We are pleased to announce Mita Williams as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Mita Williams is the User Experience Librarian at the Leddy Library, University of Windsor. At the moment, this means she spends her days trying to build sharing mechanics in a library website. She’s passionate about public space, civic engagement, and environmental restoration and she [...]
We are pleased to announce Melanie McBride as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Melanie McBride is a Toronto-based early adopter, educator and researcher with Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab, where she is studying autonomous learning and play in situated, informal gaming environments. In addition to her teaching, Melanie has produced award-winning interactive new [...]
We are pleased to announce Eric Boyd as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Eric Boyd is an engineer, environmentalist, and transhumanist. He currently spends his time developing wearable electronic senses, devices which augment your interface to the world, turning you into a cyborg. For more information, please visit his speaker’s page.
We are pleased to announce Siobhan Stevenson as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Siobhan Stevenson (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. After ten years working with an agency of the Ontario government responsible for the coordination of autonomous public library boards through the development of policies, programs and [...]
We are pleased to announce Sara M. Grimes as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Dr. Sara M. Grimes is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, where she teaches and researches in the areas of children’s digital games, media, literature and culture. Her published work includes explorations of children’s virtual worlds and online [...]
We are pleased to announce Amy Buckland as a TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. Amy Buckland is the eScholarship, ePublishing & Digitization Coordinator at McGill University Library, where she is responsible for scholarly communication, publishing initiatives, and making rare items from special collections available to the world through digitization. For more information, please visit her speaker’s page.
We are pleased to announce John Miedema as our first TEDxLibrariansTO speaker. John Miedema is the author of Slow Reading, a concise review of research and concepts about the benefits of reading more slowly. Miedema has a Master of Library and Information Science and works as an Information Technology Architect. His current writing project examines [...]