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SCHOLASTIC™ Scholastic Inc. TEXAS LIBRARY JOURNAL Conference Edition contents Volume 91, No 4 Winter 2015 Published by the TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION President’s Perspective...... Susan Mann...... 2
Editorial – Texas Libraries: By the numbers...... Gloria Meraz...... 4 School Libraries on the Front Lines Membership in TLA is open to any individual or institution interested Creating a Transformative Library Vision...... Renee Smith-Faulkner...... 6 in Texas libraries. School Librarians and Expectations...... Jennifer Rike...... 7
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1 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Annual Conference Program Preview President’s Perspective by Susan Mann PENGUIN YOUNG READERS TUESDAY, APRIL 19 Are you ready? now. Libraries have been and are continuing to be the hubs of communities Conference 2016 in Houston “Open throughout our state. The TLA 2016 Libraries Open Opportunities” will soon Conference will feature programming to Open and promises to be filled with assist with all of these phases of change. Opportunities. There will be opportunities for everyone to find something As if the incredible programming was not they need, something they like, and enough, several big reveals will take place during the week. The Public Relations something they want. Come by the Author Signing Area to get a FREE book signed LIN OLIVER LYNDA MULLALY HUNT Committee will present TLA’s new PR 6:00 P.M.–7:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M.–7:00 P.M. The program contents and events have campaign. You will see it is a robust and by one of your favorite authors and illustrators. been planned to help everyone meet the universal campaign that can be used by all needs of a busy and constantly changing types of libraries and librarians to promote WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 work environment. Sessions will offer our profession and our institutions. With “cutting edge” information or wisdom for the reveal also will come the presentation helping us all weather our work storms. of toolkits to help all of us utilize this impactful as it leads the association into There will be help to plan and implement tremendous amount of creative materials the future. new ideas and strategies. We guarantee to their fullest potential. You truly don’t want to miss all the everyone will feel inspired and energized The Strategic Planning Task Force will information, opportunities, and FUN when you leave on Friday afternoon! reveal the result of its work over the last in Houston, April 19-22. What an JOSH LIEB DAN SANTAT CASSIE BEASLEY VICTORIA JAMIESON DOREEN CRONIN Information in this Journal represents year and present us with a strategic plan opportunity to meet your informational 10:15 A.M.–11:00 A.M. 10:15 A.M.–11:30 A.M. 11:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M. 11:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M. 11:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M. hours of work from members of the for the association. The plan will influence needs while networking with friends and Program Committee led by Cindy every aspect of the association for the colleagues from all over the state! See you Buchanan and Christina Gola and the next three to five years. It is certain to be at the Opening in Houston. J Local Arrangements led by Lee Hilyer and Melissa Rippy. TLA is truly a volunteer organization, and the beauty of TLA is in its members. I feel strongly there is no
other organization of any kind that puts URSULA VERNON MAYA VAN WAGENEN JANET FOX DAVID LEVITHAN on a quality conference with so few paid COMING SOON TO TLA 12:00 P.M.–1:00 P.M. 12:30 P.M.–1:30 P.M. 1:00 P.M.–2:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M. staff members. Conference programs have been created by librarians from all types of THURSDAY, APRIL 21 libraries that are in the trenches just like you. They have found topics that are of current and continued interest and can be of value to help all of us in our work lives. They also developed many opportunities to enjoy and delight everyone. TLA is a wonderfully unique organization; be a Fall 2016 galleys part of it! ADAM RUBIN & LAUREN WOLK M.A. LARSON MOLLY IDLE TRACI CHEE DANIEL SALMIERI 10:00 A.M.–11:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M.–11:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M.–11:00 A.M. 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Over this past year, I have had the Author signings SEE YOU 9:00 A.M.–10:00 A.M. wonderful opportunity to travel all over IN BOOTH our state visiting libraries and librarians. Visit the Penguin Young I believe strongly Texas librarians are in #iLoveMG swag 1512! a great position to take our state and Readers Booth #1517 its citizens well into the future. Texas Hi-fives! for FREE advanced reader libraries are at the forefront of change copies, educator guides, in educational technologies, digital Got library needs? publishing, and community initiatives STEPHANIE TROMLY DAVID LUBAR NIKKI LOFTIN posters, and more! Email us at [email protected] 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. 12:00 P.M.–1:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M. for literacy and workforce development. The diversification of services and Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books • Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Follow us on: penguinclassroom.com PenguinClass PenguinClassroom Artisan Books, a division of Workman Publishing environments that are increasingly WORKMAN is a registered trademark of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. important has taken place or is happening
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Follow us on: penguinclassroom.com PenguinClass PenguinClassroom Editorial by Gloria Meraz Texas Libraries: By the Numbers very couple of years, I write a Texas School Libraries year in review piece that offers Characteristics of Public Elementary and Total number of TX schools with library some statistics on library services Secondary School Library Media Centers or media center (calculated based on E in the United States: Results From the federal estimate of 67% of all campuses; in Texas. Be warned: looking at library 2011–12 Schools and Staffing Survey; 8,529 campuses reported by TEA for statistics is a bit of comparing apples to National Center for Education Statistics 2011-12 school year): 5,714.43 (data set published August 2013). oranges to trees. Data sources are from Total US Students in Fall 2011: Total number of public and private K-12 49,414,846 both state and federal agencies, and schools in the US: 90,000 Total TX Students in Fall 2011: federal data lags by three to four years Total number of US public and charter 5,000,470 (due to the gap in time from when the schools reporting having a library or media center: 81,200 data are reported and then published). School Libraries TEXAS as a % Even with these considerations, the CATEGORY US TOTAL TEXAS of US TOTAL numbers still tell a compelling and Annual Circulation 2,174,253,224 220,020,680 10.1% constant story. (based on 110 books/100 students per week at a 40- week school year) Texas librarians and library workers serve Total School Librarian 88,520 4,744 5.3% a great many people and accomplish a Professionals great deal. Texas libraries account for a # of Schools Reporting at 53,940 (66.4%) No state data na Least 1 FT Professional significant amount of educational dollars School Librarian and represent an impressive percentage Instructional Resource No federal Data 563,983,395 (1.37% na Media Costs All of total budget) of the overall dollars spent nationally on Book & Audio Visual 112,122,285,574 11,346,066,430 10.1% library services. Holdings (2,188 books & 81 AV materials per 100 students) With combined total operating All Information Resources @ $9,340/campus 53,372,776 7% budgets of $1,443,667,561, the Expenditures (avg) = $758,408,000 Texas library marketplace is substantial! Academic Libraries TEXAS as a % CATEGORY US TOTAL TEXAS of US TOTAL Texas Academic Libraries Annual Circulation 174,716,483 12,781,029 7.3% Academic Libraries: 2012 First Look. Total FTEs 85,752 5,636 6.6% National Center for Education Statistics (data set for 2012, published February Librarians FTEs 26,606 1703 6.4% 2014, the most recently available Other Professional Staff 7,817 453 5.8% statistics). Other Paid Staff & 51,328 (35.9% other 3,481 (39.7% other 6.7% Total Number of Academic Libraries in Student Workers paid staff; 23.9% paid staff; 22% the US: 3793 student workers) student workers) Total Number of Academic Libraries in All Expenditures $7,008,113,939 $444,096,166 6% Texas: 201 All Information $2,790,039,494 $190,071,713 6.8% Resources Expenditures
4 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Texas Public Libraries Public Libraries Public Libraries in the United States Survey: Texas as a % Category US Total Texas Fiscal Year 2012. Institute of Museum of US total and Library Services (data set published Annual Circulation 2,420,508,000 129,630,000 5.3% December 2014). Total FTEs 136,851 6,686.1 4.8% Some Numbers – Today Statistics Librarians FTEs 46,808 2395.4 5% In 2014-2015, Texas had 4,643.17 Other Paid Staff 90,042.7 4291 4.7% (FTE) school librarians serving a total All Operating Expenditures $10,733,102,000 $435,588,000 4.1% of 5,232,065 students. That means, on average, each school librarian in Texas All Collection Expenditures $1,222,726,000 $56,745,000 4.6% serves 1,127 students! (Source: Texas Education Agency online portal of education statistics.) In 2014, Texas public libraries served 24,391,446 people. (Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission.)
Fun Fun Based on estimates from federal and state data and truly unscientific methodology (see below), Texas academic, public, and school libraries hold roughly about: 1,257,444,634 items.
$19,465,242,934.32 worth of books and non-digital holdings in Texas libraries.
178,615 miles of books in Texas (if you lined them up long end to long end)! That’s enough to circle the world over 7 times. That’s just cool! Non-scientific but oddly productive methodology The average item cost was calculated by taking an average of all 11 categories of School Library Journal’s 2015 average book prices ($15.48). (Published December 5, 2015.) The item count is based on volumes held count (Texas) from the 2012 Academic data survey: 71,651,523; 2014 TSLAC figure for items held by Texas public libraries: 49,726,681; and 2011-12 school item count of 11,346,066,430 (as calculated in table above). The numbers are certainly not exact or precisely correct, but they do give a very reasonable ballpark figure of holdings. Note: Average size of books: 6x9” used as standard (for no particular reason). J Reflects 2014 data
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 5 Creating a Transformative Library Vision by Renee Smith-Faulkner
would like to begin the blog post by thanking all of the librarians, teacher-librarians, School Ihybrarians , and Twitterbrarians across the state for the leadership and support you offer your campuses, teachers, students, and the community each day. Districts and administrators that employ you as a vital resource and recognize the potential return on Libraries their investment have the best opportunities for transforming student learning on their campuses. Since receiving the Distinguished Administrator of the Year Award at TLA last year, I have had the opportunity to meet some of the most dedicated librarians in the state via face-to-face, email, and through participation in #txlchat. However, when I speak on the with them, I hear a common theme amongst them. Can you help change school administrators’ perceptions of the library program and educate them on the evolving role of the librarian as a 21st century campus leader? How do you begin the rebranding of a library program and implementing a transformative vision? First, I assure librarians that although Castleberry ISD has some great things happening FRONT in its libraries, this can be the story of every school library. Administrators can develop a Transformative Library Vision and turn it into a reality by starting with these 10 strategies we implemented in our district. 1 Create a Shared Vision for the Library. LINES Create a Library Improvement Plan. Present the plan to the school board and report progress on goals and objectives. Without a district-wide plan, internal and external stakeholders might not recognize the library as an integral component of the school community. I am pleased to Editor’s Note: 2 Staff Your Library with a Full-Time Librarian. present two great articles showcasing the roles of school libraries and school Value their expert knowledge. With the exponential growth in digital information, it is more important now to have an expert that can assist students in deciphering the librarians. validity of digital information. The first piece is a blog post written 3 Ensure Librarians are a Member of the Campus Leadership Team. by Renee Smith-Faulkner, assistant superintendent of technology services Librarians provide insight on the campus culture. for Castleberry ISD. Smith-Faulkner 4 involve Librarians in Planning and Facilitating District-Wide is the 2015 Winner of the Texas Professional Development. Association of School Librarians (TASL) Librarians can help others create a strong Personal Learning Network which Distinguished Library Service Award for provides individualized professional development based on campus and teacher School Administrators. The piece was needs. published last fall on TASL’s Advocacy 5 provide a Budget to Equip Your Library with Digital Resources and Blog (http://tasltalks.blogspot.com/), Technology Equipment. edited by Dorcas Hand. Be careful, librarians are instructional experts and not meant to spend their day The second piece offers an important on technical support. Use them to transform the learning culture that encourages look at the new teacher evaluation collaboration, communication, and supports innovation. system in place for Texas. Jennifer 6 Schedule Meetings with Your Library Staff Regularly. Rike offers a perspective for meeting appraisal head on! Do your librarians have a scheduled time to meet collaboratively, plan, and create a common vision to bring about purposeful change and establish one clear voice? Meeting regularly with the campus administrator helps build a positive relationship between the library and campus administration. These meetings can change how the library program is perceived.
6 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 7 Transform the Library Space to transformative ideas “out there” and technology coaches, and myself. During Accommodate Collaboration don’t be afraid to present ideas that are this time, standardized student resources and Personal Learning outside of the box. are shared so all stakeholders can support key collaborative initiatives for the year Networks. 10 And Did I Say, Staff Your Library such as the creation of student digital Allow librarians to have conversations with a Full-Time Librarian? portfolios, student blogs, teacher Canvas about what these spaces should look Librarians make a difference and classes, and flipped lesson resources. like and what tools should be available impact student learning. In our district, it has become second to support these learning spaces. Yes, Personally, I can’t imagine what our nature for our administrators to view coding, makerspaces, and gaming teacher-librarians as a vital member should be funded and implemented in district would be like without the leadership of our teacher-librarians. of the campus leadership team. Our the library. administrators embrace and advocate for 8 Share Library Success Stories We meet monthly as a group to assess creating and supporting libraries designed through a Hashtag Embedded the progress of our District Library to accommodate a “collaborative” and Improvement Plan, so necessary on the District Website. “connected” learning pedagogy that elicits adjustments can be made to ensure 21st century learning. Promote your library programs goals and objectives are reached. In The transformation did not come easy through the power of technology, and addition, technology coaches are often or without a few bumps in the road. this can make all of the difference in invited and planning for campus However, my experience has confirmed your library program. If you don’t professional development and teacher that an investment in your library have a district, campus, or library support networks are established. Then, program is well worth the return! J hashtag, create one now. the teacher-librarian for each campus reports progress on library initiatives 9 Don’t Be Afraid to Take a Risk. during campus improvement monitoring Renee Smith-Faulkner is assistant Don’t roll the dice and bet the meetings held each six weeks with the superintendent of technology services farm, but instead be willing to put campus principal, assistant principal, for Castleberry ISD.
School Librarians and Expectations by Jennifer Rike
Tess strode into the room. All those who Texas has joined a growing national instrument of our own? While Texas has had been awaiting her arrival let out a trend to revamp its educator appraisal gone ahead and revised PDAS to T-TESS, collective sigh. She was finally here. Even tools. With the federal adoption of our own State Library has also begun the those who did not yet know they would the Common Core, teacher evaluation process of updating our librarian evaluation need her took notice of her presence. Her has become part of the discussion on tool. This endeavor has been in the works long luxurious hair flowed majestically improving education. In 2014, Linda for over a year. The American Association behind her as she came to rest behind the Hammond-Darling wrote about the of School Libraries (AASL) is also in the circulation desk. research on teacher evaluation while process of revising its School Librarian h, how I wish life mirrored fiction serving the Rand Corporation: Performance and Evaluation System Oand that every librarian was A productive evaluation system should – AASL L4L. The National Board for perceived with that stunning stereotype! consider teachers’ practice in the context Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) But in the State of Texas, annual cycles of of curriculum goals and students’ also happens to be revising its “certification assessment and evaluation govern the lives needs, as well as multifaceted evidence process to incorporate the latest research of every educator – not fiction. of teachers’ contributions to student on best practices in teaching.” These could all be a long time in coming. T-TESS Tess, or T-TESS – if you haven’t heard learning and to the school as a whole. is our most imminent evaluation tool – yet – will be our new Texas teacher Where, then, do librarians fit in the implemented state wide next school year appraisal system, beginning with the appraisal puzzle? Teachers are getting – and we need to be informed. 2016-2017 school year. PDAS will be another instrument that is designed replaced by the Texas Teacher Evaluation specifically with them in mind, but can Rather than see where we don’t fit, and Support System or T-TESS. (For librarians ever expect the same? In the let’s find where we do. Patterning our more information, check out the FAQ on history of librarian evaluation tools, we perspective to reflect the format of T-TESS at Region 13. Item 6 addresses have long experience with instruments that National Board for Professional Teaching the logic behind the change. http:// do not fit. PDAS, developed for classroom Standards (NBPTS) will allow us to use www4.esc13.net/uploads/pdas/docs/ teachers, has only ever spoken to a portion the clearly identified standards TEA has Texas_Teacher_Evaluation_and_Support_ of what we do. Will T-TESS be any adopted and view them through anecdotal System_FAQ.pdf ) different? Will we ever have an evaluation reflection. We cannot provide test scores,
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 7 attendance stats, or grades for our busy needs of the school community?” With administrators to check our progress, so we our MLS credentials, we are the experts Jennifer Rike is a teacher librarian at need to get better at telling our story. who know how to “integrate information Timberview High School. T-TESS as an annual evaluation gives seeking into the teaching of creative and Works Cited us the opportunity to get out our story. critical thinking necessary for problem Looking at T-TESS and National Board for solving.” We know this! But are we getting Certificates, Standards, and Instructions for First-time and Returning Candidates. Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) our story out? together allows a closer “apple to apple” National Board for Professional Teaching comparison to see what story we might In the NBPTS one of the last standards is Standards, 2014. Web. 06 Nov. 2015. want to tell. Both TEA and the National Reflective Practice. Knowing that T-TESS Darling-Hammond, Linda. “Part of the Board focus on “educators.” The NBPTS, is coming in the future, take time now to Whole.” American Educator 38.1 (2014): however, does have a section specific to reflect on how you can share your amazing n. pag. ERIC. American Educator, 2014. library media specialists. Utilizing the story. Select a few dynamic programs from Web. Nov. 2015. broader focus of the NBPTS allows us to your library. Break each program down School Library Programs: Standards and honor what we do. into its main idea, focus, and goal. Figure Guidelines for Texas. Texas State Library So here’s a suggestion. Rather than shy out what terms you can choose to help and Archives Commission, n.d. Web. 6 away from the narrow focus of T-TESS, let share your story. Through reflection and Nov. 2015.
T-TESS NBPTS 2005 Texas School Library Standards
Instructional Standard I. Learner-Centered Teaching and Learning Planning and Standard II: Teaching and Learning Standard III. Learner-Centered Technology and Information Delivery Access
Knowledge of Students and Standard I: Knowledge of Student Standard I. Learner-Centered Teaching and Learning Student
Standard III. Learner-Centered Technology and Content Standard III: Knowledge of Library and Information Access Knowledge and Information Studies Standard VI. Learner-Centered Information Science and Expertise Standard VI: Integration of Technologies Librarianship
Standard III. Learner-Centered Technology and Information Access Learning Standard I: Knowledge of Student Standard IV. Learner-Centered Library Environment Environment Standard VII: Access, Equity, and Diversity Standard VI. Learner-Centered Information Science and Librarianship
Standard III. Learner-Centered Technology and Data-Driven Information Access Standard VII: Access, Equity, and Diversity Practice Standard VI. Learner-Centered Information Science and Librarianship
Standard IV: Leadership Professional Standard V: Administration Standard II. Learner-Centered Program Leadership and Practices and Standard VIII: Ethics Management Responsibilities Standard IX: Outreach and Advocacy Standard V. Learner-Centered Connections to Community Standard X: Reflective Practice
8 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015
Creating Money $mart $tudents: Using Money Smart Week® as a Platform for Outreach in an Academic Library
by Tammy Woodward and Sarah Timm e’ve all heard the saying, “Money 216% from the fall of 2008 to the fall makes the world go round,” so of 2013. The university currently serves Wit should come as no surprise about 4,600 students (66% of which are their own businesses. The businesses that people in every stage of life can female and 67% of which are Hispanic), under discussion ranged from a chain benefit from learning more about and approximately 74% of students of Texas barbecue restaurants to a money matters. From young children are the first in their family to go to non-profit food bank. The seminar learning the value of the dollar and the college. Most notably, 67% of A&M-San promoted the students’ abilities to take importance of saving to high school Antonio students receive some form of an ordinary undergraduate assignment, seniors eager to learn how to pay for scholarship or Pell Grant, so financial in conjunction with the knowledge and college to adults preparing for retirement, literacy is definitely a topic of interest to resources gained from the university, financial literacy is something that can our student body. and turn it into a dream business. The benefit everyone. Keeping in mind that The idea of celebrating Money Smart discussion, moderated jointly by a people go to libraries to get information Week® was born out of a new business management professor from the College on a variety of topics, we can certainly librarian’s desire to build a rapport with of Business and the business librarian, add financial information to the mix. her business faculty and provide outreach was both informative and thought- Furthermore, financial literacy is not just to the university’s business students provoking for the future entrepreneurs an issue for public libraries. Patrons of in specific areas of financial literacy in attendance. Students in the audience all types can benefit from it, and Texas education, namely entrepreneurship. participated in the discussion and A&M University-San Antonio bears this What resulted was a campus-wide walked away knowing both the pitfalls out. collaborative effort to provide financial and rewards of starting a new business. For the past two years, the Texas A&M literacy education to all students and to The event was advertised to students University-San Antonio University the surrounding community in various and staff as well as the local community. Library has celebrated Money Smart areas of financial literacy, including Refreshments were provided during the Week® as a platform for outreach and personal finance, salary negotiation, job event, and a display table featuring the a means for providing financial literacy hunting skills, identity theft prevention, library’s entrepreneurship and financial education to its students, staff, faculty, and entrepreneurship. The idea quickly literacy resources and some freebies was and community. Money Smart Week® is bloomed into a campus-wide endeavor. displayed in the lobby outside the event. “a public awareness campaign” created In April 2014, the university library To further celebrate Money Smart Week®, by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago celebrated the Money Smart Week® the university library displayed financial and designed to “help consumers campaign for the first time. To keep it literacy books and other resources manage their personal finances” and simple, the library held two events: a throughout the library on subjects like: is “achieved through the collaboration seminar titled Personal Finance 101 and managing personal finances, paying for and coordination…of organizations a live panel discussion titled “How to across the country including businesses, Turn Your Business Plan into a Reality.” financial institutions, schools, libraries, not-for-profits, government agencies and Personal Finance 101 was taught by a the media.” According to the Chapter professor of finance from the College Relations Office of the American Library of Business. The seminar featured Association, 700 libraries in 48 states techniques for household budgeting, participated in the campaign in 2014, credit score maintenance, and retirement which grew to 900 libraries in all 50 planning; and it offered helpful tools and states in 2015, only 10% of which are resources for accomplishing these tasks. academic libraries. Students gained a wealth of knowledge in Texas A&M University-San Antonio managing their personal finances while is unique in that it is the first upper- enjoying a nice lunch and some freebies division higher education institution provided by the library. located in the city of San Antonio’s The second event, a panel discussion underserved south side. A&M-San titled “How to Turn Your Business Plan Antonio was created as a stand-alone into a Reality,” featured three former MONEY SMART DISPLAY university on May 27, 2009 with Senate graduates and two current students Photo used by permission. Bill 629 and has seen enrollment grow of A&M-San Antonio who started
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 9 college, and identity theft prevention. entrepreneurship and financial literacy of attendees said they were very likely The library created a financial literacy- resources was displayed in the lobby or likely to recommend a Money Smart themed LibGuide that gathered all of outside the event. Week® event to others. these resources together for students In further celebration in 2015, the Overall, the Money Smart Week® to access at any time. Library staff also library again featured a book display events at A&M-San Antonio have been offered trivia games at the information with financial literacy books and other successful in showcasing the university’s desk for students to play to win small resources including free financial business students and providing a great Invites You to Meet Our Authors at TLA! prizes such as money erasers and pencils. education publications from the opportunity for the library to collaborate Because of the successful turnout of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with its campus constituents as well as TLA 2016 • Houston, TX • April 19–22 2014, the university library decided to in the form of bookmarks, handouts and off-campus organizations to provide participate in Money Smart Week® once brochures on topics such as building a valuable financial literacy education to Stop by the Random House Children’s Books Booth, #1518, to meet our authors and illustrators, pick up again in 2015. Continuing to keep things budget, building a better credit report, its campus community, not to mention promotional materials and advance reader copies of our most exciting titles, and meet our staff! simple, the library put on another two and preventing identity theft. The library the valued opportunity it afforded a new events: a seminar titled “What are You also updated and maintained a financial business librarian to collaborate with her Wednesday, April 20 Worth? Tips for Salary Negotiation” and literacy-themed LibGuide and offered faculty and students. Next year, Money a live panel discussion titled “Encore trivia games at the information desk for Smart Week® will be celebrated from Entrepreneurs: How to Turn Your students to play in order to win small, April 23-30, 2016, and the team already Business Plan into a Reality,” similar to money-themed prizes. has a plan in place to share financial literacy education with the university’s the previous year. Planning for events and programs for 2017 TEXAS “What are you Worth? Tips for Salary both years was undertaken by a team of students and community once again. BLUEBONNET LIST! Next year’s events are sure to be just as Negotiation” was presented by the Career two librarians, the business librarian, JENNIFER L. HOLM KELLY JONES PENNY PARKER GAVR IEL SAVIT Services department and was offered at and public services manager, along with successful! Signing: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. KLOSTERMANN Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. both A&M-San Antonio campuses. The a budget of $350 the first year and $750 Don’t miss Jenni at the Global Read Aloud Don’t miss Kelly at the Texas Bluebonnet Speed Signing: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Don’t miss Gavriel at the YART: “Hear Them First: Debut YA Program on Tuesday, April 19, at 2:00 p.m.! Dating Event on Tuesday, April 19, at 3:00 p.m.! Authors – Chapter 1” panel on Tuesday, April 19, at 2:00 p.m.! 45-minute presentations were delivered the second year, the bulk of which went Tammy Woodward is a business in three 15-minute sections titled 1) toward customized t-shirts. The team librarian, and Sarah Timm is the Setting the Bottom Line: Determining began brainstorming potential events public services manager. Both are with Your Expenses and Income, 2) What’s in early fall; recruited speakers, booked Texas A&M University-San Antonio. the Usual Salary for My Career?, and 3) spaces, and purchased relevant library Top Tips for Negotiating Your Salary. materials in January; ordered freebies The individual sections allowed students and food in February and March; and to catch some or all of the content presorted the freebies and created display DAVID LEVITHAN LIESL SHURTLIFF Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. TERESA TOTEN presented as they were rushing to and boards in late March for the multi- Signing: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Don’t miss David at the TLA Reading List Task Force Don’t miss Liesl at the CRT “Explore Other Realms with Middle Grade Fantasy from classes that day. As an added campus events to take place in April. Luncheon on Wednesday, April 20, at 12:00 p.m.! Authors” panel on Tuesday, April 19, at 2:00 p.m. and at the YART Don’t miss Teresa at the YART “Trends in Mental Illness incentive to attend, students were given a Advertising for the events, which took “Fairytale Retellings in YA Literature” panel on Thursday, April 21, at 2:00 p.m.! in YA” panel on Wednesday, April 20, at 2:00 p.m.! free Money Smart Week® t-shirt. on many forms including flyers, digital Thursday, April 21st The second event, “Encore display boards, social media, posting to Entrepreneurs: How to Turn Your various calendars, and word of mouth, Business Plan into a Reality,” began began about a month before the events with a 30-minute presentation by a local took place. Faculty were also approached representative from the Small Business by the team prior to the events and asked Administration in San Antonio on to offer extra credit to students who FREEBIES! RAYMOND ARROYO JENNIFER GRAY OLSON TAD HILLS JULIE BUXBAUM attended and, in some cases, wrote a brief Photo used by permission. business basics and funding sources for Signing: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Signing: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. startups and was followed by a panel summary of the lessons learned from the event. Don’t miss Raymond’s panel, “Middle Grade Don’t miss Jennifer at Matthew Winner’s Let’s Get Busy Don’t miss Tad at the Children’s Book Illustrators Ultimate Sketch- Don’t miss Julie Buxbaum at the YART “Hear discussion featuring A&M-San Antonio Science Fiction Authors That Are Out of This Podcast and Kidlit Author Kickball Tournament Off on Wednesday, April 20, at 4:00 p.m. and at the “Illustrating the Them First: Debut YA Authors – Chapter 2” Bibliography alumni that had started their own Responses to the events for both years World,” on Thursday, April 21, at 9:00 a.m.! on Wednesday, April 20, at 2:00 p.m.! Imagination” panel on Friday, April 22, at 10:00 a.m.! panel on Thursday, April 21, at 10:00 a.m.! businesses. The discussion was again were overwhelmingly positive. The “Money Smart Week FAQs.” Federal moderated jointly by a management number of views of the Money Smart Reserve Bank of Chicago. 2015. http:// Friday, April 22 professor from the College of Business Week® LibGuide increased from the first www.moneysmartweek.org/faqs. and the business librarian and offered to the second year, as did the number “About A&M-SA.” Texas A&M LANCE RUBIN Signing: 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. sage advice and recommended resources of attendees at the events. The Money University-San Antonio. 2015. http:// for the startups and entrepreneurs in Smart Week® partner’s survey results Don’t miss Lance Rubin at his panel, www.tamusa.edu/about/index.html. BONNIE-SUE HITCHCOCK “LOL: Humor in YA Literature” on attendance. Only this year, the event showed the majority of attendees found Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Thursday, April 21, at 2:00 p.m.! Wood, Don. Money Smart Week 2016. was broadcast live via an Adobe Connect their Money Smart Week® session very Don’t miss Bonnie-Sue at the YART “Different Cultures Explored in classroom to students unable to attend valuable or valuable, and the majority Webinar. October 6, 2015. http://www. YA Literature” panel on Thursday, April 21, at 10:00 a.m.! J the event on campus. Refreshments and said they were very likely or likely to ala.org/offices/money-smart-week. freebies were provided during the event, take action on something they learned Visit RHTeachersLibrarians.com, your online destination and a display table featuring the library’s during their session. Finally, the majority for all the resources you need for your school or library!
10 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Invites You to Meet Our Authors at TLA! TLA 2016 • Houston, TX • April 19–22 Stop by the Random House Children’s Books Booth, #1518, to meet our authors and illustrators, pick up promotional materials and advance reader copies of our most exciting titles, and meet our staff! Wednesday, April 20
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JENNIFER L. HOLM KELLY JONES PENNY PARKER GAVR IEL SAVIT Signing: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. KLOSTERMANN Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Don’t miss Jenni at the Global Read Aloud Don’t miss Kelly at the Texas Bluebonnet Speed Signing: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Don’t miss Gavriel at the YART: “Hear Them First: Debut YA Program on Tuesday, April 19, at 2:00 p.m.! Dating Event on Tuesday, April 19, at 3:00 p.m.! Authors – Chapter 1” panel on Tuesday, April 19, at 2:00 p.m.!
DAVID LEVITHAN LIESL SHURTLIFF Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. TERESA TOTEN Signing: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Don’t miss David at the TLA Reading List Task Force Don’t miss Liesl at the CRT “Explore Other Realms with Middle Grade Fantasy Luncheon on Wednesday, April 20, at 12:00 p.m.! Authors” panel on Tuesday, April 19, at 2:00 p.m. and at the YART Don’t miss Teresa at the YART “Trends in Mental Illness “Fairytale Retellings in YA Literature” panel on Thursday, April 21, at 2:00 p.m.! in YA” panel on Wednesday, April 20, at 2:00 p.m.! Thursday, April 21st
RAYMOND ARROYO JENNIFER GRAY OLSON TAD HILLS JULIE BUXBAUM Signing: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Signing: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Don’t miss Raymond’s panel, “Middle Grade Don’t miss Jennifer at Matthew Winner’s Let’s Get Busy Don’t miss Tad at the Children’s Book Illustrators Ultimate Sketch- Don’t miss Julie Buxbaum at the YART “Hear Science Fiction Authors That Are Out of This Podcast and Kidlit Author Kickball Tournament Off on Wednesday, April 20, at 4:00 p.m. and at the “Illustrating the Them First: Debut YA Authors – Chapter 2” World,” on Thursday, April 21, at 9:00 a.m.! on Wednesday, April 20, at 2:00 p.m.! Imagination” panel on Friday, April 22, at 10:00 a.m.! panel on Thursday, April 21, at 10:00 a.m.!
Friday, April 22
LANCE RUBIN Signing: 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Don’t miss Lance Rubin at his panel, BONNIE-SUE HITCHCOCK “LOL: Humor in YA Literature” on Signing: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Thursday, April 21, at 2:00 p.m.! Don’t miss Bonnie-Sue at the YART “Different Cultures Explored in YA Literature” panel on Thursday, April 21, at 10:00 a.m.!
Visit RHTeachersLibrarians.com, your online destination for all the resources you need for your school or library! Education and Employment submission of a ticket into our share Background drive so I will be able to triage, track, and Action fix. As it turns out, my predecessor opted Christina Cool: I received my BA in the for another process. The library staff was study of religion from the University used to calling her, and she would make a of California at Los Angeles in 2002. personal visit to fix problems like clearing I then used that degree to say, “Look, Items a librarian’s history and cache. Being I have a BA!,” and promptly became a new, I assumed that was just the way I marketing associate at a local direct-mail was supposed to work. It was frustrating and online marketing company in Los to not be able to track tickets and triage. Angeles. I moved to Texas, earned a MLS for New Until one day my supervisor noticed from the University of North Texas in what was going on. 2009, and then spent the next four years working from home doing search engine I returned from clearing someone’s cache Librarians evaluation before being hired as the when she asked where I’d been. When I electronic resources librarian at TWU. explained, she helped me see that I was by Susan Whitmer, Christina Cool, in charge and could shape my work as Amanda Mims: I have an associate’s Amanda Mims, and Suzanne Townsdin needed. I learned how to say no and to degree in fine arts from North Central show users how to submit a ticket. I no Texas College, a BA in English, and longer worry about filling the shoes of A librarian’s first year of professional an MLS (both from TWU). Before my first librarian job, I worked in my predecessor. I strive to find the best work is full of expectations – both from paraprofessional positions: circulation process for the task at hand. the new librarian and the employer. assistant, part-time reference librarian, AM: The director of one of our major special projects associate in an academic programs invited me to teach a two-hour Job responsibilities can range from archive, graduate assistant, and swim research seminar at the beginning of the serving as the LibGuides administrator instructor. Texas Woman’s University is fall semester. I needed to get students my first full-time professional librarian ready for the case report they would to library instructor for first-year English position. I am a health sciences librarian. be writing throughout the semester. I composition classes. Library and Suzanne Townsdin: I have three degrees planned which databases I was going to cover, researched tricks to keep them information science schools prepare from the University of North Texas: a BA in anthropology, a BA in Spanish from getting discouraged, and identified new librarians with theory. However, (with secondary teaching certificate), strategies for narrowing down large search result lists. The night of the class, it is on-the-job training and the ability and an MLIS with a certificate in digital content management. My work I had over 50 students. I pulled up the to adapt to an institution’s culture that experience includes shelver, graduate speech communication subject guide library assistant, and stacks manager. and the Internet went down. The entire determines success. After receiving my MLIS in May 2014, campus lost Internet access. I had to quickly figure out how I was going to We are four new librarians at the Texas I accepted my first professional librarian position at Texas Woman’s University teach these students with no access to Woman’s University (TWU) Libraries. in July 2014 as the science reference live databases. I created sample search librarian. PowerPoint presentations for another The TWU Libraries have locations in class, and decided to teach from those. Susan Whitmer: I have two degrees from Denton, Dallas, and Houston. TWU is It wasn’t as good as a live search, but the the University of North Texas: a BFA in students could at least see screenshots of a co-educational, liberal arts university studio art and a MLIS. Before becoming what a successful search looks like. The a librarian, I worked in paraprofessional director was impressed that I was able to that has an enrollment of approximately positions at the UNT Libraries: technical think on my feet. We set up another time services, preservation, and research and 15,000 full-time students. TWU is the for me to teach when we had Internet instructional services. I’m the humanities access. The instructor invited me to teach largest university primarily for women in reference librarian at Texas Woman’s again in fall semester. the United States. University. ST: A few weeks into my first semester From the Cloud; a state of the art LSP First Success Brings Confidence as a librarian, I was warned about a CC: One of my primary tasks is to fix difficult biology assignment that brings www.Biblionix.com things when they are broken. Databases many first-year students into the library Phone: 877-800-5625 ext. 1 with linking errors, journals with every semester. Assisting these students Email: [email protected] inaccurate coverage, ebooks not opening was difficult, because the topic they were – these are all things that I need to researching produced academic articles know about and fix. 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12 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 in the discipline. Every semester, this getting first-hand information from the smooth and that faculty know that you assignment resulted in students feeling instructor, and being clear on my role. are on top of projects. overwhelmed and librarians feeling SW: As the liaison librarian to the Dress the Part unable to help. humanities, my main responsibility is CC: Prior to this position, I’d spent four It is not uncommon for librarians to to teach library instruction to first-year encounter “bad research assignments.” I years working from home. My wardrobe composition (FYC) classes. As a new consisted of yoga pants and t-shirts. I suspected that this might be one, so I set librarian, I wanted to make a good up a meeting with the course instructor knew I would have to step up my game impression so I created all new FYC for a professional job. I invested in a nice to discuss this assignment with her. instruction materials. I demonstrated First, I asked her to tell me more about suit for the interview and then turned these materials to the English faculty to Pinterest for inspiration for a more the assignment. We performed a sample hoping they would schedule my library search in some of our databases, which business casual style. “Dress for the job instruction sessions for their classes. The you want, not the job you have” sounds I was confident would demonstrate demonstration was a hit, and most of that the assignment was too advanced cliché, but there is a lot of truth to it. the faculty requested at least one library You’re going to be taken seriously when for these first-year students. Instead, instruction class. I learned that the assignment only you look put together and carry yourself required the students to comprehend a This happened during the week that with confidence. few sentences that they could relate to TWU provided faculty and students the AM: I have a bit of a challenge when an experiment performed in class. They option to switch from Outlook email to it comes to dressing for work - I have did not need to completely understand Gmail, so we experienced some glitches several visible tattoos. After searching for or read the entire article. The purpose of in the scheduling. After noticing some TWU’s tattoo policy (there is not one), the assignment was for students to find discrepancies, I followed up with faculty. I decided on my own personal tattoo relevant articles and cite them correctly, I learned that starting a good relationship policy. On teaching or presentation days, not for them understand everything they with faculty is just part of the process; I cover them up so they will not be a read. I had that “aha” moment about the you have to maintain a good relationship distraction. On any other day, it is fine importance of not making assumptions, by making sure communication is if my forearm tattoos peak out. Not only
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2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 13 does this let me feel more comfortable, Mentors & Networking attending a conference, it is a good idea consistency helps other staff too. CC: The electronic resources librarian to sign up for additional sessions. And ST: Despite being in my late 20s, I often position is a very isolated role. It’s don’t forget to add your new skills to get mistaken for an undergraduate. difficult to make connections when your CV! I learned quickly that professional others do not fully understand what you AM: Webinars have been huge for librarians who look young need especially do. I recommend joining listservs and me when it comes to keeping up to dress and act the part. You want to asking questions either on or off the list. with technology. Not only do I get signal that you are a professional, not I have “met” several fellow ERLs that to learn about different databases, a student employee. I wear business way and we have created our own little technology trends, computer programs, casual on most days and add a blazer group with which to discuss new ideas and programming languages from on days when I have library instruction and challenges. I have also found that experts, but I can also see how different scheduled. attending conferences is a wonderful way professionals in the field implement those SW: Image is important for public to foster relationships with other ERLs, technologies. Things like Coursea and service librarians, because we interact and it’s comforting to know that help, Lynda.com also offer great courses in with library users and library staff. inspiration, or commiseration is only an different aspects of technology. Dressing above your title shows that email or text away. SW: Become proficient in one area you have ambition. I mimic the style ST: Networking can be challenging of technology. Focusing on one area of fashionable academics. I shop at for librarians, because many of us are of technology makes it easier to learn consignment stores and thrift stores for introverts. I consider myself an outgoing something new, and patterns will emerge. dresses, blazers, and suits. introvert, but I struggle at networking. Since I have a lot of assessment duties, What They Don’t Teach You in A strategy that has worked for me is I keep my spreadsheet skills sharp by to volunteer at conferences. Being a watching tutorials and subscribing to Library School volunteer makes me feel more like a spreadsheet listservs. Focusing on one AM: A grant writing class would be hostess, which encourages me to be more area of technology makes it easier to learn useful. I’ve found that one of the things outgoing and interact with more people. something new. faculty frequently want me to do is look My biggest networking advice is to make Conclusion over grant proposals and assist in research a conscious effort to get out of your or by checking formatting. TWU has an comfort zone. Sit with people you do not We are four new librarians navigating Office of Research, and its staff have been know. Interact with the people around our way through our first year as incredibly helpful in navigating the grant you and be approachable. professionals. We worked hard to become librarians, and we developed writing process. I think it’s important SW: I worked as a reference specialist in strategies to thrive in our new positions. for new librarians to seek out that kind the research and instructional services We have found that the best way to of training, whether by contacting department at the University of North approach new librarianship is to turn the Office of Research or finding Texas for three years. My mentors were obstacles into opportunities, take webinars and training through different instruction librarians who taught classes, advantage of continuing education professional associations. published journal articles and books, and to fill in the education gaps, build a ST: I was not taught how to teach or presented at conferences. I was fortunate professional wardrobe, find a mentor, manage a class in library school. With to have an apprenticeship with these master technology, and network at every today’s academic reference librarians librarians who were willing to let me co- opportunity because the library world is devoting so much time to library teach library instruction classes and co- about connections and being connected. instruction, training in this activity author conference papers, poster sessions, J would be useful. Because library and presentations. school does not focus on teaching, it is Keep Up with Technology Susan Whitmer ([email protected]) important for aspiring academic reference is a reference librarian. Christina librarians to research basic teaching and CC: Electronic resources is a very learning theories. Familiarity with these dynamic field. I find that webinars and Cool ([email protected]) is a librarian. strategies can make your instruction tutorials are an invaluable resource to Amanda Mims ([email protected]) is a more effective. keep up with ever-changing formats and reference librarian. Suzanne Townsdin interfaces. Depending on your place of ([email protected]) is a reference SW: A statistics course would have employment, you may also have access librarian. All are with Texas Woman’s helped with all my assessment to Lynda.com; if so, take full advantage University. responsibilities. I did not learn about of it. Many conferences also offer pre- assessment in library school. Assessment and post-conference sessions geared is a large part of my job as a reference specifically towards technology. If you’re librarian and I learned most of my assessment skills by joining assessment committees, assessment webinars, and on-the-job training.
14 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 newsnotes TLA AWARDS “StoryTime with Brad”
It is awards season again. Be sure to • Benefactor(s) Award: Recognizes New York Times Best-Selling author check the TLA website for information substantial donations. Brad Meltzer is offering the world a treat. There’s just no other way to describe the about association-wide awards and unit- PR Branding Iron Awards: Be sure to level awards. weekly offering of good old fashioned apply for TLA’s Public Relations Branding storytelling combined with the author’s • Librarian of the Year Iron Awards. With multiple categories, Award: Recognizes extraordinary wit. Meltzer is offering weekly bedtime make sure you and your staff are being reads through Facebook. leadership or service within the library recognized for all the good work you are community within the past 12-18 doing promoting your library and its You can tune in on your own, with kids, months. services! loved ones, or view videos later. With a • Distinguished Service growing band of eager listeners, Meltzer TLA Scholarships, Grants, and Award: Recognizes outstanding and is offering literary enthusiasts of all ages Stipends continuing service in one or more areas : The Scholarship and another way to share the written (and of the library profession. Research Committee of the Texas spoken) word. To learn more, visit Library Association invites TLA • Lifetime Achievement Meltzer’s Facebook page. members to submit applications Award: Recognizes an exemplary career for scholarships, research grants, and in librarianship. to TLA’s CE conference stipends to be awarded in • Outstanding Services to Libraries Office has the spring of 2016. To apply for any TLA Award: Given to an individual or several programs scholarship, grant, or stipend, applicants to an organization in recognition of available, many outstanding lay advocacy. will need to complete the online of which are at no cost to members. application found on the TLA website. Continuing Education credit is available • Wayne Williams Library Project of Applicants must be TLA members to for watching the live webinar or for the Year Award: Recognizes a project apply. Scholarship applicants must also be viewing a recording and taking a short that exemplifies the highest levels of quiz. The Texas Library Association is achievement, professional standards, accepted as a graduate student at a Texas accredited by both the Texas State Library and inspiration to other libraries. ALA-Accredited Library Program. and Archives Commission and the State Unit Awards, Division (CULD, PLD, • Libraries Change Communities Board of Educator Certification (provider TASL) and Stipends Award: Given to a collaborative : Numerous unit #500383). community effort that recognizes positive awards and stipends are also available. achievements and promotes outstanding Information is provided at the TLA Check out the website: library-based initiatives in Texas. awards website. www.txla.org/ce
TLA Remembers TSLAC Begins Updating School Library Standards
The Texas State Library and Archives Kim Garcia (educational technology ur eceased O D Commission (TSLAC) has begun the coordinator, Georgetown ISD); Scott olleagues C process to revise the 2005 School Library Harrell (executive director of leadership Susan M. Andrews Programs: Standards and Guidelines for and learning, Pasadena ISD); Kelly Jo Ann Bell Texas. Working in concert with the Texas Hoppe (high school librarian, Amarillo Education Agency, TSLAC has named a ISD); Donna Kearley (library services Diantha Dawkins committee to undertake this process. coordinator, Denton ISD); Irene Kistler Susan Elliott Committee members include: Vanessa (high school librarian, Alamo Heights Roxanne Feldman Ashcraft (district librarian, Jarrell ISD); ISD); Elizabeth Philippi (district Sister Casilda Hyzak Sunni Branstetter (5th Grade English library coordinator, Houston ISD); and Evelyn King Language Arts/Social Studies teacher, Sonja Schulz (high school librarian, Joseph Lively Northwest ISD); Len Bryan (school Nacogdoches ISD). Welta Wally Scruggs program coordinator, Texas State Library The committee cannot complete this Donna Senter and Archives Commission); Blair Claussen revision alone and is asking for the Dr. Robert Tocker (Instructional Materials and Education broader library community to reach out to Technology, Texas Education Agency); members of the group ideas, comments, Charles Tucker Jr. Nicole Cruz (high school librarian, and suggestions. For additional Jeanie Tuttle Sharyland ISD lead librarian); Brandon information, contact Len Bryan (lbryan@ Dennard (principal, Chapel Hill ISD); tsl.texas.gov). J
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16 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 2016 Conference Committees Conference Program Connection Corner (Tech Center) Melody Condron, University of Houston Cindy G. Buchanan, co-chair, Aldine ISD Sheila Baker, University of Houston-Clear Lake Barbara Henderson, Fort Worth Library Christina H. Gola, co-chair, University of Houston Steve Perez, Houston ISD Patricia L. Moore, Pasadena ISD Treva S. Anderson, Houston Community College Entertainment Catherine Pells, Montgomery County Library Mark Michael Asteris, Lamar University Elizabeth J. Gilbert, Aldine ISD System John F. Augelli, Rosenberg Library Grace A. Lillevig, Harris County Public Library Allison R. Sutton, Pasadena ISD Carol Eginia Bartz Cindy Yell, Brazoria County Library System L.G. Swift, Fort Worth Library Kelsey R. Brett, University of Houston Exhibits Registration Susan Chandler, Nesbitt Memorial Library Mary A. Cohrs, Bellaire City Library Julie Mulkey, Pasadena ISD Nora E. Dethloff, University of Houston Thomas Steven West, Brazoria County Library Elizabeth Phillippi, Houston ISD System Sandra L. Farmer, retired Social Media Health Events Jacqueline M. Higginbotham, New Caney ISD Elizabeth K. Hensley, Aldine ISD Keith Rogers, Friendswood Public Library Kathryn J. Hoffman, retired Tracy Timmons, San Jacinto College Jessica L. Jackson, Aldine ISD Kelly Wadyko, Pasadena ISD TLA Store Heather L. Jankowski, College Station ISD Hospitality Grace E. Littlefield, Second Baptist School Jesse Lloyd Javillonar, Tomball ISD Joy Llorens, Aldine ISD Amy J. Sutton, Strake Jesuit College Prep Devery P. Johnson, Montgomery County Memorial Kandy R. Taylor-Hille, Brazoria County Library Transportation Library System System Larry D. Koeninger, City of Bryan Information Connie S. Doolin, Pasadena ISD Ashlynn W. Kogut, Texas Medical Center Library Sheri Diane McDonald, Conroe ISD Jennifer Wigle, Montgomery County Library System Shelly Lane, Montgomery County Memorial Allison M. Vaughan, Klein ISD Volunteers Library System Meeting Rooms Karen A. Harrell, Spring Branch ISD Suzanne M. Lyons, Fort Bend ISD Melissa A. Baker, Montgomery County Library Elizabeth H. Meshkoff, Spring Branch ISD Andrea R. Malone, University of Houston System Denise M. Milton, Jasper Public Library Kat Landry Mueller, Sam Houston State University Texas Library Association Maria T. Olivarez, Aldine ISD Valerie G. Prilop, MD Anderson Cancer Center Texas Library Association is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, Clemencia Ramirez, Aldine ISD regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical Sally Rasch, Aldine ISD appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any Nicole Holmes Robinson, Houston Public Library form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks. Brenda C. Russell, Temple Memorial Library, Diboll Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees. Behave professionally. Remember Elizabeth E. Sargent, Houston Public Library that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for Texas Library Jessica B. Scheller, Klein ISD Association events. Jennifer R. Schwartz, Houston Public Library Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event at the Linda B. Stevens, Harris County Public Library discretion of the event organizers. Jane D. Stimpson, Lone Star College Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, Kim R. Wiley, Lamar University sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained Demetria A. Williams, Houston ISD disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Local Arrangements Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. Lee Hilyer, co-chair, University of Houston If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem Melissa L. Rippy, co-chair, Pasadena ISD appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference. If you are being Authors Area harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a Ty Burns, TyRB Library & Literature Services member of event staff immediately. Debra K. Yocum, Pasadena ISD Event staff will be happy to help participants contact venue security or local law enforcement, Career Development Center provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of Alexandra C. Simons, University of Houston the event. We value your attendance. Miriam Thomas, Aldine ISD We expect participants to follow these rules at all event venues and event-related social events.
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 17 FEATURED SPEAKERS Meet Your Favorite Authors from Macmillan
General Sessions Directors Summit TechCamp Children’s Publishing Group in the Author Area! Evan Smith is the editor- Jim Neal served as the vice president Drew Minock is an Meet in-chief and co-founder for information services and university enthusiastic elementary Wednesday, April 20th of The Texas Tribune, a librarian at Columbia University during teacher and technology nonprofit, nonpartisan 2001-2014, providing leadership for trainer. He is the co- digital news organization university academic computing and a Drew Minock founder of the educational recently called “one system of 22 libraries. blog Two Guys and Some Evan Smith of the nonprofit news Previously, he served as iPads and the augmented reality meet sector’s runaway success stories.” Since its the Dean of University up AR Detroit. Minock has launched the launch in 2009, the Tribune has garnered Libraries at Indiana popular educational podcast “The Two international acclaim and honors, University and Johns Guys Show” to inspire educators to reach including eight national Edward R. Hopkins University. new heights. Minock is currently serving Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Neal is one of the most Jim Neal on the Teacher Advisory Board for edtech Digital News Association and six awards decorated library leaders startups Remind 101 and Three Ring. from the Online News Association. and has represented the field on copyright Katherine Applegate Andy Griffiths Jennifer Mathieu Brad Waid is a passionate educator who Signing 10:30–11:30am Signing 4:00–5:00pm Signing 4:00–5:00pm Previously Smith spent nearly 18 years at and intellectual property matters before works to foster educational Program: Notably Program: Matthew Winner’s Program: Discover the Spirit of Texas Monthly, including eight years as Congress. change through technology Newbery: Meet Newbery- Let’s Get Busy Podcast and Kidlit Texas Reading Program editor and a year as president and editor- Valerie Gross has served and augmented reality. Winning Authors Author Kickball Tournament Wednesday, 2:00–3:50pm in-chief. as president and CEO He is one of the co- Thursday, 10:00–11:50am Wednesday, 2:00–3:50pm Al Roker is a nationally-acclaimed figure of Howard County founders of AR Detroit, Thursday, April 21st who has earned 10 Emmy Library System (HCLS) a monthly meet up that awards for his work on in Maryland since 2001. brings together industry Brad Waid NBC’s Today show. He is An educator and attorney leaders and visionaries, also a bestselling author Valerie Gross for 30 years, Gross and of Two Guys and Some iPads blog, an with many acclaimed developed a new vision internationally viewed blog from over 120 works. His first book, Don’t for libraries working with the HCLS countries and over 100,000 visitors in the Make Me Stop This Car: Al Roker Board, staff, funders, elected officials, and first 4 months of its creation. Barry Lyga Adventures in Fatherhood, the community. Implementing “Libraries THE SECRET SEA spent weeks at the top of the New York = Education,” she led the transformation Stephen Abram, a Times best-seller list. His most recent of HCLS to its current prominence as Signing 10:30–11:30am work, The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, a renowned educational institution, strategy and direction Program: Middle Grade Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story alongside the region’s schools, colleges, planning consultant Science Fiction Authors That of America’s Deadliest Natural Disaster: The and universities. for libraries and the Philip C. Stead Are Out of This World Aaron Reynolds Marissa Meyer information industry, is Signing 9:30–10:30am Thursday, 9:00–9:50am Signing 11:00–noon Signing 11:00–noon Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900, is a riveting Suzanna L. Panter is the Program: Illustrating the Program: Fairy Tale exploration of one of the most tragic principal of Lighthouse educational specialist for Stephen Abram Partners. He is also Imagination: Kidlit Illustrators Retellings in YA Literature events in American history. Friday, 10:00–11:20am Thursday, 2:00–3:50pm library services in Henrico executive director of the Federation of Dav Pilkey is the Caldecott Honor Award- County Public Schools Ontario Public Libraries. He is a library winning author and (VA), winner of AASL’s trend watcher, innovator, and author of illustrator of more than 2011 National School Stephen’s Lighthouse blog. He has held 50 books for children. Library Program of the Suzanna L. executive leadership positions in libraries Panter He is beloved by children Year. In this position and at Cengage Learning (Gale) and other and parents, and he is she supervises over 160 corporations. known for his humor, school librarians, assistants, and central Barbara McClintock Maureen Ambrosino is a former TALL LOST AND FOUND: Dav Pilkey inventiveness, and ability office personnel. In 2009 she was an ADÉLE AND SIMON IN CHINA Texan and director of the Westborough to subtly underscore ALA Emerging Leader and was chosen to Signing 3:00–4:00pm kindness and friendship. He is a champion attend the first ALA Leading to the Future Public Library (MA). This former for intellectual freedom and has braved Institute in 2013. In 2012, her school journalist and LJ Mover many challenges to his work – notably library won the Virginia Association of and Shaker has made her Mariko Tamaki Sara Varon Ben Hatke the Captain Underpants series, which School Librarians’ Program of the Year mark in children’s services, Signing 11:00–noon Signing 11:00–noon Signing 2:00–3:00pm remains a favorite for children and has Award. technology programming, Program: LOL: Humor in Program: POW: Little Maverick Graphic and advocacy. Often YA Literature Novel Reading List been instrumental in developing life-long Thursday, 2:00–3:50pm Friday, 10:00–11:50am readers. noted for her piece “The Metamorphosis; or, How I Maureen Went from Being a Quiet Ambrosino children’s publishing group Farrar Straus Giroux Feiwel and Friends Henry Holt Priddy Books Roaring Brook Press Square Fish 18 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Meet Your Favorite Authors from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group in the Author Area!
Meet Wednesday, April 20th
Katherine Applegate Andy Griffiths Jennifer Mathieu Signing 10:30–11:30am Signing 4:00–5:00pm Signing 4:00–5:00pm Program: Notably Program: Matthew Winner’s Program: Discover the Spirit of Newbery: Meet Newbery- Let’s Get Busy Podcast and Kidlit Texas Reading Program Winning Authors Author Kickball Tournament Wednesday, 2:00–3:50pm Thursday, 10:00–11:50am Wednesday, 2:00–3:50pm
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Barry Lyga THE SECRET SEA
Signing 10:30–11:30am Program: Middle Grade Science Fiction Authors That Philip C. Stead Are Out of This World Aaron Reynolds Marissa Meyer Signing 9:30–10:30am Thursday, 9:00–9:50am Signing 11:00–noon Signing 11:00–noon Program: Illustrating the Program: Fairy Tale Imagination: Kidlit Illustrators Retellings in YA Literature Friday, 10:00–11:20am Thursday, 2:00–3:50pm
Barbara McClintock LOST AND FOUND: ADÉLE AND SIMON IN CHINA Signing 3:00–4:00pm
Mariko Tamaki Sara Varon Ben Hatke Signing 11:00–noon Signing 11:00–noon Signing 2:00–3:00pm Program: LOL: Humor in Program: POW: Little Maverick Graphic YA Literature Novel Reading List Thursday, 2:00–3:50pm Friday, 10:00–11:50am
children’s publishing group Farrar Straus Giroux Feiwel and Friends Henry Holt Priddy Books Roaring Brook Press Square Fish Bystander to a Raging Library Activist” version of Open Carry legislation now Marcel Marceau, and Rocha’s unique (SLJ 1/08), she is a dynamic voice in the a year in implementation, Minor’s solo shows of stories and mime have been profession today. experience relates directly to what Texas performed around the world. Marshall Breeding librarians are newly facing. Aaron Schmidt has serves as the director for Chad Patterson is focused his career on the innovative technologies executive director of application of new media and research for the Montgomery County technology to libraries MEET OUR AUTHORS Vanderbilt University Emergency Assistance, and has launched many Libraries in Nashville. where he works toward successful programs. Aaron Schmidt Marshall He designs and develops empowering people A 2005 LJ Mover & Breeding digital library resources Chad Patterson to self-sufficiency. He Shaker, Schmidt has assisted with website AND ILLUSTRATORS and investigates emerging technologies. is also a long-time visioning and usability testing, and he Breeding is also the executive director of motivational coach who works with teams has created user interfaces for home- TLA 2016, AUSTIN, TX | Disney•Hyperion Booth #1339 the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, a on developing leadership and growing brewed self-check machines and iPad large-scale archive of digital video content. professionally and personally. based neighborhood library dashboards. WEDNESDAY, April 20 THURSDAY, April 21 Melanie Townsend Diggs Terry Reese is the head of digital He was part of the team that created the of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt initiatives at The Ohio State University. first iPhone and Blackberry online catalog Free Library is branch Reese was formerly the Gray Chair for searching applications. manager of the building Innovative Library Services at Oregon Día Turns 20! El día de los niños/El día that stands across from the State University Libraries. He has been de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), CVS that was looted and developing and supporting MarcEdit commonly known as Día, is a celebration Melanie burned during protests and the MarcEdit user every day of children, after the death of Freddie Townsend community since 1999. Diggs families, and reading Gray who was in police He devotes much of that culminates yearly on custody. While businesses his professional energy April 30. The celebration stayed closed, her library remained to identifying and emphasizes the importance open. A librarian and community leader, building upon points of of literacy for children of JAN TAMARA Townsend Diggs offers a truly front-line collaboration to benefit Terry Reese all linguistic and cultural Pat Mora GANGSEI IRELAND STONE resumé in serving communities. the shared communities of backgrounds. Nationally- 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Marti A. library users. 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Georgia’s acclaimed author Pat Mora, founder of Zero Day Every Last Word Minor has combined her Antonio Rocha, a native this celebration, discusses this important Additional appearances: Additional appearance: law degree and library of Brazil, began his career event and its potential to impact Hear Them First: Debut YA Authors – Chapter 1 Trends in Mental Illness in YA Literature Wed. 4/20, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m. experience to address legal in the performing arts in communities across the country. J Tues. 4/19, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m. issues that commonly 1985. In 1988 he received occur in libraries, a Partners of the Americas Marti A. Minor including personnel grant to come to the THURSDAY, April 21 FRIDAY, April 22 policies, open records Antonio Rocha USA to perform and requests, patron confidentiality, and deepen his skills with Mime Master Tony external litigation threats. With Georgia’s Montanaro. He has worked with Master JOIN THE CONVERSATION
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JAN TAMARA GANGSEI IRELAND STONE 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Zero Day Every Last Word Additional appearances: Additional appearance: Hear Them First: Debut YA Authors – Chapter 1 Trends in Mental Illness in YA Literature Tues. 4/19, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m. Wed. 4/20, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
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GREG LIZ PIZZOLI BRASWELL 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Good Night Owl Once Upon a Dream Additional appearances: Additional appearance: Children’s Book Illustrators Ultimate Sketch-Off Fairy Tale Retellings in YA Literature Wed. 4/20, 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Thurs. 4/21, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m. 16th Annual Texas 2x2 Showcase: Books for 2 Years through 2nd Grade Thurs. 4/21, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
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About TLA How to Go From Quiet Bystander More than a Buzzword: Role of Makerspaces Introduction to TLA Finances...... 3:30 - 4:20 pm to Raging Library Activist...... 9 - 9:50 am in Curriculum and Assessment...... 9 - 9:50 am Texas Library Association Council I...... 5 - 5:50 pm Virtual Opportunities for Your School Library..... 9 - 9:50 am What Works and What Doesn’t with Open Networking with New Members...... 6 - 8 pm Censorship Attempts are Alive and Well: and Closed Source Software...... 9 - 9:50 am Be Prepared...... 10 - 11:50 am Augmented Reality ...... 9 - 11:50 am Wednesday, April 20 APPLIED/EMERGING TECHNOLOGY The 25 AASL Best Websites and Apps Texas Library Association Membership Meeting.. 5:30 - 6 pm that Rocked This Year...... 10 - 11:50 am Tuesday, April 19 Friday, April 22 ARCHIVES, PRESERVATION, & DIGITIZATION Hands on 3D Printing...... 9 am - 12 pm Prepare and Share: Program Planning Tuesday, April 19 for TLA 2017...... 7 - 7:50 am MarcEdit and Linked Data...... 9 am - 12 pm Texas Library Association Council II...... 2:30 - 3:20 pm Tech Camp: Technology Conference Developing Policies for Local History within a Conference ...... 9:30 am - 3 pm and Special Collections ...... 8:30 am - 12 pm ADVOCACY, MARKETING, An Open Educational Resources Repository Next Steps: Archiving, Digitization, & PUBLIC RELATIONS in Action!...... 2 - 2:50 pm and Preservation Basics ...... 1 - 4 pm Tuesday, April 19 The Internet of Everything - Wearables, Embedded Texas Digital Library: A Chat with TDL’s New Leadership 2 - 3:50 pm Everywhere You Look...Embedded Librarians!... 12 - 1:20 pm Technology - What Does it Mean for Us?..... 2 - 2:50 pm ...... Can the Edge Assessment Help My Small Increasing Engagement: Designing Interactive Wednesday, April 20 Videos for Online Learning 3 - 3:50 pm Rural Library?...... 2 - 2:50 pm ...... Space City: Building Partnerships with Programming for Young and School The Missing Voices in Edtech: Bringing Diversity the Johnson Space Center Archives...... 10:15- 11:50 am Age Children...... 2 - 2:50 pm into Edtech...... 3 - 3:50 pm Research in the Archive: Exploring Teen Street Team: The New Teen Office 365/OneDrive...... 4 - 5:20 pm and Using Primary Resources...... 4 - 5:20 pm Advisory Board...... 2 - 2:50 pm Wednesday, April 20 When Disaster Strikes: Weathering the Storm.... 4 - 5:20 pm Exhibits and Programming @ Your friED TECHnology: Amy Mayer on Thursday, April 21 Public Library 2 - 3:20 pm ...... Google Certifications...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Connecting Communities: Oral History ‘Outside the Lines’: A New Approach to Excel Basics: Creating Simple Budgets .... 10:15 - 11:50 am for All Generations...... 9 - 9:50 am Community Engagement 4 - 5:20 pm ...... Streaming Media: How are Libraries Copyright and Digital Collections: Lessons Wednesday, April 20 Handling It?...... 10:15 - 11:50 am from Astrodome Memories...... 10 - 11:20 am Communicating & Proving Your Worth..... 10:15 - 11:50 am First Steps in Google Certification ...... 12 - 12:50 pm Opening the Curtain: Behind the Scenes 10 Ways to Transform School Libraries...... 11 - 11:50 am Multilingual Information Access to of the Black Academy of Arts Support Self-Publishers: Be the Missing Link...... 1 - 1:50 pm Digital Collections...... 1 - 1:50 pm and Letters Archive...... 10 - 11:20 am Ideas for Engaging Your Community...... 2 - 3:50 pm Excel Advanced: Manipulating Data and Digitizing Community History: Get the Goods Successful Signature Events @ Your Library...... 2 - 3:50 pm Making it Work for You ...... 1 - 2:50 pm without the Bulk!...... 1 - 1:50 pm Improving Communication through New Pathways in Scholarly Discovery: Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab ...... 1 - 3:50 pm Visual Design...... 3 - 3:50 pm Understanding the Next Generation An Evening at the Clayton Library Marketing Community Libraries...... 3 - 3:50 pm of Researcher Tools...... 2 - 2:50 pm with Drew Smith ...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm The Goldie Socks Strategy: Creating a Transform Your Teaching using Technology Friday, April 22 ‘Just Right’ Library Program...... 4 - 5:20 pm Application TEKS...... 2 - 2:50 pm Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab ...... 9 - 11:50 am Roll Out the Red Carpet: A Branding Iron Demystifying Usage Statistics...... 3 - 3:50 pm Setting Up (or Quickly Ramping Up) Award Winning Program...... 4 - 5:20 pm Emerging Apps for Android Devices ...... 3 - 3:50 pm Large Scale Digitization Projects...... 10 - 10:50 am TexShare Playbook: Best Practices for the Manipulating Wikipedia ...... 4 - 4:50 pm TexShare Databases...... 4 - 5:20 pm Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to ASSESSMENT With a Little Help From Your Friends...... 4 - 5:20 pm Deliver Library Data...... 4 - 5:20 pm Tuesday, April 19 Thursday, April 21 Using PBS Digital Media to Cultivate Innovative Can the Edge Assessment Help My Small Rural Library?...... Thinking in the Classroom 4 - 5:20 pm Director’s Symposium: Making Your ...... 2 - 2:50 pm Library Indispensable...... 8 - 9:50 am Thursday, April 21 Wednesday, April 20 Advocacy: Value, Impact, and Presence Tools for Enhancing Your Library’s Social Project Outcome: Measuring Public with Stephen Abram...... 9 - 9:50 am Media Presence ...... 8:30 - 9:50 am Library Services...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Crowdsourcing: The New Bake Sale Augmented Reality in School Libraries...... 9 - 9:50 am Using Formative Assessment in Teaching for School Libraries...... 10 - 10:50 am Avoiding Gotcha! Patron Data Security Information Literacy...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Outcomes Made Easy: Seven Steps to in an Online World...... 9 - 9:50 am Understanding Library Assessment, Evaluation, Tell Your Library’s Story...... 10 - 11:20 am Augmented Reality ...... 10 - 11:50 am and Metrics...... 2 - 2:50 pm Take the Wheel: Hands-on Advocacy...... 10 - 11:50 am Keep Your School Library Open 24/7 Demystifying Usage Statistics...... 3 - 3:50 pm Users’ Success Stories: All Types of Libraries with TexQuest...... 11 - 11:50 am Participatory and Collaborative Methods Make a Difference...... 10 - 11:50 am Analytics and Big Data: Terms and Tools for Gathering and Understanding Data Wayfinding Yourself: Simply Beautiful for Information Professionals...... 1 - 1:50 pm about Your Library...... 4 - 5:20 pm Signage...... 10 - 11:50 am The Choice, Season 2: Knock-Out Ideas Thursday, April 21 Creating Dynamic Presentations 1 - 1:50 pm ...... for TexQuest...... 1 - 1:50 pm User Experience for Library Facility Design Creative and Dazzling Displays...... 1 - 1:50 pm Digitizing Community History: Get the Goods and Services Planning...... 9 - 9:50 am Social Networking in Organizational Cultures.... 1 - 1:50 pm without the Bulk!...... 1 - 1:50 pm Outcomes Made Easy: Seven Steps Using Beacons for Community Engagement..... 1 - 1:50 pm User Experience (UX) Design from Scratch...... 1 - 1:50 pm to Tell Your Library’s Story...... 10 - 11:20 am Assessment in Action in Academic Libraries...... 2 - 3:50 pm Using Beacons for Community Engagement..... 1 - 1:50 pm Spinning Plates: Balancing the Budget Keeping the Doors Open: Service in Driver’s Ed: Google Drive for Novices ...... 1 - 3:50 pm as Collection Formats Multiply...... 10 - 11:50 am Times of Strife...... 2 - 3:50 pm Augmented Reality and Pop Culture Users’ Success Stories: All Types of Libraries Open School Libraries: Develop Your for First Year Students...... 2 - 2:50 pm Make a Difference...... 10 - 11:50 am Leadership and Advocacy Abilities...... 2 - 3:50 pm Texas Media Awards Presentation...... 6 - 8 pm Analytics and Big Data: Terms and Tools Friday, April 22 Friday, April 22 for Information Professionals...... 1 - 1:50 pm Assessment in Action in Academic Libraries...... 2 - 3:50 pm Get What You Need: Writing Proposals Twitter 101 ...... 8 - 8:50 am for Internal Decision Makers 9 - 9:50 am ...... Resource Management: Strategies, Technologies, and Practices ...... 9 - 9:50 am
22 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Friday, April 22 #AlwaysOpen: Connecting Young Readers Programming and Promoting with the Assessing an Academic Library Professional and Authors Via Digital Tools...... 2 - 3:50 pm Lone Star and TAYSHAS Reading Lists...... 10 - 11:50 am Development Program...... 9 - 9:50 am Book Chat LIVE!...... 2 - 3:50 pm Science Rocks: Rocking STEAM in the Library...10 - 11:50 am Using Ithaka S+R Local Surveys Discover the Spirit of Texas Reading Program.... 2 - 3:50 pm Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Committee to Understand Your Users...... 10 - 11:50 am Matthew Winner’s Let’s Get Busy Podcast Author Session...... 12 - 1:50 pm and Kidlit Author Kickball Tournament 2 - 3:50 pm BOOKS, AUTHORS, & STORYTELLERS ...... Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session ...... 12 - 1:50 pm Texas Bluebonnet Award 101: Implementing Diversity in the Comic Book World...... 2 - 3:20 pm Tuesday, April 19 a Successful Reading Program...... 2 - 3:50 pm Author Lip Sync Battle: Kidlit vs. YALit...... 2 - 3:50 pm Beyond the Voice: Using Movement, Expression Trends in Mental Illness in YA Literature...... 2 - 3:50 pm Fairy Tale Retellings in YA Literature...... 2 - 3:50 pm and Mime in Storytelling...... 1 - 4 pm Bringing Picture Books to Life...... 4 - 5:20 pm LOL! Humor in YA Literature...... 2 - 3:50 pm What’s New with Texas Authors and Illustrators Debutante Ball: Children’s Literature Putting the Story in History...... 2 - 3:50 pm for Elementary Readers?...... 2 - 2:50 pm Debut Authors 2016...... 4 - 5:20 pm Romancing the Conference...... 2 - 3:50 pm Explore Other Realms with Middle Grade The Goldie Socks Strategy: Creating What Does the Library Have to do Fantasy Authors...... 2 - 3:50 pm a ‘Just Right’ Library Program...... 4 - 5:20 pm with Writing Everything! 2 - 3:50 pm Hear Them First: Debut YA Authors Spanish Language Books: International ? ...... - Chapter 1...... 2 - 3:50 pm Vendors and Publishers...... 4 - 5:20 pm General Session II with Al Roker...... 4 - 5:30 pm What’s New with Texas Authors & Illustrators Texas Tea: Meet and Greet with YA Authors...... 4 - 5:20 pm Evening with the Authors...... 6:30 - 9:30 pm for Middle Grade to YA?...... 3 - 3:50 pm Children’s Book Illustrators Ultimate Sketch-Off...... 5 - 6 pm Storytelling Vendor Showcase/Librarian Speed Dating the Texas Bluebonnet Books An Evening of Storytelling Featuring Teller Swap...... 7 - 9 pm and Authors...... 3 - 6 pm Antonio Rocha...... 7:30 - 9:30 pm Friday, April 22 Faith and Spirituality in YA Lit...... 4 - 4:50 pm Thursday, April 21 Book Buzz: The New Books are Coming...... 8 - 9:50 am Lassoing Super Bilingual Stories: Tejas Star Texas Association of School Librarians Reading Review...... 4 - 5:20 pm 16th Annual Texas 2x2 Showcase: Books for 2 Years through 2nd Grade...... 8 - 9:50 am Author Session with Jeff Kinney...... 8 - 9:50 am Texas Authors and Illustrators Meet and Greet... 4 - 5:30 pm Middle Grade Science Fiction Authors Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Program... 9 - 9:50 am Wednesday, April 20 That Are Out of this World...... 9 - 9:50 am Illustrating the Imagination: Kidlit Illustrators...10 - 11:20 am General Session I with Evan Smith...... 8:30 - 10 am Scientist? Poet? Both?...... 9 - 9:50 am Poetry for the Public...... 10 - 11:20 am 12th Annual Poetry RoundUp...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Tomas Rivera Book Award: 20 Years of Mystery Authors Unveiled...... 10 - 11:50 am Black Caucus Round Table Author Session .10:15 - 11:50 am Excellence in Mexican American Children’s POW! Little Mavericks Graphic Novel Master of Horror R.L. Stine and TASL and Young Adult Literature...... 9 - 9:50 am Reading List...... 10 - 11:50 am Business Meeting...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Different Cultures Explored in YA Literature.... 10 -11:20 am General Session III with Dav Pilkey...... 1:30 - 2:10 pm Opening Author Session Luncheon...... 12 - 1:50 pm Hear Them First: Debut YA Authors CAREER & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Booktalks with Teri Lesesne and Karin Perry...... 1 - 1:50 pm - Chapter 2...... 10 - 11:20 am Dan Santat and Children’s Round Table Diversity In Action with Elementary Literature...10 - 11:50 am Tuesday, April 19 Business Meeting...... 1 - 1:50 pm Notably Newbery: Meet Newbery Award Continuous Improvement Support Self-Publishers: Be the Missing Link...... 1 - 1:50 pm Winning Authors...... 10 - 11:50 am with Lean Six Sigma ...... 9 am - 4 pm
TLA Texas Library Disaster Relief Fund Annual Art Raffle On her website (www.carolynflores.com), Carolyn Dee Flores reveals that she “was a rock musician first. Then, a computer analyst. Then, a children’s illustrator.” To date, the artist has elevated five children’s books with her exquisite paintings; and a watercolor study for Teresita’s Big Surprise ((Arte Público Press, Piñata Books) has been donated by Flores for this year’s art raffle at Annual Conference in Houston (April 19-22, 2016). The bilingual picture book has a November 2016 release date; but if you hold the winning raffle ticket, you’ll get both the original masterpiece and an advance copy of the book. Tickets are only $5 each (5 for $20) and will be available on the TLA website and onsite in Houston. The drawing will be at the third general session on Friday, April 22, at 1:30 pm. The annual art raffle benefits the TLA Texas Library Disaster Relief Fund, created to assist libraries in our state as they recover from natural disasters.
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 23 Strategies for Scholarly Publishing...... 1 - 1:50 pm Thursday, April 21 User Experience for Library Facility Recruitment and Retention Fundamentals of RDA...... 9 - 9:50 am Design and Services Planning...... 9 - 9:50 am of a Diverse Workforce...... 3 - 3:50 pm Cataloging & Metadata Round Table It Happened at a Library Near You: Speed Mentoring...... 3 - 3:50 pm Business Meeting...... 2 - 3:50 pm Frontline Stories...... 10 - 11:20 am Getting More Out of Networking Events...... 4 - 4:50 pm User-focused Cataloging and Metadata: Fulfilling Wayfinding Yourself: Simply Office 365/OneDrive...... 4 - 5:20 pm the Dream of Charles Amni Cutter...... 2 - 3:50 pm Beautiful Signage...... 10 - 11:50 am Creative and Dazzling Displays...... 1 - 1:50 pm TALL Texans Recognition and Reception...... 4 - 5:30 pm Friday, April 22 Networking with New Members...... 6 - 8 pm Keeping the Doors Open: Service Data Clean-up: Let’s Not Sweep It in Times of Strife...... 2 - 3:50 pm Wednesday, April 20 Under the Rug...... 9 - 9:50 am Top 10 Things Support Staff Need to Know...... 3 - 3:50 pm friED TECHnology: Amy Mayer COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT Friday, April 22 on Google Certifications...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Tuesday, April 19 Excel Basics: Creating Simple Budgets..... 10:15 - 11:50 am Open Libraries on the Front Lines...... 9 - 9:50 am Developing Policies for Local History Cultural Intelligence: Ability to Adapt First Steps in Google Certification...... 12 - 12:50 pm and Special Collections...... 8:30 am - 12 pm to New Cultural Settings...... 10 - 10:50 am Power Up Online Resource Usage! Enhance Your Optimize Graphic Novel Choice Using Ithaka S+R Local Surveys Ability to Provide Training in Your School..... 1 - 1:50 pm and Programming @ Your Library...... 3 - 3:50 pm to Understand Your Users...... 10 - 11:50 am Excel Advanced: Manipulating Data Faith and Spirituality in YA Lit 4 - 4:50 pm DATA MANAGEMENT OF ORIGINAL WORKS and Making it Work for You...... 1 - 2:50 pm ...... Negotiating for Content 4 - 4:50 pm Cool Jobs: 2016 Edition...... 2 - 3:50 pm ...... Wednesday, April 20 Emerging Apps for Android Devices...... 3 - 3:50 pm Wednesday, April 20 Multilingual Information Access Improving Communication Streaming Media: How are Libraries to Digital Collections...... 1 - 1:50 pm through Visual Design...... 3 - 3:50 pm Handling It?...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Open Access: What You Need to Know...... 2 - 3:50 pm School Administrator Toolkit: A Guide Pulling the Digital Weeds from Our Gardens..... 1 - 1:50 pm Thursday, April 21 to Hiring School Librarians...... 3 - 3:50 pm Support Self-Publishers: Be the Missing Link...... 1 - 1:50 pm Data Management Basics and Best Practices..... 9 - 9:50 am Manipulating Wikipedia...... 4 - 4:50 pm Using ERMs to Improve Workflows...... 2 - 2:50 pm Digital Scholarship Training...... 9 - 9:50 am A Day in the Life: Insights for Aspiring Open Access: What You Need to Know...... 2 - 3:50 pm Friday, April 22 Academic Library Deans and Directors...... 4 - 5:20 pm Demystifying Usage Statistics 3 - 3:50 pm ...... Data Clean-up: Let’s Not Sweep It Going it Alone: Secrets of the Solo Librarian 4 - 5:20 pm ..... #WeNeedDiverseBooks in Texas!...... 4 - 5:20 pm Under the Rug...... 9 - 9:50 am Battledecks 5 - 6:30 pm ...... Thursday, April 21 Linked Data with Migrating Digital Systems...... 9 - 9:50 am Thursday, April 21 Speed Dating with Vendors...... 8 - 9:50 am We Have Only Scratched the Surface: Tools for Enhancing Your Library’s Digital Scholarship Training...... 9 - 9:50 am The Role of Student Research in Social Media Presence...... 8:30 - 9:50 am Bleep! Blorp! Books! Robotic Programs Institutional Repositories...... 9 - 9:50 am Project Management: Working With in the Library...... 10 - 11:50 am Know Your Data: Metadata Quality Control Others to Get It Done...... 9 - 9:50 am Spinning Plates: Balancing the Budget for Content Migration...... 10 - 10:50 am BTW, You’re Now the Instructional as Collection Formats Multiply...... 10 - 11:50 am eBOOKS Technologist...... 10 - 11:20 am Managing Databases: Selection, Evaluation, Wednesday, April 20 Start an Employee Wellness Program...... 10 - 11:20 am Renewal, and Cancellation...... 11 - 11:50 am Pulling the Digital Weeds from Our Gardens..... 1 - 1:50 pm Augmented Reality...... 10 - 11:50 am Internet Resources for Spanish Language On Our Own: eBook Platforms Financial Literacy for Librarians...... 10 - 11:50 am Collection Development...... 1 - 1:50 pm by and for Libraries...... 2 - 3:50 pm Open Your Mind, Open Your Library: Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab 1 - 3:50 pm ...... Public Libraries Division Round Table Creative Thinking at Work...... 11 - 11:50 am Managing eBook Collections Creating Dynamic Presentations...... 1 - 1:50 pm in School Libraries...... 2 - 3:20 pm Thursday, April 21 Self-Reflection for Improvement: Building Friday, April 22 Speed Dating with Vendors...... 8 - 9:50 am Managing eBook Collections Resiliency and Leadership Skills...... 1 - 1:50 pm Data Clean-up: Let’s Not Sweep It in School Libraries...... 2 - 3:20 pm Driver’s Ed: Google Drive for Novices...... 1 - 3:50 pm Under the Rug...... 9 - 9:50 am Crucial Conversations with Stakeholders...... 2 - 3:50 pm Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab...... 9 - 11:50 am Friday, April 22 Open School Libraries: Develop Your Setting Up (or Quickly Ramping Up) Diverse & Digital: eBooks, Bilingual Books, Leadership and Advocacy Abilities...... 2 - 3:50 pm Large Scale Digitization Projects...... 10 - 10:50 am and More from Independent and Top 10 Things Support Staff Need to Know...... 3 - 3:50 pm Diverse & Digital: eBooks, Bilingual Books, Multicultural Publishers...... 10 - 11:20 am Friday, April 22 and More from Independent and FACILITIES Twitter 101...... 8 - 8:50 am Multicultural Publishers...... 10 - 11:20 am Tuesday, April 19 Censorship Attempts are Alive and Well: Assessing an Academic Library Professional Making Makerspaces in Public Libraries...... 1 - 4:30 pm Be Prepared...... 10 - 11:50 am Development Program...... 9 - 9:50 am The Internet of Everything - Wearables, Embedded Get What You Need: Writing Proposals CUSTOMER SERVICE Technology - What Does it Mean for Us?..... 2 - 2:50 pm for Internal Decision Makers...... 9 - 9:50 am Tuesday, April 19 Wednesday, April 20 Augmented Reality...... 9 - 11:50 am Everywhere You Look...Embedded Librarians!... 12 - 1:20 pm Open Libraries! Making Your Library Cultural Intelligence: Ability to Adapt Welcoming to All...... 2 - 2:50 pm to New Cultural Settings...... 10 - 10:50 am Wednesday, April 20 Community Partnerships for Outreach..... 10:15 - 11:50 am Library Cafes - Have Your School Cafeteria Changing Lanes: Transitioning to a Different Build One for Your Library...... 4 - 5:20 pm Type of Library 10 - 11:20 am 10 Ways to Transform School Libraries...... 11 - 11:50 am ...... Repurposing Older Academic & Public Buildings Better than Dr. Google: Consumer Bullying in the Library Workplace...... 10 - 11:50 am Through Redesign and Renovation...... 4 - 5:20 pm Health Reference...... 1 - 1:50 pm CATALOGING & METADATA When Disaster Strikes: Weathering the Storm.... 4 - 5:20 pm Transforming Services for Transgender Patrons... 1 - 1:50 pm Tuesday, April 19 We’re All Different: Managing Thursday, April 21 MarcEdit and Linked Data ...... 9 am - 12 pm the School Library...... 1 - 1:50 pm Reinvent Your School Library Space...... 9 - 9:50 am Digital Libraries Round Table Business Mtg...... 2 - 3:50 pm Open Libraries! Making Your Library User Experience for Library Facility Texas Digital Library: A Chat with TDL’s Welcoming to All...... 2 - 2:50 pm Design and Services Planning...... 9 - 9:50 am New Leadership...... 2 - 3:50 pm Ideas for Engaging Your Community...... 2 - 3:50 pm Wayfinding Yourself: Simply Beautiful Signage...... 10 - 11:50 am Wednesday, April 20 Thursday, April 21 Transforming Children’s Spaces Through Linked Data and Digital Humanities 10:15 - 11:20 am ...... Advocacy: Value, Impact and Presence the Family Place Libraries Project...... 2 - 3:20 pm Introduction to Bibframe...... 1 - 1:50 pm with Stephen Abram...... 9 - 9:50 am Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways Reference Makeover: Tailoring Reference to Deliver Library Data...... 4 - 5:20 pm to User Needs...... 9 - 9:50 am
24 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Friday, April 22 Friday, April 22 Resource Redefined: School Libraries Can the Edge Assessment Help Speaking Their Language: Library Instruction as Learning Spaces...... 10 - 10:50 am My Small Rural Library?...... 2 - 2:50 pm in Non-English Languages...... 9 - 9:50 am FUNDRAISING & GRANTS ‘Outside the Lines’: A New Approach Develop a Culture of Reading Through to Community Engagement...... 4 - 5:20 pm Schoolwide Reading Programs...... 10 - 11:20 am Wednesday, April 20 TALL Texans Recognition and Reception...... 4 - 5:30 pm All Minds Matter: Reluctant Readers Where’s the Grant Money? Outside the Box..... 3 - 3:50 pm Wednesday, April 20 and Hip Hop Music...... 10 - 11:50 am When Disaster Strikes: Weathering the Storm.... 4 - 5:20 pm Communicating & Proving Your Worth..... 10:15 - 11:50 am MAKERSPACES With a Little Help From Your Friends...... 4 - 5:20 pm 10 Ways to Transform School Libraries...... 11 - 11:50 am Tuesday, April 19 Thursday, April 21 Leadership Affects...... 2 - 2:50 pm Tech Creation Institute...... 9 am - 4:30 pm Crowdsourcing: The New Bake Sale Assessing the TALL Texans Leadership Institute... 3 - 3:50 pm for School Libraries...... 10 - 10:50 am Tech Camp: Technology Conference The State of Texas Libraries...... 3 - 3:50 pm within a Conference...... 9:30 am - 3 pm GENEALOGY & LOCAL HISTORY A Day in the Life: Insights for Aspiring TLA Innovation Lab...... 10 am - 7 pm Tuesday, April 19 Academic Library Deans and Directors...... 4 - 5:20 pm Making Makerspaces in Public Libraries...... 1 - 4:30 pm Repurposing Older Academic & Public Buildings Developing Policies for Local History Through Redesign and Renovation 4 - 5:20 pm Wednesday, April 20 and Special Collections ...... 8:30 am - 12 pm ...... Thursday, April 21 So You Have a 3D Printer, Now What?.... 10:15 - 11:50 am Next Steps: Archiving, Digitization, TLA Innovation Lab...... 10:15 am - 5 pm and Preservation Basics 1 - 4 pm Advocacy: Value, Impact and Presence ...... Clubbing in the Library: Student Led with Stephen Abram...... 9 - 9:50 am Wednesday, April 20 Library Programs...... 2 - 3;20 pm Project Management: Working with Others Space City: Building Partnerships with the to Get It Done...... 9 - 9:50 am Thursday, April 21 Johnson Space Center Archives...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Reinvent Your School Library Space...... 9 - 9:50 am TLA Innovation Lab...... 9 am - 4 pm Thursday, April 21 Keep It Green: Leading Sustainable and TEKS-Aligned Centers in the Connecting Communities: Oral History Successful Online Teams...... 10 - 10:50 am Elementary Library...... 3 - 3:50 pm for All Generations...... 9 - 9:50 am Start an Employee Wellness Program...... 10 - 11:20 am Friday, April 22 Digitizing Community History: Get the Goods Open Your Mind, Open Your Library: More than a Buzzword: Role of Makerspaces without the Bulk!...... 1 - 1:50 pm Creative Thinking at Work...... 11 - 11:50 am in Curriculum and Assessment...... 9 - 9:50 am Putting the Story in History...... 2 - 3:50 pm Self-Reflection for Improvement: TLA Innovation Lab...... 9 am - 12 pm An Evening at the Clayton Library Building Resiliency and Leadership Skills...... 1 - 1:50 pm with Drew Smith...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm Crucial Conversations with Stakeholders...... 2 - 3:50 pm MANAGEMENT & CHANGE Friday, April 22 Open School Libraries: Develop Your Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Good Cop, Better Cop: Politely Interrogate Leadership and Advocacy Abilities...... 2 - 3:50 pm Continuous Improvement Your Genealogical Researcher...... 9 - 9:50 am Superhero Librarians: Supporting Teachers with Lean Six Sigma ...... 9 am - 4 pm Digging Up Your Roots: Online Resources through the Evaluation Process...... 2 - 3:50 pm Recruitment and Retention to Trace Family History...... 10 - 11:20 am Friday, April 22 of a Diverse Workforce...... 3 - 3:50 pm INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Get What You Need: Writing Proposals Wednesday, April 20 Wednesday, April 20 for Internal Decision Makers...... 9 - 9:50 am Communicating & Proving Your Worth..... 10:15 - 11:50 am Using Ithaka S+R Local Surveys Using ERMs to Improve Workflows...... 2 - 2:50 pm Project Outcome: Measuring Public to Understand Your Users...... 10 - 11:50 am Library Services...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Thursday, April 21 LITERACY/TRANSLITERACY We’re All Different: Managing Augmented Reality in School Libraries...... 9 - 9:50 am the School Library...... 1 - 1:50 pm Tuesday, April 19 Avoiding Gotcha! Patron Data Security SMART Award...... 2 - 3:50 pm Be Well: Partnerships for Community in an Online World...... 9 - 9:50 am School Administrator Toolkit: A Guide Health Literacy...... 12 - 1:50 pm Friday, April 22 to Hiring School Librarians...... 3 - 3:50 pm Global Read Aloud: Connecting Classrooms Open Carry...... 4 - 4:50 pm What Works and What Doesn’t with Open Around the World...... 2 - 3:50 pm and Closed Source Software 9 - 9:50 am A Day in the Life: Insights for Aspiring ...... Optimize Graphic Novel Choice Academic Library Deans & Directors...... 4 - 5:20 pm INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM, ETHICS, and Programming @ Your Library...... 3 - 3:50 pm Going it Alone: Secrets of the Solo Librarian..... 4 - 5:20 pm & COPYRIGHT Wednesday, April 20 Repurposing Older Academic and Public Tuesday, April 19 More than just Recycling: Transforming Information Buildings Through Redesign & Renovation.... 4 - 5:20 pm Digital Libraries Round Table Business Meeting... 2 - 3:50 pm Literacy through High Impact Discipline School Librarian Performance Appraisals: Specific Instruction...... 10:15 - 11:20 am One Year Later and What We Learned...... 4 - 5:20 pm Wednesday, April 20 Faculty Are Life-Long Learners So Why Open Access: What You Need to Know 2 - 3:50 pm Thursday, April 21 ...... Not Teach Them Information Literacy?...... 11 - 11:50 am Thursday, April 21 Partnering to Improve Early Literacy...... 1 - 1:50 pm Director’s Symposium: Making Your Library Indispensable...... 8 - 9:50 am Avoiding Gotcha! Patron Data Security Primary Sources from the Library of Congress.... 1 - 1:50 pm Reinvent Your School Library Space 9 - 9:50 am in an Online World...... 9 - 9:50 am Your Library Popping Up: Adding ‘R’eading ...... Succession Planning and Mentoring Copyright and Digital Collections: to STEAM and STREAM to Outreach...... 1 - 1:50 pm in Academic Libraries 9 - 9:50 am Lessons from Astrodome Memories...... 10 - 11:20 am Transform Your Teaching Using ...... Technology Application TEKS...... 2 - 2:50 pm Keep It Green: Leading Sustainable Friday, April 22 and Successful Online Teams...... 10 - 10:50 am Copyright Year in Review...... 9 - 9:50 am Thursday, April 21 Spinning Plates: Balancing the Budget Open Libraries on the Front Lines...... 9 - 9:50 am Self Organized Learning Environment: as Collection Formats Multiply...... 10 - 11:50 am Bullying in the Library Workplace...... 10 - 11:50 am A New Way to Teach the Research Process.... 9 - 9:50 am Crucial Conversations with Stakeholders...... 2 - 3:50 pm Censorship Attempts are Alive and Well: Young Adult Reading Incentive Award Winners: Top 10 Things Support Staff Need to Know...... 3 - 3:50 pm Open Literacy Opportunities...... 9 - 9:50 am Be Prepared...... 10 - 11:50 am Friday, April 22 General Session III with Dav Pilkey...... 1:30 - 2:10 pm Implementing the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy...... 10 - 11:20 am Assessing an Academic Library Professional LEADERSHIP & CHANGE Opening Doors of Literacy: Teen Programming Development Program...... 9 - 9:50 am Tuesday, April 19 to the Extreme...... 1 - 1:50 pm Copyright Year in Review...... 9 - 9:50 am Continuous Improvement Transforming Children’s Spaces Through Volunteer Services at the Public Library...... 9 - 9:50 am with Lean Six Sigma ...... 9 am - 4 pm the Family Place Libraries Project...... 2 - 3:20 pm Bullying in the Library Workplace...... 10 - 11:50 am Organizational Resilience: From Surviving What Does the Library Have to Do to Thriving with Diversity and Inclusion...... 1 - 4:30 pm with Writing? Everything!...... 2 - 3:50 pm
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 25 PROGRAMMING FOR ADULTS Great Read Alouds and Curriculum New Pathways in Scholarly Discovery: Tuesday, April 19 Connections for PK-2nd...... 10 - 11:50 am Understanding the Next Generation of Researcher Tools...... 2 - 2:50 pm Hands on 3D Printing Design ...... 9 am - 12 pm PROGRAMMING FOR YOUTH Workforce Collaborations Tuesday, April 19 Thursday, April 21 from Cradle to Career...... 12 - 1:20 pm Hands on 3D Printing Design ...... 9 am - 12 pm Digital Scholarship Training...... 9 - 9:50 am Next Steps: Archiving, Digitization, Workforce Collaborations Reference Makeover: Tailoring Reference and Preservation Basics...... 1 - 4 pm from Cradle to Career...... 12 - 1:20 pm to User Needs...... 9 - 9:50 am Making Makerspaces in Public Libraries...... 1 - 4:30 pm Teen Street Team: The New Teen Restoring Connections: Meeting the Needs Exhibits and Programming @ Advisory Board...... 2 - 2:50 pm of People with Dementia...... 9 - 9:50 am It Happened at a Library Near You: Your Public Library...... 2 - 3:20 pm Exhibits & Programming @ Your Public Library... 2 - 3:20 pm Frontline Stories...... 10 - 11:20 am Global Read Aloud: Connecting Classrooms Wednesday, April 20 Internet Resources for Spanish Language Around the World...... 2 - 3:50 pm So You Have a 3D Printer, Now What?.... 10:15 - 11:50 am Collection Development...... 1 - 1:50 pm Summer Reading Reinvented...... 4 - 4:50 pm Adult Outreach to Hispanic Friday, April 22 Small-Business Communities...... 1 - 1:50 pm Wednesday, April 20 Good Cop, Better Cop: Politely Interrogate Project Information Literacy: Lifelong Learning Back Bones, Not Wish Bones: Inspire Tweens Your Genealogical Researcher...... 9 - 9:50 am Practices of Recent College Graduates...... 2 - 3:20 pm and Teens to Stand Up for Issues...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Resource Management: Strategies, Technologies, and Successful Signature Events @ Your Library...... 2 - 3:50 pm So You Have a 3D Printer, Now What 10:15 - 11:50 am ?.... Practices...... 9 - 9:50 am Thursday, April 21 #BookADay with Teri Lesesne Digging Up Your Roots: Online Resources Restoring Connections: Meeting the Needs and Donalyn Miller ...... 11 - 11:50 am to Trace Family History...... 10 - 11:20 am of People with Dementia...... 9 - 9:50 am Primary Sources from the Library of Congress.... 1 - 1:50 pm Great Read Alouds and Curriculum Laughing Out Loud: Implementing Your Library Popping Up: Adding ‘R’eading Connections for PK-2nd...... 10 - 11:50 am Laughter Yoga @ Your Library...... 2 - 3:50 pm to STEAM and STREAM to Outreach...... 1 - 1:50 pm Clubbing in the Library: Student Led RESOURCE SHARING & ORGANIZATIONAL Friday, April 22 Library Programs...... 2 - 3:20 pm PARTNERSHIPS The Library and University-Wide Initiatives.....10 - 11:50 am Discover the Spirit of Texas Reading Program.... 2 - 3:50 pm Tuesday, April 19 Poetry for the Public...... 10 - 11:20 am Successful Signature Events @ Your Library...... 2 - 3:50 pm Workforce Collaborations PROGRAMMING FOR CHILDREN Texas Bluebonnet Award 101: Implementing from Cradle to Career...... 12 - 1:20 pm Tuesday, April 19 a Successful Reading Program...... 2 - 3:50 pm Be Well: Partnerships for Community Tech Camp: Technology Conference Roll Out the Red Carpet: A Branding Iron Health Literacy...... 12 - 1:50 pm within a Conference...... 9:30 am - 3 pm Award Winning Program...... 4 - 5:20 pm Open Up Article Sharing: Getting Using PBS Digital Media to Cultivate Innovative Programming for Young What Your Patron Wants...... 2 - 3:50 pm Thinking in the Classroom 4 - 5:20 pm and School Age Children...... 2 - 2:50 pm ...... ‘Outside the Lines’: A New Approach Global Read Aloud: Connecting Classrooms Thursday, April 21 to Community Engagement...... 4 - 5:20 pm Around the World...... 2 - 3:50 pm Augmented Reality in School Libraries...... 9 - 9:50 am Wednesday, April 20 Optimize Graphic Novel Choice and War Against Boys, The: What It Means Linked Data and Digital Humanities...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Programming @ Your Library...... 3 - 3:50 pm for Libraries and Education...... 9 - 9:50 am Community Partnerships for Outreach..... 10:15 - 11:50 am Speed Dating the Texas Bluebonnet Young Adult Reading Incentive Award Winners: Space City: Building Partnerships with Books and Authors...... 3 - 6 pm Open Literacy Opportunities...... 9 - 9:50 am the Johnson Space Center Archives...... 10:15- 11:50 am Summer Reading Reinvented...... 4 - 4:50 pm Bleep! Blorp! Books! Robotic Programs Adult Outreach to Hispanic Small-Business Wednesday, April 20 in the Library...... 10 - 11:50 am Communities...... 1 - 1:50 pm Programming and Promoting with the Miles from Tomorrowland...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Partnering to Improve Early Literacy...... 1 - 1:50 pm Lone Star & TAYSHAS Reading Lists...... 10 - 11:50 am Primary Sources from the Library of Congress.... 1 - 1:50 pm Ideas for Engaging Your Community...... 2 - 3:50 pm Lunch at the Library: The USDA Summer On Our Own: eBook Platforms What’s On The Menu? Collaborative Lessons Food Service Program...... 1 - 1:50 pm between Classroom Teachers & Librarians.... 2 - 2:50 pm by and for Libraries...... 2 - 3:50 pm Museum or Circus? Finding Balance The State of Texas Libraries...... 3 - 3:50 pm Clubbing in the Library: Student Led in Your Library...... 1 - 1:50 pm Library Programs...... 2 - 3:20 pm Library Cafes – Have Your School Cafeteria Opening Doors of Literacy: Teen Build One for Your Library...... 4 - 5:20 pm Texas Bluebonnet Award 101: Implementing Programming to the Extreme...... 1 - 1:50 pm a Successful Reading Program...... 2 - 3:50 pm TexShare Playbook: Best Practices Put the Gloves On! Book Tournaments for the TexShare Databases...... 4 - 5:20 pm Bringing Picture Books to Life...... 4 - 5:20 pm High School Style...... 2 - 2:50 pm The Goldie Socks Strategy: Creating Diversity in the Comic Book World...... 2 - 3:20 pm Thursday, April 21 a ‘Just Right’ Library Program...... 4 - 5:20 pm Project Management: Working Roll Out the Red Carpet: A Branding Iron Friday, April 22 with Others to Get It Done...... 9 - 9:50 am Award Winning Program...... 4 - 5:20 pm Virtual Opportunities for Your School Library..... 9 - 9:50 am Collaborating Outside Your Comfort Zone.....10 - 11:20 am Thursday, April 21 Resource Redefined: School Libraries Copyright and Digital Collections: as Learning Spaces...... 10 - 10:50 am War Against Boys, The: What It Means Lessons from Astrodome Memories...... 10 - 11:20 am Develop a Culture of Reading through Opening the Curtain: Behind the Scenes for Libraries and Education...... 9 - 9:50 am Schoolwide Reading Programs...... 10 - 11:20 am Diversity In Action with Elementary Literature....10 - 11:50 am of the Black Academy of Arts Poetry for the Public...... 10 - 11:20 am and Letters Archive 10 - 11:20 am Science Rocks: Rocking STEAM in the Library...10 - 11:50 am ...... All Minds Matter: Reluctant Readers Keep Your School Library Open 24/7 Museum or Circus Finding Balance ? and Hip Hop Music...... 10 - 11:50 am with TexQuest 11 - 11:50 am in Your Library...... 1 - 1:50 pm ...... The Choice, Season 2: Knock-Out Ideas Transforming Children’s Spaces Through REFERENCE & READERS ADVISORY for TexQuest...... 1 - 1:50 pm the Family Place Libraries Project...... 2 - 3:20 pm Tuesday, April 19 Lunch at the Library: The USDA Summer Food Service TEKS-Aligned Centers Everywhere You Look...Embedded Librarians! 12 - 1:20 pm ... Program...... 1 - 1:50 pm in the Elementary Library...... 3 - 3:50 pm Wednesday, April 20 Texas Media Awards Presentation 6 - 8 pm Friday, April 22 ...... Back Bones, Not Wish Bones: Inspire Tweens Unconference: Informal Conversations Friday, April 22 and Teens to Stand Up for Issues 10:15 - 11:50 am ...... about Student Transitions from Virtual Opportunities for Your School Library..... 9 - 9:50 am #BookADay with Teri Lesesne High School to College...... 8:30 - 9:50 am Resource Redefined: School Libraries and Donalyn Miller...... 11 - 11:50 am as Learning Spaces...... 10 - 10:50 am Better than Dr. Google: Consumer SOCIAL MEDIA Develop a Culture of Reading Through Health Reference...... 1 - 1:50 pm Wednesday, April 20 Schoolwide Reading Programs...... 10 - 11:20 am Booktalks with Teri Lesesne and Karin Perry...... 1 - 1:50 pm #AlwaysOpen: Connecting Young Readers Transforming Services for Transgender Patrons... 1 - 1:50 pm and Authors Via Digital Tools...... 2 - 3:50 pm
26 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Marketing Community Libraries...... 3 - 3:50 pm Wednesday, April 20 BTW, You’re Now the Instructional Thursday, April 21 Mentor Texts Open Doors Technologist...... 10 - 11:20 am for Little Researchers...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Implementing the ACRL Framework Tools for Enhancing Your Library’s for Information Literacy...... 10 - 11:20 am Social Media Presence...... 8:30 - 9:50 am #BookADay with Teri Lesesne Science Rocks: Rocking STEAM in the Library...10 - 11:50 am Crowdsourcing: The New Bake Sale and Donalyn Miller...... 11 - 11:50 am The Choice, Season 2: Knock-Out Ideas for School Libraries 10 - 10:50 am Faculty Are Life-Long Learners So Why Not ...... for TexQuest...... 1 - 1:50 pm Social Networking in Organizational Cultures.... 1 - 1:50 pm Teach Them Information Literacy?...... 11 - 11:50 am Partnering to Improve Early Literacy...... 1 - 1:50 pm Augmented Reality and Pop Culture Friday, April 22 for First Year Students...... 2 - 2:50 pm What’s On The Menu? Collaborative Lessons Twitter 101...... 8 - 8:50 am between Classroom Teachers & Librarians.... 2 - 2:50 pm Superhero Librarians: Supporting Teachers The 25 AASL Best Websites and Apps School Librarian Performance Appraisals: through the Evaluation Process...... 2 - 3:50 pm that Rocked This Year...... 10 - 11:50 am One Year Later and What We Learned...... 4 - 5:20 pm What Does the Library Have to Do SPECIAL POPULATIONS / DIVERSITY with Writing? Everything!...... 2 - 3:50 pm Thursday, April 21 TEKS-Aligned Centers Tuesday, April 19 BTW, You’re Now the Instructional in the Elementary Library...... 3 - 3:50 pm Technologist...... 10 - 11:20 am Organizational Resilience: From Surviving Friday, April 22 to Thriving with Diversity and Inclusion...... 1 - 4:30 pm Implementing the ACRL Framework Unconference: Informal Conversations Recruitment and Retention of a for Information Literacy...... 10 - 11:20 am about Student Transitions from Diverse Workforce 3 - 3:50 pm Museum or Circus Finding Balance ...... ? High School to College...... 8:30 - 9:50 am The Missing Voices in Edtech: Bringing in Your Library...... 1 - 1:50 pm More than a Buzzword: Role of Makerspaces Diversity into Edtech...... 3 - 3:50 pm Superhero Librarians: Supporting Teachers through the Evaluation Process...... 2 - 3:50 pm in Curriculum and Assessment...... 9 - 9:50 am Lassoing Super Bilingual Stories: Tejas Star Speaking Their Language: Library Instruction Reading Review...... 4 - 5:20 pm Friday, April 22 in Non-English Languages...... 9 - 9:50 am Wednesday, April 20 Unconference: Informal Conversations Using STAAR Data for ELA Lessons Black Caucus Round Table Author Session .10:15 - 11:50 am about Student Transitions from in the High School Library...... 10 - 11:20 am High School to College...... 8:30 - 9:50 am Adult Outreach to Hispanic Small-Business TECHNICAL SERVICES Communities...... 1 - 1:50 pm Using STAAR Data for ELA Lessons in the High School Library 10 - 11:20 am Tuesday, April 19 Multilingual Information Access ...... to Digital Collections...... 1 - 1:50 pm Great Read Alouds and Curriculum MarcEdit and Linked Data ...... 9 am - 12 pm Connections for PK-2nd 10 - 11:50 am Transforming Services for Transgender Patrons... 1 - 1:50 pm ...... Wednesday, April 20 Your Library Popping Up: Adding ‘R’eading TEACHING, TRAINING, & INSTRUCTION Streaming Media: How are Libraries to STEAM and STREAM to Outreach...... 1 - 1:50 pm Tuesday, April 19 Handling It?...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Open Libraries! Making Your Library Incorporating Open Education Resources Pulling the Digital Weeds from Our Gardens..... 1 - 1:50 pm Welcoming to All...... 2 - 2:50 pm into the College Classroom...... 12 - 1:50 pm Using ERMs to Improve Workflows...... 2 - 2:50 pm Trends in Mental Illness in YA Literature...... 2 - 3:50 pm An Open Educational Resources On Our Own: eBook Platforms Spanish Language Books: International Repository in Action!...... 2 - 2:50 pm by and for Libraries...... 2 - 3:50 pm Vendors and Publishers...... 4 - 5:20 pm Increasing Engagement: Designing Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways #WeNeedDiverseBooks in Texas!...... 4 - 5:20 pm Interactive Videos for Online Learning...... 3 - 3:50 pm to Deliver Library Data...... 4 - 5:20 pm Thursday, April 21 The Missing Voices in Edtech: Bringing Thursday, April 21 Restoring Connections: Meeting the Needs Diversity into Edtech...... 3 - 3:50 pm Managing Databases: Selection, Evaluation, of People with Dementia...... 9 - 9:50 am Using Backward Design to Reinvigorate Renewal, and Cancellation...... 11 - 11:50 am Tomas Rivera Book Award: 20 Years Your Library’s Curriculum...... 4 - 4:50 pm Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab...... 1 - 3:50 pm of Excellence in Mexican American Wednesday, April 20 User-focused Cataloging and Metadata: Fulfilling Children’s and Young Adult Literature...... 9 - 9:50 am More than just Recycling: Transforming Information the Dream of Charles Amni Cutter...... 2 - 3:50 pm Different Cultures Explored in YA Literature.... 10 -11:20 am Literacy through High Impact Discipline Friday, April 22 Opening the Curtain: Behind the Scenes of the Specific Instruction...... 10:15 - 11:20 am Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab...... 9 - 11:50 am Black Academy of Arts & Letters Archive....10 - 11:20 am Mentor Texts Open Doors Diversity In Action with Elementary Literature...10 - 11:50 am for Little Researchers...... 10:15 - 11:50 am J Internet Resources for Spanish Language Miles from Tomorrowland...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Collection Development...... 1 - 1:50 pm Using Formative Assessment in Teaching Lunch at the Library: The USDA Summer Information Literacy...... 10:15 - 11:50 am Food Service Program...... 1 - 1:50 pm Faculty Are Life-Long Learners So Why Not Follow conference news and Diversity in the Comic Book World...... 2 - 3:20 pm Teach Them Information Literacy?...... 11 - 11:50 am Keeping the Doors Open: Service Power Up Online Resource Usage! Enhance Your program updates on our in Times of Strife...... 2 - 3:50 pm Ability to Provide Training in Your School..... 1 - 1:50 pm social media platforms! Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Transform Your Teaching Using Technology Round Table Social with Houston Gaymers...... 7 - 9 pm Application TEKS...... 2 - 2:50 pm Friday, April 22 What’s On The Menu? Collaborative Lessons Twitter: @TXLA between Classroom Teachers & Librarians.... 2 - 2:50 pm Open Libraries on the Front Lines 9 - 9:50 am www.twitter.com/TXLA ...... Project Information Literacy: Lifelong Learning Speaking Their Language: Library Instruction Practices of Recent College Graduates...... 2 - 3:20 pm in Non-English Languages 9 - 9:50 am Facebook: Texas Library Association ...... MOOC Magic: Building a MOOC...... 4 - 4:50 pm Cultural Intelligence: Ability to Adapt www.facebook.com/ School Librarian Performance Appraisals: TexasLibraryAssociation to New Cultural Settings...... 10 - 10:50 am One Year Later and What We Learned...... 4 - 5:20 pm Diverse & Digital: eBooks, Bilingual Books, TexShare Playbook: Best Practices Instagram: @txla_1902 and More from Independent for the TexShare Databases...... 4 - 5:20 pm and Multicultural Publishers 10 - 11:20 am ...... Using PBS Digital Media to Cultivate LinkedIn: Texas Library Association All Minds Matter: Reluctant Readers Innovative Thinking in the Classroom...... 4 - 5:20 pm (group) www.linkedin.com/groups? and Hip Hop Music...... 10 - 11:50 am Thursday, April 21 mostPopular=&gid=1960317 TEACHER/FACULTY – LIBRARY COLLABORATION Self Organized Learning Environment: YouTube: Texas Library Assoc Tuesday, April 19 A New Way to Teach the Research Process.... 9 - 9:50 am www.youtube.com/ Incorporating Open Education Resources War Against Boys, The: What It Means texaslibraryassoc into the College Classroom...... 12 - 1:50 pm for Libraries and Education...... 9 - 9:50 am Summer Reading Reinvented...... 4 - 4:50 pm
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 27 EXHIBITING COMPANIES As of 12/15/2015
3M Library Systems Bound To Stay Bound Books Digital Knowledge Central Greenhaven Press 720 Design Boyds Mills Press Digital Library Reserve Greg Rodgers, Choctaw author . Bargas & Associates, LLC Brainfuse Dino-Buddies Grey House Publishing & Salem A Press ABC-CLIO Brainstorm Disney-Hyperion Groundwood Books ABC-CLIO Solutions Bretford Manufacturing DLB Books, Inc. Gumdrop Books ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Britannica Digital Learning Driving on the Right Side of the Road ABDO Brodart Company H.W. Wilson Abdo Digital Brodart Contract Furniture D-Tech Hachette Book Group Abdo Kids Bullfrog Books DTI - Davidson Titles, Inc. Half Price Books Abrams Books for Young Calkins Creek E is for Election Day Hank the Cowdog Readers/Amulet Books/ Camcor, Inc. EBSCO Information Services Harlequin Abrams Appleseed Candlewick Press ediciones Lerner HarperCollins Children’s Books Accelerated Reader 360 Capstone Education Service Center, HarperCollins Publishers Adam Matthew Capstone Press Region 20 H-E-B Read 3: Grow Young Adventures of Arnie Armadillo Carolrhoda Books Eerdmans Books for Young Minds, Read 3 Times a Week Albert Whitman & Company Carolrhoda LAB Readers Heinemann-Raintree Alexandria Library Automation Cavendish Square Egmont Hidell Associates Architects Algonquin Young Readers Cavendish Square Digital Elizabeth Ellis, Storyteller Highlights for Children Amber Way Jewelry Company Center Point Large Print Emerald Group Publishing, Inc. Highlights Press Amicus CERF - Curriculum Education Enslow Publishers, Inc. Holiday House Amigos Library Services Resource Finder EnvisionWare The Horn Book Andrews McMeel Publishing Changeable Sign Systems EPIC Press Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Annette Bridges - Chick Lit & Charlesbridge Epic! Houston Authors Children’s Author Chelsea House Epilepsy Foundation of Texas Houston Writers Guild Annick Press Cherry Lake Publishing/ Escue & Associates Arbordale Publishing Sleeping Bear Press IImage Retrieval, Inc. Estey Shelving ILS - Ingram Library Services Arte Público Press Children’s Bookstore Estey Austin Creative Alliance Children’s Plus, Inc. Image Access, Inc / DLSG Authors and More Child’s Play FactCite Online INDECO Sales / Maco Manufacturing Authors Sherry Garland and Child’s World Books Facts On File Melanie Chrismer Facts4Me Independent Publishers Group Chrismer, Melanie, Author (IPG) Authors Tim Tingle and Greg FamilySearch Chronicle Books Infobase Rodgers Cinco Puntos Press Films Media Group Averus Corporation Films On Demand Ingram Content Group Claire Lynn Designs Innovative Interfaces AVOICE - Advocates for Victims COI - College of Information, Findaway of Crime UNT Fitzhenry & Whiteside Jasper Chair Company Baker & Taylor Collard III, Sneed B. Five Star Jerry Pallotta Books Basch Subscriptions Inc., collectionHQ Folkmanis Puppets JP Cooke Company A Prenax Company/The Compass Point Books Follett Julian Franklin-Library Rat Reference Shelf Consortium, Texas A&M (Texas Freshcoast Furniture Jump! Bayou Publishing publishers) ale Cengage Learning Junior Library Guild Bearport Publishing Consumer Financial Protection G Garcia Vasquez Enterprises Bedrock City Comic Co. Bureau KAPCO Book Protection Gareth Stevens Publishing, Inc. Bella & Harry Coutts Information Services Karen & Company, LLC Garland, Sherry, Author Bellwether Learning Cover One Kensington Publishing Corp Garrett Book Company Bellwether Media Crabtree Publishing Company Keystone Books & Media Ben and Cindy Publishing Crabtree Books Gecko Press KidHaven Press Biblionix Cranium CoRE The Gift Solution Kinderfable Press Bibliotheca The Creative Company Goodbuy Purchasing Co-op Komatsu Architecture Biblomodel Cultural Surroundings Graphic Universe KwikBoost by Indeco Sales Big Cozy Books - Vance Hunt Darby Creek Associates Database Management System The wealth of programming at annual conference presents tough Bilingual Storyteller, Sue Young - Questall choices, but don’t forget to allow plenty of time for trips to the TLA Black Rabbit Books Davidson Titles, Inc. Exhibit Hall, beginning with Tuesday night’s Grand Opening and Bloom’s Deanan Gourmet Popcorn Bloomsbury Children’s Books Delaney Educational Welcome. As you preview the exhibits, greet colleagues, and enjoy Book Bag Books Enterprises, Inc. snacks and entertainment, be sure to visit with our exhibitors and Book Systems, Inc. Demco thank our 2016 sponsors for their contributions to TLA and Texas Books on Tape DEMCO Interiors libraries. Visit www.txla.org/exhibits to preview the Exhibit Hall online Bookshare / Benetech Dewberry Architects Inc. and access the Buyers Guide. Boopsie, Inc. Diamond Book Distributors
28 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 LaptopsAnytime NoveList Schirmer Reference Texas State Library and Archives Commission Large Print Press Scholastic Book Fairs, Inc. OCLC Texas Woman’s University Learn360 Scholastic GO ODILO Scholastic Library Publishing - School of Library and LearningExpress, an EBSCO OPALS - CERF - Media Flex Information Studies Company Scholastic Library Publishing Orca Book Publishers Digital TexQuest Lectorum Publications, Inc. OverDrive Inc. Texserve Lee & Low Books Scholastic Trade Books Overlooked Books School Library Connection Theatre, Storybook Lemniscaat USA Oxford University Press Thinkersize LLC Lerner Publishing Group School Library Journal P.V. Supa Inc Sebco Books Thomas Nelson Publishers Librarians Gift Store - Texas Thorndike Press Authors and Illustrators Pajama Press Self Represented Litigants Tilbury House Libraries Unlimited Palmieri Project Tim Tingle, Choctaw author Library Bureau Paragon Shadow Mountain Publishing TLC - The Library Corporation Library Design Systems Peachtree Publishers Sherry Garland, Author TMCfurniture.com Library Interiors - Vance Hunt & Pelican Publishing Company Shmoop Associates Penguin Adult Library & Silpada Designs Jewelry Today’s Business Solutions, Inc. Library Interiors of Texas Academic Marketing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Top Shelf Comics Library Journal Penguin Random House, Inc. SirsiDynix Tor/Forge Books Library Rat Penguin Young Readers SJB Productions Total Boox, Ltd. The Library Store, Inc Perma-Bound Books Sleeping Bear Press TRACSYSTEMS, inc. LibrarySkills, Inc. PFAI Smart Apple Media Transparent Language, Inc. Libra-Tech Corporation - Pharos Systems Sneed B. Collard III Travels With Gannon & Wyatt Shelving and Furniture PHDesigns by Indeco Sales Society of Children’s Book Trinity Library Resources Listening Library Picture Window Books Writers and Illustrators - Texas Trinity University Press Chapters little bee books Piñata Books Twayne Publishers Sociosights Press Little, Brown Books for Young PolyPrinter Twenty-First Century Books Sourcebooks, Inc. Readers Power Kids Tyndale House Publishers South Texas School Furniture Living Language Praeger Southwest Book Company U*X*L Lorimer Children & Teens Primary Source Media Southwest Solutions Group, Inc. UDON Entertainment Lucas Miller, Singing Zoologist Pro Forma Architecture, Inc. Spirit Monkey Udon Entertainment/Manga Lucent Books Progressive Rising Phoenix Press Classics Spotlight Mackin Educational Resources Pronunciator Language University of Houston-Clear Learning Stars Information Solutions Lake Macmillan - Adult Starstek Macmillan Children’s Publishing ProQuest University of North Texas Prufrock Press Stone Arch Books College of Information Group Stop Falling Productions Macmillan Reference USA Publisher Spotlight University of North Texas Storybook Theatre of Texas Department of Library & Maco Manufacturing Publishers Group West Publishers Weekly Sue Young, Bilingual Storyteller Information Sciences Magazine Subscription Service University of North Texas Press Agency T2 Design Quarto Publishing Group USA University of Texas Press Magic Wagon Take Care of Texas Quimby & Sneet Kid’s Books University Products Inc. Majeza Jewlery Cleaner & PYT TAMU Styling Tools Rainbow Book Company TCEQ Unshelved Mango Languages Random House Children’s Tech Logic Upstart Margaret Clauder Presents Books Tejas Storytelling Association Vance Hunt Libraries Mother Goose and THE Random House Library & TESCO Learning Environments VIS Enterprises Academic Marketing Bookworm Texas A&M University Press Read-a-thon W.W. Norton Mason Crest: National Texas Book Festival Highlights Readex Wanfang Data / China Texas Christian University Press Maverick Books, Inc. Read Squared E-Resources Texas Heritage League Media Flex - OPALS - CERF Recorded Books Weigl Publishers Inc. Texas Legal Services Center Media Source ReferenceUSA West Texas Micrograhics Weston Woods/Scholastic Audio Mergent, Inc. Renaissance TLA-sponsored: Midwest Tape Renaissance Learning Whodunit Press, a Division of Black Caucus Round Table Millbrook Press The RoadRunner Press Mysteries by Vincent, LLC Exhibitors Round Table Miller, Lucas, Singing Zoologist Rosen Publishing/Power Kids Wings Press New Member Round Table Mitinet Library Services Rourke Educational Media The Worden Company Public Libraries Division Mrs. Nelson’s Library Service & Russwood Library Furniture Wordsong Bindery Small Community Libraries Workman Publishing Company/ SAGE Round Table Algonquin Young Readers National Highlights Salado Press Texas Authors and Illustrators The World Almanac® National Library of Medicine Salem Press Round Table WT Cox Information Services Nature Conservancy TLA 2017 / San Antonio CVB The Sam Houston Project YBP Library Services The New Book Press, LLC Sam Houston State University NewsBank, Inc. - Department of Library Texas Municipal Courts Zondervan/Zonderkidz/ Nienkämper Library Science Education Center Blink J Norwood House Press SCBWI - Texas
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 29 tuesday April 19 PRECONFERENCES All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Preregistration is required for all preconferences by Friday, April 8; ticket purchase is required as noted. All preconferences will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center unless otherwise noted.
Jelain Chubb, Texas State Library & Archives linking services and integrating these services Continuing Professional Education credits Commission; Vince Lee, University of Houston; and into workflows. Attendees will gain hands-on Event State Board for TX State Library & Jennifer Sessa, Houston Public Library. experience with these functions. Number Educator Certification Archives Commission Archives, Genealogy and Local History Round Table, Conference Program Committee, and Texas Terry Reese, The Ohio State University (Columbus). CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 State Library & Archives Commission. Cataloging and Metadata Round Table. Program Title CPE#201: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 8:00 - 9:50 am Hands on 3D Printing Design CPE#204: SBEC 6.0; (Ticketed; register online only) TSLAC 6.0 CPE#200: SBEC 3.5; TSLAC 3.5 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Continuous Developing Policies for Local History Design and create a 3D printed object. Learn Improvement with and Special Collections how to plan successful programs using 3D Lean Six Sigma (Ticketed) printers in libraries. 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (Ticketed; register online only) Myja Lark Rachel Stout, Houston Public Library. Discover ways to 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Automation and Technology Round Table. engage employees and create a culture of Julia Ideson Building (Houston Public Library), 550 McKinney Street improvement. The Lean Six Sigma Black CPE#202: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 All archives, including libraries with small Belt concepts show how to reduce costs and local history or special collections, need MarcEdit and Linked become more efficient in delivering services policies outlining the why, how, and what of Data (Ticketed) to customers. Each workshop participant will the archival materials they house. Learn how 9:00 am - 12:00 pm leave with a Yellow Belt certification. to handle donations, provide access, navigate The creator of MarcEdit Myja Lark, Finance Department, City of Houston. privacy and copyright restrictions, and shows how to use the tool to Leadership Development Committee. deaccession items from your collections. create linked data. He covers Terry Reese
Tech Creation Institute: Additionally, you can distribute your Developing Digital Identity content instantly, as UTA is hosting an Gretchen Trkay, University of Texas at Arlington. Beyond Text OER unified repository. Learn how to Want to reach a broader audience to CPE#215: SBEC 6.0; TSLAC 6.0 upload to this platform. market your projects or even to pump up your personal PR at your home (Ticketed; register online only) Noon - 1:30 pm...... Lunch on your own 9:00 am - 4:30 pm institution? Learn to quickly create 1:30 - 4:30 pm...... Afternoon Sessions an online presence using a variety of This session is for librarians interested in platforms such as PlumX, ORCID tools, moving their practice forward and in need BreakOut SESSIONS: 4 OPTIONS and other social media software. of additional technological know-how, Develop Online Exhibits whether in a school, public, or academic Rafia Mirza, Ramona Holmes, and Brett Currier, Data Visualization & Usage environment. BYOD (Bring Your Own University of Texas at Arlington. Heather Scalf and Peace Ossom Williamson, University of Texas at Arlington Device) for our hands-on learning and Learn how to create online exhibits in afternoon break-out sessions. a hand-on session covering Omeka.net, Learn ways to tell your data stories in sound copyright practices, and project more compelling and engaging ways, 9am - noon management with a Memorandum of making the facts relevant to the needs and Open Curriculum & Technologies Understanding. This session is for those interests of stakeholders. This workshop to Build OERs expanding their Texas history curriculum, will introduce some basic tools for Kelly Visnak, University of Texas at Arlington showcasing local and public history exploring and visualizing data and provide Are you a content creator? Want to collections, or building digital humanities guidance in design and context for their expand your experience with open projects. uses. In this workshop, we will explore curriculum and the software used to share geospatial data visualization tools and TUESDAY • APRIL 19 TUESDAY Fabrication & Makerspaces Open Educational Resources (OERs)? Katie Peery and a member of the FabLab Team, an overview of tools providing various This session examines content creation University of Texas at Arlington capacities for visualizing quantitative data and repackaging, rights management Makerspaces exist in all types of libraries. to enhance your story as well as provide regarding the content you create, as well Join the maker movement. Explore context.
as the technologies that exist to share Thingiverse and hands-on coding to create Conference Program Committee and University open curriculum with your colleagues. 3D printable and automated items. of Texas at Arlington.
30 Texas Library Journal • Winter 20152014 Technology Conference provides an engaging, exciting forum for reading motivation. Join the 21st Century Library Girls in learning how to set up virtual within a Conference bookshelves, monitor student reading and Lexile level, create challenges, help students for School Librarians expand genre reading, and tailor reading lists – all online and un-lose-able! Organize and foster peer-to-peer support with shared reviews ARrrrr, Matey! Tech Like a Pirate and recommendations, and give parents at Using Augmented Reality (AR) Apps home access to their child’s reading progress. Elizabeth Hensley and Meredith McCune, Virtual reading awards are free and oh-so- CPE#203: SBEC 5.0; TSLAC 5.0 Aldine ISD fun! (Did we mention free?) (Ticketed; register online only) Join @Bibliotechie11 and @iTechGal3 to Inspire Innovation by Fostering 9:30 am - 3:00 pm “Tech Like a Pirate” using Augmented Reality Collaboration and Creativity TLA’s acclaimed Tech Camp returns with (AR) apps. AR is a great way to showcase the Drew Minock and Brad Waid new content to equip participants with best parts of your library and promote interest skills and knowledge to maximize social in your “gems.” Come learn how to unearth True innovation happens when collaboration media platforms, Web applications, digital the treasure in your library! and creativity are given the opportunity to run wild! Finding many different solutions content, and tech tools that wow students, Makerspace Mania teachers, and administrators. Learn what’s to the same problem creates outside the Tamiko Brown, Erin Irvine, and Valerie Loper, box thinking. Using technology with this hot, what will be hot, and how to master and Clear Creek ISD promote these resources to build learning and approach breeds innovation. During this Thinking of starting a makerspace? Three collaboration at your school. Bring your own workshop we will tackle Web tools, mobile librarians from Clear Creek ISD share start device. apps, and hardware including Tinkered, up information to get your makerspace off the Canva, Structure Sensor, Cargo-Bot, Pixel- 9:00-10:00 am...... Arrival, Registration, ground and share updates we’ve added this Press Floors, Three Ring, and Remind to get ...... & Sponsor Visits year such as MinecraftEdu.com, robotics, and students working as a team and reach new 10:00-10:40 am...... Keynote more... heights. Come explore how to use technology Ignite a Love of Learning Code.Org Studio as a tool to inspire student innovation, collaboration, and creativity! and Innovation Susan Reeves, ESC Region 20 2 Guys and Some iPads: Computer science is foundational knowledge Maker Hall Drew Minock (@TechMinock) for all students in the 21st century. But Learn about the variety of makerspaces and Brad Waid (@techbradwaid) many schools don’t teach it, especially at that are in the Greater Houston area. Speak True innovation happens when collaboration the elementary level. If we wait until high one-on-one with the people who are part and creativity are given the opportunity to school, we see computer science classes of the Maker movement, including school run wild! Finding many different solutions filled with students who do not represent librarians, teachers, college librarians, public to the same problem promotes outside-the- the demographics of our society. Code.Org, librarians, and associates in the professional box thinking. Using technology with this organizers of the Hour of Code, want to arena of makerspaces. See and learn about the approach breeds innovation. We will explore expose every child in the world to computer technology, arts, and programming that these how to use technology as a tool to ignite a love science in a fun and engaging way at a young individuals are using in their makerspaces. of learning, innovation, collaboration, and age. Susan F. Reeves, Affiliate Trainer for Texas Association of School Librarians, creativity! Code.Org, will provide an orientation to Children’s Round Table, and Young Adult Round Table. the free resources and training available for elementary and middle school librarians to TUESDAY • APRIL 19 integrate computer science coding into your library. You can be the catalyst and help light Take me to conference! Breakout the spark and interest in a young child. Sessions Drew Minack Brad Waid Virtual Bookshelves with Biblionasium Bring this publication to confer- Choose one in each time - 21st Century Library Girls ence with you to keep full pro- block: these repeat 4 times. Julie McCormack and Kristin Coffield, Killeen ISD; 10:50-11:30 am ...... Breakout #1 (40 min) and Mary Barr, Temple ISD gram details at hand. A pocket- 11:40-12:20 pm ...... Breakout #2 (40 min) Stuck in the reading log “bog”? Jump into sized booklet with event names 12:20-1:10 pm ...... LUNCH the fun, FAB world of BIBLIONASIUM and locations will be distributed ...... & Sponsor Visits (50 min) and show students, teachers, and parents just how much fun reading and sharing onsite, and updates on programs 1:10-1:50 pm ...... Breakout #3 (40 min) favorites can be! Biblionasium is a FREE and events will be broadcast 2:00-2:40 pm ...... Breakout #4 (40 min) protected social network for kids 6-13 that through TLA social media. 2:40-3:30 pm...... Refreshments ...... & Sponsor Visits
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 31 CPE#250: SBEC 3.0; CPE#252: SBEC 3.5; TSLAC 3.5 CPE#253: SBEC 3.0 TSLAC 3.0 Making Makerspaces in Public Speed Dating the Texas Bluebonnet Beyond the Voice: Using Libraries (Ticketed) Books and Authors (Ticketed) 1:00 - 4:30 pm Movement, Expression, 3:00 - 6:00 pm and Mime in Storytelling Makerspaces are popping up everywhere, Meet several TBA authors face-to-face and but many librarians still have questions Antonio Rocha (Ticketed) discover strategies for promoting the 2016-17 1:00 - 4:00 pm about integrating them into their services. Bluebonnet List. Learn new ideas, program This workshop covers the how-to: set up, Hilton Americas-Houston Hotel, 1600 Lamar Street resources, tips for integrating technology with programming, staff training, resource sharing, This lively workshop brings out your creativity TBA programming, and best practices. Book equipment costs, space planning, and signings will follow. while focusing your storytelling craft on maintenance. body language and mime. Antonio Rocha, Katherine Applegate, Macmillan Children’s Cecilia Barham, North Richland Hills Public Library; Publishing Group; Mac Barnett and Jory John, who studied under Marcel Marceau, shares Cullen Dansby, Benbrook Public Library; Patrick Amulet / Abrams Books; Chris Barton and Don his techniques making the invisible visible, Ferrell, Harris County Public Library; Thomas Finley, Tate, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers; Cassie creating atmosphere, presenting character, and Frisco Library; Jim Johnson, Harris County Public Beasley, Victoria Jamieson, and Ursula Vernon, effecting smooth transitions. Library; Erica Stone, Benbrook Public Library; and Dial Penguin; Cathy Camper and Raul Gonzalez, Paul Waak, CTLS, Inc. Chronicle Books; Doreen Cronin and Stuart Gibbs, Antonio Rocha, storyteller. Public Libraries Division. Simon & Schuster; Kelly Jones, Random House Storytelling Round Table, Diversity and Inclusion Children’s Books; Josh Lieb, Razorbill Penguin; and Committee, and Young Adult Round Table. CPE#275; SBEC 3.5; TSLAC 3.5 Joel Ross, HarperCollins Children’s Books. Texas Bluebonnet Award Committee. CPE#251: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 Organizational Resilience: From Next Steps: Archiving, Surviving to Thriving with Diversity Digitization, and Preservation and Inclusion (Ticketed) (Ticketed; register online only) 1:00 - 4:30 pm The facilitators of this highly interactive 1:00 - 4:00 pm preconference will help guide attendees Julia Ideson Building (Houston Public Library), 550 McKinney Street through a series of activities and discussions So you have the records and policies in place; that connect the concepts of organizational Katherine Applegate Mac Barnett Chris Barton now what? Learn the basics of properly resilience and diversity, equity, and inclusion housing, digitizing, and preserving materials as within libraries. Through stories, case studies well as developing programs to showcase your and research, we will learn how to harness the local history and special collections. Attendees positive power of organizational diversity to will receive hands-on experience at an archival move our libraries from surviving to thriving facility. While this program builds on the content in our increasingly multicultural communities. of the Developing Policies for Local History and Camille Alire, consultant and past ALA president; Cassie Beasley Cathy Camper Doreen Cronin Special Collections preconference, attendance at Karen E. Downing, University of Michigan; Janice that program is not a prerequisite. Welburn, Marquette University; and Patty Wong, Vince Lee, University of Houston; Laura K. Saegert, Yolo County (CA). Texas State Library & Archives Commission; and Diversity and Inclusion Committeee and Jennifer Sessa, Houston Public Library. Conference Program Committee. Archives, Genealogy and Local History Round Table, Conference Program Committee, and Texas State Library & Archives Commission. Stuart Gibbs Raul Gonzalez Victoria Jamieson
Camille Alire Karen E. Downing
Jory John Kelly Jones Josh Lieb
Janice Welburn Patty Wong
Joel Ross Don Tate Ursula Vernon TUESDAY • APRIL 19 TUESDAY
32 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 tla16_ad.indd 1 11/23/15 4:01 PM tuesday April 19 programs & events Badge Pick-up (preregistered)...... 7:30 am All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Registration...... 10 am – 7 pm Meetings are in red; events are sans serif. Connection Corner (Computers, Housing, Internet)...... 10 am – 5 pm making history. Tickets must be purchased by practices and strategies for implementing Career Development Center...... 1 pm – 5 pm Friday, April 8, through preregistration. workforce education programs. TLA Store...... 10 am – 5 pm Exhibitors Round Table. Jolea T. Bryant, Gulf Coast Workforce Board- Workforce Solutions; Anson Green, Texas Workforce Exhibit Hall...... 5:30 – 7:30 pm Commission; Leticia Leija, Dustin Sekula Memorial TLA Innovation Lab Library; and Norma Linda Salaiz, Rio Grande 10:00 am - 7:30 pm Valley LEAD. Continuing Professional Education credits Exhibit Hall Workforce-Library Partnerships Task Force. Event State Board for TX State Library & Number Educator Certification Archives Commission A makerspace fit for librarians is on the CPE#260: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 schedule throughout conference week! Be Well: Partnerships for Community CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 TLA is partnering with Texas Innovation Health Literacy Group, a cohort of library workers who Program Title 12:00 - 1:50 pm are interested in building libraries and 8:00 - 9:50 am education spaces that encourage and grow Hear best practices and maker culture through programs, tools, lessons learned from the implementation of Houston Downtown History Bike Tour (Ticketed) and services. We want to bring you a makerspace designed to satisfy your own Public Library’s Healthy 9:00 am - 12:00 pm personal creativity while energizing you L.I.F.E (Literacy Initiative For Bayou City Tours, 1824 Spring Street with ideas, strategies, and programs that Everyone) program. Find Join Bayou City Bike Tours on a leisurely you can take back to your library “shop”! Lisa Avetisian ways to collaborate with your downtown history tour that takes you through The TLA Innovation Lab will be located community, engage the heart of the city and some of Houston’s near the registration area inside Exhibit stakeholders, and advance community health most historic neighborhoods. See the Houston Hall C. priorities. Lisa Avetisian, skyline like you’ve never seen it before, cruise Conference Program Committee. along the city’s famous bayous, embrace National Center for Families our restaurant culture, and learn how an Learning; Jamie 18-minute battle and a simple land purchase CPE#257: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Freeny, Doctors by two New York brothers grew to the most Everywhere You Look... For Change; diverse city in the United States! Bikes are Kim Perry, Texas Embedded Librarians! A&M Agrilife provided. Transportation will be provided 12:00 - 1:20 pm Jamie Freeny Kim Perry Extension from the convention center at 8:15 am or Everyone benefits when reference staff reach Services; Nicole Robinson, Houston Public Library; and Kelly Zigler, meet at 1824 Spring Street at 8:30 am. Tickets out to customers beyond the library. This must be purchased by Friday, April 8, through Houston Food Bank. program explores innovative ways to make Conference Program Committee. preregistration. contact with library audiences in unexpected Conference Local Arrangements Committee. places and showcases the collateral rewards of CPE#261: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 those efforts. Incorporating Open Education Texas Bluebonnet Award Committee Jenniffer Hudson Connors, Stark Foundation Library Resources into the College Classroom 10:00 am - 1:00 pm & Archive; Greg Hardin, University of North Texas; My’Tesha Tates, Houston Public Library; Melanie 12:00 - 1:50 pm Exhibitors Round Table Golf Outing Wachsmann, Cy-Fair Library, Harris County Public Lone Star College librarians and instructional (Ticketed) Library- Lone Star College; Susan Whitmer, Texas designers partnered to educate faculty Woman’s University; and Lisa Youngblood, Harker and encourage implementation of open 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Heights Public Library. educational resources into the curriculum. Tour 18 Golf Course, 3192 FM 1960 East, Humble, Texas Reference and Information Services Round Table, College and University Libraries Division, and The session covers collaboration and librarian/ At Tour 18 Houston, they have painstakingly Public Libraries Division. faculty mentorships needed to make the reproduced the most renowned holes in the program a success. CPE#258: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 history of golf. Imagine yourself playing these Christine Ramsey and Cynthia Shade, challenging holes that have determined the Workforce Collaborations Lone Star College. outcome of tournaments like the U.S. Open, from Cradle to Career CULD-Community/Junior College Discussion The Masters, The Tour Championship, and Group Division, Reference and Information 12:00 - 1:20 pm the PGA Championship. This collection Services Round Table, and College and University Libraries must Libraries Division.
TUESDAY • APRIL 19 TUESDAY of incredible replicas offers one fantastic collaborate challenge after another, creating a uniquely with CPE#264: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 memorable experience. The attention to detail education, Strategies for Scholarly Publishing and unquestionable standards for beauty will business, and 1:00 - 1:50 pm make you appreciate the great golf courses from community which these simulations were chosen. Test your Interested in publishing a scholarly article? organizations Jolea T. Bryant Anson Green skills against the legends and take your shot at This hands-on session provides strategies to get to help youth and adults pursue their career you started and overcome common obstacles. paths. Attendees will learn blue ribbon The editor-designate of College & Research
34 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Libraries shares advice, worksheets/tasks, and CPE#270: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Texas Media Awards Committee tips for submitting pieces for publication. Programming for Young 2:00 - 3:20 pm Wendi Arant Kaspar, Texas A&M University. and School Age Children Celebrating Library Pioneers: Conference Program Committee. 2:00 - 2:50 pm Tea with Julia Ideson (Ticketed) CPE#HL280: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 Looking for library programming and early 2:00 - 3:50 pm ands on ab literacy techniques that work for school age Minecraft 101 – H L 01 Julia Ideson Building (Houston Public Library), 550 McKinney Street (Ticketed; register online only) children? Come hear librarians present on dynamic programs that are guaranteed to Join colleagues for an afternoon tea at the 1:00 - 3:50 pm bring in the school and public library patrons historic Julia Ideson Building. Tour the Houston Public Library Express Mobile Lab on Discovery Green for fun and learning. archives, view artifacts highlighting Houston’s Minecraft is the sandbox gaming sensation Lisa Bubert, Frisco Public Library; Shannon Foley, first librarian, and network with colleagues. that has taken the Internet by storm! It’s a Eanes ISD; and Merrily McInnis, Frisco ISD. Transportation is on your own. Tickets must free-form play experience that allows players to Children’s Round Table. be purchased by Friday, April 8, through mine, build, farm, and adventure. Participants preregistration. CPE#271: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 will learn the basics of this gaming world. Retired Librarians Round Table. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, April 8, Teen Street Team: through preregistration. The New Teen Advisory Board CPE#289: SBEC 2.0 Conference Program Committee. 2:00 - 2:50 pm Explore Other Realms CPE#266: SBEC 1.0; Hear how a public library transformed its teen with Middle Grade Fantasy Authors TSLAC 1.0 advisory board into a Teen Street Team. The 2:00 - 3:50 pm An Open Educational teens create and run programs and use social Unlock the imagination with authors of media and YouTube videos to publicize their Resource Repository middle grade fantasy! Come hear about their events. Find out what’s planned for next year. latest books and get the first glimpse into new in Action! Trish Clark and Rachel Hoyt, Plano Public Library and imagined worlds. 2:00 - 2:50 pm System. Cathy Swift Cathy Swift of the Young Adult Round Table. Multimedia Educational Resource for CPE#272: SBEC 0.5 Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) demonstrates the use of freely-available What’s New with Texas Authors and electronic learning objects from that Illustrators for Elementary Readers? repository. Incorporate them into your 2:00 - 2:50 pm Megan Blakemore Aimee Carter Natalie Lloyd instruction and learn to rate their effectiveness. Find out what’s new with your favorite authors Cathy Swift, MERLOT. and illustrators for elementary school. The Distance E-Learning Round Table, Library panelists will introduce their current books Instruction Round Table, and Texas State Library & and new projects. A business meeting precedes Archives Commission. the program. CPE#267: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Donna Janell Bowman, Penny Parker Klostermann, Can the Edge Assessment Susan Kralovansky, Cynthia Levinson, Carmen Brandon Mull Lin Oliver Liesl Shurtliff Oliver, Liz Garton Scanlon, Don Tate, and Emma J. Help My Small Rural Library? Virjan, authors and illustrators. Megan Frazer Blakemore and Aimee Carter, 2:00 - 2:50 pm Texas Authors and Illustrators Round Table. Bloomsbury Children’s Books; Natalie Lloyd, The Edge tool is used to help small libraries District Planning Committee Meeting Scholastic Press / Scholastic Inc.; Brandon Mull, assess their technology services and plan for Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing; Lin Oliver, 2:00 - 2:50 pm Penguin Random House; and Liesl Shurtliff, a vibrant future. Learn to use this resource Random House Children’s Books. for your library and hear from librarians who CPE#274: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Children’s Round Table. have used their Edge results to improve their Exhibits and Programming CPE#281: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 services and market the library to stakeholders. @ Your Public Library Pattie Mayfield, Bertha Voyer Memorial Library; Global Read Aloud: Connecting 2:00 - 3:20 pm and Lisa B. Scroggins, Gilmer Memorial Library/ Classrooms Around the World TUESDAY • APRIL 19 Rocksprings ISD. The speakers showcase successful internal 2:00 - 3:50 pm Texas State Library & Archives Commission. partnerships and share their work planning In a Global Read Aloud (GRA), teachers select CPE#268: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 both conventional and inventive ways to highlight exhibits. With traveling exhibitions a book to read to their class during a six-week The Internet of Everything – and original displays, Houston Public Library period. Increase reading and participation Wearables, Embedded Technology – extends the life of exhibits through programs by connecting your students with classrooms What Does it Mean for Us? at neighborhood libraries. around the world through Twitter, Skype, Edmodo, and more. 2:00 - 2:50 pm Carmen Pena Abrego, Arte Publico Press; Danielle The Internet is embedded in everything from Burns Wilson, and Mikaela Selley, Houston Public Seantele Library. Foreman and hoodies to home appliances – all via mobile Michelle apps and remote access. What is the Internet Conference Program Committee. Leggett, of Everything? What does this mean for College & University Libraries Division Pearland ISD; library security, wifi, and other management All-Committees concerns? Come, learn, and discuss. 2:00 - 3:20 pm Jennifer L. Holm Lynda Mullaly-Hunt Renee Dyer and Max Mata, Weslaco ISD. Texas Association of School Librarians.
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 35 Jennifer L. Holm, Random House Children’s Books; Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing CPE#288: SBEC 0.5 and Lynda Mullaly-Hunt, Nancy Paulsen Books/ Round Table Penguin. What’s New with Texas Authors and 2:00 - 3:50 pm Texas Association of School Librarians. Illustrators for Middle Grade to YA? CPE:269; SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 3:00 - 3:50 pm CPE#279: SBEC 2.0 Wondering what’s new with your Texas Hear Them First: Increasing Engagement: Designing authors and illustrators? Find out who’s Debut YA Authors – Chapter 1 Interactive Videos for Online Learning done what this last year, and hear a lineup of 3:00 - 3:50 pm 2:00 - 3:50 pm Texas authors and illustrators introduce their Who will be the next great YA author? Join Do you want to go beyond simply providing new projects. A business meeting precedes the debut authors as they discuss their experiences videos to adding interactivity to make them program. with YA fiction. more engaging? The presenter will show you Paige Britt, P.J. Hoover, Cynthia Levinson, Jennifer how to support online lessons, identify best McKissack, Cory Putman Oakes, Joy Preble, Liz practices for creating videos, discover Web Garton Scanlon, and Greg Leitich Smith, authors 2.0 tools that make videos interactive, and and illustrators. implement economical solutions for hosting Texas Authors and Illustrators Round Table. videos. Introduction to TLA Finances Daniella Smith, University of North Texas. 3:30 - 4:20 pm University of North Texas. Jan Gagsei Heidi Heilig Estelle Laure Officers are invited to learn about TLA CPE#286: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 budgeting, financial policies, and practices that Optimize Graphic Novel Choice and impact units and committees. Programming @ Your Library Glenda Genchur, Texas Library Association. CPE#290: SBEC 1.0; 3:00 - 3:50 pm TSLAC 1.0 Now that you have a graphic novel collection, what do you do with it? Come join us for Faith and Spirituality Goldy Moldavsky Gavriel Savit Stephanie Tromly a lively discussion with Little Maverick in YA Lit Jan Gagsei, Disney-Hyperion; Heidi Heilig, Committee members and learn how to 4:00 - 4:50 pm HarperCollins Children’s Books; Estelle Laure, promote this viable reading choice in your Research indicates that 60% Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Goldy Moldavsky, collection. Ally Watkins of teens spend some time each Point/Scholastic Inc.; Gavriel Savit, Random House Bethni King, Georgetown Public Library. week involved in a spiritual activity, but where Children’s Books; Stephanie Tromly, Kathy Dawson Books at Penguin Random House. Children’s Round Table. is this represented in YA literature? Explore YA Young Adult Round Table. literature and discuss specific titles that present CPE#285: SBEC 1.0; positive, realistic depictions of teens involved TSLAC 1.0 CPE#282: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 in diverse faiths. Open Up Article Sharing: Recruitment and Karen Jensen, Teen Librarian Toolbox; and Ally Getting What Your Patron Wants Retention of a Watkins, Mississippi Library Commission. 2:00 - 3:50 pm Diverse Workforce Young Adult Round Table. 3:00 - 3:50 pm A short presentation will address some current Melanie Pang CPE#291: SBEC problems with article sharing in Texas. The The speakers offer practical 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 speaker will share ideas to identify solutions suggestions to library managers for creating a Getting More Out of in interlibrary loan, including Navigator that more inclusive work environment. Managers Networking Events will work for all. A business meeting follows the will learn recruitment strategies to help 4:00 - 4:50 pm program. diversify their workforce and how inclusive Soft skills are everything. Sara Hayes, Texas State Library & Archives environments improve employee retention. Maureen Sullivan Commission. Alma Chavarria, Houston Public Library; Ana Learn how to “work the room” by practicing networking skills in this Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Divino Cleveland and Kathleen E. Hobson, Round Table. University of North Texas; and Melanie Pang, One session that models real life social interactions Voice Texas / Voices for Change. in a relaxed but professional setting. A national CPE#280: SBEC 1.5 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Round Table library leader will lead this program. Texas Digital Library: and Supervision, Management, and Administration Round Table. Maureen Sullivan, consultant and a past president A Chat with TDL’s New Leadership of ALA. CPE#287: SBEC 1.0 2:00 - 3:50 pm Conference Program Committee and TALL Texans Texas Digital Library’s (TDL) Kristi Park Speed Mentoring Round Table. discusses the organization’s vision, resources, 3:00 - 3:50 pm CPE#292: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 and future plans. A business meeting precedes the This program takes speed dating in a new Summer Reading Reinvented program. direction. Mentors with experience in the field 4:00 - 4:50 pm TUESDAY • APRIL 19 TUESDAY Kristi L. Park, Texas Digital Library. and TLA will have a brief opportunity to chat Learn how Pasadena ISD in collaboration Digital Libraries Round Table. with new members. In addition to having fun, with the public library used READsquared participants will make new connections with to enhance and extend the summer reading Digital Libraries Round Table experts. 2:00 - 3:50 pm experience for students. This digital summer New Members Round Table and TALL Texans reading program offers new ways to promote Intellectual Freedom Committee Round Table. reading. 2:00 - 3:50 pm
36 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Melissa Rippy, Thomas Simiele, and Christine Van CPE#HL282: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 and find out who is in your neighborhood and Hamersveld, Pasadena ISD. Office 365/OneDrive H– ands on Lab what kind of work they do. Texas Association of School Librarians. 02 (Ticketed; register online only) Texas Authors and Illustrators Round Table. CPE#295: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 4:00 - 5:20 pm Using Backward Design to Houston Public Library Express Mobile Lab on Discovery Green Great Ideas Poster Session Reinvigorate Your Library’s Participants will learn key tools and features 4:30 - 6:00 pm Curriculum of Office 365 and how to be more productive TLA members open minds by presenting 4:00 - 4:50 pm and collaborate more efficiently than ever their innovative ideas in the form of Poster Learn how to design your library curriculum before. Explore One Drive, a cloud storage Sessions. See the showcase of how open for enduring results and implement strategies and file hosting service that allows users to libraries open opportunities for people to reinforce your role as a teacher of sync files for later access from Web browsers of all ages; new ideas that empower our information literacy in the library. or mobile devices. Tickets must be purchased by profession and our customers; and tools Francine Rader, Regents School of Austin. Friday, April 8, through preregistration. with an immediate impact. Leave with Texas Association of School Librarians. Conference Program Committee. takeaways to implement in your library. http://www.txla.org/poster-session-proposals Bylaws & Resolutions Committee CPE#263: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Conference Program Committee. 4:00 - 4:50 pm “Outside the Lines:” A New Approach College & University Libraries Division to Community Engagement Executive Board 4:00 - 5:20 pm Texas Library Association Council I 4:00 - 4:50 pm Let’s not just tell people how libraries have 5:00 - 5:50 pm Diversity & Inclusion Committee changed: let’s show them. “Outside the Lines” celebrates the creativity and innovation Council is the governing body of TLA. All 4:00 - 4:50 pm happening in libraries. conferees are invited to attend. Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Committee Discover a fresh approach to 4:00 - 4:50 pm community engagement that Exhibit Hall PR & Marketing Committee is sweeping the nation. This session is relevant for small 4:00 - 4:50 pm and large public, academic, Grand Opening Professional Issues & Ethics Committee Kelli Johnson and special libraries. 4:00 - 4:50 pm & Welcome Kelli Johnson, High Plains Library District (CO). 5:30 - 7:30 pm Texas Association of School Librarians Texas State Library & Archives Commission. Executive Board Join your colleagues as you settle in for CPE#294: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 the 2016 Annual Conference. Meet up 4:00 - 4:50 pm Personal Financial Planning with friends and exhibitors during this Young Adult Round Table uncontested time and begin four days Lone Star Reading Committee for Librarians of All Ages of networking and socializing. Light 4:00 - 4:50 pm 4:00 - 5:20 PM refreshments will be provided at stations Young Adult Round Table Maverick Librarians may face many financial challenges throughout the Exhibit Hall. Graphic Novel Reading Committee in their careers. New graduates’ starting Conference Local salaries may have trouble covering high Arrangements Committee. 4:00 - 4:50 pm student loan payments while veteran librarians Young Adult Round Table Spirit of Texas may have concerns about retirement. Bring Reading Committee - High School your own questions to this discussion of Networking with New Members 4:00 - 4:50 pm serious money matters. 6:00 - 8:00 pm Lorraine Decker, Financial Mentors of America Young Adult Round Table Spirit of Texas This event introduces new members to TLA Reading Committee - Middle School Conference Program Committee. New Members Round Table officers and other 4:00 - 4:50 pm new members. Meet in the registration area and TALL Texans Recognition and Reception Young Adult Round Table the group will walk to the venue. TUESDAY • APRIL 19 4:00 - 5:20 pm TAYSHAS Reading List Committee New Members Round Table Hyatt Regency Houston – Shula’s Steakhouse Bar, 1200 Louisiana 4:00 - 4:50 pm Catch up with fellow TALL Texans and It’s a #TXLChat Meet Up & Tweet Up! CPE#256: SBEC 1.5 welcome the new class. This annual event will 8:00 – 8:30 pm Lassoing Super Bilingual Stories: feature the presentation of the Standing TALL Are you a #TXLChat participant? Come find Tejas Star Reading Review Award. out more about our school libraries’ Twitter TALL Texans Round Table. 4:00 - 5:20 pm PLN that tweets every Tuesday night at 8:00 CST. It’s a “meet up and tweet up” with the Enjoy a bilingual blast of great reads featured Texas Authors and Illustrators #TXLChat crew and an opportunity to meet on the Tejas Star Reading List. Committee Meet and Greet members will introduce titles and share other participants of this statewide Texas strategies for promoting these stories to 4:00 - 5:20 pm Twitter group. We hope to “see” you there! children in both school and public library Hilton Americas-Houston Hotel, 1600 Lamar Street settings. Funding sources for these important Attend this informal event and get to know bilingual selections will also be covered. your Texas authors and illustrators. Relax, visit, Tejas Star Book Reading List Committee.
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 37 WEDNesday April 20 programs & events All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Meetings are in red; events are sans serif.
Registration...... 7 am – 5 pm CPE#303: SBEC 0.5 Bag Check...... 10:15 am – 5 pm Career Development Center....10:15 am – 5 pm General Session I Connection Corner (Computers, with Evan Smith Housing, Internet)...... 10:15 am – 5 pm 8:30 - 10:00 am Exhibits...... 10:15 am – 5 pm TLA Store...... 10:15 am – 5 pm Evan Smith, the editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune and former editor- in-chief of Texas Monthly, is arguably the leading voice on reporting Evan Smith Texas politics and policies. His unique blend of perspective and
Continuing Professional Education credits journalism has made Smith one of the most trusted and insightful voices on the activities Event State Board for TX State Library & of state government. From his visible passion for state news to his well-known commitment Number Educator Certification Archives Commission to education and literacy, Smith delivers Texas news in a way that makes the listener and
CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 reader a more informed citizen. Join him as he discusses the news and policies shaping our Program Title state today. Evan Smith, journalist. 8:00 - 9:50 am Conference Program Committee.
District 7 CPE#306: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 7:45 - 8:15 am variety of instruction models for discipline- specific information literacy learning Back Bones, Not Wish Bones: CPE#3504: SBEC 1.0; outcomes. We’ll provide examples from TSLAC 1.0 Inspire Tweens and Teens history, education, and business courses. to Stand Up for Issues friED TECHnology: These models use active and applied learning, Amy Mayer on Google and build on faculty collaboration and 10:15 - 11:50 am Certifications expanded content knowledge to foster student Fiction and engagement, learning and success. non-fiction can 10:15 - 11:20 am Amy J. Mayer inspire youth Do you work in a district Stephen Mike Kiel, University of Baltimore. Conference Program Committee. to take on a using Google Apps for Education? Do you cause. Provide just want to learn more about this resource? CPE#305: SBEC 1.5 the launch pad Investigate the benefits of this tool and learn 12th Annual Poetry RoundUp Melissa Farlow Julia Richardson that vaults about Google’s certification processes. There 10:15 - 11:50 am young people is a certification that will help you grow and over barriers to fight for issues. Hear an prove your skills. This program brings some of the best poets in children’s literature to a panel to discuss their example of advocating for a cause and receive Amy J. Mayer, friEDTechnology. work and the beauty and magic of poetry. hands-on experience with tools and resources Conference Program Committee. to help lead teens toward action. CPE#304: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Terri Farley and Julia Richardson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers; and Melissa Linked Data and Digital Humanities Farlow, Melissa Farlow Photography. 10:15 - 11:20 am Conference Program Committee.
Learn practical and interdisciplinary CPE#307: SBEC 0.5 applications and best practices of linked data from current scholars in the digital Kwame Alexander David Harrison K.A. Holt Black Caucus Round Table humanities field. Author Session (Ticketed) Liz Grumbach and Sarah Potvin, Texas A&M 10:15 - 11:50 am University; Spencer D. C. Keralis, University of Books and brunch! Pause between the opening North Texas. general session and the rest of your busy Automation and Technology Round Table. conference day for a relaxing meal and author CPE# 310: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 presentation. Tickets must be purchased by Irene Latham Amy VanDerwater Janet Wong More than just Recycling: Transforming Friday, April 8, through preregistration. Information Literacy through Kwame Alexander and David Menu: Cinnamon Belgium Waffle served Harrison, Houghton Mifflin
WEDNESDAY • APRIL 20 WEDNESDAY with Sliced Fried Chicken Breast Topped with High Impact Discipline Harcourt; K.A. Holt, Chronicle Vanilla Bean Maple Syrup & Apple Butter, Specific Instruction Books; Irene Latham, Wordson/ Boyds Mills Press; Amy Ludwig Fresh Fruit; Regular and Decaffeinated Coffee, 10:15 - 11:20 am VanDerwater and Stephen Assorted Hot Teas. Swinburne, Scholastic Inc.; and Tired of recycling the same Black Caucus Round Table. library session with different Janet Wong, Pomelo Books. keyword examples? This Stephen Swinburne Children’s Round Table. program will showcase a Stephen Mike Kiel
38 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 CPE#309: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 stories that make young pulses race! A business CPE#312: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Communicating meeting precedes the program. So You Have a 3D Printer, Now What? and Proving Your Worth R.L. Stine, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. 10:15 - 11:50 am 10:15 - 11:50 am Texas Association of School Librarians. Learn how three libraries have incorporated Make declining budgets and questions about CPE#323: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 3D printers and makerspace technologies into the library’s value a thing of the past! Discover library programming. Find target audiences proven strategies to engage your community Mentor Texts Open Doors in your community and identify volunteers to and prove your worth to decision makers. for Little Researchers maximize the use of your 3D printer. Learn to craft your message to get a yes and 10:15 - 11:50 am Thomas Finley, Frisco Public Library; Judy Hunter position your library for success. A mentor text is used to model quality writing and Diane Robson, University of North Texas; and and serves as a beginning point for teaching Erica Stone, Benbrook Public Library. new forms/genres of writing. Discover current Programming for Adults Round Table. teaching strategies to reinforce science, social CPE#318: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 studies, and ELA skills. This session covers Space City: Building Partnerships with center-based ideas for creating final products, while utilizing a flexible library schedule. the Johnson Space Center Archives 10:15 - 11:50 am Jim Griffin Julie M. Robinson LaShon D. Ross Leslie Roberts Clingan, El Paso ISD; and Valerie Price, Tomball ISD. Johnson Space Center (JSC) has partnered Jim Griffin, mayor, City of Bedford; Maria Redburn, Texas Association of School Librarians. with the University of Houston - Clear Lake Bedford Public Library; Julie M. Robinson, city to provide public access to a range of JSC administrator, City of Dickinson; LaShon D. Ross, CPE#316; SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 deputy city manager, City of Plano; and Cathy and NASA archives. Learn about this unique Ziegler, Plano Public Library System. Miles from Tomorrowland collection, how this partnership began, and Texas Municipal Library Directors Association. 10:15 - 11:50 am how your library can collaborate with allied organizations. CPE#326: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Sandra Johnson, Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, and Mark Community Partnerships for Outreach Darin Scroggins, NASA/Johnson Space Center. Government Documents Round Table, Archives, 10:15 - 11:50 am Genealogy and Local History Round Table, Expand the services you provide by developing College and University Libraries Division, a network of community partners. Offer new Reference and Information Services Round Table, classes, health insurance information, and Yvonne Cagle Diane Ikemiyashiro Sascha Paladino and Special Libraries Division. other services through collaboration with local CPE#319: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 organizations. Disney Junior’s Miles from Tomorrowland is an Mary D. Carreon, Cognosante; intergalactic adventure series for kids 2-7 that Streaming Media: Elaine Hernandez, Texas Hunger charts the outer space missions of young How Are Libraries Handling It? Initiative; and Dawn Rapoza, adventurer Miles Callisto and his family. Hear 10:15 - 11:50 am McAllen Public Library. from the show’s creator and the space, science, Subscriptions to streaming media are Public Libraries Division and and technology experts who consult on the becoming more prevalent in libraries, but Texas State Library & Archives series, which is designed to encourage kids to Commission. Mary D. Carreon are we really managing them as best we can? explore their natural curiosity in STEM fields. A panel representing public and academic CPE#HL310: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Yvonne Cagle, NASA; Diane Ikemiyashiro and backgrounds will discuss the challenges and Excel Basics: Creating Simple Budgets Sascha Paladino, Disney Junior, Walt Disney best practices in managing these materials. Company. ands on ab (Ticketed; register online) Richard Guajardo, University of Houston; Marianne – H L 03 Conference Program Committee. Lorio, Houston Public Library; Jacob Mangum, 10:15 - 11:50 am CPE#315: SBEC 1.5; University of North Texas; and Michael Saperstein, Houston Public Library Express Mobile Lab on Discovery Green Harris County Public Library. TSLAC 1.5 This lab demonstrates how to select templates, Electronic Resources and Serials Management set up spreadsheets, and create reports that Project Outcome: Round Table and Digital Libraries Round Table. show data in an easily understood format. Measuring Public CPE#321: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 WEDNESDAY • APRIL 20 Participants will create tables, use filters to sort Library Services Using Formative Assessment in data, construct relationships by using one data 10:15 - 11:50 am Emily Plagman point in multiple tables, and transform data PLA’s Project Outcome was Teaching Information Literacy into charts. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, created to make outcome measurement easier. 10:15 - 11:50 am April 8, through preregistration. Learn about this free initiative, a working Join a panel of school and academic librarians Conference Program Committee. meaning of “outcomes,” and the benefits the to learn about formative assessment techniques project can provide. A PLA representative will and how they can be used to gauge student CPE#317: SBEC 1.0 share experiences from the field and show you learning, customize information literacy Master of Horror how to plan for and administer patron-focused instruction, and gather data for reporting and R.L. Stine and Texas surveys as well use the results for planning, advocacy. Association of School advocacy, and decision making. Michelle Cooper, White Oak ISD; Neil Krasnoff, Highland Park ISD; and Jane Stimpson, Lone Star Emily Plagman, Public Library Association. Librarians Business College. Conference Program Committee. R.L. Stine Meeting Young Adult Round Table and Library Instruction 10:15 - 11:50 am Round Table. Children’s and YA horror fiction author Texas Association of School Librarians ...... R.L. Stine shares tales from his years crafting 10:15 - 11:50 am
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 39 WEDNESDAY • APRIL 20 40 Anne Barnhart,University ofWest Georgia. faculty participation. relevant content, marketing, andincentivizing faculty. Thepresenter willfocusonidentifying teaching informationliteracyand pedagogyto shares different modelsfor instruction learners: faculty. In thisprogram, alibrarian their localgroup ofdedicatedlife-long for librarianstodirect resources toteaching on teachingstudents;itislesscommon efforts Instruction librarianstendto focustheir 11:00 -11:50 Not Teach Them Literacy?Information Faculty Are Life-Long So Why Learners CPE# 308: S came intoexistenceandhow toimplementit The speakerswillexplainhow #BookADay 11:00 -11:50 Donalyn Miller #BookADay withTeri Lesesneand CPE#322: S Spring BranchISD. Charla Hollingsworth,AliefISD;andLisaStultz, media engagement. increase studentuse,circulation, andsocial Discover 10strategies theyemployed to librarians sawtheneedfortransformation. After inheritingunder-usedlibraries,these 11:00 -11:50 10 Ways toTransform SchoolLibraries CPE#367: S
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While 1:00 - 1:50 pm these tools to enhance multilingual services, outdated titles and collections should be Discover what’s hot off the press as presenters access to digital collections, and programming weeded, libraries must use different approaches booktalk the latest and greatest titles for for non-English users. and workflows to weed digital materials. A tweens and teens. A slide presentation and an public and an academic librarian will discuss Jiangping Chen, University of North Texas. annotated bibliography will be provided. their strategies. We will also discuss weeding University of North Texas. Teri Lesesne and Karin Perry, Sam Houston State e-books purchased through DDA/PDA. University. CPE#3529: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Brienne Walsh, City of Frisco, and Heidi Winkler, Texas Association of School Librarians. Partnering to Improve Early Literacy Texas Tech University. Acquisitions and Collection Development CPE#371: SBEC 0.5 1:00 - 1:50 pm Round Table. Dan Santat and An elementary school principal and a library CPE#376: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Children’s Round Table media specialist, concerned about the low Support Self-Publishers: Business Meeting pre-literacy and oral language skills of students entering their school, collaborated with Be the Missing Link 1:00 - 1:50 pm stakeholders to create community literacy 1:00 - 1:50 pm Caldecott-winning author Dan Santat programs. Take away ideas and resources. The self-publishing world creates new Dan Santat delivers a Linda E. Erwin, and Kathryn Stephenson, Aransas marketplaces to wake up publishers, promote Santastical look at Beeckle and his other works. County ISD. local authors, and entice readers. Explore A business meeting precedes the program. Texas Association of School Librarians. how librarians can find, nominate, judge, and Dan Santat, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. promote new super-star independent writers. Children’s Round Table. CPE#372: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Get inspired by the Soon to Be Famous Project ™. Power Up Online Resource Usage! Julie Stam, Eisenhower Public Library District (IL). CPE# 368: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Enhance Your Ability to Provide Public Libraries Division and Automation and Introduction to Bibframe Training in Your School Technology Round Table. 1:00 - 1:50 pm 1:00 - 1:50 pm CPE#379: SBEC 1.0; Initiated by the Library Do you tremble when asked to train TSLAC 1.0 of Congress, BIBFRAME faculty, facilitate a department or grade- Transforming Services provides a foundation for level meeting, or present at a conference? the future of bibliographic for Transgender Patrons Educate teachers about online resources, description, both on the Web, 1:00 - 1:50 pm and you reach students. Learn strategies and in the broader networked Carolyn Hansen This panel offers ideas for and technology applications to help you Kathleen E. Hobson world. 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Roberto, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. a robust data exchange that has supported Primary Sources from resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Round WEDNESDAY • APRIL 20 the Library of Congress Table, College and University Libraries Division, recent decades. Reference and Information Services Round Table, 1:00 - 1:50 pm Carolyn Hansen, University of Cincinnati. and Supervision, Management, and Administration Learn to use Round Table. Conference Program Committee. primary CPE#373: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Laughter Yoga: Come and Try It sources from the Library of We’re All Different: 1:00 - 1:50 pm Managing the School Library Shake off travel and conference fatigue with Congress with 1:00 - 1:50 pm Laughter Yoga, a body-mind exercise practice. literature and Laughter Yoga is like recess for adults with Callista Kukawski Brianna Reilly core content. How can you do it all? Practicing librarians lots of eye contact, high Speakers will from diverse situations will discuss time energy, movement, and share the scope of resources available from the management and customer service strategies meditation in a playful Library of Congress, provide integrated lessons that will allow you to keep a smile on your atmosphere. No mats or to use in the library and classroom, and face while providing quality services. experience required. explain how primary sources can raise critical Joan Evans, Klein ISD; Lucia Malo, Aldine ISD; thinking and increase student participation. Bettie McGinness, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD; and Sally Comfortable clothes are Gayle Smith, College Station ISD. Simone Barnes recommended. Conference Program Committee.
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Struthers, San Jacinto Museum of History. Matthew Winner’s Let’s Get Busy WEDNESDAY • APRIL 20 James English, New York Public Library; Paula Special Libraries Division. Podcast and Kidlit Author Kickball MacKinnon, CALIFA; and Christine Peterson, Tournament Amigos Library Services. CPE#390: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 2:00 - 3:50 pm Public Libraries Division, Automation and Discover the Spirit of Texas Technology Round Table, and Texas State Library Matthew Winner will interview children’s & Archives Commission. Reading Program authors and illustrators in a lively panel that 2:00 - 3:50 pm will also be a virtual kickball tournament. CPE#394: SBEC 2.0; The Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading Program Don’t miss the fun! TSLAC 2.0 connects libraries with Texas authors and Open Access: What illustrators. Learn how to forge relationships You Need to Know to enhance programming and reading at your 2:00 - 3:50 pm library. SPOT authors will discuss their works. Open access for academic Varsha Bajaj, Albert Whitman & Company; Rachel Emily Knox journals and other scholarly Caine, Penguin Random House; Beth Fehlbaum, Malakoff ISD and Merit Press; Amanda Galliton, publications is reshaping the university in Burkburnett ISD; Michelle Greer, Montgomery Mac Barnett Chris Barton Nancy J. Cavanaugh the broader world. The panelists represent a County Memorial Library System; Karen Harrington, diverse group of opinions in open access. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers;
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This program features solo librarians from all CPE#381: SBEC 1.0; Marti Minor, Georgia State Attorney General. library types, who will share their experiences, TSLAC 1.0 Conference Program Committee. tips, and best practices. After the formal Where’s the CPE#3518: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 program, attendees will have a chance to share Grant Money? A Day in the Life: Insights for Aspiring their own experiences as solo librarians and “Outside the Box” network with colleagues. 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Tonja Mackey, Texarkana College; Alexia Riggs, Strategy: Creating a Conference Program Committee. Howard Payne University; and Catherine Rudowsky, WEDNESDAY • APRIL 20 Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. “Just Right” Library CPE#HL353: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 College and University Libraries Division. Program Jackie Mims Hopkins Manipulating Wikipedia – Hands on 4:00 - 5:20 pm CPE#3507: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Lab 07 (Ticketed; register online only) The author of Goldie Socks and The Three 4:00 - 4:50 pm Bringing Picture Books to Life Libearians offers creative ideas and techniques Houston Public Library Express Mobile Lab on Discovery Green 4:00 - 5:20 pm to invigorate your library program and How do you choose a good picture book for From navigating the website to editing articles, provide strategies to encourage enthusiasm, a story program? What techniques can bring join us for an introduction to the ins and outs imagination, and fun in the library. the story to life for your audience? How do of the website librarians love to hate. Learn Jackie Mims Hopkins, author, Peachtree Publishers. you adapt the story to different audiences how you can participate in the Wikipedia Conference Program Committee. and situations? Learn how in this interactive community and add value to this ubiquitous workshop. source of information. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, April 8, through preregistration. Vivian Rutherford, Waco-McLennan County Library. Storytelling Round Table. Treva Shawn Anderson, Houston Community College. Conference Program Committee.
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Jason Low, Lee & Low Books; Isabel Quintero, Cinco Puntos Press; Jessica Russell, Harris County President’s Public Library; and Cynthia Leitich Smith, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators / All-Conference Party Candlewick Press. on Discovery Green Diversity and Inclusion Committee. 6:00 - 8:00 pm CPE#3505: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Discovery Green Greg Pizzoli Adam Rubin Dan Salmieri Grace Event Lawn & Maconda’s Grove, When Disaster Strikes: David Gordon, Simon & Schuster 1500 McKinney Weathering the Storm Children’s Publishing; Tad Hills, Random House Children’s Books; This year’s Presidents Party will be an al 4:00 - 5:20 pm Frank Morrison, Lee & Low fresco happy hour with thousands of your Benefit from the experience of a colleague Books; Greg Pizzoli, Disney- closest friends. Join colleagues for a relaxing who weathered the Memorial Day weekend Hyperion; Adam Rubin and Dan Salmieri, Penguin Young Readers and fun spring evening on beautiful green flood in Central Texas last year. Hear about Group; John Trischitti, Midland lawns. With the Fun Run now scheduled the struggles, the victories, and lessons learned. Sara Varon County Library System; and Sara to take place around the Green during the Find out how to apply for a relief grant for Varon, Chronicle Books. start of the party, you can cheer on friends, your community. A business meeting follows the Conference Program participate, or just enjoy all the activity. Committee. program. Refreshments, a cash bar, and entertainment Elizabeth A. M. Howard, Texas Wesleyan University; Reference and Information Services will round out the evening. and Carolyn Takacs Manning, Wimberley Village Round Table Meet & Greet Library. Conference Local Arrangements Committee. Disaster Relief Committee. 5:00 - 6:00 pm Lakehouse Waterside Cafe / Discovery Green, 1600 McKinney Street CPE#3511: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Hetherington XXIX Fun Run/Walk The Reference and Information Services (Ticketed; register online only) With a Little Help from Your Friends Round Table invites all TLA members to 6:15 - 7:30 pm 4:00 - 5:20 pm stop in for camaraderie and networking with Friends groups are powerful allies and a colleagues. The venue will sell refreshing Discovery Green, Grace Event Lawn & Maconda’s Grove, 1500 McKinney library’s front line for support. Working with beverages and snacks. This is an informal United For Libraries and EveryLibrary.org, the event … stop in for a few minutes or hang out The 29th annual 5K Fun Run/Walk will Friends of the Dallas Public Library launched longer as your conference schedule permits. be at Discovery Green just across the street from the convention center. This year it will a citywide library advocacy campaign that led Reference and Information Services Round Table. to an unprecedented two-year plan to increase be an evening Glow Run where you collect library funding by over $8 million. Learn Battledecks glow necklaces as you race your way to the about their path from being quiet Friends to finish at the President’s Party where attendees 5:00 - 6:30 pm becoming ultimate library warriors. can celebrate your accomplishment as you Competing presenters will speak for four Kate Park, Friends of Dallas Public Library. illuminate the night! Check-in is at 5:45 minutes on 10 slides which they have never Library Friends, Trustees, and Advocates Round pm at the run site. All participants receive a Table and Friends of Libraries seen. Who will have the wit to forge a commemorative t-shirt, refreshments, and glow and Archives of Texas. coherent talk out of chaos? Learn how mental necklaces. First, second, and third place awards dexterity, poise, and wildly random graphics Disaster Relief Committee ...... 4:00 - 5:20 pm will be given for the men’s run, the women’s can combine to create spontaneous comedy. run, and for the walk. Tickets must be purchased Library Friends, Trustees, Ted Wanner, Texas Library Association. by Friday, April 8, through preregistration. & Advocates Round Table ...... 4:00 - 5:20 pm TALL Texans Round Table. Conference Local Arrangements Committee. District 1 ...... 5:00 - 5:30 pm Public Library Division CPE#EF381: SBEC 2.0 District 3...... 5:00 - 5:30 pm Membership Party An Evening of Storytelling CPE#3508: SBEC 1.5 5:00 - 6:30 pm Featuring Antonio Rocha Hearsay on the Green (Embassy Suites Hotel), 1515 Dallas Street Children’s Book Illustrators 7:30 - 9:30 pm After a long day of conferencing, come relax Hilton Americas-Houston, 1600 Lamar St.
Ultimate Sketch-Off WEDNESDAY • APRIL 20 with your fellow public librarians! Light 5:00 - 6:00 pm appetizers and drinks will be provided. We’ll An evening performance of storytelling Back by popular demand, renowned children’s also have photo opportunities and prizes. See featuring Afro-Brazilian storyteller and mime book illustrators will compete in an ultimate you there! Antonio Rocha. Other tellers will perform sketch-off! Can these gifted and award- Public Libraries Division. some of Texas’ best tales! The evening will winning artists, confined by time and pressure, begin with one of our own librarian tellers. sketch a masterpiece better than their peers? Texas Library Association Kathy Culmer; Bernadette Nason; and Antonio Come be part of the frenzy; you just may walk Membership MEETING Rocha, storytellers. away with one of the sketches! 5:30 - 6:00 pm Storytelling Round Table, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Young Adult Round Table. Bring your ideas and observations to this annual forum for all TLA members. Discuss a hot issue facing TLA.
David Gordon Tad Hills Frank Morrison Kathy Culmer Bernadette Nason Antonio Rocha
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 47 tHURSDAY April 21 programs & events All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Meetings are in red; events are sans serif.
Registration...... 7 am – 5 pm CPE#428: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 CPE#HL410: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Connection Corner (Computers, Director’s Symposium: Making Your Tools for Enhancing Your Library’s Housing, Internet)...... 8 am – 5 pm Library Indispensable (Ticketed) Social Media Presence – Hands on Lab Career Development Center...... 9 am – 4 pm 8:00 - 9:50 am 08 (Ticketed; register online only) Exhibits...... 9 am – 4 pm Hilton Americas-Houston Hotel, 1600 Lamar Street 8:30 - 9:50 am TLA Store...... 9 am – 4 pm An academic, public, and school library Houston Public Library Express Mobile Lab on Discovery Green Bag Check...... 9 am – 6 pm director will share strategies that persuaded Already using Twitter and Instagram for stakeholders to value and transform their your library? Looking for ways to kick it up libraries. From building cohesion among staff a notch? Maximize the effectiveness of your Continuing Professional Education credits to preparing for those moments of opportunity social media presence and promote your Event State Board for TX State Library & (think “elevator speeches”), these leaders programs using Pictual, Canva, and Flipagram. Number Educator Certification Archives Commission provide real world tips on shaping a stronger Participants will learn these tools to create future for your institution. Breakfast tickets CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0a eye-catching and memorable posts. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, April 8, through must be purchased by Friday, April 8, through Program Title preregistration. preregistration. 8:00 - 9:50 am Menu: Basket of Freshly Made Pastries; Farm Lucy Podmore, Northside ISD. Fresh Scrambled Eggs; Sausage; Shredded Conference Program Committee. Zumba Hash Browns; Orange Juice, Regular and Decaffeinated Coffee, Assorted Hot Teas. 7:00 - 8:00 am CPE#460: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Discovery Green near Anheuser-Busch Stage Advocacy: Value, Impact, and Presence Get into a healthy groove with Zumba! with Stephen Abram Conference Local Arrangements Committee. 9:00 - 9:50 am Distance E-Learning Round Table Why do our advocacy efforts 7:45 - 8:15 am often fall on deaf ears? Valerie Gross Jim Neal Suzanna Panter Perhaps part of the solution is CPE#402: SBEC 2.0 Valerie Gross, Howard County Library System (MD); that, by improving our own 16th Annual Texas 2x2 Jim Neal, Columbia University (NY); and Suzanna ability to listen to our Showcase: Books for 2 Panter, Henrico County Public Schools (VA). audiences, we strengthen their Years through 2nd Grade Conference Program Committee. Stephen Abram commitment to heed our call 8:00 - 9:50 am CPE#403: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 for support! Abram, a leading voice for library advocacy, presents his latest The Texas 2x2 Reading List Speed Dating with Vendors Greg Pizzoli Committee will introduce ideas on building influence and promoting our 8:00 - 9:50 am their titles on the current list and showcase work. activities and resources you can use to promote Looking for love – oops, I mean vendors! – in Stephen Abram, Federation of Ontario Public all 20 books. all the wrong places? Take a fun and informal Libraries (Canada). approach to vendor relationships. Engage Conference Program Committee. Greg Pizzoli, Disney-Hyperion. with industry leaders; learn all about new Children’s Round Table. products and services; and network with your CPE#406: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 peers, while enjoying light refreshments. Note: Augmented Reality in Library Support Staff Day Vendors will spend significant time on ebooks. School Libraries A business meeting follows the program. – A content rich day devoted to fuel the skills 9:00 - 9:50 am development of library support staff Acquisitions and Collection Development Get an overview of how one in Texas Libraries. Round Table. school uses tablets (BYOD Joshua Hicks 9 - 9:50 am Avoiding Gotcha! Patrons, Acquisitions and Collection Development iPad or Android) to engage Data, and Security in an Round Table reluctant readers’ imagination and creativity Online World 8:00 - 9:50 am through the use of iMovie and Aurasma. 10 - 11:20 am It Happened at Library Near Joshua Hicks and Joy Llorens, Aldine ISD. Districts 2, 5, 8, 9, and 10 You: Frontline Stories Conference Program Committee. am 11:30 am - 12:50 pm Lunch time 8:20 - 8:50 THURSDAY • APRIL 21 THURSDAY (optional programs) CPE#407: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 1 - 1:50 pm Creative and Dazzling Avoiding Gotcha! Patron Data Displays Security in an Online World 3 - 3:50 pm Top 10 Things Support Staff 9:00 - 9:50 am Need to Know Your library’s operating system contains 4 - 5:30 pm General Session II & data which must remain private. When you Book Cart Drill Teams connect it to other systems, including third
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An experienced head cataloger the basics and will cover questions about the transition, answer including the use of hybrid models with both and RDA components. AACR2 CPE#444: S CPE#444: Christie Peters, University of Kentucky. Christie Peters, Adrienne Cain and Valerie Wade, Wade, Adrienne Cain and Valerie Houston Public Library. 9:00 - 9:50 the understand histories help you Oral your community. of historical significance technology to capture to use today’s Learn how and tricks Tips and transcribe oral histories. equipment, copyright, regarding will be shared and prioritizing interviews. CPE#409: S CPE#409: Communities: Connecting History Generations for All Oral Alexander Charbonnet, Biblionix. Alexander Charbonnet, party services, ebook software, workstation you’re what know do you browsers, users’ even trusting, know you’re who Discover exposing? ways should ask, and learn you the questions data. sensitive to protect CPE#414: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Julie Leuzinger and Jennifer Rowe, University of TLA Innovation Lab North Texas. Restoring Connections: Meeting 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Conference Program Committee. the Needs of People with Dementia Exhibit Hall 9:00 - 9:50 am CPE#418: SBEC 1.0 A makerspace fit for librarians is on the Over five million Americans have Alzheimer’s Tomás Rivera Book schedule throughout conference week! or another form of dementia. Learn about a Award: 20 Years of TLA is partnering with Texas Innovation nationwide effort to support and encourage Excellence in Mexican Group, a cohort of library workers who libraries to offer innovative “shelf-ready” American Children’s and are interested in building libraries and programs such as “Tales & Travel” and “Stories Young Adult Literature education spaces that encourage and grow for Life” that use library materials to improve Jesse Gainer maker culture through programs, tools, the quality of life for this special population. 9:00 - 9:50 am and services. We want to bring you a Mary Beth This session will provide the audience with makerspace designed to satisfy your own Riedner, past a background history of the Tomás Rivera personal creativity while energizing you chair, Book Award and festival. This book award is with ideas, strategies, and programs that Alzheimer’s and given to authors that portray Mexican culture Related you can take back to your library “shop”! Dementias authentically. Learn strategies for promoting The TLA Innovation Lab will be located Interest Group, the award and participating in the festival. near the registration area inside Exhibit American Jesse Gainer, Texas State University. Library Mary Beth Riedner Tysha Shay Hall C. Latino Caucus Round Table. Association; and Tysha Shay, Springfield Green Conference Program Committee. County Library (MO). CPE#430: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Conference Program Committee, Diversity and User Experience for Library Facility Inclusion Committee, and Public Libraries Division. All Things Tech Design and Services Planning (Pop Up Presentation Session V & VI) CPE#416: SBEC 1.0; 9:00 - 9:50 am 10:00 - 10:50 am TSLAC 1.0 User Experience (UX) studies provide Pop in for these quick presentations about Scientist? Poet? Both? qualitative and quantitative methods to “All Things Tech.” Pop-up speakers will be 9:00 - 9:50 am help librarians understand what patrons selected in the spring to give you access to the Steve Swinburne need, value, and desire. Learn how one most current information about tech-related demonstrates how to use library tracked their users’ experiences as projects, ideas, and issues! Check the TLA app compelling nonfiction poetry they demonstrate how UX studies were used for updated program info for speakers and to foster curious minds. Kids to improve the library’s facility design and Stephen Swinburne specific topics before conference. crave information in fun services. Conference Program Committee. formats. Combine a love of science with the April Aultman Becker, Sul Ross State University; and power of poetry. Laurissa Gann and Maianh Phi, University of Texas CPE#421: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 MD Anderson Cancer Center. Stephen Swinburne, Scholastic, Inc. Conference Program Committee. Crowdsourcing: The New Bake Sale Conference Program Committee. CPE#419: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 for School Libraries CPE#415: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 The War Against Boys: What It Means 10:00 - 10:50 am Self Organized Learning for Libraries and Education Crowdsourcing/crowdfunding is the new Environment: A New Way bake sale for advocacy and action. Learn 9:00 - 9:50 am to Teach the Research Process how school librarians benefit from pooling Based on the findings in The War Against testimonials from their advocates to increase 9:00 - 9:50 am Boys, the speaker explains ways that boys their influence on larger and perhaps untapped Tired of the same old research strategies? are disadvantaged by trends in the world of audiences. In addition to Donorschoose.org, Learn how to teach students to work in a Self education today. From zero tolerance policies librarians have embraced CrowdfundEDU, Organized Learning Environment (SOLE), to a school setting where almost everyone in AdoptAClassroom, and IncitED. solve problems, and answer challenging authority is a female, explore how libraries can Renee Dyer, Weslaco ISD; and Judi Moreillon, Texas questions. Your students will ask, “When are be a starting place to help boys thrive. Woman’s University. we doing SOLE again?” Elizabeth Friend, Frisco ISD. Texas Association of School Librarians and Tracy Hayes, Leslie Reynolds, and Brittney Tubb, Texas Association of School Librarians. Young Adult Round Table. Mesquite ISD. Texas Association of School Librarians. CPE#445: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE# 449: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Keep It Green: Leading Sustainable CPE#417: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Young Adult Reading Incentive Award and Successful Online Teams Succession Planning and Mentoring Winners: Open Literacy Opportunities 10:00 - 10:50 am in Academic Libraries 9:00 - 9:50 am Young Adult Reading Incentive (YARI) Award Virtual work is often the more 9:00 - 9:50 am winners share their reading incentive programs environmentally sustainable choice and THURSDAY • APRIL 21 THURSDAY Succession planning is the recruitment, and encourage attendees to apply for the YARI requires sustainable practices! This talk development, and advancement of library Award by creating a reading incentive program will discuss strategies for organizing virtual personnel to fill staffing gaps and prepare to be implemented in junior high, middle, or meetings, tips for asynchronously coordinating future leaders. This session reviews theories high school libraries across the state. online teams, and online tools useful for behind succession planning, examples Naomi Bates, Northwest ISD (Justin); Robin collaboration. The content is based on the of current succession plans, and tips to Cashman, Katy ISD; Susan Geye, Everman ISD; experiences of four librarians who have led create successful plans that cultivate more and Lisa Hernandez, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD. online teams for ACRL, ALA, various state/ knowledgeable and confident employees. Young Adult Round Table. local committees, and within their own
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Learn about issues, progress, work. this from copyright manual that resulted CPE#447: S CPE#447: and Digital Collections: Copyright Astrodome Memories Lessons from Jennifer Bigheart, Westbank Community Libraries; Jennifer Bigheart, Westbank Austin Public Library; Ana Krahmer Emma De Boer, and and Jacob Mangum, University of North Texas; Sara Stevenson, Austin ISD. 10:00 - 11:20 - 11:20 10:00 they collaborate outside discuss how Panelists libraryof their own existing types. Learn about to begin the conversation collaborations, how to make them for partnerships, and how sustainable. CPE#426: S CPE#426: Outside Collaborating Comfort Zone Your Jane Atwell and Melissa Balcom, New Caney ISD; Jane Atwell and Melissa and Jennifer McClelland, and Amanda Hamilton McKinney ISD. 10:00 - 11:20 - 11:20 10:00 spot of in a tight found yourself you Have handling all things library and technology for You’re overwhelmed? campus and feeling your will help librarians not alone! This program the librarian where balance jobs in districts with the instructionaljob has been merged technologist. CPE#461: S CPE#461: the Now You’re BTW, Technologist Instructional John Jackson, Loyola Marymount University (CA) Marymount University Loyola John Jackson, institutions. Participants will leave this session this session will leave Participants institutions. online or lead a successful to join equipped team. William Baun, WorkandWellness; Barbara Bergin, Children’s Round Table, Black CPE#435: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Texas Orthopedics, Sports & Rehabilitation Caucus Round Table, Diversity Associates; and Loriene Roy, University of Texas at and Inclusion Committee, Science Rocks: Rocking STEAM Austin. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, in the Library Transgender Round Table, Conference Program Committee. 10:00 - 11:50 am Latino Caucus Round Table, CPE#HL411: SBEC 2.0; Tejas Star Book Reading List The “Singing Zoologist” and science educator TSLAC 2.0 BYOD Committee, and Texas State shows you simple activities, stories, and other Greg Neri Library & Archives resources to bring science skills into your Augmented Reality – Commission. library’s instructional programming. ands on ab H L 09 CPE#448: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Lucas Miller, Biorhythms Publishing. (Ticketed; register online only) Financial Literacy for Librarians Storytelling Round Table and Texas State Library & 10:00 - 11:50 am Archives Commission. 10:00 - 11:50 am Joshua Hicks CPE#436: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Houston Public Library Express Mobile Lab on Discovery Green Are you new to library management? Do you aspire to be a library manager? In this session This session explores various Augmented Spinning Plates: Balancing the Budget an academic librarian and a public librarian as Collection Formats Multiply Reality (AR) apps and takes you step-by- will share budget issues new managers should 10:00 - 11:50 am step through the creation of a public service be prepared to tackle. announcement accessed through AR. Tickets Hear from four dynamic Texas libraries as Gail Johnston, Texas A&M University–Commerce, must be purchased by Friday, April 8, through and Maria Redburn, Bedford Public Library. they balance patron demand, multiplying preregistration. College and University Libraries Division and formats, budgets, and demands for return on Joshua Hicks, Aldine ISD. Government Documents Round Table. investment data. Just smell those smoking Conference Program Committee. shelves as they describe how they have CPE#431: SBEC 2.0 increased resource circulation and access. CPE#427: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Notably Newbery: Eric Lashley, Georgetown Public Library; Morgan Bleep! Blorp! Books! Meet Newbery Award McMillian, Lake Travis Community Library; Cynthia Robotic Programs in the Library Pfledderer, Southlake Public Library; and Amy Winning Authors Pittman-Hassett, Coppell Public Library. 10:00 - 11:50 am 10:00 - 11:50 am Public Libraries Division. Robotics programming opens the door to Meet Newbery-winning science and technology careers by sparking authors who will discuss their Kathi Appelt interest in STEM subjects. Attendees will current and honored books. CPE#438: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 learn about acquiring, using, and maintaining robotics materials. Learn about overcoming Take the Wheel: Hands-on Advocacy barriers and developing programs relating to 10:00 - 11:50 am robotics. Want to take control of your library’s future? Megan N. Clark, New Braunfels Public Library; Get rid of the intermediary, build meaningful Robert Loftin and Cecily Ponce De Leon, Plano relationships with decision makers, and steer Public Library System; and Katelyn Patterson, towards the visibility and support your library Connecting Texas Libraries Statewide, Inc. Katherine Applegate Joan Bauer Cece Bell deserves. This session is as practical as it gets Young Adult Round Table, Children’s Round – actual practice meeting with and persuading Table, and Texas State Library & Archives Commission. leaders. Learn how to prepare, points to make, and – most of all – how to have a successful CPE#429: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 advocacy meeting. Diversity In Action Jennifer LaBoon, Fort Worth ISD; Gloria Meraz, with Elementary Literature Texas Library Association; and Rebecca W. Sullivan, Kirby Larson Allison McGhee Lida Sue Park Riter C. Hulsey Public Library. 10:00 - 11:50 am Legislative Committee. Authors, illustrators, and librarians come Kathi Appelt, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing; Katherine Applegate, Macmillan CPE#443: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 together to share ideas and strategies for Children’s Publishing Group; Joan Bauer, Viking promoting diversity in children’s literature. Books for Young Readers, Penguin Random House; Users’ Success Stories: All Types This important topic brings together many Cece Bell, Abrams Books; Kirby Larson, Scholastic Press / Scholastic Inc.; Alison McGhee, Simon & of Libraries Make a Difference library groups, and the session covers reading Schuster Children’s Publishing; and Linda Sue Park, 10:00 - 11:50 am lists, book selections, and programs. HarperCollins Children’s Books. Libraries can have a Children’s Round Table. tremendous impact on the CPE#433: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 people they serve but gathering success stories can Programming and Promoting with the be a challenge. Hear stories Lone Star and TAYSHAS Reading Lists about how libraries changed 10:00 - 11:50 am Morgan McAllister their lives. Learn to gather THURSDAY • APRIL 21 THURSDAY Alex Gino Rafael Lopez Pat Mora Learn more about using, promoting, and and track narratives and use programming with the Lone Star and them to tell your library’s own story. Ty Burns, TyRB Library & Literature Services; Alex TAYSHAS Reading Lists in your library. Clarissa Belbas, public library user; Mayra Josefina Gino, Scholastic Press / Scholastic Inc.; Rafael Diaz, Frisco Public Library; Pamela Perry King, Lopez and Greg Neri, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Michelle Beebower, Austin Public Library; and Pasadena ISD; and Morgan McAllister, academic and Pat Mora, author. Meredith Layton, Harris County Public Library. library user. Young Adult Round Table. Conference Program Committee.
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such as Pig are becoming are such as Pig important tools for the information analyst. Learn “Big your the tools to develop analytics. Data” Cervone, University of Frank Illinois at Chicago. CPE#494: S CPE#494: and Terms Data: and Big Analytics for Information Professionals Tools 1:00 - 1:50 is rapidly information environment Our the collection of large-scale With changing. to large datasets, the tools and methods related While older changing as well. scale data are technologies can be adapted for some purposes, new tools such as NOSQL processing databases, the Hadoop and environment, languages programming Katja Millay, Simon and Schuster; and M. O. Walsh, Walsh, and Schuster; and M. O. Simon Millay, Katja Random House. Penguin S CPE#450: Award Bluebonnet Texas Session Author - 1:50 12:00 is a nationally- Award Bluebonnet Texas The During award. choice children’s recognized the luncheon, the author of the winning insights on his/ title will share Bluebonnet award her writing and will accept this year’s tickets Luncheon student representatives. from 8, through April Friday, by must be purchased will take place Book signing preregistration. for luncheon the event immediately following attendees. Luncheon tickets must be purchased by Friday, Friday, by purchased be must tickets Luncheon signing Book preregistration. 8, through April the event following place immediately will take attendees. for luncheon . . able T
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Check the info for speakers and specific topics program conference. before Leading a Library Len Bryan and Ann Griffith, Texas State Library & Bryan and Ann Griffith, Len Archives Commission. 11:00 - 11:50 - 11:50 11:00 extending school libraries are out how Find their services using their online presences, TexQuest including the integration of Learn about the tools used on resources. school library effective websites and how library’s those tools can help users access your 24/7. resources CPE#432: S CPE#432: School Library Your Keep Open 24/7 with TexQuest Cassandra Mackie, Tarrant County College NW; County College NW; Cassandra Mackie, Tarrant Mark L. Abilene Christian University; McCallon, of North Texas; Joshua Caleb Sylve, University Hardin-Simmons and Elizabeth Norman Worley, University. Discover how to redesign your library your to redesign signage how Discover and simple wayfinding attractive through of into the basics Delve tips and techniques. and research, sign audits, user graphic design, examples of signage buy-in. See stakeholder a through and work (both good and bad) project. redesign “live” Wayfinding Yourself: Yourself: Wayfinding Signage Beautiful Simply - 11:50 10:00 CPE#437: S CPE#437: P CPE#471: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 This program focuses on free Internet The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) The Choice, Season 2: resources available to help develop Spanish is a tool for exploring personal leadership Knock-Out Ideas for TexQuest language collections. Resources include a book skills. The speaker will offer the tool to 100 award list, blogs, and journal publications. people before the conference on a first-come, 1:00 - 1:50 pm Find out about non-profit organizations that first-served basis (the test is too long to take At last year’s popular sessions, librarians shared ideas on promoting TexQuest resources. This can support your efforts to enhance your in the conference session). At the program, year, you will learn more ways to collaborate collection. she will discuss the general use of the LPI and integrate online resources into instruction. Elizabeth Gaylor, Ardmore Public Library (OK); and the background of transformational Andrea Malone, University of Houston; and Maria Leave with practical ideas that will impact leadership domains. Those who used the Olivarez, Aldine ISD. inventory will learn more about their results, many users and align with campus needs and Conference Program Committee and Latino objectives. but everyone will have a chance to learn about Caucus Round Table. the theoretical and practical applications of the Len Bryan, Texas State Library & Archives Commission; and Ann Vyoral, ESC Region 20. CPE#468: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 system. Texas State Library & Archives Commission. Lunch at the Library: The USDA Daniella Smith, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. CPE#462: SBEC 1.0; Summer Food Service Program TSLAC 1.0 1:00 - 1:50 pm CPE:497; SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Creating Dynamic Public libraries, often in partnership with local Social Networking in Presentations school districts, serve meals to hungry children Organizational Cultures or bring books and programs to sites where 1:00 - 1:50 pm 1:00 - 1:50 pm children are fed through the USDA Summer Grab an audience from This session focuses on the impact of Chris Shade Food Service Program. Learn how your library the get-go by creating can participate. social networking in organizational presentations with more visuals and fewer culture and reviews the different tools Judith M. Bergeron, Smithville Public Library; words. Learn to hone your message and Laurie Covington, Houston Public Library; Kathleen used to communicate with constituents. connect with stakeholders through interesting Fordyce, San Antonio Public Library; Kathleen P. This interactive workshop will challenge and persuasive presentations. Horan, McAllen Public Library; and Ray Sablack, participants to analyze best practices in Dallas Public Library. Chris Shade, Denton ISD. communication strategies and to evaluate the Texas State Library & Archives Commission. Conference Program Committee. costs and benefits of this evolving form of CPE#469: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 networking. CPE#470: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Museum or Circus? Finding Michele Lucero Villagran, University of North Texas. Creative and Dazzling Displays University of North Texas. 1:00 - 1:50 pm Balance in Your Library CPE#472: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Upcycle your discarded library items and use 1:00 - 1:50 pm exhibits and activities to connect with your A quiet place versus a lively forum? How do User Experience (UX) patrons. Our programs, displays, and activities you manage the care of collections and the Design from Scratch are fueled as much by staff excitement as by goal to promote materials broadly? Librarians 1:00 - 1:50 pm funding! must perform amazing feats of balance. Find Run usability testing on out how to do it well and make the most of China Burks, Lamar State College-Orange Library. websites and physical services the diverse opportunities in libraries. Library Support Staff Round Table and Conference to discover how to improve Program Committee. Amianne Bailey, Marnie Cushing, Colleen Duke, user interfaces. Learn how Sharon Harman, and Alison Reyes, Mesquite ISD. Aaron Schmidt CPE#465: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 design makes our libraries Texas Association of School Librarians. more useable and accessible and rally Digitizing Community History: CPE#478: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 stakeholders for broad Web and structural Get the Goods without the Bulk! redesign. 1:00 - 1:50 pm Opening Doors of Literacy: Teen Programming to the Extreme Aaron Schmidt, walkingpaper.org. Gather your community’s history digitally. College and University Libraries Division. Hear the “soup to nuts” of creating an online 1:00 - 1:50 pm digital history archive – from community Launch dynamic programs for the diverse CPE# 496: SBEC 1.0; connections and selecting technical tools to teen population in your school or public TSLAC 1.0 dealing with papers, objects, and oral histories. library. Tap into student interests, arrange for Using Beacons for Scan those local treasures and return the guest speakers, plan for presentations, secure Community Engagement funding, and most importantly, get kids originals! 1:00 - 1:50 pm talking about their favorite books! Jennifer Coffey, Pflugerville Public Library. Beacons are amazing new Public Libraries Division and Archives, Genealogy Desiree H. Alexander, Caddo Parish Public Schools Stephen Abram technologies that help and Local History Round Table. (LA); Deidra Ballard-Moore, Irving ISD; and Raquel Simon Cummings and Valerie Tagoe, Dallas ISD. public and academic librarians engage their CPE#466: SBEC 1.0; Young Adult Round Table. communities and students. Learn about their TSLAC 1.0
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Whether you are working on virtual working are Whether you value in or find projects, committees, group and cloud storage, Google document creation Participants life easier. can make your Drive and Docs will learn the basics of Google as some tips and tricks to as well Sheets, by be purchased must master these tools. Tickets preregistration. 8, through April Friday, ( 1:00 - 3:50 H CPE# – Drive for Novices Google Ed: Driver’s H Debra Preston, Allen Public Library. Debra Preston, We still have books - lots of them! And - lots of them! And books still have We to keep care some tender loving many need you Learn techniques shelves. them on the library at your can implement for repairing bring Each attendee should damaged books. a and will receive books to repair to four three Friday, by must be purchased kit. Tickets repair preregistration. 8, through April Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab Mending and Repair Book Basic ( 1:00 - 3:50 CPE# CPE#467: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Don Calame, Candlewick Press; David Lubar, Tor Books; Julie Keeping the Doors Open: Murphy, HarperCollins Children’s Service in Times of Strife Books; Lance Rubin, Random House Children’s Books; Paul 2:00 - 3:50 pm Rudnick, Scholastic Press/ Panelists share their experiences keeping the Scholastic Inc.; Amy Spalding, library doors open and providing services to Little Brown Books for Young Laurent Linn Emery Lord Aaron Reynolds Mariko Tamaki the community during times of unrest and Readers; and Mariko Tamaki, Tom Angleberger, Abrams Books; Tracey Baptiste, upheaval, including during community rioting Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. Algonquin for Young Readers; Carolyn Dee Flores, Young Adult Round Table. Arte Público Press; Nancy Jo Lambert, Frisco ISD; and natural disasters. Attendees will hear Laurent Linn, Simon & Schuster Children’s about challenges and practicalities related to CPE#483: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Publishing; Emery Lord, Bloomsbury Children’s such service. Books; Aaron Reynolds, Chronicle Books; and John Open School Libraries: Trischitti, Midland County Library System. Mary Cohrs, Bellaire City Library; Laurence Copel, Lower Ninth Develop Your Leadership Children’s Round Table and Ward Street Library (LA); Roswell and Advocacy Abilities Young Adult Round Table. Encina, Enoch Pratt Free Library 2:00 - 3:50 pm (MD); Deborah Halsted, Stat!Ref; CPE#495: SBEC 2.0; and Mary Wagoner, Houston Are leaders born? Not TSLAC 2.0 Public Library. Hilda Weisburg necessarily. Growing into Crucial Roswell Encina Conference Program a leader is the first step in Committee and Disaster Relief advancing your advocacy program. By taking Conversations Committee. with Stakeholders small steps and using your professional CPE#482: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 resources, you can become indispensable to 2:00 - 3:50 pm Maureen Sullivan your stakeholders, develop a strong network, Join Maureen Sullivan to Laughing Out Loud: and create a doable mini-advocacy plan. gain practical strategies to manage high-stakes Implementing Laughter Susi Parks Grissom, Travis Vanguard & Academy; conversations with library stakeholders. Based Yoga @ Your Library Dorcas Hand, Annunciation Orthodox School; and on the bestselling book, Crucial Conversations, 2:00 - 3:50 pm Hilda Weisburg, Weisburg Associates, LLC (NY). the audience will learn the steps outlined Learn how Westbank Texas Association of School Librarians. in the book and will have opportunities to Simone Barnes Libraries transformed CPE#486: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 practice and ask questions. “shush” to “ha-ha!” through Laughter Yoga, a Maureen Sullivan, consultant. scientifically-based health practice originating Putting the Story in History Conference Program Committee. in India. This program pairs unconditional 2:00 - 3:50 pm How can storytelling bring history to life? CPE#479: SBEC 2.0 laughter with deep breathing. Bring a new and Panelists will share a historical story, then Fairy Tale Retellings in YA Literature fresh wellness program to your community. Simone Monique Barnes, Love and Laughter Yoga; discuss how they research, create, and present 2:00 - 3:50 pm and Kristi M. Floyd, Westbank Community Library. their tales, including the use of props and A mashup of traditional and modern Conference Program Committee. follow-up activities. Texas history, women’s retellings: How do YA authors tweak fairy history, local and family history, and African- tales to create new and exciting stories for our CPE#480: SBEC 2.0 American history will be discussed. modern readers? Several authors will answer LOL! Humor in YA Literature Decee Cornish, that question and discuss their work. 2:00 - 3:50 pm Tarrant County College; Donna Writing with humor can be no laughing Ingham, matter. How do authors use humor in their storyteller; and young adult writing without being too Bernadette silly? The author panel reveals the secret Nason, storyteller. to calibrating humor for their youthful Donna Ingham Bernadette Nason audiences. Storytelling Round Table and Archives, Liz Braswell Samantha Mabry Lisa Maxwell Genealogy and Local History Round Table.
CPE#487: SBEC 2.0 Romancing the Conference 2:00 - 3:50 pm Rendezvous with romance authors as they converge at TLA. Sweet whispers, secrets, and Don Calame David Lubar Julie Murphy Marissa Meyer Joy Preble Liesl Shurtliff careful missives – don’t miss the chance to Liz Braswell, Disney-Hyperion; Samantha Mabry, open a new chapter in literary excitement. Algonquin Young Readers; Lisa Maxwell, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing; Marissa Meyer,
THURSDAY • APRIL 21 THURSDAY Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group; Joy Preble, Soho Teen; and Liesl Shurtliff, Random House Children’s Books. Young Adult Round Table. Lance Rubin Paul Rudnick Amy Spalding
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6:00 - 8:00 pm of Information Alumni and Friends Transgender Round Table Social Hilton Americas-Houston Hotel, 1600 Lamar Street Reception (Ticketed) with Houston Gaymers The Texas Media Awards promote excellence 6:30 - 8:30 pm 7:00 - 9:00 pm Irma’s Southwest Grill, 1314 Texas St #100 in student media production and its Lucky Strike Bowling Alley, 1201 San Jacinto importance in lifelong learning. The awards CPE#EF458: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Join the Houston Gaymers for an evening recognize outstanding entries in nine Evening with the Authors of fun, fundraising, and games at the Lucky media categories including book trailers, Strike bowling alley. (Ticketed; register online only) photography, multimedia, videography, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Round Table. animation, graphic design, Web designing, 6:30 - 9:30 pm and music composition. Students from all over Julia Ideson Building (Houston Public Library), 550 McKinney Street CPE#EF456: SBEC 2.0 Texas receive awards and showcase their work. Variety is the key ingredient of this year’s Storytelling Vendor Showcase/ Texas Media Awards Committee. Evening with the Authors event. Enjoy a Librarian Teller Swap delightful dinner experience in the beautiful 7:00 - 9:00 pm An Evening at the Clayton Library and historic Julia Ideson Building at the Hilton Americas-Houston Hotel, 1600 Lamar Street with Drew Smith (Ticketed; register online) Houston Public Library as you hear from 6:30 - 8:30 pm renowned writers from a variety of genres. Bring your story to tell or listen to your fellow Clayton Library Center, 5300 Caroline Street librarians share stories. Preview storytelling vendors for possible hire at your library. Come Join us for an evening at the early to learn about the Storytelling Round HPL’s Clayton Library Center Table and suggest programs at our business for Genealogical Research. A meeting. A business meeting precedes the facility tour and light program. refreshments will be included. Storytelling Round Table. You will have the opportunity Justin Cronin Joe Hill Steve Martini Drew Smith to visit with exhibitors from Black Caucus Round Table Social area libraries, archives, and Authors Justin 7:30 - 9:30 pm historical organizations. Transportation is on Cronin (The Meet and greet fellow member of the Black your own. Passage and Caucus Round Table. Catching up with fellow Drew Smith, University of South Florida Tampa The Twelve), Library. Joe Hill members about programs, resources and (NOS4A2, outstanding books read in their libraries. Archives, Genealogy and Local History Diane McKinney Gwendolyn Zepeda Round Table. Whetstone Horns, and Black Caucus Round Table. LIBRARY SCHOOL DINNERS Locke & Key), & RECEPTIONS Steve Martini (the Paul Madriani series, Intergalactic Dance Club Party including The List and The Rule of Nine), (Ticketed) Tickets must be purchased by Friday, April 8, Diane McKinney-Whetstone (Leaving Cecil 9:00 pm - 12:00 am through preregistration. Transportation will not be Street, Trading Dreams at Midnight, and Blues provided. Dancing ), and Gwendolyn Zepeda (Houston’s It’s Houston, folks, so launch into a fun first Poet Laureate; Monsters, Zombies and evening of music and dance. Join fellow Texas Woman’s University Library School Addicts: Poems) provide a lively and good-time library colleagues and friends Reception (Ticketed) entertaining experience. Free books will be for the one party that rises to the upper provided to attendees. Tickets must be purchased stratosphere of celebration and revelry. Tickets 6:30 - 8:00 pm by Friday, April 8, through preregistration. must be purchased by Friday, April 8, through Hilton Americas-Houston Hotel, 1600 Lamar Street preregistration. Menu: Strawberry Fields Salad with Tender University of North Texas, Department of Baby Spinach and Field Greens tossed with Intergalactic Dance Club Round Table, New Library & Information Sciences Alumni Members Round Table, and Retired Librarians Toasted Almonds, Sliced Strawberries, Feta Round Table. Event (Ticketed) Cheese, and Raspberry Vinaigrette; Choice 6:30 - 8:00 pm of: 1) Bronzed Salmon Fillet with Melange’s The Grove Restaurant, 1611 Lamar Street House-Made Cajun Seasonings; or 2) Seared Sam Houston State University Alumni Bistro Filet, served with Rosemary Demi Dinner (Ticketed) Glace; Mushroom Scallion Rice Pilaf; Sugar Snap Peas with Red Peppers and Yellow 6:30 - 8:30 pm Squash; Artisan Rolls; Lemon Brulee Tart Spaghetti Warehouse, 901 Commerce St with Fresh Berries; Iced Tea and Water; Freshly University of Houston - Clear Lake Library Brewed Regular and Decaffeinated Coffee. School Student and Alumni Dinner Justin Cronin, Penguin Random House; Joe Hill, Steve Martini, and Diane McKinney-Whetstone, THURSDAY • APRIL 21 THURSDAY (Ticketed) HarperCollins Publishers; and Gwendolyn Zepeda, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Houston’s First Poet Laureat. Mia Bella Trattoria, 1201 San Jacinto, #161. Conference Program Committee.
58 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 FRIday April 22 programs & events Registration...... 7 am – 1 pm All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Career Development Center...... 8 am – Noon Meetings are in red; events are sans serif. Connection Corner (Computers, Housing, Internet)...... 8 am – Noon Exhibitors Round Table of a professional development program, Bag Check...... 8 am – 1:30 pm 8:00 - 8:50 am such as publications, presentations, career Exhibits...... 9 am – Noon Workforce – Library Partnerships Task Force development interests, in-house peer review activities, and presentations. TLA Store...... 9 am – Noon 8:00 - 8:50 am Karen Harker and Catherine Sassen, in CPE#503: SBEC 2.0 collaboration with Erin O’Toole, University of North Texas. Book Buzz: The New Books are Coming Continuing Professional Education credits College and University Libraries Division. Event State Board for TX State Library & 8:00 - 9:50 am Number Educator Certification Archives Commission Representatives from several publishing houses CPE#506: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 will talk about forthcoming titles for adults. Copyright Year in Review CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Find out what’s creating all the buzz in the 9:00 - 9:50 am Program Title literary world. Bring your coffee and come for an informal 8:00 - 9:50 am Public Libraries Division. discussion about changes to copyright in CPE#504: SBEC 0.75 the past year. Has Congress acted on orphan works? What’s new with Fair Use? Has case Prepare and Share: Texas Association of law affected how we provide copies of articles Program Planning for TLA 2017 School Librarians Author through ILL? Learn what’s happened and how 7:00 - 7:50 am Session with Jeff Kinney we can respond. Prepare for the 2017 TLA Conference in (Ticketed) Gretchen McCord, Digital Information Law. San Antonio by getting critical information 8:00 - 9:50 am Conference Program Committee and Copyright and Access Interest Group. on deadlines, procedures, and marketing Diary of A Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney opportunities. Share your program ideas series author Jeff Kinney will CPE#508: SBEC 1.0; and find potential partners who can share share insights into his writings and more. TSLAC 1.0 labor and expenses. All officers with program Breakfast tickets must be purchased by Friday, planning responsibilities are urged to attend. Get What You Need: April 8, through preregistration. Book signing Writing Proposals Conference Program Committee. will take place immediately following the event for Internal Decision Hula Hoop for attendees. Makers 7:00 - 8:00 am Menu: Vegetable Quiche with Roasted Dan Miller 9:00 - 9:50 am Discovery Green near Anheuser-Busch Stage Fingerling Potatoes, Sun Dried Tomatoes and Master writing persuasive proposals. This Hoop Dance is fun, athletic, and dancy. Please Chicken Apple Sausage, Fresh Fruit Salad; Orange Juice, Regular and Decaffeinated session explores the best methods to collect join Rowan TwoSisters for a goddess body the right data and write proposals to start new hoop dance class! Coffee, Assorted Hot Teas. Jeff Kinney, Abrams Books. programs, get new tools and equipment, and Conference Local Arrangements Committee. Texas Association of School Librarians. advocate for library funding. CPE#HL510: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Dan Miller, Miller Consulting Group. Unconference: Informal Conversations Conference Program Committee. Twitter 101 – Hands on Lab 11 about Student Transitions from (Ticketed; register online only) CPE#532: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 High School to College 8:00 - 8:50 am Good Cop, Better Cop: 8:30 - 9:50 am Houston Public Library Express Mobile Lab on Discovery Green Interested in learning how you can support Politely Interrogate Your Still haven’t jumped on the Twitter high school students transitioning to a two- or Genealogical Researcher bandwagon? What are these hashtags? And am four-year college? Want to know more about 9:00 - 9:50 FRIDAY • APRIL 22 Twitter chats? It doesn’t seem to be going away the students enrolling in your college straight Genealogy researchers are very anytime soon and the educational/professional from high school? Start a conversation about passionate about their family development opportunities have exploded! the transition with high school and academic stories. Our job is to identify Learn how to navigate this incredible librarians from community colleges and four- their research needs and help technology tool to expend your professional year institutions in this informal setting. them focus their research. Drew Smith world. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, Conference Program Committee. Drew Smith will teach you how to conduct an April 8, through preregistration. effective reference interview with genealogical Jacqueline Higginbotham, New Caney ISD. CPE#505: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 researchers. Conference Program Committee. Assessing an Academic Library Drew Smith, University of South Florida Bylaws & Resolutions Committee (Mtg 2) Professional Development Program Tampa Library. Conference Program Committee and Archives, 8:00 - 8:50 am 9:00 - 9:50 am Genealogy and Local History Round Table. Librarians from a large academic library College & University Libraries Division share their experiences in assessing all aspects Membership 8:00 - 8:50 am
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 59 Melanie Townsend Diggs, Learn about legal and administrative Enoch Pratt Free Library (MD). CPE#509: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 considerations. Diversity and Inclusion Committee. How to Go From Quiet Bystander Alisha Hall, Harris County Public Library; and CPE:534; SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Andrea Lawrence, Houston Public Library. to Raging Library Activist Conference Program Committee. 9:00 - 9:50 am Resource Management: Strategies, Maureen Ambrosino, a former Library Journal Technologies, and Practices CPE# 537: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Mover and Shaker in Advocacy and TALL 9:00 - 9:50 am We Have Only Scratched the Surface: Texan, is involved in hosting state-wide Library collections today have The Role of Student Research in legislative breakfasts and will help attendees become more complex than Institutional Repositories identify, plan, advocate, and report ever, with proportions of 9:00 - 9:50 am on their efforts. Find out why electronic and digital Student advocacy is everyone’s job, and resources increasing relative to research, in gain ideas that can be easily print and other physical the form of materials. To manage these implemented in any library. Marshall Breeding theses and Maureen Ambrosino, complex, multiformat dissertations, Westborough Public Library (MA). collections, libraries need to consider many is nearly Maureen Ambrosino Conference Program different options, both in the technology tools Committee. Betty Rozum Becky Thoms ubiquitous in used and in their operational workflows. Many institutional different types of technical options are CPE#510: SBEC 1.0 repositories (IRs) across the US. However, available for libraries to manage their students at many institutions contribute far Maverick Graphic Novel collections and operations, including Reading List Program more to the scholarly landscape of their traditional integrated library systems and a communities. This presentation will explore 9:00 - 9:50 am new generation of library services platforms, this untapped well of potential material, report The Maverick Graphic Novel with open source and commercially licensed on survey data about perceptions of possible Reading List Committee options and locally installed or cloud-based Noelle Stevenson benefits of archiving this student work, and presents programming ideas deployment possibilities. encourage discussion of this exciting new for this year’s list. An author on the list will be Marshall Breeding, Library Technology Guides. avenue of opportunity for libraries. on hand to discuss this popular genre. Conference Program Committee. Betty Rozum and Becky Thoms, Utah State Noelle Stevenson, HarperCollins Children’s Books. CPE#522: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 University. Young Adult Round Table. Speaking Their Language: Library Conference Program Committee. CPE#535: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Instruction in Non-English Languages CPE#538: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 More than a Buzzword: 9:00 - 9:50 am What Works and What Doesn’t with Role of Makerspaces in This session covers strategies and best practices Open and Closed Source Software Curriculum and Assessment for delivering library instruction in foreign 9:00 - 9:50 am 9:00 - 9:50 am languages to assist international students in Both open and closed source software Makerspaces are highly engaging for students comprehending information literacy concepts. can work for a library, but their strengths, and can stretch learners to use higher levels Irene Ke and Andrea Malone, University of weaknesses, and management are very of thinking and problem solving as well as Houston. different. A panel addresses the most provide opportunities to collaborate. The Conference Program Committee and Library important elements needed for selecting Instruction Round Table. speakers will show you how they employ products and ensuring quality service. makerspaces to challenge students, integrate CPE#512: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Hilary Newman, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.; Edward the TEKS, and assess student learning. Virtual Opportunities Veal, ByWater Solutions; and Paul Waak, CTLS, Inc. Jennifer Langford, and Joe Tedesco, Northside ISD. for Your School Library Conference Program Committee. Conference Program Committee. 9:00 - 9:50 am CPE#HL511: SBEC 3.0; CPE#507: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 See how virtual collaborations and student TSLAC 3.0 Open Libraries on the Front Lines learning are supported through a strong virtual Augumented Reality – 9:00 - 9:50 am presence. Examples from current practices Hands on Lab 12 (Ticketed; Baltimore erupted in protests along with suggestions and recommendations register online only) will be shared to help you provide robust access on April 27, 2015 primarily Joshua Hicks 9:00 - 11:50 am 24/7 and promote your library. You will leave outside the Enoch Pratt Free Houston Public Library Express Mobile Lab on Discovery Green Library’s Pennsylvania Avenue this session with in-hand and online resources. Karin Perry and Holly Weimar, Sam Houston State This repeat session explores various Branch, after the funeral of Augmented Reality (AR) apps and takes you Freddie Gray, an African University. Texas Association of School Librarians. step-by-step through the creation of a public FRIDAY • APRIL 22 FRIDAY American man who died in service announcement accessed through AR. police custody. Come hear Melanie Diggs CPE#513: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Tickets must be purchased by Friday, April 8, branch manager Melanie through preregistration. Townsend Diggs discuss the decisions she Volunteer Services and CEO Dr. Carla Hayden made at the Public Library Joshua Hicks, Aldine ISD. to keep the library open during the unrest, and 9:00 - 9:50 am Conference Program Committee. the outpouring of support from the Public library representatives will talk about community and donors from across the their individual models for recruiting, training, country. managing, and retaining library volunteers.
60 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 CPE#HL512: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 UH Digital Library through the existing CPE#517: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab digital asset management system’s application Develop a Culture of Reading through (Ticketed; register online only) programming interface (API), reports that used Schoolwide Reading Programs to identify and correct problems, and plans for 9:00 - 11:50 am 10:00 - 11:20 am publishing UHDL data as linked data. We still have books - lots of them! And Attendees will learn about many need some tender loving care to keep Andy Weidner, University of Houston. creating a campus-wide them on the shelves. Learn techniques you CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. culture of reading. Learn can implement at your library for repairing CPE#544: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 about strategies and programs damaged books. Each attendee should bring The Library and University-wide others have successfully used three to four books to repair and will receive a such as Read It Forward, repair kit. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, Initiatives: Sustainability and Read Squared, and reading April 8, through preregistration. Community Gardening competitions. A school Jennifer Merryman Debra Preston, Allen Public Library. 10:00 - 10:50 am principal joins librarians to Conference Program Committee. Recent university-wide initiatives in describe how to make literacy a campus sustainability and community gardening priority. TLA Innovation Lab have benefited from library support and vice- Dorothy Allen, Stacie Archie, and Jennifer versa. Libraries provide planning, promotion, Merryman, Aldine ISD; Sofia D’Arcy, Houston ISD; 9:00 am - NOON presentation space, and even distribution and Melissa Rippy, Pasadena ISD. Exhibit Hall outlets for campus gardens and other green Conference Program Committee. A makerspace fit for librarians is on the projects in trade for marketing, programming, CPE#518: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 schedule throughout conference week! and other benefits. Learn how to set up these TLA is partnering with Texas Innovation programs at your institution. Digging Up Your Roots: Online Group, a cohort of library workers who Alicen Flosi and Tom Matthews, Lamar University. Resources to Trace Family History are interested in building libraries and CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 10:00 - 11:20 am education spaces that encourage and grow Explore genealogical websites that provide free maker culture through programs, tools, CPE#539: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 access to terrific content for family history and services. We want to bring you a Resource Redefined: researchers. Learn about the latest innovations makerspace designed to satisfy your own School Libraries as Learning Spaces and tools, such as FamilySearch.org, that serve personal creativity while energizing you 10:00 - 10:50 am your researchers. with ideas, strategies, and programs that It’s not a library; it’s a learning space! Cheri Bush, FamilySearch.org; and Susan Kaufman, you can take back to your library “shop”! Buzzwords such as embedded librarian, Houston Public Library. The TLA Innovation Lab will be located learning commons, and makerspace are all the Archives, Genealogy and Local History Round Table. near the registration area inside Exhibit rage, but what do these mean for you and your Hall C. students? Presenters will show you how to use CPE#519: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Conference Program Committee. library design, technology, and scheduling as Diverse & Digital: eBooks, Bilingual a tool to create a learning and gathering place Books, and More from Independent CPE:540; SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 for all. and Multicultural Publishers Stacy Cameron and Nancy Jo Lambert, Frisco ISD. Cultural Intelligence: Ability 10:00 - 11:20 am Texas Association of School Librarians. to Adapt to New Cultural Settings Independent publishers share information 10:00 – 10:50 am CPE#516: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 about availability of their materials for Cultural intelligence (CQ) is a person’s Changing Lanes: Transitioning libraries, whether through econtent providers capability for successful adaptation to new to a Different Type of Library or traditional book wholesalers. Publishers will be joined by a multimedia selection librarian, cultural settings and has recently been tied as 10:00 - 11:20 am an element that can increase job performance, who will shed light on acquiring ebooks from Many librarians express personal well-being, and profitability. Learn the library perspective. interest in transitioning to a more about this important skill and its Lee Byrd, Cinco Punto Press; Hannah Ehrlich, different type of library, but potential impact in the workplace. Lee & Low Publishers; Michael Saperstein, Harris this can be difficult. Speakers County Public Library; and Marina Tristán, Arte
Michele Lucero Villagran, University of North Texas. will address strategies for how Público Press. FRIDAY • APRIL 22 University of North Texas. to make this transition and Conference Program Committee. offer suggestions for CPE# 536: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Blythe McCoy CPE#515: SBEC 1.5 Know Your Data: Metadata Quality credentialing and obtaining more education in order to move successfully Illustrating the Imagination: Control for Content Migration into a different type of library setting. Kidlit Illustrators 10:00 - 10:50 AM Maribel Castro, Lubbock Christian University; 10:00 - 11:20 am Migration of digital objects from one John Lehner, University of Houston; Blythe McCoy, This panel of kidlit illustrators shares how they digital asset management system to another Thomson Reuters; Valerie Prilop, University of Texas make the magic happen in their recent picture creates an opportunity to clean and MD Anderson Cancer Center; and Tracy Timmons, San Jacinto College. books. standardize descriptive metadata through Conference Program Committee and Reference automated analysis and remediation. This and Information Services Round Table. presentation will discuss how the University of Houston Libraries developed scripts that programmatically accessed the data in the
2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 61 CPE#524: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 CPE#526: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 The 25 AASL Best Censorship Attempts are Alive Websites and Well: Be Prepared and Apps that Rocked 10:00 - 11:50 am Tad Hills Molly Idle Barbara McClintock Shannon Miller This earY The speakers address both the theory of 10:00 - 11:50 am preparing for intellectual freedom challenges Learn about 25 of the best websites and apps – preparing policies – and cover the practical highlighted by AASL this year. Discover experience of dealing with censorship. The amazing digital content that you can use former director of Hood County Public in your schools and libraries. Categories Library describes how she recently dealt with a include: media sharing, digital storytelling, very public and emotionally-fraught challenge. LeUyen Pham Phil C. Stead Salina Yoon managing and organizing, social networking Learn about libraries in action during efforts and communication, content resources, and to ban books. Tad Hills, Random House Children’s Books; Molly curriculum collaboration. Idle, Chronicle Books; Barbara McClintock, Courtney Kincaid, North Richland Hills Public Orchard / Scholastic Inc.; LeUyen Pham, Shannon McClintock Miller, teacher librarian (CO). Library; and Gretchen McCord, Digital Information Candlewick Press; Phil C. Stead, Macmillan Young Adult Round Table. Law. Children’s Publishing Group; and Salina Yoon, Intellectual Freedom Committee, Conference Bloomsbury Children’s Books. CPE#525: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Program Committee, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Children’s Round Table. Transgender Round Table, and Professional All Minds Matter: Issues and Ethics Committee. CPE#521: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Reluctant Readers and CPE#511: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 Poetry for the Public Hip Hop Music 10:00 - 11:50 am Great Read Alouds and Curriculum 10:00 - 11:20 am Connections for PK-2nd This program will focus on Engage reluctant readers through hip hop music and 10:00 - 11:50 am a variety of poetry programs Theodore Taylor launched at the Houston urban literature. Join this Get your students leaping into great Public Library. These include interactive session with members who will literature! Learn about creating reading lists “Public Poetry,” a monthly Robin Davidson sing, give historical aspects of hip hop music, with activities for pre-K through 2nd grade. program featuring readings by local and and connect these themes to reading literacy. Curriculum connections and activities will student poets, poetry workshops, and the Poet Learn how to use social media to promote be shared. Make your library indispensable Laureate Program, which was partly inspired these resources and support your teaching and strengthen relationships with parents and by the success of poetry programs at the endeavors. Informational handouts will be teachers. library. provided to all attendees. Angie Arnett, Megan Casas, and Bettie McGinness, James Conyers and Julie Grob, University of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. Houston - Central; Angelia Johnson, San Antonio Texas Association of School Librarians. ISD; and Theodore Taylor, The Brick Factory. Black Caucus Round Table. CPE#531: SBEC 2.0 Mystery Authors Unveiled CPE#528: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 10:00 - 11:50 am Bullying in the Library Everybody loves a good mystery! Discover how Jack McBride Fran Sanders Gwendolyn Zepeda Workplace some of your favorite authors create their tales Robin Davidson, Houston Poet Laureate, University 10:00 - 11:50 am of Houston - Downtown; Jack McBride, Writers in of intrique. the Schools; Fran Sanders, Public Poetry; Jennifer What is the difference Schwartz, Houston Public Library; and Gwendolyn between supervision, Zepeda, Houston Poet Laureate (2013-2015). correction, and bullying? Conference Program Committee. Recent studies have shown that 40-50% of workers CPE#523: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 experience or witness Maureen Ambrosino Using STAAR Data for ELA Lessons bullying, and library Jeff Abbott Ace Atkins Tim Hallinan in the High School Library workplaces are no exception. Join Maureen Jeff Abbott, 10:00 - 11:20 am Ambrosino in a discussion about how to Grand Central Attendees will experience an ELA lesson for recognize bullying behavior, what to do when Publishing / Hachette; Ace English I or II, with questions created based it occurs, and how to encourage healthy, Atkins and J. on campus STAAR “most missed” data. Learn productive work environments. She will Todd Scott, how to develop questions using STAAR data also cover the national trend toward healthy Penguin Random House; FRIDAY • APRIL 22 FRIDAY and integrate them into lessons. workplace legislation. Michelle Moran J. Todd Scott Tim Hallinan, Diana Stephens, Irving ISD. Maureen Ambrosino, Westborough Public SoHo Press; and Michelle Moran, Simon & Schuster. Library (MA). Young Adult Round Table. Public Libraries Division. Conference Program Committee and Professional Issues and Ethics Committee.
62 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 CPE#530: SBEC 2.0 Children’s Round Table DIA Committee Children’s Round Table Executive Board POW! Little Mavericks Graphic 12:00 - 12:50 pm 1:00 - 1:50 pm Novel Reading List Children’s Round Table Texas 2x2 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Committee 10:00 - 11:50 am Reading List Committee 1:00 - 1:50 pm The Little Mavericks Graphic Novel Reading 12:00 - 12:50 pm List is new for children in grades K-5. This CPE#559: SBEC 0.5 panel will introduce participants to the first Copyright & Access Interest Group list. Come hear about the graphic novels on 12:00 - 12:50 pm General Session III the list and from featured authors. Little Mavericks Graphic Novel with Dav Pilkey Reading List Committee 1:30 - 2:10 pm 12:00 - 12:50 pm Dave Pilkey is a writer’s Reference & Information Services writer. Beyond his own Executive Board tremendous writing success, Pilkey is a 12:00 - 12:50 pm respected voice on many Cathy Camper Raul Gonzalez Ben Hatke Scholarship & Research Committee of the issues of concern to Cathy Camper and Raul 12:00 - 12:50 pm the literary and Gonzalez, Chronicle Books; Ben Dav Pilkey Hatke, Macmillan Children’s Young Adult Round Table Executive Board information community. Publishing Group; Jarrett J. A champion of intellectual freedom and 12:00 - 12:50 pm Krosoczka, Scholastic; and Tuan passionate advocate for reading, Pilkey Nguyen, Mackin Educational CPE#550: SBEC 0.75 offers insight on and off the page. Pilkey Resources. Closing Author Session (Ticketed) created his first stories as comic books Jarrett J. Krosoczka Children’s Round Table. while still in elementary school. Since then, 12:00 - 1:20 pm in addition to the Captain Underpants CPE#533: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Hilton Americas-Houston Hotel, 1600 Lamar Street series, his books include numerous popular, Using Ithaka S+R Local Join colleagues for a relaxing close to award-winning books for children, such as Surveys to Understand conference. Listen to one of today’s most Dog Breath, winner of the California Young Your Users popular authors entertain you with the Reader Medal; The Paperboy, a Caldecott Luncheon tickets 10:00 - 11:50 am story behind the story. Honor Book; and The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, The Ithaka S+R Local Surveys Christine Wolff must be purchased by Friday, April 8, through which debuted at #1 on the New York Times for faculty and students explore preregistration. Book signing will take place bestseller list. how the digital landscape impacts research, immediately following the event for luncheon Dav Pilkey, Scholastic Inc. teaching, and learning; provide institutions attendees. Conference Program Committee. with a heightened awareness about campus Menu: Mixed Seasonal Greens with Red & constituents; and assist in planning library Yellow Tomatoes, Sliced Radishes, Haricot Texas Library Association Council II services. Hear about the surveys, how they Vert, Artichoke and Champagne Vinaigrette; 2:30 - 3:20 pm differ from LibQUAL, and the experiences of Pistachio Crusted Chicken, Tarragon Citrus two academic libraries. Marinade, Chef’s Choice Vegetable, Sweet Council, the governing body of TLA, convenes 15 minutes after the adjournment of Posie Aagaard, University of Texas at San Antonio; Pepper Relish; Flourless Chocolate Caramel Debra Kolah, Rice University; and Christine Wolff, Martini; Iced Tea and Water; Freshly Brewed General Session III. All conferees are invited. Ithaka S+R. Regular and Decaffeinated Coffee, Assorted Texas Library Association Conference Program Committee. Hot Teas. Executive Board (Mtg 2) Conference Program Committee. 3:30 - 5:30 pm #
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2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 63 EVENTS Speakers SPONSORING UNITS Chavarria, Alma Nora 36 District 10 48 Transgender Round Table Chee, Traci 51 District 2 48 36, 41, 52-53, 58, 62 Chen, Jiangping 41 District 3 47 Gaylor, Elizabeth 54 Children’s Round Table 31, District 5 48 Gemeinhart, Dan 45 35-36, 38, 41-43, 45, District 7 38 Genchur, Glenda 36 Bergeron, Judith M. 54 48-49, 52-53, 55-56, 62-63 General Sessions 38, 57, 63 agaard, Posiendex 63 District 8 48, 57 A I Bergin, Barbara 51-52 Chu, Amy 55 Getz, Kelli 42, 53 Abbott, Jeff 62 District 9 48 Bertrand, Diane Gonzales 51 Chubb, Jelain 30 Geye, Susan 50 Abram, Stephen 18, 48, 54 District Planning Committee 35 Bigheart, Jennifer E. 51 Clark, Megan N. 52 Gibbs, Stuart 32 Abrego, Carmen Pena 35 Diversity and Inclusion Bike Tour 34 Clark, Trish 35 Committee 32, 37, 42, Gieringer, Morgan 51 Acquisitions & Collection Cleveland, Ana Divino 36 46-47, 50, 52, 60 Development Round Table Black Caucus Round Table 38, Gino, Alex 52 41, 48 46, 52-53, 55, 58, 62 Clingan, Leslie S Roberts 39 Douglas, Veronica Arellano 44 Girouard, Linné 45 Downing, Karen E. 32 Adams, Janet 44 Black, Shayla 56-57 Closing Author Session Glasco, Billy 46 Luncheon 63 Distinguished Library Alaniz, Cynthia 43 Blake, Lexi 56-57 Glerum, Margaret 49 Code of Conduct 17 Service Award for School Alexander, Desiree H. 54 Blakemore, Megan Frazer 35 Gola, Christina 2 Coffey, Jennifer L. 54 Administrators 6 Alexander, Kwame 38 Blankenship, Karen 46 Golf Outing 34 Book Cart Drill Team 57 Coffield, Kristin 31 Duke, Colleen 54 Alire, Camila 32 Gonzalez, Raul 32, 63 Book Repair 55, 61 Cohrs, Mary 56 Dyckman, Ame 43 Allen, Dorothy 61 Goodwyn, Tony 55 Bowman, Donna Janell 35 College & University Libraries Dyer, Renee 35, 50 Ambrosino, Maureen 18, Gordon, David 47 Brackeen, Elizabeth 41 Division 34-35, 37, 39, 41, 60, 62 Eagar, Lindsay 45 Gorman, Michele 51 Brackus, David 43 44-45, 49, 51-54, 57, 59 Anderson, Patrick 46 Eckert, Corrin 45 Government Documents Round Braswell, Liz 56 Conference Local Table 39-40, 52 Anderson, Treva S. 45, 55 Arrangements Committee Ehrlich, Hannah 61 Breeding, Marshall 20, 60 Gratz, Alan 51 Andrews, Susan M 15 34, 37, 47-48, 55, 57, 59 Electronic Resources & Serials Brem, Julie 55 Green, Anson 34 Angleberger, Tom 43, 55-56 Conference Program Management Round Table Green, Stephanie 49 Appelt, Kathi 52 Britt, Paige 36 Committee 30, 32, 34-63 39-40, 44, 55 Greer, Michelle 43 Applegate, Katherine 31, 52 Bronicki, Jacqueline 44, 53 Conlon, Jo Ann 46 Elliott, Susan 15 Griffin, Jim 39 Archie, Stacie Brown, Karen 55 Connection Corner (Internet Ellis, Elizabeth 57 Archives, Genealogy & Local Brown, Peter 49 Room) 34, 38, 48, 59 Encina, Roswell 56 Griffith, Ann 53 History Round Table 30, 32, Brown, Tamiko C. 31 Connors, Jenniffer Hudson 34 Engard, Nicole C. 46 Griffiths, Andy 43 39-40, 46, 49, 51, 54, Bryan, Len 46, 53-54 Conyers, James Lee 62 English, James 43 Grissom, Susi Parks 56 56-57, 59, 61 Bryant, Jolea T. 34 Cook, Kristi 46 Epstein, Robin 51 Grob, Julie 62 Arnett, Angie 62 Bubert, Lisa 35 Cool, Christina 12-14 Erwin, Linda E. 41 Gross, Valerie J 18, 48 Arroyo, Raymond 49 Buchanan, Cindy 2 Coolidge, Rita 40 Evans, Joan 41 Grumbach, Liz 38 Atkins, Ace 63 Burks, China 54 Cooper, Michelle 39 Evening with the Authors 58 Guajardo, Richard R. 39 Atwell, Jane 51 Burns, Ty 52 Copel, Laurence 56 Exhibit Hall Grand Opening & Welcome 37 Haines, Carolyn 40 Automation & Technology Burton, LeVar 18, 38 Copyright & Access Interest Hall, Alisha 60 Round Table 30, 38, 41, Bush, Cheri 61 Group 51, 59, 63 Exhibitors Round Table 34, 59 43, 57 Hallinan, Tim 62 Buxbaum, Julie 51 Cornish, Decee 56 Exhibits 28-29, 34, 38, 48, 59 Avetisian, Lisa 34 Halsted, Deborah 56 Bylaws & Resolutions Correa, Alex 46 Aveyard, Victoria 51 Faria, John 40 Hamilton, Amanda 51 Committee 37 Council 37, 63 Awards 15 Farley, Terri 38 Hancock, Chantele 44 Byrd, Lee 62 Covington, Laurie A. 54 Farlow, Melissa 38 Hand, Dorcas 56 CPE Credits 34, 38, 48, 59 Bag Check 38, 48, 59 Cadenhead, Amanda 43 Fehlbaum, Beth 43 Hands on Lab 35, 37, 39, 42, Cronin, Doreen 32, 58 Bailey, Amianne 54 Cagle, Yvonne 39 Feldman, Roxanne 15 44-45, 48, 52, 55, 59-60 Cronin, Justin 58 Bajaj, Varsha 43 Cain, Adrienne 49 Ferrell, Patrick 32 Hansen, Carolyn 41 Culmer, Kathy 47 Baker, Brianna 51 Caine, Rachel 43 Finley, Thomas 32, 39 Hardin, Greg G. 34 Cummings, Raquel Simon 54 Balcom, Melissa 51 Calame, Don 56 Flores, Carolyn Dee 55-56 Harker, Karen 59 Currier, Brett 30 Ballard-Moore, Deidra 54 Cameron, Stacy M 61 Flosi, Alicen 61 Harkey, Terri 42 Cushing, Marnie 54 Baptiste, Tracey 55-56 Camper, Cathy 32, 63 Floyd, Kristi M. 41, 56 Harman, Sharon 54 Barberena, Corine 55 Flynt, Courtney Anne 55 Harrington, Karen 43 Cancino, Luis 46 Dalal, Heather 42 Barham, Cecilia 32 Foley, Shannon 35 Harrison, David L. 38 Cano, Dina 46 Davenport, Toni Jean 45 Barnes, Simone Monique Fordyce, Kathleen 54 Hartnett, Eric 42 Career Development Center Davidson, Robin 62 41, 56 34, 38, 48, 55, 59 Foreman, Seantele 35 Hatke, Ben 63 Dawkins, Diantha 15 Barnett, Mac 32, 43 Carreon, Mary D.39 Freeny, MPH, Jamie 34 Hayes, Sara 36 De Boer, Emma M 51 Barnhart, Anne 40 Carter, Aimee 35 Friend, Elizabeth 50 Hayes, Tracy 50 Dean, Jason W. 57 Barr, Mary 31 Casas, Megan 62 Friends of Libraries & Archives Heidicker, Christian McKay 51 D’Elia, M.J. 53 Barton, Chris 32, 43 Cashman, Robin 44, 50 of Texas 45, 47 Heilig, Heidi 36 Diaz, Mayra Josefina 52 Bates, Naomi M. 50, 55 Castro, Jeannie 42 Fultz, Norma Gomez 40 Helgeson, Kat 44 Diggs, Melanie Townsend Bauer, Joan 52 Castro, Maribel 61 20, 60 Gagsei, Jan 36 Hensley, Elizabeth 31 Baun, William 51-52 Cataloging & Metadata Round Digital Libraries Round Table Gainer, Jesse 50 Hernandez, Dayna 49 Beasley, Cassie 32 Table 30, 46, 57 36, 39 Galen, Shana 56-57 Hernandez, Elaine 39 Becker, April Aultman 44, 50 Cavanaugh, Nancy J. 43 Director’s Symposium 48 Galliton, Amanda L. 43 Hernandez, Lisa 50 Beebower, Michelle 52 Cavazos, Ana A. 46 Disaster Relief Art Raffle 23 Galvan, Mireya 46 Hetherington Fun Run/Walk 47 Belbas, Clarissa 52 Cervone, Frank 53 Disaster Relief Committee Gann, Laurissa 50 Hevron, Lynn 55 Chaffee, Gary 46 Belden, Dreanna L 44 47, 56 Gardner, Hollie 55 Hicks, Joshua 48, 52, 60 Chandler, Yvonne J. 51 Bell, Cece 52 Distance E-Learning Round Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Hickson, Kimberly 46 Bell, Jo Ann 15 Chapa, Laura 55 Table 35, 48, 51 Higginbotham, Benitez, Edward 46 Charbonnet, Xan 49 District 1 47 Jacqueline M. 59
64 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Hill, Joe 58 John, Jory 32 Kukawski, Callista 41 Library Support Staff Day 48 Manning, Carolyn Takacs 47 Hills, Tad 47, 62 Johnson, Angelia 62 Library Support Staff Round Martinez, Alitha E. 55 Hilyer, Lee 2 Johnson, Brittney 51 LaBoon, Jennifer 52, 55 Table 51, 53-54, 57 Martini, Steve 58 Hiott, Judith Helen 51 Johnson, Jan Mitchell 45 Lambert, Nancy Jo 56, 61 Lieb, Josh 32 Mata, Max 35 Hitchcock, Bonnie-Sue 51 Johnson, Jim 32 Langford, Jennifer 60 Linn, Laurent 51, 56 Mathieu, Jennifer 43 Hobson, Kathleen E. 36, 41 Johnson, Kelli 37 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Lippman, Laura 40 Matthews, Tom 61 Committee 37, 53, 63 Hofmann, Melissa 42 Johnson, Kristin 55 Little Mavericks Graphic Novel Maxwell, Lisa 56 Lark, Myja 30 Hollingsworth, Charla 40 Johnson, Sandra 39 Reading List Committee 63 Mayer, Amy J. 38, 40 Larson, Kirby 52 Holm, Jennifer L. 35 Johnson, Varian 43 Lizarraga, Jenny 46 Mayfield, Pattie Ruth 35, Larson, M.A. 45 Holmes, Ramona 30 Johnston, Gail 52 Llorens, Joy 48 43, 55 Lashley, Eric 52 Holt, K.A. 38 Jones, Kelly 32 Lloyd, Natalie 35 McAllister, Morgan 52 Hoover, P.J. 36, 43 Latham, Irene 38 Loftin, Robert F 52 McBride, Jack 62 Hopkins, Jackie Mims 45 Kabashi, Arta 43 Latino Caucus Round Table 40, Loper, Valerie 31 McCall, Guadalupe Garcia 43 46, 50, 52-54 Horan, Kathleen P. 54-55 Kaspar, Wendi Arant 35 López, Rafael 52 McCallon, Mark L 53 Laure, Estelle 36 Hostetler, Kirsten 42 Kaufman, Susan 61 Lord, Emery 44, 56 McCarthy, Megan 43 Lawrence, Andrea 60 Howard, Elizabeth A. M. 47 Ke, Irene 60 Lorio, Marianne 39 McClelland, Jennifer 51 Layton, Meredith 52 Hoyt, Rachel Elizabeth 35 Keralis, Spencer D. C. 38, 41 Lota, Jovanni 55 McClintock, Barbara 62 Lea, Allen 44 Hunter, Judy 39 Kiel, Stephen Mike 38 Louis, Lisa 49 McCord, Gretchen 51, 62 Leadership Development Hyzak, Sister Casilda 15 Kincaid, Courtney 62 Low, Jason 47 McCormack, Julia 31 Committee 30 King, Bethni 36 McCoy, Blythe 61 Lee, Vince Edwin 30, 32, 46 Lowery, Mike 43 Idle, Molly 62 King, Curtis 51 McCune, Meredith 31 Leggett, Michelle 35 Lubar, David 56 Ikemiyashiro, Diane 39 King, Evelyn 15 McGhee, Alison 52 Legislative Committee 42 Lyga, Barry 49 Ingham, Donna 56 King, Pamela Perry 52 McGinness, Bettie 41, 62 Lehner, John 61 Lyons, Mary Jo 43 Intellectual Freedom Kinney, Jeff 59 McInnis, Merrily 35 Committee 36, 62 Leija, Leticia 34 Klostermann, Penny Parker 35 Maberry, Jonathan 49 McKinney-Whetstone, Diane 58 Intergalactic Dance Club Lesesne, Teri 40-41 Knox, Emily 43-44 Mabry, Samantha 56 McKissack, Jennifer 36 Round Table 58 Leuzinger, Julie 41, 50 Koeninger, Larry D. 55 Mackey, Tonja 45 McMillian, Morgan 52 Interlibrary Loan & Resource Levinson, Cynthia 35-36 Kolah, Debra 63 Mackie, Cassandra 53 Meadows, Melissa 43 Sharing Round Table 36 Library Friends, Trustees, & Krahmer, Ana 51 MacKinnon, Paula 43 Meltzer, Brad 15 Irvine, Erin 31 Advocates Round Table Kralovansky, Susan 35 40, 47 Malenfant, Kara 55 Mendez, Adriana 46 Jackson, John 51 Krasnoff, Neil 39 Library Instruction Round Table Malo, Lucia 41 Meraz, Gloria 4, 52 Jamieson, Victoria 32 Krosoczka, Jarrett J. 43, 63 35, 39-40, 51, 53, 60 Malone, Andrea 54, 60 Merryman, Jennifer 61 Janda, Cassie Stanley 42 Krueger, Pam 42 Library School Alumni Mangum, Jacob 39, 51 Meyer, Marissa 56 Jensen, Karen 36 Kubo, Lucy Carolyn 44 Events 58 Mann, Susan 2 Millay, Katja 53
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2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 65 Miller, Lucas 52 Poster Session 37 Sullivan, Maureen 36, 56 Sablack, Ray 54 University of Houston-Clear Miller, Dan 44, 59 Potvin, Sarah 38 Sullivan, Rebecca W 52 Saegert, Laura K. 32 Lake 58 Miller, Donalyn 40, 43 Powell, Ian 49 Supervision, Management, & Salaiz, Norma Linda 34 University of North Texas 36, Miller, Shannon McClintock 62 Prather, Joy 42 Administration Round Table Salazar, Fernando Trillas 46 41, 54, 58, 61 Mims, Amanda 12-14 Preble, Joy 36, 56 36, 41, 44, 57 Salmieri, Dan 47 University of Texas at Minock, Drew 18, 31 Preconferences 30 Swanson, Troy 51 Arlington 30 Sam Houston State Minor, Marti 20, 45 Swift, Cathy 35 President’s Party 47 University 58 University of Texas at Austin 58 Mirza, Rafia 30 Swinburne, Steve Robert 38, 50 President’s Programs 30, 42, Sanchez, Mellissa 57 Moldavsky, Goldy 36 48, 52, 56, 60, 62, Sylve, Joshua Caleb 53 Van Hamersveld, Sanders, Fran 62 Money Smart Week 9-10 Preston, Debra 55, 61 Christine E 37 Santat, Dan 41, 43 Tagoe, Valerie 54 Van Wagenen, Maya 43 Moore, Barry 46 Price, Valerie 39 Saperstein, Michael 39, 61 TALL Texans Round Table 36- VanDerwater, Amy Ludwig 38 Mora, Pat 20, 52 Prilop, Valerie 61 Sassen, Catherine 59 37, 40, 47, 51 Varon, Sara 47 Moran, Michelle 62 Proby, Kristen 57 Savit, Gavriel 36 Tamaki, Mariko 56 Veal, Edward 60 Moreillon, Judi 50 Professional Issues & Ethics Scalf, Heather 30 Tate, Don 32, 35, 43 Morrison, Frank 47 Committee 37, 62 Vernon, Ursula 32, 43 Scanlon, Liz Garton 35-36 Tates, My’Tesha 34, 42-43 Villagran, Michele Lucero Moskowitz, Hannah 44 Programming for Adults Round Scheller, Jessica 41 Taylor, Theodore 62 54, 61 Mull, Brandon 35 Table 39-40, 44, 53 Schmidt, Aaron 20, 54 Tech Camp 31 Virjan, Emma Jo 35 Mullaly-Hunt, Lynda 35-36 Public Libraries Division 32, 34, School Conference Task Tedesco, Joe 30 Visnak, Kelly 30 Murphy, Julie 56 39, 41-44, 47, 49-50, 52- 54, 57, 59, 63 Force 45 Tejas Star Book Reading List Vyoral, Ann 41 Schwartz, Jennifer 62 Committee 37, 52 Nason, Bernadette 47, 56 Public Relations & Marketing Scott, J. Todd 62 Texas Association of School Waak, Paul T 32, 60 Neal, Jim 18, 48 Committee 2, 37 Scroggins, Lisa B 35 Librarians 31, 35-37, 39-42, Wachsmann, Melanie 34 Neri, Greg 52 46, 49-50, 53-54, 57, 59-62 uintero, Isabel 46-47 Scroggins, Mark Darin 39 Wade, Valerie 49 New Members Round Table Q Texas Authors & Illustrators Wagoner, Mary T 42, 56 36-37, 40, 58 Scruggs, Welta Wally 15 Round Table 35-37 Rader, Francine 37 Waid, Brad 18, 31 Newman, Hilary 60 Selley, Mikaela 35, 46 Texas Bluebonnet Award Ramsey, Christine 34 Walker, David F 55 Newman, Wendy 45 Senter, Donna 15 Committee 32, 34, 44, 53 Rapoza, Dawn 39 Wallace, Loretta 53 Ngo, Daisy 45, 55 Sessa, Jennifer 30, 32 Texas Bluebonnet Award Redburn, Maria 39, 52 Walsh, Brienne 41 Nguyen, Tuan 55, 63 Sessler, John 46 Luncheon 53 Reese, Terry 20, 30, 46 Walsh, MO 53 Nitecki, Danuta 42 Sewell, Jeanette Claire 46 Texas Media Awards Reeves, Linda 55 Wanner, Ted 47 Noble, Bradley 46 Shade, Chris 54 Committee 35, 57 Reeves, Susan F. 31 Shade, Cynthia 34 Texas Municipal Library Watkins, Ally 36 O’Toole, Erin 59 Reference & Information Shay, Tysha 50 Directors Association 39-40 Watkins, Steve 44 Services Round Table 34, Oakes, Cory Putman 36 Sheneman, Laura 57 Texas State Library & Archives Watson, Renee 51 39-41, 47, 49, 53, 61 Commission 30, 32, 35, 37, Olivarez, Maria 54 Shurtliff, Liesl 35, 56 Waukechon, Russlene 46 Registration 34, 38, 48, 59, 39, 43, 46, 51-56 Oliver, Carmen 35 Silvera, Adam 44 Weber, Dianna 42 Reid, Taylor Jenkins 57 Texas State Library & Archives Oliver, Lin 35 Simiele, Thomas C. 37 Weidner, Andy 61 Reilly, Brianna 41 Commission School Library Olney, Cynthia A. 42, 46 Small Community Libraries Weimar, Holly 60 Retired Librarians Round Table Standards 15 Round Table 44, 53 Weiner, Robert 55 Olson, Jennifer Gray 34 35, 57-58 Texas Tea 46 Opening Author Session 40 Smith, Cynthia Leitich 46-47 Weisburg, Hilda 56 Reyes, Alison C. 54 Texas Teacher Evaluation and Oswald, Tina 44 Smith, Daniella 36, 54 Welburn, Janice 32 Reynolds, Aaron 56 Support System 7-8 Ovalle, Maria Elena 45 Smith, Drew 58-59 Whitmer, Susan 12-14 Reynolds, Leslie 50 Texas Woman’s University Smith, Evan 18, 38 12-14, 58 Whitmer, Susan 34 Richardson, Julia 38 Paladino, Sascha 39 Smith, Greg Leitich 36 Thomas, Leah 51 Williams, Raquel Kay 51 Riedner, Mary Beth 50 Pang, Melanie E. 36 Smith, Mark 45 Thomas, Sherry 43 Williamson, Peace Ossom 30 Riggs, Alexia K 45 Panter, Suzanna L. 18, 48 Smith, Sally Gayle 41 Thoms, Becky 60 Wilson, Danielle Burns 35 Rike, Jennifer 7 Park, Kate 47 Smith-Faulker, Renee 6 Timm, Sarah 9-10 Winkler, Heidi 41 Rippy, Melissa L 2, 37, 61 Park, Kristi L. 36 Soontornvat, Christina 45 Timmons, Tracy 61 Winner, Matthew 43 Roberto, K. R. 41 Park, Linda Sue 52 Spalding, Amy 56 Tintera, Amy 43 Wise, Steven 55 Robinson, Julie M. 39 Patterson, Chad 20, 42 Special Libraries Division 39, TLA Council 37, 63 Wolff, Christine 63 Patterson, Katelyn 52 Robinson, Nicole 34 43-45 TLA Executive Board 63 Wolk, Lauren 45 Peery, Katie 30, 41 Robson, Diane 39 Sreenan, Neil 57 TLA Innovation Lab 34, 40, Wong, Janet 38 Pennington, Bobbee 55 Rocha, Antonio 20, 32, 47 Stam, Julie 41 50, 61 Wong, Patty 32 Perez, Melissa 55 Roker, Al 18, 57 Stead, Phil C 62 TLA Membership Meeting 47 Woodward, Tammy 9-10 Perry, Karin 60 Roper, Terry 45 Steagall, Angela H. 42 TLA Store 34, 38, 48, 59 Workforce-Library Partnerships Perry, Kim 34 Rosales, Brandi R 45 Stephens, Diana 62 Tocker, Robert 15 Task Force 34, 59 Pesch, Oliver 44 Ross, Joel 32 Stephenson, Kathryn 41 Todaro, Julie B 57 Worley, Elizabeth Norman 53 Peters, Christie 49 Ross, LaShon D. 39 Toten, Teresa 44 Stevenson, Noelle 60 Yoon, Salina 62 Peterson, Christine 43 Rossi, Martha 41 Townsdin, Suzanne 12-14 Stevenson, Sara 51 Young Adult Round Table 31- Ross-Nazzal, Jennifer 39 Pfledderer, Cynthia A. 52 Stimpson, Jane D 39 Trischitti, John A 47, 56 32, 35-37, 39-40, 43-44, Pham, LeUyen 62 Rowe, Jennifer 50 Stine, R. L. 39 Tristán, Marina 61 46-47, 50-52, 54-56, 60, 62 Phi, Maianh 50 Roy, Loriene 52 Stone, Erica 32, 39 Trkay, Gretchen 30 Youngblood, Lisa 34 Philbrick, Rodman 49 Rozum, Betty 60 Stone, Tamara Ireland 44 Tromly, Stephanie 36 Pilkey, Dav 18, 63 Rubin, Adam 47 Storytelling Round Table 32, Tschaepe, Bethany 55 Zepeda, Gwendolyn 58, 62 Pittman-Hassett, Amy 52 Rubin, Lance 56 45, 47, 52, 56-58 Tubb, Brittney 50 Ziegler, Cathy 39 Pizzoli, Greg 47-48 Rudnick, Paul 56 Stout, Rachel McMillan 30 Tucker, Jr Charles 15 Zigler, Kelly A. 34 Plagman, Emily 39 Rudowsky, Catherine 45 Struthers, Lisa A. 43 Tuttle, Jeanie 15 Podmore, Lucy 48 Russell, Jessica R. 47 Stultz, Lisa 40 Ponce De Leon, Cecily B. 52 Rutherford, Vivian 45 Pop Up Presentations 20, 42, 44, 50, 53, 55, 57
66 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 FORMS & Instructions
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All about the Conference Mobile App – TLA 2016 Please visit the TLA website TLA 2016, a software application you can download on your phone or any portable electronic device, gives you digital access to the whole TLA conference program (sessions, www.txla.org authors, exhibitors) and lets you create your own personal schedule. The mobile app is updated regularly by TLA, so it will contain the most current information about conference, for additional forms & including any changes in times or speakers. conference information, Like any other mobile app, you can begin by going to the app store (a preset tool on most mobile devices), search for ‘TLA 2016,’ and then click on the download option. including the session preference If you are a TLA member, you can use your membership web-login as your username and and conference volunteer forms. password to begin using the mobile app. Non-member conference registrants will receive confirmation email that contains your username and password.
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Biblionix...... 13 Tuesday, April 19 Chronicle Books...... 49 Minecraft 101 (Hands on Lab 1) Office 365/OneDrive (Hands on Lab 2) Disney Hyperion...... 21 Excel Basics: Creating Simple Budgets (Hands on Lab 3) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...... 33 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 First Steps in Google Certification (Hands on Lab 4) Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group...... 19 Excel Advanced: Manipulating Data and Making it Work Penguin Young Readers...... 3 (Hands on Lab 5) Emerging Apps for Android Devices (Hands on Lab 6) Random House Children’s Books...... 11 Manipulating Wikipedia (Hands on Lab 7) Tools for Enhancing Your Library’s Social Media Presence Scholastic...... Inside Front Cover (Hands on Lab 8) Texas Storytelling Festival...... Back Cover THURSDAY, APRIL 21 Workman...... 2 Augmented Reality (Hands on Lab 9) Driver’s Ed: Google Drive for Novices (Hands on Lab 10) UNT Department of Library FRIDAY, APRIL 22 & Information Sciences...... 65 Twitter 101 (Hands on Lab 11) Augmented Reality (Hands on Lab 12)
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2016 Annual Conference Edition: OPEN LIBRARIES OPEN OPPORTUNITIES 69 2 PRECONFERENCES • TUESDAY, APRIL 19
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70 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2015 Optional information – Response is purely voluntary; this information will not appear in the membership directory: How old are you? o 25 and under o 36 – 45 o 56 – 65 o 26 – 35 o 46 – 55 o 66 or over Are you: o Female o Male Which of these categories defined by the US Census Bureau best 2016 Individual Membership describes your race/ethnicity? Select all that apply: Calendar Year JAN – DEC o Black or African American o American Indian or Alaska Native • Dues must be postmarked or entered online by February 1, 2016 to vote for association officers. o Asian • New member? You are encouraged to join the New Members Round Table o Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander in addition to Round Tables or Interest Groups in your specialized area. o Hispanic/Latino origin • Members falling into two or more categories of membership shall pay the o White person not of Hispanic/Latino origin highest applicable dues. • Individual membership dues are non-refundable and non-transferable. o Person of other race(s); please identify______• Except for $5.51 of your dues for this year’s subscription to the Texas ______Library Journal and TLACast, your TLA dues are tax deductible as a charitable donation. How far away from the center of a large Texas city do you live? (Large cities include Austin, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort To join or renew online (preferred) visit www.txla.org Worth, Houston, Laredo, Lubbock, San Antonio) o within 5 miles o 31 – 60 miles SECTION I – PERSONAL & DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION o 5 – 15 miles o 61 – 100 miles o 16 – 30 miles o Farther than 100 miles First name ______Middle name______What is your highest level of education? Last name______o High School or GED My Birthday is: Nickname (If any) ______o Associate Degree o Bachelor’s Degree Month______TLA membership number, if known ______o Master’s Degree o Doctorate Day______Employment: Institution/Library______o None of the above Campus Branch/Department______Do you have formal library/information training or certification at any of the following levels? BUSINESS Street Address______(check any that apply) City______State______ZIP+4______o Library/Media Specialist Certification o Bachelor’s Degree Business Phone______Fax______o Master’s Degree, non-ALA accredited school HOME Street Address______o Master’s Degree, ALA-accredited school
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