Wondering what happened at the SLA 2013 Conference in San Diego this year? Join a great group of SLA Toronto’s conference attendees for dinner and drinks at The Hot House Cafe as they share their stories and reflections from this year’s conference. This is a great opportunity for students, and new and more experienced information professionals alike to meet, [...]

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Article Club – Creative Collaborations (co-hosted with TSLIS) When: June 25, 6-8pm Where: The Old Nick, 123 Danforth Ave, Toronto Cost: Free Summer is almost here and this month’s article club is going to try something a little different with an online-only miniseries, “Design by the Book” instead of articles.  Join hosts Eileen Lewis and Kate Johnson [...]

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Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the spring 2013 edition of The Courier. While winter and spring have been battling it out on the weather front here in Toronto, your SLA Toronto Chapter has been working hard to deliver programs that have been wonderfully popular. Our chapter is very fortunate to count practitioners with specialized knowledge as [...]

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Welcome to the spring 2013 issue of The Courier! As always, many thanks to our contributors for their articles. As mentioned in the President’s Letter and Board Watch column, the SLA 2013 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO is just around the corner. If you’re off to San Diego, be sure to pass on a congrats to the [...]

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It’s a busy time for the SLA Board of Directors, with awards and nominations recently announced, and the annual conference quickly approaching. Here’s a rundown of the recent SLA award winners, the 2014 Board nominees, and how to get connected for this year’s annual conference. Honouring Our Outstanding Colleagues The following information professionals will be [...]

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Please join me in welcoming the following new members who joined our Chapter from February 2013 through May 2013. Afra Bolefski, Kitchener Amy Graziani, Mississauga Andrea Battiston, Toronto Ashok Arokiaswamy, Toronto Brian Rooney, London Catherine MacGregor, Toronto Christina Mills, Toronto Claudette Moïse, Ottawa Darrell Joyce, Oakville Elaine MacBeth, Oakville Emily Porta, Toronto Gillian Eguaras, Mississauga [...]

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Kate Johnson began at the University of Toronto Scarborough Library (UTSC) on March 1, 2013 as Liaison Librarian for Anthropology, Health Studies, and Psychology & Neuroscience. She can be reached at  kjohnson (at) utsc (dot) utoronto (dot) ca . Lindsay Timmins is now Director of Book Bank Operations at The Children’s Book Bank. Previously she was Outreach [...]

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Eureka.cc is pleased to partner once again the organization of the SLA Canadian Reception which is hosted this year by the Eastern Chapter. Don’t forget to join us on June 10th at Lou & Mickey’s for an all-inclusive evening that will possibly be the best reception of the Conference! To register follow this link. For [...]

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SLA Toronto Chapter is pleased to announce that Caroline Chung is the winner of the 2013 SLA Toronto Student-to Conference Award. This award provides the winning students with a $1,500 stipend for travel to and participation in the 2013 SLA Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO in San Diego, June 9-11. Caroline was selected by the Executive [...]

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Who cares? Answer this question and you can guarantee you will be a whiz at statistics reference. This was probably the most important idea hammered home by speaker Mike McCaffrey at Statistics Bootcamp Part I held on April 9th at the iSchool for SLA Toronto members. In the first part of the session, Mike provided [...]

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