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Elizabeth became active in the environmental movement in the 1970s. She is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School and was admitted to the Bar in Nova Scotia and Ontario. She was Associate General Council for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre prior to becoming Senior Policy Advisor to the federal minister of the Environment from 1986 until 1988. Elizabeth became Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada in 1989, a position she held until March 2006, when she stepped down to run for leadership of the Green Party of Canada.

Elizabeth is the author of five books, including her most recent How to Save the World in Your Spare Time, a manual for activists. Elizabeth holds three honourary doctorates, and the Elizabeth May Chair in Women’s Health and the Environment at Dalhousie University was created in her honour.  Elizabeth became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2005, and was elected as leader of the Green Party of Canada in 2006.

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Are you considering participating for the first time in the Blue Spruce Program but aren’t sure where to start? Or, are you planning on running the program again but you’d like some further inspiration? Collect a “forest of ideas” about specific activities and programs to offer with this year’s Blue Spruce nominees. Ideas will include how to make the most of your Blue Spruce story hours, what types of activities to use with the Blue Spruce texts, and how to involve the parent community in the program. The ideas offered are fun and manageable, and directly linked to literacy objectives. Geared towards school librarians, children’s librarians at public libraries will also leave with ideas that can be used right away.

Resources:
Blue Spruce Activities (.doc)
Host a Blue Spruce Event! (.doc)

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When seven unlikely students approached Rosemary Renton (TL with the Simcoe County District School Board) to form a Manga Club, she handed them the rules for the Scholastic Book Fairs Kids Are Authors Competition and told them to get to work. Their resulting book will be published next spring as part of Scholastics Literacy Place collection. Rosemary will share what she learned about adolescent writers as she observed these successful authors goof off, bicker, complain, and, finally, write!

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Cet atelier présente des ressources électroniques sur la santé qui sont fiables et canadiennes et offre des pistes pour trouver des renseignements d'ordre général, sur des conditions de santé précises, sur des médicaments, etc. L'atelier aborde aussi quelques ressources internationales.

This French-language workshop discusses reliable Canadian on-line sources for health information. Find general health information, information about specific diseases and conditions, drugs, etc. Also discusses some international sites. (n.b. These resources are not identical to English resources.)

EN FRANÇAIS / IN FRENCH

Ressources :
Renseignements santé fiables sur l'Internet (PPT)

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From reaching out to faculty to creating a standard template, learn the ins and outs of embedding library resources in on-line courses: the tips and tricks, what works and what does not. Learn how to target potential users, create a library presence on-line and use social software in new ways. You will take away a practical how-to guide to get started right away!

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)
The Checklist (.doc)
WebCT e-mail to faculty (.doc)
Welcome and Contact Information (.doc)

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Barrie Public Library and the City of Barrie work together to co-ordinate programming for seniors in the community. Hear what has worked for us, what has not, and how and why our programming has evolved over time from both perspectives. Benefit from our experience and come away with ideas for low cost programs that seniors in your area will attend. Learn how we involve volunteers and experts from the community as well as paid performance staff. Several of our programs are suitable for smaller libraries. While we have different mandates, we are working together to enrich the lives of our seniors one of the fastest-growing segments of the population.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)

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FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) receives more and more attention each year, but there is still no complete implementation that shows how it can be used and how it will help users and libraries. Resource Description and Access, the revision to AACR2 now in progress, is partly built on FRBR ideas. OCLC, LibraryThing, and other on-line systems are using FRBR approaches to help make their catalogues and services better. FRBR and FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) are in the background (and sometimes foreground!) of current discussions about how to build the next generation of library catalogues and how to manage collections made up of more and more entries in more and more formats. Review FRBR and FRAD, look at working on-line examples of FRBR and discuss what will come next, with RDA and with commercial and open source library systems.

Resources:
Session Slides

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Follow the career paths of four librarians who have transitioned within the profession. Reflect on how education and professional experience can be used to shift your role within the profession. See the similarities and differences between libraries that foster alternative paths. See how library backgrounds can in a different way support transition to a new profession.

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THE hot issue for 2007/2008 is, the new School Library Document being written by OSLA for the Ministry of Education. You will get to preview the draft document prior to provincial hearings we will be holding across Ontario this spring.

Discussion will focus on the vision around which this document revolves including the characteristics and needs of today's learners and how school libraries can meet those needs. Please register for this session to help us determine how many copies of the document to have available.

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The Ottawa Public Library and the Ottawa Community Coalition for Literacy have had a successful longstanding partnership. This partnership resulted in the development and publication of Getting to Know the Library, a manual of learning activities for adult literacy learners and ESL students. The manual is part of a larger initiative of the City of Ottawa and Ottawa Public Library called Building a Learning and Literate Community. Participants will learn about the process used to gather input from literacy and ESL learners and from practitioners/instructors before writing the library manual, and the process for piloting and reviewing the material, which consists of over 60 activities.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)

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Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) works with libraries in developing and transition countries to help them meet their technology needs. The main activity of eIFL-Free and Open Source Software currently is the development of Library-in-a-box, an open source ILS based on Koha and Evergreen, designed to be easy to install, fully internationalized, and with next-generation catalogue features like faceted browsing and relevance ranking. Since Library-in-a-box is open source, the work being done by eIFL will also be of use to libraries in Canada, many of whom desire these features. Learn about the progress that has been made on the library-in-a-box project.

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What is evidence-based librarianship and why does it matter? The principles and steps involved in evidence-based practice are grounded in the concept that practice should be based on up-to-date, valid, and reliable research. As a practitioner, how does this concept impact you? As a researcher, how can you ensure that your research is applied? Bring together research and practice in a way that is practical. Learn how to incorporate evidence-based decision-making into your daily practice and discover tools that will help. Through demonstrated examples of practice that follows this model, learn how this method of decision making can work in reality and help to improve your practice, benefiting the users of your library.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)
Handout (.doc)

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Today’s organizations face two equally challenging dilemmas.  First, employers are working hard to encourage employee engagement, prepare high-potential workers to move up to management, and replace increasing numbers of retiring boomers with skilled new workforce entrants.  At the same time, employees are looking for more challenging assignments, seeking recognition of their contributions, and long to move up to management where their ideas will be taken seriously.

Whether you’re an employer, manager, or employee, there are scores of practical tools for steering your organization and your career in the direction you want it to go.  Come explore strategies you can initiate on your own or in partnership with others to develop the next stage in your career or to distinguish your organization as a place where people truly want to give their best.  Participation by new employees, veteran employees, supervisors and senior managers is encouraged.

Resources:
Handout (.doc)

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Create movies and movie posters in your elementary school! Learn how to use movie maker and simple photo editing software to achieve media expectations. Two projects are highlighted. One involves stop film animation using digital photography and Windows program Movie Maker. The other shows how to create READ posters to promote the love of reading using Macromedia's Fireworks program to develop basic photo editing skills and meet some of the media literacy curriculum expectations for junior-aged students and their teachers.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)
• Handouts:
Stop Film Animation (.doc)
The Big Five questions for media literacy (.doc)
Animation Rubric (.pdf)
How to create a Read poster in Fireworks (.doc)
Using Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2 (.doc)
READ Poster (.doc)

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Is readers' advisory a service you only offer with your fiction collection? Is reference the only use you make of your non-fiction collection? The popular new trend of non-fiction readers' advisory rejects these two common approaches in libraries. By acknowledging that people read non-fiction for pleasure and not just for information, library staff are now able to go beyond subject headings and offer non-fiction genres, reading maps, new approaches to merchandising, and "whole collection" service. The boundaries are limitless!

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Out On the Shelf is a non-profit library and resource centre that has served the queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual) community in Guelph, Ontario since 2005. Completely volunteer driven, with over 1500 items collected through donations and fundraising, Out on the Shelf is striving to follow its mission statement: to gather and make available resources with the goal of creating a supportive, positive space and to be responsive to the dynamic needs of the queer communities. Learn how this amazing resource came to be, its struggles and its successes.

Resources:
Session Presentation Douglas Davey (.ppt)
Information and Top Resources (.doc)

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Video-conferencing is an ecological, economically viable 21st century approach to professional development. Learn about the technology and resources needed to successfully promote professional learning and explore how you can use video-conferencing as a tool to enhance networking and collaboration among colleagues.

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Bring your questions and participate in a relaxed and informative conversation that focuses on the writing and creative processes used by our award-winning authors. Hear what motivates Canadian authors who have had great success with older readers, high school and adults learning to read.

S&B Books
Official wholesaler for OLA's Forest of Reading.

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Scholars Portage is a collaborative project between OCUL librarians in pursuit of incorporating more social means of sharing and organizing information within OCULs Scholars Portal. With 300,000 researchers and students that are a part of the OCUL member institutions, it was seen that there was a great opportunity to add user-created data to make the over 12 million full-text articles in Scholars Portal and 150 million article abstracts in Scholars Portal Search, accessible through a more human lens. The aim is to also to enable users to take Scholars Portal data out of its native setting and into commonly used tools like social bookmarking. Find out what we wanted, what we used, what happened, what we ended up with, and how the journey continues.

Resources:
Session Presentation Stacy Allison-Cassin

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Educators and business leaders are racing to develop a presence in Second Life (3D virtual world) because of the opportunities presented for creativity and effective communications. Universities have set up virtual campuses, companies are designing and marketing products and services, and over one million people have logged on for a variety of social, educational and commercial reasons. In the Winter 2007 term, Mount Saint Vincent University Library began taking small steps to investigate the potential of this on-line world as a learning platform, collaborating with a faculty member in the creation of a course held in this environment. What role can a library play in the provision of courses in Second Life? Do networks and resources to support this work already exist? How does a librarian provide students with information instruction and services within an environment unfamiliar to all participants, librarian, professor and students? Here is an introduction to Second Life, the instructional challenges and opportunities of the environment. Obtain a checklist of issues to be considered when embarking on a Second Life collaborative project with faculty.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)

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Moved to Session 1029 on Friday at 9:05 AM.

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Public libraries and community technology centres have been providing public access computing (PAC) services to their communities for almost 15 years. Yet despite unanimous praise for the success of these programs in reaching the digitally divided, federal funding via Industry Canada's CAP program came within a hare's breath of being canceled this year. Why? Then again, why not? Can we make sense of: (1) the contradictory evidence surrounding the value of public access computing for the digitally divided (does it or doesn't it make a difference?), and (2) the curious disconnect between the public library community and community technology centres (both of which receive funding under CAP)? What should the public library community's vision for technology services beyond CAP be?

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Experiencing organizational change can be difficult, especially when the change is unanticipated and unwelcome. Let go, go with the flow, strategize, see opportunity, learn, and fulfill your aspirations! Sound good? Join us as we reveal the dynamic nature of protecting self, and provide practical, concrete leadership strategies based upon empirical research that can be liberating for the individual, and transformational for the library. Flourish and have fun in an unpredictable environment of ubiquitous change.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)
Leadership Focuser Form (.doc)

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Fiona and Doug have been Super Conference stalwarts for years and here is the tenth edition of this popular and informative program. The perfect wind-down for a Friday afternoon. Join them in another entertaining tour of the high octane videos currently perceived as childrens materials. Enjoy a sampling of the years best and worst over the traditional popcorn and lollipops.

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Have you ever wondered how to implement a research continuum of skills for students in grades 4-6? Come see how one teacher-librarian scaffolds research skills for students in a manageable and meaningful way as part of a library partnering program.

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What do students need to know and faculty need to teach to help prepare students for their successful transition to post secondary institutions? A secondary school teacher-librarian, three university librarians and a college librarian answer the BIG question.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)

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Current research finds that faculty believe research skills are an important component of undergraduate education. They also report that undergraduates skills in this area are weak. Collaboration with a librarian is a possible strategy to address this; however, research, if not our own experience, tells us that faculty/librarian collaboration is weak. What motivates faculty to collaborate with librarians as a method to support the development of students research skills? Why are some faculty more open to collaboration with librarians in information literacy initiatives than others? How do faculty understand the benefits of good research skills for their students? How can this information assist librarians to develop collaborative relationships?

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Find out how the wiki can apply powerful research models used in school library programs to foster higher-order critical thinking skills. The wiki is an ideal collaborative writing tool that teacher-librarians can use to facilitate research projects that build community and understanding. Students can share resources, converse, question and contribute to their projects from home or from school.

Resources:
Contribute to the wiki

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Participants will hear about the publishing trends regarding audiobooks and downloads and the implications for public library collection development; find out what the research and the public library circulation statistics are showing about audio preferences of teens, children and families; and hear what audiobook titles are being recommended for teens, juvenile readers, and families.

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Recent attention to the state of our catalogues and other on-line services has led to a flurry of open source development and vendor product announcements. Among open source catalogue replacements is Scriblio, described by its creator Casey Bisson as primarily a platform for experimentation and development. The software has, nonetheless, grown to be used in academic and public libraries, as well as a photo archive. First launched in January 2006, the project has enabled new means of serving our users and is generating new information about how our users interact with our on-line resources. Learn about Scriblio as both a catalogue replacement and development platform, and the lessons and trends emerging from Scriblio use so far.