Program at a Glance

8:00 am – 10:00 am (Corktown)
IARLA Meeting

9:30 am – 10:00 am (Kirkendall)
Board Coffee and snacks

10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Kirkendall)
Board of Directors’ Meeting

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm (Hamilton Hall W & C)
President’s Reception (CARL members and guests)

7:30 am – 8:30 am (Hamilton Hall C)
Breakfast – with ‘cone of silence’ table discussions on selected management topics of strategic importance to directors

8:30 am – 10:30 am
Advancing Research Committee (Stinson Boardroom)
Strengthening Capacity Committee (Beasley)

10:30 am – 10:45 am Break

10:45 am – 12:45 pm
Policy Committee (Beasley)
Assessment Committee (Stinson Boardroom)

12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch

1:45 pm – 3:45 pm (Westdale)
Hot Topics: CARL committee lightning consultations

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm Break

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Westdale)
Annual General Meeting

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm (Art Gallery of Hamilton)
Cocktail reception hosted by Vivian Lewis, University Librarian, McMaster University, and Paul Takala, CEO & Chief Librarian, Hamilton Public Library

7:30 pm – (Art Gallery of Hamilton)
Joint CARL/CULC Dinner

7:30 am – 9:30 am (Hamilton Public Library – Central Library)
Continental breakfast available (optional)

8:30 am – 9:15 am
Tour – Hamilton Public Library (optional)

9:30 am – 10:30 am (Hamilton Room – 5th Floor HPL)

Welcome remarks – CARL President Martha Whitehead and CULC Chair Paul Takala

GLAMming It Up: Advancing the Ottawa Declaration through cross-sectoral collaboration

• Guy Berthiaume, Librarian and Archivist of Canada – The Ottawa Declaration and its next steps (ppt)
• Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian, University of Victoria – Doing More with More in Greater Victoria (ppt)
• Vickery Bowles, City Librarian, Toronto Public Library – Collaboration, Innovation and Inclusion: Building Smart Cities (ppt)

Session Chair: Dr. Guy Berthiaume, Librarian and Archivist of Canada

10:30 am – 11:00 am Break

11:00 am – 12:15 pm (Hamilton Room and Boardroom – 5th Floor HPL)

Simultaneous program

Option A:
Creating Inclusive Libraries: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

• Cole Gately, Community Activist and Facilitator

The presentation will be followed by table discussions.

Session co-chairs: Caitlin Fralick, Manager, Program Development, Hamilton Public Library and Gwen Bird, Dean of Library Services, Simon Fraser University

Option B:
Opportunities with Linked Open Data

• Dr. Kenning Arlitsch, Dean of the Library, Montana State University – Improving the Visibility of Libraries and their Collections: Linked Data and Semantic Web Identities
• Caitlin Tillman, Associate Chief Librarian for Collections and Materials Management, University of Toronto Libraries – Update on Linked Data Canada Initiative
• Tina Thomas, Executive Director, Strategy and Innovation, Edmonton Public Library – Update on Library.Link Network

The presentations will be followed by a participative session to enable mention of other initiatives, questions and discussion.

Session chair: Rebecca Graham, Chief Librarian and Chief Information Officer, University of Guelph

12:15 pm – 12:30 pm (Hamilton Room – 5th Floor HPL)

International Collaboration Opportunities –

• IFLA Global Visioning – Vickery Bowles, City Librarian, Toronto Public Library, and Susan Haigh, Executive Director, CARL
• CCUNESCO’s proposed Dialogues on Reconciliation – Sebastien Goupil, Secretary-General, Canadian Commission for UNESCO (pdf)

Closing remarks – CARL President Martha Whitehead and CULC Chair Paul Takala

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Joint members lunch (Hamilton Room – HPL 5th Floor)
Board of Directors’ Meeting (working lunch) (Boardroom – HPL 5th Floor)

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
McMaster University Library tour (optional)
Waterdown Public Library tour (optional)

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
McMaster University Library tour (optional)
Waterdown Public Library tour (optional)