The last conference on the IBC agenda is the ACRL Western New York and Ontario Spring Conference. This year ACRL WNY/O also invited OCULA librarians to a conference centre in Jordan, Ontario (Niagara region). This one day event offers a single-stream for participants (no concurrent sessions), so we had about 65 participants for a 3-hour afternoon workshop.
We kept the fitness theme for this event, but we switched up the activities a little bit (facilitating 65 people is a lot different than facilitating 24). We split the afternoon into two parts: divergent thinking activities and convergent thinking activities. By the end we had flip chart paper everywhere (we weren’t allowed to tape them to the walls) and people were exhausted (us included!).
It was a great session. Special thanks to Randy Oldham and Sarah Barriage for helping me facilitate the activities.
Also, thanks to Jennifer Peters-Lise (Seneca College) for helping us make all of the arrangements and answering my last minute questions!
