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F 850 TALCO Friday, JANUARY 30, 2009 MTCC 201a 7:30 AM Annual General Meeting Presiding: Marlene Turkington, Thames Valley DSB; Kelly Dilorio, Resource Teacher, Niagara DSB TALCO (The Association of Library, Media, Information Technology Co-ordinators and Consultants of Ontario) invites conference delegates who are the lead people in their school boards for library, media and information technology programs to attend the AGM. No cost. Registration will be done through TALCO listserv. 900 MTCC 105/106 8:00 AM all conference plenary Creative Economy, Culture CC Dr. Michael Bloom CREATIVE COMMUNITIES Dr. Michael Bloom, Vice-President, Organizational Effectiveness and Learning, The Conference Board of Canada Dr. Bloom is responsible for managing the Organizational Excellence, the Education and Learning, and the Learning and Development research groups. In May 2008, the International Forum on the Creative Economy brought together over 200 national and international thinkers, leading economists and business leaders to discuss evidence on the current and future economic forces and trends impacting the innovation, creative, and knowledge-based economies. At that event, Dr. Bloom spoke about the recent Conference Board of Canada report titled: Valuing Culture: Measuring and Understanding Canada's Creative Economy, which examines the culture sector as a cornerstone of the creative economy. Dr. Bloom is a graduate of the University of Oxford (DPhil) and Carleton University (BA, MA). AND THE FOLLOWING PRESENTATIONS: OLA'S FOREST OF READING AWARDS PRESENTATION 2008 EVERGREEN AWARD FOR ADULT READERS Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes 50 OL A super conference 2009