P010    12:30 pm to 2:30 pm - SOLD OUT
at Metro Toronto Convention Centre
A READING GALA BLAST-OFF
featuring the authors in the 2007 Forest of Reading™

The first-ever Forest of Reading™ Book Launch will bring together young people from kindergarten to grade 12 to meet the authors of the 2007 reading programs:

• Blue Spruce K-2
• Silver Birch 3-6
• Red Maple 7-8
• White Pine High school

P011    1 pm to 5 pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
LEADERS IN LIBRARIES: WHAT THE BEST DO BEST
David Bendekovic, Vice President, Polaris Library Systems.

"Leaders in Libraries is better than any other leadership session I've ever participated in."
- Shawna Thorup, Assistant Director, Fayetteville Public Library, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2005 Library Journal Library of the Year)

• Acquire new ideas, fresh thinking, and new perspectives from some of the best business and library leaders in North America!
• Identify your leadership orientation.
• Increase your capacity to lead and manage.
• Learn strategies and roles that work in communities where alternatives are so readily available.
• Learn how to deal with a changing competitive structure by effectively managing the brand your library holds in the community.
• Conduct a self-assessment of your library's practices in order to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop a framework for your library's future growth and development.

P012    1 pm to 5 pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
EVERY CHILD READY TO READ
Helen Kelly, Helen Benoit, Daria Sharanewych and Sharon Yates

The Public Library Association of the American Library Association has created the Every Child Ready To Read initiative to transform your space planning, training, and storytimes. Administrators and managers will see the latest early literacy research, how it impacts library spaces and how it positions the public library as an essential community partner in early literacy. Here is a practical, hands-on toolkit for children's staff implementing the Every Child Ready To Read elements in weekly storytime sessions.

This session demonstrates:

• How to position the library in light of the latest early literacy research.
• How to position the library as an essential community early literacy partner.
• How to adapt programs and services to meet community needs using an approach rooted in this great initiative.
• How to manage your Every Child Ready To Read project — funding, marketing, training and assessment.

P013    9 am to 12 noon
OISE Third floor computer labs
BECOME A GOOGLE POWER SEARCHER
Holly Gunn, Insignia
Automation Program Manager, Halifax Regional School Board.

Make first-year high school students more effective Web searchers with this instructional unit developed to teach Google power searching techniques as part of the English Language Arts curriculum.

OLA Member $50.
Non-member $75.

P014    9 am to 12 noon
OISE Third floor computer labs
WEBQUESTS: BEGINNERS
Carol Koechlin, author of Ban Those Bird Units, Info Tasks for Successful Learning and Information Power Pack;
Rose Dodgson, Library and Learning Resources, Toronto District School Board.

Explore the world of WebQuests and how to make them an educational adventure for your students. A variety of WebQuests will be explored and selection criteria for authentic learning discussed. This session is meant as an introduction to WebQuests.

OLA Member $50.
Non-member $75.

P015    9 am to 12 noon
OISE Third floor computer labs
TEACHER- LIBRARIAN PLANNER (TuLiP)
Kevin Bradbeer, Program Co-ordinator, Computers, Toronto District School Board.

Looking for a tool to help you organize your schedule, your library, your life? Look no further. The Teacher-Librarian Planner keeps track of your schedule, your collaboration with teachers and much more. In this session you will explore its many features. This session is meant as an introduction to the TuLiP which is created in FileMaker Pro.

OLA Member $50.
Non-member $75.

P016    1 pm to 4 pm - COMBINED WITH P014 (9am-noon)
OISE Third floor computer labs
WEBQUESTS: ADVANCED
Carol Koechlin, Rose Dodgson.

Familiar with WebQuests? Interested in creating your own educational adventure? This session will help you bring your ideas to life. Our presenters will walk you through the steps to creating an effective WebQuest.

OLA Member $50.
Non-member $75.

P017    1 pm to 4 pm
OISE Third floor computer labs
PODCASTING FOR LEARNING
Anita Brooks Kirkland
Libraries and Computers, Waterloo Region District School Board.

The new world of podcasting holds tremendous opportunities for teaching and learning. From a unique and effective way to deliver instruction, to an authentic way for students to share their learning, podcasting has become a powerful educational tool. In this session, you will learn about the practical applications for podcasting in the school library program, and see just how easy it is to engage in this new and exciting technology.

OLA Member $50.
Non-member $75.

P018    9 am to Noon - SOLD OUT
P019    1 pm to 4 pm - SOLD OUT
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Third floor computer labs
resourceOntario.ca
THOMSON GALE DATABASE TRAINING
Edward Gron, Manager, Electronic Product Training & Support, Thomson Gale Products.

Your collection of Thomson Gale resources includes a variety of e-books, periodicals, newspapers, newswires, and primary source documents, and multimedia content.ÊThese will come to you on a newly released platform that offers features such as a built-in citation generator and multiple language preferences. Learn about:

• New features of our PowerSearch platform
• Regionally important content
• Basic and advanced search features and strategies
• Customizing features of your Thomson Gale resources to meet the unique needs of your patrons

P020    9 am to 10:30 am
P021    11 am- to 12:30 pm
P022    1:30 pm to 3 pm - SOLD OUT
P023    3:30 pm to 5 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Third floor computer labs
resourceOntario.ca
EBSCO DATABASE TRAINING
Ed Roche, Director of Sales (Canada & Northeastern U.S.), Fabien Verdier, Regional Sales Manager (Eastern Canada), Beatrice Pitocco, Sales Representative, EBSCO.

Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K.) periodicals in full text, full text reference books, full text biographies and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

Database Training will focus on:

• Introduction to Canadian Reference Centre
• Basic searching techniques for best results
• Additional searching options including Advanced, Visual Search and Student Research Center
• Individual Customization - using My EBSCOhost

P024    9 am to 4 pm - SOLD OUT
Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto,
140 St. George St., Lab 116.
OurOntario.ca
CREATING DIGITAL CONTENT

Find out how to create digital collections from your institution's material. This hands-on demonstration shows you how to generate digital content using the tools offered by OurOntario.ca, a component of Knowledge Ontario.

OurOntario.ca is a one-place-to-look search and discovery portal for digital content and collections about and from Ontario. One of the priorities of the OurOntario.ca project is to assist in the creation of sustainable digital content by providing Ontarians with freeware Web-based tools to digitize and manage collections. Learn how to create digital content that will be available via SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) searches, RSS feeds of new content, Google maps of search results, etc. Create ways for the public to add their own stories to your digital images. Construct searches that will draw the content of your site together with related digital images held by other institutions.

Focus on how to digitize or scan materials to appropriate formats. What type of information needs to be captured so that your digital collections can be made available in a variety of contexts for discovery by end-users?

Limit: 18 registrants per session.
A workstation may be shared by two from the same institution.
Registration is required. No cost.

P025    9 am to 4 pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
SMOOTH TALK: TURN CONFRONTATION INTO COOPERATION
Goldie Newman

Have you ever wanted to improve your interactions with library staff or users? Are you interested in getting some professional feedback on small communication changes that can really make a difference? If so, take advantage of a great opportunity to participate in small group coaching of communications skills.

The Benefits
In a relaxed, humorous, and non-embarrassing setting, professional communications coach Goldie Newman will help you try out some new ways to speak more assertively, minimize misunderstandings, and improve your listening skills. You'll learn how to improve your insight into specific problems, and develop greater self confidence. Plus you'll have the chance to practice being coach, "coachee", and the impartial observer. This is a fast moving, interactive full-day session that will provide you with guided feedback and solid tips that you can put into use right away.

Who Should Participate
This course is for any library staff member who wants to improve communication with customers and co-workers. You will learn easy ways to earn respect and admiration by responding confidently in a non-combative way to sensitive situations.

Key Topics You Will Explore

• Say what's on your mind respectfully
• Cope with criticism positively
• Avoid misunderstandings
• Say no, constructively
• Get control over conflict
• Win cooperation from the team

P026    9 am to Noon - CANCELLED
Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street, Asquith Room (2nd Floor)
CANADIAN CULTURE IN BRANCH AND ON-LINE

Do you want to successfully create compelling content that showcases Canadian culture?

Join Toronto Public Library staff from Toronto Reference Library departments, Marketing and Communications Dept., and the VRL Dept. to learn about:

• Different ways to present your collections for enjoyment and learning
• Creating exhibits and displays in galleries, library branches and on-line
• E-learning using collections — learn about TPL Virtual Books and the other projects
• Tour TRL departments to view a project in progress
• Communicating the message — key topics in promoting collections and related programs and services