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James Turk
James L. Turk is a distinguished visiting professor in the Faculty of Communication & Design’s School of Journalism. As distinguished visiting professor, Turk has created the Centre for Free Expression is serving as the Centre’s Director. The Centre, based in the Faculty of Communications and Design, is a hub for public education, research and advocacy …
Anne Marie Madziak
Anne Marie Madziak is the Training & Consulting Director at Southern Ontario Library Service (SOLS). She is an experienced trainer, facilitator, storyteller, writer, consultant, and coach who has been helping library boards understand governance and achieve success for more than 25 years.
Christina de Castell
Christina de Castell is chief librarian at Vancouver Public Library. She is passionate about the role of libraries in building communities, and fascinated by the way that technology is changing our learning experiences. She has been a part of VPL since 2006, with former roles as director, collections & technology; manager, online information & news; …
Dawn Telfer
Dawn is an elementary Teacher Librarian who is passionate about creating a community of readers and loves to facilitate exploration and inquiry through the Library Learning Commons. She is currently working as TL at McGregor Public School in Aylmer, Ontario which serves a K-3 only population. She recently completed 3 years as Learning Coordinator responsible …
Tim Gain
Tim has been the primary library rep since 2004. He most enjoys reading literary and historical fiction.
Sharon Day
Sharon Day is Director, Branch Services and Collections at Edmonton Public Library. She works in collaboration with leadership in public services to provide direction and support for the provision of services to branches. She also provides direction for the selection, delivery and circulation of all EPL’s physical and digital collections. Prior to her current position, …
Stephen Spong
Stephen Spong is the Director of the John and Dotsa Bitove Law Library at Western University, a position he has held since November 2018. He has worked in a variety of roles in both college and university libraries. He has a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School and an MI from the University of Toronto.
Saffron Beckwith
Saffron Beckwith is President at Ampersand Inc. where she has the best job in the world…talking about books with teachers and librarians. She is also an instructor at Ryerson University. Home
Rebecca Jones
Her work at Dysart & Jones Associates focuses on planning, problem-solving, organizational design, and leadership development and coaching. Rebecca has led and facilitated +100 planning and organizational design projects with small, volunteer-run non-profits to large research university and public libraries. To ensure she lives the operational and organisational realities of D&J clients and factor these …
Rosalyn Steele
A passionate reader, Rosalyn loves discovering new authors and talking about them to whoever will listen. She also bakes a mean cookie (or so she’s told) and tries to follow the sage advice of Dr. Seuss, who once reputedly said: “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
Monika Machacek
Monika has worked in libraries for the past 12 weeks developing a passion for children’s services, encouraging innovative library services and prioritizing community collaboration. In East Gwillimbury for the past 4 years, Monika has been working closely with the Town’s Parks, Recreation & Culture department to build complementary services and programs to encourage residents to …
Mandy Deans-Kassies
I’ve worked in special, public and academic libraries in many different roles – providing a variety of library services including: reference, research, public services, technical services and administration. I am currently on secondment from Brock University and working full time for the OCUL Collaborative Futures Project.
Margaret Wall
Margaret Wall is a librarian at the University of Toronto, where she is cross-appointed between User Services and Library Administration in an internal communications and patron relations role.
Margaret Ann Wilkinson
Professor of Law at Western but also retains supervisory status in Library and Information Science, and also in Health Information Science, if anyone is interested in a further graduate program! Dr. Wilkinson is the Ontario Library Association’s Copyright Advisor. She is a co-author on 2 editions of Emonds Canadian Intellectual Property Law, used in law schools across …
Matthew Rohweder
Matt joined the Librarian team at Wilfrid Laurier University in March 2018 as one of the Business and Economics Librarians. Prior to this, he worked at York University Bronfman Business Library and George Brown College Library and Learning Commons. Besides Business Librarianship, Matt is actively engaged with eLearning in Libraries, games and gaming in Libraries …
Kelly Dermody
Kelly Dermody is the E-learning and Accessibility Services Librarian at Ryerson University Library and Archives. She started at Ryerson in 2005 as the Accessibility Services librarian and established the library’s accessible materials service. She has been the E-learning Librarian since 2012 and is busy creating online resources and flipping library instruction, as well being involved …
Jodie Mandarino
Jodie Mandarino is currently the Youth Services Librarian at the Halton Hills Public Library. She has also worked as an Adult/Young Adult Librarian at Saskatoon Public Library. She enjoys playing SuperHot in VR and never misses seeing a superhero movie in theatres.
John Pateman
John is Chief Librarian and CEO at Thunder Bay Public Library. John was part of the research team which produced Open to All? The Public Library and Social Exclusion (2000), which informed the Working Together Project (2004-2008) in Canada. He is the author of Developing a Needs Based Library Service (2003), Public Libraries and Social …
Jamie Hardie
As Strategist at Hardie and Company, Jamie has worked with businesses and NFP’s to develop brands that truly reflect their organizational philosophies, and produce advertising that gets noticed. The past several years have found Jamie focused on Ontario libraries, helping them retain and express their relevancy and strategically repositioning them as value centres in their …
Ann Pearce
Ann Pearce has over 35 years of library experience, the majority of which have been spent in an academic setting. She has been the Manager of McMaster University’s Innis Library (Business) and is currently temporary Manager at Thode Library (Science & Engineering) and the Thode Makerspace. She has supervised student assistants and full time staff …
Benjamin Walsh
Ben is a user services librarian at Robarts Library, selector for reference, and liaison to the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He has information literacy instruction responsibilities and co-facilitates the Creating More Equitable Classrooms program at the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation. He received his MI from the University of Toronto …
Andrea Colquhoun
She started as a manager in a bookstore in 1984 and moved to publishing in 1995 with a small family distributor and then Penguin Canada where she has been with the library market since 2006. Andrea is an avid reader and is passionate about young adult books and all genres of fiction.
Andrew Colgoni
Andrew Colgoni is the Services Librarian at the H.G. Thode Library of Sciences and Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. In addition to managing the team that provides library services at Thode, Andrew is an instructor in the McMaster’s award-winning Integrated Science (iSci) program. In 2014, Andrew launched Ad/Lib (adlib.info), a website that showcases …
Amanda Halfpenny
Amanda Halfpenny-Lavender has dedicated over 12 years to working in and with libraries in three provinces: Quebec, New Brunswick, and Ontario. Amanda rejects the silos that exist in Libraryland and is proud to have worked at public, academic, government, and school libraries. She is passionate about young people and has worked in the school libraries …