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You're new and you've taken the Board Basics workshop, but now what? There is more to being a trustee beyond knowing the Libraries Act and Regulations. This workshop will quickly guide trustees through the issues and expectations they will face in governing a library. This session will touch on policy and bylaw development, board/staff relations, collaborative relationships, community engagement, advocacy, resources and other topics related to being a trustee.

Science Literacy Week is a national week-long celebration of science, which ran from September 19 to 25, 2016. University of Alberta Libraries, Airdrie Public Library, University of Lethbridge Library, and Medicine Hat Public Library organized presentations, speakers, and demos to connect users to scientific research, concepts, and technology. This session will examine differing perspectives and approaches in planning and hosting outreach events.
Learning objectives:

• Successful coordination and implementation of Science Literacy Week events
• Targeting specialized presenters/groups for participation
• Cultivating community relationships
• Engaging local community attendance at event

The purpose of this crowdfunding campaign was twofold:

1. To raise funds for student initiatives associated with two of the University of Alberta’s School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) student groups: the Library and Information Studies Student Association (LISSA) and the Forum for Information Professionals (FIP).
2. To create a student run and student led professional developmentopportunity in order to provide real world experience in fundraising for SLIS students.

The intent was to raise $5,000 over a one month period in October that would be evenly divided between the two student groups for their specific purposes. This goal was considered to be both achievable, based on the scope of the campaign, and aspiring in the difficulty associated with raising this amount.

Crowdfunding was always intended to be the primary method for raising funds for the campaign. Since there are several pre-existing crowdfunding platforms that are popularly used, this provided the crowdfunding team with an easily accessible launch point for the campaign.

Three librarians at three different libraries in search of an assessment plan. How do you do it when assessment is but one of several responsibilities, and when your library's assessment practices are at different levels of development? Hear three different stories about the challenges, successes, and process of assessment planning at some of BC's newer universities. Participants will have the opportunity to consider a planning strategy for their own library's assessment efforts.
Presenters:
Amy Paterson, Thompson Rivers University
Colleen Bell, University of the Fraser Valley
Laura Thorne, UBC Okanagan

The Alberta Library Trustees Association has heard our trustees and your questions in regards to your library manager. In this session we will address the responsibilities and duties of the library manager; the role of the library manager in respect to the board; how to evaluate your manager; and, if necessary, how to hire or dismiss your library manager.
Learning objectives:

• Understand the role of library managers and their duties
• Review different evaluation models
• Determine the qualifications desired in a new library manager, and whether or not your manager fits with the culture of your library

Abstract: This research examines key success factors of the sharing economy’s models and postulates how their application to advocate and market libraries services and resources, addressing the gap of applying nontraditional business models to libraries.

In 2016-2017, the Province of Alberta provided funding to regional library systems and large urban libraries for on-reserve and on-settlement Indigenous populations. PLSB hosted a working group of librarians and trustees from across Alberta over the past year and is holding a symposium on the topic of public library service with Indigenous communities in February 2017. Members of this panel have served on the CFLA-FCAB committee on Truth and Reconciliation, and will give an overview of that work during this presentation.
Learning objectives:

• Learn what has been achieved to date and what the future holds
• Learn about the 2016 Indigenous initiative
• Share experiences and ideas for library services to Indigenous people and ideas for relationship building

F08 - Connecting With Multicultural Communities: Intercultural Communication Workshop
Fri Apr 21 2017, 10:30am–11:45am, Cordova Ballroom

SESSION DESCRIPTION

BCLA's Diversity and Multicultural Services Committee conducted an online survey in April 2016 to identify challenges faced by libraries when serving multicultural communities. The survey received 77 responses from libraries in BC: 71% indicated that their biggest challenge was a lack of familiarity with multicultural communities and their needs, while 81% of the libraries indicated that intercultural training would help them better serve ethnically diverse communities.
This workshop will be a first step in addressing these challenges through exercises, problem-solving, and interactive discussion of real-life library scenarios submitted by library staff.

SPEAKERS

Ravi Basi, Surrey Libraries

Biography: Ravi Basi is Manager of Multicultural Services at Surrey Libraries. For the past 25 years she has provided outreach, programs, and workshops to newcomers, immigrants, and refugees in Surrey, BC, one of Canada's most ethnically diverse cities, as well as formed strategic liasions with community stakeholders such as immigrant settlement agencies and the City of Surrey's diversity departments. Ravi has also been involved with ongoing anti-racism programs and initiatives. 

Ravi's work with multicultural communities is fuelled by her own family's experience as immigrants, as well as the conviction that immigrants enrich our communities and are vital to Canada's success on the world stage, and that libraries can play a crucial role in their transition and success.

Fereshteh Kashefi, BSC, MLS, North Vancouver City Library

Biography: Fereshteh Kashefi is Multicultural Services Librarian at North Vancouver City Library where her passion for all things multicultural is focussed on building multilingual collections and improving library services to immigrant communities. 

Prior to moving to Canada, Fereshteh was Head of National Bibliography at the National Library of Iran and also taught Cataloguing and Classification at the University of Tehran.

Library and Student Services partners will share research results from 3 semesters worth of student surveys addressing the appeal of attending campus Long Night Against Procrastination events. Evidence of student motivations and learning is critical for the continuation of such unorthodox events, and points to a demand for supportive, collaborative work environments outside of regular service hours - even at 2am in bunny slippers.
Learning objectives:

• Consider the value of temporary learning communities
• Reflect how academic services can be offered in engaging, informal environments
• Engage in discussion about similar experiences

Part One: Beginning Assessment