Libraries are places of both work and community. Their success is dependent upon the unique contribution of each staff member. Library leaders and managers have the opportunity to build inclusive workplaces for their employees and to engage with diverse staff teams and community members to create community spaces that are “everybody’s place” (Ursula K. LeGuin, author). A high level of self-awareness and specific practices are critical to leading inclusive teams, where individuals feel a sense of belonging that leads to greater productivity and engagement and to the ability to engage diverse individuals and groups in the community they serve. In this half-day course, you will be encouraged to examine the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to create positive, vibrant, and inclusive workplaces and libraries. You will develop a greater awareness of diversity and inclusion and how it manifests in life and work. You will take away strategies and approaches to foster inclusive environments for your staff and to support their efforts to create inclusive spaces for your community.
Participants will learn two bookbinding formats, ideal for journals, notebooks, sketchbooks and more. Formats include a traditional Japanese accordion-fold book, and a stab-binding journal. Demonstrations will be provided and there will be sample books on display.
Resources, materials and tools included. Space is limited; register early! No experience necessary. Cost $40 per workshop, $70 to attend both workshops.
Bookmaking for Library Groups and Activities, is a number of simple cut-fold-stitch booklets perfect for Moms & Tots, Early Childhood groups, Children's book clubs/activities, and Teens & Zines.
At the end of the class, you will have a variety of structures and resources for including book arts in your library programming.
Resources, materials and tools included. Space is limited; register early! No experience necessary. Cost $40 per workshop, $70 to attend both workshops.
Transport yourself and enjoy an evening of enchantment and exotic sights and sounds. Rouse your senses with food, entertainment and culture from around the globe. The reception will include dancers and henna tattoos.
Shuttle transportation provided. All conference attendees and vendors are welcome to attend.
21st Century Library Ethics
Sarah Houghton is best known as the author of the award-winning LibrarianInBlack.net. She is also the Director for the San Rafael Public Library in northern California. Sarah is a big technology nerd and believes in the power of libraries to change lives. Her first book came out in 2010: Technology Training in Libraries and she is a frequent speaker for online and realspace worldwide events for libraries and other institutions.Libraries have the opportunity to act as leaders, facilitators, and champions in the national effort to uphold and maintain the momentum of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. With the Truth & Reconciliation Commission 94 Calls to Action acting as a compass, libraries, archives, and cultural memory institutions can transform and grow to acknowledge, embrace, include, and elevate the Indigenous peoples of Canada. In order to provide direction to information professionals across the country, the Canadian Federation of Libraries (CFLA/FCAB) created the Truth and Reconciliation Committee composed of committee members appointed by member associations across all provinces and territories. Led by Camille Callison, Indigenous Services Librarian at the University of Manitoba, the Truth and Reconciliation Committee was charged delivering a report and recommendations to the incoming CFLA-FCAB Board, recommending further actions to support Indigenous (First Nations, Metis and Inuit) peoples of Canada over the long term, and to form a Standing Committee on Indigenous Matters to further these recommendations. This comprehensive document covers best practices and recommendations for libraries, archives, and cultural memory institutions to participate in this national effort. As representatives for the Atlantic Region, Trina, Maggie and Trecia will share their experiences participating in this tremendous group effort, each discussing the process of working in harmony with the medicine wheel team structure and the outcomes of co-creating a document set to guide and inspire libraries and archives across Canada. Further, they will share the feedback and key messages of other Atlantic participants as well as those of the CFLA-FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee Chair, Camille Callison.
All conference attendees and vendors are welcome to attend.
Join your colleagues for some bowling, dancing and fun as we honour this year’s Merit Award Winner. Our Kitchen Party is an informal gathering where you can get together for music, food and good cheer – a unique Atlantic Canadian tradition. We will have an oyster shucking bar and shortcake station along with other uniquely Island fare. This is not a sit down meal…it’s a foot stomping good time!
This is a ticketed event so make sure you order your Banquet Ticket(s) during Conference registration.
Enjoy a delicious hot breakfast sponsored by CAUL/CBUA, the Council of Atlantic University Libraries / Conseil des bibliothèques universitaires de l’Atlantique. All conference attendees are welcome.
Mysteries of Compact Shelving Revealed! Ann Barrett and Jan Pelley, Dalhousie University
The Kellogg Library underwent an complete renovation in 2015-16 and the new space allowed for significantly less square footage for shelving. The decision was made to move the entire monograph and serials collection into public access compact shelving. With no previous experience of compact shelving, a series of site visits to other libraries with self-serve units in public spaces were undertaken and a literature search performed. Both proved useful but did not prepare us for a number of unanticipated eventualities. Our experience may offer advice to others who are facing similar space changes as library repurposed traditional shelving footprints for new and innovative uses.
In the September 2016 Amigos online conference Ken Chad presented a compelling case for an industry in disruptive motion. In his presentation Ken references a 2014 Wired blog noting that “market upstarts are displacing market leaders faster than ever before as entire industries transform.” Ken goes on to look at the Platform Revolution (2016), a compelling book that speaks to the success of companies like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon and others. The reason for success? These businesses are built on platforms.
The question now at hand is one of disruption in the library industry. Are libraries ripe for fundamental change that will bring about a new category in library technology? And how would this change in fact look like? What is clear is that library technology has traditionally centered on monolithic systems that lack some of the key platform attributes that Ken points out underlie success: the ability to create value for all participants, leveraging resources they don’t own in order to grow faster, and changing the focus from traditionally inward to outward. The key point may well be that a platform derives its value from the community. In concrete terms this means that no single product dominates the technology environment. Instead, a loosely coupled ecosystem of applications arises, built on the platform, to deliver ever-increasing value to the community – by many community participants.
This presentation will look at FOLIO, a community project that looks to fundamentally change how library software is built and provisioned. The presenter will discuss how in fact FOLIO goes beyond the Integrated Library System (ILS) to give way to a new paradigm in which a multitude of applications, built on top of a platform by multiple service providers, may in fact deliver new services to users. The presenter will look at the practical manifestations that are well underway: strong community, modular architecture, and a marketplace of applications and services.
Bring a big appetite to this walking tour and treat yourself to many of the locally beloved hidden gems that Charlottetown has to offer!
Julie Pellissier-Lush, actress, and author of “My Mi’kmaq Mother,” was born in Summerside, PE in 1970. She grew up all over Eastern Canada and spent a number of years in Winnipeg, Manitoba before coming home. She writes, acts, and practices photography in order to preserve the history and culture of the Mi’kmaq people for future generations. In 2010, Julie wrote the poems for “Mi’kmaq Legends” – a contemporary theatrical experience that combines poetry, music, dance, and theatre, performed by the Mi’kmaq Heritage Actors. Originally developed by the Mi’kmaq Confederacy of PEI in 2011, the performance has become a sought-after feature at local and regional events. In 2016, the production won the Parks Canada Sustainable Tourism Award.
Julie lives in PEI with her husband Rick, her five children, and her granddaughter Miah.