When: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 – 12:15-1:30pm Where: Martin Prosperity Institute, 95 St. George Street, 9th floor, Toronto ON All SLA Toronto Chapter members are welcome to attend.  Come learn what your board is doing and give us your feedback and suggestions.  Volunteers are always appreciated. Please let our President, Kim Silk (kimberly.silk @ rotman.utoronto.ca) know if you plan [...]

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Announcement: 2013 SLA Toronto Student-to-Conference Award SLA Toronto is once again offering the SLA Toronto Student-to-Conference Award. One student will be chosen to receive a grant of up to $1500 to attend the SLA Annual Conference in San Diego, California from June 9-11, 2013. The SLA Conference is the one time a year when members [...]

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Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the winter 2013 edition of The Courier newsletter. It is my great pleasure to serve as your SLA Toronto Chapter president this year, and l am looking forward to working with many of you to continue building our very strong chapter. One of the reasons SLA Toronto is such a strong [...]

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Welcome to the winter 2013 issue of The Courier! If you are looking for some travel ideas for the upcoming year, perhaps some of the articles in this issue will provide some inspiration. Our feature article, by Crystal Sharp, recaps her travels to two very different, but equally fascinating, libraries in India­—the MCubed Library in [...]

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2013 Leadership Summit Kim Silk and I had the honour of attending the 2013 SLA Leadership Summit in Dallas, Texas at the beginning of February. It was a wonderful few days spent reconnecting and sharing with SLA colleagues from across the globe, and in particular the SLA Board of Directors. You can catch up on the [...]

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Please join me in welcoming the following new members who joined our Chapter from October 2012 through January 2013. Alexandra Kwan, Toronto Allison Li, Toronto Alyssa Bigelow, Toronto Andrew Hinton, Richmond, BC Annmarie Uleryk, Mississauga Ashley Beausoleil, Windsor Brittany Medeiros, Toronto Carey Toane, Toronto Caroline Chung, Oakville Conrad Ng, Toronto Courtenay Telford D. Grant Campbell, [...]

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Greg Barber is now a Prospect Management and Research Officer at Sunnybrook Foundation, and can be reached at gbarber000 (at) sympatico (dot) ca. Michael Meth is the new Director of the OISE Library at the University of Toronto. Until recently, Michael was the Director of the Li Koon Chun Finance Learning Centre, where he played a key [...]

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I visited two very different libraries while recently in India: a neighbourhood public library in a Mumbai suburb and an academic library at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. I was impressed by the innovative resources and programming, welcoming spaces, and philosophy of service in both libraries. I grew up in India in the [...]

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Last fall, I was fortunate to be given a private tour of the Geography & Map Division of the United States Library of Congress by Colleen Cahill, Digital Conversion Coordinator. My private tour began with a quick look at the old card catalogue that has been put out to pasture in a very long hallway. [...]

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2012 will be remembered for two major improvements in the Toronto Solo Librarians’ Group: the introduction of webinar technology and the inclusion of outstanding guest speakers. Webinar technology is BIG for solos. About twenty percent of meeting and workshop registrants cancel at the last minute, and many can’t attend meetings because of their location. With [...]

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