• See the latest technologies, trends, services, and programs.
• over 200 firms and 700 personnel ready to answer your questions.
• Compare products and prices in a time-efficient way.
• Do your product analysis with colleagues without scheduling a meeting.
• Bring your problems and let the experts solve them.
• Tips for improving programs, products, and services.
• The Passport to Prizes is still fun to win.
• Public access email stations.
• New programming in the EXPO Theatre.

PASSPORT TO PRIZES
You have until 2:00 PM on Friday to win!! Make sure you drop off your completed Passport in the drum outside the entrance to EXPO 2012!

AUTHORS
• Over 100 authors are expected to be signing in booths throughout the day.
Check your Conference program and listen for the announcements over the PA system for special guests. 

YOU CAN ALSO...
• Check your email.
• Meet at the café with its expanded menu and seating.

On Stage at the EXPO Theatre

Thursday:

11:30 am – 11:55 am
IEEE Xplore – PREVIEW Upcoming New Features and Content
Ruth Wolfish
A quick review of the new content and features that IEEE added in 2011 and a preview of what is planned for 2012.
Attend this fast paced spotlight session so you can update your users and be prepared for the dynamic next phase of online content !

12:00 noon – 12:25 pm
Simply Map
Steven Swartz
SimplyMap Canada is an award-winning web-based mapping application that changes the way patrons and students interact with complex data. With SimplyMap, non-technical users can access thousands of variables including demographic, business, and marketing data, and easily create professional thematic maps and reports. See a live demonstration of SimplyMap Canada 2.0 – redesigned from the ground up with new features that make it the most powerful, easy-to-use research tool available. Explore SimplyMap today!

12:30 pm – 12:55 pm
ProQuest
Start here … to discover more about The Vogue Archive, more than 400,000 pages of image-rich material available online for the first time.

1:00 pm – 1:25 pm
ProQuest
Announcing new e-book download capabilities and upcoming mobile app from ebrary? that gives library users offline access to resources.

1:30 pm – 1:55 pm
The New, Integrated Project MUSE: Books and Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Melanie Schaffner
Take a guided tour of the new, fully-integrated Project MUSE interface. MUSE has recently added over 12,000 books from university presses and related publishers to the 500+ scholarly journals on its platform. Learn to navigate the combined book and journal browse and search functions, and take advantage of faceted search features to narrow down results to the most relevant content.


2:30 pm – 3:10 pm
Using Smart Boards to get kids excited about books.
Paula Goepfert, Annick Press
Learn all about free, ready-made Book Talks for Interactive White Boards from Annick Press. Paula Goepfert will demonstrate how to use these exciting book talks in your library.

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Good Reads: Canadian books for adult literacy and ESL learners
ABC Canada

Good Reads are short books by great Canadian authors, for adult literacy and ESL learners.  The back story of this unique new series includes the challenges of writing and editing.  Interviews, readings and Q&A with Good Reads authors Deborah Ellis (In From the Cold) and Robert Hough (The Day the Rebels Came to Town).


Friday

9:00 am – 10:30 am
Good Reads: Canadian books for adult literacy and ESL learners
ABC Canada
Good Reads are short books by great Canadian authors, for adult literacy and ESL learners. The back story of this unique new series includes the challenges of writing and editing. Interviews, readings and Q&A with Good Reads authors Maureen Jennings (Shipwreck) and Gail Anderson-Dargatz (The Stalker)

10:40 am – 11:15 am
Simply Map
Steven Swartz
SimplyMap Canada is an award-winning web-based mapping application that changes the way patrons and students interact with complex data. With SimplyMap, non-technical users can access thousands of variables including demographic, business, and marketing data, and easily create professional thematic maps and reports. See a live demonstration of SimplyMap Canada 2.0 – redesigned from the ground up with new features that make it the most powerful, easy-to-use research tool available. Explore SimplyMap today!

11:20 am – 11:45 am
ProQuest
Announcing new e-book download capabilities and upcoming mobile app from ebrary? that gives library users offline access to resources.

11:50 am – 12:15 pm
ProQuest
Start here … to discover more about The Vogue Archive, more than 400,000 pages of image-rich material available online for the first time.

12:25 pm – 2:30 pm

CANSCAIP MASS BOOK LAUNCH

CANSCAIP and OLA are proud to present the seventh annual mass book launch Friday February 3, 2012 at the EXPO Stage in Hall C, from 12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM. 20 authors and illustrators will introduce to you their new 2011 titles in entertaining five-minute infomercials. Sylvia McNicoll, Book Launch Co-ordinator of CANSCAIP, will act as emcee and official timer. Enjoy the personalities behind the books as well as their behind-the-creation stories. Buy a raffle ticket to win some of these stories. Picture books, middle-reader age as well as young adult novels will all be available on site for purchase and the authors and artists will happy to autograph them for your collection.    

Jan Andrews When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew;  Tales of Ti-Jean, Groundwood Books.

Rona Arato  On an American Day, by Owlkids.

Catherine Austen  My Cat Isis  illustrated by Virginie Egger, Kids Can Press;  26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6,  Lorimer; All Good Children, Orca Book Publishers

Karen Bass Drummer Girl, Coteau Books.

Helaine Becker  Trouble in the Hills, Fitzhernry Whiteside;  Juba This, Juba That,  illustrated by Ron Lightburn, Tundra; The Quiz Book for Girls, Scholastic

Lesley Choyce Dumb Luck, Red Deer/ Fitzhenry and Whiteside  

Lena Coakley Witchlanders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Aubrey Davis Kishka for Koppel, Orca Books Oct 2011

Nan Forler Winterberries and Apple Blossoms: Reflections and Flavors of a Mennonite Year, Tundra Books

Jacqueline Guest  Ghost Messages  Coteau Books


Anne-Yvonne Gilbert Snow White, Grimm Press

Susan Glickman  Bernadette in the Doghouse, Second Story Press  

Vicki Grant Betsy Wickwire's Dirty Secret, HarperCollins Canada


Natalie Hyde I Owe You One, Orca (Young Readers) Saving Armpit, Fitzhenry & Whiteside


Kathy Kacer  To Hope and Back: The journey of the St. Louis, Second Story Press.

Karen Krossing The Yo-Yo Prophet, Orca Publishing

Vladyana Krykorka  Arctic land, Arctic sea, Artic sky, Annick Press

Rob Laidlaw No Shelter Here, Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs, Pajama Press

Jennifer Maruno Warbird  Dundurn Press


Elizabeth MacLeod Canadian Money; Canada's Trees, Scholastic Canada


Maureen McGowan Cinderella: Ninja Warrior, Sleeping Beauty: Vampire Slayer  Silver Dolphin Books, Canadian distributor Raincoast Books

Mahtab Narsimhan   The Tiffin,  Dancing Cat Books, an Imprint of Cormorant Books.

Allan Peterkin The Flyaway Blanket, Imagination Press, The American Psychological Association Press (Washington)

Cheryl Rainfield  Hunted, Westside Books

Susan Ross The Great Bellybutton Cover-up, Susan Ross   

Adira Rotstein Little Jane Silver, Dundurn  

Virginia Frances Schwartz  NUTZ! Tradewinds

Marsha Skrypuch Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue From War, Pajama Press

Bill Slavin Big City Otto, Kids Can Press

Martin Springett Breakfast on a Dragon’s Tail, Fitzhenry and Whiteside

Patricia Storms (Illustrator) Snowy Science, Scholastic Canada

Teresa Toten Beyond Blonde, Penguin

Kari-Lynn Winters aRHYTHMetic, Co-written with: Tiffany Stone and Lori Sherritt-Fleming, Illustrated by Scot Ritchie, Tickle Trunk Publications

Frieda Wishinsky  Explorers Who Made it…Or Died Trying, Scholastic Canada; Halifax Explodes  Owl Kids

Pam Withers First Descent, Tundra Books

Paul Yee The Secret Keepers,  Tradewind Books of Vancouver; Money Boy, Groundwood Books