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

Labels: courses, Edmonton, slis, university of alberta, Workshops

SAHLA Library Assessment Workshop

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

Labels: Calgary, SAHLA, University of Calgary, Workshops

Save the date - Augustana Information Literacy in Academic Libraries Workshop!

9th Annual Augustana Information Literacy in Academic Libraries Workshop!

When:
Thursday, December 3, 2009 (with optional Wednesday, December 2 social event)

Topic:
New Foundations: Building an inquiry-based information literacy agenda

Presenter:
Dr. Ross Todd
Associate Professor
Rutgers University School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies

This year’s workshop will focus on an inquiry-based approach to information literacy, where the end point of instruction is not the mastery of information-handling skills (locating, accessing, and evaluating information), but rather a constructivist approach that emphasizes the development of deep knowledge and understanding. The workshop will also introduce an instructional design approach based on Carol Kuhlthau's Information Search Process model, which provides a conceptual framework for instruction that fosters students' information-to-knowledge journey.

Where:
Augustana Campus Library (University of Alberta Libraries), Camrose, AB, Canada

For updates, watch the listservs, and workshop webpage ( www.augustana.ualberta.ca/library/workshop )

Labels: Augustana, Workshops

NAHLA Leading Edge workshop - Evidence-Based Practice in Libraries

NAHLA (Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association)
is pleased to present the second LEADING EDGE workshop of 2009:

Evidence-Based Practice in Libraries

Speaker: Denise Koufogiannakis, Collections and Acquisitions Coordinator, University of Alberta Libraries

Join us as we explore ways to incorporate the evidence into our daily library practice.

Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Alumni Lounge, Corbett Hall, University of Alberta
Cost: Free for students and NAHLA members, $5 for non members
RSVP: by March 18 to Jessica Knoch (knochj@macewan.ca)

Directions and parking information: http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?campus=1&sector=8&feature=102

Labels: Edmonton, NAHLA, university of alberta, Workshops

Information Literacy Symposium

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

Labels: Calgary, University of Calgary, Workshops

LEADING EDGE Workshop 2009: Project Management

The Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association (NAHLA) and The Greater Edmonton Library Association (GELA) are pleased to present the first LEADING EDGE workshop of 2009:

Project Management

Are you interested in learning more about project management? Looking for tips on project planning? Time management? Effective communication? If so, then please join us for a presentation by NAIT project management instructor Vincent Capri who will cover these and other topics, including the following: motivating those you work with, priority setting, and working on projects when group members are at a distance.

Date: Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Place: Computer Lab 2-03, Rutherford South, University of Alberta
Price: $10.00 (cookies and juice will be served)
RSVP: Jessica Knoch at knochj@macewan.ca or Liz Fulton Lyne at lizfultonlyne@gmail.com

DON'T MISS THIS GREAT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY!

Labels: Edmonton, GELA, NAHLA, Workshops

NAHLA Leading Edge Workshop 2008 - Alternatives in Health Librarianship

Please join the Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association (NAHLA) for it's third Leading Edge workshop of 2008. This time, the focus is on Alternatives in Health Librarianship.

This presentation will focus on the work of librarians working in alternative health library positions.

Speakers:

Dagmara Chojecki: Knowledge Utilization Studies Program, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta

Liza Chan: Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research

Stuart Drozd: Centre for Health Evidence

Connie Winther and Soleil Surette: Complimentary and Alternative Research Education

Wednesday, November 12, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Alumni Lounge, Corbett Hall, University of Alberta (8205 - 114 St.)

The workshop is free to NAHLA members and $5.00 for non-members.

To register: contact Jessica Knoch at knochj@macewan.ca

Labels: Edmonton, NAHLA, Workshops