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On November 30th the Nova Scotia Provincial Library will be hosting the Education Institute audio conference “15 Minutes a Day! All It Takes to Keep Up in a 2.0 World” with Stephen Abram. Keeping up with innovation, change, and what's happening in the information world is hard. As VP of Innovation for SirsiDynix, Stephen must keep his personal scan on everything that might affect libraries - technology, social and economic developments, etc. His capacity for keeping important trends on the radar is amazing. Stephen shares his techniques and tips for keeping up and increasing the capacity of library staff to add tools, resources, learning and insights. Learn about 2.0 and add tricks to your kitbag of processes and techniques for keeping up with important changes and opportunities.

The Benefits
Tips & techniques for keeping up with the tsunami of information
Tools for enhancing capacity to sort through information
Pointers for determining which trends and pieces of information are important for the library world
Some of the top trends that our speaker is watching
Terrific list of resources and URLS for further information

Who Should Participate?
This session is aimed at anyone in the library world (librarians, information professionals, vendors, library technicians, trustees, managers, and more) who want to learn more about keeping up with the vast amount of information and change in our 2.0 world.

Key Topics
The 2.0 world, "platform of participation"
Tools and techniques for keeping up with information
Where to look for key information and trends
Examples of trends identified by our expert
Resources for further exploration

Stephen Abram
Stephen Abram, MLS, is President Elect of the Special Libraries Association, Past President of the Canadian Library Association and Vice President Innovation of Sirsi Corporation. Stephen has been involved in innovation and change management projects for libraries and library products for over 20 years. Stephen has been listed by Library Journal as one of the top 50 people influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He has been awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of the SLA. He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is an adjunct professor. He gives close to 100 international key-note talks annually to library and information industry conferences. He writes a regular column for Information Outlook and MultiMedia and Internet@Schools as well as regular articles for Library Journal, OLA's Access and CLA's Feliciter, among others.

SESSION DETAILS:
Time: Thursday, November 30th, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Place: Conference Room, Nova Scotia Provincial Library, 3770 Kempt Road, Halifax
This session is free; parking is available in front of the building.

Please respond to Carol Morris at [log in to unmask] or by phone at 424-2477 if you would like to attend this session.

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