Speakers

Jiselle Maria Alleyne
Research & Bibliographic Instruction Librarian at the Bermuda College
Jiselle is currently the Research & Bibliographic Instruction Librarian at the Bermuda College. Previously, she held positions as the Head Librarian, West Indies School of Theology and as Youth Services Librarian at the National Library and Information Systems Authority in her home country of Trinidad & Tobago. Jiselle received her B.A. degree in history from the University of the West-Indies and her MLIS from Dalhousie University.
Session Title: International Collaboration in Student Library Instruction.

Murray Baillie
formerly Librarian at Atlantic Institution, Renous, New Brunswick
Murray Baillie was a library assistant at the Patrick Power Library for about fifteen years. During that time, he was in charge of government documents. He taught a course on government documents and presented Bachelor of Government Document diplomas to those who completed the work. Later, he was librarian at Atlantic Institution, a maximum security prison in Renous, New Brunswick, from 1989 until he retired in 2006.
Murray is a graduate of the Nova Scotia Normal College in Truro (Diploma in Education, 1961), Mount Allison University (B.A., 1969) and Dalhousie University (M.L.S., 1986).
Session Title: Seventeen Years in Prison: A Librarian Serves Maximum Security Inmates

Lesley Beckett Balcom
Associate Director of Libraries for Learning and Research Services, UNB Fredericton Libraries
Lesley Beckett Balcom. Since coordinating the Library Assistant program at UNB in the mid 1990's, she has been committed to providing a positive working environment for staff, which includes opportunities for growth and belonging. Libraries can be large and diverse organizations. Structural challenges within these can often be overcome when staff
Session Title: Sharing with Library Staff

Melissa Belvadi
Emerging Technologies & Metadata Librarian, UPEI
Melissa Belvadi joined UPEI last July as their new Emerging Technologies & Metadata Librarian, overseeing the systems and cataloguing groups there. She has an M.L.S. from UCLA with a specialization in information systems design. Prior to librarianship, she worked as a programmer and Unix systems administrator. She argues that most technology use problems are caused by poor interface design, not the user. She will be conducting usability research on her library's web site this spring. She grew up in New England and is currently an American, but hopes to change that.
Session Title: New Tools, New Workflows

Lyn Bennett
Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University
Lyn Bennett teaches classes in rhetoric, writing, and early modern literature. Her interest in effective communication extends to professional, literary, and academic genres, and her teaching takes up the theory and practice of writing for new as well as established media. Dr. Bennett holds graduate degrees in English and in Applied Language Studies, and she is the author of numerous scholarly articles and a book on the history of rhetoric. Her current research focuses on rhetoric, healing, and the profession of medicine in 17th century England.
Session Title: Workshop on Writing: Reaching Your Intended Audience

Gillian Byrne
Division Head for Lending Services, Memorial University Libraries
Gillian is currently the Head of Circulation and Document Delivery at the QEII Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Previous to that, she was an Information Services Librarian at the QEII Library, with responsibilities for the Library web presence, federated search and the Explore a Topic portal. Gillian has published and presented on web usability and information seeking behaviour, and is excited to explore what 3.0 will bring to users.
Session Title: When Tuples Sparql: Weaving the Semantic Web

Jeff Carter
Web Programmer Analyst, UNB Fredericton Libraries
Jeff has been a member of the Systems Group at UNB Libraries since 2000. He served as chair of the Staff Training and Development Committee during its initial years, providing leadership as the committee developed an array of projects and activities. A reformed high school teacher and instructor with Nunavut Arctic College, Jeff understands the benefits of a well informed and participatory work environment and the role technology plays in shortening distances geographically and within administrative hierarchies. Currently, he is developing and expanding UNB Libraries staff intranet.
Session Title: Sharing with Library Staff

Su Cleyle
APLA President 2008-2009, Associate University Librarian Queen Elizabeth II Library Memorial University of Newfoundland
Session Title: Perspectives on Key Library Issues Across Canada.

Margie Clow Bohan
As a teacher, a contract facilitator for the Government of Canada and practicing journalist, Margie learned quickly that there wasn’t much point in writing if the writing was inappropriate for an audience. Margie has found while teaching at Dalhousie and now managing the Writing Centre that students, staff, and faculty members find writing challenging mainly because of a lack of audience awareness. However, discussing writing issues, identifying audiences, practicing, and learning to self-edit will in time make anybody more effective. Margie has a BA, MA, and BEd (all in English), and is a PhD student studying how inter-professional groups write in a mixed-presence team environment.
Session Title: Workshop on Writing: Reaching Your Intended Audience

Maureen Collier
Reference Librarian and a Readers’ Advisory trainer Halifax Public Libraries
Session Title: Readers' Advisory: RA in a Day

Denis Cunningham
Manager of Communications and Marketing with Halifax Public Libraries
Denis is a two time winner of the prestigious ALA John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award. Since winning, Denis has been a member of the Dana selection committee for three years.
Session Title: Readers' Advisory: RA in a Day

M.J. D'Elia
Liaison Librarian for Economics and Marketing at the University of Guelph
M.J. D'Elia is the Liaison Librarian for Economics and Marketing at the University of Guelph. In addition to his library responsibilities, he currently teaches the Information Management course in the Marketing and Consumer Studies department and enjoys the challenge of trying to keep 2nd year students interested, engaged and awake during class. In the winter semester of 2010 he will be teaching a first year seminar course called The Moment That Never Was. This course will explore the issues and idiosyncrasies of visual information by examining manufactured moments and manipulated images.
Session Title: Information Literacy in the Age of YouTube

Stephanie Domet
Writer-broadcaster host of CBC Radio's Mainstreet and Atlantic Airwaves
Writer-broadcaster Stephanie Domet can be heard regularly on CBC Radio's Mainstreet and Atlantic Airwaves. Her written work has appeared in the Halifax Daily News, The Coast, Halifax Magazine and Quill and Quire. She has edited several books of non-fiction for Nimbus and Formac, and has served on the board of directors for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and Access Copyright. Her first novel, Homing, was published by Invisible Publishing in spring 2007 and won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award in 2008. She is a part-time instructor in the King's College School of Journalism. Stephanie Domet lives in Halifax with her husband and cat.
Session Title: Taking Inspiration from Where We Are: Working, Living, Writing

Patrick Ellis
Associate Librarian, Kellogg Library, Dalhousie University
Chair of Atlantic Health Knowledge Partnership, the group of libraries responsible for networking the Cochrane Library in Nova Scotia. The partnership has served as an informal partnership platform for networking health resources in the province. Co-Chair of a task force of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) to develop a national network of health libraries to better support the information needs of health practitioners throughout Canada. With the support of Canada Health Infoway, we have completed the national environmental scan and readiness assessment for the proposed network. One of the targets of the National Network is pan-Canadian access to the Cochrane Library. More info: http://chla-absc.ca/nnlh/indexe.htm. Previously chaired the CHLA task force responsible for the Canadian implementation of Docline (library based resource sharing program) and Loansome Doc (end user document delivery via PubMed).
Session Title: Healthy Information

Laura Emery
Public Services Librarian, York Library Region, Fredricton N.B.
Laura Emery is the Public Services Librarian for the York Library Region and works as part-time Reference staff for the University of New Brunswick. Before becoming a librarian Laura worked for eight years in the Maritime Film Industry as an assistant director. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, young adult services, and historical publications about New Brunswick. Check out her blog, Digibrainsplatter at http://digibrainsplatter.blogspot.com.
Session Title: Expand Library Programming with a Virtual Presence

Lisa Goddard
Division Head for Systems, Memorial University Libraries
Lisa Goddard is the Division Head for Systems at Memorial University of Newfoundland Libraries. She holds degrees from Queen's University (BA hon.), McGill University (MLIS), and Memorial University of Newfoundland (Graduate Dip. I.T.) Before joining the glamorous world of library systems, Lisa worked in Montreal as an Information Services Librarian. Current professional interests include EDI, open journal systems, institutional repositories, Library 2.0, and the semantic web. When not chained in the library basement, Lisa likes to play ice hockey.
Session Title: When Tuples Sparql: Weaving the Semantic Web
Session Title: Your Slips are Showing: Electronic Selection in a Multi-Vendor Environment

Heidi Hallett
Owner of the well known Frog Hollow Books in Halifax
Session Title: Readers' Advisory: RA in a Day

David Hansen
Resource Manager of Readers’ Services and the Mystery selector for the Halifax Public Libraries
Session Title: Readers' Advisory: RA in a Day

Paul Hardman
Paul has worked in the writing industry for more than twenty years, leading up to his present position as a writing advisor at the Dalhousie Writing Centre. From advertising copywriting to teaching writing to English Second Language students, from literary agent to writing strategic research for the mining industry, the writing has been aimed at a broad variety of audiences, from young immigrants to Bay Street executives. The element that remained constant in writing for all these worlds was the importance of maintaining awareness of the writer and the audience.
Session Title: Workshop on Writing: Reaching Your Intended Audience

Dr. Jill Hayden DC, PhD
Department of Community Health & Epidemiology Dalhousie University, Research Services, Capital Health, Advisory Board Member of the Cochrane Back Review Group
Jill has recently relocated to Halifax from Toronto, Ontario and is currently based in the Dept. of Community Health & Epidemiology. She was previously Scientist at the Centre of Research Expertise in Improved Disability Outcomes (CREIDO), University Health Network and Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto. Jill completed her PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto; her research experience and expertise includes prognostic research, systematic review methods, and musculoskeletal health. She has been the recipient of several training and achievement awards and currently holds a CIHR/CCRF New Investigator Award. Jill has been involved with the Cochrane Collaboration for many years, as review author, Advisory Board Member for the Back Review Group, co-Convenor of the Prognosis Methods Group. She has recently taken over the role of Dalhousie University Cochrane Site Representative.
Session Title: Healthy Information

Vivian Howard
Assistant Professor, School of Information Management Dalhousie University
Vivian Howard is an assistant professor in the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, where she has been teaching since 1996. She teaches classes in Services and Resources for Children and Young Adults as well as Collections Management and is also the editor of the YA Hotline newsletter. Her doctoral dissertation, completed through Aberystwyth University, Wales, investigates the role of pleasure reading and the public library in the lives of young teens. She gratefully acknowledges the APLA Memorial Award for providing funding in support of this research.
Session Title: What Are We Reading and Why Are We Reading?

Dianne Keeping
Collections Librarian, Memorial University Libraries
Session Title: Your Slips are Showing: Electronic Selection in a Multi-Vendor Environment

Robert A. Kenedy (PhD)
Assistant Professor Dept. of Sociology at York University.
He has been studying identity issues since 1989 with much of his research focusing on collective identity, ethnic communities, and identity formation. Dr. Kenedy's pedagogical interests include writing on partnerships with librarians, as well as research on Learning Commons and post-secondary critical thinking. Professor Kenedy is the winner of the York University Wide Teaching Award and the Glendon College Principal's Teaching Excellence award. He is also the two time winner of the John O'Neill award for Teaching Excellence in York's Department of Sociology.
Session Title: Partnerships between Librarians and Faculty: Best Practices for Successful Teaching

Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy is an award winning broadcaster, writer and host of the popular CBC Radio program Ideas, He has written and produced over 200 documentaries, beginning in 1977. He received a B.A. degree in history from Queen's University, a master of literature degree in history from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and has been associated with CBC Ideas "since its early days".
He became host of the program in 1999. His work has covered a wide range of topics from the fur trade, war crimes, Luddism, marathon running, salt, Jerusalem, to oysters and single malt Scotch whisky.
Paul Kennedy's work includes "Lost Innocence: The Children of World War II" a documentary which won the Peabody Award in 1989, as well as an ACTA award and NYC Festival Awards. Mr. Kennedy received the 2005 Ocean Science Journalism Award from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for the Ideas eight-part series "Learning from the Oceans." Mr. Kennedy shared a Gemini Award in 2006 for the CBC News: The National news segment "Suzanne".
Session Title: Keynote: "Making Books Work"

Amber Lannon
Head Librarian, Howard Ross Library of Management, McGill University
Amber Lannon is Head Librarian at the Howard Ross Library of Management, McGill University.   She was formerly a Librarian at the David Lam and Robson Square Libraries at UBC.  Amber obtained her MLIS from Dalhousie University and MBA from the University of British Columbia.
Session Title: Library Professionals at Their Core: What Values and Ethos Guide Today's Library Workers?

Madeleine Lefebvre
Chief Librarian, Ryerson University
Madeleine Lefebvre is currently Ryerson University Chief Librarian in Toronto. Previously she was Saint Mary’s University Librarian 1999-2007, and prior to that, Library Director of Mount Royal College, Calgary. Madeleine holds Master’s degrees in Classics from the Universities of Edinburgh and Alberta, where she also attained her MLS. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, and an Associate of the Australian Library and Information Association. She was President of CLA from 2003-2004. In 2005, Scarecrow Press published her book, The Romance of Libraries. In 2006 Madeleine was the recipient of the APLA Merit Award.
Session Title: Engaging the Community: Ryerson University's Master Plan and the new Student Learning Centre.

Marilyn Lohnes
Client Services Officer, NRC Information Centre, Fredericton
Marilyn Lohnes has been a Librarian for twenty years, and many of these were as a Children's Librarian in Toronto and then in New Brunswick. Over these years, she worked extensively in creating visual accessories (puppets, finger play characters and flannelboard characters) for storytime programming. Several years ago, while working on a literacy training manual for older students, she began to discover clear links with early literacy and preschool storytimes. Ms. Lohnes is the author of 5 books, most recently ABC Literacy Storytimes: Storytimes to Promote Literacy & Learning. She owns a small company where she makes and sells fingerplay characters for storytime use. This is her third APLA presentation.
Session Title: Literacy Storytimes: Beyond the Baseline

Joanne McCarthy
Halifax Public Libraries
Joanne McCarthy is a Reference Services Librarian with Halifax Public Libraries, specializing in local history and genealogy. She has hosted the annual Halifax Literary Walking Tour for over five years, and continues each year to add new stories to each literary stop.
Session Title: Halifax Literary Walking Tour

Ami McKay
Author
A writer of fiction, essays, musical theatre, radio documentaries and dramas, Ami McKay is a dedicated artist who brings ingenuity and passion to her work. Her novel, The Birth House, was published in 2006 to great critical acclaim and popular success. Ami believes that the power and magic of a good story can only come through strong characterization, plot and setting. The world she created in The Birth House has been described as one of "mystery and wisdom, a world where tradition collides with science, where life and death meet under the moon." Born in Indiana, Ami lives in a farm house in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia.
Session Title: Researching the Story: Incorporating Fact into Fiction

Bill Mitchell MLIS
Assistant Regional Director/Directeur Régional Adjoint York Library Region
Bill Mitchell, is a library professional with over twenty years of demonstrated enthusiasm for the mission of libraries; planning and managing a full range of value added library services. A Master of Library & Information Service, and a Master of Architecture graduate with a reputation for forward thinking and leadership. Currently he is Assistant Regional Director for York Library Region, New Brunswick Public Library Service. He has worked in libraries in Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Washington State, Ontario and New Brunswick, and has been actively involved in numerous library renovation and planning projects. He has worked as a Facility Planner, has served on library planning committees, conducted planning workshops for library boards, presented at a variety of library conferences, and has been a sessional lecturer on Library Facility Planning at UBC, SLAIS. He believes quite strongly that a functional and aesthetically pleasing library facility supports and enhances excellent library service.
Session Title: Greening Our Libraries

Vivienne Monty
Senior Librarian, York University, Frost Library, at Glendon College
She has over thirty years of teaching experience. Recently she chaired a committee to develop a web site (YULearn) that seeks to help students find their requirements online 24/7. Vivienne has written numerous books and articles as well as spoken frequently at national and international conferences. She is a former President of the Canadian Library Association. She has been involved with accreditation of library science programs for many years as both a site visitor and as a member of the Committee on Accreditation (ALA).
Session Title: Partnerships between Librarians and Faculty: Best Practices for Successful Teaching

Jim Morgenstern, MCIP
Principal, DMA Planning and Management Services
Jim Morgenstern is the Principal at dmA Planning and Management Services, a consulting firm specializing in master plans and strategic planning for public libraries. Mr. Morgenstern has an extensive background in library service assessments and master plans and has prepared facility feasibility studies and long range plans for libraries in Atlantic Canada, Ontario and the United States. Jim is also the principal author of the Southern Ontario Library Service Resource Manual 'The Library's Contribution to Your Community' (LCTYC). The LCTYC Resource Manual was first published in 1998, and a second, updated edition was released in 2008. The Manual is being used by libraries throughout North America to demonstrate their social and economic contribution to the community.
Session Title: Demonstrating the Library Social and Economic Contribution to Your Community

Donald Moses
APLA VP/President-Elect
Donald Moses is on secondment from his position as Assistant College Librarian at Holland College. He is currently working and learning at the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island where he is managing the IslandLives Project.
Session Title: “Who’s Your Father?” or IslandLives: Crafting a Digital Community History Project

George Needham
VP Member Services, OCLC
Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association. From 1990 to 1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library Association. From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held various posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina. George received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in library science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Session Title: From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America.

Kristina Parlee
Adult Services Librarian, Halifax Public Libraries
Kristina selects fiction for Halifax Public Libraries, is an RA trainer and a key member of the HPL Readers’ Services team.
Session Title: Readers' Advisory: RA in a Day

Ken Roberts
CEO, Hamilton Public Library. President (2008/9) CLA
Session Title: What the Heck Does Collaborative Management Really Mean?
Session Title: Perspectives on Key Library Issues Across Canada.

Denyse Rodrigues
Extended Services Librarian at Mount Saint Vincent University
Denyse is the Extended Services Librarian at Mount Saint Vincent University where her responsibilities includes library services for distance students. Previously she was the Web Content Co-ordinator for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. Denyse has a MISt, Library and Information Sciences, from the University of Toronto and a MA in Geography from York University.
Session Title: International Collaboration in Student Library Instruction.

Crystal Rose
Public Services Librarian, Memorial University Libraries
Previously a Youth Services Librarian for the Toronto Public Library, Crystal is interested in innovative and fun ways to make libraries a welcoming and engaging space for users. Her job as Public Services Librarian with Memorial University primarily focuses on reference, bibliographic instruction, and collections. She holds degrees from Simon Fraser (BFA), and Dalhousie (MLIS) Universities.
Session Title: Get Your Game On: Gaming in Public and Academic Libraries

Janine Schmidt
Trenholme Director of Libraries, McGill University
Janine Schmidt took up the position of Trenholme Director of Libraries at McGill University, Montreal in 2005.  She is responsible for the oversight of 13 branch libraries based on discipline and geography located at the downtown Montreal and Macdonald campuses.  Janine was previously University Librarian at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia; a post she held for 11 years. Janine was joint winner in 1999 of the Australian Library Manager of the Year Award and was made a Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association in 2004.
Session Title: Library Professionals at Their Core: What Values and Ethos Guide Today's Library Workers?

Duncan Smith
Founding partner of NoveList
This important Readers’ Advisory resource grew out of research that he conducted on why readers read what they read. As a Librarian, teacher, researcher and a widely recognized authority on Readers Advisory, Duncan has written on a variety of RA topics and is a popular speaker and presenter.
Session Title: Readers' Advisory: RA in a Day

Sharron Smith
Manager of Readers’ Advisory Services at Kitchener Public Library
Sharron is Chair of Ontario Public Library Association’s RA Committee, the co-author of Canadian Fiction: A Guide to Reading Interests, and recipient of the 2008 Librarian of the Year award presented by the Ontario Library Boards Association.
Session Title: Readers' Advisory: RA in a Day

Joanne Smyth
Reference and Distance Education Librarian, UNB Fredericton Libraries
Joanne provides reference and instructional services to students on and off campus, and is interested in making much of that same information available to all library workers, and in using staff training and development to ensure that we are all 'facing the same direction' in terms of serving our users. She is also involved in developing instructional material in a variety of formats and using online course delivery systems and emerging technologies to assist both users and staff.
Session Title: Sharing with Library Staff

Dr. Louise Spiteri
Associate Professor, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University
Dr. Louise Spiteri is Associate Professor at the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University. Dr. Spiteri teaches in the areas of metadata, cataloguing, classification, indexing, thesaurus construction, and records management. Dr. Spiteri's research interests involve the creation of subject analysis systems, such as classification systems and thesauri. Dr. Spiteri's recent research has focused on the contributions of social tagging systems, or folksonomies, to the design of library catalogues.
Session Title: The Impact of Social Cataloguing Sites on the Public Library Catalogue: Patrons, Social Tagging and the New Face of the Catalogue

Laurel Tarulli
Collections Access Librarian, Halifax Public Libraries
Laurel Tarulli is the Collections Access Librarian at Halifax Public Libraries. Her professional interests focus on the future of cataloguing, including social tagging, discovery tools and enhanced interaction between the library catalogue and its patrons. As the author of the blog The Cataloguing Librarian, Ms. Tarulli not only focusses on the future of cataloguing, but the enhancement of Readers Advisory services through the library catalogue and information ethics.
Session Title: The Impact of Social Cataloguing Sites on the Public Library Catalogue: Patrons, Social Tagging and the New Face of the Catalogue
Session Title: Readers' Advisory: RA in a Day

Barbara Tillett
Chief of Cataloging Policy and Support Office at the Library Congress
Session Title: Sharing Standards for Bibliographic Data Worldwide: an Overview of Changes in Cataloguing Practices

Sarah Wenning
Regional Manager of Readers’ Services for Halifax Public Libraries
Sarah coordinates service development and delivery in the region. She is a member of the Nova Scotia Provincial Library’s Readers’ Services Working Group and the Pan Canadian Readers’ Services Forum.
Session Title: Readers' Advisory: RA in a Day