An Overview of Ontario Library Service Norths Services

An Overview of Ontario Library Service North’s Services February 2017 OLS - North Board Development

The service teams Finance ● Bulk purchasing ● Finance and payroll Skills Development ● Board development ● Cataloguing and collections ● First Nations capacity and skills ● Library development ● Policy and planning ● Pools ● Revenue development Technology & Innovation ● JASI ● Technology planning ● Websites

Finance • Bulk purchasing • Client travel and reimbursements

Skills Development Board development • Individual board and regional training • Tool kits • Municipal Councillors’ Public Library Handbook http: //www. olsn. ca/uploaded. Files/OLSN/NEW_2014/Publications/Munici pal_Councillors_Handbook_Final. pdf • Resource Kit for New Library Board Members http: //test. olsn. ca/images/Resources/EN/Resource-Kit-for-New-Library. Board-Members. pdf

Skills Development ● ● Advisory services Cataloguing Collection development Conference ○ Northern Lit ● Grants assistance ● Library skills training ○ Onsite, regional, conference, virtual ● New CEO mentoring program ● Planning ○ Business, facility, operational, strategic ○ Environmental scans, statistics, user studies, floor plans ● Policy development ○ Ontario Public Library Guidelines http: //www. ontariopubliclibrary guidelines. ca/

Skills Development ● Pools ○ Audiobook, book club, large print (French, English), DVD, graphic novel ● Summits ○ Library Operations First Nations (2016) ○ Policy ( 2014) ○ Technology - First Nations (2013) ○ Leadership, I and II ● Tool kits (examples) ○ Establishing a Public Library in a First Nation Community ○ New Librarians Tool Kit ○ AODA Compliance Toolkit http: //test. olsn. ca/images/Res ources/EN/OLSN_IASR_Libr ary_Compliance_Toolkit_FIN AL. pdf

Skills Development: First Nations ● First Nations Public Library ● Newsletter: Maziniigan Week https: //drive. google. com/drive/fol http: //www. olsn. ca/fnplw/ ● Language revitalization project http: //www. olsn. ca/fnlanguages/ ● Makerspace rotating pool (2017 - 2020) ● Marketing assistance ders/0 B 7 Lw. RMb 5 g 73 e. WGZ 3 Tm 4 3 b. WVJZ 2 M ● Repository project ● Spring Gathering ● Club Amick (joint project with SOLS)

Technology & Innovation Team ● Joint Automation Server Initiative (JASI) http: //www. jasinorth. ca/ ○ Help Desk ● JASI newsletter http: //www. jasinorth. ca/Newslette r/016_JASI_Newsletter. pdf ● Technology planning ● Technology training ● Training, research & support ● Websites ○ Client website development & support ○ Internal websites & registration pages

Service delivery ● Training ○ Virtual training ○ Webinars ○ Learn. HQ http: //learnhq. ca/ ● ● Conferences Onsite training Spring networking Summits ● Communities of Practice (Libraries 2025) ● Virtual collaboration and virtual communities ○ First Nation, JASI, new librarians, Northern public library boards, policy development