OCULA Spring Conference 2019 2019 OCULA Spring Conference in Collaboration with OSLA Bridge Between: Information Literacy Challenges, Needs and Opportunities for Students’ Transition from High School to University/CollegeWhen: Friday April 26, 2019 Time: 9:00am-4:00pm EST Location: OISE Library, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto Continuing Education Certificate credits: 3 University and College librarians, high school …
OCULA Fall Conference 2018 Building Better Libraries Through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program 9:00 – 9:20am Registration, Coffee & Carbs 9:20 – 9:30am Opening Remarks 9:30 – 10:30am Keynote with Professor Nadia Caidi. Diversity by Design: Libraries as Sites of Disruption? 10:30 – 10:45am Break10:45 – 12:00pm Lightning Talks I12:00 – 1:15pm Lunch (provided) 1:15 – 2:45pm Workshop with Sandra …
OCULA Fall Conference 2017 2017 OCULA Fall Conference When: Wednesday, November 15, 2017Time: 9-12pm EST Location: Online, with optional satellite viewing locations available (locations TBA) Theme: Overcoming FearsContinuing Education Certificate credits: 3 Registration Rates: Individual Reg: $20Institutional Reg: $100 9:00-9:05 Opening/Welcome 9:05-9:35 Opening Keynote: Anita Boey“Sharing Experiences Of Failure & Learning From It”Individuals in organizations are …
OCULA Fall Conference 2016 THEME: The Next Transformation: Libraries and the Future of Higher Education WHERE: Online, with optional satellite viewing locations available (locations TBA)WHEN: November 23, 1pm-3:30pm ESTWHO: Keynote speaker: Alec Couros PRICE: Individual Registration $20.00, Institutional Registration, $100.00 Keynote Speaker: Alec CourosBiography: Alec Couros is an associate professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty …
OCULA Spring Conference 2016 Creating Space: Expanding the Physical, Digital, and Mental Boundaries of the Academic Library Friday, April 29, 2016 Space is the blank canvas on which we imagine the organizations, communities, and societies we want to be a part of. Libraries play an integral role in exploring, shaping, and creating such space. Whether …
OCULA Fall Conference 2015 Touting your own horn: advocacy for academic libraries Advocacy for academic libraries is becoming increasingly necessary in today’s world – we need to tout our own horns and make ourselves heard! Come to OCULA’s first virtual Fall conference and find out what academic librarians in Canada are doing to advocate for …
OCULA Spring Conference 2015 OCULA Spring Conference 2015: Crossing Thresholds Friday, April 24, 2015 Hosted at the Inn on the Twenty, Jordan Ontario From multiple directions, academic libraries and library professionals help our communities cross thresholds into unfamiliar territories. These thresholds are broad in scope and signal important changes on the horizon. The threshold in librarianship could be open …
OCULA Fall Conference 2014 Event Title: From information gatekeepers to informational designers: Communicating and designing information to enhance the learner’s experience. Description: Presenting information to patrons visually is one of the many things we do in libraries, whether it be for marketing a library service or event, teaching a class, or a giving a presentation at a …
OCULA Spring Conference 2014 Celebrate the letter M: marketing, mobile and moreFriday April 25, 2014 This year’s event will focus on various library dimensions that start with the letter M. Sounds crazy but why not! We all love the Letter M and just imagine the possibilities – marketing, managing, metrics, meetings, mentorship, mobile, and much …
OCULA Fall Conference 2013 The Startup Library In his “Think Like a Startup” white paper, Brian Mathews asserts that libraries don’t just need change, they need “paradigm-shifting, transformative, disruptive ideas.” But how do we discover those ideas? And then, how do we make them happen? The Startup Library is a crash course in entrepreneurial thinking …
