Special Library Programming Ideas for the 2006 CLA Conference

The deadline for submitting programming ideas for the 2006 Canadian Library Association conference to take place in Ottawa next June is September 26, 2005.

The national executive of CASLIS (Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services) is meeting in Ottawa this weekend to put the finishing touches on proposals that will be of interest to the Canadian special librarian community.

Some of the sessions ideas being discussed include:

• Evidence-base Librarianship
• First Steps as a Supervisor
• Information-seeking by management/senior execs. - behavioural aspects, motivation, etc.
• Negotiating with vendors - skills, techniques, etc.
• Roving librarians
• Virtual/Electronic Collaboration tools - what's new in info gadgets & software
• Information Audit - why do it (i.e. value) and overview of how do it
• Women in Management
• Successful Outsourcing - skills for productive consultant-client relationships
• "Law libraries 10 years from now", "Health libraries 10 years from now", "Financial libraries 10 years from now", "Public library services to business, 10 years from now", - (mixture of technology, service changes, staffing changes, even employer changes, space/location changes)
• Researching international/overseas markets

If anyone has any other ideas they would like to see CASLIS pursue or if anyone is interested in putting together a session or knows someone else who might be, contact:

Nancy MacKenzie
President
CASLIS National
nancymackenzie@shaw.ca
403.221.2061