FLA Events Line

The Foothills Library Association provides the Events Line as a service to the library community, primarily in Calgary, Alberta, and the surrounding area, but also includes events of interest to library workers in the rest of the Prairie Provinces, British Columbia and the North. It is a free service to you can use to advertise your local library’s or library associations’ events.

Although the Events Line service is free and run by volunteers (like the Jobline), your membership fees help to support it. If you are not a member, we encourage you to obtain a $25 yearly membership. More information may be found on the Membership page.

The Events Line lists library related events at the professional, technical, and community levels. It is updated daily as submissions are found or received. To list an event, e-mail the relevant information as text in the body of the message and not as an attachment to events@fla.org. Please note that because of the very high risk of receiving a virus through email attachments, they will not be accepted.

The Foothills Library Association reserves the right to choose whether or not to post events on its Events Line. Please try to include all the necessary information in your events posting as will not be able to contact groups for clarification. For questions about the Events Line, send an e-mail to events@fla.org.

Recent Postings

Aboriginal Librarianship Course / Workshop

The School of Library & Information Studies is offering this course/workshop again in Summer term July 3, 4, 5: Friday 6-9pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, Sunday 9am-12pm in room 3-01 Rutherford South. Please see http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/workshops.cfm for the workshop registration form and syllabus. Register quickly as space is limited.

Aboriginal Librarianship, Resources and Services

Workshop Outline:

DATES OFFERED: July 3, 4, 5, 2009 (13 hours) Friday 6-9pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, Sunday 9am-12pm

INSTRUCTORS: Reegan Breu, Manager, Information Services, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources and Marquita Bevans, Systems Librarian, Parkland Regional Library

Course Goal: To provide students with an introduction to the special resources and services that best meet the needs of Canada’s aboriginal population.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1) Discuss the information needs of aboriginal people and how to serve those needs in public and academic libraries

2) Discuss the resources, services, and programming most relevant to the needs of aboriginal children and young adults

3) Describe examples of collection management and library building adaptations that provide a more welcoming environment to aboriginal clientele

4) Discuss the role and importance of community outreach within the aboriginal community and ways to achieve that outreach

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