by Virginia, Director of C-EBLIP

On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, the Centre for Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (C-EBLIP) held its first annual Fall Symposium. The theme was Librarians as Researchers. I wrote a synoposis of the day and posted it over on the Brain-Work blog (check it out here) but since I’m a bit of a blogging fanatic, I wanted to do a little something for Branching Out as well.

We had an excellent day at the Fall Symposium: 54 attendees, 15 speakers presenting 12 sessions, really nice food, and lots of time to talk and network. We had participants from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Yale! (I realize that Yale is neither a province nor a state so perhaps I should have written Connecticut.) The sessions included presentations of finished research projects, research in progress, and talks about the nuts and bolts of research. There was a little something for everyone. David from Special Collections was kind enough to serve as symposium photographer so I’m going to let the rest of this post speak for itself with his pictures.

There I am, opening the C-EBLIP Fall Symposium

Symposium participants

Margy from Mount Royal University, our opening keynote speaker

Li presenting her session

DeDe and her session

Angie and one of her research partners presenting at the Fall Symposium

Carolyn and Tasha teaming up to present

Dean Vicki wrapping up the day with her session

Plans will shortly begin for the second annual C-EBLIP Fall Symposium. Thanks to everyone involved for contributing to a very successful event!