Accepted sessions

Session	Experience level	Track
"Ready, Set, Go!” Research readiness of distance graduate students Denyse Rodrigues This study explores the research needs of distance graduate students. Distance graduate students were invited to complete a research readiness self-assessment. The RRSA survey tool allowed the...		Research
3D Printing in an Academic Library – One Year Later Marc Comeau, Michael Groenendyk The idea of bringing 3D printers to libraries has gone from concept to reality in the past year. The new service has been spreading rapidly the world over. That reality has sparked a...		Academic
A Community Garden: The PEI Legislative Documents Online Project Donald Moses, Simon Lloyd, Jill MacMicken-Wilson Slides available here		Technology Community
A Library System by any other name: what I learned from being a Regional Library Director in different provinces Petra Mauerhoff Despite difference in structure, support, governance and administration, libraries everywhere are organic local institutions and library administrators as well as front end staff can benefit from...		Community Public
A Library-wide role in seeding a new copyright culture at UNB Lesley Balcom, Josh Dickison Engagement with copyright issues has emerged naturally in UNB Libraries’ environment. It has grown and been nurtured as a vital element of the scholarly publishing landscape and the...		Academic
Anatomy of a Library Merger Donna Bourne-Tyson, Marc Comeau, Geoff Brown, Elaine MacInnis, Erin MacPherson, Bill Slauenwhite, Sarah Stevenson Can a small academic library successfully merge with a much larger library system in just three months? Yes, it can! In 2012, the Nova Scotia Agricultural College’s MacRae Library joined the...		Academic
Best Practices for Managing Digitized and Born Digital Scholarly and Cultural Resources Slavko Manojlovich Slides available here Libraries of all types and sizes have taken on the role of digitizing unique local analog collections...		Technology
Blowing Library Bubbles ver 2.0 Mark Leggott Slideshow available here		Community
Copyright in a Digital Environment Josh Dickison, Sam Cheng The changes to the Copyright Act made by the Copyright Modernization Act attempt to balance the rights of users and the rights of creators while bringing the legislation in line with modern...		Community
Cultivating a Sustainable Collections Garden Melissa Belvadi The University of PEI has developed an innovative approach to managing its collections, especially in the context of difficult decisions regarding budgets. Working from an evidence-based decision-...		Academic
Did Harry Potter Change the World? Adults Reading Children's Literature Shannon Murray Adults are buying young adult fiction — for themselves, and in numbers that suggests a blurring of the line between adult and child audiences. We will look at some of the causes of...		Public
Effective Advocacy: How do we do it? Jocelyne Thompson, Cate Carlyle, Joanne Hodder, Teresa Workman In a world where commerce is king and the public good is a poor second on a good day, libraries are struggling and effective advocacy is needed more than ever. APLA's Advocacy Interest...		Community
Fertilizing a Homegrown Repository: Growing IslandScholar Donald Moses, Dawn Hooper Slides available here		Academic
Go Local! Telling Your Community’s Story Darlene Beck, Joanne McCarthy Every community has a story and libraries are uniquely positioned to tell it. With the help of a $5000 grant from Libraries and Archives Canada, Halifax Public Libraries launched a pilot...		Community Public
Goats in the Garden: Managing Data Mark Leggott, Donald Moses Slideshow available here		Technology
Growing a Teen Space Trina O’Brien Leggott Confederation Centre Public Library received a grant from the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty to create a Teen Space. This presentation will explain the process and discuss some of the...		Community Public
Little Nemo in the Ivory Tower: Comics Enter the Academy Anthony Pash Various ways comics are being used in higher education, examine some key works and authors, and offer some advice to librarians looking to expand the selection of sequential art in their own...		Academic
Local, sustainable, discoverable: The benefits of collaboration and digital collection building Jess Posgate Digital collections are a priority for our community. Students, genealogists, researchers and the curious will more often head straight to online resources before digging through physical archives...		Technology Community
Locally sourced; Globally challenged Audrey Penner The information age means sharing knowledge with a broad scope and unclear boundaries. How do we do this locally given a global challenge of information overdrive? The expectations of learners...		Community
Made in Nova Scotia: a new model for consortial eBook collections Jennifer Richard, Bill Slauenwhite, Denise Parrott In an effort to overcome some of obstacles related to restrictions of ebooks in consortial catalogues, in the spring of 2012, the Novanet Libraries pooled resources and approached the vendors YPB...		Technology