OLA Super Conference, 2013: HANDOUTS And MEDIA MONITORING

PS. This is an unofficial effort to report the OLA Conference. Any omissions are mine.

It was nice meeting the delegates at the OLA Super Conference. 

Thanks to all the team spirit of OLA that helps us connect and re-connect.

Ontario Library Association (OLA) Super Conference, 2013
Welcome et bienvenue to the 111th annual conference and the 19th anniversary of Super Conference!
Jan 30- Feb 2, 2013,   Metro Toronto Convention Center
SESSION HANDOUTS AND MATERIALS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013

•  P013    Mini-Marketing:  Lessons from Small Libraries Handout1 / Handout2

 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013

• 309 Using Graphic Novels with Confidence 
• 317 The Dawn of a Skills Continuum Slides / handout1 / handout2 / handout3 / handout4
• 318 Visible Minority Librarians of Canada Roundtable 
• 326 Guess Who's Coming to Visit?
• 401 PreSchool Early Literacy Programs in Ontario 
• 403 Archives in Your Library
• 406 Livres en Action: Animation du Livre à Tout Âge
• 408 Mobile My Health Library 
•  417 "Re-Visioning" Modern Libraries: TPL and TDSB Engaging Teens Together Slides / Handout
•  419 Inquiry and Literacy - Using Living Things as Inspiration Slides / Handout1 / Handout2 / Handout3 / Handout4 /Handout5 / Handout6
• 428 Promoting the Forest in Your Public Library Slides / Handout1 / Handout2 / Handout3 / Handout4
• 601 Engaging Students in Learning Conversations to Promote Thinking
• 603 Cool Technologies and Your Library's PR Plan 
• 606 Library, Archives, Museum Collaborations
• 620 Branch-Tastic!
• 629 Empowering the Academic Library with Numbers
• 630 Spinach in the Brownies: Storytimes that Support Early Literacy Handout / Slides

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013

• 1215 Keeping Library Funding Stable in Troubled Times 
• 1219 Being Fair: Using CanLit to embed Social Justice Handout1 / Handout2
• 1225 Interlibrary Loan Cost Study
• 1328 Empowering Home Learners in Your Community

Media monitoring:

• New OLA Super Conference 2013 Thursday Poster Sessions: guide to the 24 poster sessions sponsored by Dysart & Jones @ stephenslighthouse.com/
• 423 Library User Conversations: Newcomers and Public Libraries: by a Panelist: Pradip Rodrigues 
• OLA Super Conference 2008 Blog

• Ontario Library Association's Super Conference 2010 - Media Monitoring

• CanLit for LittleCanadians: OLA Super Conference 2013
• OLA's Super Conference 2013 « Talking with Tundra 
• Talking Minecraft at OLA Super Conference 2013
• OLA Super Conference 2013 review | wadingthroughbooks
• 2013 Elearning Related Events « Elearning Guru
• It's All About the Books - Lost in a Great Book
• David Poulsen's Love Letter to Toronto | Defining Canada
• Data Literacy Redux | the library projects by Wendy Traas

Nine Jobs that will vanish, includes Librarian

Jobs that will vanish | Photo Gallery - Yahoo! Finance Canada Extract:

Steven Herman, left, head of the Library of Congress storage facility, at the Library of Congress in 2003, in Washington, and left, a "bookBot", an automated retrieval system at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University in 2013, in Raleigh, N.C. Many middle-class workers have lost jobs because powerful software and computerized machines are doing tasks that only humans could do before.

The list includes:
9. Travel Agent
8. Librarian
7. Toll Collector
6. Bank Teller
5. Assembly Line Worker
4. Train Conductor
3. Telephone Switchboard Operators
2. Mail Carrier
1. loom operators
On the same shelf:

Robots are eating our jobs: tech as the enemy of the middle class? Minnesota Public Radio, February 1, 2013