President's Breakfast 

(by invitation)
7:45 am - 8:45 am
Carleton Room

Introduction

8:45 am - 9:00 am

Keynote: Elizabeth Lane Lawley

9:00 am - 10:15 am

Break

10:15 am - 10:45 am

Concurrent Sessions: 10:45 am - 12:00 pm

Gaming and the Significance for Information Literacy

An examination of how young people's social interaction and technology skills have created a seamless sphere fusing work, play and information. Marc Prensky's book "Don't Bother Me Mom --- I'am Learning", supports the idea that "Video and computer games are helping---not harming--- our kids. The real reason they play so much is that their games are teaching them to succeed in the Twenty-first Century."

Speaker: Daniel Boivin, Director of OCLC Canada

Real Time Presence and Ambient Information

This session will examine how IM status messages, Facebook updates, and tools like Twitter make it possible to enhance the visibility of your services and resources.

Speaker: Elizabeth Lane Lawley, Director and Associate Professor, Lab for Social Computing, Rochester Institute of Technology
omputing, Rochester Institute of Technology

The Copyright File: What (if anything) is happening?

Addressing the opportunities and challenges of applying copyright in the digital environment is a top priority of the federal government’s “copyright reform” initiative that began in 2001. This session will review the progress of that initiative, with particular emphasis on the changes proposed in the ill-fated Bill C-60, which died on the order paper when the 2006 federal election was called. The session will also discuss the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions affecting fair dealing, photocopying for patrons, and the transmission of music on the Internet.

Speaker: Jean Dryden, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Information Studies, U niversity of Toronto

“Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit”

Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first century’s tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.s.

Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the “corporate bafflegab,” scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, where “every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you”; not Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering”; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry, with its “gateway prescription drugs.”

With devastating precision, she demonstrates how our “all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness” not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.

Speaker: Laura Penny, Author

Lunch

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions: 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Technology on a Shoe String: A case study for using basic technology to improve public access to Winnipeg Art Gallery Library and Archives Resources

Librarians and Archivists are in the business of making information accessible. We are fully aware of the potential for efficiently shared information to enhance the effectiveness of any organization and to improve the performance of organizational personnel. While immediately recognizing the potential of the Institutional Intranet to help further this goal, we were limited by financial constraints and our limited skills in web site construction. We were also increasingly concerned that we were unable to provide public access to the basic resources of a gallery library and archives. This includes the exhibition catalogue, which is more and more a multi-media creation, and image collections. By describing our experiences as we sought to overcome our technological embarrassment, we hope to offer practical solutions to those working under similar limitations. We will briefly describe the kinds of resources we have created to facilitate access to our collections at the WAG and the steps we took to move these resources into an online environment - The Winnipeg Art Gallery Library and Archives Intranet. The session will also include an examination of the rationales operating behind the choices we made – and will continue to make - throughout this process and a look at our plans for the future development of our Intranet.

Speakers: Linda White, Archivist, and Kenlyn Collins, Librarian, Winnipeg Art Gallery Library and Archives

Sex, Violence and Nosebleeds: Understanding Cultural Differences in Comics and Graphic Novels

Comics and graphic novels employ visual language, which, like spoken or written language, is subject to cultural difference. This presentation introduces the concept of visual language, and how the standards and traditions of different cultures vary from and influence one another. Attendance will improve your understanding of comics and graphic novels, the practice and history of visual language, increase your understanding of visual traditions from around the world, and, after seeing their significance in Japanese media, you'll never think of nosebleeds the same way again!

Speaker: Douglas Davey, Children's and Youth Advocate for the Halton Hills Public Library

Information Literacy

The focus of Marie DeYoung’s presentation will be on the processes followed in order to develop a comprehensive, multi campus, college wide information literacy plan. She will focus on how to begin integrating information literacy into a college curriculum, what the challenges and successes have been to date and finally the implications of developing a three-year information literacy plan with no additional staffing.

Betty Braaksma will speak about The University of Manitoba’s Introduction to University program, Arts 1110, which is a large enrolment first year course designed to help students make the transition from high school to university. For many years, the University of Manitoba Libraries provided basic library instruction to Arts 1110 students in the form of classes and tours. In an attempt to improve both delivery and content, the Libraries, the University 1 program, the Student Advocacy Office and the Academic Computing and Networking department joined forces to design a new program of instruction, called “ eTools for Success’, aimed specifically at students enrolled in Arts1110. eTools has been in use for 2 years now and this paper will report on the experiment to date. Did it meet its targets? How did students and faculty react? What lessons were learned? Will the project go forward?

Speakers: Marie DeYoung, Director Library Services andCopyright Officer, Nova Scotia Community College and Betty Braaksma, Information Literacy Coordinator, University of Manitoba Libraries

Confessions of a Literary Editor

Mr. Levin will talk about the qualities that make a literary editor (or made him a literary editor), and the role and responsibilities of a book-review editor, especially now in an age that is being characterized as (almost) post-literary.

Speaker: Martin Levine, Books Editor, The Globe and Mail

Break

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions: 3:15 pm - 4:30 pm

Social Networking Tools and Kids

This session will present a brief look at the role social networking tools play in the lives of kids today. The impact of social networking tools on the relationship between authors and their audiences and a glimpse inside a high school mathematics classroom that capitalizes on using social networking tools in an educational context.

Note: While some examples we look at will include some math, there will not be a test and no prior background in mathematics is required!

Speaker: Darren Kuropatwa, Department Head Mathematics, Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Fostering Partnerships to Increase Accessibility in Canadian Libraries

This session will include a short 10 minute video recently re-released entitled "What to do when you meet a blind person," a discussion of the Partners program as an example of one way that libraries can enhance accessibility for all their patrons. The Partners program is a partnership between CNIB Library and over 600 public, academic, school and special libraries in Canada to improve access to alternate format materials for people with print disabilities. There will also be a brief presentation from the Jake Epp Public Library in Steinback on that library's experience with lending out DAISY players and books, as an example of the role pro-active library staff can play in promoting access for their patrons.

Speaker: Faline Bobier, CNIB Library for the Blind, Loraine Trudeau is Head Librarian at the Jake Epp Public Library in Steinbach.

Designing and Assembling Inexpensive Exhibits to Promote Your Library Activities

If you would like to learn creative ways to design inexpensive and easy to construct small exhibits/displays to promote your library activities or promote books within your collection, then this workshop session will be of interest to you. The two workshop presenters have a combined 50 years of teaching and museum work experience. This practical based session will provide fun-filled hands-on activities and participants will also be provided with hand-outs, a material and supplies resources list and be shown various methods of displaying 3-dimensional, documents and photographs. These display ideas can fit various types of display spaces whether it’s one exhibit case, a wall display case or table-top.

Speakers: Barry Hillman, an Arts, Culture and Heritage Consultant, and Bonita Hunter-Eastwood, Curator, Historical Museum Association of St. James-Assiniboia

Health Information Services

Emma Robin will present “Library Link:  How the Family Information Library Links Families and Students to Quality Consumer Health Information”. This session will provide a description of the history of the library, plus the resources and services the library has to offer will be covered.  An excellent way to learn about a unique library that has been part of the Winnipeg Children's Hospital for over 10 years!

Lori Giles-Smith will provide an overview of the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library's Consumer and Patient Health Information Service. She will highlight the differences between the collection and services of the Neil John Maclean Library and those of the Family Information Library at the Health Sciences Centre, and discuss the benefits and chanllenges of providing this vital resource to the community.

Speakers: Emma Robin, Library Coordinator, Children's Hospital Family Libraries, Winnipeg, Manitoba; and Lori Giles-Smith, Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Hospital Librarian, Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library, University of Manitoba

ACRL Manitoba-North Dakota Chapter Meeting

5:00 pm         
Kensington Room

MALT AGM

5:30 pm        
Carleton Room

MLC AGM

5:30 pm         
Embassy Room