This year’s Digital Odyssey theme is Going Mobile! Join us June 11, 2010 at Ryerson University for a day full of discussion on mobile technology and libraries.
Stay tuned for further details, registration information and more.
Congratulations to Project Conifer, a consortial team lead by Dan Scott at Laurentian University, this year’s winner of the OLITA Award for Technological Innovation!
Project Conifer is a consortial installment of the Evergreen Open Source library system. This is the first academic consortium to implement Evergreen and largest bibliographic database supported by Evergreen and went live in August 2009.
Member institutions include: Leddy Library, J.N. Desmarais Library, Algoma University, Wishart Library, University of Sudbury, Hearst, Bibliothèque Maurice-Saulnier, Huntington College Library, Paul Martin Law Library, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (West), HRSRH Health Sciences Library, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (East), Xstrata Process Support Centre Library, NOHIN, Instructional Media Centre, Laboratoire de didactiques, E.S.E., Vale Inco, Mines Library, Willet Green Miller Centre, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Curriculum Resource Centre, Sault Area Hospital and Centre Franco-Ontarien de Folklore.
The OLITA Award Reception will be held on Friday February 26, 5:45 pm, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in room 204. Please celebrate with us!
OLA Superconference is a just a matter of hours away. If you are attending, please say hello to your OLITA Council members.
You’ll be able to meet the OLITA Council at the OLITA AGM on Friday February 26, 5:15 pm, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, room 204. After the meeting, we will be holding the OLITA Award Reception.
Visit http://www.cnib.ca/righttoread to join the campaign and help protect the right to read for those of us with visual disabilities.
Reading is a right, not a privilege. We read to learn, work and connect to the world. Everyone has the right to read.
But if you are blind or partially sighted, that right could go missing.
Library services for blind and partially sighted Canadians are in jeopardy. For more than 90 years, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) has struggled to fund these services with charitable dollars. But CNIB can’t afford to go it alone any longer.
Government funding is needed now, or the consequences will be dire: isolation and an unequal playing field for Canadians who deserve better.
Consultation opens today to explore consumer privacy in the context of the manner in which businesses target consumers in social networking environments.