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F 1011 9:05 AM Expert searching Friday, JANUARY 30, 2009 MTCC 203d 1013 9:05 AM Governance, Risk assessment 1016 MTCC 104a 9:05 AM Storytelling, Adult programs 1018 MTCC 203a 9:05 AM Discovery layers, Innovation RAPID RESPONSE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTS: SPEED VERSUS SYSTEMATIC SEARCHING Hayley Fitzsimmons, Manager, Information Services, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health HOW TO CONDUCT A LIBRARY RISK ASSESSMENT Session withdrawn. THRILLING TALES: ADULT STORYTIME @ YOUR LIBRARY David Wright, Readers' Services Librarian, Seattle PL 1014 CHANGING DATA: IMPLEMENTING PRIMO FOR THE TRIUNIVERSITIES GROUP Alison Hitchens, Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian, University of Waterloo Library MTCC 202b 9:05 AM Environment, LEED Certification, Facilities design There is a growing demand for rapid response reviews from health-care administrators and decision makers to support quick decision making and tight timelines. Discuss search techniques used by the Information Services department of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) to support the rapid response reviews produced by CADTH's Health Technology Inquiry Service (HTIS). Specific techniques discussed include: use of study type "filters" or "hedges" in order to reduce search results, focussed grey literature searching and database selection. Convenor: Melanie Brown, Consultant HOW "GREEN" IS YOUR LIBRARY? Ron Lemaire, Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) As we plan for new buildings or renovations, we want to be responsible to our environment and our budgets. We read more and more about green building solutions, but where to start? Introducing Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System (LEED®), learn more about sustainability strategies, community plans and green building policies. Convenor: Andrew Porteus, Trustee, Fort Erie PL A story hour for grown-ups? Why not?! Adult storytimes can focus on a variety of styles and formats, from suspense and ghost stories to literary fiction and classics, story discussion groups to parent/ child programs to podcasts. They can fit any size venue and any size budget. They can draw people to your library, or bring your library into the community. Starting with his own successful "Thrilling Tales" story hour, David will share a variety of programs libraries around the country, and give you all the ideas and inspiration you need to get started with your very own story program for adults. Convenor: Shonna Froebel, Barrie PL What is involved in converting Voyager MARC data to Primo Normalized XML during the implementation of the Primo discovery tool? This session will discuss the types of changes made to the default Primo rules, testing procedures and the decisions involved in the process based on the experience of the Tri-Universities Group (University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Guelph). Come and learn about Primo, about data conversion and testing, and how to handle data in a consortial environment. Convenor: Ellen Symons, Cataloguing/Training Librarian, Queen's University 1015 1017 ich caledon ich kingsway 9:05 AM LD Leadership By Design, Trustee development 9:05 AM Open source software, Integrated library systems Level II 1019 ich ontario 1012 MTCC 206c 9:05 AM Project management SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS 101: PLANNING AND OPERATING A PROJECT FOR YOUR LIBRARY Sam Kalb, Library Assessment & IT Projects Co-ordinator, Queen's University Library OLBA'S LEADERSHIP BY DESIGN: PART ONE ­ THE PLACE TO GO AND TAKE WHAT YOU NEED WHEN YOU NEED IT Margaret Andrewes, Councillor, Town of Lincoln Randee Loukes, Principal, CGS Consultants, St. Catherines EVERGREEN EXPOSED: HACKING THE OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY SYSTEM William Erickson, Vice President, Software Development & Integration, Equinox Software Inc; Dan Scott, Systems Librarian, Laurentian University 9:05 AM Web 2.0, Technology FINDING AND GETTING: GOOGLE BOOKS, GOOGLE SCHOLAR AND FREE TOOLS Melissa Belvadi, Emerging Technologies & Metadata Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island Whether they involve a consortium of libraries or a single branch library, successful projects share common attributes. Learn how to identify attributes and outline project management techniques and practices that will help guide your project toward the desired goals and avoid some common pitfalls along the way. Sam is an experienced project manager and co-ordinator of the 2007 LibQUAL Canada Survey Project. Convenor: Steven Chabot This is your opportunity to plug into this new and exciting professional development program for Ontario's public library boards to engage in working to strengthen their community leadership capacity. Find out what Leadership by Design has in store for you and your board. Convenor: John Sproule, Trustee, Oshawa PL Join an Evergreen developer on a tour of the architecture and source code of the Evergreen library system. Ride the service-oriented architecture wave with OpenSRF build user interfaces in XUL, Pylons, and Dojo define search indexes and business logic in PostgreSQL and create your own discovery layer. Get ready to get your hands dirty with Evergreen ­ this will be a session filled with code! Convenor: David Fiander, Digital Services Librarian, Allyn & Betty Taylor Library, University of Western Ontario Level II The Internet offers a wealth of free scholarly resources mixed with finding tools that point to commercial resources your library may already have access to. Two major resources of this type are Google Book Search and Google Scholar. Free applications of OpenURL technology have the potential to help patrons deal with the free/not-free mix. Introducing the use of Google Books and Google Scholar for academic research and demonstrating free services such as browser plugins from OCLC and LibX which use OpenURL services. Including an explanation of 54 OL A super conference 2009