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Ontario Library SiiPtER A EWS . Thursday, January 21, 1999 Today's Changes Session changes Thursday: Session # 103 cancelled Session # 302 cancelled Session # 401 cancelled Session # 412 cancelled From the National Post's most talked about columnist to best-selling author Linda McQuaig continues a great tradition of nationally prominent speakers at OLA ccording to our opening plenary speaker, we are living in a "culture of machismo: endless government bravado on deficit cutting and inflation control, while government officials lose their testosterone when it comes to fighting unemployment or delivering social programs. Governments are practising selective impotence." Journalist/author Linda McQuaig gives us a fabulous kick-off to Super Conference '99. She discusses libraries, librarians, and the choices we have in controlling our future . Control, and who has it is the major theme running through her work. Speaker changes, additions · Session 109: Barbara Quinlan, Director of Public Services, Mississauga Public Library System. · Session #306: Susan Haigh, A nationally watched columnist National Library of Canada/CIDL McQuaig has written for The Globe and Mail, replaces Gwynneth Evans. The Toronto Star and Maclean's Magazine and currently is a columnist with the National Post. She is · Session #405: Susan Haigh added. a political and economic commentator for CBC Radio. McQuaig received an Atkinson Fellowship for journalism in 1991, for public policy to study the Change of Room social welfare systems in Europe and North America. Her 1993 book, The wealthy banker's wife: · Session #415 moved to CP the assault on equality in Canada was was the result. Boardroom. Her other books include: Behind closed doors: · CASPAR User Group Meeting has how the rich won control of Canada's tax system, The been moved to MTCC / 202A quick and the dead: Brian Mulroney, big business and 4:00pm- 5:00pm 01 / 21 / 99 the seduction of Canada, and Shooting the hippo: death by deficit and other Canadian myths. Continued on page 4. Register to Win FREE AUDIOBOOKS Compliments of McNaughton AudioBound 11 ! Stop by and hear how a McNaughton AudioBound plan can be the Sound Solution for Popular Listening at your library! Welcome OLA Members & Attendees 1!11 Visit us at Booth #239 nm Register to Win over $1,500 in Library Furniture and Displayers Compliments of the Brodart Supplies & Furnishings Divisions! Brodart is a Proud Member of the Ontario Library Association Library Supplies · Automation · Books · Furniture