InsideOCULA

DATE & TIME:
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
7:30pm

LOCATION:
Ryerson University
Library Building/Besse Commons, Room LIB 72
350 Victoria Street, Toronto

COST:
$8.00 - register online or pay at the door (cash preferred) Students Free!!

The Hollywood Librarian is the first full-length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians. Using the entertaining and appealing context of feature movies, the film will have some surprises for people who may think they know what librarians do! American film contains hundreds of examples of librarians and libraries on screen — some positive, some negative, some laughable and some dead wrong. Films such as Sophie’s Choice, Philadelphia and It’s a Wonderful Life show librarians as negative stereotypes. The librarians in Lorenzo’s Oil, Desk Set and The Shawshank Redemption, on the other hand, are competent and professional. Dozens of interviews of real librarians will be interwoven with movie clips of cinematic librarians and serve as transitions between the themes of censorship, intellectual freedom, children and librarians, pay equity and funding issues, and the value of reading.

You will meet the dedicated children’s librarian, the witty library director, the high-tech corporate librarian, the smart medical librarian, and the dedicated cataloger. You will see a prison literacy program, an elementary school library, a town faced with the most severe library crisis in decades, and much more!

See more descriptions and comments from sites that have screened the film at www.hollywoodlibrarian.com

Developed by the Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA) and the Ryerson University Library.

Liz Bayley,a graduate of McMaster University (B.A. French & Russian, 1972) and of the University of Western Ontario (Masters of Library Sciences) has been appointed Director of the McMaster Health Sciences Library effective April 15, 2008..  She began her library career at McMaster in 1982, moving to the Health Sciences Library in 1986.  Since then she has had a variety of positions, most recently as Acting Director / Head of Systems, since January 2008.

In 2005,  Bayley was recognized for her significant contributions to McMaster with the MUFA Faculty/Librarian Award for Outstanding Service.

She holds a part time appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing.  Bayleyhas tutored in the nursing and medical programs, coordinates special evidence-based medicine activities for nursing and medical students and has contributed to international workshops on evidence-based practice.

A well known member of her profession, Liz participates in a number of professional associations and is a past President of the Canadian Health Libraries Association.  Her research interests include information literacy, lifelong learning, educational assessment and evidence-based practice.

Ms. Leslie Weir, President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) announced the appointment of Mr. Brent Roe as Executive Director effective April 14, 2008. Brent Roe has held the post of Associate University Librarian, Information Services, York University since 2003. He has a MLIS from the University of Alberta as well as a BA in Psychology and MA in Ancient History. Brent is an alumnus of the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute and the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/new/pdf/brent_roe_ex_dir_april-2008-e.pdf

Maria Buda has been appointed to the Dentistry Library with responsibility for reference and circulation services, including library instruction and courseware support. Maria is also the Faculty of Dentistry’s webmaster. Maria completed her Masters of Information Studies degree at the University of Toronto in 2007. Before joining the Faculty of Dentistry Library, she worked as a Records and Information Management Assistant at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Strategic Planning and Implementation Branch. As a student, she worked for the Bora Laskin Law Library, Faculty of Music Library, and Caven Library at Knox College.

Pauline Rousseau has recently joined the University of Toronto Scarborough Library as a part-time Reference Research and Instruction librarian. She is a recent graduate of the Master of Library and Information Science programme at the University of Western Ontario, and holds an Honors B.A. in Art History and History from the University of Toronto. Her previous experience includes positions at King’s College Library, University of Western Ontario, the Dorothy Hoover Library at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and the Planning and Development department of North York Central Library.

Miriam Ticoll is the new Executive Director, Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto (HSICT), effective January 7, 2008. Miriam has an extensive background in management and strategic planning and broad experience as a consultant on health information projects. She has led projects for organizations such as the Canadian Health Network, the Canadian Mental Health Association (Ontario), CIHI, Canada Health Infoway, the Wellesley Institute, the Ontario Women’s Health Council, and the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, to name a few. Prior to consulting, Miriam was the Director of Information Services at the Roeher Institute, a research institute which focuses on issues affecting people with intellectual disabilities.

A graduate of the library science program at Université de Montréal, Miriam also has a B.A. from York University. Miriam’s office is located in the Gerstein Science Information Centre. She can be reached at 416-978-6359, or by email at miriam.ticoll@utoronto.ca.

Spiros Tsonis is serving as the Acting Manager of the UTL at Downsview high density storage and preservation facility, while Mark Phillips is on leave during 2008. Spiros is a graduate of Seneca College, from the small business management programme. He has supervised in a variety of shipping, warehousing, and construction environments and has a part-time contracting company of his own. He has worked in the U of T Library since 2004, as a member of the library patrol staff and as the Supervisor of the Extended Hours service in the Access and Information Services Department of Robarts Library.

Submitted by Julie Hannaford