| Friday, April 27, 2001 | ||
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | ||
| Roch Carrier - Keynote Session: The National Library of Canada, Then and Now | ||
| 10:00 am - 10:45 am | ||
| - coffee and exhibits break - | ||
| 10:45 am - 12:15 am | ||
| Speaker | Session Description | |
| Michael Silver | B1 Web Browser Basics. Skill level - Novice. This hands-on session will focus on the basic functions of using Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. Participants will get hands-on instruction in using the functions of web browsers. This will include entering web addresses from magazine articles and other sources, using the buttons on the button bar, managing bookmarks, and basic configuration of a web browser. Equipment and Internet connectivity generously provided by Telus. Limited to 24. | |
| Mary Cavanagh | B2 Web Awareness From the Public Library Perspective (Part 1). The provision of Internet services in public libraries provides librarians with unprecedented opportunities for supplying the information library users request. However, librarians need tools to help them address the issues inherent in the informed, safe use of the Internet, especially for children and young people. The Web Awareness program provides a thorough review of the issues related to safety and privacy, evaluating information sources and marketing to children and young people on-line. This workshop will provide current information, technical tips and searching techniques with an overall critical framework. Intended audience: front line information librarians, library managers and trustees. Sponsored by The Alberta Library (APLEN). | |
| Gail de Vos | B3 Literacy with an Attitude: Reaching At-Risk Learners. This session discusses different kinds of literacy, different types of reading materials and the power of storytelling. Gail will focus on materials such as comic books, traditional tales, urban legends and personal experience tales. Intended audience: educators and librarians working with at-risk library patrons. | |
| Keith Seel | B4 Doing the Right Thing: Making Tough Decisions in Difficult Times (Part 1). How do you decide the right thing to do when you are faced with tough dilemmas such as conflicts of interest, board-staff conflicts, public demands for Internet screening, etc.? What criteria do you use and is your decision ethical? This workshop provides a practical approach that hundreds of professionals have found helpful. Six core ethical values and an easy-to-use decision-making model will be introduced. Participants will have an opportunity to practice using the concepts through small group work and the use of a real case study. | |
| Fern Russell and Erika Banski | B5 Going Digital: Alberta's Heritage On-line. The University of Alberta Library is collaborating with the University of Calgary in developing Web access to a unique part of Alberta's history. The Alberta Folklore and Local History Collection, housed in the U of A Special Collections Library, is an archive of reminiscences, folklore, tall tales, photographs and other documents submitted by early pioneers. This session focuses on issues relating to the digitization of this collection. The presentation will cover resources, processes and steps from scanning, file storage and conversion, and metadata creation, through to presentation for public use on the World Wide Web. Sponsored in part by AALT. | |
| Fern Reirson | B6 Authentic Research Through the Project Approach. Learn how project-based learning and research promotes authentic research. See how the research process used in Alberta for the past ten years is similar to and unique from the Project Approach. Fern will share several projects she's done with children from grades one through five. Intended audience: elementary teachers/librarians. | |
| Don Ford | B7 Tradition or Reinvention. The library community in Alberta is rich with tradition! Libraries are preparing for their technological future but are they preparing for structural changes needed? Where should our next three year plan be heading? Mr. Ford will use this session to propose a framework within which public discussion can take place on the future of public libraries. | |
| Jennifer Bobrovitz and Rosemary Griebel | B8 From Buns to Bytes: The Image of the Librarian in Contemporary Culture. The profession is changing, but is the image? This provocative session will examine the image of the librarian and reveal how our leaders and decision-makers currently regard this profession. Do libraries still evoke the image of a quiet, dusty world? Do librarians remain synonymous with Miss Bun and Mister Ineffectual, or are we considered a profession that is vibrant and necessary? Come find out what the not-so-shy and retiring presenters have discovered. | |
| Dawn Keer and Betty Lou Ayers | B9 Great Titles to Add to a Jr./Sr. High School Collection. This session will provide an overview of fiction and non-fiction for young adults suitable for junior and/or senoir high school libraries. Links to curriculum will be suggested. | |
| Heidi Blackmore and Anne Marquis | B10 The Art of Readers' Advisory or How to Give Your Readers Exactly What They Want and Have Fun Doing It. Recreational reading is the most frequent reason given by users for coming to the public library. By enabling users to find the kind of reading they most love, libraries add immeasurably to their quality of life. Discover the basics of good readers' advisory services including the role of the readers' advisor, the self as reader, how to conduct the discussion with the reader effectively, and useful core resources, especially web resources. Learn a number of practical and effective collection management measures that can easily be implemented in any public library to enable readers to find the books they want. Intended audience: anyone working with adult readers in public library settings. | |
| 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm | ||
| - Creative Public Library Service Award Luncheon - | ||
| 1:30 - 3:00 | ||
| Speaker | Session Description | |
| Carol Kuhlthau | C1 The Role of the Library in the Information Age School. The challenge of the information age school is to educate children for living and learning in an information rich technological world. Libraries have an essential role engaging students in learning through inquiry in the content areas of the curriculum. | |
| Mary Cavanagh | C2 Web Awareness From the Public Library Perspective (Part 2). See session B2 for details. Sponsored by The Alberta Library (APLEN). | |
| Gail de Vos | C3 Storytelling and the Rural Library. The importance of storytelling for all members of the community--all ages and interests--will be the focus of this session. Storytelling is a powerful tool and an essential element in creating community bonds and pride. Subjects covered include how to utilize and involve other community groups or members in both attending and the conducting of a storytelling program and basic resources to finding stories and overcoming the fear of telling stories in public. | |
| Keith Seel | C4 Doing the Right Thing: Making Tough Decisions in Difficult Times (Part 2). See session B4 for details. | |
| Susan Sneath | C5 Living with Laughter. (Repeated at G10) Drawing on positively amazing tales from around the world and across the centuries, storyteller Susan Sneath packs a lot of laughs and life transformation skills into her inspiring presenta-tions. This stimulating yet light-hearted session contains a playful and powerful message that leaves the application resting in the listeners' hands and heart. | |
| Michael Silver | C6 Intermediate Web Browser Skills. Skill level - Intermediate. This hands-on session will continue the concepts in Browser Basics (Session B1) but will include more advanced topics including configuring helper applications and plugins, security settingsfor cookies, site certificates, and scripting languages, and channels. Equipment and Internet connectivity generously provided by Telus. Limited to 24. | |
| Barbara McNeil | C7 Biographical Literature: Reading for Life, Reading About Lives. (Repeated at H4) This dynamic and educational session will focus on biographical literature and its importance, purpose and relevance to curriculum and life. Barbara will be doing booktalks on some of the latest and best pieces of biographical literature. A bibliography will be provided. Intended audience: teacher-librarians, public librarians. | |
| Phyllis Molyneux and Sharon Cherweniuk | C8 "These mountains are our sacred places" -- A Critical Look at Junior & Senior High Aboriginal Literature. Uncertain about the authenticity or appropriateness of Aboriginal literature in your collection? Presenters will review current junior and senior high novels written by or about Aboriginals. Criteria used to evaluate these novels will be shared as well as the process and professional resources used in the Edmonton Public School Board Aboriginal Collection 2000 project. Intended audience: teacher-librarians, librarians, anyone with an interest in Aboriginal literature or young adult literature. | |
| Hilary Munro and Margo Fraser | C9 A Good Fit: One Library's Experience in Ergonomic Design. After several years of working at typical fixed height circulation desk workstations, Medicine Hat Public Library staff began to experience neck and shoulder discomfort and lower limb aches. As symptoms became more pronounced, resulting in several WCB claims, it became clear that this had to be addressed. This session reviews the process followed to address these concerns, including input from staff and the ergonomicconsultant, the tendering for a vendor to complete the ergonomic changes, implementation and follow up. Changes included height adjustable surfaces and monitor lifts, antifatigue matting and laser scanners. Both positive outcomes and remaining challenges will be discussed. | |
| Bonnie Gray, Karen Howells and Hetty Wilderdijk | C10 Electronic Services Performance Measures - How to Tell the Online Story. The session will explore why we need to measure electronic services and what are the benefits for your organization. It will explain how to measure electronic services and describe the type of results to expect.Of particular importance to trustees will be a discussion of how, once the measurements are in place, they can be used to influence the people who hold the public purse strings. | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | ||
| - coffee break - | ||
| 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | ||
| ALTA, LRC and LAA Annual General Meetings | ||
| 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | ||
| D1 Pot Pourri. If you're interested in some new ideas for your library, or want an update on special initiatives happening in Alberta libraries, you'll want to check out the displays and presentations at this Pot Pourri session. Convenor: Parkland Regional Library. | ||
| 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm | ||
| D2 Author Talks - click here for more information! | ||
| Other Evening Activites | ||
| 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm -- Cyber Cafe: Time to check your email and surf the web 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm -- Dinner 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm -- Cash Bar in the Exhibits |
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| Saturday, April 28, 2001 | ||
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | ||
| Jean-Claude Guédon - Keynote Session: Is There Life after Site Licenses? Fighting the Counter-Revolution in Publishing. | ||
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 am | ||
| - coffee and exhibits break - | ||
| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm | ||
| Speaker | Session Description | |
| Wendy Newman, Pat Cavill and Linda Cook | F1 Women as Library Leaders. Three women who have become leaders in libraries share their experiences and reflections on leadership, the ideas and the people who have influenced them most, and their advice to aspiring leaders at all stages of their careers. | |
| Michael Silver | F2 Email for Everyone!. Skill level - Novice. Email continues to lead as the most used application on the Internet. This hands-on session will cover the basic configuration and use of the email clients in Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Outlook. Topics to be covered include basic client configuration, sending and receiving email, setting up address books and managing your email folders. Equipment and Internet connectivity generously provided by Telus. Limited to 24. | |
| Linda LaRose and Jaylene Wylie | F3 Whoa! We have Sixty Kids and They All have Issues . . . This session will explore how literature can be used as a starting point for an issues-based research project at the Jr. High level. Using the novel as a means by which students make a personal connection with an issue, this session will explore the stages of the research process within the framework of Pappas and Tepé's Pathways Model. The roles of the teacher and teacher-librarian in a collaboratively planned project will also be examined. | |
| Alane Wilson and Terry Noreault | F4 Bibliographic Apartheid or Reconciliation? Future Directions for the Library Catalogue, Resource Description and E-Commerce in a Web Environment. The World Wide Web offers unparalleled access to a vast array of information sources. Such open and simplified access seems at first glance to be the panacea of a society hungry for the instant gratification of point-and-click discovery, navigation and delivery. However, the effective integration of bibliographic and financial data into the environment of the Web has not happened for libraries because the vast majority of their data is stored in proprietary formats in Integrated Library Systems and in the MARC formats, because online ordering and payment methods available to libraries are not keeping pace with e-commerce developments. Mechanisms and standards to facilitate efficient interfaces between the library ILS and other sources of metadata on the Web are needed. This session will cover metadata information schemes which are being used for 'bibliographic description' particularly for web-based resources. The role that standards such as XML and RDF will play in the library community both for resource description and e-commerce will be discussed. Sponsored in part by AACL. | |
| Milena Meneghetti | F5 Evaluating Paid Staff: How to Promote Valid, Fair and Growth-Oriented Staff Evaluations from CEO to Front Line. This session will help you understand the evaluation process, recognize growth opportunities in the evaluation process, learn basic elements of the process and how to prepare fair, forward-thinking and pro-active evaluations. Intended audience: anyone responsible for evaluating staff. | |
| N. Pas Paskaran | F6 Taking Control of Your Life Through Effective Use of Memory. No one has a weak memory. Either we have a trained memory or an untrained memory. This session will discuss tools and techniques to unlock the memory potential within each of us. The golden key to unlock your memory power will be given to the participants. These ideas can be applied to a variety of subjects. This session will cover examples in social studies and application to spelling. Earlier in their life the kids start using these ideas, greater will be the benefit as they more through the education system. Presentation will be at the level of the elementary grade kids. | |
| Mary Cavanagh | F7 Web Awareness: From the Classroom/School Library Perspective. (Part 1) According to this year's study, Canada's Children in a Wired World: The Parents' View, 66% of parents surveyed said education is the biggest benefit of their children being on the Internet. We know the Internet is a powerful teaching tool, but it can also be an environment with many associated risks and hazards. How do we prepare kids to surf safely, protect their personal privacy, understand online marketing, recognize cyberhate and distinguish between fact and opinion on the Net? The Web Awareness program presents a selection of online environments that are challenging our young people and introduces some of the critical thinking skills required by both teachers and students to respond to these issues. Intended audience: teachers, teacher-librarians, principals. Sponsored by The Alberta Library (APLEN). | |
| Bonnie Gray | F8 Grant Anatomy. Bonnie will discuss the practice (and a bit of theory) of the library operating grant program for Alberta's public libraries. She will also provide information on other project grants in this session. Intended audience: trustees, library administrators. | |
| Frits Pannekoek | F9 The Alberta Information Deficit. The Internet is a place of information wonderment. However, much of it is dumbed down, most of it is in English, and even more is American in culture. The best of the cultural and scientific material is owned by six to eight international companies. Our biggest libraries can barely afford to buy the materials and the big companies ignore our culture. What are the alternatives? Can Alberta be competitive in a knowledge and information economy? Or, will we wallow in the slough of mediocrity! | |
| Brenda Walker | F10 You Can't Get There from Here!. Actually, you can. Your library doesn't need to go without trained personnel just because you're not near Edmonton or Calgary. Come to this session and learn how SAIT's library programs can benefit you, your library and your community. See how easy it is to take part in the learning process. | |
| 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm | ||
| - lunch! - | ||
| 1:30 - 3:00 | ||
| Speaker | Session Description | |
| Michael Silver | G1 Extended Skills for Email. Skill level - Intermediate. This hands-on session will continue the discussion of email, but will concentrate on more advanced topics such as setting up a mailing list in your address book, sending and receiving attachments, mail filters, and trouble-shooting problems with mail delivery and spam. Equipment and Internet connectivity generously provided by Telus. Limited to 24. | |
| Karen Harrison | G2 Investing on the Internet. (Part 1) This session will explore resources and information on investing for personal or library use. Learn how to study a stock, track your portfolio, invest through a discount broker and find the best sources of investment and financial information online. Explore such questions as: do you need a full service or discount broker? should you buy stocks or mutual funds? | |
| Christine Spring-Gifford | G3 Remembering Our Past: School Library Pioneers, Their Stories Drawing from the oral histories conducted as a part of the research for her doctoral dissertation, the speaker will trace the development of school libraries in Alberta. The struggles and the triumphs of those who created a vision of making quality resources available to all students will be shared with those who still fight to keep this vision alive. Intended audience: school librarians, university educators, school library administrators. | |
| Patricia McNamee | G4 Teamwork: Board and Staff Relations. Delivering quality library services requires a well-trained and qualified staff, and an infrastructure developed by the board of trustees and CEO/librarian. How does it work for you? Does everyone know their role and responsibilities? | |
| Peter Carver | G5 Threats to Intellectual Freedom in Canada Today Lorne MacRae Intellectual Freedom Speech. The urge to censor - it's been around since the days of ancient Rome. It's still with us, of course, and in Canada we have to remain vigilant in defending the individual citizen's intellectual freedom. In this country we tend not to hear about many book challenges because would-be censors don't like to make a lot of noise about their urges. Learn more about the birth of the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council as a book industry watchdog that has monitored challenges to freedom to read since its beginnings in the late 1970s. And become aware of some of the more contentious contemporary challenges to intellectual freedom. Intended audience: librarians, teachers, readers and all others who are interested in the cause of intellectual freedom. Sponsored by the School of Library and Information Studies, U of A. | |
| Muriel Ross Abdurahman | G6 It's Time to Make Your Meetings Matter!. At your meetings, do you feel that your chair is in control of events? That you are a valued member? That the participants are focused? That the meeting is timely? That you have actually accomplished something? If you answered "NO" to any of the above, then this is the "meeting" for you! | |
| Mary Cavanagh | G7 Web Awareness: From the Classroom/School Library Perspective. (Part 2)
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| Joy McGregor | G8 The I-Search Paper. (Part 1) Learn about the I-Search process and paper, a process for involving students in relevant, active learning through research. Students focus on their research assignments as a personal journey, not just a product to submit. Effective at any grade level. Prepare to be actively involved with the process yourself! Part two of this session builds on part one so plan to attend both sessions. Intended audience: most pertinent to teacher-librarians at all levels. | |
| Lisa Given, Lois Barranoik, Angela Kublik and Joel MacKeen | G9 Students for Life! Studies of Information and Library Use in Different Settings. SLIS faculty and graduate students at the U of A present the results of their recent research studies and implications for library and information services. Lisa studied mature undergraduate students, Lois studied senior high school students, Angela studied adult creative writing students and Joel studied undergraduate studio arts students. | |
| Susan Sneath | G10 Living with Laughter. (Repeat of C5) | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | ||
| - coffee break - | ||
| 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | ||
| Speaker | Session Description | |
| Diane Mittermeyer | H1 The Canadian Public Library Effectiveness Study: Selected Results from Alberta. What comes to the mind of the people when they say: "This is a very good public library" or when they say: "This is not a good public library"? Could the factors coming to a City Councillor's mind be different from the ones coming to the mind of a User, a Friend, or a Board member? Selected results from the four participating cities in Alberta are presented. | |
| Karen Harrison | H2 Investing on the Internet. (Part 2) See session G2 for details. | |
| Paul Whitney | H3 Libraries and the WTO: The Impact of International Trade Agreements on Public Sector Libraries. This session will review the implications of the WTO (the World Trade Organization), specifically the General Agreement on Trade In Services (GATS), for publicly funded libraries. With the advent of e-commerce and mergers of large transnational "entertainment" conglomerates, intellectual property and culture are increasingly coming under review by the WTO. The tax supported library role of content provider is under threat in this new environment. Intended audience: library staff from all types of libraries and trustees. | |
| Barbara McNeil | H4 Biographical Literature: Reading for Life, Reading About Lives. (Repeat of C7) See session C7 for details. | |
| Susan Platt | H5 Demystifying the Legal Process Providing legal reference service to your customers can be a daunting process. With the variety of formats available today (paper, CD-ROM, Internet), it raises more issues with collective development and staff training. This session will provide an overview of the process of legislation, a comparison of the formats and a review of some of the popular legal web sites. This information will enable you to respond with confidence to legal questions and to select the appropriate legal materials for your type and size of library. Intended audience: library staff/students who provide or are interested in providing legal reference service. | |
| Brenda Robinson | H6 Dealing with Difficult People. "You wouldn't believe what she said . . ." "I can't believe the way some people behave . . . " "You should have heard him after that . . . " "I've never experienced anything like it . . . " "It wouldn't have mattered what we did, we couldn't have pleased her . . . " Why are some people so difficult? Why do we end up making statements like these about our day to day dealings with people? Are we ever difficult ourselves? In this workshop, you will take a practical, interactive look at improving your skills and your attitude for dealing with difficult people. You will work on techniques and methods such as fogging, tentative agreement, giving space, buying time, pertinent, positive questioning, empathy, moving ahead, ending stalemates and turning the cards. You will discover the power of action vs. reaction, workable compromise, balancing control, key word emphasis and tripper word power. |
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| N. Pas Paskaran | H7 Design the Life We Want. Many are buffeted by circumstances and live their life as it unfolds. If we know what we want then we can start designing our life rather than lead a life by default. An exercise titled "Wheel of Life" is done which evaluates our present perspective in different areas of our lives. Time tested and well proven goal achieving techniques are presented. | |
| Joy McGregor | H8 The I-Search Paper. (Part 2) See session G8 for details. | |
| Wendy Newman, Jo Bryant and Gerry Meek | H9 Internet Access, Intellectual Freedom and Children: A Matter of Trust. Is the traditional "tool kit" of public library principles adequate in the Internet age? What is the right combination of rights and responsibilities when children use the Internet in a public library? The Canadian Library Association took a leadership position in the midst of great public controversy in 1999-2000. This session explores the principles, the process and the results. Case studies of the experiences of Toronto Public Library and Calgary Public Library will also be described. | |
| Kathy Lowinger | H10 Three Wishes: A Library Fantasy Libraries have become technological, high speed, information centres. Can plain old books compete with all the razzle-dazzle? Who wants to borrow a book when a palm pilot is on loan? Perhaps it is time to call a halt to the competition. This session is designed to provoke discussion about the future role of the library regarding the books we read, and to suggest a controversial new/old model for those who love books. | |
| 6:30 pm - 8:00 | ||
| Dinner brought to you by the Letter "L" | ||
| 8:30 pm | ||
| L1 List the Lilt. - in other words, we're hosting a name that tune contest! | ||
| L2 Luscious Libations on Limited Lucre - in other words, come out and taste some wine! | ||
| L2 Movies and Popcorn - fairly self explanantory. | ||
| L2 Lace up your Loafers - in other words, dance the night away! | ||