The Poster Sessions
of the SUPER CONFERENCE
Thursday, February 2, 2006 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
- Media History Project - Celebrating Brampton's Diversity
Brampton Library
Brampton is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in Canada. In order to recognize and celebrate this diversity, Brampton Library invited prominent members of the multicultural community to participate in a series of videotaped interviews. The interviews are available for viewing on DVD in the library and clips are available on our web site. The project was funded in part by the Library Strategic Development Fund.
http://www.bramlib.on.ca/videos/media_history_project.htm
- The GAME
University of Waterloo Library
Our poster session will share an innovative strategy to train a staff of 32 to learn government information reference skills. In the past, training for government information reference service was intensive and time-consuming, done individually for staff to work at the government information desk. We needed an easier method of training in order to quickly teach a large group of reference staff with differing work schedules. We took the training online and, to make it more fun and enticing we framed the learning around a game. Our presentation will highlight the GAME as well as the content of the course including lessons on Government Overview, Statistics & Data, Canadian Legal System, and Best GovInfo Practices.
- Grassroots Digitization: Scanning Roadshows
Oakville Public Library
Oakville Public Library has developed Grassroots Digitization by making available training, resources, staff and knowledge about scanning best practices to the community at large. In turn, we are able to include heritage photos and information in Oakville Images, our online historical photograph database which is part of the larger Halton Images, one of the founding partners of Images Canada. Come and see how our Scanning Bees are run in conjunction with the Trafalgar 200 Committee. Our involvement with assisting this group has contributed to their formation of the Trafalgar Township Historical Society.
- 24by7 TEKdesk Project
OPLN, Peterborough Public Library and COIN (Peterborough) Inc.
24by7 TEKdesk is the award-winning support desk supporting Ontario public libraries, CAP centres and non-profits. Recipient of the LibraryNet Award for Best Practices, Ontario Minister of Culture's Award for Innovation and OLITA Award for Technology, 24by7 TEKdesk continues to evolve with the changing demands and technology in place for public service in Ontario's Public Libraries. 24by7 TEKdesk offers all public library staff and volunteers unlimited, unfettered technical support, custom training and planning advice. New services in 2006 include chat and remote support. 24by7 TEKdesk is host to www.24by7.ca and www.capsupport.ca with dozens of custom articles, annotated links and resources and maintains an extensive knowledgebase of solutions for library technology woes.
- High Density Storage: All you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.
Carleton University, MacOdrum Library
High density storage is a method for storing library material in an environmentally controlled, cost-effective way that has been used by many academic libraries including Harvard and Ohio State. Hear about the experiences of Carleton University Library from planning and design through to the operation of the facility.
- Linking Adult Literacy and Libraries: AlphaPlus' Community Literacy Collection Program
AlphaPlus Centre
Supporting lifelong learning is a cornerstone of public library service delivery in Ontario. Established in 2003, AlphaPlus' Community Literacy Collection Program (CLCP) facilitates collaborative and effective partnerships between community public libraries and adult and family literacy agencies. Find out how this innovative program can raise community awareness of the needs of adult learners and support your library's community outreach goals.
- Hope Public Library
Port Hope Public Library
In August 2005, the Port Hope Public Library launched an innovative campaign, Library.Card.Cool, encouraging every child to own and use a library card. All school age children who registered for or renewed their library card received a Port Hope Public Library clip wallet and, when they returned to check out library material, a bright orange multilingual READ gel bracelet. Many children, and their families, learned that libraries are "cool" and experienced the joy of owning a library card.
- Two War and Peace Awareness Projects for your Library
Cornwall Public Library
Two high profile library outreach projects brought hundreds of children from across our City to a deeper understanding of the complex issues surrounding war and peace. One project was a library bookmark design contest to commemorate "The Year of the Veteran" along with "The 1,000 Paper Crane Peace Exhibit" to remember a Japanese girl named Sadako who died in 1955 at the age of 10 from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Thursday, February 2, 2006 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
- The evolution of subject terminology at the AIDS Committee of Toronto Library
AIDS Committee of Toronto
In the summer of 2005 the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) Library, a special library in a community- based AIDS service organization, embarked on a revision of its "HIV/ AIDS Thesaurus". The thesaurus contains the subject terms used by the library and its development was begun in 1998, followed by publication in 2000, and a partial modification in 2002. An added benefit of the thesaurus review process was the insight gained on the evolution of the library and its collection within the wider development of the HIV/AIDS community.
- A Study of Consumer Health Monographs in Public Libraries Using a Tiered Master Checklist
McGill University Health Centre
Question: Do consumer health monograph holdings in public libraries reflect the collection development recommendations of subject experts? Method: A tiered list of fifty-two recommended monographs in nine consumer health subject areas was developed primarily from the updated lists provided online by health science librarians. The list was compared to the holdings of two Montreal area public libraries. Titles due for weeding were also noted. Results: 1) There is consensus amongst health science librarians as to recommended CHI titles 2) neither library used online, core lists 3) the municipal library that owned the larger number of recommended monographs, had far fewer titles to be weeded. Conclusion: More Canadian public librarians could use CAPHIS lists to build excellent CHI collections.
- Providence Healthcare Health Sciences Library 12th Anniversary Open House Celebrations
Providence Healthcare, Health Sciences Library
The Open House event was to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Library. The poster depicts the development of the library since its establishment to the present. It also emphasizes how library services and resources support the organization's goals and the benefits of external library partnerships/collaboration for the organization.
- COLLAJ : birth of a journal
Queen's University Librarian and Archivists Association
The birth of a new professional journal will be highlighted. The brainchild of the Queen's University Librarian and Archivists Association, COLLAJ: Canadian Online Library and Archives Journal was established in 2005. The journal is meant to complement the library and archives journals (both in print and electronic) in Canada and is intended as a forum for all issues of interest to Canadian librarians and archivists. While conceived at an academic institution, the journal is intended for libraries and archives of every description. Our hope is to provide a place where everyone in the profession can find interesting ideas, musings and scholarly works.
- E-Reserve in Ryerson University Library
Ryerson University Library
At Ryerson, Blackboard has increasingly become the access point for E-Reserve, in place of the Library catalogue, as a result of collaboration between the Library and the Digital Media Project office. In April 2005, E-Reserve attempted to use the SFX menu (GetIt@Ryerson.ca) as an alternative to the more traditional direct links to a single database. The purpose was to address issues such as broken journal links and library branding in Blackboard course pages. At about the same time, demands from Distance Education for off-campus delivery of videos expedited the video streaming project. The poster will demonstrate the development of our E-Reserve project, the obstacles and our achievements.
- One Size Doesn't Fit All: Using a Systematic Search Tool to Tailor Information to Individual Needs
Princess Margaret Hospital, Patient & Family Library
Today cancer patients and families are demanding comprehensive information about their illness. Tailoring information to meet individual needs should be an integral skill of patient-centred libraries. In order to effectively partner with clients and respond efficiently and appropriately to the self-directed learner, there was a need to develop systematic strategies to tailor information for the information seeker. A "Patient Education Consult" (PEC) can be requested by patients, family members or clinical staff, and then the Patient Education Program staff develop a customized learning path or a package of information. Guided by the "Search Request Form" (SRF), a variety of education resources can be provided to respond effectively to the PEC. Data were collected over a nine-month period to track how well the SRF captured the information necessary to complete the PEC. Guided by the SRF, a tailored resource package/path was provided to the information seeker by a trained volunteer, supervised by a professional librarian.
- Consumer Health Information: Making Connections
Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group (CHIPIG)
Patients and the general public are continually seeking accurate health and medical information that will enable them to make informed decisions about their health and health care. With doctor appointment time reduced as well as many hospitals promoting early discharge policy, the need for patients and their families to be informed is greater than ever before. While a wide range of health information resources is now available to the general public, ensuring patients receive accurate, appropriate and timely health information remains a challenge. This poster will help you learn more about:
*benchmarking with other organizations,
*networking through listservs,
*best practices,
*sharing evaluations tools and marketing strategies.
- Implementing a Volunteer Driven Consumer Health Library
Sudbury Regional Hospital
The launch of an expanded Cancer Patient Information Centre is offered through a successful partnership with volunteers from the Canadian Cancer Society and staff from the Health Sciences Library. A Policy and Procedure Manual as well as an extensive training program prepared the volunteers to use computers, navigate the Internet and deliver quality information. Copies of our manual, brochures, resource guides, and presentations will be available for anyone looking to develop their own training program or consumer health collection for cancer patients.
- Ontario Health Libraries Association: making a difference
Ontario Health Libraries Association
The Ontario Health Libraries Association represents a diverse group of information specialists who strive to make a difference in the health care field. Discover how OHLA supports health sciences librarianship in the province of Ontario. Learn more about who works in health libraries, the variety of library settings we work in, and what we do to support health care delivery, planning, education and research.
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Friday, February 3, 2006 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
- North American Friends @ your library®
Friends of Canadian Libraries
Friends @ your library® have a significant role to play as partners in advocacy, marketing, programming, volunteerism and support. Learn how national Friends of Libraries associations in Canada and the United States motivate and support local Friends groups in their efforts to preserve and strengthen libraries, by providing a support and resource network. Pick up their newsletters, and collect new program and promotional success stories from across the continent.
- The Just Read Project
Greater Essex County District SB, LaSalle Public School
The "Just Read Project" is an innovative and exciting way to connect subject areas with fabulous fiction and non-fiction, showcase the new literacies, promote literature circles in old and new ways, and expand the learning community beyond the classroom door. Come away with resources you can use in your own school, and great ideas for proving your value as a teacher-librarian. This is a feel-good message about how teacher-librarians have the power to turn "reluctant readers" into "literacy leaders."
- Collaboration Spaces - A New Twist for Online Bookclubs
Hamilton Public Library
The Hamilton Public Library is a major player in the myhamilton.ca portal project. The library leveraged one aspect of the content management system to provide a unique online book club. Members can convene and participate in surveys, polls, discussion forums and bulletin boards. They are able to publish and collaborate on documents and participate in other forum activities. There are no limits to the flexibility and customization opportunities using this tool - it allows interactive communication that far surpasses traditional listservs or bulletin boards.
- Plagiarism in the Headlines
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
Secondary School students may dismiss plagiarism as an "academic issue" of little or no importance beyond the consequences of getting caught. This presentation will offer suggestions for student investigations of plagiarism that will develop research and documentation skills while demonstrating that plagiarism is an issue in "the real world."
- A Coalition of Community Partners
Ramara Township Public Library
The Our Ramara coalition of community partners was formed in 2003 when the Ramara Chamber of Commerce, the Ramara Township Public Library and the Township of Ramara identified an information gap in the community, due to limited local publications. An idea was born to develop a database of accurate, up-to-date information regarding recreation, history and culture, tourism, business, government, social services, health and education, as well as all community-based organizations and associations. This idea has come to fruition in the form of the searchable Our Ramara Web site, at www.ourramara.com. It features information about organizations and businesses in the township, as well as links to services not offered within the community.
- READ Nepal - Empowering Communities through Literacy
READ Nepal
Since 1991, READ Nepal has proven a sustainable development model whilst redefining "foreign aid" on a grassroots level in Nepal and a macro level globally. Today, thanks to READ Nepal, 39 self-supporting community centers with libraries at their hub are opening the minds and hearts of thousands of Nepali citizens.
Building partnerships with communities in rural areas allows for literacy to flourish and create the means for development, READ accomplishes this by: Educational Development through libraries and literacy programs; Economic Development through sustaining projects that provide infrastructure and jobs in villages; Social Development through the community centers, wall newspapers, clinics and workshops housed in the library.
- First Nations Reading Circle Program
Southern Ontario Library Service
With the generous support of a grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation and the Share the Stories program, SOLS has developed the content and acquired the materials for the First Nations Reading Circle Program. The reading program promotes aboriginal culture and stories through theme-based programs. SOLS staff prepared a manual on managing a reading circle program for children ages six to eight years. The eleven theme based programs are: Differences, Grandparents, Night, Sharing and Giving, Powwow, Seasons, Turtles, Vision Quests, Wolves, Young Heroes and Heroines. The program kits include a guide to the theme, books, and support resources such as puppets, music and realia. Eight First Nation public libraries received and house boxes of program material.
- Books and Quilts Program
Waterloo Public Library
In partnership with the Waterloo County Quilters Guild, the Waterloo Public Library developed an innovative Books and Quilts program which has combined the storytelling tradition that has been intrinsic to quilts with children's picturebooks. Since the inception of this program, thousands of children throughout Waterloo region have cuddled these unique handmade quilts while listening to the stories that inspired their creation. Quilting has a special place in Waterloo Region's cultural history, and bringing books, quilts and children together celebrates and promotes literacy, the Region's heritage and the appreciation of a good story.
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