FOR PLANNERS
Super Conference Filebank
FOR EXHIBITORS
The
Super Conference 2011
Expo Prospectus will be available in June 2010.
DESIGN COMPETITION
OLA is seeking entries from Design students or recent grads of the George Brown College design program, to develop the graphical look and feel of the Super Conference Program. A cash award will be provided for the winning entry.
Deadline is July 2, Full details:
Design Competition
ABOUT SUPER CONFERENCE
The Ontario Library Association is Canada’s largest library organization and OLA’s Super Conference is Canada's largest continuing education event in librarianship. Within the Super Conference event is the country’s largest library tradeshow. The program is a tribute to the ability of OLA members to balance the cutting edge and the practical in a way that can satisfy an increasingly diverse number of member interests and needs.
While this is a very big event, it is also a very good event with exceptionally high scores in delegate evaluations. With each passing year, OLA members surpass themselves in the breadth and excellence of what they produce in this program. They succeed because, more and more, they are willing to take risks, to raise their sights in identifying what is needed, what is possible and what will move themselves and their peers forward.
A WHO'S WHO OF THE LIBRARY WORLD MEETS THE LEADERS OF OUR TIMES
Super Conference plays host to some of the country’s and the world’s leading speakers, both from inside the library world and outside. Over the years, there have been Richard Florida, Aimee Mullins, Roméo Dallaire, Cory Doctorow, Daniel Pink, Stephen Heppell, Glen Murray, Steve Uzzell, Charmaine Crooks, Stephen Lewis, Craig Kielburger, Evan Solomon, Paula Todd, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Her Excellency the Hon. Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, Roch Carrier, Daniel Richler, John Ralston Saul, Pamela Wallin, Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi, Susan Eng, Maude Barlow, David Suzuki, Kaycee Hale, Buckminster Fuller, Knowlton Nash, John Carver, Don Tapscott,Christopher Hume, and the Vatican's Fabio Schiaterella, to name but a few.
Internationally prominent library specialists have been a feature of every conference the Association has ever held. Each year, internationally famous library leaders and advocates like Leslie Burger, Joseph Janes, Stephen Abram, Joan Frye Williams, Ken Haycock, Gary Price, Clifford Lynch, Roy Tennant, Carla Stoffle, Charles McClure, Patricia Glass Schuman, Ross Todd, Ernie Ingles, Doug Johnson, David Loertscher, Keith Curry Lance and Peter Hernon join hundreds of other speakers to share their experience and expertise.
THE LIBRARY CONTRIBUTION TO CULTURE IS A CENTREPIECE
The world of writers and publishers has been best represented. There has been Richard B. Wright, Margaret Atwood, Farley Mowat, Nino Ricci, and possibly Canada's most honoured writer, Robert J. Sawyer. The winning authors from the OLA's reading programs each year meet the library community that ran those programs here. Dozens of authors autograph their books during the tradeshow. All in all, the participation of the Canadian literary world is a tribute to the contribution libraries, librarians and the OLA make to the publishing world and its success.
HOW SUPER CONFERENCE IS DEVELOPED
The program is built brick-by-brick, time slot by time slot, by some twenty co-ordinators working with dozens more to identify the needs to be addressed in this time and this place. Hundreds of people are then identified to speak, convene, manage, volunteer and in many other ways execute the program that these people envisage. This is a program driven by OLA members and a program that drives OLA members to professional achievement of remarkable and ever-increasing heights.
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