Library Association of
Alberta
Keynote:
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden is a
national and international
literary superstar. Shooting
to fame with his first
novel, the multi-award
winning Three Day Road,
Boyden has repeated his
triumphs in his subsequent
novels, Through Black
Spruce and The
Orenda. Boyden’s first
novel, Three Day Road, was
selected for the Today
Show Book Club, won the
Rogers Writers’ Trust
Fiction Prize, the CBA
Libris Fiction Book of the
Year Award, the
Amazon.ca/Books in
Canada First Novel Award,
and was shortlisted for the
Governor General’s
Award for Fiction. His
second novel, Through
Black Spruce, was awarded
the Scotiabank Giller Prize
and named the Canadian
Booksellers’ Association
Fiction Book of the Year;
it also earned him the
CBA’s Author of the Year
ediri erihtlis betth’en dathek’a gha honie
denehare ko’e gha honelteni ko’e
denego’dhe dihtl’ise yek’ayathelti chu ha
asi dene hubehel eghe’dalaghida de asi nezu kondu
horelyu dene dabinie hasi
eyi ah ediri betthene dathek’a erihtl’is sekwi honelteni
bets’enhidi de nezu ha si
Translation to Dene by Gina McIntyre sponsored
by CVS MidWest Tape/Hoopla
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CANCELLED:
Session H5 Vital
Behaviours for
Customer
Engagement Sherrill Johnson
and Lisa Guirguis.
Please select any
other session in this
time slot.
Canada 150+ • We respectfully acknowledge that Jasper Park Lodge is
situated on traditional territory of First Nations and Métis peoples.
 Caroline Vandriel,
LAA is pleased to announce
the 2017-2018 Board of
Directors:
 Deb Cryderman,
President
 Peter Bailey, Past
President
 Norene Erickson, 1st Vice
President
 Christina Hwang, 2nd
Vice President
 Louisa Robison,
Treasurer
 Vicky Varga, Web/Social
Media Manager
Director
 Joanne Rodger, Director
 Christine Sheppard,
Executive Director/
Conference Coordinator
We thank outgoing Board
members Jason Openo,
Caleigh Haworth, Julia
Brewster, and Mary Medinsky
(who resigned her position as
Treasurer last summer).
Thank you all for your hard
work on behalf of our
members, and welcome to
our new board members.
LAA Awards

LAA is pleased to announce
the 2017 awards presented
yesterday during the AGM.
Award. Boyden’s most
Toni Samek received the
recent novel, The Orenda,
won the CBC Canada
LAA President's Award for
Reads competition, and
her major impact provincewas nominated for the
wide in the library field.
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Edmonton Public Library
and the Governor
received the Punch Jackson
General’s Award for
Award of Excellence in
Fiction.
Library Service for
In addition to his
Achieving Excellence with
numerous literary prizes,
their Exploring
Boyden has received
Reconciliation Series.
honorary degrees from
Each year, LAA awards
Nipissing University,
students from Grant
Algoma University, and
Trent University, and was MacEwan University, SAIT
Polytechnic, and the
awarded the Queen
University of Alberta School
Elizabeth II Diamond
Jubilee Medal in 2012 and of Library and Information
was named to the Order of Studies. We ask the schools
Canada in 2015.
to choose the recipients on
the basis of outstanding
Sponsor:
Edmonton Public Library performance as a student,
academic merit, and potential
contribution to the library
profession. The four Student
Info to Go: look for it online at
Award recipients are:
http://www.albertalibraryconference.com/
H9 Fatty Legs: Teaching About Residential
Schools • Kerry Aiken and Kathy Alwood
 Maureen Penn, Director
Christy Oh , SAIT
Polytechnic
 Jennifer Quinn , Grant
MacEwan University
 Celine GareauBrennan, University of
Alberta SLIS
 Lori Pichette, University
of Alberta SLIS
Congratulations to all of our
award winners. We are very
proud to recognize the
achievements of our
colleagues.
In addition to these awards,
LAA annually awards $3,500
in continuing education
grants, over $8,000 in
subsidies to assist attendance
at ALC by our member
libraries serving less than
10,000 population, a $1,500
scholarship and the
opportunity to attend
Education Institute seminars.
In total, LAA devotes close
to $20,000 to assist our
members with literacy,
education and personal
development.
Edmonton Public Library and
Calgary Public Library invite you to meet and mingle
with your colleagues at an informal
reception:
When: Saturday, May 1
Where: Tent City
Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Alberta Library Trustees
Association Winner
Lois Hole Honourary Lifetime
Achievement Award
Congratulations to Diane
Osberg for actively serving
over 37 years as a Library
Trustee for Sheep River
Library Board, Marigold
Library System, and
provincially with ALTA. You
are amazing!
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Saturday’s Dinner
Networking Activities
Saturday, April 29th
Beauvert
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Red and white rule the night!
Celebrate by donning Canada’s
national colours for the closing
banquet.
Saturday Author:
Joseph Boyden
Sharing Indigenous Perspectives:
A Conversation
Pyramid AB
8:00 PM
Joseph Boyden, Camille Callison,
Miranda Jimmy, and Kirk MacLeod.
Head to the photo booth at the
dance, starting at 9:00 PM, to make
sure your memorable look is captured
forever!
Sponsored by Gale with bibliotheca +
Albertans. She also sat on the original
Bonnie Gray has recently retired after steering committee that formed The
Alberta Library (TAL) and the model
36 years of service to public libraries
with the Government of Alberta. Many of government funding for TAL.
In her own words, Bonnie said in her
of you will have worked directly with
notice of retirement, “While I look
Bonnie over her decades with Public
forward to retiring from employment,
Library Services Branch. Bonnie
I know that I will miss the intrigue of
authorized and approved over 200
working at PLSB and with libraries.
public operating grants every year,
headed up PLSB’s trustee training, and There is a great deal of satisfaction
knowing that we are making a positive
reviewed all the libraries’ annual
contribution to the lives of Albertans
reports. Bonnie knew what was
through a strong network of public
happening at every library in
Alberta. She presented to hundreds of libraries. I look forward to hearing
about continued success in the future.”
library boards and at many library
manager meetings. Bonnie visited most
F2 Building a Better Path:
– if at one time not all - of the public
Indigenous Students,
libraries in our province.
Bonnie contributed to the
Community, and University
development and establishment of
Libraries
library systems in the 1980s –
Leeanne Morrow, Kathryn Ruddock,
specifically in Southern and
Tanya Ball, Kayla Lar-Son, Lorisia
Northeastern Alberta. She helped
MacLeod, Suzanne Butler, Anne Carrpromote the message that library
systems connection municipalities and Wiggin
yanedhe hoba tulu nezu eltth’i ts’ethie
provide the professional service that
ela hultsi
enables delivery of the Provincial
Public Library Network to all
ediri duhu honelten koe
Bonnie Flies the Coop!
served in the Beauvert dining
room from 7:30 AM to 11:00
For guests not staying at the
AM.
Lodge, all meal tickets,
including those for the closing If you are staying offsite,
dinner, can be purchased at the individual meal tickets can be
purchased at the JPL Concierge
JPL Concierge Desk right up
Desk. All three meals may be
until dinner time. Extras are
purchased at the rate of $111
sometimes available if people
per day or you can purchase
have tickets they can't use;
individual meal tickets at the
check at the Registration Desk
following rates:
periodically.
 Breakfast $26
Tables are first-come, first$27
served, but look for the Mix &  Lunch

Dinner
$58
Mingle if you are not with a
group or if you would like to
Be tech-ready
meet someone new.
Download the
Alcoholic beverages are
ALC 2017 Capira
available to order from the wait app and plan your
staff at the banquet, or to
entire conference
purchase at the bar in the dining on your smart
room, but are not included in
phone. Search for
“Alberta Library Conference” in
your meal ticket.
the App Store and Google Play.
Extra Meal Tickets?
Meals
Leave them at the Registration
Desk and they will be passed
along to other conference
attendees.
Sunday Breakfast
Sunday’s breakfast will be
Minister’s Award Winners
See a listing of the winners of
the Minister’s and You Award
winners: http://
www.municipalaffairs.alberta.c
a/plsb_ministers_awards
Canada 150+ • We respectfully acknowledge that Jasper Park Lodge is
situated on traditional territory of First Nations and Métis peoples.
3M, Emerald, Grey House Publishing
Canada, Preservation Technologies
Beer Tasting
Sold Out
Viewpoint Cabin
8:00 PM
Think you know chapter and verse
about beer? Think again! Surprises
are in store as you taste your way
through six Canadian craft beers with
beer expert Samantha Sinotte,
Manager of Jasper Park Lodge’s
Emerald Lounge.
tahuke ?eghalada sugha chu ha
erihtl’ischogh ko’e
horelyu dene eghedalghida sugha ha si
aja university of calgary chu university
of alberta
erihtlis ko’e
?elts’eradi ?u tthi ?ala eghadalane
deza
etk’ech’ahi yatie hada?onetten ka
hubehel eghelaghena
etk’ech’ahi dene chu asi dene chu
denegodhe bel eghelaghida de nezu
ha si
Translation to Dene by Gina
McIntyre sponsored by CVS
MidWest Tape/Hoopla
Boxed Breakfast
Do you want breakfast for the road?
Contact the Concierge desk by noon
today to arrange for a boxed breakfast
for Sunday morning.
Gotta Go?
Not sure which one to use? Look for
gender neutral washrooms. It doesn’t
matter.
Saturday at a Glance
6:45 to 7:45 AM
Yoga ($15, registration required)
6:45 to 8:30 AM
Breakfast
8:45 AM
Keynote: Joseph Boyden
10:00 AM
Coffee Break. Tradeshow
10:00 to 10:30 AM
Joseph Boyden
Book Signing in Great Hall
10:45 AM
Session F1- F10
11:45 AM to 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM
Session G1- G11
2:30 to 3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:00 to 4:00 PM
Session H1- H11
4:15 PM to 5:30 PM Town Hall: Unified LAA
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Closing Dinner & Social
8:00 PM
Sharing Indigenous
Perspectives: Joseph
Boyden, et al. Pyramid AB
8:00 to 9:00 PM
Beer Tasting Sold Out
9:00 PM
Dance
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