Pre-Conference Sessions
Wednesday 21, 2008
P1 – Community – Led Libraries: Working Together with Your Community
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
In recognition of the importance of community-based learning through partnerships and community member involvement, an HRSDC four-year funding agreement has given four Canadian libraries (Vancouver, Regina, Toronto, Halifax) the chance to build a communityled library service model to share with other libraries across the country.
In this pre-conference session, the Working Together Project team will introduce thirteen toolkits based on what the Project has learned. The toolkits include: community-led service planning model, systemic barriers, community mapping, community entry, relationship building, advisory committees, library culture, staff development, policy development, program planning, computer training, collection development and facilities development. The toolkits will help librarians identify and build new skills to work in community-led libraries. The toolkits will also help library leaders identify policies and strategies that can shape and sustain inclusive library services in collaboration with community members, especially socially excluded community members.
In this interactive and practical hands-on workshop, participants will learn about the philosophy of community development-based librarianship and the community-led service model that was developed as a result of this project.
Speakers:
- Heather Davis, Area Manager, Toronto Public Library, Fairview District Branch, ON
- Sonia Pacheco, Community Outreach Librarian, Toronto Public Library, ON
- Tracey Jones, Manager, ESL, Literacy and Diversity Services, Halifax Public Libraries, NS
- Kenneth Williment, Community Development Librarian, Halifax Public Libraries, NS
- André Gagnon, Head, Public Services (Central and Inner-City Libraries), Regina Public Libraries, SK
- Mary Saso, Community Development Librarian, Albert Branch, Regina Public Library, SK
- Sandra Singh, National Director, Working Together Project, Vancouver Public Library, BC
- Annette DeFaveri, Working Together Project National Coordinator, Vancouver Public Library, BC
- Diana Guinn, Director of Branches East and Outreach Services, Vancouver Public Library, BC
- Randy Gatley, Community Development Librarian, Mount Pleasant Branch, Vancouver, BC
Registration includes: Morning break and lunch
This session is organized by:
Canadian Association of Public Libraries (CAPL) and Libraries in Communities Interest Group
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P2 – Copyright 0.9
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Session 1.
The Continuing Digital Divide: Access to Alternate Formats for People with Perceptual Disabilities.
Mary Anne Epp
People with perceptual disabilities have human rights of access under the Charter and human rights legislation. Yet access to information sources in alternate formats remains at a minimal 5% of all published works. Canadian Copyright law includes relatively progressive exceptions for people who need alternate formats. However, significant issues with digital access rights remain. In particular, the impact of American digital rights management law has restricted access for digital formats for people outside the U.S. The restrictive American approach has also had an impact on the shape of copyright reform in Canada. Libraries, alternate format producers and consumer groups are cautioning against technological protection measures that will hamper access even further. The technological potential, best practices and options will be explored.
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Mary Anne Epp is Director of Contract Administration, Library Contract Services, Langara College, Vancouver, B.C. She administers the BC College and Institute Library Services (CILS), a provincial library service for post-secondary students with print disabilities. Ms. Epp has presented numerous papers and workshops and published articles on the topic of access for people with perceptual disabilities. The CILS service was the recipient of two prestigious national awards: CLA/Information Today Award for Innovative Technology in 1999, sponsored by CLA/Information Today, Inc.and the Dr. Dayton Forman Memorial Award by the CNIB in 2007 for its leadership in library services to persons with perceptual disabilities. Ms. Epp is also the 2006 recipient of the CTCL Outstanding College Librarian Award, sponsored by Bibliocentre.
Session 2.
What's fair in Digital licensing?
Susan Weber
Working with digital media is the next wave for school and academic media libraries. This session is specific to the licensing of video for streaming and other digital delivery methods. The world of delivering visual content in education is changing considerably, in that students want to view videos at home, or view on the go with their portable screen device. Instructors are assigning programs to be viewed independently, outside of the classroom.
This session will explore the preparation and issues to be considered at an educational institution in order to support digital delivery or streaming of media. It will also discuss the costs and options for licensing media and the issues a vendor will have when they develop a price. What's fair for a license cost, and other factors, such as the term of the agreement will be examined?
Some of the options for video delivery, such as portable media device, YouTube, web, and the ethics and legality of these methods will be explored. This is still a new endeavour in B.C., for which not all of the answers are available. Susan will try to provide an introduction for those who have not yet or are thinking about launching into streaming video into their students and instructors' lives.
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Media copyright, digital rights and educational media have been Susan's area of expertise for many years. She has been the media librarian and coordinator of Advanced Education Media Acquisitions Centre(AEMAC) at Langara College for 17 years. During that time, Susan began and still helps organize the Fast Forward Educational Media Showcase, a media trade show now in its 15th year, which is held annually in Vancouver. Negotiating licenses for video and software for the B.C. post-secondary system has been a major focus of Susan's work at AEMAC.
Susan works with instructors, librarians, filmmakers and anybody who will listen to explain the world of media in education. She has given presentations on digital media, issues in copyright, and media cataloguing in recent months.
Session 3.
Fair Dealing-Academic Perceptions and Judicial Practices
Meera Nair
In the spring of 2004 the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously pronounced that fair dealing was a user's right. While described as the strongest high court decision ever to support fair dealing, it has made little impact upon users' rights policies in Canadian universities. Specifically, my research shows a general unwillingness to support fair dealing within administrative policies governing graduate student research. Which raises an interesting question of why? Was the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada an anomaly in Canadian jurisprudence? In my paper I track the trajectory of fair dealing from 1997 to 2004 through four cases: Michelin v. CAW (1997), Allen v. Toronto Star Newspapers (1997), Théberge v. Galerie d'Art du Petit Champlain (2002), and Law Society of Upper Canada v. CCH Canadian (2004). From a very property conscious position in Michelin, through to the user-focus of CCH Canadian, Canadian courts have positioned fair dealing as a necessary condition of the public-private entity we call intellectual property. The minimal presence of fair dealing on Canadian university campuses is less a consequence of the law, and more reflective of the prevailing interpretation that intellectual property is solely private property.
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Meera Nair is a doctoral candidate at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Her research interests pertain to copyright as a cultural policy, particularly its effects upon academic research and the public domain.
Session 4.
Authors' Rights and Scholarly Communications.
Heather Morrison
As the Budapest Open Access Initiative states: an old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is that of scholars giving away their peer-reviewed research articles; the new technology is the world wide web; and the unprecedented public good is open access to the world's scholarly knowledge. Funding agencies, universities, faculty members and researchers are seeking open access to the results of the work that they fund, support, or write. In order to provide open access, a scholar needs a new form of agreement with their publisher. The traditional copyright agreement no longer makes sense. Authors are increasingly looking to retain most of their rights, and assign to publishers only the rights a publisher really needs. Scholars are battling not only for open access, but also for the right to contribute to wikipedia! Creative commons licensing is becoming more common in academe. This session will cover the basics of the current, hotly debated and rapidly changing scholars' copyright.
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Heather Morrison is a well-known open access advocate and scholar, as well as a Project Coordinator at BC Electronic Library Network. Recently, Heather has developed and taught two new courses at UBC's School of Library, Archival and Information Studies open access, and topics in scholarly communications. Heather serves as co-convenor of the CLA Task Force on Open Access and the Working Group on Information Policy, and is the author of the scholarly blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
Session 5.
Advocating Copyright: A Discussion Concerning Fair Dealings and Education Exceptions
Sam Trosow
Other speaker to be announced
There has been an ongoing and growing debate in the educational community about the best way to ensure that teachers and students are best able to exercise the broad users' rights to which they are entitled. One the one hand, some groups have advocated for a new special exemption to infringement for educational use of materials publicly available on the Internet, arguing that such an exemption is necessary to provide students and educators with the certainty that they now lack under current law. Others have argued that such an exemption is not necessary, indeed counter-productive, and would prefer to focus on fair-dealing.
This session will address this thorny issue with a speaker to be announced to argue in favor of such a new exemption and Samuel Trosow, (Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and co-author of the recent book Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide) to argue against the need for the exemption.
All attendees will be invited to join in the discussion.[for more information on the debate, see the various Copyright Bulletins posted at http://www.cmec.ca/copyright/indexe.stm and the various responses at http://samtrosow.ca]
Speakers:
Various - See specific session above for details
Registration fees:
CLA ICIG & RSIG Members: $100.00Registration includes:
CLA Members (but not members of the above IG): $130.00
Non-Members: $140.00
Two coffee breaks and lunch This session is organized by: Information Commons Interest Group (ICIG) and the Resource Sharing Interest Group (RSIG)
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P3 – Collections 2008: Collections 3.0
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Continuing in the tradition of the successful collections pre-conferences of the last several years, Collections 2008 will be a day-long event devoted to exploring key issues and developments in collections work, relevant to all types of libraries as they move into the digital age. The program will feature keynote speakers and several shorter paper presentations.
Keynote Speakers:
The keynote speakers for Collections 3.0 will be award-winning Cree author Larry Loyie and partner, editor and writer Constance Brissenden (www.firstnationswriter.com).
Larry and Constance will be presenting "An Inside Look at First Nations Publishing". This will be a behind the scenes look at the process by which First Nations publishers consider manuscripts for publication and the editorial process behind their development. The keynote address will also touch upon the appropriation of First Nations cultures in books written by non-First Nations authors and the pressures to make books seem "more First Nations." Based on a combined 35 years' experience in Canadian publishing, Larry and Constance will share their insider's impressions on legitimate First Nations publishing and would-be First Nations books.
Larry Loyie returned to school at age 55 to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer. For inspiration, he draws on his traditional First Nations childhood and wide knowledge of First Nations cultures. Larry's children's books reflect his commitment to First Nations cultures. In the Fall of 2008, his fourth book Goodbye Buffalo Bay (Theytus Books) will join his three earlier titles: When the Spirits Dance, As Long as the Rivers Flow and The Gathering Tree. In 2001, Larry received a Canada Post Literacy Award for Individual Achievement. He continues to be honoured for his writing and contributions to the understanding of aboriginal cultures.
Larry Loyie gives all presentations with his partner, editor Constance Brissenden, the author of more than a dozen books on history and travel. Since 1993, the couple has given more than 600 talks, readings and writing workshops. They love to share their excitement about writing and culture with people of all ages.
The keynote presentation is kindly sponsored by Blackwell Book Services.
Paper presentations:
"Integrating multiculturalism into collections development" - Joycelyn Jaca, University of AlbertaIn addition to the keynote speakers and paper presentations, the first presentation of the CLA/YBP Award for Outstanding Contribution to Collection Development and Management will occur at Collections 3.0. This award is designed to “recognize an individual member in good standing of CLA who has made an outstanding local, national or international contribution in the field library collection development or management”. YBP Library Services has very kindly provided a prize of $1,000 to be awarded to the winner. The first recipient will be Dr. Merrill Distad, Associate Director of Research & Special Services at the University of Alberta.
"WOW: French resources in Northern Alberta - collaboration for success" - Lesley Doell, French Resource Centre, Grande Prairie, and Linda Duplessis, Peace Library System
"Improving librarians' experiences of selecting ebooks: Low-tech tools for high-tech collections" - Sarah Polkinghorne and Denise Koufogiannakis, University of Alberta
"The beaver and the e-book: Canadian publishers and electronic books" - Linwood DeLong, University of Winnipeg
"How academic university libraries are collecting video/DVD materials & how teaching faculty are using that material" - Chris Adams, University of Saskatchewan
"Creating accessible collections through partnerships" - Sue McGillivray and Philip Springall, CNIB Library
Registration fees:
CLA CDMIG Members: $80.00Registration includes:
CLA Members (but not members of the above IG): $100.00
Non-Members: $125.00
Two coffee breaks and lunch
The morning coffee break is kindly sponsored by Midwest Library Services), lunch is kindly sponsored by YBP Library Services, and the afternoon coffee break is kindly sponsored by Coutts Library Services.
This session is organized by:
Collection Development and Management Interest Group (CDMIG)
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P4 – Open Source Initiatives in Libraries - CANCELLED
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P5 – Scholarly Communications for Librarians - CANCELLED
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P6 – Reading between the lines: how to study a paper - CANCELLED
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P7 – DIY – Building A Product Evaluation Toolbox
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Use tools developed for traditional and commercial products, and apply them – along with those specific to new media – when evaluating information resources. This workshop will help attendees fill a toolbox of techniques and tips they can use to evaluate and recommend a variety of information resources, and also to add value to those resources. Participants will receive a checklist of evaluation criteria for all types of information products, an appreciation of what is valuable to their clients and a framework for developing a customized user guide to resource evaluation.
Speakers:
- Sandra Hollingshead, Information Assessment Librarian, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Ottawa, ON
- Dr. Jacquelyn Burkell, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON
- Robyn Stockand, Coordinator, Corporate Library, National Bank Financial, Toronto, ON
$90.00
Registration includes:
One coffee break
This session is organized by:
CASLIS
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P8 – TONGUE FU ®
9:00 am to 12:00
Session is limited to 50 delegates
Would you like to learn practical tips for dealing with difficult people without becoming one yourself? Tongue Fu® – martial arts for the mind and mouth – is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind presentation featuring dozens of diplomatic and practical responses to situations you face every day. Participants will develop positive communication skills because we all know that poor communication has negative effects on every aspect of the workplace. Delivered by Joan Craven, the former Director of Communications at United Way, this fast-paced workshop will have you immediately incorporating the techniques into your daily interactions both on and off the job. Find out why participants say it is goldmine for anyone who deals with others.
Speaker:
- Joan Craven, Speaker/Author/Consultant, Craven Communications, Calgary, AB
$125.00
Registration includes:
One coffee break
This session is organized by:
Canadian Library Association
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P9 – OCLC Symposium on Social Networking – Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
SocialWeb sites like My Space, Facebook and YouTube are attracting hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us for the OCLC Symposium, where experts from inside and outside the library community will explore the impact of social networking on the global information environment, discuss what a "socialWeb" means to users and libraries and examine practical examples of where and how the library fits in a Web 2.0 world.
After the symposium, OCLC will host a cocktail reception to provide an opportunity to network informally with Speakers, OCLC Canada Advisory Council delegates and other attendees and present the CLA/OCLC Canada Award for Resource Sharing Achievement.
Speakers:
- Mike D'Abramo, Director, Research & Strategy at Youthography
- Shawn McCann, Immersive Learning (Gaming) Librarian at McMaster University
- Daniel Boivin, Director, OCLC Canada
No charge (registration is required – "be sure to sign up" on the preconference registration form)
Registration includes:
One coffee break (see reception information above)
After the symposium, OCLC will host a cocktail reception to provide an opportunity to network informally with speakers and other attendees and present the CLA/OCLC Canada Award for Resource Sharing Achievement.
This session is organized by:
OCLC Canada
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