY SCHOOL October 15, 2019 | Page 5 2018/19 PROGRAM RESULTS 273 STUDENTS (GRADES 1-7) PARTICIPATED FROM THE FOLLOWING SCHOOLS: Auburn Bay School (Auburn Bay) Chinook Park School (Kelvin Grove/Chinook Park) Copperfield School (Copperfield) Elbow Park School (Elbow Park) John Ware School (Palliser) St Luke School (Brentwood) St. Pius X School (Mount Pleasant) Valley Creek School (Hidden Valley) 2018/19 CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTERS INCLUDED: Lisa Hardy, Facility Manager, spoke to Grade 3 students from Auburn Bay School about the ways in which we design and build structures for the community. She reviewed the choices that went into the creation of the Central Library such as the furniture, fabric, colour choices and brought fabric samples and noise control fabric for the children to explore. Meghan Durieux, Service Design Lead, spoke to Grade 3/4 students from Elbow Park School about the design of the Questionarium, why the library feels it is important to make space for everyone, and the choices that went into developing the space. Mary Graham, Service Design Lead, spoke to students from Chinook Park School about the development of Central Library. Marcelo de Cinto, Author in Residence, spoke to Grade 4 Students from Valley Creek School about the importance of storytelling and how to craft stories. Nicole Wolf, Artist in Residence, explored the idea of storytelling through art with Grade 4 students from Valley Creek School. Becky Potter, Library Experience Facilitator - Special Services, held a workshop with Grade 3/4 children from Elbow Park School about how the Library accommodates people with various needs, including those who cannot travel to the library or people with visual impairments who make use of the Library’s large print and audio collections. Luke Gray, Library Experience Facilitator - Special Services, gave students from St. Luke School a tour of the Special Services Collection on Level 2 and spoke to them about what diversity looks like. Christine Hayes, Library Experience Facilitator, spoke to children about our local history collection and shared examples of the oldest book in the collection, The Big Book, a tool that teachers used before we had projectors to help with reading comprehension. Kelli Morningbull, Program Coordinator, provided an overview of the Library’s Indigenous partnerships, programs and art within the Central Library. Brin-Chenille Bugo, Teen Librarian, met with students from John Ware Jr. High School and gave them a tour of Teen Centre and Tech Lab. ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT — LIBRARY SCHOOL October 15, 2019 | Page 6 EXTERNAL COMMUNITY PRESENTERS INCLUDED: Antyx Community Arts provided a workshop to students from Chinook Park School that explored how to build community through art. Councillor Jeremy Farkas, Councillor Evan Woolley, Councillor Druh Farrell, and Councillor Jyoti Gondek, met with students from Elbow Park, Chinook Park and St. Pius X Schools and responded to their questions. Grade 3 students from Auburn Bay School met with a City Planner to discuss how community spaces support the growth of the city. Grade 3/4 students from Elbow Park School attended a Planning Commission Meeting at City Hall. Students worked on a service project in conjunction with Calgary Police Services. Blackfoot Elder Sheldon First Rider shared information about himself and Blackfoot culture and language including his baby name "Boy with long eyelashes," how the Elbow River means” the clean water,” and provided an overview of Indigenous cultures in Canada. Samantha Urias, Manager of Indigenous Programs, Calgary Drop-in and Rehabilitation Centre, spoke to students from St. Luke School about how to take care of those in our community. Team Members from Decidedly Jazz Danceworks led students from John Ware Jr. High School in a Hip Hop workshop to help students understand how libraries have changed over time and how library spaces can be used in a variety of ways. East Village Experience Centre Ambassadors provided a tour to students from St. Pius X School and explained how the community has changed and how design decisions were made. Carolyn Reicher, Cofounder and Past President, Women for Women in Afghanistan, spoke to St. Pius X students about the work of