events

Students at McGill's School of Information Studies in Montreal are happy to invite you to the Web2.You 2012 conference. 

Web2.You is a full-day event organized by students at McGill's School of Information Studies in Montreal. Now in its fifth edition, the conference hosts international and local speakers and explores the implications of Web 2.0 technologies in professional information settings. 

Wikipedia Loves Libraries is a wiki-coordinated program of distributed micro-conferences (editathons) to be held at libraries and archives in cities across North America around October 2011. The BANQ Grande Bibliothèque (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) will be participating.

For more information, visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries

The Manitoba Libraries Conference Program Committee is pleased to invite members of the library, archives, museum, records management, and educational communities to submit proposals for the Manitoba Libraries Conference, May 14 – 16, 2012 at the Delta Winnipeg Hotel. The Program Committee seeks proposals for sessions showcasing your ideas, research, and library initiatives. Proposals for both pre-conference (full- or half-day) sessions are welcome.

Quebec Chapter of CAML, the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (QCCAML: http://sqacbm.org/index-en.html)

The Quebec Chapter of CAML is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the fourth annual meeting, which will take place on Friday, October 28, 2011, at the Grande Bibliothèque in Montréal. Full information, including the programme and registration form, is available at: http://sqacbm.org/rencontre-en.html. Please note that the registration deadline is October 7th 2011.

On Monday, September 19th, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Loyola Chapel (opposite Vanier Library), the Concordia Libraries are hosting an evening of words and music: Talking to Books: the livres d'artistes of the Sylvia and Irving Camlot Collection.

You are cordially invited to attend the Human Library at Concordia University’s Vanier Library on Saturday, September 17 at the Loyola Campus. The Human Library aims to inform, challenge your assumptions, break stereotypes, and eliminate prejudice by giving you the opportunity to chat with the real person behind the label.

Human books will be available to be signed out at any time between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

See our Web site for more details:http://library.concordia.ca/humanlibrary

Come and join us for a wine & cheese reception at the Kirkland Municipal Library

Our host Sonia Djevalikian, Division Head of the Kirkland Municipal Library, will offer us a tour of the recently renovated Kirkland Library.

Date and Time: Monday, October 3rd 2011 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Location: Kirkland Municipal Library, 17100 Boul. Hymus - Kirkland, Quebec, H9J 2W2

Education!  New and useful product and services!  Networking!  Inspiration!  Fall Foliage!   Innovations!  Authors!  Social Events!! Colleagues!All this and more is available at the New England Library Association (NELA) Annual Conference, October 2 – 4, in Burlington, Vermont.   Learn about Navigating the New Normal in your library.   Register by September 23 for lower Early Registration rates.  The deadline to reserve hotel rooms has been extended to Friday, September 9 – get your arrangements made now!

The ABQLA College and Research Libraries Section is pleased to announce their fall kickoff event! In collaboration with the McGill student committee of Librarians Without Borders, we will be hosting this event on Wednesday, September the 21st at 5:30 p.m. at the School of Information Studies in room 106, 3661 Peel St.

Applications to host a Book Week 2012 touring author, illustrator or storyteller are now open!

www.bookweek.ca

This year, TD Canadian Children’s Book Week will run from May 5 – 12, 2012. Over 35,000 children, parents, teachers and librarians will join in the celebrations taking place all across Canada. The deadline to apply to host a reading is November 30, 2011.