Power Point

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.

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:
• an update on GALLOP (Government and Legislative Libraries Online Publications Portal), its recent user survey and future directions.
• a whirlwind tour of the its digital initiatives and systems projects, including projects aimed at its clients and the public.
The session will conclude with a Q&A.

At VILSC 2016, Lisa and Jean introduced a new shared print monograph initiative undertaken by 10 academic libraries in Western Canada. The Shared Print Archive Network (SPAN) Monograph Project, an initiative of COPPUL, helps ensure we retain and preserve enough copies of rare, local-interest print materials for future access by scholars and citizens. Please join us for an update on the outcomes of this exciting project! We will also demonstrate how we are analyzing our collective holdings and circulation data, using an online tool called GreenGlass, to advance local collection management goals in responsible, sustainable, evidence-based ways. Finally, we will share some of our thoughts, experiences and workflows around that bête noire of libraryland, weeding, as well as possible future uses of the data beyond deselection and retention.

A 15 minute presentation on the state of ebooks as presented at the 2018 Ebook and Digital Collections Summit hosted by the BC Libraries Cooperative in Vancouver, BC
Video link to be added when available.

Librarians & Library staff are often expected to negotiate and advise in a complicated copyright landscape. As non-lawyers, we can’t give you legal advice, but as copyright practitioners we have tons of practical experience and insight we will share with active learning exercises sprinkled throughout. From copyright basics in a new light, to ways to talk copyright to patrons and stakeholders, this workshop is designed to get everyone, no matter their experience, more comfortable with copyright issues. We will also give up-to-the-minute updates on what is happening with copyright in Canada (it is a busy year!), copyright advocacy, and will involve a number of people from different library types to contribute to the conversation.

While the ACRL Framework promotes the use of threshold concepts in information literacy, how these concepts are implemented in the classroom is left open to individual instructors. This session will highlight one useful method for engaging students in a discussion about authority. This very simple activity challenges students to look beyond “good” and “bad” sources to see how authority is constructed and how it can be deployed in different contexts.

Presentation for the 2018 MLA conference sharing an overview of the TD Summer Reading Club and program ideas from the 2017 English language Library Award winners.

In 2017 the West Vancouver Memorial Library received a Canada 150 Community Fund grant to plan and implement activities to share and promote an understanding of Canadian and local history as a way to encourage conversations about reconciliation. Honouring Reconciliation: Hearing the Truth consisted of Reading Circles, an educational exhibit, a film series and a panel discussion. It was clear from the beginning that planning this initiative was different from our usual program planning. The planning team members grappled with a number of questions. How do we create meaningful events when our processes and deadlines made it impossible to consult with Indigenous people in advance? How do we prepare ourselves to work with protocols that are new to us and that respect Indigenous ways of learning and knowing? How do we create a safe space for Library staff and members of the public to discuss topics that can be personal and emotional? This session will explore the ways that we faced these challenges through training, collaboration, dialogue and a willingness to consider new ways of operating. It will also outline the implications for the Library's work culture in the future as well as how we were impacted as individuals.