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If
libraries are well positioned for knowledge, do they always know
how to be available and useful in their respective communities?
This challenge is at the forefront of every library, whether big
or small, specialized or general.
It
is with this universal theme in mind that we are looking for speakers
to illustrate how to:
- Reach
users where they are and invest in new locations
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Utilize technology to attract and build loyalty (folksonomy, instant
messaging)
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Integrate into the community (community of practice, multidisciplinary
teams, corporate information systems)
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Recognize needs of users and evaluate the range of services offered
for a positive reaction (surveys, information audits applicationn
tests, performance indicators)
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Adapt to the diversity of its client groups (millennial generation,
intercultural communities, the homeless, people from disadvantaged
backgrounds)
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Capitalize on emerging practices (digitization, web 2.0, downloading
sites)
Share
your successes!
New
this year, we are offering a poster session – a more practical
facet to the conference. It’s easy: no presentation, or notes
to prepare, just a simple poster and your presence – that’s
it!
We
are proposing 3 themes:
- Marketing:
exhibit your flyers, posters, bookmarks , or describe your promotional
activities and public relations
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Library-related Web 2.0 applications: share your achievements
with Wikis, RRS, podcasts, blogs, folksonomies, virtual communities,
and more!
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Information literacy: show us your best practices, tools and teaching
software
You
could win $500 CAD!
This
conference is meant to be dynamic, practical, and most importantly,
bring us all closer together. To reach our goal, we need speakers
from a host of milieus and backgrounds. Hope you’ll be joining
us…
The
Organizing Committee
Poster
session:
Participants will briefly present (5-10 minutes) research results,
projects or accomplishments. Presenters usually install a poster
on a movable wall that provides answers to questions a colleague
passing by might most likely ask. One session typically spans
1-2 hours and groups together many presentations. Imagine a trade
show where the exhibitors are your colleagues… That’s
a poster session! It’s where interactivity and conviviality
meets.
(See
opposite photo as example)
Printed
version 
APPLICATION
FORM for speakers and poster sessions
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