Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association
TRENDS Mini-Conference

"Teaching, Research, Education, 'Nowledge, Direction, Strength"

NAHLA is delighted to announce its third TRENDS Mini-Conference! Below you will find details for the conference and registration procedures. We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

We gratefully acknowledge the Edmonton Public Library as the co-sponsor of this event!

TRENDS Sessions:

Roles and Responsibilities at Work: Which Hat Am I Wearing Now? (1-2 pm)

Each of us plays many different roles every day at work: peer, colleague, mentor, friend, employee, manager and others. How do these roles fit together? What happens when they collide? This session explores the intersections of these roles, how we use them to manage our communications with others and how to determine the appropriate hat to wear for each part of the day.

Margaret Law is Associate Director of Libraries (Science, Technology and Health Sciences) and a PhD student in the Faculty of Business at the University of Alberta. Her current research interests include the behaviour of managers in the workplace, and the use of information in management decision making. She received her MLS from the University of British Columbia and her MBA from Athabasca University.

Getting Medieval: Insights from the Golden Age of Information Science, 1200-1350 (2-3 pm)

Modern librarians owe a great unacknowledged debt to their predecessors in the universities and religious houses of the Middle Ages, who first worked out such fundamental systems as the alphabetical ordering of keywords. Like us, they were driven by technological innovations, and struggled to keep abreast of the rapidly evolving demands of library users. A quick glance at their achievement assures us that ours is not the first generation of librarians for whom the only constant is change.

Peter Binkley is the Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian at the University of Alberta. Prior to receiving his MLIS from the University of Western Ontario, he took a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). His research interests included the structuring of information in medieval encyclopaedias and preachers' aids.

Understanding and Creating Community in the Workplace (3-4 pm)

We are all familiar with the concept of teamwork, a practice designed to get the job done in the best possible, most timely way. Community, on the other hand, is not only an optimum practice for any workplace but is also an environment in which individuals thrive and become all that they can be. Our speaker will explore what community is as well as how to recognize those practices that create it and those that destroy it.

Dr. Virginia Sauve is an adult educator and consultant in Edmonton. For the past five years, she has been doing workplace education and conflict resolution interventions. She has done workshops in all of the Edmonton area hospitals on topics such as Worksafe, Communications, Team-Building, and Problem-Solving. She is also an author, spiritual director, and well-known speaker with teachers of English as a second language across Canada.

For more information about the NAHLA TRENDS Mini-Conference, please contact any of our executive.

Last Update: March 7, 2005
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