 Engaging the community is probably the most important thing you do to develop the learning commons. Ensure all members of the learning community are part of learning commons development. Create an LC team to lead, implement and sustain an effort. Collaborative teams leading whole school library learning commons facilitates responsibility and ownership. Everyone needs to be welcomed to the process and do their part. Foothills School Division in Alberta engages the community in learning commons development. Connect with the broader community through organizations and partnerships, especially the public library. Alberta's Collaborative Library Policy encourages library collaboration. Some schools and smaller communities house the public library. Librarians from the public library visit schools to talk to students about programs and services, or have student groups visit. Spruce Grove Public Library supports middle school students through an innovation lab. The Alberta Library Consortium, TAL, provides schools with free online reference and information resources in English and French. Post an author or expert in any curricular area using technology or in person if possible in your learning commons. Explore the concept of human libraries or living books. The teacher librarian and other educators in St. Joseph High School plan a cross-curricular human library based on the theme of digital citizenship to allow students to interact with people who work with social media on a daily basis. Barhaven and Kathy Lee, the peer mentorship teacher, collaborated together to create a digital citizenship library, human library, so that we could open up a dialogue with students about how they use social media in their personal lives and how in the future in their professional lives that might impact them. Engage your community through your virtual learning commons. Survey the community and have students help create an info page for parents about the learning commons or a video. Key descriptors for community engagement are the learning commons is meaningfully involved with the community to enhance student learning. Relationships are established with other libraries, example public library, academic libraries. Regular communication about the learning commons occurs with parents and community. Share and discuss questions from the Learning Guide with other staff members. How are you engaged in the community with your LC? What new things could you try? How can you strengthen your relationship with public library and other libraries? How can you involve students in promoting the learning commons with the broader community?