Take the time to step back from your day to day issues and challenges to focus on positioning your organization for a sustainable future. Look at fast approaching trends, discuss key issues with colleagues and industry leaders, get new insights and perspectives, and leave with new ideas for the future!
Thursday July 20, 2017 (Day 1)
8:30 am - Registration
9:00 am - Welcome from the Conference Chair
Jane Dysart, Dysart & Jones Associates
Wendy Duff, Professor and Interim Dean in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
9:10 am - Keynote : Mix it Up for a Fabulous Future!
Eric Chan a.k.a. EEPMON Digital Artisan
EEPMON is a millennial hybrid new media artist exploring the creative intersections through the usages of art and technology. He has collaborated and worked with various projects both in art and technology with firms and galleries across North America, UK, and Asia. He has held several shows and won several awards. He says “technology provides a new area for innovators and artists to experiment and develop new modes of creative expression.” He sees the computer as an artistic tool, just like the paintbrush, and with a desire only a truly passionate artist could have, set out to generate dense, dynamic and beautiful digital graphic compositions that attracted clients like Marvel, Canada Goose, Microsoft Xbox, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. His creative and innovative nature is inspiring and has allowed him to transform retail stores into art exhibitions for his creations, combine open-data weather and colour to create artistic works, and more. Currently eepmon is doing his Digital Artist in Residence at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada.
10:15 am - The Future: Key Issues, Trends & Actions
Our discussions begin with the big picture global perspective and move to the local community view. Includes interactive discussions.
10:45 am - Break
11:00 am - Practitioners Panel: Strategies & Practices
This panel of leaders shares how they are dealing with changes in the world, their strategies, practices and plans for the future. Lots of time for audience interaction and discussion.
12:30 pm - Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm - Collections: A Key Asset
Collections are a critical asset of libraries and are in continually changing formats. Join the discussion around e-resources vs. print, multimedia, open access, intellectual property, self-publishing, repositories, curating, pricing models and financing challenges, vendor issues and more.
2:45 pm - Break
3:00 pm - Human Resources
Action over Reflection or Open Thinking?
Life will increasingly be tied to both culture and purpose, validated and then improved by the ability to ideate and shape our progress. In Dan’s first book, FLAT ARMY (2013), he discussed the need for collaborative organizations. In the second book, THE PURPOSE EFFECT (2016), he outlined the need for three types of purpose: personal, organizational and role. His current book-in-progress, OPEN TO THINK (April 10, 2018), investigates the standing of both individual and organizational thinking, surfacing an antidote to aid what can only be described as a calamitous current state. Get insights and ideas for building an environment where creativity is encouraged, critiquing leads to better decisions while thoughtful action delivers positive and sustainable results. Meet this experienced practitioner and author as he appeals for better thinking while introducing supporting mechanisms to assist. As he says, “To become an open thinker, one must understand the relationship between reflection and action, and how it can negatively or positively affect an outcome.”
Staff!
Addresses another key asset of libraries – staff! Covers continuous learning, customer service, hiring skills, out-sourcing processes, succession planning and more. Make sure your future is sustainable with the right expertise for your community.
4:30 pm - Recap & Close
5:00 pm - End (Day One)
Reception to follow in the iSchool's new Inforum on the 4th floor
Friday July 21, 2017 (Day 2)
9:00 am - Industry Insights Panel
9:45 am - Technology & the Future
Leif shares his insights about the future and discusses the key areas for libraries to focus their attention. Includes interactive discussion with the audience. Bring your tech concerns and discuss them with colleagues and experts.
11:00 am - Break
11:15 am - Change Management
Change is hard—how can we do it better? Learn from a long-time practitioner who shares models, strategies and recommendations for creating dynamic organizations that can deal with, and master, change. Be inspired and take home solid ideas for moving your organization forward and engaging its community.
12:30 pm - Lunch (Provided)
Have an opportunity to buy Gordon Vala-Webb’s book & get it signed by the author!
1:30 pm - Prickly Topics
This session looks at the elephants on the table and other prickly topics that we like to avoid facing, and therefore solving. Be ready to have an honest conversation and feel uncomfortable, but get some insights for addressing tough issues and decisions.
3:00 pm - Break
3:30 pm - Distinctive Positioning for the Future
This session looks at how libraries can distinguish themselves from other communities’ activities and services, how they can partner with some of those other community groups and still keep their distinctiveness, and more. Think about where the learning commons ends and the library starts and how they interact ; where the museum ends and the library starts; how public libraries can share programs with the zoo, how academic libraries can draw their non-academic communities in for support, and more.
4:30 pm - Wrap Up
5:00 pm - End (Day Two)
Resources/Pre-Work
Computers in Libraries 2017 Keynote Video
Upping Our Game: Becoming Library Journal Library of the Year
Gina Millsap, Chief Executive Officer, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
This innovative and forward-thinking library CEO shares her secrets to becoming a role model for libraries around the world. She discusses how the roles of librarians and libraries are changing to be community leaders and change agents. Librarians are the new superheroes—developing new toolkits, skills, and relationships to facilitate positive change in their communities. We can change the world by working with our communities and helping make them better places to live, work, learn, and play
Thursday July 20, 2017 (Day 1)
8:30 am - Registration
9:00 am - Welcome from the Conference Chair
Jane Dysart, Dysart & Jones Associates
Wendy Duff, Professor and Interim Dean in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
9:10 am - Keynote : Mix it Up for a Fabulous Future!
Eric Chan a.k.a. EEPMON Digital Artisan
EEPMON is a millennial hybrid new media artist exploring the creative intersections through the usages of art and technology. He has collaborated and worked with various projects both in art and technology with firms and galleries across North America, UK, and Asia. He has held several shows and won several awards. He says “technology provides a new area for innovators and artists to experiment and develop new modes of creative expression.” He sees the computer as an artistic tool, just like the paintbrush, and with a desire only a truly passionate artist could have, set out to generate dense, dynamic and beautiful digital graphic compositions that attracted clients like Marvel, Canada Goose, Microsoft Xbox, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. His creative and innovative nature is inspiring and has allowed him to transform retail stores into art exhibitions for his creations, combine open-data weather and colour to create artistic works, and more. Currently eepmon is doing his Digital Artist in Residence at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada.
10:15 am - The Future: Key Issues, Trends & Actions
Our discussions begin with the big picture global perspective and move to the local community view. Includes interactive discussions.
- Jane Dysart on IFLA Global Vision
- SlideShare: Beyond 2020: Trends
- Barbara Franchetto, CEO, Southern Ontario Library Service
10:45 am - Break
11:00 am - Practitioners Panel: Strategies & Practices
This panel of leaders shares how they are dealing with changes in the world, their strategies, practices and plans for the future. Lots of time for audience interaction and discussion.
- Vickery Bowles, City Librarian, Toronto Pubic Library
- Carol Shepstone, University Librarian, Mount Royal University & incoming Chief Librarian, Ryerson University (Effective September 11, 2017)
12:30 pm - Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm - Collections: A Key Asset
Collections are a critical asset of libraries and are in continually changing formats. Join the discussion around e-resources vs. print, multimedia, open access, intellectual property, self-publishing, repositories, curating, pricing models and financing challenges, vendor issues and more.
- Christina de Castell, Director, Collections & Technology, Vancouver Public Library and former Manager, Policy & Advocacy, IFLA
- SlideShare: Evolving digital collections
- Lori Oja, Executive Director, Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto
2:45 pm - Break
3:00 pm - Human Resources
Action over Reflection or Open Thinking?
Life will increasingly be tied to both culture and purpose, validated and then improved by the ability to ideate and shape our progress. In Dan’s first book, FLAT ARMY (2013), he discussed the need for collaborative organizations. In the second book, THE PURPOSE EFFECT (2016), he outlined the need for three types of purpose: personal, organizational and role. His current book-in-progress, OPEN TO THINK (April 10, 2018), investigates the standing of both individual and organizational thinking, surfacing an antidote to aid what can only be described as a calamitous current state. Get insights and ideas for building an environment where creativity is encouraged, critiquing leads to better decisions while thoughtful action delivers positive and sustainable results. Meet this experienced practitioner and author as he appeals for better thinking while introducing supporting mechanisms to assist. As he says, “To become an open thinker, one must understand the relationship between reflection and action, and how it can negatively or positively affect an outcome.”
- Dan Pontefract, Chief Envisioner, TELUS Transformation Office & Author (via skype)
Staff!
Addresses another key asset of libraries – staff! Covers continuous learning, customer service, hiring skills, out-sourcing processes, succession planning and more. Make sure your future is sustainable with the right expertise for your community.
- Andrea Cecchetto, Manager Learning & Growth, Markham Public Library
- SlideShare: The future of libraries: Staff
4:30 pm - Recap & Close
5:00 pm - End (Day One)
Reception to follow in the iSchool's new Inforum on the 4th floor
Friday July 21, 2017 (Day 2)
9:00 am - Industry Insights Panel
- Edmund Salt, President, Whitehots Inc.
- Stephen Abram, Executive Director, Federation of Ontario Public Libraries & Principal, Lighthouse Consulting Inc.
9:45 am - Technology & the Future
Leif shares his insights about the future and discusses the key areas for libraries to focus their attention. Includes interactive discussion with the audience. Bring your tech concerns and discuss them with colleagues and experts.
- Leif Pedersen, EVP, Product, Innovative Interfaces Inc.
11:00 am - Break
11:15 am - Change Management
Change is hard—how can we do it better? Learn from a long-time practitioner who shares models, strategies and recommendations for creating dynamic organizations that can deal with, and master, change. Be inspired and take home solid ideas for moving your organization forward and engaging its community.
- Gordon Vala-Webb, Author, Building Smarter Organizations
- SlideShare: Change management: Building smarter libraries
12:30 pm - Lunch (Provided)
Have an opportunity to buy Gordon Vala-Webb’s book & get it signed by the author!
1:30 pm - Prickly Topics
This session looks at the elephants on the table and other prickly topics that we like to avoid facing, and therefore solving. Be ready to have an honest conversation and feel uncomfortable, but get some insights for addressing tough issues and decisions.
3:00 pm - Break
3:30 pm - Distinctive Positioning for the Future
This session looks at how libraries can distinguish themselves from other communities’ activities and services, how they can partner with some of those other community groups and still keep their distinctiveness, and more. Think about where the learning commons ends and the library starts and how they interact ; where the museum ends and the library starts; how public libraries can share programs with the zoo, how academic libraries can draw their non-academic communities in for support, and more.
- Mike Ridley, Former CIO & Chief Librarian, University of Guelph
- Jessica Darling, Senior Librarian, CPP Investment
- Brendan Howley, former CBC TV investigative journalist & passionate library supporter
4:30 pm - Wrap Up
5:00 pm - End (Day Two)
Resources/Pre-Work
Computers in Libraries 2017 Keynote Video
Upping Our Game: Becoming Library Journal Library of the Year
Gina Millsap, Chief Executive Officer, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
This innovative and forward-thinking library CEO shares her secrets to becoming a role model for libraries around the world. She discusses how the roles of librarians and libraries are changing to be community leaders and change agents. Librarians are the new superheroes—developing new toolkits, skills, and relationships to facilitate positive change in their communities. We can change the world by working with our communities and helping make them better places to live, work, learn, and play