Community Development Workshop CANCELED

The Community Development in a Library Context workshop scheduled for Kelowna on April 26th has been canceled. We will try to reschedule the session for later in the year. The BCLA Office will be contacting those who are registered to arrange for refunds.

The Continuing Education Committee apologizes for any inconvenience that this cancellation may cause people.

Metadata Standards and Applications - May 10&11 (BCCATS)

BCCATS (BCLA Cataloguing and Technical Services Interest Group), OCLC Western, and Simon Fraser University are co-sponsoring a spring workshop entitled Metadata Standards and Applications. The workshop will be held on Thursday and Friday, May 10 and 11, at SFU Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver.

This two-day workshop is the second course in the series "Cataloging for the 21st Century." The goal of the course is to relate what attendees already know about library catalog metadata to digital library metadata, thereby preparing them to apply their current knowledge to new areas. The course explores the following topics:

• Introduction to digital libraries
• Metadata models
• Overview of metadata standards and applications
• Metadata interoperability and distribution
• Controlled vocabulary use in metadata
• Application profiles
• Quality considerations and monitoring metadata developments

This course is designed for practicing catalogers (with or without MLS degrees) from all types of libraries, with a working knowledge of MARC and concepts of bibliographic control.

Gayle Palmer and Linda Stewart, from OCLC Western will be the instructors for the course.

The workshop is limited to 25 people. Registration fee is $245 (BCLA members) or $295 (non-BCLA members). For more information and to register for the workshop, please visit the OCLC Western website: http://www.oclc.org/western/training/courses/descriptions/W302.htm

For further information, please contact
Naomi Eichenlaub naomi.eichenlaub@royalroads.ca or Nancy Stuart nstuart@uvic.ca

Prov. Reading Programs for Children, Teens & Families - April 19

Hello Children's & YA Services Staff!

You are invited to attend a free workshop on provincial reading programs for children, teens and families, on Thurs. April 19, from 9:30 am - 3:30 pm at the Burnaby Public Library - just before the start of the BCLA conference.

The workshop will be of interest to public library staff, school library staff, students in library education programs and others working in library settings involving young people and families.

For further information and to register, see the workshop information page at: http://www.bcpl.gov.bc.ca/workshops/Youth%20Services/index.php

AlouetteCanada - Apr 16 Victoria / Apr 18 Vancouver

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present

Brian Bell - Director, AlouetteCanada

We are pleased to welcome Brian Bell, Director of AlouetteCanada to speak on the goals, strategy and structure of this open digitatization initiative. AlouetteCanada was formed to create, disseminate, preserve and sustain the knowledge base of Canadian memory organizations in digital form, for the benefit of all Canadians. Learn how AlouetteCanada is working towards meeting these goals, the progress to date and how libraries and institutions across Canada are getting involved.

There are two sessions for this event:

Victoria
Monday, April 16, 2007
1:30 to 3:00pm
University of Victoria
RSVP: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=3890

Vancouver
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
3:00 to 4:30pm
Woodward Library, University of British Columbia
RSVP: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=3889

For more information contact:

Victoria event
Shailoo Bedi
Tel: (250) 721-8226
Email: shailoo@uvic.ca

Vancouver event
Kat McGrath
Tel: 604-822-5476
Email: kat.mcgrath@ubc.ca

About Brian Bell
Brian Bell, recently appointed Director, AlouetteCanada, is on a 1-year secondment from the Oakville Public Library where he has been Director of E-Services since 1987. In addition to his new appointment, Brian is on the planning committee for the Canadian Digital Information Strategy (Library and Archives Canada) and on the Board for Canadiana.org.

At home, Brian works closely with colleagues in HALINET (the HALton Information NETwork), a consortium of neighbouring libraries facilitating collaborative, web-based services including digitization of local images and newspapers. Brian was presented the W.J. Robertson Medallion for Public Librarian of the Year at this year’s Ontario Library Association Super Conference.

Additional information is available at:
http://www.alouettecanada.ca/press_releases-e.php?id=12

CHLA 2007 - May 28-June 1 Ottawa

The Canadian Health Libraries Association 2007 Conference
May 28th - June 1st
Ottawa, Ontario

http://www.chla-absc.ca/2007/

Early registration ends April 13th.