EVENING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Wednesday, January 31, 2007: Opening Day
FOPL Annual meeting and reception
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P090 4:30 pm
THE FEDERATION OF ONTARIO PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Third Annual General Meeting
Presiding: Jane Horrocks, President
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm (after the FOPL AGM)
Telling Our Stories — The Magic of Public Libraries 2006
Winners' Reception
Join us to celebrate the winning authors and their stories.
Special guests will include the Honourable James K. Bartleman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontrario and
Honorary Patron of the Telling Our Stories contest, and Paula Todd, host of TVO's
Paula Todd Person 2 Person.
This event is sponsored in part by a generous grant from the Ontario Ministry of
Culture.
OLA Board Networking Seminar
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P099 6:30 pm
OLA Board of Directors' Seminar and Reception
for members and conference-goers
THE ART OF NETWORKING
An activity of the OLA Mentoring program
One of the key reasons for attending a big conference like Super Conference is to build and expand
your network of friends and colleagues to whom you can turn at any time in your professional
career.
But how do you do that? Here are monster tips to get you into this essential experience and
activity.
Presented as part of OLA's Membership and Mentoring programs.
No cost. Please register.
100 8:00 pm
ALL CONFERENCE EVENT
CORY DOCTOROW
co-editor of the blog BoingBoing,
Electronic Frontier Foundation Fellow,
and award-winning science fiction author
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor
of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular
Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and
Web sites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy,
standards and treaties. In that capacity, he worked to balance international treaties, polices and
standards on copyright and related rights, advocating in the halls of governments, the United
Nations, standards bodies, corporations, universities and non-profit.
Presently, he serves as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the
University of Southern California. His novels are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released
on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that
increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and
Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards.
He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in
2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture
Foundation, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, Stikkit, Annenberg Center for the Study of
Online Communities, SiteShuffle, and Onion Networks, Inc. His latest novel is Someone Comes to
Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Super Conference 2007 WELCOME PARTY
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101 9:30 pm
ALL CONFERENCE EVENT
Super Conference 2007
WELCOME PARTY
Music, prizes, hors d'oeuvres, meeting friends and newcomers.
Sponsored by CVS Canadian Video Services Incorporated and Whitehots Inc. Canadian Library Services.
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