Reader's Advisory

This session will explore the library “story” or brand in a broad way and challenge you to begin thinking about your own library’s brand. Find out how library staff and volunteers (including trustees) contribute to that story every day, and how social media (both the library’s social media and individual employees' or volunteers' social media) can affect that brand.
Learning Objectives:

• Understand what the library brand is, and apply that to your library
• Recognize how individual employees and volunteers build the library brand
• Identify the elements of a good social media policy

Description: Explore how the Graphic Novel is an often-misunderstood yet extremely versatile format that facilitates uniquely stirring forms of expression. Explore a variety of Graphic Novels to suit any age and interest.
Abstract: Discover the many different faces of this versatile and often overlooked storytelling format. Participants will learn about different genres of Graphic Novels for all ages, including literary, biographical, non-fiction, historical, award-winners, LGBTQ, manga, and more. Examples will be examined with suggestions for school librarians & teachers, reluctant readers, and those who seek out a sophisticated read. Examine an excerpt from a Graphic Novel that might challenge you conceptions of the format.
 
Learning Objectives:

• Give fresh consideration to Graphic Novels and their broad appeal for library patrons, students, and people of all ages and interests
• Discover different genres of graphic novels and consider the classification of Graphic Novel as a format vs. a genre
• Examine a Graphic Novel excerpt more in-depth and challenge potential preconceptions about the format

 
Target audience: Librarians, Library Staff (Public and School)
 
Tags: comics, graphic novels, manga, readers advisory, web-comics, formats, genres, fnmi, lgbtq, libraries, teaching, reading, books, classification, preconceptions, excerpts, patrons, reluctant readers,

From the Alberta Research Portal to licensing, from toolsheds to comic book consortium, The Alberta Library has exciting, innovative services for its members. Join our Licensing Librarian Christa Foley and IT Librarian Brian Lin to learn about and discuss the latest updates in TAL services and how your library can make the most of what our member-driven organization has to offer!

This PowerPoint is from the Youth Services Institute 2017.

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

Publisher reps present their picks for the best new books of the Winter/Spring and Summer 2017 seasons. This session will be informative for collection development staff, readers’ advisory staff, and teacher librarians looking for new recommendations for schools.

Publisher reps present their picks for the best new books of the Winter/Spring and Summer 2017 seasons. This session will be informative for collection development staff, readers’ advisory staff, and teacher librarians looking for new recommendations for schools.

Scholarly literature is often described as a conversation among readers and writers of a particular field or discipline. In this presentation we will share our research on how one journal in particular, The Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, strives to provide a platform for conversation for the library community in Canada. As the journal reaches its tenth anniversary, we are exploring how the Canadian LIS community perceives the role and value of this publication. Is there still a place for a journal of such breadth? Is there anything special about a Canadian library journal? How important is open access to Canadian library literature readers/writers?” How does the journal fit into the reading and research habits of contemporary practitioners? How might the journal look going forward? We take the temperature of the value and meaning of Canadian library literature for Canadian librarians and library paraprofessionals.

n 2012, the H.T. Coutts Library, University of Alberta, began digitizing the historical Alberta textbook collection. Collaboration between library units and external partners on this project will ensure online accessibility to this collection. In this session we will review the project milestones, lessons learned and strategies for developing a successful large scale digitization project.
Learning Objectives:

• Strategies for preparing a collection for digitization
• Successful collaboration with project partners Project management techniques
• The rich historical collection of the Alberta K-12 Curriculum

Allard Library Strategic Plan 2013 - 2016 from PLS preconference day session