2017 Library Symposium Session Information – Wednesday March 29th

Below is a listing of all the sessions being offered at the 2017 Library Symposium. For your convenience, the links below will take you to the section of the page with the information about each of the sessions.

Session 1 Session 2 options Session 3 Session 4 options Session 5

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Session 1; 8:45-10:00


Keynote: 

Keeping it Simple with Pam Harland

An uplifting and interactive session filled with practical ideas on why we do the things we do.

Pam Harland
  • Pam Harland has been a librarian for over 25 years working in public libraries, academic libraries, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as a research librarian. Today she is a Faculty member at Plymouth State University where she serves as the Program Coordinator for the Library Media Specialist and Technology Integrator programs. Pam is on the Board of Directors of the American Association of School Librarians and is the author of The Learning Commons: Seven Simple Steps to Transforming Your Library (Libraries Unlimited, 2011).
  • Twitter: @pamlibrarian

    Session 2 Options; 10:15-11:15

    Session 2A:

    Cosplay MakerSpaces with Diana Maliszewski

    You’ve heard the term “makerspace”. Have you heard of “cosplay”? Often seen and admired at comic and anime conventions, cosplay is the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game. Cosplayers often make their own outfits, so why not combine cosplay and makerspaces as school? This mother-daughter team of amateur cosplayers will tell their tales of creating costumes and potential ways to incorporate it into your established or emerging makerspace.

    Diana Maliszewski
    Toronto DSB
    • Diana Maliszewski is the teacher-librarian at Agnes Macphail P.S. in Toronto, ON. She is the editor of The Teaching Librarian, the official magazine of the Ontario School Library Association.Diana has presented at conferences and workshops all over North America on topics such as gaming in education, graphic novels, popular culture, professional learning communities and children’s literature. In 2008, Diana Maliszewski was awarded the Follett International Teacher-Librarian of the Year Award from the Canadian Association of School Libraries for her contributions to the field of school librarianship.
    • Twitter: @MzMollyTL

    Session 2B:

    Accessible Reading Quebec: Empowering Secondary Students with Accessible E-books. With Annette MacIntyre and Andrea Prupas

    Secondary students with lower than average literacy skills experience barriers to reading success, such as poor engagement and the inability to understand text at their interest-levels.  Enhanced e-books (those that are enabled for audio narration, text-highlighting and / or text-to-speech) can be useful tools for by-passing these barriers.  

    At this session, presenters will provide recommendations of enhanced collections for the Secondary library, as well as organizational and promotional strategies for getting these materials into the hands of students. These collections and strategies have been developed in Fall and Winter of 2016/17 at Perspectives II High School, a pilot project of the Accessible Reading Quebec Project.

    Accessible Reading Project is an initiative of the Direction des services à la communauté Anglophone (DSCA) of the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur and the ALDI Initiative, on behalf of the English school boards in Québec. 

    AnnetteAnnette MacIntyre MEES-DSCA
    • Annette MacIntyre is a Board librarian at the English Montreal School Board (EMSB), currently on loan of service to the MEES with the Accessible Reading Quebec Project. She has previously worked at the Western Quebec School Board, as a reference librarian at the Library of Parliament, and as a youth services librarian with Halifax Public Libraries.
    andrea_prupasAndrea Prupas ALDI
    • Andrea Prupas is Coordinator of the ALDI Initiative, a project of the nine English school boards with a special focus on Universal Design for Learning. The project provides professional development and a professional learning community within the youth and adult sectors. Andrea’s experience as a special education teacher and consultant has been in both inclusive and specialized school settings for students with autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, and reading disabilities. In the past several years her work has focused on the integration of assistive technologies in our classrooms, as well as a current focus on print accessibility for students with perceptual disabilities.

    Session 2C:

    Dewey Free with Joan Fraser-Burton

    Several New Frontiers School Board elementary schools have ditched the Dewey Decimal System to meet the needs of the Google generation.  See how and why they chose to go Dewey-free to help connect their students with the books they were looking for.

    JoanFBurtonJoan Fraser-Burton
    NFSB
    • Joan began her library career volunteering at her children’s elementary school.  During that time she attended Concordia University part-time working towards a B.A. in library studies until accepting a full-time position with New Frontiers School Board, first in a high school library and for the last 15 years as a Documentation Technician based at the Board Office and responsible for supporting the board’s two high school and 10 elementary school libraries.

    Session 2D: 

    French book talk – Monet

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    Books for Building Bridges/Des livres pour faires des ponts with Tiffany Clarke and Danièle Courchesne

    ELA and FLS teachers work together more and more. What role can libraries play in helping this collaboration? Dans cet atelier, nous vous présenterons des livres qui se répondent plutôt que des traductions intégrales. Québec Reading Connection and Livres ouverts can be very helpful tools to make connections between books and subject areas.  Les participants pourront consulter les livres sélectionnés et repartir avec une bibliographie pour tous les cycles du primaire.

    Tiffany Clarke
    MEES: Quebec Reading Connection
    • Tiffany Clarke works at Québec Reading Connection as a library specialist.
    Danièle Courchesne
    MEES: Livres ouverts
    • Danièle Courchesne travaille à Livres ouverts, pour les volets français, langue seconde et ILSS.

     Session 3; 12:30-1:30 

    Leading from the Library with Pam Harland

    How we leverage the leadership potential of the school librarian.

    Pam Harland
    • Pam Harland has been a librarian for over 25 years working in public libraries, academic libraries, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as a research librarian. Today she is a Faculty member at Plymouth State University where she serves as the Program Coordinator for the Library Media Specialist and Technology Integrator programs. Pam is on the Board of Directors of the American Association of School Librarians and is the author of The Learning Commons: Seven Simple Steps to Transforming Your Library (Libraries Unlimited, 2011).
    • Twitter: @pamlibrarian

    Session 4 Options; 1:45-2:45

    Session 4A:

    Simple Steps for Supporting Students Who Speak Other Languages in Our Libraries with Diana Maliszewski

    Although English and French are our country’s official languages, we are responsible for teaching students who speak many other different languages at home. How can the school library help? From dual language books to lessons that acknowledge and recognize the value of multilingualism, discover several strategies for helping our language learners (and ourselves) become more fluent in the language of learning!

    Diana Maliszewski
    Toronto DSB
    • Diana Maliszewski is the teacher-librarian at Agnes Macphail P.S. in Toronto, ON. She is the editor of The Teaching Librarian, the official magazine of the Ontario School Library Association.Diana has presented at conferences and workshops all over North America on topics such as gaming in education, graphic novels, popular culture, professional learning communities and children’s literature. In 2008, Diana Maliszewski was awarded the Follett International Teacher-Librarian of the Year Award from the Canadian Association of School Libraries for her contributions to the field of school librarianship.

     

    Session 4B:

    Making the library a safe and welcoming place with Judith Munger

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    Creating a safe space for LGBTQ use with Anne-Marie De Silva

    Making the library a safe and Welcoming place: The main focus is that all subjects are interesting. If a student is curious or interested in “Non-main-stream subjects”, the library is the place to find the info. There are no taboos or stupid subjects. The library is THEIR library and should reflect their interests like… 

    Presentation by the Sex Ed Consultant of English Montreal School Board of approaches and resources available for your library to help create a safe, positive, and healthy environment for all students.  Resources such as posters, book lists and websites will be provided, as well as tips on how the librarian can offer support to marginalized students.  An opportunity to ask questions will be offered at the end of the session.

     

    Anne-Marie De Silva
    EMSB
    • Anne-Marie De Silva has been the Sex Education and Ethics & Religious Culture Consultant for the EMSB for the past 6 years.  She has worked closely with the librarian network of EMSB to provide resources and suggestions to create inclusive, welcoming spaces for all students, and specifically for those struggling with sexual orientation and gender identity.
    Judith Munger
    ETSB
    • Judith Munger comes from the small business world and worked as registrar for the Orford Art Centre before coming to work at the Alexander Galt R.H.S. library in Sherbrooke. Her profound need to help students be the best they can be and her deep love of books are the reasons behind implementing distinctive ways of distinguishing Galt’s library from any other high school in the area. By visiting her blog, https://agrhs.blogspot.ca/ you will be able to get an idea of what can be done to adapt a library to the 21st century students, even on a budget.

    Session 4C:

    Finding Your Zen in The Library with Raphaella Dixon

    Feeling stressed and overwhelmed? Continually dealing with chaos and the unexpected? You need to take a moment for yourself. Life may knock us off course, sometimes repeatedly, but there are tools and resources that when used regularly will help us to regain our balance and find inner peace. Learn to draw upon the practices of mindfulness and authenticity to become a Zen librarian. Be prepared to leave this workshop feeling refreshed and centred.

    Raphaella Dixon
    LBPSB
    • Raphaella Dixon is a board librarian at the Lester B. Pearson School Board, where her dossiers include information literacy, copyright, and library procedures and standards. She was chair of the Quebec committee for Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada, and she now implements transitions to library learning commons at the LBPSB. Raphaella is a co-author of Q&A: Copyright Rules for Quebec Schools and part of the CFLA Copyright Committee. She runs an online book club and is the children’s book review editor for the ABQLA Bulletin. She is a retired fitness and yoga instructor.
    • Twitter: @RaphaellaDixon


    Session 4D 

    English book talk – Brome Lake Books

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    Teachers + Librarians = BFF with Kathryn Byrne and Tiffany Clarke

    Brome Lake Books – Is there anything better than an exciting new picture book that stimulates the imagination, inspires creativity and encourages conversation.  Stories that illicit discussion in the elementary Language arts classroom. Brome Lake Books will present some of their favourites from the last two years. They will also give you a sneak peak of some titles coming out later this year.

    Lucy Hoblyn has worked at Brome Lake books since 1999 and has been co owner with her husband Danny McAuley since 2006.   They are happily serving the teachers, librarians and school boards of the Monteregie area. Lucy also volunteers at their local school’s library. There she finds out which books are flying off the shelves (It’s something called Diary of a Wimpy Kid, would you believe?).

    Teachers + Librarians = BFF – When teachers approach the library looking for books, what are they looking for? Why do they prefer one dinosaur book over another? How can the library personnel help teachers find the best books for their needs?

    This workshop will present some new books and ways teachers are using them in their classrooms. Join us as an elementary teacher shares her book selection process, and a librarian offers ideas/pointers to bear in mind the next time a teacher visits the library. Teachers often have learning goals in mind beyond a subject or theme when choosing books for their class. By creating conversation, the library can further support teachers and students; and, in turn, make the library even more invaluable.


    Québec Reading Connection offers a carefully chosen selection of great books for your library and ways teachers can use them in their classrooms. 

    Kathryn Byrne
    MEES: Québec Reading Connection
    • Kathryn Byrne has been sharing her love of books and literacy as a certified teacher in Ontario and Quebec since 2002. She currently works as a teacher at Christmas Park Elementary School and as the Elementary Program Specialist at the MEES project, Québec Reading Connection.
    Tiffany Clarke
    MEES: Québec Reading Connection
    • Tiffany Clarke works at Québec Reading Connection as a library specialist.

       


      Session 5; 3:00-4:00

       

      Escape and Save the Library! BREAKOUT with Sandra Bebbington

      Chaos reigns! The powers that be have decided it’s best that all knowledge and reading material be kept under lock and key. So that information cannot be disseminated and “alternative facts” can prevail, they have locked you, the information specialists of the world, all inside the library. Can you escape and save the world from certain anarchy where a lack of knowledge reigns supreme? Join us as we work together to “BREAKOUT” and restore library access for all.

      SandraBebbingtonSandra Bebbington MEES-DSCA
      • Sandra is the Project Leader at the MEES-DSCA for Digital Citizenship, Information Literacy & School Libraries. Sandra and her team supports the English educational community with the implementation and integration of digital citizenship and information literacy. They also help support school libraries in the QC English educational community in a variety of ways. Having created two online toolkits (www.theinquiryprocess.ca www.digitalcitizenshipquebec.ca ) for educators , students and families, her team is now working on two digital badging sites: one for the teaching and learning of digital citizenship and another for school library professional development. Sandra has spent many years working in both school and public libraries; she wrote her thesis on teen gamers and information literacy. She has been published in the Journal of Information Literacy and she has also taught information literacy and critical thinking at Bishop’s University. In her spare time Sandra likes to hold Minecraft marathons at various public libraries in and around Montreal.
      • Twitter: @Sanbeb

       

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