Ministry of Education EdInfo: 2008 May 15
The British Columbia Library Annual Conference
and British Columbia Library Trustees' Association
Annual Conference were held April 17 – 19 in
Richmond. The conference was attended by 560
people representing public and academic library
staff and public library trustees.
Fred Kent, the keynote speaker, discussed libraries
as public spaces, while Bill Barnes and Gene
Ambaum shared stories about their comic strip
about libraries (www.unshelved.com).
Staff at the Ministry of Education’s Public Library
Services Branch participated in the conference – as
speakers and convenors of sessions.
Sessions included: ‘BC SITKA - implementation of
the Evergreen open ILS in BC libraries’; ‘Library
2020 - future of library collaboration in BC’;
‘BiblioCommons - social software and discover
layer for ILS’; ‘Libraries without Walls - Update on
provincial strategies in BC public libraries’; and
‘ReadNow BC literacy initiatives.’
