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