The Ministère de l’Éducation de l’enseignement supérieur (Ministry of Education and Higher Education, known by its French acronym, MEES) has selected various school settings for testing of the Biblius platform between January and June 2020, as part of the trial rollout phase. The choice of settings was made based on a set of criteria designed to ensure a representative sample of the diversity of Québec school settings.

Besides testing technical aspects, the trial is also designed to document practices in the use of e-books for teaching purposes. To that end, each person in charge will be collaborating with various school staff members in their setting (e.g., teachers, counsellors, special-needs teachers). The projects within which the Phase 2 testing will take place will be published later this fall.

Finally, it should be noted that not all targeted school boards will participate in the limited deployment phase, but only certain groups affected by the projects within each setting.

Here is the list of participating settings:

Settings

Person in charge

Collège de l’Assomption

Chantale Simard, technicienne en documentation

Centre de services scolaire Cœur-des-Vallées

Sophie Godbout, conseillère pédagogique RÉCIT

Centre de services scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Île

Julie Gagnon, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles

Lyne Rajotte, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire des Chênes

Mylène Duguay, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire des Découvreurs

Julie Roy, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire des Îles

Valérie Cormier, technicienne en documentation

Centre de services scolaire des Laurentides

Fouad Bendifallah, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire des Navigateurs

Dalie Matton, bibliothécaire

Jean-François Lapierre, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire des Premières-Seigneuries

Julie Dionne-Lefebvre, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire des Trois-Lacs

Mélissa Vincent, bibliothécaire

Commission scolaire du Littoral

Joël-Vincent Cyr, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire du Val‑des-Cerfs

Olivier Ménard, bibliothécaire

Commission scolaire English Montréal

Julian Taylor, bibliothécaire

Commission scolaire Lester B. Pearson

Raphaella Dixon, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire Marie-Victorin

Julie Hermann, bibliothécaire

Centre de services scolaire René-Lévesque

Rachel Minville, bibliothécaire