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Creative Connections
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Creative Connections
The Program
The Halifax Public Libraries Board will host the 2006 Creative Connections @ Your Library joint NSLA/LBANS annual conference a the Holiday Inn Select in the centre of Halifax on September 29th, September 30th and October 1st. Pre-conference sessions will be held from 9am to 4:15 pm on Friday, September 29th on services to youth including engaging reluctant readers, developmental reading problems, designing school websites, overviews of Book Buddy reading programs, and teen volunteer based programming. The pre-conference lunch will be coupled with a reading with Frank Macdonald, author of A Forest for Calum, short-listed for the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction in 2006. The Halifax Public Libraries Board will host a wine and cheese reception at the Holiday Inn Select on Friday evening.The keynote address, “12 Habits of Highly Effective Librarians,” will be presented on Saturday morning by keynote speaker Maureen Sawa, Director of Public Services and Community Development for Hamilton Public Library and author of the recently published children’s book, “The Library Book.” Sawa is a dynamic speaker who will addressing the future of library staff and how they will be faced with re-inventing themselves to meet changing user needs. To be successful, we must reconsider traditional core competencies and identify the skills, attitudes and values that enable us to work effectively and develop new service opportunities. Sawa looks at the key issues affecting libraries and focuses on the personal and professional competencies that we must develop.
The general conference program will include sessions with Archives Canada, and on topics such as: Graphic Novels, Geographic Information Systems and Map libraries, E-Learning in libraries, IT Trends, managing workplace priorities, library design, genealogy, readers’ advisory services, cataloguing and technical services, and, recruiting for library leaders. Author Jacqueline Halsley, author of Peggy’s Letters, a finalist for The Hackmatack and Rocky Mountain children’s choice book awards, will be reading; as well as poets Sue MacLeod, Sue Goyette and Brian Bartlett. Program topics will be of interest to trustees, school library staff, public library staff, and the pre- conference programs may also be of interest to teachers. Full conference program information will be available soon, check for updates on the NSLA website at nsla.ns.ca.
The Venue
The newly renovated Holiday Inn Select is located at the corner of Robie Street and Quinpool Road - central Halifax (See map). The conference program is packed with a variety of workshops, sessions, readings and exhibits, but, if you have any time to wander, the conference venue is located very near specialty shops, restaurants and cafes. Your conference registration package will have plenty of tourist information. A block of rooms have been held at the Holiday Inn Select for delegates. You may book before August 29th using this toll free number: 1-888-810-7288. (For more information on accomodations, see Conference Accomodations)We hope to see you in Halifax!
