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THE PROFILE OF SUPER CONFERENCE 2004

TOTAL 2004 ATTENDANCE: 4,061
TOTAL PAID CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE: 2,762
TOTAL TRADESHOW ATTENDANCE: 3,151

CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE DEMOGRAPHICS:

  • Academic librarians - 390   (+38% from 282 in 2003)
  • Public librarians - 1,094   (+28% from 857 in 2003)
  • School librarians - 997   (+11% from 900 in 2003)
  • Special librarians - 72   (-8% from 86 in 2003)
  • Public library trustees - 173   (-3% from 179 in 2003)
  • Friends of Libraries - 36   (-14% from 42 in 2003)

TRADESHOW ATTENDANCE:

  • Librarians registered from all libraries for EXPO only - 480
  • Tradeshow vendors - 819

CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE BY DAY
(excluding vendors and exhibit only attendees)

  • Thursday conference attendance - 2,083
  • Friday conference attendance - 2,152
  • Saturday conference attendance - 1,165

PROFILE OF THE 2004 SUPER CONFERENCE PROGRAM

All-Conference plenary sessions: 6

  • Paula Todd, Studio 2, TVOntario
  • Tom Wujec, Alias Systems
  • Richard B. Wright, author
  • OLA Forest of Reading 2003 Award Winners:
    Karen Levine, Eric Walters, Gayle Friesen, Gillian Chan, Matt Napier/Melanie Rose
  • Evan Solomon, CBC Newsworld Sunday, Hot Type
  • Mary Lou Fallis, Primadonna on a Moose

The Super Conference Education Program

  • 174 workshop sessions developed by
    • OCULA (college and universitylibraries) - 26
    • OHLA (health libraries) - 7
    • OLITA (library information and technology) - 28
    • OLA (issues and special guest contributors) - 17
    • OLBA (public library boards) - 16
    • OPLA (public libraries) - 34
    • OSLA (school libraries) - 43
    • SLA (Toronto) (special libraries) - 1
    • FOCAL (Friends) - 2
    • Speakers taking part: 294
  • Poster sessions - 18
  • EXPO mini-sessions - 32

Authors participating at Super Conference 2004: 62

Annual meetings: 8       Business meetings: 13

Social events, all complimentary thanks to our Super Hero sponsors:

  • Wednesday
    • Opening Welcome Party (Sponsors: CVS, Whitehots)
  • Thursday
    • EXPO reception (Sponsor: Edu Reference)
    • OCULA Award reception (Sponsor: The Bibliocentre)
    • OSLA Awards reception (Sponsor: Saunders Book)
  • Friday
    • OLITA Award (Sponsor: OCLC)
    • All-Conference Super Hero Reception (Micromedia ProQuest)

Volunteers:

  • Conference operations - 76
  • Career Centre - 11
  • Mentors - 34

SPONSORS 2004

  • Micromedia ProQuest
  • National Book Service
  • Brodart
  • Dynix
  • CVS Canadian Video Services
  • Whitehots
  • EDU Reference Publishers Direct
  • Saunders Book Company
  • The Bibliocentre
  • OCLC Canada
  • S&B Books
  • Elsevier
  • YBP Library Services
  • Ebsco
  • Media Edge Publishing
for whom we could not maintain our low fee structure and still deliver this size of conference and program

EXPO 2004
Canada's largst library tradeshow
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
January 29-30, 2004

  • Companies taking part: 165
  • Number of booth spaces: 214

OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS of Super Conference 2004:

  • Registration program (60 p.) - 15,000
  • Official conference program (96 p.) - 4,000
  • Super Conference newsletters (4) - 10,000 (2,500 daily)

OVERALL CONFERENCE EVALUATION

  • Excellent - 54%
  • Very good - 39%
  • Satisfactory - 6%
  • Disappointing - 1%
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ANNUAL MEETINGS

OLA Annual General Meeting (view reports)
OCULA Annual Meeting
OLBA Annual Meeting
OLITA Annual Meeting
OPLA Annual Meeting
OSLA Annual Meeting

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

OLA Distinguished Service Award:
Sya Van Geest

OLA Media and Communications Award:
Nancy Pearl, Seattle Public Library Centre for the Book

OLA Library Building Awards:
Best New Academic Library Building
Morrison Pavilion, University of Toronto
Best New Public Library Building
Ajax Public Library
Best Renovation of an Academic Library
E.J. Pratt Library, Victoria University
Best Renovation of a Public Library
Preston Library, Cambridge Libraries and Galleries
Best Restoration
Smith's Falls Public Library

OCULA's Award for Academic Librarian of the Year:
Art Rhyno, University of Windsor

OLBA's W.J. Robertson Medallion for Librarian of the Year:
Barbara Taylor, St Marys Public Library

OPLA's James Bain Medallion for Trustee of the Year:
Sharon Stroud, Haldimand Public Library Board
Rick Goldsmith, Toronto Public Library Board

OPLA's Children's Librarian of the Year Award:
Heather Robinson, St. Thomas Public Library

OPLA's Leadership In Youth Services Award:
Lisa Heggum, Toronto Public Library

OLITA's Technological Innovation Award:
TEKdesk at Peterborough Public Library

OSLA's Teacher-librarian of the Year Award:
Isabelle Hobbs, Pierre Elliot Trudeau School,
Durham District School Board

OSLA's Administrator of the Year Award:
Rod Peturson, Superintendent of Program,
Windsor Essex County District School Board
Russ Arbuckle, Principal, Oshawa Centre Collegiate Institute

OSLA's Award for Special Achievement:
Elementary Library Resource Initiative Team:
Susan Moroz, Elizabeth Golden, Martha Martin,
Liz Geier and Mike Budd
Greater Essex County District School Board
Mark Kaminski, Dr. Norman Bethune Secondary School,
Toronto District School Board

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