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e Alumni Society Grand Slam at the TLA Annual Conference Meet with faculty and friends at this year’s alumni dinner ursday, April 19th, Minute Maid Baseball Park, 6:30-8:30 PM. $20 registration required: www.coi.unt.edu/alumnidinner ALUMNI Editorial by GloriA merAz 2011: The Year That Was & 2012: The Year That Can Be kay, so 2011 wasn’t a banner Together, these forces merged and all types of libraries with the purpose of year in politics. Partisanship, generated even broader support that advancing the highest standards for the Odeadlocks, unstable economies, eventually instigated a tipping point. profession and library services. bad budgets, and a general absence of The use of social media and networking The year 2012 will be critical for us. civility or commitment to the common to organize and sustain opposition This will be the year of heavy lifting: good ruled the day it seemed. Given heralds the beginning of true democracy coming to a consensus for the common these difficulties, especially the bad in the age of global connectivity. good, looking forward rather than budgets, it’s easy to want to forget 2011. From this highest of perches, let us backward, and marshaling every person In the middle of all this demoralizing zoom in now a little more in our we know to help create our own tipping news, however, 2011 does have a own backyard, to the institutions and point. We have the tools at our hands; Your portal to positive message to impart. This past services we, as librarians and library but we need to work together to equip year showed us all that, even when supporters, advance. We too count and energize our communities to be Career Opportunities faced with insurmountable odds and passion, ideals, and grassroots capacity outraged on our behalf. immoveable rule, the little guy – the in our arsenal. 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While the future of them what could be. the square, and wherever our public as well as School Library Media Certi cation completely online. this region of our earth is still far from What would every school look like gathers. We are the library community, settled, the very reality of change in with fully staffed and dynamic library and our network is extensive and Certify your pro ciency in curriculum integration with courses that focus in some of the world’s most oppressive information literacy, teaching, and technology. programs? articulate. Let’s make 2012 a great year countries certainly means that change is for libraries. J possible anywhere. 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Whether or not you Association’s goals and services over the Speak to a school library program advisor today: [email protected] What is the loss in opportunity, agreed with the movement’s tactics, it education, and economic well-being next three years with the target of having achieved no small feat. without strong libraries? a fresh three-year strategic plan finished In what has been admittedly one of the no later than Annual Assembly in July, As we begin 2012, TLA’s Legislative most difficult times for our community, 2012. Committee has begun drafting an the fact that people rallied together approach for the next legislative session. TLA’s current strategic plan was developed in diverse places on the planet and The Committee is looking at bold new over two years ago. Although many of Department of Library and Information Sciences successfully – although far from easily – initiatives designed to facilitate broad the ideas expressed in that document 1.877.275.7547 [email protected] www.lis.unt.edu levied change proves that nothing is out legislative awareness of and support for are still relevant, it’s time to re-examine of our collective grasp. No hope or ideal libraries across state government. The the entirety of the plan in light of today’s too lofty to pursue. Committee is looking at unifying the (and tomorrow’s) shifting realities. 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Committee is looking at promulgating groups/SPTF. www.coi.unt.edu/alumnidinner a program that speaks to and supports ALUMNI R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 5 Supporting Your School’s UIL Prose & Poetry Team by Sheryl Stoeck WhaT is UiL Prose & regional competition, and from there, PoeTrY? the top performers will advance to state. Every year, there are several According to the UIL constitution, the purpose of the Prose and Poetry hoW YoU Can heLP posts to TLA’s Texas Library contests “is to encourage the student I think all school librarians share the to understand, experience and share Connection listserv for school poetry [and prose works] through the UIL’s goal of encouraging students art of oral interpretation,” with the “to understand, experience and share” librarians about the University goal “to encourage the contestant’s many forms of literature. To that end, working with your prose and poetry Interscholastic League’s (UIL) exploration of a variety of literary selections, and to enhance the competitors to find and select pieces seems to be a task perfectly suited to Prose and Poetry events. performer’s and audience’s appreciation of literature through the performer’s librarians. These posts range from asking interpretation of the work.” For First, I make it a point to know what each event, a student must prepare the new categories are when they are for help with documenting two seven-minute performances of released. This allows me to look for literature from two specified categories. pieces continually as I read books and sources to asking for literature The piece of literature must be reviews. It also decreases my own sense published in print (not just online), suggestions that students can of panic when coaches or students and the performance is an expressive start looking in earnest for their pieces. perform in competition. The oral reading of the piece from a When that happens, I already know manuscript. The only part that is fully the categories and have possibilities to fact that so many librarians memorized is the student’s original suggest. introduction. As I read new books or reviews, I keep are confronted by this topic Each event presents students with these events and categories in the two categories of literature they must demonstrates just how valuable back of my mind. When I read about prepare. For example, the current something that I think might make a we can be in supporting categories for poetry are “A New Voice good UIL performance piece, I take in Poetry,” in which students must note of it. How you want to do this is students and coaches who are perform poetry written by a single up to you, but I have done it in a few poet born after 1960, and “My Voice different ways. involved in these events. Through Poetry,” in which students must perform at least two poems I have created just plain lists of each by at least two different poets who category that I saved in Microsoft are connected by a central theme. Word. Whenever I saw something new These categories usually change every that might work, I just added it to the three years, with the new categories list. Sometimes I put little notes along published in the spring after the state with a title, perhaps noting a specific contest. story or poem in a book. Now if I buy a book for the library, I try to note When students arrive at the contest, that in the catalog when I first process they will not know which category the book. I teach the students how to they will be asked to perform first. The search the catalog for these titles. top-ranking students in the first round then progress to the second round If I read a review about a book that I to perform their other piece. If they think would be good but that I am not are competing in the official district buying for the library, I send an email competition (not a practice contest), to the coach with information about the top performers will advance to it and usually a link to it on Amazon. 6 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 Even if I do buy it for the library, if it best performance. Below are some selection and documentation of UIL is something I think would be really descriptions of what I look for in a prose and poetry pieces. There are great, I’ll send an email about that to potential performance piece. These are very few, if any, other people on a the coach letting her know about not UIL requirements or exhaustive, school campus who so regularly keep the title. but these are some of the things that, up with the newest and widest variety The second area where students and in my experience as a speech coach and of literature or who have so many coaches often need our expertise judge, I have found lend themselves to resources at their disposal for finding is in providing the documentation winning performances. acceptable documentation sources. of sources. This is not usually as Considering that the performer will It has been my experience that UIL simple as creating a works cited want to showcase his/her interpretive coaches and students will truly entry for a source. Rather, this abilities, I like to find pieces that appreciate your help and your efforts requires documentation that the are written in first-person; or if to reach out with suggestions. I have piece meets all the requirements for they have multiple characters, those also realized that it is much easier to a printed publication and for the characters have dialogue. Whether it be aware of the UIL categories and specific categories. For example, is prose or poetry, I like pieces that keep notes on potential pieces as I do a prose selection for the current have a narrative arc. They tend to my regular reading rather than waiting “Category A” must have acceptable hold the audience’s attention, allow until a desperate student (or coach) documentation that the author was the performer range of emotion and comes begging for help to find a piece. born after 1960. Only certain things characterization, and give a sense of When that inevitably happens, I have constitute “acceptable documentation” “completeness” to the performance. a list I can show them. Then it is up (Wikipedia is not acceptable, for A piece that pontificates on the beauty to them to decide the one they want instance). It is beyond the scope of this of the sunset may be moving and to do, and I don’t have to rack my article to go into all of the required poignant as a work of literature, but brain trying to think of something that documentation and what types of it likely will not give performers an might work. material are acceptable, but the UIL optimal platform for infusing their Having said all of that, don’t be upset website has extensive information interpretive abilities. Because of this if the student ends up not using your about this. consideration, I find that novels-in- suggestion. Student performers are verse often work well for poetry. I also suggest that you volunteer to picky. In some cases, it’s just because watch student performances. This Due to the seven-minute time they have to be. They have to find a could simply be watching your constraint, another consideration is piece that suits, among other things, students practice to get an idea of length. In the case of poetry, I tend their gender and their performance what the performances are like, or to look for longer poems so students abilities. In other cases, they just have you could give students feedback on can use most of their time limit. it in their mind that they want to do their performance before competition. Certainly in categories where students a funny piece, or they are too lazy or If your school hosts a contest, are allowed to use multiple poems, one crunched for time to cut a longer piece volunteering to judge would be the or two short poems could be included, to fit the time limit. very best thing you could do. Not only but usually at least one or two longer Regardless, keep on the lookout for will you really get a true sense of the poems are needed to create a narrative pieces, take note of them, and let your activity and types of pieces students and to approach the time limit. In coaches and students know when you perform successfully, you will also the case of prose, it is often the case find some new literature with great ingratiate yourself with your school’s that the student will have to cut the potential. You’ll either be more helpful coach. It demonstrates that you want piece in order to fit within the time and appreciated than you already are, to help and that you really want to frame. I personally love to see entire or you’ll cultivate a whole new cadre of understand the activity (and therefore books cut or excerpted to fit within grateful library users. J they can trust your suggestions). the time frame, but I have found that many students don’t like the work of WhaT To Look For reading and/or cutting down such a sheryl stoeck is a librarian and in a PieCe larger piece. I still regularly suggest former director of forensics at full-length books for prose, but I o’Connor high school The most important thing to keep in also realize that many students prefer in san antonio. mind when considering what might shorter works such as short stories. make a good UIL competition piece is I truly believe that librarians are that this literature will be performed. uniquely situated to help with the What might be a beautiful and elegant piece of prose or poetry might not necessarily be what will make for the R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 7 newsnotes school Librarians: day in curriculum instruction. The typical a read for all! LSD public library participant enthralled instructional Leaders The Texas Library Association offers many 50 kids each day with storytime. The Texas Library Association and the wonderful reading lists for all ages and Texas Association of School Librarians Here is a sample of patron comments: interests. Be sure to go to TLA’s reading are partnering to create a new, highly • I use the library to take exams for my grad list homepage at www.txla.org/reading- intensive continuing education experience school program. Everyone is very friendly lists for the latest lists. TLA’s reading lists for professional school librarians. The and helpful. The environment is nice and are intended for recreational reading, not goals of the initiative are to: 1) increase quiet, perfect for test-taking. to support a specific curriculum. Due to the diversity of this age range, Texas the ability of school librarians to develop • Our library keeps up with the latest librarians should purchase titles according highly collaborative instructional technology while still keeping a love for to their individual collection policies. programs that improve collaboration books in the children’s eyes. They are between school librarians and teachers; always offering the latest materials to help • The 2X2 List offers 20 recommended and 2) promote school librarians and keep up with our TEKS instruction. They books for children, age two to second their role as education specialists to school cater to the children, teachers, and parents grade. leaders (principals, administrators, and alike and offer wonderful lessons that are • Texas Bluebonnet Award Reading superintendents). grade appropriate. List is aimed at students in grades This cutting-edge CE program will offer • I frequently use the library databases for 3-6. 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The desired The 2012 Texas Book Festival grant List is a recommended reading list outcome of this multi-leveled experience applications and information for public developed by public and school is to enable school librarians to become libraries are now available at www. librarians to encourage students in educational leaders on their campuses and texasbookfestival.org/Library_Grants. grades 6-12 to explore a variety of to showcase how their contribution to php. The Texas Book Festival has awarded current graphic novels. student success can be demonstrable and funds to public libraries since 1996 and • The Texas Lone Star List is a significant. The program builds on the offers three types of grants: collection most-recently adopted state standards. recommended reading list developed to enhancement, technology, and literacy. encourage students in grades 6, 7 or 8 Mary Long, adjunct professor at Sam Libraries may apply for all three types to explore a variety of current books. 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Texas Library Snapshot Day (LSD) list will be unveiled at TLA annual provides a way for libraries of all types The deadline for applications is January conference. across Texas to show what happens 20, 2012. Incomplete applications will in a single day at their libraries. It is a not be considered. Libraries who have J “snapshot” of a day in the life of a library. received grants in the past must have aWarDs This year, Texas Library Snapshot Day was submitted a final report for that grant Many deadlines are just days away. held October 31, although libraries could award cycle. Apply for scholarships, grants, and conference stipends; nominate worthy select any day in October to participate. All public library directors are encouraged colleagues for awards. A listing of Almost 250 library systems (including to apply for these important Texas grants. available association, TLA unit, and public, school, and academic institutions) The Texas Book Festival is a champion of corporate offerings are at statewide participated. Preliminary data literacy and libraries, and TLA offers its show that, on average, LSD school library ongoing appreciation and thanks to this www.txla.org/tla-awards participants served 222 students every outstanding Texas institution! 8 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 2012 CorPoraTeTe The Texas Library Association SPONSORS expresses its sincere gratitude to our corporate sponsors at the Diamond, Platinum, scholarships, Gold, Silver, and Bronze levels. Their sponsorship supports these 2012 TLA events aWards, graNts, & and programs: coNfereNce stipeNds
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R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 9 FeaTUreeaSPEAKERSTUreD BraD Bill Barnes (by released this fall. His other works include MeLTzer is Gene Ambaum) Live Wire and Caught. the New York loves librarians, Born in New England, JUsTin show tunes, and Times bestselling Cronin is the author of Mary and meat. He can author of The O’Neil, which won the Pen/Hemingway count his toes Inner Circle, Award and the Stephen Crane Prize, and The Tenth without taking off his shoes. Over The Summer Justice, Dead Guest. He is Even, The First the past eight years, he has tried to convince Gene that the meaning of “partnership” is the author of a Counsel, The doing what he says 99% of the time. He can post-apocalyptic Millionaires, The often be seen wandering the floor at trade trilogy, which Zero Game, The shows playing “The Final Countdown” on features vampires. Book of Fate, and The Book of Lies. His his ukulele Death Adder. The first book first non-fiction book, Heroes For My JUDY BLUMe of the series, Son, is a collection about inspiring people , a New York Times bestselling author, The Passage, ranging from Jim Henson to Rosa Parks. has sold over 80 was released in He is also the host of Brad Meltzer’s million books. June 2010 and Decoded on the History Channel. His She has written garnered favorable reviews. The second works are a combination murder and both YA and adult book in the series is The Twelve and is historical mysteries. His research has been works, including scheduled for release in 2012. Fox has facilitated by former Presidents Clinton Are You There God? purchased the screen rights to the series. and H. W. Bush. His plots have included It’s Me, Margaret; Having earned his MFA from the Iowa finding the murder weapon that Cain the Fudge series; Writers Workshop, Cronin is now a used to kill Abel and uncovering the Blubber; Summer professor of English at Rice University. still-existent spy ring created by George Sisters; and most naThan Washington. Not surprisingly, this fertile recently, The Actor and literacy advocate FiLLion mind was recruited by the Department Pain & the Great One. She is the founder gained critical acclaim and a of Homeland Security to brainstorm and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable large cult of fans when he starred on the different ways terrorists might attack the and educational foundation. She serves on TV series Firefly. He can currently be seen U.S. In addition to his literary work, multiple boards supporting literacy and on ABC’s Castle as novelist and crime Meltzer manages a charitable website: education. Blume has worked tirelessly with sleuth Richard www.ordinarypeoplechangetheworld.com the National Coalition Against Censorship Castle. His other to protect the freedom to read. television and film Gene aMBaUM & BiLL Barnes harLan CoBen’s credits include (co-creators of Unshelved, a comic strip International author last four consecutive novels debuted at #1 One Life to Live, about libraries) on the New York Times bestseller list. Since Buffy the Vampire Gene Ambaum (by Bill Barnes) uses his critically-acclaimed Myron Bolitar series Slayer, and Saving a pen name because he’s scared of his debuted in 1995, Coben has won the Edgar Private Ryan. The own shadow. He is so good at making Allan Poe Award, the Anthony Award, son of English fun of strange, difficult customers in and the Shamus Award, and he was twice teachers, Fillion Unshelved because he is the strangest, nominated for the Dilys Award. His work is a co-founder of most difficult customer of all. He taught has been described as “ingenious” (New Kids Need to Read, a national nonprofit English overseas because no one there York Times) and foundation that promotes childhood was in a position “superb” (Chicago literacy and addresses the crisis in library to criticize his Tribune). His funding. Providing inspiring books and spelling. If he novel Tell No One literacy programs to schools, public ever starts another has been turned libraries, and other institutions, the comic strip it will into a commercial foundation works to develop a lifelong be about poop, and critical smash love of reading and an awareness of social because that’s what hit French film. responsibility in all children. he spends most of His first YA novel, his time thinking Shelter, was just about. 10 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 PENGUIN YOUNG READERS GROUP Meet the Stars! TLA 2012 • Houston, TX • April 18–20 Your favorite authors are signing in the Author Area. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH Join us for the TLA Book Buzz! We’ll be talking about our outstanding titles for 2012. Wednesday, April 18th from 1:00pm – 1:50pm in Room 1001 Avenida at the Houston Convention Center
Adam Gidwitz Jacqueline 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm C. Alexander John Harlan Attend his programs “Thrill West Masters: Adventure Books for 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm London Green Coben Kids” on Wednesday, April 18th at Attend her program “Thrill 12:00 pm –1:00 pm 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm 10:15am and “Lone Star Reading Masters: Adventure Books for Kids” Attend his program “Thrill Masters: See John at the LiFTA Luncheon on See Harlan at the LiFTA Luncheon List & Authors” on Thursday, April on Wednesday, April 18th Adventure Books for Kids” on Wednesday, April 18th at 12:00pm. on Wednesday, April 18th at 12:00pm. 19th at 12:00pm. at 10:15am. Wednesday, April 18th at 10:15am. Signing to follow at the Hilton Americas. Signing to follow at the Hilton Americas.
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Judy Blume Kristin Cashore Madeleine George 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 11:00 am –12:00 pm 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Hear Judy speak after the Children’s Attend her program “Tayshas High Attend her program “Right Now: New Roundtable Business Meeting on School Reading List and Authors” YA Literature to Entice Readers” on Thursday, April 19th at 8:00am. on Thursday, April 19th at 2:00pm. Thursday, April 19th at 1:00pm.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH Stasia Kehoe Attention TLA Attendees! 9:00 am – 10:00 am Books will be available Attend her program “Face to Face for All: 8th Poetry for purchase in the Penguin Booth, Roundup” on Friday, #1318 , before each autographing.* April 20th at 10:00am. Cash or Check only!
* While supplies last Penguin Young Readers Group • www.penguin.com/teachersandlibrarians Follow @thepenguinpeeps on Twitter for all our TLA news! New York Times process improvement, the use of market “Libraries are on the cusp of greatness,” bestselling segmentation to grow and develop library writes BarBara sTriPLinG, director author John services, and the changes necessary for of library services at the New York City Green was libraries to thrive in the 21st century. She Department of Education and instructor 2006 recipient served as president of the Iowa Library with Syracuse University. Stripling oversees of the Michael Association (2002) and has held leadership a program serving 1.1 million students in L. Printz Award, positions in the Kansas Library Association 1700 schools. She a 2009 Edgar and the Missouri Library Association. has also worked Award winner, Millsap was named a 2007 Library Journal as director of and has twice Mover and Shaker. Milsap believes strongly instructional WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 been a finalist in investing in information professionals: services at “The bottom line is - to create a 21st for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Fayetteville (AR) century library we need 21st century His works include Looking for Alaska, Public Schools and Rachel Hawkins CHARLIE HIGSON librarians.” Millsap is a candidate for ALA An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper director of library 12:00–1:00PM 2:00–3:00PM President. Towns. He is also the coauthor, with power at the Author Signing Area Author Signing Area David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Library Journal 2011 Mover and Shaker Public Education Hex Hall, Demonglass, The Enemy, The Dead Grayson. Green (and his brother Hank) eLi neiBUrGer believes in making Foundation Spell Bound began a YouTube phenomenon when libraries exciting and transformational in Chattanooga, TN. She is one of Panel: they began communicating exclusively places that shatter assumptions about the nation’s leading figures promoting Undead: Never Unread what libraries are Panel: through videoblogs in 2007. With a school librarianship and advocating Write, Rewrite, Repeat: Thursday, 4/19 3:00PM commitment to fighting poverty and today. Neiburger for the advancement of the profession. is an associate Real Authors Talk About increasing intellectualism, Green is a social “Librarians must be instrumental in director for IT the Writing Process media pioneer, with over 75 million views leading the transformation of libraries, and production Wednesday, 4/18 10:15AM of vlogbrothers and more than 1.1 million at Ann Arbor and in that process, we will transform our Twitter followers. District Library, communities.” Stripling is a candidate for DaviD Lee kinG is the digital branch where he works to ALA President. and services manager at the Topeka and maximize the user Leadership expert and ALA President- Shawnee County Public Library, where he experience. His Elect MaUreen sULLivan promotes TLA 2012, Houston, TEXAS plans, implements, and experiments with research interests librarians as leaders. Her professional include the future emerging technology trends. He has spoken passion is to prepare information THURSDAY, APRIL 19 FRIDAY, APRIL 20 in the U.S. and Canada about emerging of libraries, publishing and copyright professionals to be at the front edge of trends, website issues, and digital content. He is the author delivering information services and to of Gamers in the LIBRARY?! and helps to usability and wield power at the decision-making table. organize the American Library Association’s management, Sullivan’s experience includes human National Gaming Day. digital experience resource administration at the University planning, and Lisa sCoTToLine is the New York of Maryland and Yale. In addition to managing techie Times bestselling author of 18 novels, consulting, she is also a professor of staff. He has including her latest, Save Me. The Edgar managerial leadership at the Simmons been published Award winner is also president of Mystery College Writers of America. She writes a weekly in many library- Graduate School column with her daughter Francesca related journals of Library and and writes Serritella for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled “Chick Information the Internet Science. Sullivan Spotlight column in Public Libraries Wit,” which is a witty take on life is also past STACEY KADE BRENT SARA COERT TEXAS Magazine with Michael Porter. King president of AUTHOR! from a woman’s 9:30–10:30AM maintains a blog at www.davidleeking.com. the Association CRAWFORD PENNYPACKER VOORHEES perspective. The Author Signing Area Gina MiLLsaP is the chief executive columns have of College 11:00AM–12:00PM 2:00–3:00PM 9:00–10:00AM The Ghost and the Goth, officer of the been collected and Research Author Signing Area Author Signing Area Disney•Hyperion Topeka and in Best Friends, Libraries Queen of the Dead Carter Finally Gets It, Clementine and the Booth #1804 Shawnee County Occasional (ACRL, 1998- Carter’s Big Break Family Meeting SNEAK PEEK! Public Library Enemies, and 99) and the Library Administration and Panel: Panel: The Lucky Fools (KS). She is Why My Third Management Association (now LLAMA, Undead: Never Unread Panel: Husband Will Tayshas High School nationally known 1988-89), and she was chosen the 2010 Thursday, 4/19 3:00PM Girls With Grit for presenting Be a Dog, which has been optioned for Reading List and Authors ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of Thursday, 4/19 10:00AM on cutting edge TV. Scottoline has joined the faculty as the Year. Thursday, 4/19 2:00PM issues, including a visiting professor at The University of 21st century Pennsylvania Law School to teach a course librarianship, she created called “Justice and Fiction.” 12 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 Booth #1804 |
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STACEY KADE COERT TEXAS BRENT SARA AUTHOR! 9:30–10:30AM CRAWFORD PENNYPACKER VOORHEES Author Signing Area 11:00AM–12:00PM 2:00–3:00PM 9:00–10:00AM The Ghost and the Goth, Author Signing Area Author Signing Area Disney•Hyperion Queen of the Dead Carter Finally Gets It, Clementine and the Booth #1804 Panel: Carter’s Big Break Family Meeting SNEAK PEEK! Panel: The Lucky Fools Undead: Never Unread Panel: Tayshas High School Thursday, 4/19 3:00PM Girls With Grit Reading List and Authors Thursday, 4/19 10:00AM Thursday, 4/19 2:00PM
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TLA 2012_Program Ad.indd 1 12/2/11 2:23 PM programs by ToPiC ABOUT TLA BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND STORYTELLERS Books with Heart ...... 2:00 - 2:50 pm Tuesday, April 17 Tuesday, April 17 Tayshas High School Reading List and Authors 2:00 - 3:20 pm New Members Standing Tall: Links to 50 Years a Wrinkle in Time ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm ...... Books, Boys, and Boxing: Motivating Minority Leadership (online registration only) ...... 1:00 - 4:30 pm Learning From Elmo, Blue, and Dora: males to Read 2:00 - 3:50 pm Learn to Use Your Smart Phone Applying the Science of Children’s ...... and the TLA App ...... 1:00 - 5:00 pm Educational Television ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Texas 2x2 Reading List Showcase ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Texas Library Association Council I ...... 5:00 - 5:50 pm Fractured Fairy Tales with Willy Claflin and Undead: Never Unread ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm TALL Texans Recognition and Reception Maynard the Moose (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 - 4:30 pm Black Caucus Round Table Reception ...... 6:00 - 8:00 pm (Ticket required) ...... 5:00 - 6:30 pm Speed Dating with Texas Bluebonnets Evening with the Authors (ticket required) ...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm All-Conference Welcome Party ...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 - 5:00 pm Storytelling Round Table Concert...... 7:30 - 9:30 pm Wednesday, April 18 One Book One Conference ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Friday, April 20 Writing Thrillers for All Ages ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm General Session I ...... 8:30 - 10:00 am How to Set up a Virtual Author Program ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am If You Give a Kid a Book ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm The Inside Scoop on the TLA Experience ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Native American Young Adult Books ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am TLA New Members Reception ...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm Wednesday, April 18 Adult Multicultural Mystery Writers ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am President’s All-Conference Party ...... 8:00 - 10:30 pm African American Pioneers of Horror New Books for Teens and Some Tweens Too! ....8:00 - 9:20 am Thursday, April 19 and Science Fiction ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am TASL Author Session Breakfast with Author Tim Green and Texas Association Patrick Carman (Ticket required) ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am General Session II ...... 4:00 - 5:20 pm of School Librarians Business Meeting .... 10:15 - 11:50 am South Asian Authors in Houston ...... 8:30 - 9:50 am Book Cart Drill Team Challenge! 5:40 - 6:20 pm ...... Thrill Masters: Adventure Books for Kids ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Face to Face for All (F2F4L): 8th Poetry Doo-Wop Intergalactic Round Table Write, Rewrite, Repeat: Authors on the Roundup ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Sock Hop (Ticket required) 8:00 pm - 12:00 am ...... Writing Process ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Calling All Guys / Books for Friday, April 20 Texas Tea with YA Authors N-B-Tween Boys ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am TLA Membership Meeting ...... 1:30 - 2:00 pm (Ticket required) ...... 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Closing Author Session Luncheon with Texas Library Association Council II ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm Opening Author Session Luncheon Justin Cronin (Ticket required) ...... 12:00 - 1:20 pm Sponsored by LiFTA (Ticket required) ... 12:00 pm - 1:50 pm CAREER & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ARCHIVES, PRESERVATION, MUSEUMS Book Buzz: Highlights from Publishers’ Tuesday, April 17 2012 Offerings for Children ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Tuesday, April 17 Help! My Customer Wants Their Family History Connecting Teens and Authors: Teen Book New Members Standing Tall: Links to (Ticket required) ...... 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Festivals and Awesome Author Visits ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Leadership (Online registration only) ...... 1:00 - 4:30 pm Museums: Tips for Public Relations, Marketing, Let’s Be Honest with Robie H. Harris ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm 1001 Great Ideas and Diversity Fair ...... 4:00 - 5:30 pm and the User Experience ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Staying Power: A Look at Classic Wednesday, April 18 Developing a Large-Scale Digital Archives through a Library Children’s Books ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm electronic Licensing for Libraries ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Consortium 2:00 - 3:50 pm ...... Draw Me a Story ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Relevant: Making Yourself Wednesday, April 18 Barry Lyga Speaks ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm INDISPENSABLE ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am From Librarian to Archivist of the US ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Book Buzz: Latest Buzz in YA Literature ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm From Librarian to Archivist of the US ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Collaborating in Tough Times: Responding Graphic Novels for Elementary Children ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Google Tooling Your Way to Organization...... 10:15 - 11:50 am to State Cuts ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Storytelling Round Table Showcase/Swap ...... 7:30 - 9:30 pm The Inside Scoop on the TLA Experience ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am National Archives and Records Administration Thursday, April 19 Texas Tea with YA Authors (Ticket required) ....12:00 - 1:20 pm (NARA): Resources for Libraries ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Revolutionary: 2012 End of the World? ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am Leveraging Your Skills: Rewrite that Next Generation Genealogy ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List Resume and Market Yourself ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Archiving and Preserving LGBT Materials ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm and Authors ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Jumping the Hurdles of Librarian-Teacher Thursday, April 19 Author Judy Blume and Children’s Round Collaboration ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Preservation 101 for Your Library and Table Business Meeting ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Using the Web to Build a Personal Learning Archival Materials ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Black Caucus Round Table Author Session Network for School Librarians ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Responding and Recovering: Continuing Core Breakfast: The Image and the Word ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Ready, Set, Leap: Innovative Problem Solving ...2:00 - 3:50 pm Services When Disaster Strikes ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Latino Literature: Then and now ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Salary Negotiation: Yes You Can! ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Digitizing Local History: Partnerships The Texas Story: From Historical Research Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Leader? ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm and Possibilities...... 10:00 - 11:50 am to Narrative ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am ALA Presidential Initiatives for 2012-2013 ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Collecting Outside the Box: New Materials Texas Teens for Libraries Day ...... 8:00 - 4:00 pm Librarians on the Move: New Jobs in Academic Library Archives ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Young Adult Round Table Presents -- for the Information Professional ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Digitizing Historic Newspapers: Author Sessions ...... 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Thursday, April 19 What We’ve Learned ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Crime Time - Thriller Author Panel ...... 8:30 - 9:50 am Library School Reference Courses: Friday, April 20 Guys Read...... 9:00 - 9:50 am Still Relevant? ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Metadata Strategies for Getting Here There Be Dragons! ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Revolutionary Leadership in Changing Times....8:00 - 9:50 am Objects Online...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Lone Star Reading List and Authors ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am 21st Century Librarian ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Contemporary Collecting: Is Your Archives Publishers Dish the Latest Buzz in My First Librarian Position: Lessons Learned Keeping up with the Latest Trends? ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Books for Adults ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am for a Great Career ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Stories Alive! Using Creative Dramatics ASSeSSmenT Leading at All Levels ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm in Your Storytimes ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Tapping Local Power: Leadership in Tuesday, April 17 Colorful Crimes: Diverse Characters Small and Rural Libraries ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Worth Watching: Assessment Video Tutorials in Mysteries ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Friday, April 20 in Academic Libraries ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Girls with Grit: Strong Female Characters Will Libraries Survive? The Future of Libraries and End of Course Exams: for Elementary Readers ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Information Science in Society ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am What You Need to Know ...... 2:00 - 2:50 pm middle School matters ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am Create Mentoring Programs that Produce Wednesday, April 18 Lariat List Adult Fiction Author Session Positive Results ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Luncheon (Ticket required) ...... 12:00 - 1:50 pm Incorporating and Assessing Information Revision, Reshape, Refine: The Opportunity Literacy in an Academic Setting ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session of Tough Times ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Luncheon (Ticket required) ...... 12:00 - 1:50 pm Right now: new YA Literature to entice Readers...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm
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16 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 Thursday, April 19 Thursday, April 19 Thursday, April 19 Preservation 101 for Your Library and eReader Technology: A Hands-On Approach Revolutionary Trends: Genre-fying Archival Materials ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am to Using It For Your Library ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am the School Library ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am Digitizing Local History: Partnerships Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA): A Web-based Map Interface Catalog Search and Possibilities...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Benefits and Pitfalls ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Tool for a Library Regional Collection ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Digitizing Historic Newspapers: Digital Decisions: Replace, Blend, Library School Reference Courses: What We’ve Learned ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm or Enhance? ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Still Relevant? ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Friday, April 20 Black Caucus Round Table Reception ...... 6:00 - 8:00 pm 21st Century Librarian ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Metadata Strategies for Getting Objects Online 8:00 - 9:20 am FUTURE TRENDS Open Data Policies in the U.S. - An Overview .10:00 - 10:50 am State Library: Present and Future ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am DISASTeR PRePAReDneSS Tuesday, April 17 Collecting Outside the Box: New Materials Wednesday, April 18 Census Website: Countless Research in Academic Library Archives ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Opportunities (Ticket required) 1:00 - 4:00 pm Virtual Tornado Rescue: A Library Exhibit and Simulation (Net ...... Make Your Library FutureReady ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Fair I) ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am Innovative Technology Applications for Evaluating Quality of OpenURLs Reference & Instruction: Lightning Talks ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Thursday, April 19 Through Analytics ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm The Importance of the Library in Future Navigating Privacy, Policy, and Service Responding and Recovering: Continuing Core Services When SACS Accreditation Standards ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Disaster Strikes ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Issues in the Digital Age ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Joint Libraries: Models that Work ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Public Access Technology in Libraries: Friday, April 20 One Book One Conference ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm A National Initiative ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm The Real Nuts and Bolts of Library Security ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Wednesday, April 18 Friday, April 20 E-BOOKS Information Visualization and Keyword Web-Scale Discovery: Post Implementation ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Tuesday, April 17 Searching in Library Instruction ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Library Support Staff Certification: Changing Libraries of the Future: The Library Gotta Gadget Workshops and Training...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm the Profession, Changing Your Life ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am and the Global Information Society Will Libraries Survive? The Future of eReaders and eBooks (Hands On Lab II; are a Perfect match ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am registration required) ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Information Science in Society ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Digital Public Library of America ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Wednesday, April 18 Embedded Academic Librarianship...... 10:00 - 11:20 am AnyThink: Designing Customer-Centric Libraries and the Future of Transliteracy ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am E-Readers and E-Books (Hands On Lab IV; Libraries ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Privatization of Public Libraries: How It registration required) ...... 12:00 - 1:20 pm Change Your Library’s Image Works and What You Can Do...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Who Let the Librarians Out? How Digital Content through Marketing ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm is Freeing Librarians for New Roles ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Metadata for 2012 and Beyond ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm Who Let the Librarians Out? How Digital Content is Freeing Librarians for New Roles ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm
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R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 17 GENEALOGY Meta-active Learning: Library Instruction Friday, April 20 Tuesday, April 17 Techniques Made Simple ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm The Softwire in Adolescent Cyberspace: Think, Create, Share and Grow: Setting Help! My Customer Wants Their Family How Computer Gaming Is the Stage for Collaborative Inquiry 2:00 - 3:20 pm History (Ticket required) ...... 8:00 am - 12:00 pm ...... Encouraging Kids to Read ...... 9:00 - 9:50 am Wednesday, April 18 Wednesday, April 18 Kids Need to Read Program: Information Visualization and Keyword Funding Opportunity ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am From Librarian to Archivist of the US ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Searching in Library Instruction ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am National Archives and Records Administration MANAGEMENT & CHANGE Learning4Life: Advocacy through Coteaching (NARA): Resources for Libraries ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Deep Comprehension ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Tuesday, April 17 Next Generation Genealogy ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Using Creative Nonfiction to Inspire Drupal 101 (Ticket required) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Thursday, April 19 Children’s Programming ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Technology and Libraries: An Unconference Preservation 101 for Your Library and Write, Rewrite, Repeat: Authors on (Ticket required) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Archival Materials ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am the Writing Process ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Graphic Novels: Return on Investment ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Digitizing Local History: Partnerships Creating Computer Games for Instruction ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Making the Best of Delivering Bad News ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm and Possibilities...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Social Media 101 ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Think, Create, Share and Grow: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Inquiry ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm GRANTS & FUNDRAISING Using the Web to Build a Personal Learning Network for School Librarians ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm The Importance of the Library in Future Tuesday, April 17 Battledecks: Prepare to Compete!...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm SACS Accreditation Standards ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Reel Read: From Movie to Book Programs for Incorporating and Assessing Information 8 Tips to Safely Manage Disruptive Patrons ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Tweens & Teens ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Literacy in an Academic Setting ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Bootstrap User Experience (UX) ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Wednesday, April 18 Young Adult Round Table Reading Lists Wednesday, April 18 Success Stories: The Value of Your Support Booktalks ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Academic Leadership: Lessons in a Community in Hard Economic Times...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Write Now: Interpreting Literature Climate of Social Transformation ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Thursday, April 19 via Online Book Clubs ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm electronic Licensing for Libraries ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Demographic Information: 2010 Census ALA Presidential Initiatives for 2012-2013 ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Libraries of the Future: The Library and and Beyond ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am To Go Credit or Non Credit: Courses in the Global Information Society Library Instruction ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm are a Perfect match ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Friday, April 20 Relevant: Making Yourself Grant Writing in the Information Age ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Thursday, April 19 Google Tips and Tricks for School INDISPENSABLE ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Kids Need to Read Program: Funding Google Tooling Your Way to Organization...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Opportunity ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Library Instruction ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am The Texas Story: From Historical Collaborating in Tough Times: INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM & ETHICS Research to Narrative ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Responding to State Cuts ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Tuesday, April 17 meeting Users at Their Point of need ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Crosstraining Staff in Public Libraries ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm One Book One Conference ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Stories Alive! Using Creative Dramatics Demonstrating Value at Academic Libraries .....1:00 - 1:50 pm The Next Generation of Knowledge Wednesday, April 18 in Your Storytimes ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Transliteracy in a Time-Crunched Library ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am management ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Suffering from Copyright Confusion? ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Movie Making in Three Clicks (Hands On Using Story as the Basis for Advocacy Let’s Be Honest with Robie H. Harris ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Lab IX; registration required) ...... 12:00 - 1:20 pm and Persuasion ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Social Media 101 ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Bites with LIRT ...... 12:00 - 1:50 pm AnyThink: Designing Customer-Centric Thursday, April 19 Easing Library Staff into New Technologies ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Libraries ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Open Data Policies in the U.S. - An Overview .10:00 - 10:50 am Research4Life: Inquiry-Based Learning Change Your Library’s Image Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am in the Library ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm through Marketing ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Books with Heart ...... 2:00 - 2:50 pm Rolling Reference Out to New Incorporating and Assessing Information Literacy in an Academic Setting ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Friday, April 20 University Students...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm TTRAC: Texas Teens Reading Advisory 2012 Ready, Set, Leap: Innovative Problem Solving ...2:00 - 3:50 pm Safe Space Kit 101: Guide to Being an Ally Strategic Planning: A How-to Guide ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm to LGBT Youth ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Summer Reading Program ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Using Picture Books to Teach the TEKS...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Success Stories: The Value of Your Support LIBRARY FACILITIES Relevant: The Learner Centered Community in Hard Economic Times...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Tuesday, April 17 School Library ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Leader? ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm Think, Create, Share and Grow: Setting the Stage for Digital Decisions: Replace, Blend, ALA Presidential Initiatives for 2012-2013 ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Collaborative Inquiry ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm or Enhance? ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Legal Responsibilities for Library Friends Using Graphic Design to Improve Your Library ...2:00 - 3:20 pm and Foundations ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Friday, April 20 Retooling Reference for Relevant Service ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Introducing the Spirit of Texas Wednesday, April 18 ROI Measures at Your Library...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Reading Programs...... 8:00 - 8:50 am Retooling Reference for Relevant Service ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Using Social Media to Improve Workflow Web-Scale Discovery: Post Implementation ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Thursday, April 19 at Academic Libraries ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Finding the Best Fit in a Mentoring Program .....9:00 - 9:50 am Responding and Recovering: Continuing Core Thursday, April 19 Services When Disaster Strikes ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Create Mentoring Programs that Produce Positive Results ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Revolutionary Trends: Genre-fying the Managing Multiple School Libraries ...... 9:00 - 9:50 am Embedded Academic Librarianship...... 10:00 - 11:20 am School Library ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am 2012 Private School Librarians’ Progressive Libraries and the Future of Transliteracy ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Designing the Digital Branch - Dinner (Ticket required) ...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm It’s Everyone’s Job ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Friday, April 20 LITERACY (ADULT AND FAMILY) eReader Technology: A Hands-On Approach The Real Nuts and Bolts of Library Security ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Wednesday, April 18 to Using It For Your Library ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Opening Author Session Luncheon Sponsored Consultants Reports and How to Interpret ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am LIBRARY INSTRUCTION, INFORMATION LITERACY by LiFTA (Ticket required) ...... 12:00 - 1:50 pm Revolutionary Leadership in Changing Times....8:00 - 9:50 am & TRAINING Meet Me in the Kitchen: Cooking Up Managing Multiple School Libraries ...... 9:00 - 9:50 am Tuesday, April 17 Language Development ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm 21st Century Librarian ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am emerging Technologies Thursday, April 19 negotiating with Academic Administrators ...10:00 - 10:50 am (Online registration only) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Black Caucus Round Table Author Session Customer Service on the Front Line ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Online Legal Reference for Non-Law Breakfast: The Image and the Word ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Microsoft Office Unleashed (Hands On Librarians (Ticket required) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Text4Baby: New Beginnings Start Lab VIII; registration required) ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Worth Watching: Assessment Video Tutorials with Words ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am State Library: Present and Future ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am in Academic Libraries 1:00 - 1:50 pm ...... How Can I Get A SLAC for My Innovative Technology Applications for School Library? ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am Reference & Instruction: Lightning Talks ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm
18 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 Easing Library Staff into New Technologies ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Make Your Library FutureReady ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm My First Librarian Position: Lessons Learned for a Great Career ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Unable to read your Evaluating Quality of OpenURLs Through Analytics ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm local newspaper or Leading at All Levels ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm favorite magazine? Public Access Technology in Libraries: A National Initiative ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm CanÕ t browse job ads Friday, April 20 or find listings of your The Real Nuts and Bolts of Library Security ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am favorite TV show? Finding the Best Fit in a Mentoring Program .....9:00 - 9:50 am Library Consortia: Ideas for Sharing Resources ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am NFB-NEWSLINE Privatization of Public Libraries: How It Works and What You Can Do...... 10:00 - 11:20 am lets you hear that Revision, Reshape, Refine: The Opportunity of Tough Times ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am information over the Avoiding Inadvertent Insults: Cross-Cultural Communications with Library telephone Ð- FREE. Customers ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am TEA Update ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am Stop by Booth #2143 to listen to a demo. Using Wikispaces to Share Reference and Circulation Statistics ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am Leave a business card to enter a drawing for an MARKETING, PR, & ADVOCACY
Tuesday, April 17 Amazon KINDLE FIRE! Gotta Gadget Workshops and Training...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Museums: Tips for Public Relations, Marketing, and the User Experience ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Unable to read your Speed Dating with Texas Bluebonnets browse job ads or find (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 - 5:00 pm NFB-NEWSLINE Using Graphic Design to Improve 866-504-7300 Your Library ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm NFB-NEWSLINE Attracting New Library Users with www.nfbnewsline.org Geocaching ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm lets you hear that Bootstrap User Experience (UX) ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm What AASL Can Do For You ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm information over the Wednesday, April 18 Extreme Makeover: Digital Edition telephone Ð - FREE. (Net Fair I) ...... 10:15 - 10:50 am Relevant: Making Yourself Science and Math Through Literature INDISPENSABLE ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Award-winning picture books that integrate Science, Be an Effective Library Advocate: Working with Your State Legislators ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Math, and Geography . . . plus interactive eBook Opening Author Session Luncheon technology with Spanish language program Sponsored by LiFTA (Ticket required) ...... 12:00 - 1:50 pm Using Story as the Basis for Advocacy and Persuasion ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm AnyThink: Designing Customer-Centric Libraries ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Change Your Library’s Image through Marketing ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Draw Me a Story ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Success Stories: The Value of Your Support Community in Hard Economic Times...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Young Adult Round Table Reading Lists Booktalks ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Bypass the Boring! Revolutionize Your Library Communications ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Free Analytics to Track Your Online Traffic (Hands On Lab V; registration required) ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Restructuring the School Library ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Thursday, April 19 School Library Volunteers and Aides: Partners for Success ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am Strategic Collaboration to Expand the Buy all 70 Hardcover titles and enjoy the eBook Site Library’s Impact ...... 9:00 - 9:50 am License for FREE for 1-yr from Sylvan Dell How Can I Get A SLAC for My School Library? ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am eBooks feature Auto-Read, Auto-Flip, and selectable Corporate Philanthropy: Giving to the English and Spanish text and audio. Greater Good ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm ** Visit us at Booth #1222 ** Lighting A Fire In Your Library’s Friends Group...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 19 Low Cost Marketing of Reference Services Publishers Dish the Latest Buzz in TTRAC: Texas Teens Reading Advisory 2012 for Business ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Books for Adults ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Summer Reading Program ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Rolling Reference Out to New Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Books with Heart ...... 2:00 - 2:50 pm University Students...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Lariat List Adult Fiction Author Session Tayshas High School Reading List & Authors ....2:00 - 3:20 pm Making Libraries Relevant to the Hispanic Luncheon (Ticket required) ...... 12:00 - 1:50 pm Texas 2x2 Reading List Showcase ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Community Today! ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Gaming Design with Youth (Hands On Texas Reading Club Showcase ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Relevant: The Learner Centered Lab X; registration required) ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Undead: Never Unread ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm School Library ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Working with Your Local Bookstore ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Friday, April 20 Tips and Techniques for Engaging Friday, April 20 Customers ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm How to Set up a Virtual Author Program ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am After a natural Adult Multicultural Mystery Writers ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Working with Your Local Bookstore ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Introducing the Spirit of Texas South Asian Authors in Houston ...... 8:30 - 9:50 am Tapping Local Power: Leadership in Reading Programs...... 8:00 - 8:50 am Small and Rural Libraries ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm How to Do An Author Program - Pros Literacy Leapers: A Special Needs disaster strikes, within the Publishing Industry ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Black Caucus Round Table Reception ...... 6:00 - 8:00 pm Reading Program ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am PROGRAMMING FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH The Softwire in Adolescent Cyberspace: Friday, April 20 How Computer Gaming is Encouraging Managing Your Library’s Online Reputation...... 9:00 - 9:50 am Tuesday, April 17 Kids to Read...... 9:00 - 9:50 am getting back Privatization of Public Libraries: How It Using the Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox, & Kinect The World of Children’s Apps ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Works and What You Can Do...... 10:00 - 11:20 am (Online registration only) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm How to Do An Author Program - Pros How to Do An Author Program - Pros QR Codes: Smart Applicability for Your Library within the Publishing Industry ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am to normal may within the Publishing Industry ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am (Hands On Lab I; registration required) ...... 12:00 - 1:20 pm Kids Need to Read Program: Funding Learning From Elmo, Blue, and Dora: ORGANIzATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS Opportunity ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Applying the Science of Children’s Safe Space Kit 101: Guide to Being Tuesday, April 17 Educational Television ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm an Ally to LGBT Youth ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am seem impossible. Developing a Large-Scale Digital Archives ReadKiddoRead (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 - 4:00 pm through a Library Consortium...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Fractured Fairy Tales with Willy Claflin and READING DEVELOPMENT (CHILDREN) Joint Libraries: Models that Work ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Maynard the Moose (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 - 4:30 pm Tuesday, April 17 BEYOND WORDS SCHOOL LIBRARY RELIEF FUND What AASL Can Do For You ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Speed Dating with Texas Bluebonnets ReadKiddoRead (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 - 4:00 pm Wednesday, April 18 (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 - 5:00 pm Fractured Fairy Tales with Willy Claflin and If You Give a Kid a Book 4:00 - 4:50 pm Be an Effective Library Advocate: ...... Maynard the Moose (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 - 4:30 pm Working With Your State Legislators ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Reel Read: From Movie to Book Programs Wednesday, April 18 for Tweens & Teens ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Collaborating in Tough Times: Learning4Life: Advocacy through Responding to State Cuts ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Wednesday, April 18 Coteaching Deep Comprehension ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Creating Alliances with the Overlapping Thrill Masters: Adventure Books for Kids ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Book Buzz: Highlights from Publishers’ Fields of IT and Librarianship ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Toddlers, Touch Technology, and 2012 Offerings for Children ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Thursday, April 19 Family Learning ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Every Child Ready to Read Updated ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Corporate Philanthropy: Giving to the Using Creative Nonfiction to Inspire Staying Power: A Look at Classic Greater Good ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Children’s Programming ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Children’s Books ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Digitizing Historic Newspapers: Write, Rewrite, Repeat: Authors on the Meet Me in the Kitchen: Cooking up What We’ve Learned ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Writing Process ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Language Development ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Working with Your Local Bookstore ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Connecting Teens and Authors: Teen Book Graphic Novels for Elementary Children ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Festivals and Awesome Author Visits ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Thursday, April 19 Friday, April 20 Every Child Ready to Read Updated ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Apply for a Beyond Words Grant: Revolutionary: 2012 End of the World? ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am Library Consortia: Ideas for Augmented Reality in the K-12 Setting www.ala.org/aasl/disasterrelief Sharing Resources ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am (Hands On Lab V; registration required) ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Using Picture Books to Teach the TEKS...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Let’s Be Honest with Robie H. Harris ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Books, Boys, and Boxing: Motivating OUTREACH Minority Males to Read ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Draw Me a Story ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Tuesday, April 17 Friday, April 20 Attracting New Library Users with Geocaching ..2:00 - 3:50 pm Meet Me in the Kitchen: Cooking up Language Development ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Literacy Leapers: A Special Needs Wednesday, April 18 Young Adult Round Table Readling Lists Reading Program ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Academic Leadership: Lessons in a Booktalks ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm The Softwire in Adolescent Cyberspace: How Computer Climate of Social Transformation ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Restructuring the School Library ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Gaming is Encouraging Kids to Read ...... 9:00 - 9:50 am Libros en Español for Young Adults: Thursday, April 19 The World of Children’s Apps ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Where are You? ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Calling All Guys / Books for Revolutionary: 2012 End of the World? ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am N-B-Tween Boys ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Thursday, April 19 Library programing with Apps (Hands On Surviving the Public: With the Help of Lab VII; registration required) ...... 8:00 - 9:20 pm REFERENCE & READERS ADVISORY Unshelved...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List Tuesday, April 17 Corporate Philanthropy: Giving to the and Authors ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Greater Good ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Help! My Customer Wants Their Family Black Caucus Round Table Author Session History (Ticket required) ...... 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Lighting A Fire in Your Library’s Friends Group ..1:00 - 1:50 pm Breakfast: The Image and the Word ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Online Legal Reference for Non-Law Librarians Rolling Reference Out to New The Texas Story: From Historical Research (Ticket required) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm University Students...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm to Narrative ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Census Website: Countless Research Tapping Local Power: Leadership in Young Adult Round Table Presents -- Opportunities (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 - 4:00 pm Small and Rural Libraries ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Author Sessions ...... 8:00 am - 4:00 pm If You Give a Kid a Book ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm PROGRAMMING FOR ADULTS Here There Be Dragons! ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Lone Star Reading List and Authors ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Wednesday, April 18 Tuesday, April 17 Connecting Books and People: Virtual Stories Alive! Using Creative Dramatics Attracting New Library Users Readers Advisory ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm in Your Storytimes ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am with Geocaching ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm The Next Generation of Knowledge middle School matters ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am management ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Wednesday, April 18 Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session Virtual Reference for Public Libraries African American Pioneers of Horror Luncheon (Ticket required) ...... 12:00 - 1:50 pm (Net Fair I) ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm and Science Fiction ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Research4Life: Inquiry-Based Learning Retooling Reference for Relevant Service ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Next Generation Genealogy ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm in the Library ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Thursday, April 19 Right now: new YA Literature to Thursday, April 19 Latino Literature: Then and now ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am entice Readers...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Library School Reference Courses: Still Relevant? ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am
20 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 American Association of School Librarians | 50 E Huron, Chicago, IL 60611 | 1-800-545-2433, ext 4382 | www.ala.org/aasl After a natural disaster strikes, getting back to normal may seem impossible.
BEYOND WORDS SCHOOL LIBRARY RELIEF FUND
Since 2006, the American Association of School
Librarians, with funding from the Dollar General Foundation, has given more than $800,000 in
grants to over 90 school libraries across the
country affected by natural disasters. We’ve also created a website with tools to help with other
areas of the recovery process.
Apply for a Beyond Words Grant: www.ala.org/aasl/disasterrelief
American Association of School Librarians | 50 E Huron, Chicago, IL 60611 | 1-800-545-2433, ext 4382 | www.ala.org/aasl Surviving the Public: With the Help STUDENT RESEARCH Technology and Libraries: An Unconference of Unshelved ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Tuesday, April 17 (Ticket required) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Demographic Information: 2010 Census Learn to Use Your Smart Phone Worth Watching: Assessment Video and Beyond 10:00 - 11:50 am and the TLA App 1:00 - 5:00 pm ...... Tutorials in Academic Libraries ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm ...... Low Cost Marketing of Reference Services Shaping Web Services: Drupal Census Website: Countless Research for Business 1:00 - 1:50 pm and Mobile Apps 4:00 - 4:50 pm ...... Opportunities (Ticket required) ...... 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ...... Tips and Techniques for Engaging Customers ...2:00 - 3:20 pm Thursday, April 19 Wednesday, April 18 Books, Boys, and Boxing: Motivating Minority Extreme Makeover: Digital Edition Demographic Information: 2010 Census males to Read ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm (Net Fair I) 10:15 - 10:50 am and Beyond ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am ...... Evening with the Authors (ticket required) ...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm The World of Apps (Hands On Lab III; International Baccalaureate Diploma registration required) 10:15 - 11:35 am FRIDAY, APRIL 20 Program and the School Library ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm ...... Virtual Tornado Rescue: A Library Exhibit Library Support Staff Certification: Changing Research4Life: Inquiry-Based Learning and Simulation (Net Fair I) 11:00 - 11:50 am the Profession, Changing Your Life ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am in the Library ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm ...... Business Reference: Using LinkedIn Free Business Resources (Net Fair I) ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm and Other Social Media Tools ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am TEACHER/FACULTY - LIBRARY COLLABORATION 50 Apps / 50 Minutes (Net Fair I) ...... 2:00 - 2:50 pm Calling All Guys / Books for Tuesday, April 17 Augmented Reality in the K-12 Setting N-B-Tween Boys ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Libraries and End of Course Exams: (Hands On Lab V; registration required) ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Using Wikispaces to Share Reference What You Need to Know ...... 2:00 - 2:50 pm Lights, Camera, We’re in Action ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm and Circulation Statistics ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am Reel Read: From Movie to Book Programs Creating Alliances with the Overlapping Fields of IT and Librarianship ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm SOCIAL MEDIA for Tweens & Teens ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Wednesday, April 18 Wednesday, April 18 Thursday, April 19 Library programing with Apps (Hands On Social Tagging and its effect Learning4Life: Advocacy through Coteaching Lab VII; registration required) 8:00 - 9:20 am on the Catalog ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Deep Comprehension ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am ...... Creating Library Widgets (Net Fair II) 10:00 - 10:50 am Connecting Books and People: Virtual Jumping the Hurdles of Librarian-Teacher ...... Readers Advisory ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Collaboration ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Microsoft Office Unleashed (Hands On Lab VIII; registration required) 10:00 - 11:20 am Lights, Camera, We’re in Action ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Lights, Camera, We’re in Action ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm ...... Revolutionizing the Library 10:00 - 11:20 am Social Media 101 ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Creating Alliances with the Overlapping ...... Fields of IT and Librarianship ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm Migrating Automation Systems: Lessons Using the Web to Build a Personal Learning from the Trenches (Net Fair II) 11:00 - 11:50 am Network for School Librarians ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Write Now: Interpreting Literature via ...... Online Book Clubs ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm Movie Making in Three Clicks (Hands On Virtual Reference for Public Libraries Lab IX; registration required) 12:00 - 1:20 pm (Net Fair I) ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm Bypass the Boring! Revolutionize Your ...... Library Communications ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Battle of the Open Source ILS: Koha v. Write Now: Interpreting Literature via Evergreen (Net Fair II) 1:00 - 1:50 pm Online Book Clubs ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm Restructuring the School Library ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm ...... T4: Top Texas Technology Trends (Net Fair II) 2:00 - 2:50 pm Free Analytics to Track Your Online Traffic Thursday, April 19 ..... (Hands On Lab VI; registration required) ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Managing Multiple School Libraries ...... 9:00 - 9:50 am Gaming Design with Youth (Hands On Lab X; registration required) ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Using Social Media to Improve Workflow Strategic Collaboration to Expand at Academic Libraries ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm the Library’s Impact ...... 9:00 - 9:50 am Public Access Technology in Libraries: A National Initiative ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm meeting Users at Their Point of need ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Thursday, April 19 NetTrekker (Net Fair II)...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm Google Tips and Tricks for School Library Revolutionizing the Library ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Instruction ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am International Baccalaureate Diploma Friday, April 20 meeting Users at Their Point of need ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Program and the School Library ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Contemporary Collecting: Is Your Archives Keeping up with the Latest Trends? 10:00 - 11:20 am Revolutionizing the Library ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am When Libraries and Classes Collide: Building ...... Transliteracy in a Time-Crunched Library ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Relevant Instructional Partnerships ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm TECHNOLOGY APPLIED Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am 2012 Private School Librarians’ Progressive Dinner (Ticket required) ...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm Tuesday, April 17 Friday, April 20 Drupal 101 (Ticket purchase required) ..... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Friday, April 20 Managing Your Library’s Online Reputation...... 9:00 - 9:50 am emerging Technologies Navigating Antarctica with Social Media Navigating Antarctica with Social Media (Online registration only) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and Collaboration ...... 9:00 - 9:50 am and Collaboration ...... 9:00 - 9:50 am Online Legal Reference for Non-Law Librarians Embedded Academic Librarianship...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Business Reference: Using LinkedIn (Ticket required) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and Other Social Media Tools ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am TECHNICAL SERVICES Technology and Libraries: An Unconference Wednesday, April 18 (Ticket required) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm SPECIAL POPULATIONS / DIVERSITY Using the Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox, & Social Tagging and its effect Wednesday, April 18 Kinect (Online registration only) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm on the Catalog ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Toddlers, Touch Technology, and QR Codes: Smart Applicability for Your Library Metadata for 2012 and Beyond ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm Family Learning ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am (Hands On Lab I; registration required) ...... 12:00 - 1:20 pm Using Social Media to Improve Workflow Libros en Espanol for Young Adults: Learn to Use Your Smart Phone at Academic Libraries ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Where are You? ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm and the TLA App ...... 1:00 - 5:00 pm Archiving and Preserving LGBT Materials ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Thursday, April 19 eReaders and eBooks (Hands On Lab II; Thursday, April 19 Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA): registration required) ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Benefits and Pitfalls ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Latino Literature: Then and now ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Innovative Technology Applications for Battle of the Open Source ILS: Koha v. Reference & Instruction: Lightning Talks ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Text4Baby: New Beginnings Evergreen (Net Fair II) ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Start With Words ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Shaping Web Services: Drupal and Implementing Patron Driven Acquisitions Mobile Apps ...... 4:00 - 4:50 pm Colorful Crimes: Diverse Characters (PDA): What to Expect? ...... 2:00 - 3:50 pm in Mysteries ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Wednesday, April 18 Making Libraries Relevant to the Hispanic Friday, April 20 Extreme Makeover: Digitial Edition Community Today! ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Librarian and Vendor Relations: (Net Fair I) ...... 10:15 - 10:50 am Friday, April 20 Exploring Best Practices ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Libraries of the Future: The Library and the Global Information Society Literacy Leapers: A Special Needs TECHNOLOGY are a Perfect match ...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Reading Program ...... 8:00 - 9:50 am Tuesday, April 17 The World of Apps (Hands On Lab III; Avoiding Inadvertent Insults: Cross-Cultural Drupal 101 (Ticket purchase required) ..... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm registration required) ...... 10:15 - 11:35 am Communications with Library emerging Technologies Customers 10:00 - 11:50 am Google Tooling Your Way to Organization...... 10:15 - 11:50 am ...... (Online registration only) ...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Safe Space Kit 101: Guide to Being Toddlers, Touch Technology, and an Ally to LGBT Youth ...... 10:00 - 11:50 am Family Learning ...... 10:15 - 11:50 am 22 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 Virtual Tornado Rescue: A Library Exhibit w and Simulation (Net Fair I) ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am E-Readers and E-Books (Hands On Lab IV; registration required) ...... 12:00 - 1:20 pm Connecting Books and People: Virtual Readers Advisory ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Free Business Resources (Net Fair I) ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm The Next Generation of Knowledge management ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm 50 Apps / 50 Minutes (Net Fair I) ...... 2:00 - 2:50 pm Augmented Reality in the K-12 Setting (Hands On Lab V; registration required) ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Creating Computer Games for Instruction ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Virtual Reference for Public Libraries Complimentary Design (Net Fair I) ...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm Thursday, April 19 Large Collection of Quality Furniture A Web-based Map Interface Catalog Search Tool for a Library Regional Collection ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am From Selection to Installation Designing the Digital Branch - It’s Everyone’s Job ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Classrooms Laboratories eReader Technology: A Hands-On Approach Libraries O ces Cafeterias to Using It For Your Library ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Library programing with Apps (Hands On Stadiums Auditoriums Lab VII; registration required) ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Google Tips and Tricks for School Library Engage. Encourage. Inspire. Instruction ...... 8:00 - 9:20 am Fill Your Rooms with More than Furniture Creating Library Widgets (Net Fair II) ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Text4Baby: New Beginnings Start with Words ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am Visit us at Booth #1914 Microsoft Office Unleashed (Hands On TLA 2012 Annual Conference Lab VIII; registration required) ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Transliteracy in a Time-Crunched Library ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Contact us today! Migrating Automation Systems: Lessons from the Trenches (Net Fair II) ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am 1.800.344.2821 Movie Making in Three Clicks (Hands On Lab IX; registration required) ...... 12:00 - 1:20 pm www.abargasco.com Easing Library Staff into New Technologies ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm T4: Top Texas Technology Trends (Net Fair II) .....2:00 - 2:50 pm Evaluating Quality of OpenURLs Through Analytics ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Gaming Design with Youth (Hands On Lab X; registration required) ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm Navigating Privacy, Policy, and Service Issues in the Digital Age ...... 2:00 - 3:20 pm NetTrekker (Net Fair II)...... 3:00 - 3:50 pm 2012 Private School Librarians’ Progressive Dinner (Ticket required) ...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm Friday, April 20 How to Set up a Virtual Author Program ...... 8:00 - 8:50 am Grant Writing in the Information Age ...... 10:00 - 10:50 am The World of Children’s Apps ...... 10:00 - 11:20 am Using Wikispaces to Share Reference and Circulation Statistics ...... 11:00 - 11:50 am TEEN TALK Wednesday, April 18 Connecting Teens and Authors: Teen Book Festivals and Awesome Author Visits ...... 1:00 - 1:50 pm Friday, April 20 New Books for Teens and Some Tweens Too! ....8:00 - 9:20 am
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 23 exhibiting CoMPanies As of 12/10/2011 3M Library Systems Bellwether Learning Central Texas Library System, Inc. 720 Design Bellwether Media CERF - Curriculum Education Benchmark Books Resource Finder a. Bargas & Associates, LLC Bernadette Nason - Storyteller Chafie Press, LLC A+ Images, Inc Biblionix Changeable Sign Systems ABC-CLIO Big Cozy Books Charles Scribner’s Sons abdo digital Bilingual Storyteller, Sue Young Charlesbridge ABDO Publishing Company Billingual Storyteller, Consuelo Chelsea House Abrams Books for Young Readers/ Samarripa Cherry Lake Publishing Amulet Books Black Rabbit Books Children’s Plus, Inc. Accelerated Reader Bloomsbury/Walker Books for Young Children’s Press/Franklin Watts Albert Whitman & Company Readers Child’s Play Alexandria by Companion Corporation the Book House, Inc. The Child’s World Books Amber Way Jewelry Company Book Systems, Inc. Chrismer, Melanie, Author America Reads Spanish Book Wholesalers, Inc. Christian Large Print Amicus Books on Tape Chronicle Books Amigos Library Services Books4Schools.com Cinco Puntos Press Amy Bluemel Boopsie, Inc Clear-Vu Annick Press Bound To Stay Bound Books COI - College of Information Arte Público Press Boyds Mills Press CoLibri System North America Inc. AudioGo/BBC Audiobooks America Brainfuse ColorMarq Shelf Management ID August House Audio Bright Sky Press Systems August House Publishers, Inc. Britannica Digital Learning Combined Book Exhibit Authors Tim Tingle and Greg Rodgers Brodart Company Compass Point Books AVer Information Inc. BWI Congressional Information Service AWE Consortium, Texas A&M (Texas Camcor, Inc. Azuradisc Inc. publishers) Candlewick Press JP Cooke Company aker & Taylor/ YBP Library B Capstone Coutts Information Services Services Capstone Digital Cover One Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture Career Cruising Crabtree Publishing Company BBC Audiobooks America Carolrhoda Books The Creative Company Bearport Publishing Carolrhoda LAB Cultural Surroundings Bedrock City Comic Co. Carpets for Kids Bee Programs - Kim Lehman Cavendish Children’s Books Dan Gibson, Storyteller Darby Creek Database Management System - Questall TLA EXHIBITS, located in Halls C&D of the convention center, offer a variety of Davidson Titles, Inc. new and innovative products and services. The printed TLA Buyers Guide showcasing 2012 exhibitors will be in the spring Texas Library Journal. The online Buyers Guide is Deanan Gourmet Popcorn available year-round on the TLA website DeCee Cornish, Storyteller The conference Welcome Party on Tuesday, April 17, will be held in the Hall. Come visit DEE, Inc. with colleagues from 6:30-8:30 and preview the exhibits. Also in the Exhibit Hall this year are the Internet Room, Post Office, a café food court and coffee bar, the popular Dee’s Tees & Pink Armadillos Author’s Autograph Area, and the Placement Center. Delaney Educational Enterprises, Inc. EXHIBITS HOURS: DEMCO, Inc. Tuesday, April 17: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Accept the 2012 DEMCO Library Interiors Wednesday, April 18: 10:15 am - 4 pm Geocache Challenge! Digital Knowledge Central Information is available Thursday, April 19: 9 am - 4 pm in the Exhibit Hall. Digital Library Reserve Friday, April 20: 9 am - noon Disney-Hyperion DKC 24 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 DLB Educational Corporation HarperCollins Publishers k-12 Databases Program/Digital Dog Tacos/Powerslide Publishing LLC Heinemann-Raintree Knowledge Central Donna Ingham - Storyteller Hidell Associates Architects KAPCO Book Protection DonorsChoose.org Holiday House Kennebec Large Print DTI The Horn Book, Inc. Keystone Books & Media Dynix Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KidHaven Press BSCO Information Services Kim Lehman - Bee Educator/ e iImage Retrieval, Inc. Storyteller ediciones Lerner ILS Kingfisher Education Service Center, Region 20 Image Access Kingsley Eerdmans Books for Young Readers ImageAccess, Inc./West Texas Komatsu Architecture Egmont USA Micrograhics K’s Creations Elizabeth Ellis, Storyteller Imagine Publishing Vuthy Kuon, Author Visits Ellison INDECO Sales/Maco Manufacturing Embroideries + More Independent Publishers Group L4U Library Software Enslow Publishers, Inc. Infobase Learning Large Print Press Escue & Associates Infotopia.info Laser Made Frames Estey Ingram Content Group Learning Express LLC Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Lectorum Publications, Inc. FactCite: Lincoln eLibrary Inspirational Arts Lehman, Kim - Bee Education and Facts On File Storyteller FamilySearch JammerTime Express Lerner Publishing Group Films Media Group Jasper Chair Company LexisNexis Firefly Books, Ltd. Julian Franklin-Library Rat Libraries Unlimited/Linworth Five Star Junior Library Guild Library Bureau Folkmanis Puppets Follett Library Resources Follett Software Company Fort Worth Library Friend, Ronda - children’s author/ Celebrate the Joy of storyteller/musician/entertainer learning in your library! Gale Cengage Learning New Spring Titles from Lerner Publishing Group Gamadin Sci-Fi Adventure Book Series Gareth Stevens Publishing, Inc. Garland, Sherry, Author Garrett Book Company Gaylord Bros., Inc. The Gift Solution Graphic Universe Greenhaven Press Greenwood Press Greg Escue & Associates Greg Rodgers, Choctaw author Grolier Online Groundwood Books GSH Designs Gumdrop Books hachette Book Group Win free books! Half Price Books Visit Lerner Publishing Group in Booth #2210 Hank the Cowdog and enter to win one of several sets of our new Spring 2012 titles! HarperCollins Children’s Books
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MK994-11.indd 1 11/30/11 4:34 PM Library Design Systems Northern Micrographics Royal Seating LLC. Library Interiors - Vance Hunt & Norwood House Press RTI - Disc Repair Associates Novel Learning Series Library Interiors Of Texas SAFARI Montage Library Rat OCLC Sam Houston State University - Department of Library Science The Library Store, Inc OPALS - CERF - Media Flex Sauder LibrarySkills, Inc. Orca Book Publishers SCBWI - Texas Lincoln Library Press, Inc. OverDrive Inc. Schirmer Reference Listening Library Overlooked Books Scholastic Book Fairs, Inc. Literati ‘The Elastic Bookmark’ Librarians Gift Store - Texas Authors and Illustrators Scholastic Library Publishing Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Oxford University Press Scholastic Trade Books School Library Journal/Library Journal Lucas Miller - the “Singing Zoologist” Palo Alto College Sebco Books Lucent Books Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. The Secret Mountain Pelican Publishing Company Mackin Educational Resources Shakespeare Man Penguin Young Readers Group Macmillan - Adult Sharpe Reference The Penworthy Company Macmillan Children’s Publishing Authors Sherry Garland and Melanie Group Perma-Bound Books Chrismer Macmillan Reference USA Picture Window Books Simon & Schuster Children’s Magazine Subscription Service Pinata Books Publishing Agency Pink Armadillos SirsiDynix Magic Dude Playaway SJB Productions Magic Wagon Polaris Library Systems Sleeping Bear Press Mango Languages Power Kids Society of Children’s Book Writers Margaret Clauder Presents Mother Powerslide Publishing LLC, dba Dog and Illustrators - Texas Chapters Goose and THE Bookworm Tacos Sourcebooks, Inc. Marshall Cavendish Corporation Priddy Books Southwest Book Company Marshall Cavendish Digital Primary Source Media Spacesaver/Southwest Solutions Mason Crest Publishers Pro Forma Architecture, Inc. Group Maverick Books, Inc. ProQuest Spoken Arts McDermott, Tom - Storyteller, Author, Prufrock Press Spotlight Singer PSA-Dewberry Sterling Publishing Media Flex - OPALS - CERF Publishers Group West JD Stewart MD (Magic Dude) Midwest Tape Stone Arch Books uality Books, Inc. Milkweed Editions Q Stop Falling Productions Millbrook Press Rainbow Book Company Storybook Theatre Miller, Lucas - “Singing Zoologist” Random House Children’s Books Storyteller, Author, Singer Tom Milliken Random House Large Print Books McDermott Mitinet, Inc. Random House Library & Academic Storyteller, Consuelo Samarripa Morgan Reynolds Publishing Marketing Storyteller, Dan Gibson MyReportLinks.com Books Random House, Inc. Storyteller, Kim Lehman Readex Storytellers, Donna Ingham and National Federation of the Blind of Bernadette Nason Texas, Newsline ReadingRacers.com Sue Young, Bilingual Storyteller National Library of Medicine Recorded Books, LLC Sunflower Seeds Press NEO Region 20 ESC Sylvan Dell Publishing netTrekker Renaissance Learning New Magic Academy Rhonda Friend - children’s author Take Care of Texas The New York Times Richardson’s Distribution & Books TAMU Inc. Newbart Products Taped Editions, Inc. (TEI) Rock ‘N Learn NewsBank, Inc. Teacher Created Materials Library Rosen Publishing/Power Kids No Power? No Problem! TeachingBooks.net Rourke Publishing Group Nomad Press Tech Logic
26 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 Tejas Storytelling Association Texas Library Association sponsored *X*L exhibitors: U TESCO Industries, Inc. University of North Texas College of Texas A&M University Press TLA 2013 Fort Worth Information Texas Book Festival TLA Black Caucus Round Table University of North Texas Press Texas Center for the Book at the TLA New Members Round Table University of Texas Press Dallas Public Library TLA Reference Round Table University Products Inc. Texas Christian University Press TLA Small Community Libraries Round Unshelved Table Texas Municipal Courts Education Upstart Center TLA Supervision, Management, and Texas PTA Adminis vance Hunt Libraries Texas State Library and Archives TLA Texas Professional Association VIS Enterprises Commission for Library Sales Round Table (TPALS) Visions Technology in Education Texas Tech University Press TLA Young Adult Round Table Visual Thesaurus Texas Woman’s University - School of Library and Information Studies TLC - The Library Corporation Weigl Publishers Inc. Textbook Tracker by COMPanion Tor/Forge Books Wheeler Publishing Corp. Townsend Press Wings Press Texwood TTUP Workman Publishing Company Theatre, Storybook Twayne Publishers World Book Dramatic Learning Thinkmap Twenty-First Century Books World Book Web Thomas Klise/Crimson Multimedia Twice Upon A Time Storytellers World Book, Inc. Thorndike Press Worthington Contract Furniture Tim Tingle, Choctaw author WT.Cox Subscriptions, Inc. Yen Press
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Preregistration is required for all Kathy Schrock, KathySchrock.net. CPE#290: SBEC 3.0 TSLAC 3.0 preconferences by Friday, March 30, 2012; younG AdulT round TAblE. Census Website: Countless Research ticket purchase is required as noted. All Opportunities CPE#203: SBEC 3.0 TSLAC 3.0 (Ticket required) thursday, april 19 preconferences will be held at the Hilton 1:00 - 4:00 Pm Americas-Houston, 1600 Lamar Street Online Legal Reference for Non-Law This session will help library staff master 10am-11am 11:30am-12:30pm unless otherwise noted. Librarians (Ticket required) diverse access tools available on the Census 9:00 Am - 12:00 Pm website. Learn to assist patrons with a Participants learn to use free federal, state, variety of demographic information and Event state board for TX state library & and city legal resources, including GPO number Educator Certification Archives Commission resources, including the new American Access, Thomas, and Texas Legislature FactFinder, American Community Survey, CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Online. Special emphasis will be placed on population estimates, county patterns, bringing your library patrons to the resource poverty data, health insurance data, and and not providing legal advice. Participants 2011 economic indicators. TEXAS 2X2 should bring a laptop; wireless access will be READING NEW! available. Steve Beleu, Government Information Division, SELECTION CPE#201: SBEC 4.0 TSLAC 4.0 Oklahoma Department of Libraries. keith kelly Help! My Customers Want Their John H. Faria, El Paso Public Library; Lisa A. GovErnmEnT doCumEnTs round TAblE And Goodman, Dee J. Kelly Law Library, School of Law, librAry insTruCTion round TAblE. graves milner Family History (Ticket required) Texas Wesleyan University; Kris Helge, School halls 8:00 Am - 12:00 Pm of Law, Texas Wesleyan University; and Starr ReadKiddoRead (Ticket required) Hoffman, independent researcher. HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry, 500 mCKinnEy 1:00 - 4:00 Pm rEfErEnCE round TAblE, GovErnmEnT * This program equips frontline staff to serve doCumEnTs round TAblE, And In this information-sharing luncheon, you visit the chronicle books booth #1803 for free family history researchers. The techniques sPECiAl librAriEs division. and fellow attendees are the presenters! posters, arcs, teacher’s guides, and more! covered will help non-special collections Technology and Libraries: Join your colleagues *while supplies last in revealing the librarians to conduct effective reference An Unconference (Ticket required) interviews, provide reference service, offer methods, books, 9:00 Am - 12:00 Pm basic sources, and provide information authors, and tricks about the library’s relevant collections for Make the most of your colleagues’ you use to get chroniclebooks.com/educators genealogical research. experiences and ideas. Learn new ways reluctant readers to apply technology to your workflow, reading – and Susan Kaufman, Clayton Library, Houston Public Library; Heather Kramer, Local History and services, and marketing. This forum is an enjoying it! We will Genealogy, Montgomery County Library; and opportunity to share best practices and also learn from each Elizabeth Sargent, Houston Metropolitan Research technology skill sets. An unconference is a other on how best to Lauren L. Wohl Center, Houston Public Library. facilitated, participant-driven event to center get parents involved. ArChivEs, GEnEAloGy, & loCAl hisTory round TAblE. energy and ideas around a particular theme. Lunch included. CPE#205: SBEC 3.0 TSLAC 3.0 April Aultman Becker, Research Medical Library, Lauren L. Wohl, James Patterson’s Drupal 101 (Ticket required) MD Anderson Cancer Center; Kimberly Michelle ReadKiddoRead. Gay, John B. Coleman Library, Prairie View A&M ChildrEn’s round TAblE. 9:00 Am - 12:00 Pm University; Karen Vargas, National Network of Learn the basics of this open source content Medicine, South Central Region; and Ashlynn CPE#258: SBEC 3.5 Wicke, Neumann Library, University of Houston - management system. Find out how to use Clear Lake. Fractured Fairy Tales with Willy this popular tool to revamp your website ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Claflin and Maynard the Moose and increase online interactions with your (Ticket required) stakeholders. CPE#206: SBEC 4.0 TSLAC 4.0 1:00 - 4:30 Pm Using the PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox, Rachel Vacek, University of Houston. Willy Claflin, author of the Bluebonnet- ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. & Kinect (Online registration only) award-winning The Uglified Ducky, 9:00 Am - 12:00 Pm CPE#202: SBEC 3.0 demonstrates how storytelling and humor HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry, 500 mCKinnEy can encourage reading. He will show Emerging Technologies PlayStation 3 games are perfect for teens in (Online registration only) the library. Learn to how to use them, what 9:00 Am - 12:00 Pm games work, and how they can be used to Kathy Schrock will lead you through a tour draw teens and increase circulation. This of emerging technologies. Examine the session will be divided into three segments technological predictions and predicaments covering Nintendo Wii and DS, Xbox, and that have transformed the direction of Kinect. current instruction in the classroom and the Craig Bertuglia, Central Youth Services, Houston library. Find out what to do to get ready for Public Library. the future! ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Willy Claflin & Maynard the Moose
28 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 Meet Our Authors! chronicle books • Booth #1803 • TLA 2012
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2011 TEXAS 2X2 READING NEW! SELECTION keith kelly graves milner halls
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attendees how to create their own fractured Cameron, Prosper ISD; Maureen Sullivan, Maureen CPE#260: SBEC 4.0 TSLAC 4.0 fairy tales, whether for themselves or with Sullivan Associates; Ted Wanner, Continuing Education, Texas Library Association; and Jerilynn Speed Dating with Texas Bluebonnets students. A. Williams, Montgomery County Library System. (Ticket required) Willy Claflin, August House Publishers. nEw mEmbErs round TAblE And 1:00 - 5:00 Pm TAll TEXAns round TAblE. sToryTEllinG round TAblE. Find excitement for your Bluebonnet New Members Standing Tall: Links to CPE#259: SBEC 4.0 TSLAC 4.0 program! Hear an author speak about book Leadership (Online registration only) Genealogy and Local History Primer: appeal, preview the TBA new video concept, and move table to table “speed dating” with 1:00 - 4:30 Pm Databases, Websites, and Finding Aids specific Bluebonnet activities and ideas. This fast-paced presentation is a (free!) (Ticket required) Attendees will also learn programming ideas primer on leadership. New members will 1:00 - 5:00 Pm for specific titles and will acquire tips for gain an understanding of TLA’s structure, ouSTon uBLiC iBrAry C innEy H P L , 500 m K publicity, kickoff, and voting activities. the benefits Get to the root of specialized genealogy Tom Angleberger, Abrams Books. of association and local history research and materials. TEXAs bluEbonnET AwArd ProGrAm CommiTTEE, membership, and Speakers will cover research methodologies the insight of ChildrEn’s round TAblE, PubliC librAriEs and major genealogical sources, such division, And TEXAs AssoCiATion experienced leaders. as Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest, of sChool librAriAns. Representatives from genealogical websites, and archival TLA’s divisions, manuscript collection finding aids. districts, and round TLA MOBILE APP: Available on multiple mobile tables will offer Susan Kaufman, Clayton Library, Houston Public platforms, this app enables attendees with a web- Library; Heather Kramer, Local History and enabled phone or other mobile device to access opportunities for Maureen Sullivan Genealogy, Montgomery County Library; and their schedules while on the go and receive real- involvement. TLA’s Elizabeth Sargent, Houston Metropolitan Research time updates to sessions and author events. It will Leadership Institute will also be explored. Center, Houston Public Library, and representatives also offer Twitter and photo stream for conference- from FamilySearch and ProQuest. related events, exhibitor information, and show Walter Betts, Texas Christian University; Sherilyn ArChivEs, GEnEAloGy And documents. Bird, Texas Woman’s University Libraries; Stacy M. loCAl hisTory round TAblE.
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 29 schedule of events TUESDAY registration ...... 10 am - 8:30 pm demonstrations is designed to offer patrons CPE#266: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 tla store ...... 11 am - 5 pm; 6 - 9 pm assistance and information about using Museums: Tips for Public Relations, internet room...... 11 am - 5 pm downloadable collections with their favorite Marketing, and the User Experience placement center ...... 11 am - 5 pm device. This session reviews the program’s 1:00 - 1:50 Pm tpals golf outing ...... 1 pm - 5 pm components: workshops, drop in sessions, Museums have successfully navigated eBook clubs, and roving demonstrations. some of the PR challenges libraries face Dawn Reyes, City of Arlington; Krista Robisheaux, today. Find out how these sister cultural Event state board for TX state library & Information Services, Arlington Public Library; and number Educator Certification Archives Commission Cristen Williams, Woodland West Branch, Arlington institutions reach out to engage users and Public Library. build public support. CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Mary Haus, Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Katherine Salzmann, The Witliff Collections, Texas CPE#264: SBEC 1.0 State University San Marcos; and Melodie Wade, Graphic Novels: Return on Investment Houston Museum of Natural Science. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 1:00 - 1:50 Pm TLA Executive Board Meeting #1 CPE#267: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 9:00 - 11:50 Am Young adult librarian Christian Zabriskie is HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET an advocate for graphics in libraries. He will Worth Watching: Assessment Video share the amazing changes you can expect in Tutorials in Academic Libraries Reference Round Table Planning Committee your library once you add graphic novels to 1:00 - 1:50 Pm 10:00 - 11:20 Am your collection. Michigan’s business CPE#253A: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Christian Zabriskie, Queens Public Library. administration QR Codes: Smart Applicability for younG AdulT round TAblE. library created video Your Library (Hands On Lab I; CPE#262: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 tutorials to assist online registration only) Learning From Elmo, Blue, and Dora: people through the complicated 12:00 - 1:20 Pm Applying the Science of Children’s processes of business HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. Educational Television research. While QR codes can be very useful in public and 1:00 - 1:50 Pm use statistics are school libraries in offering access to reading Sally Ziph Quality children’s television programming plentiful, they lists, sharing online information, and nurtures sustained attention and motivation do not reveal if conducting scavenger hunts. Learn about in children. This session helps you students find the videos useful or effective. QR codes and how to create then. Bring understand and apply these effective features Explore the challenges and best practices your own smart phone. Seating is limited; to storytime to improve the educational of evaluating video tutorials and measuring reservations through online preregistration only. impact of literacy training and general student mastery of desired learning ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. cognitive development for young learners. outcomes, such as literacy skills. Reference Round Table Programming Jen Bigheart, Literacy Texas and Maria Cahill, Sally Ziph, Kresge Business Administration, Ross Committee School of Library and Information Studies, School of Business, University of Michigan. Texas Woman’s University. 12:00 - 1:20 Pm ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. ChildrEn’s round TAblE. Texas State Library and Archives Commission Learn to Use Your Smart Phone meeting CPE#261: SBEC 1.0 and the TLA App TSLAC 1.0 12:00 - 1:50 Pm 1:00 - 5:00 Pm Making the Best rEGiSTrATion ArEA, LEvEL 2. CPE#245: SBEC 1.0 of Delivering Bring your smart phone and learn to use the 50 Years a Wrinkle in Time Bad News TLA app to help you navigate conference. 1:00 - 1:50 Pm 1:00 - 1:50 Pm From daily schedules and author signings A Wrinkle in Time turns 50 – revisit this Giving difficult to exhibitor information and updates, classic with us and learn some new ideas for feedback to patrons TLA’s mobile app will let you have instant using it with today’s students. or staff is never Raquelle Solon and personalized access to all conference activities. A special training area will be set younG AdulT round TAblE. easy. Review six key principles to help you prepare in advance. up by the conference Registration Area. CPE#263: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Through planning and a direct, but tactful, Sandy Farmer, Houston Public Library. Gotta Gadget Workshops and Training approach, you can help the recipient feel ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 1:00 - 1:50 Pm supported and treated fairly, while lessening the stress on you. The demand for digital collections has skyrocketed over the last year. The Raquelle Solon, Crisis Prevention. Gotta Gadget series of workshops and ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE.
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TPALS - Texas Professional Association CPE#253B: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 of Library Sales Round Table Golf eReaders and eBooks (Hands On Lab II; Outing (Ticketed event) online registration only) 1:00 Pm SHoTGun STArT 2:00 - 3:20 Pm Tour 18 GoLf CourSE, 3192 fm 1960 EAST HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. HumBLE, TExAS With eBooks and eReaders rapidly replacing At Tour 18 Houston, they have print books, how are libraries dealing with painstakingly reproduced the most eReaders? Learn what you need to know to renowned holes in the history of golf. assist customers with downloading content. Susan D. Ballard Kristin Fontichiaro Imagine yourself playing the challenging Seating is limited; reservations through online traditional and holes that have determined the outcome preregistration only. emerging library of tournaments like the U.S. Open, The ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. resources, and create Masters, The Tour Championship, and a new type of library the PGA Championship. This collection CPE#274: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 environment that of incredible replicas offers one fantastic Innovative Technology Applications supports exceptional challenge after another, creating a uniquely for Reference & Instruction: student learning. memorable experience. The attention to Lightning Talks detail and unquestionable standards for Susan D. Ballard, 2:00 - 3:20 Pm beauty will make you appreciate the great American Association of Margaret Sullivan Texas librarians present practical School Librarians; Kristin golf courses from which these simulations Fontichiaro, School of Information, University of were chosen. Test your skills against the applications of mobile apps, mobile Michigan; and Margaret Sullivan, Smith System. legends and take your shot at making websites, QR codes, discovery tools, and ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. history. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, other emerging technologies in library CPE#273: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 March 30 through the preregistration process. instruction and reference. These fast-paced See page 69 for registration form. presentations offer five-minute descriptions Using Graphic Design to of projects and their results. Improve Your Library TPAls-TEXAs ProfEssionAl AssoCiATion ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE And 2:00 - 3:20 Pm of librAry sAlEs round TAblE. disTribuTEd E-lEArninG round TAblE. A design instructor explains design basics Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Task Force and the need for a unified palette for library Business Meeting CPE#265: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 facilities (physical and virtual) and media. 1:00 - 6:00 Pm Meta-active Learning: Library Instruction Techniques Made Simple Find out how design can affect customer CPE#269: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 feelings and beliefs about libraries. The 2:00 - 3:20 Pm Libraries and End of Course Exams: implementation of two library re-design Active learning is a key way to give students projects (one large and one small) will be What You Need to Know ownership over their own development illustrated. 2:00 - 2:50 Pm of knowledge. In this interactive session, Katie Ruth Buehner, Music Library, University of High school students begin transitioning participants will work in groups to learn Houston; Donna Jackson, Communications-Branding, from the TAKS test to the EOC test this about some active learning techniques DMJ Studio; and Diane M. LaFranca, Graphic Design, year. Come find out what you can do in they can easily integrate into their library Art Institute of Houston. your library to support these assessments. instruction. These techniques are designed ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Robin Gunter, Library Media Services, Richardson ISD for the novice who is unsure where to Library Friends, Trustees, and Advocates Round and Terry Roper, Literacy Team, Region 10 ESC. start with respect to making their learning Table Executive Board and Business Meeting younG AdulT round TAblE. environments more active. 2:00 - 3:20 Pm electronic Resources and Serials management Shawn Vaillancourt and Loretta Wallace, University of CPE#275: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Round Table Business Meeting Houston Libraries. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 2:00 - 2:50 Pm Attracting New Library Users with Geocaching Programming for Adults Interest Group CPE#276: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Business Meeting Think, Create, Share, and Grow: Millions of containers are hidden in 2:00 - 2:50 Pm Setting the Stage for Collaborative communities, waiting to be found by Reference Round Table Publicity/ Inquiry anyone with a GPS-enabled device. For Membership Committee 2:00 - 3:20 Pm libraries of all types, geocaching offers a 2:00 - 2:50 Pm How does your program support the AASL means to engage a community in this high- Learning4Life Initiative so that students tech treasure hunt. Attendees will be invited go through a robust, empowering learning on a geocaching adventure within the experience? Learn a three-tiered approach: convention center. refresh the role of the librarian, leverage
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 31 Eric Frierson, Scarborough-Phillips Library, St. thoughts to stimulating discussion with CPE#289: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Edward’s University; Chantele Hancock and Jennifer fellow conference attendees. Ohnstad, Adult Services, Hurst Public Library. Bootstrap User Experience (UX) ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Kimberly Michelle Gay, Reference Department, Prairie 4:00 - 4:50 Pm View A&M University; Merline Pitre, Texas Southern Want to do ethnographic research at your CPE#280: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 University; and Demetria Williams, Bellfort Early Childhood Center, Houston ISD. library but don’t have the funds or a year Developing a Large-Scale Digital ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. to do a study? Bootstrap UX offers short Archives through a Library Consortium 6 to 15 week studies, delivers great user CPE#281: SBEC 2.0 2:00 - 3:50 Pm feedback, and allows librarians to spread The West Texas Digital Archives, a Writing Thrillers for All Ages their wings as anthropological researchers. customized open source repository, 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Debra Kolah, Fondren Library, Rice University; Marcel contains historical materials including Get your LaFlamme, Department of Anthropology, and Monica images, text, and video. This program adrenaline Rivero, Rice University. highlights the elements involved in this flowing as ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. fruitful collaborative project including the you hear CPE#244: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 development of content practices, building from an an online repository, and marketing and award- If You Give a Kid a Book sustaining of the archive. A business meeting winning 4:00 - 4:50 Pm follows the program. author of Connect your youth with recreational Devhra BennettJones and Eddy Smith, Abilene Library thrillers reading. A public and a school librarian Consortium. for middle show how they collaborate and booktalk Chris Grabenstein diGiTAl librAriEs round TAblE And ArChivEs, grade kids a variety of recommended new titles for GEnEAloGy And loCAl hisTory round TAblE. and adults. Find out if Chris Grabenstein’s grades 4-12. A bibliography and featured CPE#293: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 characters are able to save themselves and titles will be available. triumph over unknown adversaries while Susan Allison, Richardson Public Library; and Nancy The Importance of the Library in enduring the most difficult situations. Future SACS Accreditation Standards Kubasek, Richardson High School, Richardson ISD. Chris Grabenstein, Chris Grabenstein’s Writing TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Workshop. CPE#292: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 A panel of two librarians and two SACS PubliC librAriEs division And ACquisiTions And liaisons – all of whom have worked closely CollECTion dEvEloPmEnT round TAblE. Reel Read: From Movie to Book with the SACS processes – will explore the Legislative Committee Meeting Programs for Tweens & Teens Pm library’s role in accreditation. Find out what 2:00 - 3:50 4:00 - 4:50 Pm you can expect for libraries and SACS . PR and Marketing Committee Meeting Want to host a literacy event for your John M. Cornwell and Sara Lowman, Rice University; 2:00 - 3:50 Pm students? Find out how to use popular Danita McAnally, Assessment and Development, Amarillo College; and Mark Hanna, Amarillo College Scholarship and Research Committee Meeting movies and book themes to build literacy Library. 2:00 - 3:50 Pm as well as curricular projects. Speakers ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Texas Association of School Librarians will cover everything from writing grant Executive Board Meeting proposals and collaborative planning to CPE#278: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 2:00 - 3:50 Pm publicity and ideas for follow-up. Joint Libraries: Models that Work Texas Media Awards Committee Meeting Lisa Cartwright, Crockett Middle School, and Hope 2:00 - 3:50 Pm 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Krum, Bowie Middle School, Irving ISD; Sherry Doran With shrinking budgets and burgeoning and Leann Weatherly, North Mesquite High School, CPE#287: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Mesquite ISD. information needs, community college 8 Tips to Safely TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns, and public libraries can partner to improve CollEGE And univErsiTy librAriEs division, spaces and resources. The session examines Manage And PubliC librAriEs division. recent research on joint libraries. Disruptive CPE#288: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Patricia Butler, retired, Lone Star College; Earl Patrons Campa, Lone Star College-Montgomery; Susan Green 4:00 - 4:50 Pm Shaping Web Services: and Claire B. Gunnels, CyFair College Branch, Harris Drupal and Mobile Apps County Public Library; Kwei-Feng Hsu, Wharton From recognizing County Junior College; and Michael Stafford, CyFair behavioral warnings 4:00 - 4:50 Pm College Branch, Harris County Public Library. to learning de- Learn to assess mobile behaviors and needs ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Raquelle Solon escalation strategies, as you develop your mobile library. The you’ll learn tips to CPE#255: SBEC 2.0 program will examine Drupal, an open help staff reduce the frequency and severity source content management system, which One Book One Conference of difficult situations. These techniques offers diverse ways to shape Web resources. 2:00 - 3:50 Pm can increase staff confidence, assist in Learn the pitfalls and benefits of this Grab a cup of coffee and a friend to share strengthening relationships with customers, evolving tool. the latest Conference Book Club selection. and aid in service recovery when relations have been damaged. Rachel Vacek, University of Houston. Read The Help by Kathryn Stockett and ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. watch the movie The Help by Dreamworks Raquelle Solon, Crisis Prevention. before the conference and lend your ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE.
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CPE#282: SBEC 1.0 YART Spirit of Texas Reading Program - Middle Overlooked Books T What AASL Can School Committee Meeting Pm U Do For You 4:00 - 4:50 Proudly Features TEXAS 4:00 - 4:50 Pm YART Spirit of Texas Reading Program - High Authors & Illustrators E AASL President- School Committee Meeting S 4:00 - 4:50 Pm To learn how to get FREE Elect Susan Ballard D discusses the YART Tayshas Committee Meeting Author / Illustrator Visits with potential impact 4:00 - 4:50 Pm Book Orders Visit us at A of AASL on school www.overlookedbooks.com Susan D. Ballard CPE#246: SBEC 1.5 Y libraries. Ballard and click on will describe how persistence of vision can 1001 Great Ideas and Diversity Fair Author Visits and Gift Store empower learners and how librarians can 4:00 - 5:30 Pm use the AASL initiative Learning4Life to Interact with colleagues as you discover new Authors and Illustrators help them implement the Standards for the ideas and innovative techniques to take back Available for Ò FreeÓ 21st Century Learner at the local level. to your workplace. In this dynamic and School Visits Susan D. Ballard, American Association of School informal session, participants move among Librarians. tabletop presentations showcasing best TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. practices in diversity, library operations, and other services representing all library types. Bylaws & Resolutions Committee Meeting I 4:00 - 4:50 Pm Refreshments and cash bar will be provided.
Children’s Round Table Sub-Committees ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Keith Graves (Author/Illustrator) meetings Texas Library Association Council I 4:00 - 4:50 Pm 5:00 – 5:50 Pm College and University Libraries Division Council is the governing body of TLA. All Business Meeting conferees are invited to attend. 4:00 - 4:50 Pm TALL Texans Recognition and Intellectual Freedom Committee Meeting Reception (Ticket required) Jason Henderson (Author) 4:00 - 4:50 Pm 5:00 – 6:30 Pm Library Instruction Round Table Business HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET. meeting 4:00 - 4:50 Pm Join with fellow TALL Texans for a little R&R…Recognition and Reception! This Second Life Community Group Meeting and annual event (which is replacing the ice Report cream social) will honor and celebrate the Jeff Crosby (Author/Illustrator) 4:00 - 4:50 Pm upcoming class as well as recipient of the Supervision, Management, and Administration Standing TALL Award. Mix and mingle Round Table Business Meeting with us before attending the All-Conference 4:00 - 4:50 Pm Welcome Party. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 30 through the preregistration Young Adult Round Table (YART) Lone Star process. See page 69 for registration form. Committee Meeting Jennifer Ziegler (Author) 4:00 - 4:50 Pm TAll TEXAns round TAblE. YART Maverick Committee Meeting 4:00 - 4:50 Pm
all-Conference Welcome Party Brian Floca (Author/Illustrator)
6:30 - 8:30 Pm • GEorGE r. Brown ConvEnTion CEnTEr, ExHiBiT HALL C & D Mark Mitchell (Author/Illustrator) Join your colleagues as you settle in for the 2012 Annual Conference. Meet up with friends Jeanette Larson (Author) and vendors, preview the Exhibit Hall, and begin four days of networking and socializing. Terry Widner (Illustrator) Light refreshments will be provided. Jessica Lee Anderson (Author) K.A. Holt (Author) While in the Hall, attendees can get started on the conference-long 2012 Geocache P.J. Hoover (Author) Challenge. Find hidden treasures as you learn about the craze that libraries and other Tom McDermott (Author/Performer) organizations are using to attract and teach people of all ages! The Geocache Challenge Alan Stacy (Illustrator) Table in the Exhibit Hall has rules and instructions (bring your own GPS units or apps). Pam Calvert (Author) The first 250 players to find all ten caches hidden in and around the convention center Don Tate (Author/Illustrator) will receive commemorative pathtags. All players who find at least seven of the ten will be Rickey Pittman (Author/Performer) entered into a prize drawing to be held on Friday morning! AND MANY MOREÉ ConfErEnCE loCAl ArrAnGEmEnTs CommiTTEE. Booth #2629 at TLA 2012
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 33 schedule of events WEDNESDAY registration 7 am - 4 pm CPE#325A: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 session aims to demystify and simplify the Bag check 9:30 am - 6 pm Extreme Makeover: Digital Editor licensing process. The speaker will cover the tla store 10 am - 5 pm (Net Fair I) basic elements of a license agreement and internet room 10 am - 5 pm the language to use and avoid. placement center 10 am - 5 pm 10:15 – 10:50 Am exhibits 10:15 am - 5 pm Does your website capture today’s audience Russlene Waukechon, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. or are you lagging behind the times? Find TEXAs sTATE librAry And ArChivEs Commission. out how you can collaborate with IT Event state board for TX state library & departments from other cities or universities CPE#307: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 number Educator Certification Archives Commission to improve your digital presence. Improve Information Visualization and the power of your PR activities with this CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Keyword Searching in Library extreme website makeover session. Instruction Billy Hoya, W. I. Dykes Library, University of 10:15 - 11:20 Am Houston. AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. Learn about “information visualization” and its relevance to library instruction and Lynda Becker Memorial CPE#329: SBEC 1.0; search behavior. Presenters will summarize Downtown Walking Tours TSLAC 1.0 a study in which three visual search formats 7:15 - 8:25 Am Academic (Keyword Matrix, Google’s Wonder Wheel, Choose from a selection of four walking Leadership: and EBSCO’s Visual Search) were tested by tours of historic architecture and points of Lessons in a 60 subjects. interest in downtown Houston, guided by Climate of Social local experts and architectural historians: Transformation Downtown Tunnel System, Downtown’s 10:15 Am – 11:20 Am Brand-New 1910 Courthouse, Towers and Janice Welburn Academic librarians Trees Architectural Tour to the Montrose area, must struggle and Discovery Green Walking Tour. with complex social questions. How do Tours begin and end at the TLA we maximize equity in higher education Registration Area in the George R. Brown opportunities for all students? When is research ready to be shared with the public? Convention Center. Email your selections to Melissa Browne Matt Conner Judy Paulson at [email protected] by March How can academic library leaders best cope 23, 2012, to let her know your walking tour with both social and local issues? Melissa Browne and Matt Conner, Instructional Services, University of California, Davis. preferences. Attendees will be notified of tour Janice Welburn, Library, Marquette University. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE And ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. assignments prior to conference. librAry insTruCTion round TAblE. ConfErEnCE loCAl ArrAnGEmEnTs CommiTTEE. CPE#306: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 CPE#324: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Leadership Development Committee Meeting Electronic Licensing for Libraries Libraries of the Future: The Library 9:00 - 4:50 Pm 10:15 - 11:20 Am and the Global Information Society Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Task Force Negotiating electronic licenses is becoming Are a Perfect Match meeting standard duty for many librarians as 10:15 - 11:20 Am collections go increasingly online. This 10:00 - 6:00 Pm The post recession economy provides us with an opportunity to rethink the library CPE#304: SBEC 0.5 so it can fulfill its new role in a rapidly developing e-society. We need a new way to General Session I 8:30 - 10:00 Am think about library space as we transition Best-selling author, television host, and library advocate Brad Meltzer has been named the from books and shelves to a more hybrid 2012 Honorary Chair of National Library Week. Meltzer is the New York Times bestselling experience with access to physical, digital, author of The Inner Circle, The Tenth Justice,and The Book of Liesamong many others. and interactive resources. His first non-fiction book, Heroes For Corinne Hill, Dallas Public Library. My Son, is a collection about inspiring ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. people ranging from Jim Henson to Rosa Parks. Well-known for his ingenuity on a CPE#308: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 surprising array of topics, Meltzer has been Relevant: Making Yourself tapped for consultation by the Department Indispensable Brad Meltzer of Homeland Security! Join him for an 10:15 - 11:20 Am engaging start to conference! How do librarians make themselves ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. indispensable in their buildings? Librarians 34 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 APRIL 18 who juggle many responsibilities share the book and offer tips for engaging readers. types of libraries as they share experiences, hows, whats, and whys of becoming an A business meeting precedes the program. conference tips, and networking ideas. We’ll essential part of their institution. Tim Green, HarperCollins Children’s Books. have pastries, coffee, and plenty of time for Renee Dyer, Weslaco East High School, Weslaco ISD; TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. Q & A. Susi Parks Grissom, Travis Vanguard and Academy, Jennifer Anderson, Technical Services, Texas A&M PRESIDENT’S Dallas ISD; and Jennifer LaBoon, Library Media CPE#311: University - Corpus Christi; Jennifer Bekker, Lewisville Services, Fort Worth ISD. SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 PROGRAM Public Library; Margaret Aby Carroll, College of younG AdulT round TAblE. Information, University of North Texas; Maribel Castro, Be an Effective Library Advocate: Coronado High School, Lubbock ISD; and Maurice G. CPE#323A: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Working with Your State Legislators Fortin, Angelo State University. nEw mEmbErs round TAblE. The World of Apps(Hands On Lab III; 10:15 - 11:50 Am online registration only) A panel of experts will explain the legislative CPE#314: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 10:15 - 11:35 Am budget process, how to communicate Learning4Life: Advocacy through effectively with legislators, and how to HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. Co-teaching Deep Comprehension mitigate funding cuts. Learn how you can Take a grand tour of many of the apps effectively share information about the vital 10:15 - 11:50 Am available today. Speakers will address role of libraries in developing workforce Explore co-teaching AASL’s Standards for technical issues affecting their use in skills and strengthening communities. A the 21st-Century Learner and reading libraries. Test drive some of the most business meeting follows the program. comprehension strategies with print and popular and useful apps for your library. electronic texts. The session reviews AASL’s Patrick Heath, City of Boerne; Susan S. Mann, Seating is limited; reservations through online Hillsboro City Library; and Representative Jose Position Statement on the School Librarian’s preregistration only. Menendez (invited). Role in Reading and demonstrates how ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. friEnds of librAriEs & ArChivEs of TEXAs And librAry reading achievement can be used to friEnds, TrusTEEs, And AdvoCATEs round TAblE. advocate for your role as a literacy leader CPE#309: SBEC 1.0 and instructional partner. CPE#313: SBEC 1.5 African American Pioneers of Kendra Duckworth, Longfellow Elementary, Alvin Horror and Science Fiction From Librarian to Archivist ISD; Rebecca S. McKee, North Garland High of the United States School, Garland ISD; Judi Moreillon, Texas Woman’s 10:15 - 11:50 Am University; and Gloria E. Voutos, John M. Tidwell 10:15 - 11:50 Am Middle School, Northwest ISD. Join David S. Ferriero as he describes his TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. journey from the director of New York Public Libraries to head of the National CPE#315: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Archives and Records Administration. He Social Tagging and Its shares how his experiences as a librarian Effect on the Catalog prepared him for this position. 10:15 - 11:50 Am David S. Ferriero, National Archives and Records Social tagging is the process by which Administration. users add natural language “tags” to library ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE And ArChivEs, materials to add information. A panel Maurice Broaddus Nalo Hopkinson GEnEAloGy And loCAl hisTory round TAblE. examines this hot topic and discusses how Creating good horror and science fiction is CPE#318: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 social tags can be incorporated in library a true art. Join a panel of African American Google Tooling Your Way catalogs. Find out how tagging relates to the authors as they discuss the unique and to Organization cataloging process. Lori R. Carson, Materials Services, Frisco Public appealing elements of these genres and share 10:15 - 11:50 Am selections. A business meeting follows the Library; and Shawne Miksa, College of Information, Attendees will walk through setting up a University of North Texas. program. Google account and determining classroom/ CATAloGinG And mETAdATA round TAblE. Maurice Broaddus, Phoenix Arts Initiatives; and Nalo library uses for many of the tools available Hopkinson, Hachette Book Group. for free from Google, including Google CPE#312: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 blACk CAuCus round TAblE. Docs, Google Calendar, Google Forms, and Suffering from Copyright Confusion? CPE#310: SBEC 1.0 Google Reader. Other Google Tools may be 10:15 - 11:50 Am addressed as time allows. Author Tim Need help determining fair use for ILL, Green and Texas Debbie VanZandt, Tuloso-Midway High School, Tuloso- the classroom, or course reserves? Join this Midway ISD. discussion on applying practical approaches Association of ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. in determining copyright applicability School Librarians and how to mitigate possible copyright Business Meeting The Inside Scoop on the TLA Experience infringement. The second half of the session 10:15 - 11:50 Am involves answering real-life copyright 10:15 - 11:50 Am Author Tim Green scenarios. Bring your questions. A business will discuss his latest New to TLA? First conference? Hear from a meeting follows the program. Tim green panel of experienced TLA members from all R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 35 David Brackus, Jefferies & Company, Inc.; Gail CPE#319: SBEC 1.5 Clement, Digital Services and Scholarly, Texas A&M University; and Lori Williamson, Main Library, Using Creative Nonfiction to Inspire BLOOD DRIVE University of Houston-Victoria. Children’s Programming In TLA’s campaign to give back to inTErlibrAry loAn & rEsourCE shArinG round TAblE. 10:15 - 11:50 Am our communities, we will be hosting CPE#317: SBEC 1.5 Educators agree that hands-on learning a blood drive at conference. The Gulf Thrill Masters: is effective. A child’s personal interaction Coast Regional Blood Center will set with materials enhances understanding of up a special area on the third level of Adventure Books a topic and is fun. Learn about turnkey for Kids programming using nonfiction science and the convention center on: 10:15 - 11:50 Am art titles you can implement immediately at Wednesday, April 18 ...... 12:30 – 5 pm Middle graders your library. Thursday, April 19 ...... 9 am – 1:30 pm devour books on Lucy Del Priore, Macmillan Children’s Publishing a wide variety of All who are able are encouraged to donate and offer hope for life to subjects. For writers, Adam Gidwitz middle-grade those in need. Additional information, readers represent a large market eager for including a sign-up sheet, will be on the their work. Five writers describe how their TLA conference website by March 15. adventure stories come to fruition.
CPE#325B: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Virtual Tornado Rescue: A Library Exhibit and Simulation (Net Fair I) Allen Kurzwell Barney Saltzberg 11:00 – 11:50 Am
Group; and Allen Kurzwell, Noel MacNeal; and Barney Want to learn about innovation in libraries Saltzberg, Workman Publishers. through virtual world librarianship? TLA’s ChildrEn’s round TAblE And Second Life Community Group built a TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. virtual exhibit, Virtual Tornado Rescue, on C. Alexander London Matt Myklusch CPE#321: SBEC 1.5 Info Island’s Community Virtual Library. Write, Rewrite, The exhibit displays 3D books, resources about preparing for a tornado disaster, Repeat: Authors information on recent tornado devastation, on the Writing and links to a virtual tornado simulation. Process Live tours can be viewed at www.youtube. 10:15 - 11:50 Am com/watch?v=eLth4c7_u4A. Writing and Valerie Hill, Ethridge Elementary School, rewriting isn’t as Lewisville ISD. Rachel Hawkins Jon and Pamela Voelkel easy as you might AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. Adam Gidwitz and C. Alexander London, Penguin think. Librarians CPE#323B: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Young Readers Group; Matt Myklusch, Simon and and authors share Schuster Children’s Publishing; Jon Voelkel and the secrets of their eReaders and eBooks (Hands On Lab Pamela Voelkel, Egmont USA; and Jacqueline West, writing successes (and Dial Books. IV; online registration only) ChildrEn’s round TAblE. a few near disasters, 12:00 - 1:20 Pm too). Speakers will HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. CPE#320: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 also offer program With eBooks and eReaders rapidly replacing Toddlers, Touch Technology, ideas on the writing process. print books, how are libraries adjusting? and Family Learning Carrie Jones Learn what you need to know to assist Rachel Hawkins, Disney- 10:15 – 11:50 Am Hyperion Books for customers with downloading content. Created at a joint public/academic library, Children; Carrie Jones, Seating is limited; reservations through online the “Toddler Tech” program allows families Bloomsbury/Walker preregistration only. to develop new technology skills together Books for Young Readers; Jillian Larkin, Random ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. in a facilitated setting. Speakers discuss House Children’s Books; how they planned, funded, collaborated, and Maggie Stiefvater, CPE#328: SBEC 1.5 and developed a multilingual, multisensory Scholastic, Inc. Texas Tea with YA Authors curriculum oriented at toddlers and (Ticketed event) preschool children using child-oriented touch technologies (e.g., iPads, SMART Jillian Larkin 12:00 - 1:20 Pm Texas Tea is a new event from YART for YA Tables, touch screen computers). younG AdulT literature enthusiasts. Authors and librarians Cristina Gonzalez, Valle Verde Campul; and round TAblE Monica Wong, Northwest Campus, El Paso will share tea, treats, and a table. Librarians Community College. will stay put as authors rotate tables. Lunch ChinEsE AmEriCAn librAriAns AssoCiATion. Maggie Stiefvater is not served at this event. Tickets must
36 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 be purchased by Friday, March 30 through CPE#356: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 W the preregistration process. See page 69 for Collaborating in Tough Times: E registration form. Responding to State Cuts D younG AdulT round TAblE. 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Kids will love . . . CPE#350: SBEC 0.5 The budget for the Texas State Library N 30% ANI MAL ANT IC S Opening Author and statewide library programs has been E cut. Collaboration can soften the blow. OFF Session Luncheon TO Partnerships can be the life line when the A ® S 30% Z Sponsored by Texas depository program ends. D LiFTA (Ticketed OFF Lana Ewell, Watauga Public Library; Suzanne Sears, A event) University of North Texas; Jennifer LaBoon, Fort Worth 12:00 - 1:50 Pm ISD; and Adam Wright, Fort Worth Library. Y HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, CollEGE And univErsiTy librAriEs division 1600 LAmAr STrEET. And PubliC librAriEs division. Attendees will be Harlan Coben CPE#346: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 intrigued by the slate Connecting Books and People: Virtual of eclectic and engaging authors. Luncheon Readers Advisory Tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 2 0 1:00 – 1:50 Pm 1 30 through the preregistration process. See page 1 69 for registration form. Current technologies allow and encourage readers to connect online to discover and A 26–book series for ages 3–8 Menu items will include: discuss new books and authors. Learn “Delightful!” —School Library Journal Mixed Seasonal Greens strategies for making your library an WINNER! 2012 and 2011 with Tomatoes, Cucumbers, engaging online “conversationalist.” The Carrot Spirals, Balsamic Teachers’ Choice Awards techniques described can be implemented Vinaigrette or Ranch Call 800-328-4929 to receive 30% OFF Dressing; Grilled Chicken for any size staff or budget. complete library–bound or paperback sets! Use Code TLJ2012 Sarah Borders, Houston Public Library; and Grace Breast Napa Valley with (Valid until 2/29/12) Apple Slaw, Chardonnay Lillevig and Linda Stevens, Harris County Public and Apple Cider Sauce; Library. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Broccolini with Honey www.kanepress.com John Green Glazed Carrots and Roasted CPE#352: SBEC 1.0 Garlic Whipped Potatoes; Distributed by Lerner Publishing Group Warm Rolls and Butter; Connecting Teens and Authors: Cheesecake with Fresh Berry Teen Book Festivals and Awesome Compote; Freshly Brewed Author Visits CPE#349: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Regular and Decaffeinated 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Demonstrating Value at Coffee; and Iced Tea. Join organizers of TeenBookCon and Academic Libraries Harlan Coben and John Tweens Read as they discuss how a 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Green, Penguin Young Readers Group; and partnership between school districts and a Discover ways to translate qualitative work Lisa Scottoline Lisa Scottoline (invited), local bookshop has reinvigorated an author into quantitative value through assessment. Macmillan Publishing. visit program. Find out how you can create, The speaker will provide practical advice and librAry friEnds, TrusTEEs, And organize, fund, and promote book festivals AdvoCATEs round TAblE. examples to help libraries articulate their and author visits in your area. value to administrators and stakeholders. CPE#351: SBEC 1.0 Cathy Berner, Blue Willow Bookshop; and Lisa Stultz, Michelle Millet, University of Texas at San Antonio. Hastings High School, Alief ISD; Margaret A. Hale and Book Buzz: Highlights from Publishers’ Julie Mulkey, Bobby Shaw Middle School, ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 2012 Offerings for Children Pasadena ISD. CPE#359: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 1:00 - 1:50 Pm TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. Digital Public Library of America Do you ever wish you could stop in each CPE#353: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 publisher’s booth long enough to get a run- 1:00 - 1:50 Pm down of the most exciting new offerings? Cross-Training Staff in Public What’s going on with the Digital Public Here’s your opportunity. Several publicists Libraries Library of America (DPLA) project? How will present highlights of their 2012 lists. 1:00 - 1:50 Pm might it influence digital collection creation Don’t miss your chance to learn about Librarians from public libraries share ways and publication in Texas libraries? Join us 2012’s must read books! in which staff cross-training initiatives were as Geneva Henry, participant in a recent Scottie Bowditch, Penguin Group; Jenny Choy, successfully implemented. Hear the best DPLA effort, describes her experience with Candlewick Press; Lucy Del Priore, Macmillan practices, which were discovered as they the project and discusses future directions. Children’s Publishing Group; Katie Halata, Egmont shaped their staff programs. Geneva Henry, Center for Digital Scholarship, Rice USA; Tracy Lemer, Random House Children’s Books; University. Zoe Luderitz, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Christine Dobson, Irving Public Library; and Katherine and Molly Thomas, HarperCollins Children’s Books. Green, Harris County Public Library. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. ChildrEn’s round TAblE. PubliC librAriEs division.
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 37 CPE#355: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 CPE#391: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 CPE#323C: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Every Child Ready to Read® Updated National Archives and Records Augmented Reality in the K-12 Setting 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Administration (NARA): Resources (Hands On Lab V; online registration only) The updated and expanded second edition for Libraries 2:00 - 3:20 Pm of Every Child Ready to Read incorporates 1:00 - 1:50 Pm HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. simple research-based practices. This NARA is the nation’s record keeper. Join What is augmented reality and how can successful initiative helps parents and other Archivist of the United States David S. it be used in the library? Learn how to do caregivers develop early literacy skills in Ferriero as he summarizes the resources a book scavenger hunt or map key areas children from birth to age five. and services applicable to librarians and of your library with augmented reality. Viki Ash, San Antonio Public Library. genealogists. Ferriero will also discuss the Seating is limited; reservations through online ChildrEn’s round TAblE And Presidential library facilities in Texas. preregistration only. PubliC librAriEs division. David S. Ferriero, National Archives and Records Jamey Osborne, La Porte ISD. Administration. CPE#325C: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE And ArChivEs, Free Business Resources GEnEAloGy And loCAl hisTory round TAblE. CPE#367: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 (Net Fair I) CPE#361: SBEC 1.0 Creating Computer Games 1:00 – 1:50 Pm TSLAC 1.0 for Instruction Sometimes you actually get more than you The Next 2:00 - 3:20 Pm pay for! Get links to 20+ free sites with Generation Gaming and simulation will be central business information covering marketing, to instruction in the future and key to energy, demographics, technology, and of Knowledge Management engaging learners. This program covers how more. to create computer games to enhance library 1:00 - 1:50 Pm April Kessler, Reference and Information Services, instruction at your institution. University of Texas at Austin. Knowledge Andrey V. Koptelov, Fonville Middle School, AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. management is a Toby Brown Houston ISD. key part of advanced CPE#357: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. librarianship, particularly in special libraries. Leveraging Your Skills: Rewrite that Greg Lambert and Toby Brown detail how CPE#368: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Resumé and Market Yourself you can apply knowledge management Jumping the Hurdles of Librarian- 1:00 - 1:50 Pm theories and strategies in your library to Teacher Collaboration Two career-services directors discuss ways achieve results. 2:00 - 3:20 Pm job seekers can expand their resumés to Toby Brown, Financial Services, Vinson and Elkins; Successful school librarians are viewed and Greg Lambert, King and Spalding. appeal to a broader audience of hiring as partners and peers among their ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. managers in and out of libraries. Find teachers! Win over resistors and increase out the practices to use and avoid during CPE#363: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 your school-wide effectiveness with practical, interviews. Using Story as the Basis for time-efficient, ready-to-use tools that will Tara Lagulli, School of Information; and Karen increase collaboration at all grade levels! Landolt, Natural Sciences Career Services, University Advocacy and Persuasion of Texas. 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Amber Baumann, Terry Lambert, and Erin Segreto, Morton Ranch High School, Katy ISD. sPECiAl librAriEs division And Librarians and friends must craft our library TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. rEfErEnCE round TAblE. story so that target audiences – funders and CPE#358: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 decision-makers – are engaged and persuaded CPE#388: SBEC 1.5 PRESIDENT’S Libros en Español for Young Adults: to support our institutions. Communications Let’s Be Honest with Where Are You? professor Hank Roubicek will help attendees Robie H. Harris PROGRAM discover their library story and show how the 1:00 - 1:50 Pm 2:00 - 3:20 Pm techniques of good storytelling can turn us Honesty is critical for all ages, especially as Developing a into appealing persuaders. Spanish collection revealed in books for young children. Hank Roubicek, University of Houston-Downtown. for young adults Author Robie Harris describes her works, sToryTEllinG round TAblE. is difficult but including her not impossible. CPE#325D: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 newest, Who Has What are the best 50 Apps / 50 Minutes (Net Fair I) What?. Find out why being forthright translations, original 2:00 – 2:50 Pm language sources, matters to readers Xavier Garza We’ll introduce 50 apps – some for business or somewhere-in- and writers - even if and some for fun. All platforms, including between materials? honesty precipitates Android and iPad will be discussed. Join us book challenges. Lee Merrill Byrd, Cinco Puntos Press; and xavier for a lively, fast-paced and fun presentation. Garza and Marina Tristán, Arte Público Press. Robie H. Harris, younG AdulT round TAblE. Laura Young, Research, Austin Ventures. Robie H. Harris Candlewick Press. AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE.
38 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 CPE#369: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 CPE#372: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 W Lights, Camera: We’re in Action Using the Web to Build a Personal E 2:00 - 3:20 Pm Learning Network for School Become the master of all things video. Librarians D Explore new ways to collaborate with 2:00 - 3:20 Pm N teachers and students to integrate Personal learning networks (PLNs) are E technology and curriculum into instruction practical ways to learn more about our and student projects, including book trailers profession and to grow as librarians and S and different product formats. leaders. Participants will learn how to use D Sandra Carswell, S.C. Lee Junior High School, the Web to create and grow their own Copperas Cove ISD; Sherry A. Thompson, Flower PLNs and discover a variety of tools to A Mound High School, Lewisville ISD; and Doug build an online presence to communicate Valentine, McKillop Elementary, Melissa ISD. Y with their peers. TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns, ChildrEn’s round TAblE, And TEXAs mEdiA AwArds CommiTTEE. Stacy M. Cameron, Prosper ISD. TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. CPE#370: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Next Generation Genealogy CPE#382: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 2:00 - 3:20 Pm AnyThink: Designing Join Megan Smolenyak, author and lead Customer-Centric Libraries genealogist of the hit TV show Who Do You 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Think You Are, as she reveals her experiences Designing customer-centric libraries as a family history detective. Her insights includes challenging traditional library about cases and assumptions. A new practices in librarian from genealogy research Rangeview Library will appeal to and District’s AnyThink entice all library Libraries will share groups. how they evolved. Attendees will learn Megan Smolenyak, Penguin Group. to examine conventions within community and institutional dollars. ProGrAmminG for Articulating our value in terms of our AdulTs inTErEsT their own Megan Smolenyak Stacie Ledden GrouP And ArChivEs, environments and economic contribution is essential to succeed GEnEAloGy And loCAl hisTory round TAblE. how they can challenge assumptions to keep with our stakeholders and decision-makers. their libraries relevant. This session offers key ways to reframe and CPE#371: SBEC 1.5 promote the value of libraries, which includes Stacie Ledden, AnyThink Libraries. Social Media 101 staff expertise, resources, and services. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE 2:00 - 3:20 Pm And PubliC librAriEs division. Eddy Smith, Abilene Library Consortium; and Jeff Warr, Zachry Associates. Learn the benefits of social media and why Battledecks: Prepare to Compete! children need access at a young age to learn PubliC rElATions & mArkETinG CommiTTEE. 2:00 - 3:50 Pm about privacy and other safety issues. The CPE#378: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 “Battledecks” is a popular competition at session covers the important role of schools in Creating Alliances with the teaching kids to manage their online lives. library and training conferences. Speakers will give five-minute presentations on Overlapping Fields of IT Nathan Wright, Lava Row. humorous slides, which they have never and Librarianship inTEllECTuAl frEEdom CommiTTEE, TEXAs AssoCiATion seen. A panel of judges will determine the Pm of sChool librAriAns, & younG AdulT round TAblE. 2:00 - 3:50 best presentation based on delivery, wit, Are you facing a “jurisdictional battle” CPE#360: SBEC 1.5 confidence, use of time, and use of the between librarians and information Staying Power: A Look at entire slide deck. technologists? The difference in Classic Children’s Books ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE philosophical perspectives between the two And CE ProvidErs inTErEsT GrouP. 2:00 – 3:20 Pm is sometimes blurry and can lead to friction. Learn some of the principles of working Timeless books offer stories that remain CPE#366: SBEC 2.0 with IT departments and receive tips for relevant years – even decades – after first TSLAC 2.0 successful cross-departmental collaboration. being published. This session studies the Change Your A business meeting follows the program. impact and ongoing use of several 50 year- Library’s Image old titles, including a Wrinkle in Time and Joel Battle, School of Library and Information Studies, through Marketing Texas Woman’s University; Sian Brannon, Libraries, James and the Giant Peach. 2:00 - 3:50 Pm University of North Texas; Kelly Brouillard, Lewisville Public Library; Greg Hardin, Libraries, Texas Woman’s Betty Carter, Consultant; Sally Miculek, Youth Libraries are in Services Division, Austin Public Library; Roger Sutton, University; Kris Helge, School of Law Libraries, Horn Book, Inc; and Lauren L. Wohl, Wohl2Wohl. a tough public Texas Wesleyan University; and Valerie Hill, Ethridge competition for Elementary School, Lewisville ISD. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Jeff Warr bETA lAmbdA ChAPTEr of bETA Phi mu. R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 39 CPE#375: SBEC 2.0 CPE#384: SBEC 2.0 CPE#379: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Draw Me a Story Meet Me in the Strategic 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Kitchen: Cooking Planning: A Using pictures to tell up Language How-to Guide stories is a Development 2:00 - 3:50 Pm fundamental means 2:00 - 3:50 Pm The speaker will of communication. Join in this “taste” demystify the Five seasoned of the rich language strategic planning Peter Brown illustrators share how Loretta Rudd and vocabulary process by offering they shape this employed in Linda Dobb a step-by-step look basic communication children’s literature with a central theme of at how to prepare. form into a literary food or eating. Attendees will hear about The session covers a methodology for art. Learn how hands-on experiences and gain background involving staff and other constituents in the powerful images can knowledge for providing rich, language planning process and provides a template be used to engage experiences within their classrooms and for attendees to start drafting their own reluctant readers. libraries to enhance language and vocabulary strategic plans. development. Linda Dobb, California State University. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Marc Burckhardt Donna Mohlman, Highlands Elementary School, Goose Creek CISD; and Loretta Rudd, University of Utah. CPE#380: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Success Stories: The Value of Your
CPE#377: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Support Community in Hard Economic Times Ready, Set, Leap: Innovative Problem Solving 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Panelists from public, school, and Adam Rex 2:00 - 3:50 Pm academic libraries share successes and tips Too often, librarians for mobilizing community supporters in Lincoln Peirce are risk averse. economically challenging times. Find out Librarians must how external partnerships can bolster your Peter Brown and Marc embrace innovation, Burckhardt, Little, Brown library’s goals. Books for Young Readers; change, and the unknown. Pulling Karen Ellis, Taylor Public Library; Kathy Robinson Lincoln Peirce, Adam Rex, Hillman, Central Libraries, Baylor University; Gretchen and Paul Zelinsky, best practices from McCord, Digital Information Law; Dana Rooks, HarperCollins Children’s the experiences University of Houston; and James Stewart, Stewart Books. Debbie Moss of successful Brown Consulting. ChildrEn’s round TAblE. Paul Zelinsky entrepreneurs like librAry friEnds, TrusTEEs, And AdvoCATEs round TAblE And PubliC librAriEs division. CPE#376: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Catarina Fake and Reed Hastings, the Incorporating and Assessing speaker encourages the audience to seek truly CPE#374: SBEC 1.5 Information Literacy in an innovative solutions to pressing problems. Young Adult Round Table Academic Setting Debbie Moss, Orange County Library System (FL). Reading Lists Booktalks ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 2:00 - 3:50 Pm 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Hear from your academic peers who have CPE#365: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Join in the presentation of the 2012 YARI successfully incorporated and assessed Salary Negotiation: Yes You Can! Award. Speakers share programming ideas and live booktalks on the Lone Star Middle information literacy programs with 2:00 - 3:50 Pm university support. Speakers will also address School Reading List, Maverick Graphic Find out the basics of salary negotiation assessment outcomes. Participants can Novels Reading List, and the Tayshas High from a corporate hiring manager who will discuss their own successes in this round- School Reading List. A business meeting tell you what employers consider during table session. precedes the program. this process. Learn what to ask for and how Gayla Byerly, Research and Instruction Service, to ask for it! A business meeting follows the Renee Dyer, Weslaco East High School, Weslaco ISD. University of North Texas; and Bryan A. Quinn, younG AdulT round TAblE. Research Information and Outreach, Texas Tech program at 3:00 pm. University Libraries. Mike Millard, Austin Ventures. CPE#362B: SBEC .5 TSLAC .5 CollEGE And univErsiTy librAriEs division. sPECiAl librAriEs division. R4: Finding the Best in Materials for Children and Youth Depicting Physical Disabilities (Contributed Papers I) 2:30 – 2:55 Pm Finding library materials depicting themes relating to physical impairments and characters with disabilities can be
40 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 challenging, yet youth benefit from being Oksana Zavalina, College of Information, University of W able to read about and relate to such North Texas. characters. This study looks at the available CATAloGinG And mETAdATA round TAblE. E literature that portrays disabilities such as CPE#325E: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 D visual and hearing impairments, mobility Virtual Reference for Public Libraries N issues and multiple disabilities as well as (Net Fair I) criteria for selecting materials for this area of E 3:00 – 3:50 Pm interest. S Public libraries often have different concerns Barbara Immroth, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin. and issues than academic libraries do when D ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. engaging in virtual reference. Come hear A what Houston Public Library is doing with CPE#362C: SBEC .5 TSLAC .5 chat, text, and Twitter reference services. Y The Crisis in Funding Journal Saima Kadir and Somer Newland, Houston Public Packages: Review and Analysis Library. (Contributed Papers I) AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. 3:00 – 3:25 Pm CPE#383: SBEC 1.0 Budget concerns currently faced by many Write Now: Interpreting Literature libraries threaten their ability to finance via Online Book Clubs access to electronic journal packages that 3:00 - 3:50 Pm provide key access to research materials for users. This paper reviews the history of Book clubs go digital! In this session, the move to journal packages, options for presenters will share how to implement a access, and suggestions for further research successful online book club that integrates on how academic libraries can continue to content area TEKS, technology, and provide this valuable content to users. literature. Carmen A. Escamilla, J. B. Alexander High School and Diane L. Bruxvoort, University of Florida. Christine Romanelli, United ISD. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. CPE#387: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 CPE#362D: SBEC .5 TSLAC .5 Do You Have What It Takes Library Services for Career and to Be a Leader? Technical Education and how librarians can become involved. 3:00 - 3:50 Pm (Contributed Papers I) Learn about her plans to generate action School librarians 3:30 – 3:50 Pm in the key areas of leadership, learning, are at a critical Career and technical education (CTE), literacy, and strengthening ALA’s work and turning point in the through community colleges and technical contributions internationally. profession. What are schools, is a large component of modern Maureen Sullivan, Maureen Sullivan and Associates. the skill sets needed post-secondary level education. The ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. to establish oneself importance of these preparatory programs as a leader and to CPE#386: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 is largely missed when it comes to LIS communicate the Barbara Stripling literature, and that which exists concentrates Archiving and Preserving LGBT library’s value to more on high school vocational training. Materials the school and to the community? Barbara This paper reviews the existing literature 4:00 - 4:50 Pm Stripling discusses research in this critical area. and makes recommendations for providing Houston ARCH (Houston Area Rainbow Barbara Stripling, New York City Department of library services and information literacy Collective History) supports the collection Education, and ALA Presidential Candidate. instruction in this field of post-secondary and preservation of LGBT history. Learn ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. education. how universities, libraries, community CPE#381: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Danna McCartney, ITT Technical Institute – Austin. groups, and nonprofit archives all worked Metadata for 2012 and Beyond ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. together to tell the story of Houston’s LGBT community. Learn how librarians’ 3:00 - 3:50 Pm CPE#397: SBEC 1.0 expertise in data management can support This session offers an introduction to ALA Presidential community history archives. metadata, with an overview of the major Initiatives for metadata standards used in today’s libraries. Andree Bourgeois, Houston ARCH; Brian Riedel, 2012-2013 Center for the Study of Women, Rice University; and The discussion touches on metadata issues Elizabeth Sargent, Houston Metropolitan Research 4:00 - 4:50 Pm of importance such as metadata quality, Center, Houston Public Library. shareability, and best practices in the ALA President-Elect GAy, lEsbiAn, bisEXuAl, TrAnsGEndErEd inTErEsT creation of metadata for both individual Maureen Sullivan GrouP; And ArChivEs, GEnEAloGy And items and entire collections. will describe her loCAl hisTory round TAblE. national initiatives Maureen Sullivan
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 41 CPE#345: SBEC 1.0 CPE#389: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 use both technology and books to support Barry Lyga Speaks Graphic Novels for all types of learners. 4:00 – 4:50 Pm Elementary Children Cindy Buchanan, Johnson Elementary; and Sally Rasch, Carroll Elementary, Aldine ISD. Author Barry Lyga will have you rolling in 4:00 - 4:50 Pm ChildrEn’s round TAblE. the aisles with his hilarious insights into the Did you think graphic novels were only for world of comic young adults? Guess again. Colleagues will CPE#392: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 books and graphic discuss how to select and use graphic novels Retooling Reference for novels. Lyga to support reading development for younger Relevant Service spearheaded children. 4:00 - 4:50 Pm development of Free Alma Nora Chavarria, Central Youth Services-KIDS, Comic Book Day Houston Public Library; Geoffrey Hayes, Toon Books; Learn to revitalize reference services in and is renowned as and Mary Stanton, Collection Development, Houston spite of difficult economic times. Updated an industry Public Library. technology and repurposed spaces can spokesperson. He ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. enhance delivery of quality service, even with reduced staffing. Dallas Public Library has also become a Barry Lyga CPE#385: SBEC 1.0 prolific writer since TSLAC 1.0 staff did it, and you can too! publication of his first novel, The Adventures Legal Ann Bever, Hampton-Illinois Branch; Sharon Perry- of Fan Boy and Goth Girl. Martin, Central Library; and Kraig Willis, Branch Responsibilities for Administrator, Dallas Public Library. Barry Lyga, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Library Friends ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. younG AdulT round TAblE. and Foundations CPE#394: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 CPE#364: SBEC 1.0 4:00 - 4:50 Pm ROI Measures at Your Library Book Buzz: Latest Buzz Recent changes 4:00 - 4:50 Pm in YA Literature Mary Beth Harrington in laws regarding Join Syracuse University’s Associate Provost 4:00 - 4:50 Pm nonprofit organizations have added new wrinkles Bruce Kingma as he Publishers of YA books discuss forthcoming to the world of Friends groups and addresses the hard titles and reveal some of the hot trends in foundations. Learn the responsibilities and facts of measuring the publishing industry. potential pitfalls of overseeing such support Return On Renee Dyer, Weslaco East High School, Weslaco ISD. groups. Investment (ROI) in younG AdulT round TAblE. libraries. Learn how Mary Beth Harrington, Texas Association of Nonprofit to go beyond “feel CPE#395: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Organizations. librAry friEnds, TrusTEEs, And AdvoCATEs round good” surveys and Bypass the Boring! Revolutionize TAblE, friEnds of sChool librAriEs round TAblE, And qualitative data to PubliC librAriEs division. Your Library Communications Bruce Kingma estimate the true 4:00 - 4:50 Pm CPE#390: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 value of your Want to re-energize communications with institution to your customers from an Librarians on the Move: New Jobs economist. faculty and administrators? Need a new idea for the Information Professional on how to promote your library? In this Bruce Kingma, School of Information Studies, session, find answers and more using Web 4:00 - 4:50 Pm Syracuse University (NY). tools to showcase innovative programming A panel of librarians offers an open Q&A ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. with attendees. Panelists will share how they in your library. CPE#396 SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 moved from libraries into new positions Marnie Cushing, Mesquite High School, and Colleen Duke, Seabourn Elementary School, Mesquite ISD. outside libraries. Find out what worked for To Go Credit or Non Credit: Courses TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. them. in Library Instruction Pauline Ngo Martin, The Sixth Floor Museum at 4:00 - 4:50 Pm CPE#323D: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Dealey Plaza; Beth Wagner, US EPA Region 6 Sunder Explore the benefits and challenges of Free Analytics to Track Your Online Ram Library, DSI; and Laura Young, Research, Austin library instruction models, including Ventures. Traffic(Hands On Lab VI; online for-credit, non-credit, and curriculum- sPECiAl librAriEs division And registration only) rEfErEnCE round TAblE. integrated courses. This interactive program 4:00 - 4:50 Pm reviews the major issues and concerns in CPE#393: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. the delivery of effective information literacy Do you ever wonder who is reading your Restructuring the School Library instruction. Audience perspectives are library blog, visiting your FaceBook page, 4:00 - 4:50 Pm welcome. or looking at your website? Learn to use free Explore ways school libraries can be viewed Mildred Joseph, North Forest Vocational Campus, analytics tools to track your online traffic. as essential in the minds of educators and Houston Community College, Northwest; and Frances A. May, Research and Instructional Services, Seating is limited; reservations through online administrators. The speakers will share University of North Texas. preregistration only. ideas for bridging library and classroom ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. instruction and offer creative lessons that
42 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 CPE#399: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Texas Media Awards Presentation University of North Texas PEARL W Using Social Media to Improve 6:00 - 9:00 Pm Dinner (By Invitation) E Workflow at Academic Libraries The Texas Media Awards promote excellence 6:30 – 9:00 Pm 4:00 - 4:50 Pm in student media production and its EmBASSy SuiTES HoTEL HouSTon, 1515 DALLAS STrEET. D Bring the power of social media in-house. importance in life-long learning. The The University of North Texas PEARL N Learn to use social media to better organize awards recognize the most outstanding Dinner is for the libraries participating in E and streamline workflow in your academic entries in nine media categories including the PEARL project and is by invitation only. library. photography, multimedia, videography, S CPE#Ef303: SBEC 2.0 R. Niccole Westbrook, Digital Services Department, animation, graphic design, Web designing, D University of Houston Libraries. and music composition. Students from all Storytelling Round Table A ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. over Texas receive awards and showcase their Showcase/Swap work. Y CPE#398: SBEC 1.0 7:30 - 9:30 Pm TEXAs mEdiA AwArds CommiTTEE. Who Let the Librarians Out? How HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET. Digital Content is Freeing Librarians TLA New Members Reception Join us to listen to stories or tell one of your own! Come to preview tellers who are for New Roles 6:30 - 8:30 Pm available to come to your library and to 4:00 - 4:50 Pm NMRT members will have the opportunity cheer on librarian colleagues who perform The nature to mix, mingle, and have some fun. Mentors their own tales. If you want to tell a story, of libraries as and mentees will also have a chance to meet make sure to sign up early. face to face. organizational units sToryTEllinG round TAblE. is changing. The nEw mEmbErs round TAblE. increased use of digital resources is allowing librarians to pursue new roles David Shumaker and increase their value to their organizations. Learn about embedded librarianship, what it means, why it’s important, and how it’s related to the prevalence of digital resources. President’s David Shumaker, School of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America (DC). All-Conference Party ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 8:00 - 10:30 Pm District Planning Committee Meeting HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET 4:00 - 4:50 Pm Come hang out at “Jeri’s Speakeasy” and relive the heady Friends of School Libraries of Texas Round Table Business Meeting days of flappers and Prohibition. Bring your “glad rags” – 4:00 - 4:50 Pm zoot suits, fedoras, flapper dresses, long pearls, and feather Texas Bluebonnet Award Committees Meeting boas – to contribute to the 1920’s speakeasy theme. We’ll 4:00 – 5:30 Pm indulge in signature cocktails, learn a classic Roaring 20’s District 1 Caucus: 5:00 – 5:45 Pm
District 2 Caucus: 5:00 – 5:45 Pm dance, and gamble at retro casino tables for chances to win District 3 Caucus: 5:00 – 5:45 Pm prizes at the end of the night. Pm District 5 Caucus: 5:00 – 5:45 ConfErEnCE loCAl ArrAnGEmEnTs CommiTTEE. District 6 Caucus: 5:00 – 5:45 Pm
District 8 Caucus: 5:00 – 5:45 Pm
District 9 Caucus: 5:00 – 5:45 Pm
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 43 schedule of events THURSDAY registration ...... 7 am - 4 pm CPE#447: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 internet room ...... 8 am - 5 pm A Web-based Map Interface Catalog placement center ...... 8 am - 5 pm Search Tool for a Library Regional tla store ...... 8 am - 5 pm Bag check ...... 8:30 am - 6:30 pm Collection exhibits ...... 9 am - 4 pm 8:00 – 9:20 Am A web-served geographic information system (GIS) allows users to search a collection through a catalog kiosk map interface. Point Event state board for TX state library & Veronica Roth Neal Shusterman and click popup delivery of results simplifies number Educator Certification Archives Commission searches and allows visual representation CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 CPE#421A: SBEC 1.0 of areas of interest. Learn how this tool to
Revolutionary: encourage additional exploration of regional 2012 End of the collections and visually convey the collection’s World? focus to patrons. Paige Delaney, Alpine Public Library. Hetherington XXV Fun Run/Walk 8:00 - 8:50 Am ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. (Ticketed event) 2012: It’s the end of 7:00 - 8:30 Am the world as we CPE:411; SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Dom Testa Continuing a TLA tradition, the 25th know it according to Designing the Digital Branch – annual 5K Fun Run/Walk supports the Mayan calendars. If It’s Everyone’s Job that’s true, what comes after? Join a panel of Hetherington Leadership Development 8:00 – 9:20 Am Fund. Shuttle transportation will be librarians and publishers for a survey of books set in post-apocalyptic times. Who “owns” your Digital Branch? Who provided to event from the George R. makes decisions about your library’s website? Brown Convention Center. All participants Renee Dyer, Weslaco receive a commemorative t-shirt and East High School, Weslaco ISD; Veronica refreshments. First, second, and third place Roth, HarperCollins medals or gift cards are awarded for the Children’s Books; Neal men’s run, the women’s run, and for the Shusterman, Simon walk. Check-in begins at 7:00 am. Tickets and Schuster; Dom Testa, Tor/Forge Books; must be purchased by Friday, March 30 and Robison Wells, through the preregistration process. See page 69 HarperCollins Children’s for registration form. Books. younG AdulT Robison Wells ConfErEnCE loCAl ArrAnGEmEnTs CommiTTEE. round TAblE. David Lee King Gina Millsap
District 4 Caucus: 8:00 - 8:30 Am CPE#402: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Is it: a) the techie folks, b) the marketing District 7 Caucus: 8:00 - 8:30 Am School Library Volunteers and Aides: staff, c) librarians, d) administrators, or e) all District 10 Caucus: 8:00 - 8:30 Am Partners for Success of the above. If you answer “e,” you’re right. 8:00 - 8:50 Am Developing the library’s digital presence is CPE#403: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 everyone’s job. This presentation will show This session offers strategies for working you how the Topeka and Shawnee County Revolutionary Trends: with student aides and creating a productive Public Library staff works as a team to Genre-fying the School Library working relationship and environment. provide the best digital library experiences 8:00 - 8:50 Am Learn tips for motivating and training these for our customers. School librarians are always looking for valuable partners. David Lee King and Gina Millsap (candidate for ALA Sunni Johnson, Gene Pike Middle School, Northwest ways to entice readers into the library. President), Topeka and Shawnee County Public ISD. Discover how and why arranging a fiction Library. TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. collection by genre can lead to an increase in ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. circulation and use. TPALS - Texas Professional Association for CPE:449; SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Jennifer Turney, Angleton High School, Library Sales Round Table Business Meeting eReader Technology: A Hands-On Angleton ISD. 8:00 - 8:50 Am TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. Approach to Using It for Your Library 8:00 – 9:20 Am Wondering which eReader technology in which to invest your library’s time and money? This session will bring you up to date on the latest eReaders and show you how to use these devices to checkout 44 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 APRIL 19 eBooks from public and academic libraries. CPE#405: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Committee offers Hands-on time is included for the most Google Tips and Tricks for School programming ideas popular devices such as Amazon’s Kindle Library Instruction for this year’s and Barnes and Noble’s Color Nook, as well 8:00 - 9:20 Am Maverick List, which as eReader apps for the iPad2. Discussions is designed for grades Even savvy Google users struggle to keep will also include using eReader technology 6-12. Authors up with the latest offerings. Attend this to promote your library and common featured on previous program and learn more about Google, its circulation policies for eBooks. lists will be on hand current tools, and the applicability of those to discuss their works Angela Colmenares, Sam Houston State University. tools to help you enhance your library’s ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. and the impact of services. Shannon Hale graphic novels. CPE#420A: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Diana Rosas, O’Connor High School and Garcia Middle School, Northside ISD. Orson Scott Card, Library Programming with Apps Tor/Forge Books; Shannon (Hands On Lab X; ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Hale, Bloomsbury/Walker Books for Young Readers; CPE#407: SBEC 1.5 online registration only) Ben Hatke, Macmillan 8:00 – 9:20 Am Maverick Graphic Children’s Publishing Group; and Gareth Hinds, HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. Novels Reading Candlewick Press. Today’s technology is built to be personal, List and Authors younG AdulT not universal. So, how do you use apps in 8:00 - 9:20 Am round TAblE. Gareth Hinds a public library setting? This session covers The Maverick ideas for using apps in programming and Graphic Novel provides hands-on time with useful apps. Reading List Seating is limited; reservations through online preregistration only. Osron Scott Card ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE.
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R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 45 CPE#409: SBEC 1.5 on consultants’ findings and internal CPE#415: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Author Judy assessments. Responding and Recovering: Blume and Barbara Jakubowski, IT Management, University of Continuing Core Services Children’s Round Texas at San Antonio; Jina Choi Wakimoto, Cataloging When Disaster Strikes and Metadata Services, University of Colorado Table Business Boulder; and Anping Wu, Cataloging, University of 8:00 - 9:50 Am Meeting Houston Libraries. “Right now” is not too soon to have a plan 8:00 - 9:50 Am ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. for continuing relevant core library services Join Judy Blume for CPE#413: SBEC 2.0 when disaster strikes. The program includes Judy Blume a discussion of the Latino Literature: Then and Now strategies for continuing library services; 40th anniversary of disaster planning models; resources available 8:00 - 9:50 Am the Fudge books. A business meeting precedes for emergency planning; recovery tips for the program. Learn about historical and contemporary working with first responders, vendors, and U.S. Latino literature through University other libraries; and a discussion of salvage- Judy Blume, Penguin Young Readers Group. of Houston’s Recovering the U.S. Hispanic related issues. A business meeting follows the ChildrEn’s round TAblE. Literary Heritage Project. After learning program. CPE#410: SBEC 0.5 about long gone, undiscovered Latino Michelle Malizia, National Network of Medicine, Black Caucus writers, attendees will hear readings South Central Region. Round Table by celebrated, contemporary authors disAsTEr rEliEf CommiTTEE. Gwendolyn Zepeda and Sergio Troncoso. Author Session CPE#416: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Mike Crowe, EBSCO; Nicholas Kanellos, Sergio Breakfast: The Troncoso, and Gwendolyn Zepeda, Arte Público Press. Revolutionary Leadership Image and the PRESIDENT’S ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. in Changing Times PROGRAM Word (Ticketed 8:00 - 9:50 Am event) CPE#406: SBEC 1.5 Library School Reference Courses: Join Eli Neiburger, a 8:00 - 9:50 Am 2011 Library Journal Rachel Renee Russell Still Relevant? Learn how to Mover and Shaker, as promote literature 8:00 - 9:50 Am he examines the need through the visual A panel including a library school for leaders to be media in text. Rachel administrator, reference professor, recent willing to innovate Renee Russell and graduate, and a library school board and deviate from Don Tate will discuss member discuss the current state of library traditional models of the impact of moving school reference education. They will doing business. He from traditional to examine the landscape for library use, Eli Neiburger will be joined by digital illustrations information exploration, and the changes Kimberly and the effect of Don Tate they see shaping future reference education. Herrington, who discusses the importance illustration style on A business meeting follows the program. of leadership at all levels within an writing. Breakfast tickets must be purchased by Emily Billings, Trinity River Campus, Tarrant County organization. College; Corinne Hill, Dallas Public Library; Ling Hwey Friday, March 30 through the preregistration Kimberly K. Herrington, Pearland Junior High West, Jeng, School of Library and information Studies, process. See page 69 for registration form. Pearland ISD; and Eli Neiburger, Ann Arbor District Texas Woman’s University; and Loriene Roy, School of Library (MI). Menu Items Include: Farm Fresh Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, Information, University of Texas at Austin. PubliC librAriEs division, nEw mEmbErs rEfErEnCE round TAblE Country Style Breakfast Potatoes, Homemade Biscuits round TAblE, suPErvision, mAnAGEmEnT, And served with Butter and Fruit Preserves; Freshly Squeezed CPE#414: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 AdminisTrATion round TAblE, Orange Juice; Freshly Brewed Regular and Decaffeinated And TAll TEXAns round TAblE. Coffee; and Hot Tea. Preservation 101 for Your Library CPE#417: SBEC 1.5 Rachel Renee Russell, Simon and Schuster; and Don and Archival Materials Tate, Charlesbridge Publishing Company. 8:00 - 9:50 Am Surviving the blACk CAuCus round TAblE. This beginner’s session covers the Public: With the Help of CPE#408: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 fundamentals of preservation principles: storing, handling, basic repairs, pest control, Unshelved Consultants Reports and and security. Discover creative and low-cost 8:00 - 9:50 Am How to Interpret Them strategies and tools to extend the life of the Tough customers got 8:00 - 9:50 Am materials in your institution. you down? Let Bill Many libraries hire consultants to gain an Susan Peterson, Condit Elementary School, Barnes and Gene Gene Ambaum outside perspective when evaluating key Houston ISD. Ambaum, creators of areas of operation. Join two librarians who ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE And ArChivEs, Unshelved, teach you how to stop worrying will share their experiences interpreting, GEnEAloGy And loCAl hisTory round TAblE. and learn to enjoy difficult people! They evaluating, and implementing consultant explore Dewey’s approach to customer reports. They will also discuss the process service: the customer is seldom right. Most of restructuring a department based customer service interactions can be enjoyable if you have the right frame of 46 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 CPE#425: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 mind. Or, failing Marcia Clark, Little, T that, at least you can Brown & Co./Mulholland Managing Multiple School Libraries Books; Janice Hamrick, H have the last laugh. 9:00 - 9:50 Am Macmillan Publishing/ A business meeting Minotaur Books; Victoria Are you managing multiple libraries? Will U precedes the program. Laurie, Penguin Group; you be managing multiple libraries in the R and Matthew Quirk, Little, near future? This program provides proven Gene Ambaum and Bill Brown & Co./Reagan S Barnes, Overdue Media, Arthur Books. techniques and tools from librarians who are LLC. PubliC librAriEs division. already managing multiple libraries. Learn D smAll CommuniTy helpful skills for balancing daily demands Bill Barnes librAriEs round TAblE Matthew Quirk A And PubliC librAriEs and tips for keeping your sanity! CPE#421B: SBEC 1.0 Y division. Susan Geye, Everman ISD. Guys Read CPE#418: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 younG AdulT round TAblE. 9:00 - 9:50 Am The Texas Story: From Historical CPE#480: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Research to Narrative Boys will read if they are given something Strategic Collaboration to 8:00 - 9:50 Am that interests them. Expand the Library’s Impact Two storytellers share how they transform Join male authors 9:00 - 9:50 Am Texas historical facts into engaging Texas as they discuss their Partnering with faculty and staff outside history stories. They propose models that latest “guy” books the library is an effective way to reach out you can use to create stories or entire Sean Beaudoin that will be of to potential users who may not be familiar programs based on Texas history. The interest to everyone, with library services. However, how can we program is geared for librarians serving especially the boys. persuade faculty and staff to work with us upper elementary through high school effectively? Get tips on how librarians can grades. work creatively and strategically with those Donna Ingham, tale teller and author, and Don outside the library. Sanders. Irene Ke, University of Houston Libraries. sToryTEllinG round TAblE. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Government Documents Round Table Business meeting CPE#448A: SBEC .5 TSLAC .5 John Green 8:00 - 9:50 Am Pioneering New Directions: Creating a Social Media Strategy CPE#439: SBEC 1.5 Matthew Quick (Contributed Papers II) Crime Time: 10:00 – 10:25 Am Thriller Author This session describes Texas Woman’s Panel University Libraries’ journey through 8:30 – 9:50 Am creation of a unified social media presence. Find out about TWU Libraries’ Social How do authors Media Plan, its goals and guidelines, and get their heroes and Bill Willingham learn best practices for librarians. heroines in and out of those tight Marcia Clark Sean Beaudoin, Little, Greg Hardin, Blagg-Huey Library - Reference, Brandy Klug, and Ursula Williams, Texas Woman’s University situations? What Brown Books for Young Allen Zadoff Readers; John Green, ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. thrilling yarns have they envisioned for the Penguin Young Readers Group; Matthew Quick, Little, future? Come and listen to popular thriller Brown Books for Young Readers; Bill Willingham, Tor/ CPE#435: SBEC 1.0: writers recount tales Forge Books; and Allen Zadoff, Egmont USA. TSLAC 1.0 of derring-do. younG AdulT round TAblE. 21st Century CPE#423A: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Librarian Introducing Webjunction (Net Fair II) 10:00 – 10:50 Am 9:00 – 9:50 Am What is a 21st Learn how to navigate the new statewide, century librarian? online continuing education product, What must he Webjunction. Webjunction allows all Gina Millsap or she do, think library staff in Texas access to 300+ free about, focus on, and deliver? If you got and unlimited online courses. Texas joins Victoria Laurie your MLS in the previous century or are 17 other states in building on this national still working on it, think of it as the 10 C’s: Janice Hamrick learning community. customers, convenience, communication, Lauri Mcintosh, OCLC. content-creation, continuous improvement, AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE And change, connections, currency and TEXAs sTATE librAry And ArChivEs Commission. collaboration. Millsap celebrates the library R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 47 profession and shows how we are changing enabling open access publishing, promoting to meet the needs of 21st century library archiving, and advocating for sound policies users. on a local, national, and international level. Gina Millsap, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Joseph will review the sources and goals of Library and ALA Presidential Candidate. U.S. public information access policies and ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. discuss the ways they are evolving. Heather Joseph, Scholarly Publishing and Academic CPE#423B: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Resources. Creating Library Widgets ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. (Net Fair II) Kelly Milner Halls Adam Gidwitz CPE#427: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 10:00 - 10:50 Am Brian Falkner, Random What are library widgets and how can you Text4Baby: New Beginnings House Children’s Books; create and use them to support library Start With Words Adam Gidwitz, Penguin Young Readers Group; 10:00 - 10:50 Am services? Attend this session to find out. Kelly Milner Halls, Lerner, Judith Hiott, Houston Area Library Automated Text4Baby educates pregnant moms on HarperCollins, Houghton Network. taking care of themselves and their babies Mifflin Harcourt, Running Press, Chronicle; and AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. from pre-birth to one. This program is David Lubar, Tor/Forge designed for diverse libraries and provides Books. CPE#421C: SBEC 1.0 resources and strategies to enhance family David Lubar younG AdulT Here There Be literacy initiatives and partnerships with round TAblE. Dragons! health organizations. CPE#433: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 10:00 - 10:50 Am Tina Hager; Aisling McGuckin, Office of Title V and Family Health, Texas Department of State Health Meeting Users at Their Point of Need Services; and Lisa B. Scroggins, Gilmer Memorial 10:00 - 11:20 Am Library, Rocksprings ISD. Panelists describe methods for getting ChildrEn’s round TAblE. out from behind the reference desk, both CPE#431: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Chris D’Lacey virtually and physically. Find out how to Customer Service on the Frontline embed yourself using social media, technical tools, learning management software, and Dragons abound in 10:00 - 11:20 Am fantasy literature. more. The panel will also share examples of The frontlines of customer service often Stop by to listen and best practices for collaborating with users at Blake Charlton rattle the best of us. Customers want what share as Texas their point of need. they want and voice their complaints librarians and authors talk about the role of when they don’t get it. This program offers Christina H. Gola, University of Houston Libraries; dragons in literature. Bonnie Hauser, Akins High School Library; Shawn an open dialog on strategies and policies Mauser, Ann Richards School for Young Women Chris D’Lacey, Scholastic, Inc.; Blake Charlton, Tor for best handling service issues while still Leaders; Maya McElroy, Graham Elementary Library, Books; and George Martin, Random House Children’s Austin ISD; and Helena M. Vonville, School of Public Books has been invited. delivering value and excellent customer service. A business meeting follows the Health Library, University of Texas. younG AdulT round TAblE. librAry insTruCTion round TAblE program. And disTribuTEd E-lEArninG round TAblE. CPE#429: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Sara Tebes, Central Library, Irving Public Library. CPE#420B: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Negotiating with Academic librAry suPPorT sTAff round TAblE, PubliC librAriEs Administrators division, And rEfErEnCE round TAblE. Microsoft Office Unleashed(Hands On 10:00 – 10:50 Am CPE#434: SBEC 1.5 Lab VIII; online registration only) Leadership specialist and academic librarian Lone Star Reading 10:00 - 11:20 Am Jack Siggins shares strategies for successfully List and Authors HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. achieving outcomes with university Get the latest tips and tricks to get you up to 10:00 - 11:20 Am administrators. speed with current developments in Office The Lone Star Jack Siggins, George Washington University. software. Find out how to use your PC as Middle School ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. never before. Seating is limited; reservations Reading List through online preregistration only. CPE#424: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Committee presents ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Open Data Policies in the U.S. programming ideas for this year’s Lone CPE#430: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 – An Overview Brian Falkner Star List and features 10:00 – 10:50 Am Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA): authors whose books have been included on Benefits and Pitfalls Scholarly Publishing and Academic the list, which is for grades 6-8. Resources Coalition Director Heather 10:00 - 11:20 Am Joseph works to support broadening access The use of PDA as a collection development to the results of scholarly research through tool has exploded with the increase of eBook availability, user demand, and an economic
48 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 necessity for greater efficiency. How CPE#438: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 characters and themes. Speakers will T should libraries balance PDA with other Stories Alive! Using Creative address how readers benefit from a literary H strategic collection development decisions, Dramatics in Your Storytimes panorama of unique and varied figures. assessment practices, and budgeting policies? 10:00 - 11:20 Am They will also identify some great mysteries U featuring Asian, African American, Diane L. Bruxvoort, Bring life to your story times by putting R University of Florida; Hispanic, and GLBT characters. the book down and getting kids involved Nancy J. Gibbs, Duke S University; Jeanne by telling stories with creative drama Harrell, Texas A&M techniques. Librarian-teller Toni Simmons D University; and Ellen D. and teller Jiaan Powers will teach you to Safley, University of Texas A at Dallas. enliven stories and engage listeners with Y ACquisiTions improvised “acting out” and orchestrated And CollECTion movements, actions, and rhythms. dEvEloPmEnT round Jiaan Powers, Storyteller and Toni Simmons, Cedar Nancy J. Gibbs TAblE And CollEGE And Hill Library. univErsiTy librAriEs sToryTEllinG round TAblE. division. Sharon M. Draper Dean James CPE#428: SBEC 1.5 CPE#488: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Publishers Dish the Latest Teaching Transliteracy Buzz in Books for Adults in a Time-Crunch 10:00 - 11:20 Am 10:00 - 11:20 Am This popular session brings together With the reduction (or elimination) of aide publishers and librarians at an industry hours, how can we still deliver pertinent preview of forthcoming titles. Join this instruction and meet the needs of our open and fun discussion, and don’t miss the students and larger learning community? giveaways. Want to incorporate more Web 2.0 tools Jeanette Larson Rene Saldaña Laura Antonacci, Simon and Schuster; Elenita and applications into your own instruction? Sarah Cortez, Arte Público Press; Sharon M. Draper, Chmilowski, Perseus Books Group; Melissa Glowski, Want ideas on how to weave collaborative Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing; Dean Hachette Book Group; Dominique Jenkins, Penguin applications and emerging technologies James, The Texas Medical Center Library; Jeanette Group USA; Erica Melnichok, Random House; Talia Larson, Larson Library Consulting; and Rene Saldaña, Sherer, Macmillan Publishing; Virginia Stanley, into inquiry-based projects? See how some Arte Público Press. HarperCollins Publishing; Chris Vaccari, Sterling teacher-librarians have jumped on the Publishing; and Venessa Williams, Simon and transliteracy train and are using a variety of ChildrEn’s round TAblE, GAy, lEsbiAn, bisEXuAl, Schuster. tools to deliver instruction, share resources, TrAnsGEndErEd inTErEsT GrouP, TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns, ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. and diversify their library programs. And younG AdulT round TAblE. CPE#436: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Teresa Diaz, Ellen Hagan, and Vicki Krebsbach, Northeast ISD. CPE#442: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Revolutionizing the Library ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Demographic Information: 10:00 - 11:20 Am CPE#440: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 2010 Census and Beyond Learn to use technology to market, 10:00 - 11:50 Am motivate, and integrate. Media and Wikileaks and the Age PRESIDENT’S Demographics are fundamental data sources of Transparency PROGRAM technology expert Jim Holland offers and can enhance almost any research strategies for using free and simple Web 10:00 - 11:20 Am project. Dallas Regional Census Office staff tools to update library services and increase Vocal and active interest groups are using and experienced librarians demonstrate use. social media and the Internet to monitor the availability and use of demographic Jim Holland, Instructional Technology, Arlington ISD. and report on political and financial information for research, business planning, TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. institutions. This session examines grant applications, and public presentations. the principle and application of open CPE#437: SBEC 1.5 Steve Beleu, U.S. Government Information, Oklahoma government in today’s technological and Department of Libraries; and Paula K. Wright, Dallas State Library: Present and Future political environment. Regional Office, U. S. Census Bureau. 10:00 - 11:20 Am GovErnmEnT doCumEnTs round TAblE Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum. And sPECiAl librAriEs division. State Librarian Peggy Rudd will discuss inTEllECTuAl frEEdom CommiTTEE. the impact of the 82nd Legislative Session CPE#432: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 CPE#441: SBEC 2.0 on the Texas State Library and Archives Digitizing Local History: Commission and on libraries in Texas. Colorful Partnerships and Possibilities She will present information and invite Crimes: Diverse 10:00 - 11:50 Am discussion on the agency’s next LSTA 5-year Characters in plan and her vision for the future of libraries Mysteries All history may be local, as some historians in Texas. claim, but local history is often overlooked. 10:00 - 11:50 Am Join academic and public librarians as Peggy Rudd, Texas State Library and Archives A panel highlights they discuss their experiences digitizing Commission. mysteries that local history materials during a multi-year TEXAs sTATE librAry And ArChivEs Commission. Sarah Cortez include diverse training program. Learn what worked, what
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 49 didn’t, and where you can go for help. CPE#448C: SBEC .5 TSLAC .5 CPE#423C: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 A business meeting follows the program. Library Usability: Tools for Migrating Automation Systems: Cindy Boeke, Southern Methodist University; Karen Usability Testing in the Library Lessons from the Trenches Ellis, Taylor Public Library; and Danny Gonzales, El (Contributed Papers II) (Net Fair II) Paso Public Library. 11:00 – 11:25 Am 11:00 – 11:50 Am ArChivEs, GEnEAloGy And loCAl hisTory round TAblE And diGiTAl librAriEs round TAblE. Texas Tech University Libraries’ usability Are you planning on changing your ILS initiatives over the last year have yielded system? Learn what you can do to prepare CPE#443: SBEC 2.0 insight into best practices for developing for the system migration, how to prepare Girls with Grit: Strong Female library environments that positively your staff and customers, and what to expect Characters for Elementary Readers affect user experiences through usability during the process from someone who has 10:00 - 11:50 Am testing. Reach beyond basic surveys to experienced three system migrations. identify potential ways to enhance the user experience. Jennifer Brown, Haslet Public Library AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. Melanie Clark, Esther DeLeon, Lynne Edgar, and Joy Perrin, Texas Tech University. CPE#420C: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Movie Making in Three Clicks(Hands CPE#444: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 On Lab IX; online registration only) How Can I Get a SLAC 12:00 - 1:20 Pm for My School Library? HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. Jackie Mims Hopkins Sara Pennybacker 11:00 - 11:50 Am Turn your videos, photos, and music into a great movie, complete with titles, A Student Library Advisory Committee transitions, effects, and credits in only three (SLAC) gives students an opportunity to clicks. Seating is limited; reservations through become involved in library issues, programs, online preregistration only. and discussions. Find out how to establish and grow your own corps of student ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. ambassadors! Bites with LIRT Jennifer Brabston, and Adrienne Raible, Pasadena 12:00 - 1:50 Pm Memorial High School, Pasadena ISD. Join LIRT members for a Dutch-treat lunch ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Mary Ann Rodman Maryrose Wood and a discussion of library instruction and CPE#421D: SBEC 1.0 information literacy topics. Participants Our elementary girls need to know they are should meet in front of the registration area heroines in their own life story. Three Middle School in the convention center. authors chat about their characters and their Matters future while giving examples of how these 11:00 - 11:50 Am librAry insTruCTion round TAblE. characters inspire the readers in our libraries. Meeting the reading CPE#446: SBEC 0.5 Jackie Mims Hopkins and Mary Ann Rodman, needs and wants of Lariat List Adult Fiction Author Peachtree Publishers; Sara Pennypacker and middle school aged Maryrose Wood, HarperCollins Children’s Books, readers just got a Session Luncheon (Ticketed event) Balzer + Bray. whole lot easier. Sarah Mlynowski 12:00 - 1:50 Pm ChildrEn’s round TAblE. Discover what middle HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET. CPE#448B: SBEC .5 TSLAC .5 school authors say about this age group – New Directions for Academic Video how to reach these students and why doing Game Collections: Strategies for so has a lasting impact. Acquiring, Supporting, and Managing Online Materials (Contributed Papers II) 10:30 – 10:55 Am Academic video game collection development is at a crucial point – diverse forms and genres are becoming increasingly important to Reshonda Tate Billinsley Tom Franklin instruction and curricula. This presentation charts new directions in gaming collection The day’s menu will development and resources and describes serve up fun with UNT’s five-year plan to transform their Michael Northrup Augusta Scattergood award-winning gaming collection The paper addresses new authors featured on game genres, access logistics, and establishing a Sarah Mlynowski, Michael Northrup, and Augusta the Lariat List. Join lab for academic gaming. Scattergood, Scholastic, Inc. younG AdulT round TAblE. colleagues for the Patrick Durkee, Media Library, University of North release of the new Texas. 2012 Lariat List of ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Gwendolyn Zepeda
50 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 the best 25 books in adult fiction. Luncheon CPE#461: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 engineer a peaceful T tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 30 Collecting Outside the Box: transition? Learn H through the preregistration process. See page 69 New Materials in Academic some management for registration form. Library Archives tips from a 2010 U Library Journal Menu items include: Caesar salad with Herbed Croutons 1:00 - 1:50 Pm R Mover and Shaker. and Caesar Dressing; Sauteed Chicken Breast in a Lemon University collections are going where they S and Caper Sauce; Risotto; French Beans and Tomatoes; have rarely ventured. The speakers discuss Maurice Coleman, Fresh Rolls and Sweet Butter; Apple Crumble with Fresh Coleman Consulting D their thoughts and rationale for building and Hartford County Chantilly Cream and Triple Chocolate Cake; Freshly Brewed special collections that include hip-hop Maurice Coleman Public Library (MD). A Regular and Decaffeinated Coffee and Iced Tea. materials, graphic novels, and Mystery ConfErEnCE ProGrAm Y Reshonda Tate Billingsley, Simon and Schuster; Tom Science Theater 3000. CommiTTEE. Franklin, HarperCollins Publishing, and Gwendolyn Zepeda, Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Julie Grob, University of Houston; and Rob Weiner, CPE#455: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Group. Research, Instruction & Outreach, Texas Tech University. International Baccalaureate Diploma lAriAT AdulT fiCTion rEAdinG lisT TAsk forCE. CollEGE And univErsiTy librAriEs division. Program and the School Library 1:00 - 1:50 Pm CPE#452: SBEC 1.0 CPE#450: SBEC 0.5 This session reviews the role of the school Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Corporate library in the IB program, including Session Luncheon (Ticketed event) Philanthropy: details on the importance of the theory of 12:00 - 1:50 Pm Giving for the knowledge, extended essay, and the learner The Texas Bluebonnet Award is a nationally- Greater Good profile in education. The presentation recognized children’s choice award. During 1:00 - 1:50 Pm highlights how the school librarian can be the luncheon, the author of the winning We are all part integral in the inquiry-based curriculum. Bluebonnet title will share insights on his/ of a community Sharon Vansickle, Media Center, Marietta High her writing and will accept this year’s award dedicated to Christian Grey School (GA). from student representatives. Luncheon fostering literacy and ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 30 education. Hear from representatives from CPE#486: SBEC 1.0 Room to Read and Better World Books as through the preregistration process. See page 69 Legislative Update for registration form. they tell inspirational stories of building libraries in developing countries. 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Menu items include: Caesar Salad Tejana with Fried Capers, Christian Grey, Business Development, Reprints Desk Hear legislative leaders of TLA discuss the Plum Tomatoes, Kalamata Olives, and Smoky Chipotle Association’s plans for the upcoming 83rd Caesar Dressing or Champagne Mustard Vinaigrette; (Carlsbad, CA). legislative session. Chicken Piccata in a Lemon Caper Sauce; Penne Pasta; ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Roasted Vegetable Medley; Freshly Baked Bread and Sweet CPE#453: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 lEGislATivE CommiTTEE. Butter; Double Chocolate Cake or Four Layer Carrot Cake, CPE#456: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 both with Macerated Berries and White Chocolate Mousse; Digitizing Historic Newspapers: Freshly Brewed Regular and Decaffeinated Coffee; What We’ve Learned Lighting A Fire In Your Iced Tea and Gourmet Hot Tea. 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Library’s Friends Group ChildrEn’s round TAblE. Libraries are the primary access points for 1:00 - 1:50 Pm local newspapers. Speakers outline the Texas This session is not a showcase of gimmicks CPE#423D: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership and gadgets. Rather, it taps into common Battle of the Open Source ILS: among libraries to digitize historical sense keys to motivating friends groups and Koha v. Evergreen (Net Fair II) newspapers, and debunk a few myths about community members into wanting to be 1:00 – 1:50 Pm digitizing resources. Attendees will find out better, do more, and succeed at levels they Catalogers will put two of today’s most about resources to help them start and fund never really considered. popular open source ILS systems through their own project. Craig Tappe, community support expert and the paces to find which system performs April Dillon, Hemphill County Library; Ana Krahmer, motivational speaker. better and can best meet your library needs. University of North Texas; and Mary J. McCoy, Lamar TPAls-TEXAs ProfEssionAl AssoCiATion State College - Orange. of librAry sAlEs round TAblE. Billy Hoya, Collection Development, University of diGiTAl librAriEs round TAblE And ArChivEs, Houston. GEnEAloGy And loCAl hisTory round TAblE. CPE#457: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. CPE#459: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Low Cost Marketing of Reference Services for Business Easing Library Staff onto New Technologies 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Your local business community can become 1:00 - 1:50 Pm an avid supporter of your public library Libraries are being inundated with new if they understand how the institution technologies every day, but not every staff can meet their needs (and help them save member is an early adapter. How can leaders money). Find out how to communicate
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 51 the value of your library to this key variety of ways, including graphic organizers and answering directional and reference constituency. and summarizing techniques for grades K-5. questions. The speakers will describe the Amy Mather, Omaha Public Library. Valerie Price, Beneke Elementary School, Spring ISD; development, successes, and failures of the ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. and Leslie Roberts Clingan, H. R. Moye Elementary service and will provide tips for libraries School, El Paso ISD. wanting to launch their own roving CPE#458: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. reference service.
Make Your Library FutureReady CPE#421E: SBEC 1.0 Cynthia Henry, Carrye Syma, and Kimberly Vardeman, 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Information Services, Texas Tech University Library. Right Now: New rEfErEnCE round TAblE. FutureReady is an YA Literature to initiative from SLA Entice Readers CPE#465: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Past President Cindy 1:00 - 1:50 Pm TTRAC: Texas Teens Reading Advisory Romaine. Learn how 2012 Summer Reading Program to prepare your Need new ideas to 1:00 - 1:50 Pm institution for bring students into changes that you can the library? Need TTRAC presents its final program and see coming...and fresh, new books to Katie Ellison shares ideas for where to go in the future to those that you can’t. entice students to find exciting programming for your library’s Cindy Romaine read? Stop by and learn about new books, summer activities. Cindy Romaine, Romaniacs Intelligent Research. get new programming ideas, and more. Natasha Benway, South Regional Library, ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Links for programs will be provided during Montgomery County Memorial Library System. session. younG AdulT round TAblE. CPE#460: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 My First Librarian Position: CPE#466: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Lessons Learned for a Great Career Using Picture Books to Teach the TEKS 1:00 - 1:50 Pm 1:00 - 1:50 Pm So you’re a new librarian! What now? Picture books provide effective and quick Getting your first librarian position is only lessons for librarians on rotation or with the first step on the road to becoming a flexible scheduling. The session covers the valued and effective team member. Hear use of traditional picture books and eBooks for instruction. Attendees will receive an lessons learned and pointers from a panel of Madeline George Jessi Renee Kirby librarians who have successfully navigated extensive bibliography. their first few years. Michelle Faught, Stephens Elementary; Sally Rasch, Carroll Elementary; and Jessica Scheller, Bethune Danielle Elder, Wells Branch Community Library; Elementary, Aldine ISD. Melissa Murphey, Saint John’s School; and Valerie ChildrEn’s round TAblE. Prilop and Rebecca Russell, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. CPE#467: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE And nEw mEmbErs round TAblE. When Libraries and Classes Collide: Building Relevant Instructional CPE#464: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Partnerships Morgan Matson Megan Miranda The RDA Revolution 1:00 - 1:50 Pm for Non-Catalogers Katie Ellison, Egmont A librarian demonstrates how to collaborate 1:00 - 1:50 Pm USA; Madeline George, Penguin Young Readers with teachers to develop classroom libraries Catalogers are celebrating the arrival of Group; Jessi Renee Kirby through selection, organization, and RDA as the dawn of a new age...but for and Morgan Matson, management. Find out how to position non-catalogers, this acronym may still be a Simon and Schuster yourself as key player in the literacy mystery. Scott Piepenburg will explain what Childrens Publishing; Megan Miranda, development of students. all the fuss is about and how RDA facilitates Bloomsbury/Walker Maria Cahill, School of Library and Information access. Books for Young Readers; Studies, Texas Woman’s University; Virginia Meeks, Jackson Pearce and Jackson Pearce, Scott Piepenburg, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Marsh Middle School, Dallas ISD; and Melisa O’Rear, Little, Brown Books for Point. Paloma Creek Elementary, Denton ISD. Young Readers. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. younG AdulT round TAblE. CPE#462: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 CPE#469A: SBEC .5 TSLAC .5 CPE#463: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Research4Life: Inquiry-Based iPad iMpact: A Pilot Program of Rolling Reference Out to New eReader Technology at an Academic Learning in the Library University Students 1:00 - 1:50 Pm Library (Contributed Papers III) 1:00 - 1:50 Pm 2:00 – 2:25 Pm Library activities at the elementary level Roving reference librarians at Texas Tech This paper examines the impact of a pilot should be instructional and engaging. Join University reach out to new students by circulation program of iPad 2 tablets as this group as they show how to incorporate rolling a cart and laptop around campus activities from picture books to research in a eReaders at an academic library. While 52 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 initial survey results indicated the majority CPE#471: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Sulema Vielma, Austin public Library. T of users were reluctant or disinterested in Evaluating the Quality librAry sErviCEs To ThE sPAnish sPEAkinG round TAblE. H eReader technology, the pilot program of OpenURLs through Analytics PRESIDENT’S results indicate a significant, positive impact 2:00 - 3:20 Pm CPE#470: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 U for the library in the areas of technology PROGRAM Want to optimize your Web discovery Navigating Privacy, Policy, R instruction and access to library materials. products? Despite the wide adoption of and Service Issues in the Digital Age Angela Colmenares, Sam Houston State University. S OpenURL, significant linking failures 2:00 - 3:20 Pm ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. D persist. The IOTA initiative offers a public A social media specialist discusses the CPE#421f: SBEC 1.0 reporting tool for comparing OpenURL privacy issues and ethical considerations A Books with Heart links between providers. These tools could that arise from advances in social media guide providers in fixing their OpenURLs, Y 2:00 - 2:50 Pm and commercial technology. The program and vendors and libraries in adjusting their explores strategies for confronting evolving When readers OpenURL settings. user expectations when it comes to privacy connect with a book Rafal Kasprowski, Fondren Library, Rice University. protection and the use of commercial tools on an emotional ElECTroniC rEsourCEs And sEriAls mAnAGEmEnT and services. A business meeting follows the level, it has a deeper round TAblE And ACquisiTions And program. impact on the reader CollECTion dEvEloPmEnT round TAblE. Gary D. Price, INFOdocket.com and and learning. Stop Deb Caletti CPE#472: SBEC 1.5 FullTextReports.com. by and learn more TSLAC 1.5 ProfEssionAl issuEs And EThiCs CommiTTEE. about helping your readers create Leading at emotional connections with books. CPE#475: SBEC 1.5 All Levels TSLAC 1.5 2:00 - 3:20 Pm Public Access Leadership and Technology management aren’t in Libraries: the same thing. A National The best managers Maureen Sullivan Initiative can also be great 2:00 - 3:20 Pm leaders. With budget cuts and layoffs, many library staff find themselves in positions of Susan Benton The Public Access Elizabeth Eulberg Kiki Hamilton great responsibility without great power. Technology However, you don’t need a title to be a Benchmarks Initiative is an effort to leader. Learn how your actions can inspire create national guidelines that will help your co-workers. libraries assess and improve the quality of public access technology and motivate Maureen Sullivan, Maureen Sullivan and Associates. communities to invest in these services. The ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. panel features the initiative’s leaders and CPE#420D: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Texas pilot participants. Gaming Design with Youth (Hands On Susan Benton, Urban Libraries Council; Ron Carlee, Lab VII; online registration only) International City/County Management Association; Lauren Kate Lurlene McDaniel Barbara Macikas, PLA; Dionne Mack-Harvin, El Paso 2:00 – 3:20 Pm Public Library; Gretchen Pruett, New Braunfels Public Deb Caletti, Simon and Schuster; Elizabeth Eulberg, HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry moBiLE LAB on DiSCovEry GrEEn. Library; Peggy Rudd, Texas State Library and Archives Scholastic, Inc; Kiki Hamilton, Tor/Forge Books; Commission; and Henry A. Stokes, Texas State Library Lauren Kate; and Lurlene McDaniel, Random House Learn how to put together a free library and Archives Commission. Children’s Books. program that teaches kids to design, TEXAs sTATE librAry And ArChivEs Commission. younG AdulT round TAblE. program, and produce their own video CPE#476: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 CPE#423E: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 games and share them with friends. Seating T4: Top Texas Technology Trends is limited; reservations through online Relevant: The Learner-Centered preregistration only. (Net Fair II) School Library ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 2:00 - 3:20 Pm 2:00 – 2:50 Pm This session reports on top library CPE#473: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 Learner-centered libraries require dynamic technology trends in Texas and the nation strategies to promote student achievement. Making Libraries Relevant to the Using digital images, this program will show and how they might affect your library in Hispanic Community Today! the near and distant future. The speaker you how to make your library the place 2:00 - 3:20 Pm reviews the results of the annual Texas everyone will want to go. This program Learn great programming ideas for survey and references additional sources. builds on “99 Library Ideas You Can Use,” involving the Hispanic community at your which was presented at TLA 2010. Todd Humble, North Richland Hills Public Library. library. Speaker will show you how to adapt Mary Barr, Duncan Elementary, Killeen ISD; Kristin AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. these ideas for your community. A business Coffield, Oveta Culp Hobby Elementary School, meeting follows the program. Killeen ISD; Robin Cox, Library Division, Bryan ISD; Elizabeth Anne Lancaster, Iduma Elementary School,
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 53 Killeen ISD; Julia M. McCormack, Peebles Elementary CPE#454: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 eBooks offer? How does nonfiction fit in School, Killeen ISD; and Lara Rachel Sursa, Pershing the eBook universe? Join an interactive Park Elementary, Killeen ISD. Working with Your Local Bookstore discussion on what eTexts mean for youth TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. 2:00 - 3:20 Pm service librarians. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear CPE#477: SBEC 1.5 from local Houston independent booksellers Marc Aronson, School of Communication, Rutgers Tayshas High School about successful library-bookstore University; and Dorcas Hand, Annunciation Orthodox Reading List and School. partnerships and generate ideas that they TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. Authors can take back to their libraries. There will 2:00 - 3:20 Pm be a strong focus on author events, and how CPE#474: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 The Tayshas Reading bookstores can help to make these events a List Committee success. Implementing offers programming Jeremy Ellis, Brazos Bookstore; McKenna Jordan, Patron Driven ideas for this year’s Murder by the Book; and Valerie Koehler, Blue Willow Acquisitions Tayshas List and Bookshop. (PDA): What invites you to hear ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. to Expect? from authors whose Kristin Cashore 2:00 - 3:50 Pm CPE#478: SBEC 2.0 books have been Nancy J. Gibbs Books, Boys, The implementation featured on the list previously. of PDA changes the This reading list is for grades 9-12. and Boxing: traditional workflow for both acquisitions Motivating and cataloging. PDA models allow the Minority Males loading of thousands of records into the to Read library catalog before an item is even 2:00 - 3:50 Pm ordered. By being prepared, libraries can
Boxing like reading Greg Neri handle the shifting workflow by following a is a one-on-one checklist from expert librarians. task, and both require a knowledgeable Nancy J. Gibbs, Duke University; Debbie Montgomery, coach. This program addresses the low and McDermott Library, University of Texas at Dallas; declining reading test scores of minority James Mike Thompson, University of Houston; and Brent Crawford Patricia McCormick Linda Turney, Sam Houston State University. male students from Kindergarten to beyond. ACquisiTions And CollECTion dEvEloPmEnT round Learn some of the best practices to spark TAblE, CATAloGinG And mETAdATA round TAblE, an interest in reading for this group in an CollEGE And univErsiTy librAriEs division, interactive discussion. And ElECTroniC rEsourCEs And sEriAls mAnAGEmEnT round TAblE. Mat Johnson, Random House and English CPE#481: SBEC 2.0 Department, University of Houston; Greg Neri, TSLAC 2.0 Candlewick Press; Joseph Tapping Local Anthony Rivers, Book Benjamin Alire Saenz Sara Zarr Publishing Company; Power: Leadership Charles Smith, Simon in Small and Robin Cashman, Woodcreek Elementary School, Katy and Schuster Children’s Rural Libraries ISD; Kristin Cashore, Penguin Young Readers Group; Publishing; and Don Tate, Brent Crawford, Disney-Hyperion; Patricia McCormick, Charlesbridge Publishing 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Don Tate HarperCollins Children’s Books, Balzer+Bray; Company. One of the most Benjamin Alire Saenz, Creative Writing Department, Lesley Boughton University of Texas – El Paso; and Sara Zarr, Little, blACk CAuCus round TAblE And younG AdulT critical skills for Brown Books for Young Readers. round TAblE. library directors is to recognize and cultivate younG AdulT round TAblE. influential people in the community. Hear CPE#479: SBEC 2.0 examples and practical strategies from CPE#468: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 TSLAC 2.0 colleagues on how to increase support for Tips and Techniques for Digital Decisions: your library from movers and shakers while Engaging Customers Replace, Blend, also engaging target groups. 2:00 – 3:20 Pm or Enhance? Barbara Blake, College of Information, University of Library customers seem to expect more from 2:00 - 3:50 Pm North Texas; Lesley Boughton, Wyoming State Library; their libraries at the very time that libraries Considering offering Yunfei Du, College of Information, University of North Texas; and Robert Martin, Texas Woman’s University. have fewer resources. Explore ways libraries eBook access in smAll CommuniTy librAriEs round TAblE And Marc Aronson can focus on engaging - rather than just a have/have not univErsiTy of norTh TEXAs sChool serving - customers using simple techniques world? What are of librAry And informATion. and approaches. the pedagogical benefits of eBooks? Dale McNeill, Queens Library (NY). What difference does patron age make in ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. decisions to integrate eBooks? What new opportunities not yet considered might
54 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 CPE#482: SBEC 2.0 CPE#469B: SBEC .5 TSLAC .5 This paper discusses the results of a planned T Texas 2x2 Reading List Showcase Intensive English Study and Library survey of whiteboard users in the Eagle H 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Instruction - Strategies for Improving Commons Library at the University of The Texas 2x2 Reading List Committee will Academic Literacy Skills among ESL North. Observations suggest students are U introduce the 20 new books on the 2012 Students (Contributed Papers III) not taking full advantage of the technology, R although the workstations are popular and list. Author Keith Graves will talk about 2:30 – 2:55 Pm his book, Chicken Big, a selection from the frequently used. The survey and results will S The purpose of this paper is to provide 2011 reading list. investigate whether cheaper technology D insight into library instructional services could be purchased and still meet students’ Shelia Acosta, Cody Library, City of San Antonio; Kristi that can support an intensive English needs in future. A Betts, Kinkeade E.C.S., Irving ISD; Keith Graves; curriculum. International students Amanda Hamilton, Purefoy Elementary School, Frisco Yvette Elizondo and Erin O’Toole, University of North Y ISD; Debra Marshall, Wilson Elementary School, sometimes struggle to acquire the Texas Libraries. Coppell ISD; and Aubrey Sanders, Children’s Services, fundamentals of academic literacy, and ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Austin Public Library. incorporating library instruction into the ChildrEn’s round TAblE. curriculum not only aids in increased NetTrekker (Net Fair II) 3:00 – 3:50 Pm CPE#483: SBEC 2.0 academic English proficiency, but sets the foundation for basic research skills needed netTrekker is a leader in the organization Texas Reading to navigate a new and confusing academic and delivery of digital K-12 educational Club Showcase culture. content and is dedicated to enhancing 2:00 - 3:50 Pm Andrea Malone, Anderson Library, University of education with highly effective technologies 2012 is the last year Houston. and services that help personalize learning that the Texas State ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. and deliver engaging educational content Library will present to every student in a safe, relevant, easy- CPE#469C: SBEC .5 TSLAC .5 the Texas Reading to-use format. Come learn how you can Bruce Hale Club for libraries Student Use of Interactive Whiteboards use netTrekker in your school or public throughout the state. “Get a Clue” about in an Academic Library (Contributed library. the 2012 Texas Reading Club! Papers III) AuTomATion And TEChnoloGy round TAblE. Bruce Hale, author-illustrator; and Dawn Krause, 3:00 – 3:25 Pm Texas State Library and Archives Commission. ChildrEn’s round TAblE.
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 55 CPE#421G: SBEC 1.0 Book Cart Drill Team Challenge! Undead: Never Unread 5:40 - 6:20 Pm 3:00 - 3:50 Pm Thought you knew everything you could Unless you have been living under a rock, do with a book cart? Not so. Book carts you know undead books never go unread are good for more than just books! Your in our libraries. Understand why the genre imaginative and gifted colleagues will show is so appealing and get great programming you a trick or two on choreographing ideas. around this tried and true library tool. Cheer your favorite team to victory in the annual Book Cart Drill Team Texas Championship. The winning Team will be invited to compete at ALA 2012. Team preregistration is required.
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Private School Librarians’ Library School Dinners and Receptions Lisa Desrochers Charlie Higson Progressive Dinner (Ticketed event) (Ticketed events) Tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 5:30 - 10:00 Pm 30 through the preregistration process. See page Participants will visit libraries on three 69 for registration form. different private schools campuses, enjoying a three course meal, and gaining ideas for Texas Woman’s University updating their own facilities, facilitating Library School Reception collaborative research projects, and 6:00 - 7:30 Pm providing a virtual presence for their own HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET libraries. Dinner tickets must be purchased by Stacey Kade Jessica Warman Friday, March 30 through the preregistration University of North Texas College of process. See page 69 for registration form. Information Alumni Reception Lisa Desrochers, Tor/Forge Books; Charlie Higson and 6:30 – 8:30 Pm Stacey Kade, Disney-Hyperion; and Jessica Warman, TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. Bloomsbury/Walker Books for Young Readers. HouSTon ASTroS BASEBALL CLuB SuiTES 61-63. minuTE mAiD BASEBALL PArK younG AdulT round TAblE. Black Caucus Round Table Reception 6:00 - 8:00 Pm CPE#484: SBEC 0.5 University of Texas at Austin HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET. School of Information Alumni & General Session II TLA members and 2012 conference Friends Reception 4:00 - 5:20 Pm attendees join the members of the Black 6:30 - 8:00 Pm Be present for the Disaster Relief Art Raffle Caucus Round Table as we thank our irmA’S SouTHwEST GriLL, 1314 TExAS STrEET (AT AuSTin). Drawing (see next page); find out who program presenters for their participation. The 2012 conference stipend winners will University of Houston-Clear Lake won Best in Show in the PR Branding School of Library of Information Iron Awards, and applaud Highsmith and be announced. Sciences Dinner DEMCO grant recipients. Also, of course, blACk CAuCus round TAblE. expect a stimulating and informative 6:30 - 8:30 Pm keynote presentation. PAPPAS BAr-B-Q, 1100 SmiTH STrEET
ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Small Community Libraries Round Table Dessert Socia CPE#Ef413: SBEC 2.0 l 7:00 - 9:00 Pm Storytelling Round Table Concert PETE’S DuELinG PiAno BAr, 1201 fAnnin STrEET. 7:30 - 9:30 Pm Come enjoy delicious desserts at the HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET. Annual SCLRT Dessert Social and Bluebonnet winner Willy Claflin help us honor our librarian of the year. (with Maynard the Moose) will be joined by regional tellers and smAll CommuniTy librAriEs round TAblE. librarian-teller Vivian Rutherford for an evening of engaging storytelling. The evening’s emcee is librarian and storyteller Kim Lehman. Willy Claflin & Maynard the Moose sToryTEllinG round TAblE.
56 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 CPE#Ef412: SBEC 0.5 T Evening with the Authors (Ticketed event) H 6:30 - 8:30 Pm U HouSTon PuBLiC LiBrAry, JuLiA iDESon BuiLDinG, 500 mCKinnEy Authors will read selections from their upcoming and recently released titles during an R elegant dinner event in the beautifully restored HPL Julia Idelson Building. Dinner tickets S must be purchased by Friday, March 30 through the preregistration process. See page 69 for Doo-Wop Intergalactic registration form. D Round Table Sock Hop A Menu items include: Mixed Field Greens, Dried Cherries, (Ticketed event) Oranges, Caramelized Walnuts, Feta Cheese, with Citrus - 12:00 Am Y 8:00 Pm . Vinaigrette; Cedar Planked Salmon Filet drizzled with AroLinE E 101, 1201 C Lemon Sauce, accompanied by Potato Pave and Roasted rESErv Asparagus; Artisan Rolls and Sweet Cream Butter; Bee-Bop with the Doo-Wops. This is Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake; Freshly Brewed Regular the “don’t miss” event for hip librarians. and Decaffeinated Coffee and Iced Tea. Tickets may be purchased through Deborah Crombie and preregistration or at the door.iC round TAblE. Cathy Maxwell, doo-woP inTErGAlACT HarperCollins Publishers; Deborah Crombie Chitra Divakaruni Chitra Divakaruni, University of Houston and Hyperion Books; Steven Fenberg, Texas A&M University Press; and Lynda Rutledge, Penguin Group. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm Lynda Rutledge CommiTTEE
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The annual art raffle, held during Thursday’s School for Design in New York. His work has often Take a General Session II, benefits the Texas Library been praised for its quiet humor. Tickets may be Disaster Relief Fund and features a whimsical purchase onsite at the Disaster Relief Table on Chance masterpiece donated by author/illustrator Julian level 3 outside of the ballroom prefunction area, Hector. Raised outside of Austin by two biologists, from roving volunteers, or online. Visit the Itsy Bitsy on art! Hector studied illustration at Parsons The New Gallery (www.txla.org/gallery) for details.
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R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 57 schedscheduleule of events THURSDAFRIDAYY registration ...... 7 am - 11 am Natasha Benway, South Regional Branch Library, Barbara Hambly and Gar Anthony Haywood, Severn internet room...... 8 am - 12 pm Montgomery County Memorial Library System; House; David Rivera, Simon and Schuster; and placement center ...... 8 am - 12 pm Jennifer Smith, Legacy Middle School, East Central Pamela Samuels-Young, Goldman House Publishing. ISD; and Andrea F. White, author. tla store ...... 8 am - 12 pm ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE Bag check ...... 8:30 am - 1:30 pm younG AdulT round TAblE. And blACk CAuCus round TAblE. exhibits ...... 9 am - 12 pm CPE#503: SBEC 1.0 CPE#508: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 EXHIBIT HALL geocache drawing ...... 10 am Native American Metadata Strategies for Young Adult Books Getting Objects Online 8:00 - 8:50 Am 8:00 Am - 9:20 Am Event state board for TX state library & number Educator Certification Archives Commission From fancy dancers Does your digitization process always to vampires, bottleneck at metadata? Do you have a CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 characters in modern lot of material scanned but a backlog of young adult novels materials needing metadata? Learn tips by and about Native and tricks from other librarians who have James Blasingame Americans reflect the developed strategies to minimize and reduce Rock of Ages grand diversity of the metadata backlog. young people from 500 nations. Participants 7:00 - 8:00 Am Karen Holt, Fine Arts Library, University of Texas will receive an annotated bibliography. at Austin; and Cecilia Williams, Cataloging and Cristy Drotts, group exercise director at the Metadata, Houston Public Library. James Blasingame, Arizona State University. Fitness Center at South Shore Harbour, ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE, ArChivEs, younG AdulT round TAblE. will lead “Rock of Ages” for fitness levels of GEnEAloGy And loCAl hisTory round TAblE, all types. If you are brand new to exercise Bylaws & Resolutions Committee Meeting II CATAloGinG And mETAdATA round TAblE, And diGiTAl librAriEs round TAblE. or a regular, this will get you movin’ and 8:00 - 8:50 Am groovin’ to get you through the last day of CPE#509: SBEC 1.5 CPE#506: SBEC 1.5 conference. Come out of this experience New Books for Teens refreshed and with a smile on your face! Adult Multicultural Mystery Writers And, you’ll still have time to get to and Some Tweens Too! 8:00 Am - 9:20 Am conference. 8:00 Am - 9:20 Am
ConfErEnCE loCAl ArrAnGEmEnTs CommiTTEE. Join Teri Lesesne and Rosemary Chance as they booktalk the newest titles for teens and CPE#501: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 tweens. How to Set up a Rosemary Chance, and Teri S. Lesesne, Library Virtual Author Program Science Department, Sam Houston State University. 8:00 - 8:50 Am TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns And This session provides a step-by-step review PubliC librAriEs division. of how to use Skype, a free social media Barbara Hambly Gar Anthony Haywood tool, to present live programs with authors CPE#511: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 at your library. From the east coast, Web-Scale Discovery: Lisa Brannon, Frostwood Elementary School, Spring the west coast and Post Implementation Branch ISD; Heidi Daniel, Houston Public Library; and the third coast see 8:00 Am - 9:20 Am Kristen Stewart, Pearland Library Reference, Brazoria how a musician, County Library System. Discovery services provide users a single thief, cop, and ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. search box to access a library’s entire pre- lawyer solve crimes indexed collection. Representatives from CPE#502: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 of murder and two academic libraries serving different Introducing the mayhem in the user populations will discuss marketing, Spirit of Texas Pamela Samuels Young instructing users, evaluating the product, Reading Programs community. Join and maintaining the resource after a 8:00 - 8:50 Am us as a panel of discovery service is implemented. multicultural Want better contacts Richard Guajardo, University of Houston; Martha mystery writers Hood, University of Houston - Clear Lake; Rachel with authors here in discuss their Vacek, University of Houston; and Chloris Yue, Texas? Want grab- latest books and University of Houston - Clear Lake. and-go programming ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. memorable you can use in your Andrea F. White characters. library? The new Spirit of Texas Reading Programs for grades 6-12 offer that and more. Learn all about this resource. David Rivera 58 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 APRIL 1920
New Members Round Table Business Meeting CPE#518: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Storytelling Round Table Business Meeting 8:00 Am - 9:20 Am The Real Nuts and Bolts 8:00 - 9:50 Am of Library Security Acquisitions and Collection CPE#517: SBEC 2.0 8:00 - 9:50 Am Development Round Table Vendor South Asian Authors in Houston Are you concerned with protecting Breakfast and Business Meeting 8:30 Am - 9:50 Am 8:00 - 9:50 Am customers, staff, and library materials? Listen to a panel discuss everything from Meet the award-winning author of the 2011 Join the Acquisitions and Collection hurricanes to an active shooter. Gulf Coast Reads selection, One Amazing Development Round Table (ACDRT) for Thing, Chitra Divakaruni; the author of Daniel Fu, Rice University. a breakfast and an opportunity to meet the popular new cookbook, Entice With ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. one-on-one with various library vendors Spice, Shubhra Ramineni; award-winning to discuss upcoming products or questions CPE#500: SBEC 0.5 author Bapsi Sidwha whose latest book is specific to your library location. Learn Texas Association Cracking India; Shilpi Gowda, author of the more about ACDRT and its volunteer of School international bestseller Secret Daughter; and opportunities. A business meeting follows the Thrity Umrigar, award-winning author and program. Librarians Author Session Breakfast journalist whose latest work is The Weight ACquisiTions And CollECTion of Heaven. Together, these authors offer an dEvEloPmEnT round TAblE. with Patrick intriguing look at an eclectic blend of fiction Carman and nonfiction works. CPE#516: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 (Ticketed event) Library Support Staff Certification: 8:00 - 9:50 Am Changing the Profession, Patrick Carman HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, Changing Your Life 1600 LAmAr STrEET. 8:00 - 9:50 Am Join Patrick Carman for an energizing Participants will morning that includes a discussion of his learn of popular Skeleton Creek series, the Trackers developments and series, and 39 Clues. Carman’s unique trends in reference writing incorporates technology, which gives and public services a new approach for readers to appreciate. Chitra Divakaruni Shilpi Somaya Gowda librarianship. The Breakfast tickets must be purchased by Friday, speakers will March 30 through the preregistration process. highlight some of the Menu Items Include: Farm Fresh Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, best rethinking of Country Style Breakfast Potatoes, Homemade Biscuits Nancy Bolt reference services, served with Butter and Fruit Preserves; Freshly Squeezed outreach initiatives, collection development Orange Juice; Freshly Brewed Regular and Decaffeinated practices, staffing policies, and curriculum Coffee; and Hot Tea. support. Patrick Carman, Scholastic Press. Nancy Bolt, Nancy Bolt & Associates. TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. Shubhra Ramineni Bapsi Sidhwa ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. CPE#507: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Chitra Divakaruni, CPE#515: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 University of Houston and Will Libraries Survive? The Future Hyperion Books; Shilpi Literacy Leapers: A Special Needs of Information Science in Society Somaya Gowda, Reading Program HarperCollins Publishers; 8:00 - 9:50 Am Shubhra Ramineni; Bapsi 8:00 - 9:50 Am Libraries are facing budget cuts as never Sidhwa; and Thrity Children with learning disabilities do not before. Is this the end of the profession Umrigar, HarperCollins Publishers. usually do well in large groups but do as we know it? Library education leaders show benefit from storytime programs. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm Andrew Dillon, Ling Hwey Jeng, Herman Thrity Umrigar CommiTTEE. Smith Public Library staff discuss a reading Totten, and Jane Claes share their program they developed for these children predictions and research. CPE#522: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 and share their start-up guide for librarians. Jane Claes, School Library and Information Science, Rachel Orozco and Dia Rhoden, Rita and Truett Smith University of Houston - Clear Lake; Andrew Dillon, Finding the Best Fit Public Library, Wylie. School of Information, University of Texas at Austin; in a Mentoring Program Ling Hwey Jeng, School of Library and Information ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Am Am Studies, Texas Woman’s University; and Herman 9:00 - 9:50 Totten, Office of the President, University of North Mentoring programs are becoming a Texas. widespread boon to staff development and ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. succession planning. But what is the best
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 59 way to match mentors and protégés? Learn James Blasingame, Arizona State University; PJ materials and to anticipate issues regarding from LLAMA President Janine Golden Haarsma, Kids Need to Read; and Charles Aron playback mechanisms, migration, and Jones, Arizona State University. how to connect people for a successful preservation of less common material types. younG AdulT round TAblE. professional relationship. Caroline Frick, Texas Archive of the Moving Image Distributed/E-Learning Round Table Business Janine Golden, School of Library and Information and Loraine A. Stuart, Archives, Museum of Fine Arts, Studies, Texas Woman’s University. meeting Houston. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 9:00 – 9:50 Am ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE, ArChivEs, GEnEAloGy And loCAl hisTory round TAblE, CPE#524: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 CPE#526: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 And diGiTAl librAriEs round TAblE. Managing Your Library’s Business Reference: Using LinkedIn CPE#534: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 Online Reputation and Other Social Media Tools Embedded Academic Librarianship 10:00 - 10:50 Am 9:00 Am - 9:50 Am 10:00 - 11:20 Am Protecting an online reputation has Find new ways to use social media tools to become a hot topic for both people and gather current information about companies organizations. How can you manage your at no cost. Learn to show your customers social media to achieve the best results? how to use LinkedIn, Twitter, and FaceBook Learn from HPL’s Sandra Fernandez. for competitive intelligence. Sandra Fernandez, Houston Public Library. April Kessler, Reference and Information Services, ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. University of Texas at Austin; and Laura Young, Research, Austin Ventures. CPE#525: SBEC 1.0 sPECiAl librAriEs division.
Navigating Antarctica with CPE#528: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 James Lee Conyers Jeremy William Donald Social Media and Collaboration Create Mentoring Programs that Embedded librarianship moves librarians 9:00 Am - 9:50 Am Produce Positive Results onto the front line of education by integrating librarians into instructional A voyage to the southernmost tip of 10:00 - 10:50 Am the planet involves lots of planning and settings. Reaching beyond one-shot library The speaker will show you how to build a innovative curriculum design. Learn research classes, librarians are working with mentoring program that will be effective how high school librarians and teachers faculty to develop, deliver, and support in your library environment. Learn about collaborated to conduct research, lead book lifelong information literacy skills into the needs of mentees, mentors, and how clubs, and produce a public awareness virtual and real courses. The session to connect them in a positive and practical campaign using social media. examines how to implement such programs framework. Brooke Erwin Leith, Sam Rayburn High School, and and engage faculty and students. Paul Signorelli, Paul Signorelli & Associates. Adrienne Raible, Pasadena Memorial High School, April Aultman Becker, Research Medical Library, MD Pasadena ISD. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Anderson Cancer Center; Daisha Bennett, Prairie ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. View A&M University; James Lee Conyers, African CPE#527: SBEC 1.0 TSLAC 1.0 American Department, University of Houston; Jeremy CPE#504: SBEC 1.0 Grant Writing in the Information Age William Donald, Trinity University Coates Library; and Toniesha Taylor, Languages and Communications, The Softwire 10:00 - 10:50 Am Prairie View A&M University. in Adolescent Make grant writing easier. Learn to locate ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Cyberspace: relevant funding sources online and CPE#537: SBEC 1.5 How Computer hear strategies for submitting persuasive Gaming Is applications online. Face to Face for All (F2F4L): Encouraging Sheryl Abshire, Lamar University. 8th Poetry Roundup Kids to Read ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 10:00 - 11:20 Am 9:00 Am - 9:50 Am James Blasingame Reference Round Table Texas Reference Hear poets read from their work and Award-winning young adult science Source Award Committee Meeting discover the best and latest poetry for kids. Experience firsthand the pleasure to be fiction writer PJ Haarsma and young adult 10:00 - 10:50 Am literature scholar James Blasingame discuss found in spoken poetry and its power for the success of online video games in creating CPE#533: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 promoting the development of literacy and communities of readers. Contemporary Collecting: language. Is Your Archives Keeping Up with the Latest Trends? 10:00 - 11:20 Am In our constantly changing society, archives and cultural institutions should consider collecting materials reflecting modern technologies, trends, and populations. Learn how to develop a selection policy allowing for the acquisition of contemporary PJ Haarsma Charles Aron Jones Stacia Kehoe Guadalupe Garcia McCall
60 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 communities are entering into discussions planning and presenting programming. F about outsourcing management of public Learn how to develop protocol procedures library service to the private sector. for your organization. R Learn about ALA’s recent study of this Dale McNeill, Queens Library (NY). I phenomenon and the key questions to ask if ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. D the topic arises in your locality. CPE#541: SBEC 2.0 Nancy Bolt, Nancy Bolt & Associates. A ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Calling All Guys: Y Books for N-B-Tween Boys Timothy McLaughlin Janet Wong CPE#539: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 10:00 - 11:50 Am Douglas Florian, Beach Lane; Dana Jensen, Houghton Revision, Reshape, PRESIDENT’S Mifflin; Stacia Kehoe, Penguin Group; Guadalupe PROGRAM Garcia McCall, Reading/Language Arts, Christa Refine: The McAuliffe Middle School; Timothy McLaughlin, Opportunity Abrams; Sylvia Vardell, School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman’s University; Janet of Tough Times Wong, Charlesbridge Publishing Company; and 10:00 - 11:20 Am Stephen Young, Poetry Foundation. What does the “best ChildrEn’s round TAblE. library” mean in CPE#535: SBEC 1.5 the context of your TSLAC 1.5 community and Tony Abbott Nick Bruel Libraries and available funding? the Future of What services, Transliteracy collection, and Alison A. Ernst facility are required? 10:00 - 11:20 Am Learn strategies to reconnect with your How can libraries mission to make the hard choices required support information do more with less. Attendees will interact literacy across all with panelists and others to develop specific media? An expert Lane Wilkinson goals for their own situation. provides answers and Alison A. Ernst, Alison Ernst Associates; and James Tommy Greenwald Obert Skye reveals thoughts about meeting the challenges Robert Mumby, Library Group, Fanning/Howey of transliteracy in the coming years. Associates Inc. As boys reach ages Lane Wilkinson, Lupton Library, University of ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. 8-10, their interest in Tennessee at Chattanooga. reading begins to CPE#532: SBEC 1.5 ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. wane. By the time The World of Children’s Apps they are in middle CPE#536: SBEC 1.5 TSLAC 1.5 10:00 - 11:20 Am school, we call them Library Consortia: iPad apps are a fun way for young children reluctant readers. Ideas for Sharing Resources to learn many basic skills and for older The best way to get a Janet Tashjian 10:00 - 11:20 Am children to explore a topic. Find out what guy reading and Learn the best practices for starting and applications are now available for children coming back for more is to give him a book managing a library consortium. The and explore how iPads might be a useful he’ll love, and another, and another. Five panel addresses the benefits of consortial tool in your library. authors share some great reads for boys. membership. Representatives from consortia Karen Harrell, Rummel Creek Elementary School; and Tony Abbott, Egmont USA; Nick Bruel, Macmillan of various sizes that support public and Tammy Holley, Bunker Hill Elementary, Spring Branch Children’s Publishers; Tommy Greenwald, Roaring school libraries will share their experiences ISD. Book Publishing; Obert Skye, Macmillan Children’s Publishers; and Janet Tashjian, Henry Holt. and insights. ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. ChildrEn’s round TAblE. Rodney Bland, Burleson Public Library; Dale Fleeger, Cataloging and Metadata Round Table Weatherford Public Library; and Paul Waak, North Business Meeting CPE#529: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Texas Library Partners. 10:00 - 11:20 Am How to Do an Author Program - PubliC librAriEs division. CPE#544: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Pros within the Publishing Industry CPE#538: SBEC 1.5 10:00 – 11:50 Am TSLAC 1.5 Avoiding Inadvertent Insults: Representatives from publishing houses will Privatization of Cross-Cultural Communications with Library Customers offer guidance on how to make the contacts Public Libraries: for an author visit. Learn how to plan and How It Works and 10:00 - 11:50 Am conduct a smooth program. Protocol, intercultural communication and What You Can Do Erica Melnichok, Random House, Inc.; Virginia 10:00 - 11:20 Am diplomacy are vital in conducting business Stanley, HarperCollins Publishing; and Talia Sherer, and government transactions. Librarians MacMillan Publishing. An increasing will benefit from learning strategies for ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. number of Nancy Bolt communication when assisting patrons and
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 61 CPE#542: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 CPE#545: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 be briefed on the status of library-related Kids Need to Read Program: Safe Space Kit 101: Guide to initiatives at TEA, including the ELA TEKS Funding Opportunity Being an Ally to LGBT Youth and more. 10:00 - 11:50 Am 10:00 - 11:50 Am Karen Kahan, Texas Education Agency. Kids Need to Read is a national nonprofit Participants will learn ways to support and TEXAs AssoCiATion of sChool librAriAns. foundation that promotes childhood literacy advocate for LGBT students/youth and CPE#546: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 and addresses the crisis in library funding to educate staff as to how to combat anti- Using Wikispaces to Share that currently exists in the United States. LGBT bias and behavior. Participants will Reference and Circulation Statistics Learn about grant funding opportunities at receive training in the implementation of this session. the Safe Space Kit for creating safe spaces 11:00 - 11:50 Am for all youth, regardless of sexual orientation Library staff at all levels can benefit from or gender expression. utilizing Wikispaces to record reference and Tonya Renee Hammer, Counseling Department, School circulation desk statistics. More importantly, of Education, University of Houston - Clear Lake. Wikispaces creates a medium for all GAy, lEsbiAn, bisEXuAl, TrAnsGEndErEd librarians to record the types of questions inTErEsT GrouP. being asked as well as the answers patrons CRT Executive Board Meeting are provided. This session will empower 10:00 - 11:50 Am libraries to begin utilizing Wikispaces as a collaborative tool to ensure that statistics are James Blasingame Nathan Fillion CPE#548: SBEC 1.0 recorded, digitized, and shared. TEA Update Shante Clark-Davis and Patina Eperson, Thurgood Marshall School of Law Library, Texas Southern 11:00 - 11:50 Am University. Find out the latest news from the Texas ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE. Education Agency (TEA). Attendees will
CPE#550: SBEC 0.5 Closing Author Session Luncheon Denise Gary PJ Haarsma with Justin Cronin (Ticketed event) James Blasingame, Arizona State University; Renee 12:00 - 1:20 Pm Dyer, YART Chair; Nathan Fillion, Kids Need to Read; HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET. Denise Gary, Kids Need to Read; PJ Haarsma, Redbear Films; and Teri S. Lesesne, Library Science, Justin Cronin is the author of Mary and O’Neil (Pen/Hemingway Sam Houston State University. Award, Stephen Crane Prize), The Summer Guest, and The Passage, younG AdulT round TAblE. the first book in a new vampire trilogy which is now in development as a feature film for 2013. His latest book, The Twelve, continues CPE#543: SBEC 2.0 TSLAC 2.0 Justin Cronin this story. This English professor from Rice University will share his Librarian and Vendor Relations: insights into relationships, language, and the deathless fascination with vampires. Luncheon Exploring Best Practices tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 30 through the preregistration process. 10:00 - 11:50 Am Menu items include: Cut Romaine Caesar Salad; Chicken Breast with Pesto served on Penne Pasta Primavera; Breadsticks; Few things are as important to acquisitions Italian Cream Cake; Freshly Brewed Regular and Decaffeinated Coffee; and Iced Tea. and collection development librarians as their relationships with vendors. Seasoned Justin Cronin, Random House, Inc. librarians share how they develop and ConfErEnCE ProGrAm CommiTTEE nurture those relationships. Hear also about the do’s and don’ts from vendors in this open dialogue session. Reference Round Table Executive Board Meeting ...... 1:00 – 2:20 Pm Jay Blint, Ingram Library Services; Sian Brannon, Young Adult Round Table Executive Board Meeting ...... 1:00 - 2:20 Pm University of North Texas Libraries; Victoria C. Kemp, Texas Library Association Membership Meeting ...... 1:30 - 2:00 Pm Flower Mound Public Library; Chuck Leachman, Gale Bring your ideas and observations to this annual forum for all TLA members. Discuss a Cengage Learning; Marianne Lorio, Houston Public hot issue facing TLA and learn the winners of Thursday’s Hetherington Fun Run/Walk. Library; Eric Timm, Midwest Tapes; and Syma Zerkow, Houston Public Library. Prepare and Share: Program Planning for TLA 2013 ...... 2:05 - 2:55 Pm ACquisiTions And CollECTion dEvEloPmEnT Prepare for the 2013 TLA Conference in Fort Worth by getting critical information on round TAblE And TPAls-TEXAs ProfEssionAl deadlines, procedures, and marketing opportunities. Share your program ideas and find AssoCiATion of librAry sAlEs round TAblE. potential partners who can share labor and expenses. All officers with program planning responsibilities are urged to attend.
Texas Library Association Council II...... 3:00 - 3:50 Pm Council is the governing body of TLA. All conferees are invited to attend.
Texas Library Association Executive Board Meeting #2 ...... 4:00 - 6:00 Pm HiLTon AmEriCAS-HouSTon, 1600 LAmAr STrEET. 62 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 index of evenTs • sPeakers & sPonsorinG UniTs 1001 Great Ideas 33 Bag Check 34, 44, 58 Bever, Ann 42 Brabston, Jennifer 50 abbott, Tony 61 Ballard, Susan D. 31, 33 Bigheart, Jen 30 Brackus, David 36 Abshire, Sheryl 60 Barnes, Bill 10, 47 Billings, Emily 46 Brannon, Sian 39, 62 Acosta, Shelia 55 Barr, Mary 53 Billingsley, ReShonda Tate 51 Branon, Lisa 58 Acquisitions and Collection Battle, Joel 39 Bird, Sherilyn 29 Broaddus, Maurice 35 Development Round Table 32, Baumann, Amber 38 Black Caucus Round Table 9, 35, Brouillard, Kelly 39 49, 53-54, 59, 62 46, 54, 56, 58 Beaudoin, Sean 47 Brown, Jennifer 50 Allison, Susan 32 Blake, Barbara 54 Becker, April Aultman 28, 60 Brown, Peter 40 Ambaum, Gene 10, 46-47 Bland, Rodney 61 Bekker, Jennifer 35 Brown, Toby 38 Anderson, Jennifer 35 Blasingame, James 58, 60, 62 Beleu, Steve 28, 49 Browne, Melissa 34 Angleberger, Tom 29 Blint, Jay 62 Bennett, Daisha 60 Bruel, Nick 61 Antonacci, Laura 49 Blood Drive 36 BennettJones, Devhra 32 Bruxvoort, Diane L. 41, 49 Archives, Genealogy, and Local Blume, Judy 10, 46 Benton, Susan 53 Buchanan, Cindy 42 History Round Table 28-29, Boeke, Cindy 49 Buehner, Katie Ruth 31 32, 35, 38-39, 41, 46, 49, 51, Benway, Natasha 52, 58 Bolt, Nancy 59, 61 58, 60 Berner, Cathy 37 Burckhardt, Marc 40 Book Cart Drill Team 56 Aronson, Marc 54 Bertuglia, Craig 28 Butler, Patricia 32 Borders, Sarah 37 Ash, Viki 38 Beta Lambda Chapter of Beta Byerly, Gayla 40 Boughton, Lesley 54 Automation and Technology Round Phi Mu 39 Bylaws and Resolutions Committee Table 34, 36, 38, 41, 47-48, Betts, Kristi 55 Bourgeois, Andree 41 33, 58 50-51, 53, 55 Betts, Walter 29 Bowditch, Scottie 37 Byrd, Lee Merrill 38
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64 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 Heath, Patrick 35 Ke, Irene 47 London, C. Alexander 36 Moreillon, Judi 35 Helge, Kris 28, 39 Kehoe, Stasia 60-61 Lorio, Marianne 62 Moss, Debbie 40 Henry, Cynthia 52 Kemp, Victoria C. 62 Lowman, Sara 32 Mulkey, Julie 37 Henry, Geneva 37 Kessler, April 38, 60 Lubar, David 48 Mumby, James Robert 61 Herrington, Kimberly K. 46 King, David Lee 12, 44 Luderitz, Zoe 37 Murphey, Melissa 52 Hetherington Fun Run/Walk 9, 44 Kingma, Bruce 42 Lyga, Barry 42 Myklusch, Matt 36 Higson, Charlie 56 Kirby, Jessi Renee 52 Lynda Becker Walking Tours 34 neiburger, Eli 12, 46 Hill, Corinne 34, 46 Klug, Brandy 47 Macikas, Barbara 53 Neri, Greg 54 Hill, Valerie 36, 39 Koehler, Valerie 54 Mack-Harvin, Dionne 53 Net Fair 9, 34, 38, 47-48, 50-51, Hillman, Kathy Robinson 40 Kolah, Debra 32 MacNeal, Noel 36 53, 55 Hinds, Gareth 45 Koptelov, Andrey V. 38 Malizia, Michelle 46 New Members Round Table 29, 35, 43, 46, 52, 59 Hiott, Judith 48 Krahmer, Ana 51 Malone, Andrea 55 Newland, Somer 41 Hoffman, Starr 28 Kramer, Heather 28-29 Mann, Susan S. 35 Northrup, Michael 50 Holland, Jim 49 Krause, Dawn 55 Marshall, Debra 55 o 32 Holley, Tammy 61 Krebsbach, Vicki 49 Martin, George 48 hnstad, Jennifer 32 Holt, Karen 58 Krum, Hope 32 Martin, Pauline Ngo 42 One Book, One Conference 37 Hood, Martha 58 Kubasek, Nancy 32 Martin, Robert S. 54 Opening Author Session 52 Hopkins, Jackie Mims 50 Kurzweil, Allen 36 Mather, Amy 52 O’Rear, Melisa Orozco, Rachel 58 Hopkinson, Nalo 35 LaBoon, Jennifer 35, 37 Matson, Morgan 52 Osborne, Jamey 38 Hoya, Billy 34, 51 LaFlamme, Marcel 32 Mauser, Shawn 48 O’Toole, Erin 55 Hsu, Kwei-Feng 32 LaFranca, Diane M. 31 Maxwell, Cathy 57 Humble, Todd J. 53 Lagulli, Tara 38 May, Frances A. 42 Pearce, Jackson 52 immroth, Barbara 41 Lambert, Greg 38 McAnally, Danita 32 Peirce, Lincoln 40 Ingham, Donna 47 Lambert, Terry 38 McCall, Guadalupe Garcia 60-61 Pennypacker, Sara 50 Intellectual Freedom Committee Lancaster, Elizabeth Anne 53 McCartney, Danna 41 Perrin, Joy 50 33, 39, 49 Landolt, Karen 38 McCord, Gretchen 40 Perry-Martin, Sharon 42 Interlibrary Loan and Resource Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List McCormack, Julia M. 54 Piepenburg, Scott 52 Sharing Round Table 36 Task Force 31, 34, 50-51 McCormick, Patricia 54 Pitre, Merline 32 Internet Room 9, 30, 34, 44, 58 Larkin, Jillian 36 McCoy, Mary J. 51 Placement Center 30, 34, 44, 58 J 31 ackson, Donna Larson, Jeanette 49 McDaniel, Lurlene 53 Powers, Jiaan 49 46 Jakubowski, Barbara Laurie, Victoria 47 McElroy, Maya 48 Preconferences 28-29 49 James, Dean Leachman, Chuck 62 McGuckin, Aisling 48 President’s All-Conference 46 59 Party 9, 43 Jeng, Ling Hwey , Leadership Development McIntosh, Lauri 47 49 Committee 34 Price, Gary D. 53 Jenkins, Dominique McKee, Rebecca S. 35 61 Ledden, Stacie 39 Price, Valerie 52 Jensen, Dana McLaughlin, Timothy 61 54 Legislative Committee 32, 51 Prilop, Valerie 52 Johnson, Mat McNeill, Dale 54, 61 44 Leith, Brooke Erwin 60 Professional Issues and Ethics Johnson, Sunni Meeks, Virginia 52 53 36 Lerner, Tracy 37 Committee Jones, Carrie Melnichok, Erica 49, 61 Programing for Adults Interest Jones, Charles Aron 60 Lesesne, Teri S. 58, 62 Meltzer, Brad 10, 34 Group 31, 39 Jordan, McKenna 54 Library Friends, Trustees, and Menendez, Jose 35 Pruett, Gretchen 53 Joseph, Heather 48 Advocates Round Table 31, 35, 37, 40, 42 Miculek, Sally 39 Public Libraries Division 29, 32, Joseph, Mildred 42 Library Instruction Round Table Miksa, Shawne 35 37-40, 42, 46-48, 58, 61 k ade, Stacey 56 28, 33-34, 48, 50 Millard, Mike 40 Public Relations and Marketing Kadir, Saima 41 Library School Alumni Dinners 56 Millet, Michelle 37 Committee 32, 39 Kahan, Karen 62 Library Services to the Spanish Millsap, Gina 12, 44, 47, 48 Quick, Matthew 47 Kanellos, Nicolas 46 Speaking Round Table 53 Miranda, Megan 52 Quinn, Brian A. 40 Kasprowski, Rafal 53 Library Support Staff Round Mlynowski, Sarah 50 Quirk, Matthew 47 Table 48 Kate, Lauren 53 Mohlman, Donna 40 raible, Adrienne 50, 60 Lillevig, Grace 37 Kaufman, Susan 28-29 Montgomery, Debbie 54 Ramineni, Shubhra 59
R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 65 Rasch, Sally 42, 52 Sifry, Micah 49 Committee 29, 43 Walking Tour 34 Reference Round Table 28, 30-31, Siggins, Jack 48 Texas Bluebonnet Award Selection Wallace, Loretta 31 38, 42, 48, 52, 60, 62 Signorelli, Paul 60 Committee 43 Wanner, Ted 29 Registration 30, 34, 44, 58 Simmons, Toni 49 Texas Media Awards Committee Warman, Jessica 56 32, 39, 43 Rex, Adam 40 Skye, Obert 61 Warr, Jeff 39 Texas State Library and Archives Reyes, Dawn 30 Small Community Libraries Round Waukechon, Russlene 34 Commission 30, 34, 47, 49, 53 Rhoden, Dia 58 Table 47, 54, 56 Weatherly, Leann 32 Texas Woman’s University 56 Riedel, Brian 41 Smith, Charles 54 Weiner, Rob 51 The University of Texas at Rivera, David 58 Smith, Eddy 32, 39 Austin 56 Welburn, Janice 34 Rivero, Monica 32 Smith, Jennifer 58 Thomas, Molly 37 Welcome Party 33 Rivers, Joseph Anthony 54 Smolenyak, Megan 39 Thompson, James Mike 54 Wells, Robison 44 Robisheaux, Krista 30 Solon, Raquelle 30, 32 Thompson, Sherry A. 39 West, Jacqueline 36 Rodman, Mary Ann 50 Special Libraries Division 28, 38, Timm, Eric 62 Westbrook, R. Niccole 43 Romaine, Cindy 52 40, 42, 49, 60 TLA Council 3, 62 White, Andrea F.58 Romanelli, Christine 41 Stafford, Michael 32 TLA Executive Board 30, 62 Wicke, Ashlynn 28 Rooks, Dana 40 Stanley, Virginia 49, 61 TLA Membership Meeting 62 Wilkinson, Lane 61 Roper, Terry 31 Stanton, Mary 42 TLA Store 30, 34, 44, 58 Williams, Cecilia 58 Rosas, Diana 45 Stevens, Linda 37 Totten, Herman 59 Williams, Cristen 30 Roth, Veronica 44 Stewart, James 40 TPALS-Texas Professional Williams, Demetria 32 Stewart, Kristen 58 Roubicek, Hank 38 Association of Library Sales Williams, Jerilynn A. 1, 29 Stiefvater, Maggie 36 Roy, Loriene 46 Round Table 30-31, 44, 51, 62 Williams, Ursula 46 Stokes, Henry A. 53 Rudd, Loretta 40 Tristán, Marina 38 Williams, Venessa 49 Storytelling Round Table 29, 38, Rudd, Peggy 49, 53 Troncoso, Sergio 46 Williamson, Lori 36 43, 47, 49, 56, 59 Russell, Rachel Renee 46 Turney, Jennifer 44 Willingham, Bill 47 Stripling, Barbara 12, 41 Russell, Rebecca 52 Turney, Linda 54 Willis, Kraig 42 Stuart, Loraine A. 60 Rutherford, Vivian 56 Umrigar, Thrity 59 Wohl, Lauren L. 28, 39 Stultz, Lisa 37 Rutledge, Lynda 57 University of Houston - Wong, Janet 61 Sullivan, Margaret 31 saenz, Benjamin Alire 54 Clear Lake 56 Wong, Monica 36 Sullivan, Maureen 12, 29, 41, 53 Safley, Ellen D. 49 University of North Texas Wood, Maryrose 50 Supervision, Management, 43, 54, 56 Saldaña, Rene 49 and Administration Round Wright, Adam 37 vaccari, Chris 49 Saltzberg, Barney 36 Table 33, 46 Wright, Nathan 39 Vacek, Rachel 28, 32, 58 Samuels-Young, Pamela 58 Sursa, Lara Rachel 54 Wright, Paula K. 49 Vaillancourt, Shawn 31 Sanders, Aubrey Marie 55 Sutton, Roger 39 Wu, Anping 46 Valentine, Doug 39 Sanders, Don 47 Syma, Carrye 52 Young Adult Round Table 30-31, Van Zandt, Debbie 35 Sargent, Elizabeth 28-29, 41 TALL Texans Round Table 29, 33, 35-40, 42, 44-45, 47-50, Vansickle, Sharon 51 Scattergood, Augusta 50 33, 46 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62 Vardell, Sylvia 61 Scheller, Jessica 52 Tappe, Craig 51 Young, Laura 38, 42, 60 Vardeman, Kimberly 52 Scholarship and Research Tashjian, Janet 61 Young, Stephen 61 Vargas, Karen 28 Committee 32 Tate, Don 46, 54 Yue, Chloris 58 Vielma, Sulema 53 Schrock, Kathy 28 Taylor, Toniesha 60 zabriskie, Christian 30 Voelkel, Jon 36 Scottoline, Lisa 37 Tebes, Sara 48 Zadoff, Allen 47 Voelkel, Pamela 36 Scroggins, Lisa B. 48 Testa, Dom 44 Zarr, Sara 54 Vonville, Helena M. 48 Sears, Suzanne 37 Texas Association of School Zavalina, Oksana 41 Second Life community Group 33 Librarians 29, 32-33, 35-37, Voutos, Gloria E. 35 Zelinsky, Paul 40 Segreto, Erin 38 39, 41-42, 44, 49, 52, 54, 56, Waak, Paul 61 Zepeda, Gwendolyn 46, 51 58-59, 62 Sherer, Talia 49, 61 Wagner, Beth 42 Zerkow, Syma 62 Texas Bluebonnet Award Luncheon Shumaker, David 12, 43 Wakimoto, Jina Choi 46 Ziph, Sally 30 9, 51 Shusterman, Neal 44 Texas Bluebonnet Award Program Sidhwa, Bapsi 59
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√ Preregistration postmark deadline is march √ no registration confirmations will be given √ Calculate preregistration, preconference, 30, 2012. Any forms received after the without a self-addressed stamped envelope ticketed events, and (if applicable) deadline will be returned to sender. provided. membership fees on the lines indicated on √ one form per person. Choose only one √ no preconference or event tickets will be the reverse of this form. preregistration fee. sold by TlA onsite. All tickets must be √ refund requests must be in writing and √ PurChAsE ordErs ArE noT purchased in advance, excluding the postmarked no later than march 30, 2012. ACCEPTEd. Payment must accompany Doo-Wop Sock Hop. refunds will be mailed in June, with a preregistration. √ name badges are required for all programs, $40.00 processing fee deducted. √ individual TlA member dues for 2012 must events, exhibits, and shuttle buses. be paid prior to or with this preregistration √ for TlA members, the city and state that appear on your name badge reflects your to receive discounted TlA member rates. if Preregistration applicable, the status of your membership business address, if available. dIScOu NTS are year is noted on the mailing label on the √ Exhibits-only passes will be sold through back of this program. online registration as well as onsite for $20, available for online √ if applicable, please fill in your TlA member good all three days the exhibit hall is open. registration only. number on the preregistration form. www.txla.org
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R4L: 2012 Annual Conference Edition 69 2 PRECONFERENCES • TUESDAY, APRIL 17 Help! My Customer Wants Their Census Website: Countless Research Opportunities Speed Dating with Texas Bluebonnets Family History 1:00 Pm - 4:00 Pm 1:00 Pm - 5:00 Pm 8:00 Am - 12:00 Pm Member $20 AGA Member $50 ALA Member $25 AAA Non-member $35 AGB Non-member $65 ALB Non-member $40 AAB ReadKiddoRead Drupal 101 1:00 Pm - 4:00 Pm 9:00 Am - 12:00 Pm Member $10 AHA Three additional preconferences are offered Member $15 ACA Non-member $25 AHB through online registration only. Non-member $30 ACB Fractured Fairy Tales with Willy Claflin and Maynard Using the Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox, & Kinect Online Legal Reference for Non-Law Librarians the Moose 8:00 Am - 12:00 Pm 9:00 Am - 12:00 Pm 1:00 Pm - 4:30 Pm Member $15 AEA Member $25 AIA emerging Technologies Non-member $30 AEB Non-member $40 AIB 9:00 Am - 12:00 Pm Member: $30; Non-member: $45 Technology & Libraries: An Unconference Genealogy & Local History for Librarians: 9:00 Am - 12:00 Pm Databases, Websites, & Finding Aids new members Standing TALL Member $15 AFA 1:00 Pm - 5:00 Pm 1:00 Pm - 4:30 Pm Non-member $30 AFB Member $25 AKA Non-member $40 AKB 3 TiCkeTeD evenTs (aLPha CoDes Ca – DJ) Conference registration fees NOT required; multiple tickets allowed. AUTHOR SESSIONS TAsl AuThor sEssion friday, april 20 TAsl PrivATE sChool librAriAns dinnEr TEXAs TEA with yA AuThors $30 CCb qty ______thursday, april 19 Wednesday, april 18 $50 dd qty ______$20 CA qty ______ClosinG AuThor sEssion doo-woP soCk hoP oPEninG AuThor sEssion (LiFTA) friday, april 20 $36 CCC qty ______thursday, april 19 Wednesday, april 18 $20 dE qty ______$36 Cb qty ______SPECIAL EVENTS blACk CAuCus AuThor sEssion TPAls Golf ouTinG Alumni rECEPTions & dinnErs thursday, april 19 tuesday, april 17 thursday, april 19 $30 CC qty ______$100 dA qty ______Twu $15 EA qty ______lAriAT/AdulT sErviCEs AuThor sEssion TAll TEXAns rECoGniTion & rECEPTion unT $30 Eb qty ______thursday, april 19 tuesday, april 17 $36 Cd qty ______$20 db qty ______uh-Cl $25 EC qty ______
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70 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 For PLanninG onLY: This form is ___ Implementing Patron Driven also available for electronic submission Acquisitions on the conference page of txla.org. Session Preference Form ___ Tapping Local Powe ___ Information Visualization and Please submit in only one format. 3:00 - 3:25 pm ___ Text4Baby: New Beginnings ___ Texas 2x2 Reading List Showcase Keyword Searching Please indicate which session in each ___ Crisis in Funding Journal Packages 10:00 - 11:20 am ___ Texas Reading Club Showcase ___ Libraries of the Future time slot you will most likely attend. Titles 3:00 - 3:50 pm ___ Customer Service Front Line 2:30 - 2:55 pm ___ Relevant: Making Yourself have been shortened. ___ Do You Have What it Takes? ___ Lone Star Reading List Authors ___ Intensive English Study and INDISPENSABLE ___ Metadata for 2012 and Beyond ___ Meeting Users at Point of Need Library Instruction TLA staff uses this data to assign rooms; 10:15 - 11:35 am ___ Virtual Reference/Public Libraries ___ Microsoft Office Unleashed 3:00 - 3:25 pm you will not be committed to attending ___ The World of Apps these sessions. Please check only one ___ Write Now: Interpreting Literature ___ Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) ___ Student Use of Interactive session per time slot. THANKS 10:15 - 11:50 am ___ Publishers Dish the Latest Buzz Whiteboards /Academic Library ___ African American Pioneers of 3:30 - 3:50 pm ___ Revolutionizing the Library 3:00 - 3:50 pm TuESday, apRIL 17 Horror and Science Fiction ___ Library Services for Career & Technology Education ___ State Library: Present and Future ___ NetTrekker 8:00 am - 12:00 pm ___ Author Tim Green and TASL Mtg. 4:00 - 4:50 pm ___ Stories Alive! Using Creative ___ Undead: Never Unread ___ Help! My Customer Wants Their ___ Be an Effective Advocate ___ ALA Presidential Initiatives Dramatics in Your Storytimes 4:00 - 5:20 pm Family History ___ From Librarian to US Archivist ___ Archiving LGBT Materials ___ Transliteracy in a Time-Crunch ___ General Session II 9:00 am - 12:00 pm ___ Google Tooling Your Way to ___ Barry Lyga Speaks ___ Wikileaks/Age of Transparency 5:40 - 6:20 pm ___ Drupal 101 Organization ___ Learning4Life ___ Book Buzz: YA Literature 10:00 - 11:50 am ___ Book Cart Drill Team Challenge! ___ Emerging Technologies ___ Colorful Crimes: Diverse ___ Social Tagging and the Catalog ___ Bypass the Boring! Revolutionize 6:00 - 8:00 pm ___ Online Legal Reference Characters in Mysteries ___ Suffering from Copyright Your Library Communications ___ Black Caucus RT Reception ___ Technology and Libraries ___ Demographic Information Confusion? ___ Free Analytics 6:30 - 8:30 pm ___ Using Playstation 3, Wii, xbox ___ Digitizing Local History ___ Thrill Masters: Books for Kids ___ Graphic Novels for Elementary ___ Private School Librarians Dinner 12:00 - 1:20 pm ___ Girls with Grit ___ Toddlers, Touch Technology, and ___ Legal Responsibilities for Library ___ Evening with the Authors ___ QR Codes 10:30 - 10:55 am Family Learning Friends and Foundations 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 1:00 - 1:50 pm ___ Using Creative Nonfiction to ___ Librarians on the Move ___ New Directions for Academic Video ___ Storytelling Round Table Concert ___ Gotta Gadget Workshops /Training ___ Restructuring the School Library Game Collections Inspire Children’s Programming 8:00 pm - 12:00 am ___ Graphic Novels: ROI ___ Write, Rewrite, Repeat: Authors ___ Retooling Ref. for Relevant Service 11:00 - 11:25 am ___ Learning from Elmo, Blue, Dora ___ Doo-Wop Intergalactic Sock Hop 11:00 - 11:50 am ___ ROI Measures at Your Library ___ Library Usability ___ Making the Best of Delivering Bad ___Virtual Tornado Rescue ___ To Go Credit or Non Credit 11:00 - 11:50 am FRIday, apRIL 20 News ___ Using Social Media to Improve ___ How Can I Get A SLAC for My 7:00 - 8:00 am ___ Museums: Tips for PR, Marketing 12:00 - 1:20 pm ___ E-Readers and E-Books Workflow at Academic Libraries School Library? ___ Rock of Ages ___ Worth Watching: Assessment ___ Who Let the Librarians Out? ___ Middle School Matters 8:00 - 8:50 am Video Tutorials/Academic ___Texas Tea with YA Authors 6:00 - 9:00 pm ___ Migrating Automation Systems ___ How to Set Up a Virtual Author 1:00 - 4:00 pm 12:00 - 1:50 pm ___ Opening Author Luncheon/LiFTA ___ Texas Media Awards 12:00 - 1:20 pm Program ___ Census Website: Research Opps ___ Movie Making in Three Clicks ___ Introducing the Spirit of Texas 1:00 - 1:50 pm 6:30 - 8:30 pm ___ ReadKiddoRead Reading Programs ___ Book Buzz: Highlights from 2012 ___TLA New Members Reception 12:00 - 1:50 pm 1:00 - 4:30 pm ___ Native American Young Adult Offerings for Children 7:30 - 9:30 pm ___ Lariat List Author Luncheon ___ Fractured Fairy Tales / Claflin Books ___ Collaborating in Tough Times ___ Storytelling Showcase/Swap ___ TBA Author Session Luncheon ___ New Members Standing TALL 8:00 - 9:20 am ___ Connecting Books and People 8:00 - 10:30 pm 1:00 - 1:50 pm 1:00 - 5:00 pm ___ Adult Multicultural Mystery Writers ___ Connecting Teens and Authors ___ President’s All-Conference Party ___ Battle of the Open Source ILS ___ Genealogy & Local History Primer ___ Collecting Outside the Box ___ Metadata Strategies for Getting ___ Crosstraining Staff/Public ThuRSday, apRIL 19 ___ Learn to Use Your Smart Phone ___ Corporate Philanthropy Objects Online and the TLA App ___ Demonstrating Value /Academic 7:00 - 8:30 am ___ Digitizing Historic Newspapers ___ New Books for Teens/Tweens ___ Speed Dating with Texas ___ Digital Public Library of America ___ Hetherington xxV Fun Run/Walk ___ Web-Scale Discovery ___ Every Child Ready to Read ___ Easing Library Staff into New Bluebonnets 8:00 - 8:50 am 8:00 - 9:50 am ___ Free Business Resources Technologies 2:00 - 2:50 pm ___ Revolutionary Trends: Genre-fying ___ ACDRT Vendor Breakfast & Mtg. ___ Leveraging Your Skills ___ International Baccalaureate ___ Libraries & End of Course Exams the School Library Diploma Program/School Library ___ Library Support Staff Certification ___ Libros en Español for YA 2:00 - 3:20 pm ___ Revolutionary: 2012 End of the ___ Legislative Update ___ Literacy Leapers: Special Needs ___ NARA Resources for Libraries ___ eReaders and eBooks World? ___ Lighting A Fire In Your Library’s ___ The Real Nuts & Bolts of Security ___ The Next Generation of Knowledge ___ Innovative Tech Applications for ___ School Library Volunteers and Friends Group ___ TASL Author Breakfast / Carman Management Reference & Instruction Aides: Partners for Success ___ Low Cost Marketing of Reference ___ Will Libraries Survive? ___ Meta-active Learning ___ Using Story as the Basis for 8:00 - 9:20 am Advocacy and Persuasion ___ Make Your Library FutureReady 8:30 - 9:50 am ___ Think, Create, Share and Grow ___ A Web-based Map Interface ___ My First Librarian Position ___ South Asian Authors in Houston ___ Using Graphic Design 2:00 - 2:50 pm Catalog Search Tool ___ 50 Apps/50 Minutes ___ The RDA Revolution for Non- 9:00 - 9:50 am 2:00 - 3:50 pm ___ Designing the Digital Branch Catalogers 2:00 - 3:20 pm ___ Finding the Best Fit in Mentoring ___ Attracting New Library Users with ___ eReader Technology ___ Research4Life: Inquiry-Based ___ Augmented Reality in K-12 ___ Managing Your Library’s Online Geocaching ___ Library Programming with Apps Learning in the Library Reputation ___ Creating Computer Games ___ Developing a Large-Scale Digital ___ Google Tips and Tricks/School ___ Right Now: New YA Literature ___ Navigating Antarctica with Social ___ Jumping the Hurdles of Librarian- Archives through Consortium ___ Maverick Graphic Novels ___ Rolling Reference Out to New Media and Collaboration Teacher Collaboration ___ The Importance of the Library in 8:00 - 9:50 am University Students ___ The Softwire in Adolescent ___ Let’s Be Honest/Robie H. Harris Future SACS Accreditation ___ Author Judy Blume and CRT Mtg. ___ TTRAC: Texas Teens Reading Cyberspace ___ Lights, Camera, We’re in Action ___ Joint Libraries: Models that Work ___ Black Caucus RT Breakfast: The ___ Using Picture Books to Teach TEKS 10:00 - 10:50 am ___ Next Generation Genealogy ___ One Book One Conference Image and the Word ___ When Libraries & Classes Collide ___ Business Reference ___ Social Media 101 ___ Writing Thrillers for All Ages ___ Consultants Reports 2:00 - 2:25 pm ___ Create Mentoring Programs ___ Staying Power: A Look at Classic 4:00 - 4:50 pm ___ Latino Literature: Then and Now ___ iPad iMpactI ___ Grant Writing in the Info Age Children’s Books ___ Library School Reference Courses ___ 8 Tips to Safely Manage Patrons 2:00 - 2:50 pm 10:00 - 11:20 am ___ Bootstrap User Experience (Ux) ___ Using the Web to Build a Personal ___ Preservation 101 for Your Library Learning Network ___ Books with Heart ___ Contemporary Collecting ___ Reel Read: From Movie to Book ___ Responding and Recovering ___ T4: Top Texas Technology Trends ___ Embedded Academic Librarianship 2:00 - 3:50 pm ___ Shaping Web Services ___ Revolutionary Leadership 2:00 - 3:20 pm ___ Face to Face for All: Poetry ___ What AASL Can Do For You ___ AnyThink: Designing Customer- ___ Surviving the Public/Unshelved Centric Libraries ___ Evaluating Quality of OpenURLs ___ Libraries and Transliteracy 4:00 - 5:30 pm ___ The Texas Story ___ Battledecks: Prepare to Compete! Through Analytics ___ Library Consortia ___ 1001 Great Ideas/Diversity Fair 8:30 - 9:50 am ___ Change Your Library’s Image ___ Gaming Design with Youth ___ Privatization of Public Libraries ___ Crime Time - Thriller Author Panel 5:00 - 5:50 pm ___ Creating Alliances with IT and ___ Leading at All Levels ___ Revision, Reshape, Refine ___ TLA Council I Librarianship 9:00 - 9:50 am ___ Making Libraries Relevant to the ___ The World of Children’s Apps 6:30 - 8:30 pm ___ Draw Me a Story ___ Guys Read Hispanic Community Today! 10:00 - 11:50 am ___ All-Conference Welcome Party ___ Incorporating and Assessing ___ Intro Webjunction ___ Navigating Privacy, Policy, and ___ Avoiding Inadvertent Insults Information Literacy/Academic ___ Managing Multiple School Service Issues in the Digital Age ___ Calling All Guys WEdNESday, apRIL 18 Libraries ___ Meet Me in the Kitchen: Cooking ___ Public Access Technology in ___ How to Do An Author Program 7:15 - 8:25 am ___ Strategic Collaboration Libraries: A National Initiative up Language Development ___ Kids Need to Read Program ___ Lynda Becker Walking Tours ___ Relevant: The Learner Centered ___ Ready, Set, Leap 10:00 - 10:25 am ___ Librarian and Vendor Relations 8:30 - 10:00 am ___ Creating a Social Media Strategy School Library ___ Salary Negotiation: Yes You Can! ___ Safe Space Kit 101 ___ General Session I/Brad Meltzer 10:00 - 10:50 am ___ Tayshas High School Reading List ___ Strategic Planning: How-to 11:00 - 11:50 am 10:15 - 10:50 am ___ 21st Century Librarian ___ Tips and Techniques for Engaging ___ Success Stories: The Value of Your ___ TEA Update ___ Extreme Makeover: Digital Edition ___ Creating Library Widgets (Net Fair II) Customers Support Community ___ Wikispaces to Share Reference 10:15 - 11:20 am ___ Here There Be Dragons! ___ Working with Your Local Bookstore ___ YART Reading Lists Booktalks and Circulation Statistics ___ Academic Leadership ___ Negotiating with Academic 2:00 - 3:50 pm 2:30 - 2:55 pm 12:00 - 1:20 pm ___ Electronic Licensing for Libraries Administrators ___ Books, Boys, and Boxing ___ R4: Finding the Best ___ Closing Author Luncheon/ Cronin ___ Open Data Policies in the U.S. ___ Digital Decisions
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72 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2011 MAIL TO: 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401 • Austin, TX 78746-6763 Texas Library Association 512/328-1518 • 800/580-2852 • FAX: 512/328-8852 • Email: [email protected] www.txla.org • INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP • CALENDAR YEAR 2012 JAN-DEC SECTION I — DIRECTORY INfORMATION Dues must be postmarked by February 1, 2012 to vote for association officers. New member? You are encouraged to join the New Members Round Table in addition to Round Tables or Interest Groups in your specialized area. Members falling into two or more categories of membership shall pay the highest applicable dues. Individual membership dues are non-refundable and non- transferable. fIRST TIME Except for $2.59 of your dues for this year’s subscription to the Texas Library MEMBER? Journal and TLACast, your TLA dues are tax deductible as a charitable donation.
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Personal Member (G) DUES BASIC DUES (Librarian, Library Professional, Library Staff) installment plan Includes one Division and one • Unemployed through $9,999 ...... $25 available through online Round Table / Interest Group ...... $ ...... • Salary $10,000 through $14,999 ...... $40 renewal or enrollment. Each Additional Division at • Salary $15,000 through $19,999 ...... $50 10% x Basic Dues = ...... $ ______• Salary $20,000 through $29,999 ...... $65 Each Additional Round Table or • Salary $30,000 through $39,999 ...... $90 SECTION III — DIVISION Interest Group, 5% x Basic Dues = $ ______• Salary $40,000 through $59,999 ...... $125 • Salary $60,000 through $79,999 ...... $135 (One Division included in Basic Dues) Membership Directory, $28 each = $ ______DUES SCHEDULE • Salary $80,000 and above ...... $150 College and University Libraries (1) Professional Liability Insurance Out of State Member (G) ...... $30 Public Libraries (2) $35 Annually (Jan-Dec) ...... $ ______Full-time Library Student (C) ...... $25 Special Libraries (3) Insurance Premium per Member: $27.50 Retired Librarian (D) ...... $30 State Taxes and Fees (4.91%): $ 1.35 Texas Association of School Librarians (4) Association’s Administrative Fees: $ 6.15
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Membership Form Texas Library Association 2012 Annual Conference volunteer Form YES! i’d like to help the 2012 TlA local Arrangements Committee by volunteering at the Annual Conference in houston, April 17-20. date ______
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volunteers should be willing to volunteer for a minimum of two consecutive hours. while librarians must be registered for the conference, paraprofessionals and support staff who are not registered for the conference will receive a complimentary exhibits-only pass with four hours of volunteer service. if you need four hours of volunteer service, please check here: Are you willing to work at more than one event during the conference? yes no Please indicate dates/times you prefer to volunteer.
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before conference, you will receive additional information about your assignment(s) from the committee chair for the area(s) in which you are volunteering. Check in at the volunteer booth in the registration area upon arrival.
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