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CANADIAN PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT #40787580 Baker & Taylor Is Your Total Solution! With over 175 years dedicated to serving libraries, our commitment to you has never been stronger. Baker & Taylor offers Canadian libraries unsurpassed access to the widest range of published titles. What makes our service so convenient? • Our database contains information on over • On-line ordering and customer service and 3.8 million print and non-print titles from electronic invoicing. around the world. • CATS—our Children’s And Teen Services • Over 15 million units in inventory. (including audio/video titles). • Books ship from our four regional distribution • Book leasing, automatic-release, and centers twice weekly (Canadian customs continuations plans for any size library. clearance and collection of GST are provided). • Value-added services for both print and • Experienced Canadian-based sales and non-print materials including Customized support representation. Library Services. For more information on any of these services, please visit us at www.btol.com or contact your Canadian sales manager, Edward Devine, by e-mail at [email protected]. Overjoyed at finding more than 500 rare historical photos, Michelle momentarily forgot there were 6,487 images to sift through, that they couldn’t leave the building, and that the library closed in 2 hours. How could she get what she needs in time? CONTENTdm. CONTENTdm from OCLC Canada makes it easy for your library to “go digital,” and still stay focused on serving the users in front of you. It’s an easy way to manage your growing digital collection—for photos, newspapers, manuscripts and more. And CONTENTdm is just one of the OCLC Digital Collection and Preservation Services that provide the technology, infrastructure, resources and services you need to manage your digital collections. Or digital reference. Or electronic journals. Or eContent. Our digital services are just one more way that OCLC helps you help them. Learn more at www.oclc.org/ca/en/services/preservation/. www.oclc.org/ca/ OLA 3 SPRING 2005 contents Vol 11 No.3 AWARDS SPRING OSLA Administrator of the Year 20 LEO HUTCHINSON Thames Valley District School Board OSLA School Administrator of the Year Agnes Macphail Public School, Toronto District School Board 23 WAYNE HAMILTON Agnes Macphail Public School OPLA Award for Leadership in Youth Services CHRISTINE DALGETTY 25 Burlington Public Library OCULA Academic Librarian of the Year 05 DON KINDER 27 Ryerson University OLBA W.J. Robertson Medallion Public Librarian of the Year 29 GEOFFREY P. NIE Ajax Public Library OPLA James Bain Medallion Public Library Trustee of the Year 31 ETHAN MINGS Lincoln Public Library Board OLITA Award for Technological Innovation The Reuben R. Sallows Digital Library 33 HURON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY OPLA Children’s Librarian of the Year DELILAH DEANE CUMMINGS 37 London Public Library OSLA Teacher-Librarian of the Year Features Loyola Catholic Secondary School, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board 40 CHRISTINE HOUSE Loyola Catholic Secondary School OSLA Award for Special Achievement 42 ESTHER ROSENFELD Toronto District School Board ACCESS 4 SPRING 2005 contents Ontario Library Association 100 Lombard Street, Suite 303 Toronto, ON M5C 1M3 416-363-3388 / 1-866-873-9867 toll free 8 Ontario Snapshot FAX 416-941-9581 / 1-800-387-1181 toll free E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.accessola.com Published for members of the Ontario Library 12 Tales from the Front Lines Association four times per year. Access furthers the continu- ing education activities of the Association. The magazine is a forum on issues, a source of ideas for the improvement of librarianship in Ontario and a touchstone for the trends that 14 Flashpoint will affect the future development of the profession. ACCESS Editorial Board Patrick Gignac, College and University Libraries [email protected] 18 The World Outside Cathy Grant, Public Libraries [email protected] Susan Moroz, School Libraries [email protected] 46 Photo Essay Bob Ernest, Public Library Boards [email protected] Jean Foster, Library Information and Technology [email protected] 50 Eye on the Web ACCESS Department Editors Eva McDonald, The Last Word [email protected] Elyse Pike / Health Watch 52 Health Watch [email protected] Randee Loucks / Board Challenge [email protected] Paula de Ronde / Marketing 55 The Next Generation [email protected] Amanda Wakaruk / Eye on the Web [email protected] Sharon Munro / Humour 57 Readers’ Advisory [email protected] Candy Magowan / The Next Generation Magowan@fi s.utoronto.ca Sharron Smith / Reader’s Advisory [email protected] On The Cover: There were many genies in the Vicki Whitmell / The World Outside lamp at Super Conference 2005. Health Libraries’ [email protected] Sue Hendricks with OSLA’s Roberta Henley, Bruce Roxburgh / FixIT New York City Schools’ Barbara Stripling, Craig [email protected] Kielburger, Trustee of the Year Ethan Mings For the Ontario Library Association (shades and all) with Librarian of the Year, Geoff Lori Knowles, [email protected] Nie, the charms of the Sultan’s Tent, Education Larry Moore, [email protected] ©2005, Ontario Library Association. No part of this publication Institute partner Jane Dysart, Stephen Lewis, may be reproduced without the permission of the OLA and American researcher David Loertscher except by members in good standing. All rights reserved. were among the leaders and visionaries Ontario Library Association stimulating the 4,400 delegates. Presidents 2005 OLA President VICE-PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER SALES REPRESENTATIVES Cynthia Archer [email protected] Robert Thompson Jack Smith, OCULA President Gary Fustey, Sharon Munro [email protected] 5255 Yonge Street, Suite 1000 EDITOR Andrew Pattison, Toronto, ON M2N 6P4 Tim Friesen Kim Arnold, OLBA President Robert Thompson Steve Beauchamp Suzanne Culp [email protected] Don Mclaren 1-866-216-0860 ext. 229 BRANCH MANAGER OLITA President [email protected] Nancie Prive GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jean Foster [email protected] James T. Mitchell 1 Wesley Avenue, Suite 301 ACCOUNTING OPLA President Winnipeg, MB R3C 4C6 Sharon Komoski Cathy Matyas [email protected] Tel.: 1-866-201-3096 OSLA President Fax: 204-480-4420 ART DIRECTOR Anita Brooks Kirkland www.mediaedgepublishing.com Sean Rickner Departments [email protected] Président d’ABFO Publication Mail Agreement 12010472 Please return undeliverable magazines to Ontario Library Association Nathalie Soini 100 Lombard Street, Suite 303, Toronto, ON M5C 1M3 [email protected] OLA 5 SPRING 2005 Ontario Snapshot LIBRARY NEWS, PROGRAMS AND RECOGNITION The Freedom to Read What do a former Berkeley Professor, an early 20th century lesbian, the author of a Gone with the Wind parody, and a famous photographer of nudes and fruit have in common? Ignacio Chapella, Radclyffe Hall, Alice Randall and Robert Mapplethorpe have all had their ideas, writings, and work censored. We are reading in critical times. Books and ideas are challenged and suppressed daily throughout the world. Even in Canada, there is an uneasy tension in all of us as we struggle to balance the values of intellectual freedom with the desire to protect others from something we feel is immoral, corrupt or just plain wrong. The University of Guelph library celebrated Freedom to Read Week with an event called Banned Out Loud which featured Professor Jacqueline Murray, Dean, College of Arts; Professor Ann Clark, Ontario Agricultural College; Dave Hudson, University of Guelph Alumnus; and Professor Sky Gilbert, College of Arts. They each read a banned passage and discussed it in the context of their own experience of censorship and intellectual freedom. Sky Gilbert (reading from his own play “BAN THIS “It was both exciting and rewarding SHOW”) and Dave Hudson (reading from Alice Randall’s to have this philosophical ideal THE WIND DONE GONE). honoured by the readers at this event” said librarian Jane Burpee. This event was coordinated by Jane as well as library staff Mary Grebenc, Pascal Lupien, Ron MacKinnon, Jenny Marvin, and Lorna Rourke. Lifescapes at the Orillia Public Library The Orillia Public Library is offering a great adult program called Lifescapes, designed to encourage seniors to preserve their personal history by writing their memoirs. Lifescapes was developed by Julie Machado, a librarian with the Washoe County Library System and Stephen Tchudi, Professor of English and Rhetoric at the University of Nevada. One of the successful methods they used to encourage seniors to write down life experiences, was by “jogging their memories” with different techniques. Their Lifescapes participants have successfully completed several anthologies as well as many individual manuscripts. Using the Nevada Lifescapes as a foundation, the Orillia Public Library was able to adapt the program to fi t the requirements of its library. Featuring two meetings a month, complete with presentations by authors and storytellers, Lifescapes has so far been a huge success. Once ideas are down on paper, and editing is complete, the stories will be published for future generations to read. Lifescapes will conclude with a book launch to celebrate the completion of the memoirs. ACCESS 6 SPRING 2005 Ontario Snapshot Library Exchanges to Make a Difference To celebrate First Nations Public Library Week, the Keswick Branch of Georgina Public Libraries met with the library of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation. Through stories, a craft and personal reminiscence, the library was given glimpses into a past life very different from our own, despite the proximity of the island to the mainland. The library hopes this will be the fi rst of many exchanges with the Georgina Island First Nation Library. Check out their website at www.nanabushtrails.com The CNIB Library Invites you to Doors Open Read to Succeed! The CNIB Library welcomes the As part of Literacy Day in late January, Vaughan Public Libraries library community to tour the new launched its Read to Succeed program. Greg Sorbara, Minister of CNIB National Headquarters during Finance and M.P.P.