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Annual Report 1996/97

Appendix: Staff Activities May 1996 - April 1997


Abrams, Faye
 Attended
  • Electronic journals demonstration by Elsevier Science, University of Toronto, Feb. 4, 1997
Aquen Yuen, Margaret
 Attended
  • Workshop on Instruction in Library Use, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 15- 17, 1996 - member of the local arrangement committee
  • Laurel Creek Workshop by Heritage Resource Centre, University of Waterloo, Oct. 29, 1996
  • Evaluating the Impact of Learning Technologies, TRACE, University of Waterloo, Dec. 1996
  • Online Learning 1997, Effective and Available, University of Waterloo, Dec. 16 & 17, 1996
Aruda, Susan
 Attended
  • IST Workshops
    • Intro to HTML.
    • Learning Enough Unix to Manage Your Web Home Page
Bellingham, Susan
 Wrote
  • "Schantz/Russel Family Papers donated to the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room", Library Newsletter vol. 27-1, May 1996.
  • "Portrait of Donor" (on Dorothy Russell) Friends of the Library Newsletter, vol. 7-2, 1966
  • "Exploring the Grand Though Archives" in Grand Actions, vol. 2-2, Feb 26, 1997.
Boyle, Dianne
 Attended
  • Diversity in the Workplace, part 1
Britton, Jane
 Attended
  • "Managing Access to Evidence in Archives." Pre-Conference workshop, Archives Association of Ontario, Ottawa, May 6-7, 1996
  • Archives Association of Ontario Annual Conference: Descriptive Standards in Archives. Ottawa, May 8 - 10, 1996.
Chan, Amy
 Attended
  • GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Literary ArcView training , Dalhousie, Halifax, June 3-8, 1996
Forgay, Jane
 Attended
  • UW Counselling Services
    • Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder, April 24-25, 1997
    • Understanding Chronic Pain - April 30, 1997
  • WILU Conference (Workshop on Instruction in Library Use): Wilfrid Laurier, May 15 - 17, 1996.
  • "Making Connections" Canadian Institute for the Blind Library Conference, Toronto, November 1996.
  • Critical Incident Stress Management, University of Waterloo, April 24, 25 1997.
Fullerton, Anne
 Presented
  • "Collaborating with Faculty in Library Instruction", TRACE, Faculty Development Days, Sept 6, 1996.
  • "Learning Disabilities" session, Workshop on Instruction in Library Use, May 1996.
Convened
  • Convened and spoke at the session on "Collection Development in the 1990's: an Oxymoron?" with Gale Moore and John Clouston, at the OLA SuperConference, Toronto, February 8, 1997.
  • Convened the Library Instruction Interest Group's business and planning session, 1996 CLA Annual Conference, Halifax, June 5, 1996.
Attended
  • Canadian Library Association Conference, Halifax NS, June 5-9, 1996.
  • ARL/OMS - Library Management Institute II, Waterloo, April 28-May1, 1997.
  • TRACE, Teaching with Style, October 18, 1996.
  • Ontario Library Association Super Conference (OCULA), Toronto, February 6-9, 1997
Haslett, Mark
 Attended
  • American College and Research Libraries Conference, Pittsburgh, April 11 - 14, 1997.
Hendley, Margaret
 Wrote
  • "Teaching Assistants and Liaison Librarians", On Track, (TRACE newsletter to UW Teaching Assistants), January 1997, 1-2.
  • Book Review: "Impact of Emerging Technologies on Reference Service and Bibliographic Instruction." Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 21, 1, April 1996
Convened
  • "Collaborative Efforts in the New Information Environment" workshop for UW Faculty Development Days '96, September 6, 1996
Christine Jewell
 Presented
  • "Instructional Uses of the Web" at the Workshop on Instruction in Library Use, WLU, 1996
Attended
  • Ontario Library Association Super Conference (OCULA), Toronto, February 6-9, 1997.
Johnson, Dianne
 Attended
  • Workshops
    • Diversity I and II.
    • Personal Strategies for Change.
    • Connections.
Lakos, Amos
 Presented
  • "Management Information Services (MIS) and Implementation at the University of Waterloo Library", School of Librarianship and Information Sciences, U B C, Vancouver, BC, May 14, 1996,
  • "Management Information System (MIS) in the Library: From Theory to Implementation", 1996 Canadian Library Association Conference (CLA), on June 6, 1996 - Halifax, NS.
  • Workshop on "Assessing Library Networked Services: Issues and Options", Ontario Library Association Super Conference '97, Toronto, ON, February 7, 1997
  • "Management Information Systems in a Client/Server Environment" to the ARL Survey Co-ordinators meeting at the ALA Midwinter Conference, Washington, DC. February 14, 1997.
  • "Creating a Management Information System - Some Observations Based on the University of Waterloo Library Experience", Panel Discussion on The State of Performance Measures in Academic Libraries at the 8th National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Nashville, TE., April 12, 1997
Facilitated
  • Hot Topic Round Table discussion on "Assessment of Library Networked Services: Issues & Options," held at the LITA/LAMA 1996 National Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 14, 1996.
Participated in
  • US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Task Force on Electronic Output Measures, Washington, DC, December 2, 1996.
Attended
  • ARL/CARL Annual Meeting - Vancouver, May 1996
  • American Library Association (ALA), New York, June 1996
  • CARL Statistics Committee - Toronto, September 21, 1996.
  • CARL Annual Meeting + Statistics Committee - Ottawa, Nov 4, 1996.
  • American College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Nashville, TE. April 1997
  • IST Workshops - a number of workshops on Access, Excel, Word2
  • Canadian Library Association Conference, Halifax NS, June 5-9, 1996.
  • American Library Association Conference (ALA), New York, July 4 - 7, 1996
  • LITA/LAMA National Conference, Pittsburgh, October 13-16, 1996
  • Ontario Library Association Super Conference (OCULA), Toronto, February 6-9, 1997.
  • American Library Association Conference (ALA Midwinter), Washington, DC. February 1997.
  • American College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference, Pittsburgh, April 11 - 14, 1997.
Lamont, Sharon
 Attended
  • IST Workshops
    • More about Excel
  • ARL/OMS - Library Management Institute II, Waterloo, April 28-May1, 1997.
Leonard, Aloysius
 Attended
  • ARL/OMS - Library Management Institute II, Waterloo, April 28-May1, 1997
Macdonald, Joan
 Attended
  • Demonstration by Elsevier Science electronic journals, University of Toronto, February 4, 1997.
McCulloch Alex
 Attended
  • IST Workshops
    • Presentations with Power Point.
    • Using HTML for Web Pages.
    • Intermediate Excel.
  • Staff Training and Development - 4 sessions on TeamWork.
  • ARL/OMS - Library Management Institute II, Waterloo, April 28-May1, 1997
Millar, Esther
 Attended
  • IST Workshops
    • Windows 95 for Experienced Windows Users, September 1996
    • Creating Web Pages Using Netscape Gold, October, 1996
Murphy, Erin
 Attended
  • Workshop on Instruction in Library Use, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 15 - 17, 1996
  • Ontario Library Association Super Conference (OCULA), Toronto, February 6-9, 1997
Neumann, Margarita
 Attended
  • Human Resources workshop - Team Basics
Oldfield, William
 Presented
  • "Indexing the Web, a demonstration of the current and an improve method of indexing the UW Library's Electronic Library", Ontario Library Association Super Conference '97
  • "One Stop Shopping: Z39.50 and Web Browsers, a demonstration of a working Web to Z39.50 program", Ontario Library Association Super Conference 97
  • "Web Indexing and Delivery of Electronic Databases and Text" IST PD Seminar, Jan. 1997
  • "Secure Public Internet Access", Access: Ontario Library Association. Vol. 3 (2), 1997.
  • "Web Page Construction: A How-to Primer." OLA Super Conference, Toronto, 1997.
Attended
  • Ontario Library Association Super Conference (OCULA), Toronto, February 6-9, 1997.
Pinnell, Richard
 Presented
  • "Delivery of GIS Products and Services through Libraries." Municipal Information Systems Association (MISA) Conference, Kitchener, June 11, 1996.
  • "Using Geospatial Data for Teaching Purposes." TRACE Workshop, Waterloo, September 6, 1996.
  • at "Autodesk GIS." Markham, April 17, 1997.
Attended
  • Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives Annual Conference, Halifax, June 2-9, 1996.
  • MapInfo GIS Workshop, Toronto, June 22, 1996.
  • OCUL Map Group Fall Meeting, Toronto, November 8, 1996.
  • Human Resources Diversity I Workshop, Waterloo, November 22, 1996.
  • Human Resources Diversity II Workshop, Waterloo, December 2, 1996.
  • OCUL Map Group Spring Meeting, St. Catherines, April 25, 1997.
Wrote
  • "Geographical Information Systems in Libraries: Issues and Challenges." Association of Canadian Map Libraries Archives Bulletin, 97 (Fall 1996), 7-12.
Rahman, Shabiran
 Attended
  • ARL/OMS - Library Management Institute II, Waterloo, April, 1997
  • Canadian Library Association, Halifax, NS. June 1996
  • WILU Conference May 15-17, 1996, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo.
  • Western New York/Ontario ACRL Fall Conference, East Aurora, NY, September 27, 1996
Presented
  • "Role of Evaluation in Designing User Education", WILU Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, May 17, 1996.
  • "User Surveys In Academic Libraries", Canadian Library Association, Halifax, NS, June 9, 1996.
  • "Collaboration with Faculty" presentation at the Faculty Development Days, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., September 6, 1996.
  • "Librarians' in Academic Departments" at Western New York/Ontario ACRL Fall Conference, East Aurora, NY, September 27, 1996.
Ramlall, Adairsh
 Attended
  • Workshop - Working Smarter and Dealing with Change.
Susan Routliffe
 Attended
  • AUCC/ARL sponsored workshop on copyright, Ottawa, October 3-4, 1996.
  • ARL/OMS - Library Management Institute II, Waterloo, April, 1997
Shepherd, Murray
 Presented
  • A number of presentations during the year about the UW 40th Anniversary Celebration (including Senate, University Department Heads)
  • Address at the opening of the TUG Annex Facility, November 1996.
  • Videolink on TUG Annex and Consortia to the Media and Government Officers, Dec. 1996.
Facilitated
  • Frontline Workshop: Personal Strategies for Navigating Change. February and March 1997.
Attended
  • ARL/CARL Conference and ILL/DD Workshop, Vancouver, BC. 1996.
  • ARL Copyright Workshop, Ottawa, October 1996.
  • Scholarly Communication Workshop, Vancouver, BC. March 1997.
  • OCUL Spring Meeting, North York, April 1997.
Chaired
  • President's Advisory Committee of the 40th Anniversary, September1996 - December, 1997
Spencer, Mark
 Attended
  • IST Workshops
    • "Finding Things on the Web" , September 9 1996
    • "Netscape Gold: One Tool For All Your Internet Needs", September 11 1996
    • "Introduction to Word", September 24 1996
    • "Introduction to Windows95 for New Windows Users", November 5 1996
    • "Components of WordPerfect Suite 7", November 6 1996
    • "What's New in WordPerfect Version 7", November 12 1996
  • Working
    • "Working Smarter" (module 10) November 12 1996;
    • "Dealing with Changes" (module 11) (December 6 1996
Stephenson, Carol
 Attended
  • Workshop on Instruction in Library Use, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 15 - 17, 1996
Teather, Linda
 Presented
  • "The Outsourcing Experience at the University of Waterloo", 1996 CLA Conference session, "Outsourcing: fate or fiasco?" June 9, 1996.
Wrote
  • "Technical Services Review - Dalhousie University Libraries - External Reviewers' Report", review conducted and report written with Pat Nicholls, University of Manitoba
Attended
  • Voyager User Group Meeting, Rosemont IL, May 16-18, 1996 and April 24-26, 1997
  • Canadian Library Association Conference, Halifax NS, June 5-9, 1996
  • ARL/OMS Management Institute II, Waterloo, April 28-May1, 1997
Wan, Marina
 Attended
  • Workshop on Instruction in Library Use, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 15- 17, 1996
  • Imaging Canada 96's Exhibit, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, October 22, 1996
  • Online Learning 1997, Effective and Available, University of Waterloo, December 16 & 17, 1996
  • IST courses & presentations: Microsoft Access, Enhancing web pages, Java, Javascript, E-mail programmes
  • Ontario Library Association Super Conference (OCULA), Toronto, February, 1996
  • Continuing Education Course: JAVA, University of Waterloo, March, 1997
  • Continuing Education Course: SGML, University of Waterloo, March, 1997

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