Events & Workshops

Understanding the Public Lending Right Program

Please join staff of the Canada Council’s Public Lending Right (PLR) Program for an informative lunchtime session on March 5.

Register for this free webinar here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zyu4dZpoQe2OmYLXTs8isQ  

Please note all times listed are Saskatchewan time. Find your time zone here: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

Accessibility Measures in this session

• Live auto-captions through Zoom
• Presenter self-descriptions
• This event will be recorded, captioned, and made available until May 1, 2025, on the SWG YouTube channel following the event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIIcrpQW0NcY6ZM0GGSzw
• Transcript of the event available upon request

Understanding the Public Lending Right Program

Please join staff of the Canada Council’s Public Lending Right (PLR) Program for an informative lunchtime session on March 5. During this hour-long event, you will learn how the PLR Program works to provide annual payments to eligible writers, illustrators, translators, photographers, and audiobook narrators for the availability of their creative work in public libraries across Canada. The PLR team will share tips on how to submit a registration, where to find important information using the PLR website, and will explain the range of literary and scholarly work that is eligible for registration and payment. This is also an opportunity for the PLR staff to respond to common questions and to assist both new and established authors with understanding the program and how to obtain the most benefit from the annual payment cycle. This session will be presented in English, but staff are happy to follow up and respond to any questions in either official language, English or French

Session Presenters

Lori Knoll is the analyst for the Public Lending Right Program. She has over fifteen years of experience working on granting and prize programs at the Canada Council for the Arts.

Peter Schneider (he/him) is the Manager of the Public Lending Right Program at the Canada Council for the Arts. He is also the Executive Secretary to the Public Lending Right Commission. The Public Lending Right Commission is a permanent advisory body composed of authors, translators, publishers, and librarians responsible for the high-level oversight and direction of the PLR Program. The PLR Commission maintains the eligibility criteria and methodology for the PLR Program. The PLR Program has been in continuous operation since 1986, and provides annual compensation to authors, translators, illustrators, photographers, and audiobook narrators in recognition of the availability of their work in public library collections across Canada.

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