Professional development that doesn’t use a shotgun to hit the mark.

Your staff takes learning seriously. It’s how they keep their skills up-to-date and their minds attuned to new ideas. But courses and workshops can’t take into account your organization’s strengths and weaknesses, its needs, its direction unless they are designed specifically for you. Why should your people risk spending their time learning techniques at which they already excel when they could be moving forward?

We teach courses and workshops on topics that matter; and those courses and workshops can be very valuable experiences. But we also offer clients learning events that, like all our services, are tailored to suit them. We believe that the client-specific approach is the most effective, because we understand that your organization’s identity is an asset it cannot afford to neglect. What works best in one case cannot simply be applied indiscriminately. Contact Dysart & Jones to find out how a half-day session or three-day intensive learning experience can be designed to meet your needs.

Current Conference Presentations, PDF format

SLA 2008 Seattle

Building Bridges, Creating Partnerships - by Rebecca Jones

From Planning to Implementation - by Rebecca Jones and graciously presented by Jane Dysart 

OLS-North Conference, May 2008, Sudbury

Learning - by Jane Dysart

Ontario Library Association Superconference 2008
Learning 2.0, Jane Dysart with Stephen Abram — by Jane Dysart

Influencing Without Authority - by Rebecca Jones

CASLIS: Value of Special Libraries Special Conference, Ottawa, 2008

Meaningful Measures: Defining and Pursuing Measures that Matter - by Rebecca Jones

Internet Librarian 2007

Organization 2.0: Organizing People to Work in the 2.0 World - by Rebecca Jones

Netspeed 2007, Calgary, Alberta
YouTube & Libraries
— by Jane Dysart

IFLA 2007, Durban, South Africa
Improving the User Experience: Tips &Strategies for Success [Update]
— by Jane Dysart

Canadian Library Association Conference, May 2007
Power Politics — by Jane Dysart & Ingrid Langhammer
Building Capacity for Learning — by Jane Dysart & Stephen Abram
Competencies & Info Pros — by Jane Dysart
Career Strategies for Special Librarians — by Jane Dysart

Québec Library Association - L’Association des bibliothécaires du Québec
Meaningful Measures: Defining & Pursuing Meaningful Measures — by Rebecca Jones

Computers in Libraries 2007
Organization 2.0 — by Rebecca Jones

Computers in Libraries 2007
Accelerated Planning: Not an Oxymoron — by Rebecca Jones

Toronto Area Law Librarians (TALL) 2006
CSI: Competencies, Skills & Insights for the Information Professional
— by Rebecca Jones

IFLA 2006, Seoul, Korea
Improving the User Experience: Tips &Strategies for Success — by Jane Dysart
Improving the User Experience: Tips &Strategies for Success [Update]
— by Jane Dysart

Joint Spring Workshop, DC, April 25, 2006 (DCSLA, DCLA, LLS of DC, FLICC)
Competencies & the Information Professional — by Jane Dysart

Ontario Library Association, Feb 2 - 4, 2006, Toronto
Building Castles in Your Mind: Creative Planning for the Future — by Jane Dysart
Accelerated Planning — by Rebecca Jones
Information Highways, April 5, 2005
Top 10 Reasons Information Professionals Succeed: Business Practices for Fuiling the Fire — by Rebecca Jones

SLA, Boston Chapter, March 23, 2005
Top Ten Reasons Libraries Fail — by Jane Dysart

Ontario Library Association, Feb 3 - 5 2005, Toronto
Top Ten Reasons Libraries Fail — by Jane Dysart
Planning: Lessons from the Trenches with Yvonne Attard, Lynne Bentley, Marjorie Whalen — by Rebecca Jones
Barcoding Our Clients — by Rebecca Jones