You are invited to attend the:

Southern Alberta Health Libraries Association Annual General Meeting
Thursday, October 29, 2009
6:00-6:45 pm
Library Administration Boardroom, G201, Mount Royal University (on second floor near West Gate entrance)

Refreshments will be provided.

If you are planning to attend the AGM, please RSVP to sahla.members@gmail.com by Friday, October 23.

The meeting will be followed by a screening of the documentary, “Hollywood Librarian" <http://www.hollywoodlibrarian.com/> from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm in the Mount Royal Library viewing room. Admission is free for SAHLA members and $5 for non-SAHLA members. All proceeds will go to the One Laptop per Child program (http://laptop.org/en/).

Evening parking is available for $4. Details on parking can be found at: http://www.mtroyal.ca/AboutMountRoyal/TransportationParking/ParkingRates/index.htmSeveral Calgary Transit routes also serve the campus.

Elections for the 2009-2010 SAHLA executive will take place at the AGM. Nominations are currently sought for the following positions:

• Vice-president
• Secretary
• Treasurer

Nominations may be forwarded to sahla.members@gmail.com prior to the meeting. Nominations will also be accepted from the floor during the meeting.

You will also have the opportunity to renew your annual SAHLA membership at the meeting for $15. Membership forms are available on the SAHLA website: http://www.chla-absc.ca/sahla/

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Cari Merkley, Secretary, at sahla.members@gmail.com.

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Foothills Library Association Presents the now world famous 5 minute AGM.

"Get Your Bun On!" Enjoy eating, drinking and library talk at this fun social event.
Where:

* MING
* 520 - 17th Avenue SW

When:

* Thursday, June 18th
* 6:00-9:00pm

Tickets available at the Door:

* MLIS & LIT students: $10.00
* Everyone else: $20.00

Ticket price includes munchies and one drink (your choice of red or white wine, domestic beer or highball).

We are not taking RSVPs or advance payment for this event.

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The Southern Alberta Health Libraries Association (SAHLA) would like to invite members of the library community to attend a

Library Assessment Workshop
Monday, June 15, 2009
1:30-4:15 PM
Room 1504/1506

Health Sciences Centre

University of Calgary

3330 Hospital Drive NW
Calgary AB
T2N 4N1

Directions and maps are available at: http://library.ucalgary.ca/branches/hsl/maps-directions

Presenters:
Questionnaire Design: How to Develop a Good Survey by Dr. Lindsay McLaren 1:30-3:00 p.m.
In this workshop, Dr. McLaren will provide a practical introduction to developing questionnaires. She will include suggestions for writing clear questions and ideas for increasing response rates. Participants who are developing their own questionnaires are encouraged to bring them to the session. Dr. McLaren is Assistant Professor and AHFMR Population Health Investigator for the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.

Building on the Questionnaire: Additional Methods for Studying the Use of Space in Libraries by Francine May 3:30-4:15 p.m.
Francine May, Instructional Librarian at Mount Royal Library, will provide examples of how libraries are using methodologies like seating sweeps to study how users are interacting with library space.

SAHLA members or those interested in joining the organization are also invited to attend a general meeting prior to the workshop in Health Sciences Centre Room 1504/1506. Lunch will be available from 12:00-12:45. Lunch is by donation - monies collected will be donated to Wellspring Calgary. The SAHLA general meeting will take place from 12:45-1:15.

There is no cost to attend the workshop. Please RSVP by Monday, June 1, by contacting Cari Merkley at cmerkley@mtroyal.ca or 403-440-5068. Please indicate if you will be present for lunch and the general meeting, or if you will only be attending the workshop.

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Southern Alberta Health Libraries Association
http://www.sahla.org

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Friday, May 15, 2009
Educating for Convergence: A New Model
Seamus Ross, Dean, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
3:00 – 4:30 p.m., Husky Oil Great Hall, Rozsa Centre
Refreshments at 3:00 p.m.

Professor Ross will discuss the interplay of education and research in the discipline of information. He will examine how the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information is helping to shape future professional convergence. He is ideally suited to address this type of interdisciplinary development due to his pioneering leadership of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow.

Professor Ross was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and began his term in January, 2009. Ross’s research interests include the preservation of cultural heritage and scientific digital objects, humanities informatics and the application of information technology to libraries, museums and archives. In his role in the Faculty of Information, Ross welcomes the opportunity to “contribute to research and teaching in a highly relevant field given society’s reliance on information consumption, a young faculty offering fresh ideas and insights and grad students eager to contribute to society.”

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The Foothills Library Association is proud to present CLIA 2009:

Taking Care of Business: Debating Public versus Business Service Models in Libraries

Join us for lively debate, hot food, cold drinks (cash bar) and good company!

Date: Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Time: Social time 5:45pm - Debate 6:30pm
Place: The Military Museum, 4520 Crowchild Trail, S.W., Calgary

Visit FLA events to purchase your tickets online

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The Alberta Library is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an Information Literacy Symposium in Calgary, Alberta on April 3, 2009. This one-day event will be held at the MacKimmie Library at the University of Calgary.

One of the goals of the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library Information Literacy and Awareness Committee (LILAC) has been to support and build capacity for library staff to share the expertise already present in our province, to discover what innovative projects are being done, and to create a community of practice around information literacy that will help students and researchers across the province. Join keynote speaker Gordon Coleman and our expert session speakers for and interesting and enriching day.

Information will also be available on the TAL website at:
http://www.thealbertalibrary.ab.ca/symposiums/IL.html

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The Foothills Library Association is proud to present CLIA 2009:

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Registration for the CASLIS Calgary and CASLIS Edmonton Energy and Environment Information Symposium is now open. Please visit the CASLIS Calgary website at www.caslis-calgary.org to sign up and pay online. Deadline for the Early Bird registration is January 6th, 2009. Morning speakers for this event include:

• Keynote address: Provincial and National Energy/Environment Initiatives - Dr. David Layzell (Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy)
• Water for Life - Cam Lane (Alberta Environment)
• Wind Power - Theresa Howland (Bullfrog Power)
• Sustainable Communities/Renewable Energy - Jesse Row (Pembina Institute)
• Unconventional Gas - Dean Rokosh (Alberta Geological Survey)

The afternoon schedule of concurrent sessions is available via our registration document which can be found at:
http://www.caslis-calgary.org/?registration

Questions about this event? Feel free to contact any of us below:
Angela Burns (ERCB) - angela.burns@ercb.ca
Laura Lemmens (Alberta Government Library - North Petroleum Plaza Site) - laura.lemmens@gov.ab.ca
Leeanne Morrow (University of Calgary) - leeanne.morrow@ucalgary.ca

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Merry Christmas Everybody. FLA wants to let you all know that a group of its members are planning to attend the Jingle Bell Rock charity concert at Mac Hall (UofC) on Thursday December 18th.

The groups playing are Metric, The Dears, and Tokyo Police Club. We plan to gather in the grad lounge between 5 and 5:30 pm. The concert is set to start at 6:30.

For more information check out the links below:
http://www.jinglebellrock.ca/

Music:

Metric: http://www.myspace.com/metricband
The Dears: http://www.thedears.org/discography/
Tokyo Police club: http://tokyopoliceclub.com/music

If you want to show up we would be happy for your company. Just contact Ticketmaster and purchase yourself a ticket ($40.00) then show up.

If you have questions or want to let us know you plan to come (so we can watch your for you in the grad lounge) you can contact Jerremie Clyde (FLA Member at Large) at jvclyde@ucalgary.ca

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

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Please Come and Celebrate the Holiday Season with CLLG, SLA and CASLIS!

When: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Time: 5:00 – 7:30 pm

Place: Redwater Rustic Grille

Address: Bow Valley Square, #181, 250 6 Avenue SW

Cost: $15.00 members, $20.00 non-members (Payment in cash at the door please!!!)

Please RSVP by Wednesday, November 26 to Jacquelyn DeGreeve at jdegreeve@bdplaw.com

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SLA WCC is pleased to present Stephen Abram, President, SLA

Building Capacity for Change: Preparing Us and Our Enterprises for New Information Strategies
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
5:00 - 8:00 pm
Calgary Chamber of Commerce

Your ticket includes the infamous Chamber of Commerce appetizer buffet. There will be a cash bar.
PROGRAM DETAILS
5:00 Registration - cash bar and canapé buffet opens, mingling, eating, drinking
6:00 Stephen Abram’s presentation
7:00 More mingling, eating & drinking
8:00 Wrap-up

THE PRESENTATION
Building Capacity for Change: Preparing Us and Our Enterprises for New Information Strategies
Expanding our libraries’ capacity to adopt dozens and potentially hundreds of new technologies and web innovations annually is the challenge of our age. Are we able to step up the pace? What are the best and most effective ways to choose the right technologies to test and pilot and which new ones show the greatest promise? How can we position ourselves as the right advisors in our organizations? What is the next generation of the social web?; Web 3.0?; Google Earth?; a mobile world? What are the new rules for placing ourselves as experts and 'in the loop'? Can we really truly compete in this world of free and fast with our slower and considered ways? Can authoritative and authentic information and service win?

THE SPEAKER
Stephen Abram, MLS, is the President 2008 of SLA and the past-President of the Canadian Library Association and Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute. He has been VP of Corporate Development for Micromedia ProQuest and Publisher Electronic Information for Thomson. He ran libraries for Suncor, Coopers & Lybrand, Smith Lyons Torrance Stevenson and Mayer and Hay Group. Stephen has been listed by Library Journal as one of their first "Mover and Shakers", the 'key' people influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He has been awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of the SLA. He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies. He was President 2002 of the Ontario Library Association as well as sitting on the SLA Board of Directors as Director and Secretary. He gives over 90 international keynote talks annually to library and information industry conferences and writes articles and columns for Information Outlook, Feliciter, Access, Multimedia & Internet @ Schools, and Library Journal. He is the author of ALA Editions' bestselling Out Front with Stephen Abram. His blog, Stephen's Lighthouse, is a popular blog in the library sector.

REGISTRATION
To pay by credit card (preferred), go to our online announcement at http://units.sla.org/chapter/cwcn/programs/programs.shtml and follow the PayPal links.
FEES
$10 for SLA members, students, and those between jobs
$15 for non-members
To pay by cheque, complete the online registration form at http://units.sla.org/chapter/cwcn/programs/regform2004.htmand mail it with your payment (cheque made out to SLA WCC), to:
Pat Sandercock
Regional Sales Manager, Swets
43 West Jensen Place SW
Calgary, Alberta
T3H 5W9

VENUE
The Calgary Chamber of Commerce 100 6 Avenue SW
The chamber is one block from the C-Train Line and should you choose to drive, convenient parking is available at the James Short Parkade
Thank you to our generous program sponsors FPInfomart and ProQuest.
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Pat Sandercock
Calgary Director, SLA Western Canada Chapter


Pat Sandercock, MLS
Regional Sales Manager
Calgary Alberta

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Strictly a chips and beer thing
(well maybe some wine too)
Join us at Wild Rose Brewery for the Foothills Library Association’s Annual General Meeting

Wednesday June 18th 7-9pm
$15 for members before June 9th
$20 at the door or for non-members
Want a closer look? Attendees will be able to tour the brewery

Pay and RSVP via PayPal!
online at: http://www.fla.org/events.php

OR:

RSVP with payment to:
Foothills Library Association
P.O. Box 2985, Station M
Calgary, AB T2P 3C3

WILD ROSE Brewery
Bldg AF23, #2 4580 Quesnay Wood Dr. SW (next to the farmer’s market)
Directions at http://www.wildrosebrewery.com/about-wildrose/calgary-brewery.html

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The Customer is Always Right: Building and Teaching Client Relationship Skills

“Customer relationships are an "evergreen" concern. As technology evolves and our overall style of interaction with clients changes over time, and as our positioning in our markets and stakeholder groups requires ever more attention, we need diligence in forging and maintaining productive customer relations.”

Where and When:
Thursday June 5th 2008
Delta Bow Valley, Downtown Calgary
209-4th Avenue SE
In the Conservatory on the 2nd Floor
7:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Doors open 7:00 (breakfast served at 7:30)

Tickets: $30 for CASLIS members $35 for non-members
RSVP to: leeanne.morrow@ucalgary.ca by Friday May 30th
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Leeanne Morrow
Librarian for ISEEE and Engineering
Libraries and Cultural Resources
University of Calgary
Gallagher Library, ES 180
Phone: 403.220.8953
Email: leeanne.morrow@ucalgary.ca

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