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1 700 Friday 1:45 p.m. 1 @ Friday 2:15p.m. 702 CP BALLROOM B 2:15pm-3:30pm COLLECTIONS, PROGRAMS AND SERVICES @ your library MTCC 206AB COLLECTIONS, PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THE CURRENT LITERACY CRISIS Paul Kropp Author of How to Make Your your library CP ONTARIO 2:15pm-3:30pm Child A Reader for Life. Kropp focuses his presentation on Ontario testing, its demands and what it reveals about the current literacy situation. Discussion will address "the boy problem" in reading, the distractions of computers and the internet, and the changing roles of schools, libraries and the families in literacy development. Convenor: JoAnne LaForty, Toronto District School Board 701 1:45pm-3:30pm NOTE: SPECIAL START TIME CRADLE BOARD TEACHING PROJECT Buffy Sainte-Marie Science: Through Native American Eyes Buffy Sainte-Marie (Ph.D.) will present the Cradleboard Teaching Project's first CDROM, "Science: Through Native American Eyes." The CD-ROM has garnered rave reviews by educators across North America. While designed and developed for core curriculum science in middle school classes, the CDROM is currently being used in a variety of classes right through to college level, as well as in libraries, resource centres, and in homes as "Edutainment." Ms. Sainte-Marie will also briefly touch on her Nihewan Foundation's other programs, which include Scholarships, Teacher Training, the Cradleboard Teaching Project, and the Youth Cow1cil on Race. Website: www.cradleboard.org GENREFLECTING: A GUIDE TO THE READING INTERESTS OF ADULTS Diana Tixier Herald Author of the popular Genreflecting series. Find the best read-alikes for adult patrons and build a fiction collection that appeals to the broad spectrum of readers that you serve. Herald, 'a former readers' advisory librarian, discusses the use of the books for which she has become so famous and how you can get the maximum result for them. Convenor: Michal Calder, Toronto Public Library 703 MTCC 2060 2:15pm-3:30pm (a real word meaning 'authenticity based on historical fact") is Toronto Public Library's newest Internet gateway. Project team members will discuss the concept for Historicity and demonstrate its content and navigation. Historicity brings together many sources of information about Toronto and its neighbourhoods. Thousands of images -pictures and maps of early Toronto; historical information like on-line 19th century directories; two dozen full-text local history books; links to useful Internet sites about Toronto (indexed by neighbourhood and subject); plus expert advice on where to go for more information. Convenor: Catherine Mill, Toronto Public Library HISTORICITY: TORONTO THEN AND NOW ON TPL'S VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY: THE SERVICE PERSPECTIVE Barbara Myrvold, Service Specialist, Local History, Planning & Development; Lynda Moon, Librarian, Northern District Branch; Mary Rae Shantz, Librarian, Special Collections Centre; David Bain, General Librarian, Margaret English, Librarian, Toronto Public Library. Learn about a new tool to locate information on Toronto, past and present, and gain ideas to develop similar projects in your library. Historicity 704 MTCC 2050 2:15pm-3:30pm DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE WEB TUTORIALS Rosalie Waller, Library Resource Centre, Seneca College, Toronto Denise Bisson, Learning Resource Centre, Algonquin College, Ottawa. Learn the ingredients for a successful research skills tutorial. Learn how to launch and implement a library research tutorial. Some tips and tricks to get you started in developing an on line tutorial. Convenor: Brenda Livingston, Toronto Public Library Photos from left to right: Buffy Saint-Marie teaching in a Bronx school 700, Paul Kropp 702, Denise Bisson 704