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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.

To register:
http://www.thepartnership.ca/partnership/
bins/calendar_page.asp?cid=85-2067

Meet and mingle with your colleagues and hear a talk from Dr. Kevin Stolarick.

Kevin Stolarick, PhD, is the Associate Director and Research Associate at The Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He combines a depth of knowledge with an appreciation of the importance of finding and sharing the knowledge or “pearls of wisdom” gained from his comprehensive understanding of the Creative Class and the Creative Economy. Kevin provided quantitative research and analytical support to Richard Florida during the development of his books The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class. He continues in collaboration with Richard and other researchers. Kevin will speak to us about the creative class; what we mean when we say “prosperity”, what the goals are and how we can achieve them.

When:
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Where:
Faculty Club, University of Toronto
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, M5S 1C7

Time:
5:30

Cost:
$40 per person (GST inclu.)

Menu - when registering please submit the meal choice preference form to indicate your choice of:

• Breast of chicken with caramelized apples, sundried cranberries, toasted almonds and calvados sauce
• Grilled Vegetarian Lasagna with tomato basil sauce

Thursday, April 24th at 5:30pm
University of Toronto’s Faculty Club

Meet and mingle with your colleagues and hear a talk from Dr. Kevin Stolarick:

Kevin Stolarick, PhD, is the Associate Director and Research Associate at The Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He combines a depth of knowledge with an appreciation of the importance of finding and sharing the knowledge or “pearls of wisdom” gained from his comprehensive understanding of the Creative Class and the Creative Economy. Kevin provided quantitative research and analytical support to Richard Florida during the development of his books The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class. He continues in collaboration with Richard and other researchers. Kevin will speak to us about the creative class; what we mean when we say “prosperity”, what the goals are and how we can achieve them.

Registration details coming soon!

Your OCULA Spring Dinner Committee
Julie Hannaford
Sandra Langlands
Don McLeod
Marian Press

Dave Hudson from the University of Guelph-Humber was the winner of the iPod Nano!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the blog during Super Conference 2008.

Chief Librarian of the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), Mary Ann Mavrinac has years of leadership experience to draw upon, in addition to the training and continuing development she has had in the field of human resource management. Quite the eye-opener, then, to find that one of her key messages entirely concerns ’self-talk’, as psychologists call that unending conversation in our heads that tells us how we think we’re doing relative to our expectations of ourselves and relative to our perceptions of others and of their achievements.

While it may seem simple to just change the tape that keeps us company 24/7, it really isn’t so easily done. Yet, Mavrinac postulates that controlling that inner voice is crucial to our ability to deal with the ubiquitous, frequently unpredictable changes we must learn to expect in our organizations, indeed, in our very lives. Through negative example, she describes the kind of fearful atmosphere and negative fallout that can be created in an organization by negative thinking and fear of change. She identifies three types of people based on how they react to change. In her opinion, we all must learn to fall into the last category, the only one which will lead to adjustment and acceptance of those changes over which we have little or no control and the only one which will prepare us to ‘ride with the waves’ of change. Mavrinac refers to two important sources which may help us to understand the pivital role of ’self-talk’ in successful living, including Mark Leary’s “The curse of the self: self-awareness, egotism, and the quality of human life,” published in 2004 by Oxford University Press.

Thank you, Mary Ann, for an insightful and thought-provoking session. hg
Posted by Heather Glerum, 05.02.2008.

Submit your name to become an OCULA blogger during the 2008 OLA Super Conference and you could win an iPod Nano!

To qualify, you must:

• be an OCULA member in good standing
• be attending the 2008 OLA Super Conference

Submit your name to the editor at: jennifer.peters-lise@senecac.on.ca

All blog entries will appear on this blog. While in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, bloggers can use their laptops or on-site computers to freely access the OCULA blog so that they can blog the conference as it happens.

What a night it was in Niagara-on-the-Lake! Delicious food, great wine, friends, colleagues and a little wine education made the first ever OCULA Fall dinner a great success.

The night began with a wine tasting led by our featured speaker Niagara College professor and Sommelier, Albert Cipryk. The wines we tasted were produced by students from Niagara College. Next we were treated to a four-course meal prepared by the students of the Culinary Arts Institute.

Both the food and wine were delicious and the setting was beautiful. Thank you to OCULA for organizing such an unforgettable event. Watch for a full review of the dinner in the next issue of InsideOCULA.

Planning for OLA’s 2008 Super Conference, to be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from January 30 - February 2, 2008, is well underway!

Your OCULA division has planned 36 sessions with speakers from all over Ontario and Canada as well as the United States. Topics include assessment, collaboration/partnerships, digital collections, information literacy, management, reference services, technical services, social networking, and more.

We are now looking for people to convene the OCULA sessions and are hoping that you would like to get involved.

The duties of a convenor include the following:

• Contact the speaker(s) and ensure their AV requirements are sent to the OLA office
• Elicit a short biography of the speaker(s) and use this to introduce the speaker(s) at the session
• Meet the speaker(s) at the Speakers’ Lounge 15 minutes before the session
• Get help in the event of technical problems
• Make sure that, in the case of a panel, all panelists get equal air time
• Monitor the length of the session for the speaker(s)
• Pick up evaluation forms at the end of the session
• Write a short summary of the session for the Conference Blog and/or future OCULA publications

Convenors’ names and institutions appear in the online OLA Super Conference program.

If you are willing to be a convenor please contact Gail Nichol (gail.nichol@utoronto.ca) or Caroline Stewart (caroline.stewart@guelphhumber.ca) regarding your interest and availability.

Please note that program convenors DO NOT receive a registration discount.

Thank you and we look forward to your support!

Thanks,
Gail and Caroline

Mark THURSDAY OCTOBER 18th in your calendars for the OCULA Fall Dinner in the beautiful dining room of the Niagara College Culinary Institute at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus!

The evening will feature an excellent four-course meal prepared by the students of Niagara College’s renowned culinary program. Freshly-prepared local ingredients and award-winning wines produced by the College’s Teaching Winery will be the highlight of this exciting event.

Be sure to arrive early to visit the beautiful campus library, the greenhouses of the Horticulture program and, of course, the college wine store!

The speaker for this evening will be Culinary Institute instructor, chef and local wine expert, Albert Cipryk, who will discuss the local wine scene and lead us in a wine-tasting.

Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Speaker and Wine Tasting: 6:30 p.m.
Dinner: 7:00 p.m.

Cost (includes dinner and wine-tasting):
$44 member
$54 non-member

Registration: http://www.accessola.com/ocula/bins/content_page.asp?cid=456-790

For more information on the Niagara College Culinary Institute please visit: http://www.niagaracollege.ca/features/nci_dining_room

For a sample dinner menu, please see:
http://www.niagaracollege.ca/features/nci_dining_room/dinner_menu_jul12_07.pdf

For a map and directions, please see:
http://www.niagaracollege.ca/features/nci_dining_room/parking_maps.htm

Keep in mind that the Shaw Festival is still in full swing–you may want to stay for the weekend. http://www.shawfest.com/

Please address any questions to Cynthia Williamson

See you there!

A friendly reminder to OCULA members that this is the last chance to register for the Annual OCULA Spring Academic Librarians’ Dinner, providing an annual opportunity for academic librarians in Ontario to network with colleagues and enjoy stimulating talks by outstanding speakers.

Registration: http://www.accessola.com/ocula/site/
showPage.cgi?page=events/spring07_dinner.html

Registration closes first thing Monday morning, April 23rd.

Featured Speaker: James Laxer
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Time: cash bar 6:30 ; dinner: 7:00 ; speaker: 8:15
Location: Dining Hall, Schulich School of Business, York University
Price: $40

Using Canada’s position in the world today as a lens, Laxer will explore how information in the age of the Internet, blogs and CNN is spun by media, governments and individuals to shape the views and perceptions of Canadians.

A political scientist, educator and prolific author, Laxer is a regular commentator on current national and global issues as they relate to Canadian interests, and frequently writes opinion pieces in major newspapers and periodicals. His current interests focus on empires past and present, Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, and the future world oil industry.

Laxer’s most recent books include Stalking the Elephant: My Discovery of America (2001), The Border : Canada, the U.S. and Dispatches from the 49th Parallel (2003), his childhood memoir entitled Red Diaper Baby: A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism (2004), and The Acadians: In Search of a Homeland (2006).

Hope to see you there!