2016 Government Information Day at University of Toronto

On Friday, December 9th, 2016, the University of Toronto Libraries will host the 4th annual Government Information Day in Ontario:

"This year’s Government Information Day will feature presentations from government librarians, academic librarians and scholars on topics relating to access of government information. There are still a few presentations to finalize, but we can confirm the following presentations:

• Christopher Cochrane, Graeme Hirst, Nona Naderi, Ludovic Rheault, Tanya Whyte presenting the Linked Parliamentary Data Project (LiPaD)
• Amanda Wakaruk presenting Could it be a case of the emperor’s new clothes? Crown copyright and Canada’s commitment to open government
• Rolla Haddad and Jamila Hastick presenting Commotions over motions
• Alex Alton [Publications Ontario], Sandra Craig [Ontario Legislative Library], Alex Eastwood [Open Government], Frank Van Kalmthout [Archives Ontario], and moderator Simone O’Byrne [Ontario Government Libraries Council] with a panel on the State of Ontario Government Publishing
• Margaret Wall presenting Streamlining Access to Digitized Canadian Government Information
• And Sam-Chin Li and Andrea Mills presenting about the Digitized Sessional Papers database"