Program at a Glance

Items highlighted in red are new or changed from the regular conference program schedule.

Wednesday, May 30 | Thursday, May 31 | Friday, June 1 | Saturday, June 2 | Sunday, June 3

Items highlighted in red are new events and meeting or changes in the schedule.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

7:00 – 5:00

 

Registration

Library Tours

10:00 – 12:00

Tour 1

Library and Archives Canada Preservation Centre

1:00 – 3:00

Tour 2

Library and Archives Canada Preservation Centre

10:30 – 12:30

Tour 3

Nitrate Film Preservation Facility

10:00 – 12:00

Tour 4

Industry Canada

9:00 – 11:00

Tour 5

Ottawa Central Archives and Library Materials Centre

10:00 – 12:00

Tour 6

Supreme Court of Canada

Pre-conference sessions

9:00 – 12:00

P1

CLA Advocacy “Boot Camp”

9:00 – 12:00

P2

Hate Speech in Canadian Law: Purpose, Practice and Democratic Values

9:00 – 12:00

P3

Copyright in 2012

9:00 – 1:00

P4

OCLC Canada Symposium on the Short and Long of Library Collaboration

1:30 – 5:00

CLA Advocacy Afternoon

 CLA ON THE HILL

6:00 – 7:30

Reception & Trade Show Opening

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

6:30 – 5:00

Registration

7:30 – 8:45

First Timers Breakfast

9:00 – 10:30

Opening Ceremonies & Keynote Speaker Daniel J. Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada

10:30 – 2:30

Trade Show Open (lunch served 12:00 to 1:30)

12:00 – 1:00

Canadian Librarians Are Serving Children Network (CLASC) Meeting

1:00 – 2:00

A1

Hot Topic - Conversation with Daniel Caron

 

A2

Harvesting the Canadian Web: Using Web Archiving to Create the Collections of the Future

 

A3

Is There a Crisis in Academic Librarianship?

 

A4

Community Impact: Transforming Lives through Libraries

 

A5

Rural Libraries: Service Off the Beaten Path

 

A6

Convergence of Community Resources and Public Library Content: A New Form of Discovery

 

A7

Sink or Swim: Strategies for the Coming Data Deluge

2:30 – 3:30

B8

CLA Networks: How to Start and Manage Them

 

B9

Making a Lasing Impression: Building our Brand in our Branches

 

B10

E-book Licensing: Sharing Best Practices and Imagining Future Strategies

 

B11

Public Library Research Internships: Gathering the Evidence for Organizational Change

 

B12

QR: More than a Barcode on Your Bottle of Wine

 

B13

CULC – Core Competencies

 

B14

The Information Effect: Librarians Working in Research Teams

 

B15

Ready, Set, Go: Developing and Using Competencies in an Integrated Service Desk Environment

 4:00 – 5:30

C16

The Great Debate

 

C17

Starting Now to Imagine the Library in 100 Years

 

C18

Getting Started with the Community-Led Service Model 

 

C19

Developing a Collaborative First Nations Program

 

C20

Copyright - New Legislation and its Impact; Working With and Without Collectives; Discussion of Recent Court Cases

 

C21

Stand and Deliver: Library Advocacy and Budget Defence

 

C22

Current Issues in Technical Services and Serials

 

C23

What is the Role of the European Union Delegation in Canada?

5:00 – 5:30

CLA Resolutions Hearing

5:30 – 6:00

Resolutions Committee Meeting

6:30 – 8:30

NELI Reception

7:00 – 9:00

CLA Book Awards & Reception

8:00

Pub Crawl

 

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Friday, June 1, 2012

6:30 – 5:00

Registration

7:30 – 9:00

Information Policy Advisory Committee Meeting

8:30 – 10:00

Plenary - The International Impact of National Advocacy Efforts

10:00 – 3:00

Trade Show Open (lunch served 12:00 to 1:30)

10:30 – 11:30

D24

Hot Topic – E-books I

 

D25

CLA Book Award Notables

 

D26

Community Engagement: The New Social Media Mantra for Academic Libraries?

 

D27

Tag... We’re It! The World of Interlibrary Loan

 

D28

Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?

 

D29

Digital Literacy Initiatives: Building Staff Capacity and Services for Customers in Public Libraries

 

D30 - CANCELLED

Everything Old is New Again

 

D31

Open Past: Digital Projects from Government Libraries

11:30 – 1:30

Poster Presentations on Trade Show Floor

12:00 – 2:00

Past Presidents’ Luncheon

1:30 – 2:30

E32

Hot Topic – E-books II

 

E33

Mutually Beneficial: Partnerships Between Public and Academic Libraries in Canada

 

E34

Canadian Challenges Survey 2011: Update on Library Resources and Policies Challenged in Publicly-Funded Libraries

 

E35

Student Views from the School of Information Studies

 

E36

In the Spotlight: Choosing and Training your Media Spokesperson

 

E37

Open Sesame: Open Data, Data Liberation and New Opportunities for Libraries

 

E38

Getting your Library From Good to Great

 

E39

Mainly Mother Goose Program Evaluation

3:00 – 4:00

F40

Rebuilding the Slave Lake Library: Surviving Tragedy and Lessons Learned

 

F41

Quebec School Libraries: Preparing our Students for the Future

 

F42

Conversations with Leaders: Future Strategies

 

F43

The Changing Metadata Landscape

 

F44

No More Excuses!

 

F45

Discovery Interfaces: If All the Big Kids are Doing It, Why Can't I?

 

F46

Current Event - TBA

 

F47

PubMed Central Canada & Faculty Perspectives: Open Access to Health Research at York University

4:00 – 4:30

CLA AGM Registration

4:30 – 6:00

CLA AGM

8:00

All-delegates Social

 

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Saturday, June 2, 2012

7:00 – 12:00

Registration

8:30 – 10:00

G48

Hot Topic - TBC

 

G49

Reading Re-imagined: An Accessibility Imperative

 

G50

CLA Battle Decks

 

G51

Are We Making a Difference? Evaluating Community-led Approaches in Public Libraries

 

G52

Batten Down the Branches: Preparing for Hard Times in Public Libraries

 

G53

Building a Community of Practice for Scholarly Communication: Open Access Advocacy Among Canadian Research Library Practitioners

 

G54

Creating and Using Evidence in Libraries: A Focus on Practitioners

 

G55

Libraries & Heritage: New Research in Library History

10:30 – 11:30

H56

Current Event - TBA

 

H57

Archives get Schooled: Added Value of Archives in School Libraries (Everything Old is New Again)

 

H58

Elbow Grease and Victor Hugo: How (not) to Establish a French-language Community Library in a Small Southern Alberta City

 

H59

Inclusiveness and Hypocrisy: How Do Libraries Really Measure Up?

 

H60

Strategic Planning: Keep it From Failing

 

H61

Turning the Corner: Public Libraries Connecting with at Risk Youth

 

H62

i-Canada and the Library Community: A Natural Fit

 

H63

Emergency Preparedness Planning for Library Collections: A Case and Lessons Learned

12:30 – 2:00

Library Association Leaders Meeting

1:00 – 2:30

I64

The Big Society and UK Libraries: Lessons for Canadian Libraries

 

I65

Copyright Bill C-11 and its Implementation

 

I66

“If it ain’t broke, why fix it?”; Simon Fraser University Library’s librarian service review

 

I67

Current Issues in LGBTQ Libraries and Librarianship

 

I68

Fostering Employee Engagement: Approaches to Creating Dialogue and Sharing Leadership

 

I69

The Benefits of RDA for Library Users

 

I70

CULC – Evolution/Transformation

 

I71

Official Statistics for Reference Librarians: Yes, You Need to Know This Stuff!

3:00 – 5:00

Closing Ceremonies, CLA Awards and Keynote Speaker

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

8:00 – 3:00

Canadian Library Association (CLA) Executive Meeting


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