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Friday, October 6

Time	Concurrent Sessions
8:00 - 9:30	Registration Opens - Vancouver Island Room Alcove
09:30-10:30	Keynote Speaker: Bob Boiko Vancouver Island Room
10:30-10:45	Coffee Break sponsored by Infotrieve
10:45-11:30	Taxonomies 101 Full day session Garibaldi Room (Sponsored by Factiva)	Implementing a content management system: Do your homework! Boardroom (Sponsored by Factiva)
11:30-11:40		Transition	Transition
11:40-12:30		Before You Start – Conducting an Information Needs Assessment as a Foundation… Boardroom(Sponsored by Factiva)	If You Don’t Do It, Somebody Else Will…Why Librarians Should Become Content Managers Tweedsmuir Room (Sponsored by IEEE)
12:30-2:00	Lunch & Exhibits in the Vancouver Island Room
2:00-2:50	Taxonomies 101 continued... Garibaldi Room (Sponsored by Factiva)	Taxonomies for Metadata and Information Architecture Boardroom(Sponsored by Factiva)	Content Analysis: Methods and Mentoring Tweedsmuir Room (Sponsored by IEEE)
2:50-3:00	Transition
3:00-3:50	Taxonomies 101 continued... Garibaldi Room (Sponsored by Factiva)	Build a better relationship with IT: Understanding web project management Boardroom(Sponsored by Factiva)	Taking the “taxing” out of taxonomy Tweedsmuir Room (Sponsored by IEEE)
3:50-4:10		Transition	Transition
4:10-5:00		The Human Side of Content Management Boardroom(Sponsored by Factiva)	Taxonomy as content outline, site map and search aid Tweedsmuir Room (Sponsored by IEEE)

Saturday, October 7

Time	Concurrent Sessions
8:30-9:20	If at first you don’t succeed (Case Study of Managing Intranet Content) Garibaldi Room (Sponsored by CanWest)	Creating a Customized Content Management Solution from the Ground Up: A Case Study Waddington Room (Sponsored by Taylor & Francis)	Going Live: Roles and Processes to Build and Maintain a Higher Education Web Site Tweedsmuir Room (Sponsored by IEEE)
9:20-9:30	Transition
9:30-10:20	Best Practices for Document Delivery Garibaldi Room (Sponsored by Infotrieve)	It's 2027, Do You Know Where Your Content Is? Waddington Room (Sponsored by McGraw-Hill)	Best Practices vs. Practicalities: Qualitative Decisions for Delivering the Best Content to Customers Tweedsmuir Room (Sponsored by IEEE)
10:20-10:40	Coffee Break
10:40-11:30	Implementing knowledge management initiatives at PATH Waddington Room (Sponsored by IHS)		The Otipimsuak Project: Content Management and Web Design in an Aboriginal Context Tweedsmuir Room (Sponsored by IEEE)
11:30 - 11:40	Transition
11:40 - 12:30	Closing Session Waddington Room Rebecca Vargha, SLA President

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