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LIBRARIES & PUBLISHING 3.0:
connecting authors to readers in the digital age


Come to Vancouver!

A conference to explore almost everything you want to know about publishing and libraries in today’s world of changing cultures, technologies, economics, and literacies.

What does the library community need to learn about print, digital, and other format challenges in connecting authors to readers in a multimedia world? How do we identify and embrace rapidly shifting roles? How do we ethically critique volatile complexities posed by cultures, technologies, economics, and literacies in disjointed social flux?

I invite everyone to this conference – CLA members current and lapsed, members of related organizations, library workers everywhere, all library and information students and educators, public library trustees, vendors, publishers, writers, editors, booksellers, literacy providers, and friends of libraries interested in promoting the Canadian profession and the library and information services we provide to all members of society.

Gain valuable insights into the broader cultural, national and corporate contexts of which we are a part, and come away with new professional perspectives on the ecology of reading and the inexorable flux of the cultural record.

To read the entire President's message click here »


News & Updates

Post-Conference Site Launched!

CLA Job Link

Author Book Signing Schedule

Accommodation Update

Greening of CLA Conference

Local Arrangements Committee (LAC)

Student Library Technician Internship Information


Tradeshow Information

Tradeshow

2008 Conference Sponsors

Sponsorship & Advertising

Exhibitor Manual


Pre-Post Conference Tours:

Stay a little longer or come early and enhance your travel to Vancouver, British Columbia with a tour. Reel in some fine BC salmon, visit picturesque Victoria, take a city tour or perhaps a breathtaking trip on the Rocky Mountaineer.

Whatever your choice, it will be memorable.

  • » North Shore Excursion
  • » Vancouver City Tour
  • » Victoria Excursion and the Butchart Gardens Tour
  • » Salmon Fishing
  • » Travel onboard the Rocky Mountaineer and/or the Whistler Mountaineer trains

To register for one (or more) of the tours, click here.




2008 Final Program

Due to the large file size the 2008 Final Conference Program has been broken into 4 parts for your convenience:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4


Registration Information

On-Site Only


Accommodations

Accommodation Information





About Vancouver:


Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia. It's surrounded by water on three sides and is nestled alongside the Coast Mountain Range. Vancouver is home to spectacular natural scenery and a bustling metropolitan core, and boasts one of the mildest climates in Canada.

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