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It is always a pleasure each year to welcome the authors whose books were voted the favourite of our 225,000 readers this past year. They are all Canadians and, at this session, share their impressions of their young readers and the awards ceremonies at which they were honoured in a glorious new Festival that attracted over 4,000 children and young people to Toronto's waterfront – a huge leap for the program.

• White Pine (High school)
  Shattered, Eric Walters
• Red Maple Fiction (Gr. 7-8)
  We All Fall Down, Eric Walters
• Red Maple Non-Fiction (Gr. 7-8)
  Thieves! Andreas Schroeder
• Silver Birch Fiction (Grades 3-6)
  Walking With the Dead, L.M. Falcone
• Silver Birch Non-Fiction (Grades 3-6)
  Hiding Edith, Kathy Kacer
• Silver Birch Express (Grades 3-4)
  Any Pet Will Do, Nancy Shouse
• Blue Spruce Award (K-2)
  Scaredy Squirrel, Mélanie Watt
• Golden Oak (Adults learning to read)
  The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter

S&B Books
Official wholesaler for OLA's Forest of Reading.

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Increase your knowledge on current trends in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Whether you work in a hospital or a consumer health library, you will benefit from the information presented by Dr. Catton, recognized nationally for her contributions to the field of cancer education for health care practitioners, students, patients and their families.

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Discover the results of a research study on the place of blogs within the Canadian library system, including both public and academic libraries. Gain a greater understanding of how libraries are using blogs to reach diverse groups and some of the difficulties that librarians have encountered while trying to implement the technology in their communities. Overall, participants will leave the session with a better understanding of how Canadian libraries are using blogging technology and the possibilities open for their own libraries.

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Integrated learning at Queen's University's Faculty of Applied Science includes an engineering librarian as part of the initiatives core team. We will analyze our successes and failures over the first three years. Find out how we forge and maintain faculty partnerships, how we enter into contextualized active learning with the engineering students, and how we support the scholarship of engineering education and design. Our guiding principle and primary lesson learned is: "Get out of the Library". Well explain!

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Is a journal database like iTunes? How is shopping for a new cell phone any different than searching for an article on Canadian environmental policy? Keyword searching in Facebook is a lot like searching eResources to find the most exact information. Let's take a look at how using your own daily tech-savvy can better connect you with students and make those teachable moments occur more frequently. One of the key reasons to stay on top of new social-networking software, of Web trends, and even of new slang is so that we can communicate with students and provide relevant examples from students' everyday lives that make sense. Library instruction sessions need not be seen as snooze sessions by students, faculty, OR librarians!

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)

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Common Threads is an ongoing project of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation. The first project explored "Globalization, sweatshops, and the clothes we wear", and traveled to the Maquilas in Guatemala. The second project was "From Canada to South Africa; Combating HIV/AIDS", and explored the impact of HIV/AIDS on the schools in South Africa. The most recent project explored the World Water Crisis in the face of globalization and privatization of water. The team traveled to Bolivia. Each project includes a Video or DVD, and a CD containing teacher resources and units of study. Distributed to every public high school in Ontario at no cost, they now are available through OSSTF on-line, great resources for Global Education. Get ideas and unit activities; share ideas these valuable resources in your school.

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Are we doing our best to serve our users with disabilities? In 2007 the University of Guelph Library conducted a study to identify barriers to library services encountered by users with disabilities. The results are guiding modifications to library services to improve accessibility within the context of University of Guelph Accessibility Plans and in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). In the summer of 2006 Ryerson University Library partnered with other University departments to provide greater access to adaptive technology for its library users. While this project provided users with greater access to specialized software, it also served to highlight the major accessibility barriers within the library's electronic resources. View highlights from both universities' findings as well as student feedback on accessible library services. What should the University/College Library role be within the AODA?

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On-line quizzes offer a quick, easy and efficient means of assessing student understanding, especially when dealing with large class sizes and distance education students. A courseware system allows for the easy creation of an on-line quiz. However, are you creating a good quiz? This interactive workshop will review the on-line quiz features in the University of Waterloo ANGEL course environment, UW ACE. Learn about the type of quiz questions available as well as the different delivery and automatic feedback options. Using criteria acquired from educational assessment and evaluation literature and examples of good and bad questions, learn how to construct high quality test questions. Please bring your own examples to share and discuss.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.ppt)
Handout (.doc)

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London Public Library is undergoing a significant transformation. We are changing how we see and take action in response to our customers and their diverse needs, wants and expectations. Everything is being modified, including our strategy, vision, brand, service model, physical and virtual space design, marketing, technology and our culture. Hear more about the reasons for change, the progress to date, and what's still to come.

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The development of standards at the international level is said to signal the maturation of the recently emergent field or industry of e-learning (Friesen, 2005). Reflections from 3 years of volunteer work with the Canadian Advisory Committee for the JTC1 SC36 (Joint Technical Committee 1 Sub-Committee 36: Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training) provide a librarians perspective on the international standards development process. Review the standards currently being developed that are particularly relevant to library and education communities.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.pdf)

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The Deweys are back with a new crop of exciting spring recommendations for your patrons. Hear our picks for the best in fiction, non-fiction, Canadian authors, hidden gems, books for book clubs and just darn good reads. Great for readers advisory, collection development and any librarian who interacts with the public daily.

Resources:
Our Favourite Adult Books for Spring 2008 (.doc)

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Project-Based Learning enables students to work in teams in the library toexplore real-world problems and create dynamic, compelling multimedia presentations using iLife (iPhoto, Garageband, iMovie, ComicLife). This is an opportunity to learn how to apply Project-Based Learning and digital technology to create projects in collaboration with the classroom teacher that will capture the enthusiasm and imagination of students. Digital storytelling, public service announcements, news reports, interviews, documentaries, dramatizations, books reviews, photo books, Web pages, podcasts, and video demos imagine the possibilities! A practical session with project samples, planning sheets, rubrics, and check-lists.

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OLA members, librarians and library support staff from equity seeking groups are invited to participate in a roundtable discussion. Research shows there is a high attrition rate for minority and aboriginal librarians. While much attention is paid to recruitment of diverse employees, often little or no attention is paid to retention and support. There appears to be a need for the development of more formal support programs such as mentoring for minority and aboriginal staff at the institutional/organizational level as well as at the provincial level. Come explore the possibilities.

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Canada is embarking on an exciting era of digitization. AlouetteCanada, a new national, multitype, discovery portal is working with OurOntario and Ontarios digital initiatives to help the people of this province tell their stories and share Ontario content with the rest of Canada. Learn more about how AlouetteCanada will benefit your users and your digitization projects.

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Services and Web sites are often designed without involving the end user in the project. We either ignore them until the end or, if we do involve them, its more on a consultation basis than letting them help drive the design. We also tend to involve the end user at the beginning and the very end of our projects but what about in between? Cant we involve the end user so that their feedback is heard when we need it the most? You will learn how to use best practices, develop and manage a user involvement process, and discuss case studies from several library organizations.

Resources:
Session Presentation Patricia Eastman (.pdf)
Session Presentation Terry Costantino (.pdf)
Session Presentation Melanie Rodney (.pdf)

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L'utilisation des outils comme Facebook, YouTube, Second Life, les blogues et les wikis etc. par les jeunes et comment les bibliothèques envisagent l'adoption et l'intégration de ces nouvelles technologies ?  

This French-language workshop discusses the use of tools such as Facebook, YouTube, Second Life, blogs and wikis etc. by youth and how libraries might adopt these new technologies to integrate.

EN FRANÇAIS / IN FRENCH

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Five public libraries have come together to create a shared audiobook collection using OverDrive, a leading provider of digital media services. Learn how policies describe access to the collection and share some of the compromises made to launch the initiative. See how this has been promoted as a new service to these communities, and get ideas on how to share the cost of an expensive on-line/virtual service. Hear how these small and large libraries demonstrate they CAN work together to provide services.

Resources:
Session Presentation Barbara Franchetto (.ppt)

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Lisa Rochon believes that Canada’s public libraries have demonstrated excellence in contemporary architecture. In this extraordinary session, Rochon highlights the most enlightened works of library architecture from around the world and discusses, in particular, the remarkable portfolio of civic-minded libraries across Canada. Here is a view about the places where we work from Canada’s award-winning architecture critic.

Winner of the 2005 and 2006 National Newspaper Awards for her national column on architecture and cities, Lisa often serves as a jury member for design competitions and as a keynote speaker lecturing on architecture and cities across Canada. She participates regularly as a guest critic for thesis and year end design reviews at various design faculties, most recently at the University of Toronto and Cornell University and is often an invited guest of CBC radio and television for English and French broadcast. Her book on the significance of modern Canadian architecture – and its deep connection to the Canadian landscape – is titled UP NORTH: Where Canada’s Architecture Meets the Land. The beautifully-illustrated book has been described by acclaimed Toronto designer Joe Berridge as “the definitive guide to Canada’s contemporary architecture”. It was launched at the 2005 International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront and is now in its second printing.

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In 2006,the University of Toronto adopted Blackboard as its learning management system. At the Mississauga campus, it was a librarian who managed the process of rolling Blackboard out to the departments, which fostered a new series of relationships between the faculty and the library. While this role was surprising to many, it became rapidly clear to the librarians at UT Mississauga and to the faculty that Learning Management Systems, as well as university portals, are much richer when combined with the resources, services, and expertise at the library. There are a range of issues involved in managing a LMS rollout as librarians, best practices in engaging faculty and distributing leadership, ideas around how to create and maintain a sustainable library presence inside an on-line course, and the dynamic role of librarians inside the various parts of a robust LMS. The library is a crucial part of university life, and an institutional LMS can be a vehicle to make the library more visible, more user-friendly, and more present in the lives of students, faculty, and staff.

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Gain perspective on what Automatic Release Programs (ARP) are, and what they can do for your library. See how to design an ARP profile and learn how to work with your vendor for the best service. There will be time for questions about the ARP experience.

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The 30 best Canadian titles from 2007: 10 Fiction, 10 non-fiction and 10 pictures books, plus honourable mentions. Great for any collection development in Canadian literature.

Resources:
Best Bets 2007: Reading For Children (.pdf)

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How do new staff and new students get to know you and your library-information classroom? What can you do to teach your new colleagues and your new students about the services, resources and opportunities your schools library-information centre has to offer? How can you begin to create collaborative partnerships with staff and introduce initiatives that help your students? Take home ideas, samples and how tos to create your own personalized orientation mechanisms for staff and students.

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Learn and discuss strategies to help enhance the role of the library as an active and vibrant part of a community .

Resources:
Biography Paul Stevens (.doc)

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The profession is good at surveying library users, but what does the rest of the public think about libraries, and how do we survey them to find out how to make them users?

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The professional learning community (PLC) is a major centre of interest in the education community. Teacher-librarians can play a huge role in PLCs at their schools. Learn the concept behind PLCs, the roles teacher-librarians and the school library information centre can play, and how to form and operate a PLC. Obtain insights and ideas that will move you forward.

(Note: Original session #326, Rainbow Treasure Chest, has moved to session 1219.)

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Learn how we teach the 3 Rs at our school library reading, writing and robotics. At our school we run a literacy-technology project with our grade 4, 5, and 6 students. We use LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits, FIRST Lego League robotics missions and our own package of integrated reading and writing activities. Our students design and build Lego robots, then use computers to program them to complete simulated missions. Each set of missions relates to an Ontario Curriculum science strand. Grade 4 Theme: Ocean Odyssey (Habitats), Grade 5 theme: Power Puzzle (Energy), Grade 6 theme: Mission Mars (Space). Students participate in reading, writing and research tasks related to their project. Students acquire science and literacy skills through authentic, hands-on, co-operative learning. Reading, writing and robotics makes the library an exciting and challenging place to learn!

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In a time when there are increasing numbers of readers at different levels in the classroom, the model of using one novel for study with an entire group of students has been largely replaced by literature circles, selecting several books on a topic, and dividing the readers by level. But how should a literature circle book be chosen, and what kind of books will work? Identify criteria appropriate for selection and take away suggestions for good age specific circle books.

Resources:
Choosing Books For Literature (.ppt)
Lit Circles Handout (.xls)

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This interactive session highlights the importance of attention to the new graduate's transitional phase from school to work. It offers a leadership perspective for new graduates, supervisors, employers and existing staff at all organizational levels who want greater understanding of school-work differences, and ways to build greater creativity, innovation, and empathy within the organizational culture itself.

LIBRARIANSHIP AS A PROFESSION series.

Resources:
Session Presentation (.pdf)