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

Toni Samek - Those Free Little Words: Freestyle Talk About Canada's Freedom To Read Week

In celebration of Canadian Freedom to Read Week, Concordia University
College Library and The Greater Edmonton Library Association (GELA) present he following public lecture by award-winning scholar Toni Samek:

THOSE FREE LITTLE WORDS:
FREESTYLE TALK ABOUT CANADA'S FREEDOM TO READ WEEK

Toni is the author of Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in
American Librarianship, 1967-1974 (2001) and Librarianship and Human
Rights: A Twenty-first century guide (2007). She teaches at the University
of Alberta's School of Library and Information Studies.

Time: Friday, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:00pm
Location: Concordia Auditorium, Concordia University College,
7128 Ada Boulevard
Cost: GELA members: $10.00; non-members: $20.00

Wine and cheese reception will follow in the
Library Gallery from 3:00 - 5:00pm

Email Myrna Dean at myrna.dean@concordia.ab.ca for information and to register.
Come and celebrate Freedom to Read Week!

Labels: Edmonton, GELA, lecture

Lecture: Dany Laferriere or, Conquering America through Text and Film

You are cordially invited to attend a lecture titled, Dany Laferriere or, Conquering America through Text and Film, by visiting scholar, Dr. Ursula Moser, Innsbruck University. Refreshments will be provided.

Unconventional, controversial, prolific and immensely talented, Dany Laferrière was born in Haiti, adopted Québec as his new home, and is self-avowedly North American. Laferrière achieved critical fame with his first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired and sparked controversy in the United States with the film version of this book. Overall, his work examines Haitian, Quebec and North American society and inter-racial relationships, all of which Laferrière depicts with humour and clarity.

Date: Monday, October 20th
Time: 4pm
Place: Humanities Centre, room L-4 (main floor)

The CLC is also pleased to announce that Dany Laferriere will be in Edmonton this winter to give the 2009 Kreisel Lecture. (Exact date, time and place TBA.) Past Kreisel Lecturers have included Joseph Boyden and Wayne Johnston.

For more information, please contact Dr. Marie Carriere, marie.carriere@ualberta.ca, 780.248.1245.

Labels: Edmonton, lecture, university of alberta