MLC 2018

• 8:30-8:45 am (15 min) Registration & coffee
• 8:45 – 9:00 am (15 min) PLS Greetings/Opening
• 9:00 -9:55 am (55 min) Roundtables/World Café Conversations
  • Explore with other library workers how to get people in the door, the future and purpose of libraries, and technology in the library through a World Café format.
• 9:55 – 10:10 am (15 min) Break
• 10:10-10:55 (45 min) Social Inclusion 
  • Growing a Library’s Capacity to Deliver Community-led, Socially-inclusive Services
    “Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.” – Rumi

• 10:55-11:25(30 min) Supporting Success for Newcomers
  • Winnipeg Public Library’s guide to programs, resources and services for newcomers.
    Workshop description: Discover the many programs, resources and services that are helping newcomers adjust to their new lives in Canada AND improve their English language skills. Learn tips and tricks on how to use the library’s catalogue. See a demonstration of our top picks for literacy learners of the library’s free, online databases.
• 11:25-12:05 (40 min) Collection Development and Maintenance
  • Learn how three small libraries have managed their collections to create interest and meet local needs. Highlights will include revamping Y.A. sections, tips and tricks for acquisitions, weeding criteria, and more.
• 12:05-12:50 (45 min) Lunch and short presentation/discussion with MLA & MLC representatives about getting involved
• 12:55-1:35 (40 min) Accessibility Panel
  • Learn about how your library can provide accessible services through library hardware, software, the National Network of Equitable Services and by utilizing the services of the Community Places Program free consultation reports on your facility needs.
• 1:35-2:05 (30 min) Ebsco Session
  • As Databases continue to be a growing part of the library’s offering, learn how to find the best articles for your research projects and save them on your own personalized web folder for future reference. How about organizing notes on those articles on the web, too? Interested in getting the table of contents from your favourite journal emailed to you? Or, want to get new articles on specific topics emailed to you as they get published? Learn all these things (and more) to make research easier using the library's EBSCO  databases. One of our primary vendors in this area is EBSCO Publishing. These databases are upgraded continuously with features such as providing Audio, Translator Options, Improved PDF Viewer Mechanisms and the ability to set up the databases to provide your patron’s access on mobile devices.  The  databases also go well beyond research and include everything from book recommendations to providing information on how to do repairs on cars, small appliances or house upgrades.   David Lubin will present on all of these features and general overview to ensure our libraries use these valuable products to ensure their full value is realized.
• 2:05-2:25 (20 min) Break
• 2:25-5:30 (3 hr 5 min) Jessica Dumas/KAIROS Blanket Exercise
  • The Blanket Exercise workshop will explore the Indigenous nation's relationships with the Canadian Government, in a walk along activity through a 500-year journey. The activity reviews through a timeline from European arrival to colonization, residential school and social policies that have molded today’s Indigenous peoples. I guarantee participants will be engaged, and we will have created a safe place for questions and discussion, as we find our personal and professional paths to reconciliation. This is a highly interactive workshop. Be prepared, the workshop is physically, emotionally and intellectually engaging. The workshop closes with a sharing circle, where participants often express

• Speaker:  Yutta Fricke, Executive Director, Disabilities Issues Office (Province of Manitoba)
• Description: This talk will provide an overview of the Accessibility for Manitobans Act (AMA) and the five accompanying standards.  Yutta Fricke will discuss the first of five standards, the Customer Service Standard, as well as what to expect as we prepare for the release of the second  standard.

• Speaker: Lisa Snider, Senior Consultant and Trainer, Access Changes Everything (http://www.accesschangeseverything.com/)
• This session will focus on basic concepts and tips on how to make social media content, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube video, text, linked content and images more accessible for everyone, including people with different disabilities. The information presented in this session will help with some of the Accessibility for Manitobans Act (AMA) Standards.

• World Cafés support collaborative dialogue and conversation around the questions that matter to us.  Using this technique, and the power of conversation, we can share our knowledge and learn from each other in an intimate group setting.  This World Café will provide delegates with the opportunity to discuss, with an experienced moderator and in small groups, their experiences on issues around accessibility.

• Sabina Iseli-Otto, Public Service Librarian, National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS)
  • NNELS produces books in accessible formats and makes them available through all Canadian public libraries to readers with print disabilities. Sabina Iseli-Otto will discuss what the value of this model might be for other work related to accessibility. Also, though NNELS is a provincially-funded service, they had the pleasure this past spring of working with a million-dollar federal grant to improve the availability of alternate formats. Over the course of that project, NNELS was able to have thought-provoking conversations with consumer groups, publishers, and book editors and Sabina will share some of those conversational highlights with you.

• Michael Ciccone, Executive Director, Centre for Equitable Library Access / Centre d’accès équitable aux bibliothèques
  • The Centre for Equitable Library Access is a non-profit organization that works with public libraries to provide accessible materials to Canadians with print disabilities along with support for member libraries and patrons. It is funded by a number of government and library sources to provide a multitude of support services, and partners with a number of other organizations for production of accessible formats. The annual budget provided to support their efforts exceeds $4 million. Michael will provide a brief history of the organization, discuss partnerships with consumer groups, publishers, producers and international organizations, and reveal what the future holds for the service.

• Jim Hounslow, Instructional Designer, Red River College

• Alan Bridgeman
  • Alan Bridgeman is a final year Computer Science student at the University of Manitoba. He is very active in the accessibility movement including holding positions with the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD), National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS), Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) and many others. Alan has a particular interest when it comes to making books and libraries accessible having worked as a Technical Assistant for the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS).

• Fred Dugdale
  • Fred Dugdale joins the panel and brings a unique perspective of dealing with the cognitive challenges resulting from brain damage.

• Basic governance principles
• Understanding of roles and responsibilities of management and trustees, including the role of the Board chairperson
• Tips and resources to improve existing relationships

• Choose solids instead of prints and patterns – as these can make the photo look too busy
• Accessories should be simple and timeless
• Blue, green, wine, and purple are good colours as they are flattering on most people
• Avoid flesh tones and white
• Simple necklines are better

Prison Libraries Committee Business Meeting

Are you curious about the MLA Prison Libraries Committee? Please drop on by for an informal meeting and discussion about the work we are doing in four Manitoba prisons. Want to get involved? We'd love to chat with you!

See you soon!

• Choose solids instead of prints and patterns – as these can make the photo look too busy
• Accessories should be simple and timeless
• Blue, green, wine, and purple are good colours as they are flattering on most people
• Avoid flesh tones and white
• Simple necklines are better