Project manager and librarian. Interested in creating audio projects, writing opportunities and consulting. Let’s work together to build something great.
Project manager and librarian. Interested in creating audio projects, writing opportunities and consulting. Let’s work together to build something great.
“Examples of my public speaking and community engagement work”
Guest on No Librarians Allowed: A podcast about libraries, technology and people at the center of them. Thoughtful, in-depth conversations with real humans who use tech and libraries. Episode 16 - Metis Librarianship, Digital Literacy, and "Shared" Values
Laroque, S. (2018). My War Pony is a Prius: Truth and Reconciliation in Times of Technology. Opening keynote presentation at Access Conference 2018 in Hamilton, ON. https://youtu.be/z5hh72jBDOQ
Frail, K. and Laroque, S. (2018). Turning Interviews Into Action: Information literacy needs in online courses. Presentation at Workshop for Instruction in Library Use in Ottawa, ON. Slides available here: https://doi.org/10.7939/R3PK07G1K
Ball, T., Carr-Wiggin, A., Farnel, S., Lar-Son, K., and Laroque, S. (2018). Stepping Forward Together: Lessons from reconciliation projects at the University of Alberta. Presentation at the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians at the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities Conference in Regina, SK.
Laroque, S. and Leonhardt, E. (2018) Decolonizing Our Schema Skeletons. Presentation at the Alberta Association of Library Technicians Conference in Drumheller, AB.
Ball, T., Carr-Wiggin, A., Farnel, S., Lamontagne, G. Lar-Son, K., and Laroque, S. (2018) Never Call a Meeting a Pow Wow: And Other Steps in Creating a Successful Indigenous Event. Presentation at the Alberta Library Conference in Jasper, AB. Slides available here: https://librarytoolshed.ca/content/never-call-meeting-pow-wow-and-other-steps-creating-successful-indigenous-event
Farnel, S. and Laroque, S. Decolonizing Description. Special Libraries Association Western Chapter Webinar.
Laroque, S. Making Meaning: Finding Our Next Steps Together. Presented at the Directors’ Meeting of COPPUL at the Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC.
Farnel, S. and Laroque, S. (2017) ‘Uplifting the Whole People’: Decolonizing Description at the University of Alberta Libraries. OCLC Works In Progress Webinar. https://youtu.be/w4HGdWx2WY8
Bigelow, I., Carr-Wiggin, A., Farnel, S., Feisst, D., Kourfogiannakis, D., Lar-Son, K. and Laroque, S. Decolonizing Description: Changing Metadata in Response to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Presentation at Netspeed 2017 in Edmonton, AB.
King, J. and Laroque, S. (2017) Language, Modes of Communication and the Contemporary Academic Library. Panel Discussion at the University of Toronto’s International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (IDERD) Conference.
Laroque, S. and Rahi, A. (2017) Inclusion, Outreach and Where to Go From Here: An iSkills workshop on Barriers to Information Services. Presented at the University of Toronto’s iSchool.