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Professional Excellence: Provoking Change

 

The future looks bright when we think creatively about our roles and institutions! Add these sessions into your conference schedule; where innovative professional practices, new service models, leading-edge technologies, and visionary spaces engage patrons and meet information needs in a multitude of ways. Tap into the forefront of professional discussions at the Hot off the List! and the New Voices in the Profession sessions.

 

Provoking Change: Creativity, Leadership & Planning for the Future

Sunday, April 1 at 11:00am

Shelley Archibald, Burlington Public Library, and Fiacre O’Duinn, Hamilton Public Library. "ThoughtLeadership in Librarianship: A Necessary Discussion".

Annette Haines, University of Michigan. "Get Your Creative Groove On, or How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Backlog".

Ellen R. Urton, Kansas State University. "From Subject Librarian to Free Agent: How One Specialist Braved Reorganization".

Daniel Payne, OCAD University. "Place-ing the Library".

 

Collecting to Serve the Needs of 21st Century Art Patrons

Sunday, April 1 at 9:00am

Greg Albers, Hol Art Books. "Art Publishers, Artists and E-Books".

Amy Ballmer, Graduate Center, City University of New York.  "Alternatives Indexes for Art and Artist Journals."

Ray Anne Lockard, University of Pittsburgh.  "Outside the Boundaries: Contemporary Art and Global Biennials."

Amanda Bowen, Harvard University.  "Speaking in Tongues: Foreign Language Collecting in Ivy League Art Libraries"

 

Hot off the List!

Saturday, March 31 at 3:00pm

Nedda Ahmed, Arts Librarian, Georgia State University: "Blurring the Personal/Professional Line:  Using Social Media to Enhance User Engagement"

Janine Henri, Architecture, Design, and Digital Services Librarian and Interim Resources Librarian for Urban Planning, UCLA Arts Library: "Crossing the Line into Patron-Driven Acquisitions in the Arts?"

Eric Schwab, Manager, Digitization and Preservation, Toronto Reference Library: "Getting the Message to the Public: Timeliness with Social Media, Wikipedia and the Lot"

 

Marketing Librarians, Practice and Spaces in the 21st Century

Saturday, March 31 at 3:00pm

Lilli Schestag, We Are Librarians. "Brand New: Marketing 21st Century Librarians"

Marilyn Nasserden & Shawna Sadler,University of Calgary."Development of Multimedia Creation Services and Resources in the new Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL) at the University of Calgary"

Mark Pompelia, Rhode Island School of Design. "Texture and Materiality: Creating a New Material Resource Center at RISD"

New Voices in the Profession

Sunday, April 1 at 9:00am

           

Conference Program Co-Chairs:

Stephanie Frontz

Carole Ann Fabian