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Expand your innovation toolkit and spark new insights for your team with this handson session that focuses on creative destruction - a fun and innovative method of problem-solving. Through a facilitated discussion and your contributed experience, you'll have an opportunity to practice a different approach to brainstorming. Together, we'll tackle a broad challenge related to library services, and explore a process that can be used to think creatively about library spaces, systems, collections, programming, or instruction.

In order to build and maintain a healthy community, members need to understand their past. The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries is home to the world's largest collection of trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse history. In December 2019, we proudly launched an online discovery tool to search our collection of publications, which include articles written by trailblazing community members, and historical events that shaped trans activism and history. In this presentation, Michael Radmacher (MLIS, MA) and Shahira Khair (M.Sc, MIS) will tell the story of this project, and will offer a demonstration of the new discovery tool.

Want to build a fun escape room program that appeals to families with children, teens, and adults, but feel like you don’t have the space to make it work? Have you seen pictures from amazing escape room programs in other libraries, but don’t have a dedicated space to commit to a lengthy program? I’ll share tips, tricks, and plans for three different escape rooms we have successfully run that fit (almost) entirely on a book cart and are easy to set-up and take-down. We’ll talk about rooms with doors that don’t lock, different types of puzzles that are easy to use, how to build multiple rooms using the same materials, and ways that participants can adapt these programs for their own library spaces.
 
Presented at the CATS Conference, Kelowna BC, Oct 7th, 2019. 

Have you ever wondered how academic libraries support distance education students and programs? Join several distance librarians to find out more about their services and how they keep their patrons happy, even in different time zones!  Come away with a brief history of serving this distinct population, an overview of current services and challenges, and a few funny stories in betweeen.  The session will conclude with a Q & A session.