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presentation on building communities at CLA 2006

32. Building Communities that Transcend Jurisdictional and Regional Barriers
Technological advances help remove barriers of distance and physical storage space, while other barriers, including funding, jurisdiction, and intellectual property, provide ongoing challenges. Learn about how initiatives that aim to provide universal, barrier-free access to resources in diverse libraries are contributing to the development of a national digital library service.

Speakers:

• Lucy Pana, Executive Director,The Alberta Library
• Lucie Molgat, Director of the Canada’s scientific infostructure project, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information [CISTI], Ottawa, ON

Will be in CLA 2006 Concurrent Session E, Friday, June 16, 2006.

Ottawa library conferences in 2006

Quite a lineup this year:

• 148th ARL Membership Meeting.  May 16-19, 2006.  Fairmont Chateau Laurier.  UPDATED 2006-02-13: new link.
• Archiving 2006.  May 23-26, 2006.
• Canadian Library Association (CLA) 2006.  June 14-17, 2006.  Ottawa Congress Centre.  UPDATED 2006-02-13: new link to conference website.
• GeoTec Event.  June 18-21, 2006.  Ottawa Congress Centre.  co-located with the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA), the Canadian Cartographic Association, and the International Cartographic Association
• Access 2006.  October 11-14, 2006.  (see previous year: Access 2005, as well as my category Access2005)  UPDATED 2006-02-03 with link to Access 2006 website.
• Council of Federal Libraries Annual Fall Seminar 2006.  (see previous year in my category CFLAFS2005)

Previously:
June 19, 2005  CLA 2006 in Ottawa

back

I am back from vacation.

As always, I will try to provide mostly analysis and commentary in this blog.  For raw links, check out my Furl linkblog.

As indicated on my wiki, my main current projects are

• Internet Librarian International 2005 unofficial wiki (please contribute!)
• Library Success wiki - Web Browser Extensions

The Web Browser Extensions page will be used to support the brief presentation I am giving at ILI2005.
I am planning to add more information about JavaScript and XML there as it is becoming clear to me that these are new core technologies for building interfaces to your library on the web.
I am also working on secret project which hopefully will be done by the end of the month.

In terms of conferences you can see the conference plan on my wiki, but basically here's what's coming up:

Council of Federal Libraries in Ottawa September 14, 2005 (will attend).  I'm going to tag this with the rather awkward CFLAFS2005 (the AFS part is for Annual Fall Seminar).
Internet Librarian International in London October 10-11, 2005 (will present) - for more info, see my ILI2005 category.
There will be an entire track on blogs and wikis at ILI.

In 2006 I may attend some or all of:
148th ARL in Ottawa May 16-19, 2006
CLA 2006 in Ottawa June 14-17, 2006 - for more info, see my CLA2006 category.  Presumably the web site will be http://www.cla.ca/conference/2006/index.htm, but currently only info for exhibitors is up.

Access 2006 in Ottawa October 11-14, 2006

As you can see, 2006 is going to be a library-conferenceriffic time here.

CLA 2006 in Ottawa

The 2005 Canadian Library Association Conference wrapped up yesterday (I didn't go).
They had both a blog and a wiki.

Next year the conference will be in Ottawa on June 14-17, 2006.
Presumably, what with my organization being based in Ottawa, there will be a substantial contingent of us there.

So here's my usual wishlist:
- free wireless Internet at the conference
- free or subsidized hotel Internet
- conference blog / wiki / bliki
- conference tag: CLA2006

UPDATE 2005-10-13: You can check out this blog's CLA2006 category for any updated info I have.