Yesterday we announced that we are running a contest on the Raincoast website to win tickets to the J.K. Rowling event in Toronto.

Now Canadian teachers and librarians have another chance to get tickets! In another contest (separate from the one on Raincoast.com), the Ontario Library Association (OLA) will be giving away tickets to Canadian schools and public libraries through two initiatives. Here’s more information from their press release:

OLA is making tickets available to OLA members and participants of the Forest of Reading from around Ontario. The focus of these ticket give-aways is on children and young adults. Schools and public libraries can request up to four tickets (one adult chaperone and three youth) per school or branch library. Application for these tickets can be made through www.accessola.com and follow the links. From the qualified applications winners will be chosen randomly by regions of the province.

In a separate initaitive OLA is working with the provincial and territorial library associations across Canada, know as The Partnership (www.thepartnership.ca) to ensure tickets are available throughout the country. Each participating library association is going to work to ensure two pairs of tickets per jurisdiction are distributed to a child and their chaperone to attend in Toronto on October 23. OLA’s Jefferson Gilbert says of the initiative, “the willingness to be involved from groups as far away as the Yukon has been overwhelming and certainly speaks to the appeal of JK Rowling”.

Get all the details and apply to get tickets on the OLA website.

And for everyone else, you can enter daily for a chance to win tickets the event on the Raincoast website.