Loan Stars turned five in 2021! BookNet’s Hannah Johnston will tell us all about what’s new for the program last year after nearly 800 book recommendations from library staff across Canada. Link to presentation video: https://youtu.be/B8xjJvoUqEw Presented by BookNet Canada on April 5, 2022 with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.

1. What’s New?
Hannah Johnston

2. What is Loan Stars?

3. The top books
chosen by Canadian
library staff

4. Who can participate
in Loan Stars?

5. Any publisher who
lists titles in
CataList

6. Anyone employed at
a library in Canada

7. How do
recommendations
work?

10. Can I recommend a
book I haven’t read
yet?

11. Can I recommend a
book I haven’t read
yet?
YES!

14. A look back at 5
years of Loan Stars

20. Meet the Loan Stars

21. “[The library] is a place I feel
safe, and feel a deep sense of
community, sharing knowledge
and words and stories with
people around me.”

22. Thank you
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