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A listing of conferences/workshops of interest to the Canadian library and information management community. Specifically,
- international, national, regional, provincial, and local events in Canada;
- international and national events in the United States; and
- selected international events outside North America.
See also: Awareness and Promotional Events
To have your conference/workshop added, e-mail info@librarianship.ca

Managing Electronic Records
September 18, 2017Website: http://www.armavi.org/ Join us Monday, September 18th as we again delve into the world of electronic records management. At the last event we heard how the Sunshine Coast Regional District prepared for an Electronic Document …

Implementing GCDOCS: Recommendations and Lessons Learned
September 14, 2017The objective of this presentation is to share overall best practices, and offer some recommendations and lessons learned for those embarking on a GCDOCS implementation project. The presentation is based …
Diversity By Design – Reframing Diversity Discourse in Canada
September 13, 2017Website: https://www.idiversitybydesign.com/ We will hold a two-day Symposium in Toronto in September 2017 on the state of diversity in Canada’s informational and cultural sectors. The symposium will invite an open multi-sided …

The Outreach Network Camp
September 11, 2017Theme: Measuring engagement

The Power of Branding: Create & Communicate Your Library’s Brand
September 11, 2017Website: http://learn.libraryjournal.com/the-power-of-branding/ The Power of Branding: Create & Communicate Your Library’s Brand is an interactive, one-day, live workshop, bringing together library directors, management, emerging leaders, librarians, marketing and PR staff and library …

The Power of Libraries
September 8, 2017Theme: Strong and Free

Webinar: Situating Canadian Cities in an International Smart City Ecosystem
August 30, 2017Website: http://www.opennorth.ca/ This interactive webinar will present findings thus far from the Open Smart Cities in Canada project. This Project’s research consists of a preliminary environmental-scan (E-scan) and gap analysis of …

Marketing Libraries Think Tank 2017
August 21, 2017Website: http://www.accessola.org/web/OLA/Events/Signature_Events/Marketing _Libraries_Think_Tank/OLA/Events/Signature_events/Marketing_Think_Tank/ Welcome.aspx The Marketing Libraries Think Tank was created for library marketing professionals by library marketing professionals. Whether you are a trained marketer or a library staff member responsible …

IFLA World Library and Information Congress
August 19, 2017Theme: Libraries. Solidarity. Society.
IL Palooza Light
August 17, 2017Website: https://ilpalooza.wordpress.com/ IL Palooza is an information literacy workshop where professional academic librarians from across Alberta will gather and share effective information literacy strategies. This friendly, casual event has been created to …