Friday, February 26, 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Hall C
EXPO 2010 EXHIBITORS:
Confirmed Exhibitors – list of exhibitors
ON STAGE AT THE EXPO THEATRE
9:30 AM – 10:25 AM
ANISHINABE CULTURAL DRUM WORKSHOP (T6)
Reality Media and CDEI are launching a series of books with
indigenous first nations from across Canada. These books include
illustrated stories with accompanying DVD and multimedia
materials. Falcon Migwans of the Anishinaabe people of Manitoulin
Island will be telling the drum story and conducting a workshop
where participants will make a drum of their own and learn to play a
hand drum. Make sure you attend this wonderful cultural exchange
opportunity.
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Geographic Research Inc. / SimplyMap (#T14)
SimplyMap Canada - POWERFUL DATA, PROFESSIONAL RESULTS
SimplyMap Canada is an innovative new tool that brings the power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to your students and patrons. Access and analyze thousands of Canadian demographic, business, and marketing variables and create compelling visual maps, charts, and reports with no technical training. If you have not yet seen SimplyMap Canada, don’t miss this opportunity!
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
teachingbooks.net (T13)
Children’s and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators Enhancing Library
and Reading Programs via 21st Century Technologies
Online resources create a personal connection with literature for
patrons, students, educators, and librarians. This presentation
highlights specific strategies to integrate online, multimedia author
and book resources into library, reference, and school reading activities.
Canadian children’s and young adult authors and books will be
emphasized.
11:30 AM – 12:00 noon
Micromedia ProQuest (#405)
THE ALL-NEW PROQUEST PLATFORM
Hear about the driving principles and development approach to
building the all-new ProQuest platform coming in 2010. Come see
a preview of how ProQuest’s customer-driven design to the new
platform will simplify access to information and bring together
complementary content types and formats, including leading
journals, periodicals, news content, rare and archival information,
dissertations, research reports, ebooks, and multimedia.
12:00 noon – 2:15 PM
CANSCAIP MASS BOOK LAUNCH
CANSCAIP and the Ontario Library Association are proud to present their sixth annual mass book launch. Twenty authors and illustrators will introduce to you their new 2009 titles in entertaining five minute infomercials. Sylvia McNicoll, Book Launch Coordinator of CANSCAIP, will act as emcee and official timer. Enjoy the personalities behind the creations as well as their behind-the-creation stories. Buy a raffle ticket to win some of these stories. Picture books, middle reader age as well as young adult novels will all be available on site for purchase, and the authors and artists will happy to autograph them for your collection.
Rona Arato On a Canadian Day - Nine Story Voyages Through History, Maple Tree Press
Jo Ellen Bogart Big and Small, Room for All, Tundra Books
Kaarina Brooks The Kalevala — Tales of Magic and Adventure, Simply Read Books
Marina Cohen Ghost Ride, Dundurn
kc dyer A Walk Through a Window, Doubleday
Anne Dublin Dynamic Women Dancer, Second Story Press
Nancy Hartry Watching Jimmy, Tundra Books
Anna Kerz The Mealworm Diaries, Orca Books
Deb Loughead Struck, Orca Books
Elizabeth MacLeod Harry Houdini, Why Do Horses Have Manes?
Marie Curie, Kids Can Press
Jennifer Maruno When the Cherry Blossoms Fell, Napoleon Press
Mahtab Narsimhan The Silver Anklet, Dundurn Group
Debbie Ouellet How Robin Saved Spring, Henry Holt & Company
Beth Pollock The Next Step, James Lorimer and Company
Ted Staunton Daredevil Morgan, one of a series, Formac
Christine Welldon The Children of Africville, Nimbus
Kari-Lynn Winters aRHYTHMetic: A Book and a Half of Poetry About Math, written by Tiffany Stone and Kari-Lynn Winters, Gumboot Books
On My Walk, Tradewind Books,
Runaway Alphabet, Simply Read Books
When Chickens Fly, Gumboot Books
Frieda Wishinsky
You’re Meal Lilly Jean, Scholastic, Fall 2009,
Maggie Can’t Wait, Fitzhenry, Fall 2009,
Stop that Stagecoach, Maple Tree, Fall 2009
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Newfoundland and Labrador Publishers’ Network (#330)
A LITERARY ROAR FROM THE ROCK
Award-winning fiction writers like Lisa Moore, Michael Crummey,
Wayne Johnston and others share their work and their wit in this
delightful immersion in the written word and the colourful culture
from which these novelists roar. View the film and discuss with publishers from Newfoundland and
Labrador.