Wednesday February 3, 2021
10:00am-11:00am
Keynote: Anna Maria Tremonti
Sessions: Block 1 – 11:15am-12:00pm
- I Can’t Believe It’s Not TVO Kids: How to Make Your Own Preschool Storytime Show
- Lean on Me: Networking and Mentorship amongst Culturally Diverse Library Professionals
- Metrics Literacies: Improving Understanding and Use of Scholarly Metrics In Academia
- Mobile applications use by medical trainees in the clinical setting
- Virtual Volunteering
- Franchement accessible! Offrir des services et collections accessibles
- The New Cellmate: Prison Libraries During Covid-19
Sessions: Block 2 – 12:15pm-1:00pm
- Bibliotherapy in the Time of Covid-19
- The inspirational idea of Critical Information Literacy in times of pandemic: my personal journey as a research librarian.
- Mind over matter: practical, proven strategies to secure an academic library interview
- Coping with COVID: supporting the mental health & professional practice of healthcare workers through embedded librarianship
- Interactive, reusable online instruction using H5P
- Translating Information Literacy Instruction across Library Settings
- Powwow: Reconciliation Through Celebration
Spotlights – 1:30pm-2:15pm
ABO-Franco Spotlight: Khate Lessard
Indigenous Spotlight: Dr. Evan Adams
Careers Spotlight: Dr. Ellen Choi
Sessions: Block 3 – 2:30pm-3:15pm
- RDA in the new Toolkit: what’s different? what stays the same?
- Visiting Library Service When Visiting Is No Longer an Option
- Don’t Box Me In: Using APIs to Solve Out-of-the-Box System Limitations with Alma
- Research, Scanning and Tool Building all in a Special Library? We’ve got it “Covid-ed”!
- Recognizing Library Value – Supporting Community and Economic Recovery
- À cœur vaillant, rien d’impossible? Leçons apprises à la direction de l’École des sciences de l’information de l’Université d’Ottawa
- Difficult Conversations that Can Heal the Human Heart
Sessions: Block 4 – 3:30pm-4:15pm
- CFLA-FCAB: your federation at work, Todd Kyle
- Hamilton Reads 2020: Finding pandemic inspiration in Indigenous apocalyptic fiction
- Beyond the Checklist: New 2021 Accessibility Compliance Requirements for ELearning Resources and Research Guides in Libraries
- Outreach to the new-Canadian small business community
- Behind the Smile: The Emotional Labour of Public Library Work
- Starting a new service during an emergency: Live & Online Programming
- What’s your Data? Choosing, analyzing, and using your library data for advocacy and decision-making
Thursday February 4, 2020
10:00am-11:00am
Keynote: Ryan McMahon
Sessions: Block 1 – 11:15am-12:00pm
- Mapping the curriculum, maximizing impact: How we prioritize our information literacy instruction
- Developing Clever Minds and Human Hearts: Building Future Library Leaders
- Online in a hurry: Lessons learned from moving STEM library instruction from in-person to online
- Podcasting in the Library Learning Commons
- Leadership Succession in Public Libraries: Hear from Program Graduates
- Clever Library Techs are Everywhere: a panel discussion of the variety of opportunities for LTs
- Emptying the Ocean with a Teaspoon: A Librarian’s Perspective on Living Through and Recovering from Burnout
Sessions: Block 2 – 12:15pm-1:00pm
- Capturing COVID-19 as a Community Collectionn
- Creating a Supportive Environment for Staff with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Keeping Our Student Pages Safe
- Ahead of the Curve: Libraries as Collaboration Leaders during Covid-19
- Fun for all: how to create more accessible gaming collections and programs
- National Film Board of Canada’s Indigenous Cinema: We Will Stand Up
- LAC Update
- RDA in the new Toolkit: a deeper dive into the changes
Spotlights – 1:30pm-2:15pm
OLITA Spotlight: Mutale Nkonde
OHLA Spotlight: Megan Ogilvie
Intellectual Freedom Spotlight: Panel discussion
Sessions: Block 3 – 2:30pm-3:15pm
- A Blueprint for Searching Preprints with a Focus on COVID-19
- Diversity and Inclusion for New Librarians
- The One About Community Connections
- Beyond Technical Requirements: Considering the Social and Cultural Aspects of System Migrations
- TD Summer Reading Club Online Program
- Cataloguing alternate formats in RDA & MARC 21: key themes & updates for accessibility issues
- Book Tasting with the OLA Best Bets
- Don’t Stand So Close to Me: The Lasting Effects of COVID-19
Sessions: Block 4 – 3:30pm-4:15pm
- The Right to Read: Accessibility for Children with Language-Learning Challenges
- Dewey Divas and Dudes Speed Dating Spring 2021 Titles Adult and Kids Books
- Digital Escape Room Adventures
- Learn and Make Online: Digital Innovation Virtual Programs During Physical Distancing
- Evaluating Mental Illness in YA Fiction: Do Existing Guidelines Work?
- Don’t Stop Receivin’: How We Kept Collection Development, Acquisitions & Cataloguing Alive During COVID-19
- CULC: eContent Working Group -Response to shifting content access priorities and possibilities
Friday February 5, 2021
10:00am-11:00am
Keynote: Ashley C. Ford
Sessions: Block 1 – 11:15am-12:00pm
- Reader’s Advisory Beyond the Library Walls: Offering RA Online
- It was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times: Leadership in Turbulent Times
- The failure of libraries to hire a more diverse librarian workforce: More than just a “lack of diversity in the candidate pool”
- 14,500 minutes: An education campaign to reduce research waste in an academic health sciences research cycle,
- WANTED: CEO to Start at the Onset of a Pandemic
- De-escalation Practices to Support Inclusion
- Add another M: incorporating Media Literacy into STEAM and MakerSpaces
Sessions: Block 2 – 12:15pm-1:00pm
- When to Say “Yes” and When to Say “No” – A How-To Guide from a (Semi)-Reformed Pushover
- Approaching Middle-Grade Fantasy through an Indigenous Lens
- Collaborate Now: How Public Libraries can Lead in Supporting Community Information and Providing Collaboration Opportunities
- From Accessibility to Inclusion: Improving and Expanding Library Accessibility Services
- Supporting Community Health and Well-Being during Times of Crisis
- Tackling the 3 P’s in an LSP Migration – Policies, Procedures, and (Best) Practices for Technical Services
- Better Together: CBC/Radio-Canada and Public Libraries
Spotlights – 1:30pm-2:15pm
OCULA Spotlight: Angela Misri
OPLA Spotlight: Hamza Khan
Sessions: Block 3 – 2:30pm-3:15pm
- Supporting researchers during COVID – how Canada’s data community pulled together
- Copyright Update
- The Price of Inaction: Relationship Building with the Indigenous Community at our University Library
- Adventures in Online Content – How we unleashed our inner Spielbergs
- So You Want to Host a Social Work Student: The Ins and Outs of Being a Co-Op Placement
- Where are we with that? Using Trello to manage gift-in-kind donations
- Sketchnoting 101
Sessions: Block 4 – 3:30pm-4:15pm
- NFB Indigenous offer: Alanis Obomsawin and Tasha Hubbard
- Why Forget What We Can Remember? The Right to be Forgotten and Its Impact on Libraries
- Dewey Divas and Dudes Resilience-Social Emotional Learning for Kids
- Canadian Blackface Culture: Uncovering Racist Material in Archives and Special Collections
- ‘But how will we know if it’s working?’ Evaluating marketing & promotion efforts in special libraries
- Providing information services in health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a panel discussion
Saturday February 6, 2021
Opening Sessions – 10:00am-11:00am
- OLBA Boot Camp: Opening Remarks & CEO Performance Appraisal
- Curating Diversity and Valuing Student Voice in a Middle School Library
Sessions: Block 1 – 11:15am-12:00pm
- Provoking Learning in Digital Spaces
- Hosting a Human Library
- The Next Wave: Diversity in Picture Book Biographies
- OLBA Boot Camp: Why Boards for Libraries with a Municipality Component
Sessions: Block 2 – 12:15pm-1:00pm
- OLBA Boot Camp: What Keeps CFOs Up at Night / Treasurers and Budgets
- Change in Process: Exploring Student Identity and Library Collection Data to Build Literacy, Leadership, and Community in the School Learning Commons
- Diving into Digital Provocations Through Play, Engagement and Inquiry in the Forest: Exploring Blue Spruce Nominated Texts with Loose Parts & Digital Provocations
- School Library Technicians in a Virtual World
Sessions: Block 3 – 1:30-2:15pm
- OLBA Boot Camp: Responding to Changing Needs: COVID
- A Changed, Changing and Change-Making School Library
- I Read Canadian – Year Long Celebration in the School Library
- Leading from the heart to design the School’s heart: Administrator and Teacher-Librarian’s Partnership to re-design school’s LLC
Sessions: Block 4 – 2:30pm-3:15pm
- OLBA Boot Camp: Leaving No One Behind: Ensuring Representation and Accessibility on Your Board
- Nothing Passive About It
- Administrators as School Library Allies