Statistics Canada provides pointers using surveys for classroom-based research.

Mary Townsend from Statistics Canada introduces an on-line support document to assist teachers in using statistical data in cross-curricular instruction. \n

In this resource, Roland Case, and the Critical Thinking Consortium explore nine kinds of questions that can be posed of historical and contemporary drawings, paintings and photographs, and explore the "tools" that students need to cross-examine images in response to these different questions.

Anita Brooks-Kirkland describes the transformation of the school library website into a virtual learning commons and advocates the allocation of sufficient resources to achieve the goal.

Links to updated citation guides and the EasyBib Citation generator.

This issue focuses on resources for commemorating Canada's Remembrance Day on November 11th. In addition to author interviews with Sharon E. McKay and Monique Polak, it also includes features related to the contributions of Canadian First Nations in the military the Holocaust. There is an article by Anita Brooks-Kirkland on "The virtual library as a learning hub" and one by Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwann entitled "Engage and grow with questions."

After the bibliography on Canadian vampire fiction there is an activity sheet to help students develop a critical perspective on what they read on the Web (and elsewhere) and to provide them with a model of questions to ask when reading information texts.