Staff Planning in a Time of Demographic Change identifies the issues related to the large number of expected retirees in libraries and information management organizations over the next five to ten years. Practitioners, researchers, and educators discuss the situation and the urgent need for action that will ensure that libraries and information management organizations can provide the education, training, and proper work environment for library and information management professionals and staff.

May 13, 2003 PricewaterhouseCoopers and Whitmell & Associates were the unanimous choice to develop the Ontario Digital Library's business plan. Eighteen firms with impeccable qualifications bid on the proposal. When the smoke cleared, the members of the special committee nominated by the library community to do the work were unanimous in their choice. The winning joint application showed remarkable attention to the advocacy and marketing objectives of the plan and to the audiences who will benefit from the creation of the project.

Committee representatives of all sectors from school and public to college and university were pleased. "The importance every one of these applicants saw in this project was impressive," said ODL Steering Committee Chair Peter Rogers. "There is an enormous amount of energy and expertise in the winners and we look forward with great anticipation to the results of their work." The plan is to be completed the fall of 2003.

For details on the Ontario Digital Library visit the Ontario Library Association website: www.accessola.org

• "Succession Planning Issues for Libraries and Information Management Organizations": Vital Link 3 Conference, Adelaide Australia, November 2002, Ontario Library Association SuperConference, January 2003, Manitoba Library Conference, May 2003, Canadian Association of Law Libraries, May 2003, British Columbia Library Association, May 2003, Central Ontario Health Libraries Association, May 2003



• The Future of the Library Profession and their Associations, Ontario Association of Library Technicians, May 2003



• Regular guest lecturer, University of Toronto Faculty of Library and Information Science Special Libraries Course, 1999



• Facing the Challenges of an Aging Workforce: A Two-Day Conference, November 2002 and April 2003: Planner, organizer and host.



• "Succession Planning for Law Libraries" 22 (1) TALL Newsletter (March 2003)



• Succession Planning for Libraries (edited papers) (in progress: expected publication date late 2003)



• "From the Director’s Chair," Bimonthly column, Feliciter (the official publication of the Canadian Library Association), 1998-2002.



• "CLA Looks at the Future" a presentation made to the Nova Scotia Library Association, October 2000.



• "Intellectual Freedom" a presentation made to the students at the Dalhousie School of Library and Information Studies, October 2000.



• Presented brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. Roundtable in Consideration of the Canadian Book Publishing Industry, March 2000.



• "The Future of the Profession" a presentation made to the Pacific Northwest Library Association, August 1999. Became an award-winning article published in the TALL Newsletter, Spring 2000. (available at www.cla.ca/resources/future. htm)



• Presented brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. Pre-budget Consultations, annual, 1999-2000.



• "Lobbying in Canada" a presentation made to the Pacific Northwest Library Association, August 1999. (available at www.cla.ca/resources/lobbying.htm)



• Presented brief to the Consultation on the Future Role of the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada (John English), September 1998.



• "The National Agenda: A review of federal issues." Presented at the Canadian Library Association Conference, 1998 and 1999.



• Presented brief to the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission on Service to High Cost Servicing Areas, May 1998.



• Workshop on Preparing Successful CAP Applications. Presented to communities in eastern Ontario on behalf of Industry Canada, Fall, 1997.



• "Fee for Service" presented at the 1996 Canadian Health Libraries Association Annual Conference.



• "Staffing the Fee-Based Library Service" presented at Fee for Service Conference, October 1995. Published in proceedings.



• "The Role of Management and the Public Library Board in the Establishment of a Fee-Based Service" Fee for Service, v. 2/3 (October 1995)



• "Letter from Toronto" (Review of current issues affecting the Canadian Library Profession), Infomanage, April 1995.



• Entrepreneurship in Libraries, Ontario Library Association, (January 1995).



• The Library as a Profit Centre (Full-Day Workshop), University of Toronto Faculty of Information Science, 1994.



• Fee-Based Services at the University of Toronto, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Meeting, 1994. (Published.)



• Outsourcing Library Services, Canadian Library Annual Conference, 1994.



• Charging Back Library Services, Information Canada, 1994.



• Public and Private Partners: Serving Information Needs with Private Sector Support, Ontario Library Association Annual Conference, 1992.



• In-house Training, Canadian Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference, 1991. (Published in Canadian Law Libraries.)



• New Developments in Private Law Libraries in Canada, American Association of Law Librarians Roundtable, 1989.



• Branch Libraries, Canadian Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference, 1989.



• Directory of Toronto Law Libraries, 2nd ed. Co-author, 1988.
  
  
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