# The FOSIL Symposium Taster

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Podcast: [FOSIL, Education and School Libraries](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fosil-education-and-school-libraries-7032975)
Published: 2025-01-25T15:59:49+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, we provided some contextual information about the colleagues who will be sharing their valuable insights with us during the FOSIL 2025 Symposium on Saturday 8 February, which is free, online and will be recorded. The Symposium marks 15 years of thoughtful and purposeful development of FOSIL (2010), and 6 years of the FOSIL Group (2019). Elizabeth and I met in 2011, so she has been a companion on this journey since almost the very beginning. These are my preparatory notes on colleagues in order of appearance, with Elizabeth introducing Ruth Maloney and Jannath Khanom, who she has a closer working relationship with. Both Ruth and Jannath have made deeply thoughtful contributions to the FOSIL Group Forums . — I met Dianne and Jennifer at the IASL 2019 Conference in Dubrovnik , where I had been asked to deliver a keynote presentation – Between the Classroom and the Library (notice a recurring theme!) – following the IFLA 2019 World Library and Information Congress in Athens . Dianne and Jennifer had been instrumental in developing the deeply thoughtful Alberta Inquiry Model as part of Focus on Inquiry: A Teacher’s Guide to Implementing Inquiry-based Learning . You and I hosted an extended discussion of this enormously helpful document during October, November and December of 2019, which culminated in an online Q&A with Dianne and Jennifer in January of 2020 – see Focus on Inquiry in the FOSIL Group Forum, which includes links to the discussion and webinar. Dianne also authored E&L Memo 2 | Focus on Inquiry: Reflections on Developing a Model of Inquiry for the FOSIL Group Epistemology & Learning Memos series , which I need to revitalise. Also significant from our perspective is that Dianne was co-editor with Barbara Schultz-Jones of the IFLA School…

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