Accepted sessions

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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
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
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
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
Goats in the Garden: Managing Data
Mark Leggott, Donald Moses

Slideshow available here

Technology
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
Fertilizing a Homegrown Repository: Growing IslandScholar
Donald Moses, Dawn Hooper

Slides available here

Academic
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
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
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
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
Blowing Library Bubbles ver 2.0
Mark Leggott

Slideshow available here

Community
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
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
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
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 Community Garden: The PEI Legislative Documents Online Project
Donald Moses, Simon Lloyd, Jill MacMicken-Wilson

Slides available here

Technology
Community
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
"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
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