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IFRT Preconference

Thursday, June 21, 2012 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Sponsored By IFRT

Who Do I Trust to Protect My Privacy? Privacy Conversation Deliberative Forum nad Moderator Training Preconference

Event Code: IFT1

 

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member or Non-Member

$25

$25

$25

Civic Reflection Builds Community Connections: A Program Model for Libraries

Thursday, June 21, 2012 1:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By PPO

Targeted at library directors, department heads and senior staff from public, academic and special libraries, this hands-on workshop will train participants in dialogue facilitation skills with proven success in strengthening partnerships, building effective teams across departments and organizations, and raising the profile of the library as a center for community life. Participants will leave with valuable facilitation skills that can immediately be put to use for their libraries and communities.

Speakers: Adam Davis, Director, Center for Civic Reflection and Terrilyn Chun, Systemwide Programming Coordinator, Multnomah County Library

Event Code: PPO1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$325

$325

$365

Division Member

N/A

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Round Table Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Retired Member

$295

$295

$295

Student Member

$295

$295

$295

Non-Member

$365

$365

$365

A Marriage Made in Heaven: Combining Marketing and Development to Ensure the Future of Your Library

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Sponsored By ASCLA

Has your library stalled in its attempt to develop a fundraising strategy? Are you trying to raise the awareness of the value your library offers your community? It may be time to start a library champion campaign. Two years ago, the New Jersey State Library launched a public awareness campaign designed to attract famous athletes and authors to serve as Library Champions, and with the help of marketing and development teams, leveraged those champions into an effective fund raising vehicle. Workshop participants will learn how to recruit celebrity champions and local heroes to promote your library; leverage library champions, build a donor database and raise big money for your library; build a donor development strategy for everyone in your library; and the essential publications your library must produce to secure funders.

Event Code: ASC2

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$129

$149

$149

Division Member

$109

$129

$129

Round Table Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Retired Member

$99

$109

$109

Student Member

$99

$109

$109

Non-Member

$149

$169

$169

The Nuts & Bolts of Building a Public Library/Jail/Prison Partnership

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Sponsored By ASCLA

Hear from speakers who've successfully built public library/correctional setting partnerships, and learn how to build these kinds of relationships step-by-step. Public librarians and correctional librarians interested in creating literacy and reading program partnerships for youth in detention centers and adults in jails or prisons will not want to miss this half-day workshop that will cover such difficult issues of collection development, security and staff interactions.

Event Code: ASC1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$129

$149

$149

Division Member

$109

$129

$129

Round Table Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Retired Member

$99

$109

$109

Student Member

$99

$109

$109

Non-Member

$149

$169

$169

Disney’s Approach to Quality Service

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Sponsored By LEARNT

Walt Disney’s edict was “Give the public everything you can give them.” Even today, everyone at Disney strives to exceed customer expectations every day. Uncover the secrets behind the Disney service culture. In this program you will examine the model for delivering world-class guest service and discover ways to create a consistent, successful environment for both employees and customers. You can then use these ideas to transform and improve your own library service.

Event Code: LRT1

Ticket Prices

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$325

$325

Division Member

$325

$325

Round Table Member

$295

 $295

Retired Member

$325

$325

Student Member

$325

$325

Non-Member

$325

$325

PLA Turning the Page 2.0 kick-off

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30am – 11:30 a.m.

Sponsored By PLA

Free Precon - Turning the Page 2.0 addresses core issues of advocacy, communications and relationship building in a convenient blended-learning format. This half-day kickoff introduces librarians and supporters to the 6-week course, which will include virtual classroom sessions and self-paced online work aimed at completing an individual advocacy work plan. Attendance at this meeting is encouraged but not mandatory for the 6-week course. Please click here to learn more about the course before registering for this pre-conference.

Speakers: Judith A. Drescher, former Director of Libraries, Memphis TN and Dr. Steve Yacovelli, Owner, TopDog Learning Group.

Event Code: PLA3

Libraries in the Cloud

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Sponsored By AASL

Discover how libraries can benefit by moving to the cloud and what role librarians can play when staff and student applications become hosted. The session discusses the implication of hosted computer applications and resources on school library programs and the role of the school librarian. What are the advantages of moving to a "hosted" school library catalog and circulation system? How can school librarians themselves take advantage of GoogleApps and similar cloud-based productivity tools? And what roles can the school librarian play when a school adopts a program like GoogleApps for Education?

Speaker: Doug Johnson

Event Code: AAS2

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

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ALA Member

$159

$159

$159

Division Member

$109

$109

$109

Round Table Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Retired Member

$99

$99

$99

Student Member

$79

$79

$79

Non-Member

$224

$224

$224

Mental Model Busting

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30am – 12:00 p.m.

Sponsored By PLA

“The library is all about books.” “Libraries can’t charge for services.” The customers don’t want to learn.” “We must have databases!” When we have a mental model of something, it shapes our behavior and limits our creativity in finding solutions. With all the changes in the library world, innovative, out of the box thinking is required. Come do some mental model busting and experience how shifting your thinking can open a new world of possibilities for you and your library.

Speakers: Cheryl Gould, Consultant, Petulama, Calif.; Gail Griffith, Consultant, Glen Bernie, Md.

Event Code: PLA2

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$195

$195

$245

Division Member

$140

$140

$190

Round Table Member

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Retired Member

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Student Member

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Non-Member

$250

$250

$300

IRRT Preconference

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Sponsored By IRRT

Event Code: IRT1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member or Non-Member

$75

$75

$75

Planning, Assessing, and Communicating Library Impact: Putting the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education into Action

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By ACRL

Libraries in higher education are increasingly required to demonstrate their value and document their contributions to overall institutional effectiveness. The Standards for Libraries in Higher Education is a framework for library planning and assessment that can be used for a variety of circumstances including annual planning, program review, and accreditation self-study. Through presentation, discussion, and group activities, learn how to use the Standards to communicate your library’s impact!

Speakers: Debra Gilchrist, Dean of Libraries and Institutional Effectiveness, Pierce College; Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction and Associate Professor for Library Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Event Code: ACR3

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

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ALA Member

$285

$285

$285

Division Member

$245

$245

$245

Round Table Member

$285

 $285 $285

Retired Member

$105

$105

$105

Student Member

$105

$105

$105

Non-Member

$325

$325

$325

A Change in Authority: Authority Work in the RDA Environment

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By ALCTS

Not familiar with RDA authorities? Did you know that implementing RDA means creating authority records to support the FRBR/FRAD relationships? Let the name authority experts teach you to create authority records in the RDA environment. At this one-day workshop learn to assign MARC 21 data for name authorities: persons, families, corporate, conferences, places, including preferred titles for works and expressions, with focus on the new MARC 21 fields that can be used now with AACR2!

Speakers: Ana Lupe Cristán, Cooperative Catalog Specialist, Library of Congress and Paul Frank, Cooperative Cataloger, Library of Congress

Event Code: ALC1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$269

$269

$269

Division Member

$219

$219

$219

Round Table Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Retired Member

$99

$99

$99

Student Member

$99

$99

$99

Non-Member

$319

$319

$319 

Building Digital Collections Using Islandora

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30am – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By LITA

This session will introduce the key concepts underpinning the Islandora Digital Asset Management system. Participants will learn the basics of running this rich repository system and how to utilize common "solution packs" to create and theme collections in Islandora. Participants will learn how to begin modeling and curating custom data collections, and how to migrate from other repository systems, including ContentDM, DSpace and more. Textbooks and system access will be provided; participants should bring computers.

Speakers: Kirsta Stapelfeldt, University of Prince Edward Island and Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island

Event Code: LIT1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$299

$299

$299

Division Member

$235

$235

$235

Round Table Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Retired Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Student Member

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Non-Member

$380

$380

$380

Creating Library Linked Data: What Catalogers and Coders Can Build

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30am – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By LITA

High quality metadata: billions of bibliographic records, finding aids, descriptions of digital content - is a major asset of the library community. Agreement is growing on the benefits of transforming this wealth into linked data. Much experimentation is taking place. However, production-quality tools and infrastructure for linked data are in their infancy. This pre-conference will bring together catalogers and programmers to initiate the systematic, consensus-building approach needed to make Library Linked Data reality.

Event Code: LIT2

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$299

$299

$299

Division Member

$235

$235

$235

Round Table Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Retired Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Student Member

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Non-Member

$380

$380

$380

Web Content Strategy for Libraries

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30am – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By LITA

Your library’s new website is powered by a high-octane content management system (Drupal, WordPress, etc.) that gives you more power than ever to communicate with your patrons. But what are you saying? How are you saying it? What kind of service are you providing online? How can you ensure that it’s just as good as in your buildings? Content strategy to the rescue! Topics will include strategy development, training & adoption, production control and governance.

Speakers: Nina McHale, Arapahoe Library District, CO and Chris Evjy, Jefferson County Public Library, CO

Event Code: LIT3

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$299

$299

$299

Division Member

$235

$235

$235

Round Table Member

N/A

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Retired Member

N/A

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Student Member

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Non-Member

$380

$380

$380

Build a Great Team: One Year to Success

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30am – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By PLA

Based on the self-development style of the popular publication Be a Great Boss: One Year to Success, this new project focuses on a year of education and exercises to foster team building. The preconference will introduce attendees to both the habit of continuing one’s own professional learning and to the value inherent in building and sustaining strong teams in any organization.

Speakers: Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, Executive Director, Northeast Ohio Regional Library System (NEO-RLS)

Event Code: PLA1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$255

$255

$305

Division Member

$200

$200

$250

Round Table Member

N/A

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Retired Member

N/A

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Student Member

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Non-Member

$310

$310

$360

Mastering Business Acumen (MBA) in a Day: Business Concepts for Library Reference

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By RUSA

This full-day interactive workshop is designed for new business librarians; generalists who have assumed responsibility in business librarianship; or librarians who handle business reference-related inquiries in all types of libraries including academic, public and special libraries. This workshop will provide librarians with a broad conceptual understanding of business topics in four major business disciplines: Accounting, Finance, Marketing, and Management. This preconference will complement Business 101, which focuses on business reference, business resources, and collection development. This is a repeat and updated version of the 2009 preconference.

Event Code: RUS1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$199

$239

$239

Division Member

$179

$219

$219

Round Table Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Retired Member

$149

$189

$189

Student Member

$149

$189

$189

Non-Member

$219

$259

$259

The One-Day Library Website

Friday, June 22, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. - CANCELLED

Sponsored By AASL

 

Digital Humanities in Theory and Practice: Tools and Methods for Librarians

Friday, June 22, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored by ACRL

Learn how humanities librarians can participate in, create, and lead digital humanities initiatives. In addition to introducing theories and practices that characterize the digital humanities, explore several examples of how librarians currently lead library digitization initiatives, collaborate on faculty projects, and participate in national grant-funded efforts. Investigate project management complexities, digital humanities’ impact on research collections, humanities librarians’ work with faculty to manage their digital humanities research, and digital humanities’ role in scholarly communications.

Speakers: Kate Brooks, Librarian for Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, and Digital Arts & Humanities, University of Minnesota; Angela Courtney, Head, Arts & Humanities Department, Co-Editor Victorian Women Writers Project, Indiana University; Chad Curtis, Bobst Library, New York University; Harriett Green, English and Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Caroline Szylowicz, French Subject Specialist Kolb-Proust Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Melissa Van Vuuren, English Librarian, James Madison University; Glen Worthey, Head, Humanities Digital Information Service, Stanford University

Event Code: ACR1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$295

$295

$295

Division Member

$255

$255

$255

Round Table Member

 $295 $295 $295

Retired Member

$105

$105

$105

Student Member

$105

$105

$105

Non-Member

$325

$325

$325

Zines in Libraries: Collecting, Cataloging, and Community

Friday, June 22, 2012 12:00 p.m. –4:00p.m.

Sponsored By ALA

Zines offer a unique way for libraries to expand their print collections and connect with their communities in a time when so much of our work is going digital. Handmade publications that can cover any subject, many zines represent perspectives rarely covered in other print media. Their celebration of print culture may seem anachronistic, but zines offer a range of programming opportunities for youth and adults alike. Participants in the workshop will learn from librarians who have brought zines into their collections, as well as those who have used zines for programming and outreach even before building collections. Topics include what zines are, the history of zines, how libraries are incorporating them, and ways that they are being used to connect with community. You will leave with ideas for getting started with zines in your institution, no matter your budget or institutional culture.

Event Code: ALA5

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member and Non-Member

$15

$15

$15

Source Code: Digital Youth Participation

Friday, June 22, 2012 12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By YALSA

This preconference will discuss the use of digital media to better learn its potential applications in the library and will teach participants how to work with teens on a virtual project.

Event Code: YAL3

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

ALA Member

$129

$129

Division Member

$129

$129

Round Table Member

 $129 $129

Retired Member

$129

$129

Student Member

$89

$89

Non-Member

$129

$129

Books We'll Still Talk About 45 Years from Now

Friday, June 22, 2012 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Sponsored By YALSA

Participants in this preconference will explore the styles and themes of YA fiction through recent years and make educated guesses on which titles will have staying power.

Event Code: YAL5

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member and Non-Member

$129

$129

N/A

The Outspoken Library: A Gateway for Public Libraries to Services for the Visually and Physically Impaired - CANCELLED

Friday, June 22, 2012 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By ASCLA

Looking for inventive ideas for promoting library services? The New Jersey State Library developed "The Outspoken Library" to promote free online services that are available for print-disabled people. This program allows library customers to access services administered through the State Library's Talking Book & Braille Center (TBBC), including audio newspapers (TBBC's Audiovision and NFB's Newsline) and the Library of Congress's Braille and Audio Reading Download service. Find out how to establish and market these valuable resources.

Event code: CANCELLED

Outcomes + Outreach = Outstanding Summer Reading Programs

Friday, June 22, 2012 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By CLA

The workshop will be targeted primarily at public library youth services managers and branch managers, and also at other youth services staff. It will provide librarians with the skills they need to educate and train colleagues and stakeholders about the value of outcome- and outreach-based summer reading; reach out effectively with their summer reading programs; evaluate the results of their outreach; and use their results to improve library service, promote the library, and help obtain funding for library programs. While the workshop will focus on summer reading, the skills learned at the workshop will be transferable to other areas of library service.

The workshop will be framed within CLA’s outcomes- and outreach-based summer reading initiative and will therefore help librarians transition from presenting programs that merely measure outputs to presenting programs that record benefits. California is the only state to initiate a statewide effort to gather summer reading outcomes and we hope that the workshop will enable and encourage more libraries to participate in the initiative. We will use lessons learned, examples, and resources from the initiative during the workshop. After attending the workshop, California librarians will be equipped to participate successfully in the initiative, and others will have the skills and knowledge to implement outreach- and outcome-based summer reading in their states.

Event Code: CLA1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member and Non-Member

$149

$149

$149

Finding Solid Ground

Friday, June 22, 2012 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By CLA

At this interactive workshop, Professor Hunter (Drucker School of Management) will engage us in a conversation about the internal dynamics of leadership – productively moving forward in times of stress, how to keep from acting on instinctual survival reactions, how to engage with diverse and conflicting points of view, and how to face problems with an open mind. By the end of the workshop participants will have a better understanding of:

 - the skills to help us gain inner balance, perspective and calm

 - the relationship between stress and productivity

 - how the human brain functions, how those functions can intentionally undermine effectiveness, and what to do about it

Speaker:  Professor Jeremy Hunter

Event Code: CLA2

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member and Non-Member

$149

$149

$149

Leading Professional Development that Matters … and Works

Friday, June 22, 2012 12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By AASL

In this era of unprecedented school reform, librarians can thrive as embedded professional development (PD) leaders. Adult learners bring a wealth of background skills, interests, and experiences (Early and Bubb, 2004). Unlike the one-shot, one-size-fits-all workshops of the past, today’s PD considers time, setting, circumstances, pedagogical choices, and level of formality for customized PD. We will discuss several PD models, exploring together how we can improve our schools from the inside out.

Speakers: Debbie Abilock, Kristin Fontichiaro and Violet H. Harada

Event Code: AAS3

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$159

$159

$159

Division Member

$109

$109

$109

Round Table Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Retired Member

$99

$99

$99

Student Member

$79

$79

$79

Non-Member

$224

$224

$224

LLAMA Preconference: “What is Leadership?

Friday, June 22, 2012 1:00p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored By LLAMA

Are you ready to lead? In these turbulent times, well trained leaders are in demand more than ever. This program will outline a theoretically driven yet pragmatic approach to leadership by presenting leadership styles and appropriate applications. Participants will gain a solid “cookbook” approach to resolving various situational and structural issues.

Speakers: Jay Johnston, M.S., M.A., is Executive Director of the Farmington Libraries, Farmington CT. His vision, knowledge of technology, coalition building skill, and belief in the importance of libraries sustain his dedication to a staff centered, customer focused, high-energy model. He has a strong commitment to reengineering library programs to succeed and be relevant through the 21st century. Jay believes that leadership begins at the bottom and works its way up to the top through a holistic theory "Z" approach to leadership development.

Event Code: LAM1

Ticket Prices

Early Bird

Advance

Onsite

ALA Member

$99

$99

$99

Division Member

$69

$69

$69

Round Table Member

N/A

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N/A

Retired Member

N/A

N/A

N/A

Student Member

$29

$29

$29

Non-Member

$149

$149

$149

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