Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference

Surfacing collections across Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) allows us to tell stories and share otherwise obscure specimens, artifacts, or records. A BC Digital Library has transformative potential to show complexity of people and places, amplify local collections, and to make our past available to help shape social discourse. But it must be built, and maintained into the future. A growing group of GLAM institutions are finding ways to get it done through radical collaboration. Join panelists for tales of prototyping across sectors, looming questions of metadata, and results of a pulse check on how the GLAM sector can collaborate.

What is participatory culture and what does it mean for libraries in the 21st century? Join GVPL staff and patrons who have been working to embrace this cultural transformation in meaningful ways at different levels of service and programming. Hear about some of our successes (as well as some experiences we've learned from!) and then brainstorm ways to promote increased participation in your own library.

Join several government librarians for an opportunity to learn about government libraries in British Columbia. The panel members will examine the transformations in their libraries as they discuss the services they are offering, how they are engaging their clients, special projects they are undertaking and the challenges they are facing. The session will conclude with a Q&A session.

TELŦIN TŦE WILNEW (TTW) is an award winning, blended delivery course, at Camosun College, which provides insight into an Indigenous worldview; describes the impact of colonization and how it affects students attending the college today; and guides participants in the development of new teaching and learning methods. (http://camosun.ca/about/teaching-learning/events/ttw.html)

The Legislative Library of BC will share what the library is about, what it offers the public, and what it means to offer services in a special library. The presentations cover:
• a scan of reference and research services and how they have changed to meet the transforming needs of our unique clients.
The session will conclude with a Q&A.

Research-a-thons are organized events where individuals with a shared interest come together to collaboratively answer a research question or build a research resource.
This spring, over 50 UVic law students, librarians, and lawyers came together at the UVic Law Library to collaborate on a student-led research project in support of the Environmental Law Centre’s mining law reform project. The presenters will share their experience hosting research-a-thons and will discuss lessons learned and tips for hosting a research-a-thon of your own.

Office talk can lead to inspiring ideas, and promote growth and change. This participatory session features lightning presentations on core library values and services designed to spark ideas and conversation. Participants will collaborate in re-imagining these values and services in the contexts of their own work lives and experiences. Featured Topics: Access. Diversity. Professionalism. Social Responsibility. Service. This session will feature real-time feedback.

Learn more about the personal experiences and professional journeys of librarians practicing truth and reconciliation in their work and daily practice.
Participants will talk about their role as an individual and the role of the library in bringing educational and professional transformation to all the communities they serve.

In 2004 the University of Victoria Libraries housed over 7000 theses in Special Collections and over 1000 in their circulating collection; it was also the year that they launched their digital repository.
This is a story about the evolution and transformation of the traditional print thesis as viewed through the changing lens of the University of Victoria's Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertation process.
Learn about UVic's successes and challenges hosting a repository and find out how it transformed access to this important academic library resource.

Melanie and Adrienne worked together as managers in the same regional public library system for five years. Having learned from their various management experiences, they offer participants insights into best practices and the importance of creating a collaborative workplace to help respond to increasingly complex community needs. They will discuss management's evolving role and why it is essential to develop the manager-employee relationship. Join them as they highlight the important principles that guide them as managers.