Gayle Sacuta, second year SLIS student presented a paper titled “Intellectual Freedom and the Prairie Landscape, a Literary and Spiritual Journey” at the International Poetry Conference sponsored by the Department of Languages and Literatures of the "Université Libre de Bruxelles" (ULB) held in Brussels, Belgium [conference details available at: http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/dll/colloques/tools_of_the_sacred/conference.html.
Sacuta’s paper addressed the conference theme (Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular: Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse and Doubt in Contemporary English-Language Verse) with a library focus. Her work blended her life-writing about girlhood on an Alberta farm, with the core values of librarianship, including “information justice.” Some of Gayle’s writing can be found on the website blue skies poetry ( http://blueskiespoetry.ca/), founded and run by SLIS graduate, Angela Kublik.