Posted on April 30, 2012.
Announcing: the second workshop in the 2012 SLA Toronto Chapter Professional Development Series with Ulla de Stricker!
When:
Thursday May 17, 2012
Registration opens: 5:30pm
Event start: 6:00pm
Where:
Martin Prosperity Institute, MaRS Centre
101 College Street, Suite 420, Toronto, ON
Map and Directions | Register
Description:
Everything we leave behind for others to see— proposals, reports, blogs, and websites, even emails—provides evidence of our skills and professionalism. The language reflects our thinking and the depth of our knowledge, and the visual appearance is a mirror of our attention to detail, our ability to organize complex material, and our regard for the viewer’s ease of reading. Ulla de Stricker provides a set of simple tips and tricks for ensuring our “professional trails” signal quality and value.
Over the years, Ulla has helped many individuals with their professional development. (If you’re not already familiar with Ulla, have a look at www.destricker.com where other articles and seminars are available.) This workshop focuses on (1) tips for laying out text for easy readability and (2) eliminating common language usage errors that detract from a professional image. Feedback from previous presentations of it has been “never knew grammar could actually be entertaining!”
Not convinced? Here’s an excerpt of what one attendee posted on Ulla’s Facebook wall:
“As always Ulla is an inspiration to all. She knows how to convey messages [about] how to make an impression with a future employer and how to create that personal brand. I am a follower and whenever I can hear her speak I go – no matter the subject. I can only encourage those who have not had an exposure to her presentations or personality to come out at the next opportunity. We all need a mentor to help us along in our unachieved goals and she is one person everybody would like to have on side. Her breadth of knowledge is amazing, her presentations are well prepared, excellently presented, energizing, and spiked with good story telling.”
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Posted on April 30, 2012.
Registration for this event is now full. Participation by webinar is available!
When: May 15, 2012, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Where: Insurance Bureau of Canada, 777 Bay Street, Suite 2400, Presidents Boardroom
RSVP: Amra Porobic (librarian@ibc.ca) 416-362-2031 (free event)
Description:
Are you thinking of revamping your library’s presence on your intranet? Do you need a new website dedicated to your library services? Do you want to create a collection of instruction and/or research guides using Web 2.0 functionality and applications? If so, LibGuides may offer the perfect tool. Specifically designed for information sharing, this content management system is perfect for creating how-to guides – just what librarians do best!
Presenter:
Martha Murphy
Martha is currently the Head Librarian at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT). Martha is interested in emerging technology and its application to knowledge management. She has developed LibGuides for specialized legal collections in workplace safety, human rights, and labour relations at WSIAT. In her previous position at the Ontario Fire Marshal, she developed fire safety and public education guides. Martha will share her experiences in developing LibGuides as a reference tool.
Joanna Bielecki
Joanna recently graduated from University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. During her studies, she worked as a student reference librarian at two University of Toronto libraries and worked extensively with LibGuides, creating research guides on various topics. Joanna will discuss LibGuides’ features, as would be used by a solo librarian.
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Posted on April 25, 2012.
With the generosity of our sponsor, Carswell:
The Executive Board would like to say a special thank you in person to all of our members for their support and continued membership of the SLA Toronto Chapter at the Special Appreciation Event on May 24th!
Let us show you our gratitude by joining us for a drink and some tasty appetizers at Progue Mahone.
May 24th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Pogue Mahone
http://www.poguemahone.ca/content/map
777 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M5G 2N8
For members only.
Please RSVP to Christine DeLuca (delucac at bennettjones.com) by May 1st.
If you’re not a member, please visit http://www.sla.org/content/membership/joinsla/index.cfm to join today!
http://www.carswell.com
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Posted on April 25, 2012.
Legal Searching for the Non-Legal Librarian
Law librarianship is a specialized practice. It takes months (if not years) of daily exposure to the documents and disciplines of legal research to make a librarian confident that the information they’re supplying is timely and accurate. That knowledge does you no good at all when you’ve got to get answer out by 5:00 today, and you only barely understand the question.
Join us for an introduction to the tools and techniques of legal research in the session, “Legal Research from 20,000 feet”. In an interactive, wide-ranging session, Wendy Reynolds will take you through some of the key tools and strategies to make legal research less intimidating. Topics will include:
- Common questions that law librarians answer
- Key resources (free and licensed)
- Vocabulary (non-Latin)
- Research strategies and common mistakes which can reduce the value of your results
When: Tuesday, June 12, 5:30pm
Where: Ontario Legislative Assembly, Queen’s Park, Toronto
REGISTRATION OPENING SOON.
About the speaker:
Wendy Reynolds has worked in law libraries since 1992. She is currently the Manager of Library Client Services at the Ontario Legislative Library, and has worked for a court library, a law firm library, for a provincial regulator and at a public-facing law library.
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Posted on April 25, 2012.
What: SLA Toronto & TSLIS Network Article Club
When: Wednesday May 16, 2012 – 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Dora Keogh – Front Room, 141 Danforth Avenue Toronto, Hosted by Eileen Lewis & Kate Johnson
REGISTER by emailing Carmen Lee.
SLA Toronto Chapter and TSLIS Network are delighted to provide you with a unique opportunity to participate in May article club! You are invited to join your fellow Information Professionals in the lively discussion regarding the most interesting and involving recent articles. The Conference season is upon us so there is a conference theme to May’s articles:
As a bonus, check out Jane Dysart’s podcast “Confessions of Conference Junky” http://dysartjones.com/2009/06/confessions-of-a-conference-junky/
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Posted on April 5, 2012.
When:
Thursday April 26, 2012; Registration at 5:30, Session begins at 6pm
Where:
Martin Prosperity Institute
MaRS Discovery District
101 College Street, Suite 420
Toronto
(416) 673-8580
Map and Directions | Register
Description:
Professional Branding & “Packaging”: Easy Ways to Promote Yourself as a Professional by Ulla de Stricker, the Career Guidance Chair of the SLA – Toronto Chapter
Over the years, Ulla has helped many individuals with their professional development. This workshop will provide individuals with valuable advice about ways to promote and brand themselves as professionals.
Whether we like it or not, professionals each have a “brand” – and we must shape it, then nurture it and keep it fresh. How we perform on the job, what we do for the professional association(s) to which we belong, how we contribute to knowledge – and yes, how we dress and what kind of bag we use – all contribute to others’ perceptions of us.
The session explains what branding means for professionals and how to ascertain what kind of brand might suit each of us best. It illustrates ways in which we can influence the impression we make on our professional peers – among them those who might hire us!
The bottom line: No one else will manage our branding for us. It is our responsibility!
Come hear Ulla’s always inspiring take on how to take charge of your career!
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Posted on April 2, 2012.
Tuesday April 17, 2012 – Tuesday April 17, 2012
Map and Directions | Register
Description:
Come for a tour of the newly renovated and integrated CBC Libraries and Archives space. Tour the physical space and hear about such services as the public broadcaster’s Music Library, Reference Services, and Visual Reference Resources.
After the tour stay for an informal audience led discussion about media librarianship with the tour guides:
Victoria Goodfellow – Digital Media Management Coordinator
Rebecca Efrat – Visual Resources Librarian
Tyana Grundig – Reference librarian and who recently worked for the CBC’s Marketplace production “Dirty Hospitals”
Laura Warner – Media Librarian in Content Management and formerly of the Music and Reference Libraries
The tour will take place at 6pm on Tuesday April 17, 2012 at the CBC Broadcasting centre on the corner of Front and John Street in Toronto.
Registration limited and for SLA Toronto members only please.
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Posted on March 29, 2012.
SLA Toronto Chapter and the SLA Toronto Student Group are proud to present the first workshop in the Professional Development Series with Ulla de Stricker! Details below are presented below with an attached poster.
PROFESSIONAL BRANDING AND PACKAGING: Easy ways to promote yourself as a professional
Tuesday April 3, 2012
12:10-1:30pm
Room 728, Claude Bissell Building – 140 St. George Street
Whether we like it or not, professionals each have a “brand” – and we must shape it, then nurture it and keep it fresh. How we perform on the job, what we do for the professional association(s) to which we belong, how we contribute to knowledge – and yes, how we dress and what kind of bag we use – all contribute to others’ perceptions of us.
The session explains what branding means for professionals and how to ascertain what kind of brand might suit each of us best. It illustrates ways in which we can all influence the impression we make on our professional peers – among them those who might hire us!
The bottom line: No one else will manage our branding for us. It is our responsibility – and it starts even before we graduate.
Come hear Ullaʼs always inspiring take on how to take charge of your career!
SLA Professional Branding
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Posted on March 27, 2012.
SLAtor has partnered up with the Toronto Desk Set’s monthly pub quiz event this month.
Our quiz master will be an SLA member - Ricardo Laskaris. The general theme is “Libraries and information.”
WHEN: Thursday, April 12th
TIME: 6:00pm-8:00pm
COST: cost of your own drink
WHERE: Dora Keogh
TO RSVP: please email our Programming Director, Katya Pereyaslavska, at katya.pereyaslavska@gmail.com
Bring your thinking cap and good cheer!
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Posted on March 24, 2012.
WHEN & WHERE: Wednesday April 4th, 2012 – Victory Café – 6:30pm
WHO: The discussion will be led by Jessica Darling , the Research Librarian at Devon Group, Toronto
ABOUT: As information professionals and librarians, we’re familiar with the reality that our profession is always in flux – new technologies, new services, new expectations – but despite these changes we are, and always will be, relevant.
Come out Wednesday April 4th for a chance to mix and mingle with other professionals in our field and discuss some of the changes you’ve experienced in your workplace and how you’ve adapted.
To get the conversation started, here are a few articles, published around National Libraries Day:
Louise Morrison, 5 Reasons Why We Really Need Librarians and Information Professionals in the Internet Age, MmIT, Feburary 7th 2012.
The library world is changing, there’s no doubt about that. The way we organise, seek and retrieve information has changed massively over the last 10 years and more dramatic changes will follow… Mark Changizi, The Problem With the Web and E-Books Is That There’s No Space for Them, Psychology Today, Feburary 7th, 2012. Imagine leaving your house to find that all your neighbors are gone, houses and all, replaced by a new stock of neighbors and their houses …
To RSVP, please email Carmen at carmen.l@gmail.com
Hope to see you there!
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