Speakers

Since 2007, Lianne Fortin has been the Program Manager of the TD Summer Reading Club for Library and Archives Canada. She works in partnership with Toronto Public Library, and over 2000 participating libraries across Canada who offer the program and are encouraging kids to read all summer long!

Linda Crosby is a Research & Curriculum Librarian at Fanshawe College, where she has held several roles, including Systems Librarian, since 2010. In addition to responsibilities for information literacy instruction, Linda leads collection development in disciplines associated with assigned Schools which include Nursing & Health Sciences. Linda also provides research support to Faculty in these …

Linda Ludke is a Collections Management Librarian at London Public Library. In her 29 years at LPL, her focus has been on Children’s Services, and she received the Ontario Public Library Association’s Children’s Librarian of the Year Award in 2009. Linda serves on The Partnership of Provincial and Territorial Library Associations of Canada’s Education Institute …

Lindsay Bontje is Collections Librarian at Humber College and former Collections Librarian at Brock University.

Lindsay Timmins is the Manager of Digital Services, Content for Toronto Public Library, where she works collaboratively to create and evaluate TPL’s online services. Lindsay develops web projects for Children & Youth Services, and works with a dynamic digital content team to ensure that TPL’s digital spaces are engaging and inclusive. Prior to TPL, Lindsay …

Lindsay Gibb is currently the Collection Development Librarian at OCAD University and Programming Coordinator of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival’s Librarian & Educator Day. She is a librarian and journalist with a major interest in the possibilities for comics and zines in academic libraries and who recently contributed a chapter to the Library Juice Press …

Lisa Levesque is an Assessment Librarian at Ryerson University Library. Her research interests include web literacy, critical theory, and equity issues. She recently completed a qualitative study on why patrons incur fines and co-wrote an article on the experiences of new librarians as analyzed through the lens of Michel de Certeau. She has a strong …

Lisa Kao has worked for the past ten years as a teacher-librarian at a large middle school in Brampton, Ontario. Her educational passions include social justice inquiry, cultural relevant texts and engaging all learners through the makerspace. Her dream lesson would include all three elements.

Collection management leader working the last 25 years in both public and school libraries, with a passion for shared, diverse, accessible and representative collections.

Loren Fantin is the Executive Director of OurDigitalWorld, a not for profit organization that works with GLAM communities to support digital stewardship of cultural heritage. She has spent the last twenty years or so working on initiatives to foster equitable participation in and provide greater access and discovery of our shared digital cultural heritage.

Lorna has been working in libraries since she was a page in her local public library at age 14. She has managed technical and public services in the academic, public library and now K-12 environments. She has worked for the TDSB since 2012.

Louise Reimer is Manager, Human Resources with the Toronto Public Library. She has a been an active participant in the creation and delivery of leadership development programs in the library and broader sector, with the Edmonton Public Library, Pacific Northwest Library Association and Leadership Edmonton. Her particular focus in leadership development has been to foster …

Kelly Schultz is a Data Visualization Librarian at the University of Toronto. She helps faculty, staff, and students with understanding and applying data visualization best practices, preparing and cleaning data for visualization, choosing appropriate visualization forms and tools, etc. She previously worked as a Data & GIS Librarian at the University of British Columbia (UBC), …

Kelly Buehler, Senior Cataloguing Department Head, Toronto Public Library, Kbuehler@torontopubliclibrary.ca. Kelly Buehler works at Toronto Public Library as Senior Cataloguing Department Head. Her interests include decolonizing description and access and informing TPL staff and public about how cataloguing works. She is a co-opted member of the Canadian Committee on Metadata Exchange and a member of …

I am a high school teacher (grades 9-12) at Bayside Secondary School in Belleville Ontario. I have used my passion for Graphic Literature to create a focus course on Graphic Literature, and had the opportunity to speak on a panel about the use of Graphic Literature in School libraries at the Canadian Society for the …

Kevin Chlebovec has been in educational distribution for 16 years. He started with a publishing background at Thomson Nelson before shifting gears and moving into educational media distribution at the CBC before moving to the NFB. Kevin is very interested in educational technology, and how it can engage learners and make the classroom and learning …

Kimberly Silk is a librarian with a background in academic and data librarianship and a passion for conducting research to evaluate how organizations impact their communities. She is Librarian, Strategic Planning & Engagement at Hamilton Public Library.

Kris Wawrzyniak is a Senior Metadata Specialist at the Toronto Public Library. He is interested in library automation, coding and making records accessible to the public. Kris is responsible for metadata standards and authority control at TPL. Previously Kris worked at University of Toronto Libraries in various positions.

Krista began her career at Stratford Public Library in 2001 as the Information and Technology Training Librarian, and over her 18+ years at SPL, has worked her way up to her current position of Systems Librarian. Being a senior manager in a smaller library, she wears many hats; overseeing the library computer systems, ILS, marketing, …

Kristin Plue has been an elementary Teacher-Librarian in the Durham District School Board for 11 years. She is passionate about inquiry, student voice, literature and STEM.

Kristof Avramsson is Engineering & Design Librarian at Carleton University, and was previously a Medical Librarian in Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases at the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control. He began his career at British Columbia Ministry of Environment in Victoria, British Columbia. Kristof completed his graduate Information Science degree at Western University and his PhD …

Krystin Parkinson leads Strategic Planning & Engagement at Hamilton Public Library and is currently working with the City of Hamilton. Krystin excels in crafting influential stories and strategies from complex business challenges, building cross-functional relationships and facilitating engagement in the private and public sector.

Kyla Everall is a User Services Librarian at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library. Her portfolio has a wide variety of responsibilities, including: providing research support, managing student staff, as well as designing, implementing, and assessing public services. Kyla was part of the team that created the University of Toronto Library’s first family friendly study …

Laura graduated from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information (MIS) in 2009. She has held many roles within the Toronto Public Library and since 2014 has been a high school outreach librarian. Laura works closely with teaching staff and students within Toronto. As part of TPL’s Youth Services team her concentration is connecting high …

Laura Virag has been a Library Technician at the Brantford Public Library for the past nine years. She’s an enthusiastic child and youth programmer, offering active, engaging programs. She credits this to her passion for music and theatre, and is often inspired by her own children. Laura also arranges, conducts and promotes the highly popular …

Laura Brady is the Director of Cross-Media at House of Anansi Press. She has a decade of experience in digital publishing and more than that in trade publishing in Canada. She is into ebooks, accessibility, dogs, and baseball. In her spare time, she helps plan ebookcraft and follows the Blue Jays.

Laurie Davidson is the Emerging Initiatives Coordinator at the BC Libraries Cooperative and Project Manager, Grants for NNELS (National Network for Equitable Library Service). She has over 20 years of librarian experience and has worked in library consortia, academic and public libraries as well as in product management and customer service management roles for an …

From her first job as as a Page at the ripe ol’ age of 13, Laurie Groe has held a variety of exciting positions in the library field. Currently the Manager of Youth Services for Caledon Public Library, Laurie has been with CPL for 16 years. A strong advocate for the importance of strategic connections …

Le Dieu Tran is a Statistics and Data Librarian at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, where she supports a team of research officers and librarians by creating data visualizations, wrangling with data and making maps. After obtaining her library degree from the University of Toronto, Le Dieu pursued opportunities abroad. She has worked in special …

Kate Morrison is a Librarian Assistant at Hamilton Public Library who loves to read and promote Canadian children’s books. In 2008, she joined the Red Maple Selection Committee with the Forest of Reading where she was Co-Chair for the Blue Spruce and Silver Birch Nonfiction Selection Committees in following years. This year she has joined …

Kate Johnson-McGregor is a Teacher Librarian at Brantford Collegiate Institute, a high school of 1300 students in the Grand Erie District School Board. She is passionate about engaging with students and teachers in her learning commons and promoting a love of curiosity, inquiry and lifelong learning in her community. Some of her volunteer roles include; …

Katelyn spends her days handing out trains and cutting out laminated pigeons for her latest department scavenger hunt. She is a passionate Maker and an advocate for passive programming, making it work on the massive scales needed at a metropolitan library. She graduated with a Master of Information in 2017 from the University of Toronto …

Katherine Hanz is the Head of Lending and Access Services at McGill University. She is currently the past president of ABQLA (Quebec Library Association). As vice president of the association she organized the 86th ABQLA Annual Conference. She has also served as section president and vice president.

Katherine McColgan is the Executive Director of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations. She is a Certified Association Executive and has over 20 years of experience working at the national level supporting academic and research libraries at the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL-ABRC). She is the Past President of the Ottawa-Gatineau Chapter of the …

Library leader with twenty five years of experience in public libraries in the UK and Canada. Areas of expertise include digital library services, building and leading strong teams, strategic planning and evaluation, leading change, fostering innovation, evaluating and using emerging technologies, facilities development and space planning, project management, physical and digital collection development, digital licensing, …

Kaye Prince-Hollenberg is the Cataloguing & Metadata Librarian at Hamilton Public Library. Her portfolio includes eResources, Digital Collections, and Local History & Archives. She is also a member of the National Heritage Digitization Strategy Technical Working Group and the Archives Association of Ontario Digital Access and Preservation Committee. Kaye’s research interests include the practical application …

Kelley England has been in children’s and youth services for over 12 years as both a Librarian and a Manager. She chaired the Children and Youth Expo for 4 years, recent recipient of the OLA’s Children and Youth Librarian of the Year, and has recently taken on the position of Manager of Community Engagement & …

Julia McKnight is a teen services librarian at Vancouver Public Library. She received her MLIS from UBC’s iSchool in 2013. Acting as Assistant Manager of Teen Services at VPL since 2018, Julia coordinates and supervises the delivery of programs, services and resources for teens across Vancouver. She is passionate about library service that follows a …

Julie is the Mike&Ike-loving, cat enthusiast who steers the ship that is the Technology Resource Centre for the Prince Edward County Public Library & Archives. When she’s not experimenting with robots, teaching computer seminars and classes, or helping someone with their eReader or tablet, Julie can usually be found knitting her latest project or baking …

Julie Mandal is a Manager at Brampton Library. She earned her MLIS at Rutgers University, is a graduate of the “Public Library Leaders” program [CULC/UofT], and has worked in Research and Public Libraries. Julie currently manages the Chinguacousy Branch, and after overseeing a major renovation, continues to run customer-centric operations including an open MakerSpace and …

Kaitlin Newson is the Digital Projects Librarian for Scholars Portal, the technology service arm of the Ontario Council of University Libraries. In this role she works on scholarly publishing, research data management, and web services. She is an active member of the Code4Lib community, a member of the Portage Dataverse North group, and the coordinator …

Kanta Kapoor has several years of experience working in diverse types of libraries and library settings. She is currently working as Manager, Support Services, Milton Public Library. Her key interest areas are working with emergent technologies as applicable in libraries, mainly Library Systems and Discovery Services. She has led and accomplished several projects in her …

Kasey Mallen Whalley has been working in and with libraries for over ten years. After completing her undergraduate degree at McMaster University, she immediately enrolled in and completed Seneca College’s Accelerated Library and Information Technician program. She recently finished her Masters of Information (LIS) from the University of Toronto. Working as a Library Technician with …