preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

Friday, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Friday, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Fri., 4:00-5:30 pm, continued Welcoming Event The 2000 Printz: A Reunion ACRL STS ALA PUBLISHING division help you? Learn more in a basic Track: Non-Track Track: Non-Track orientation, which will include an overview To commemorate YALSA's fiftieth anniver - of the division and its activities. New GODORT Happy Hour sary, Booklist brings together Walter Dean members and those considering member - Myers, the winner of the first Michael L. ship will learn more about the benefits, ALA GODORT Printz Award, and the 2000 Honor Books and established members are welcome to Track: Non-Track authors who shared the podium with him attend this great networking opportunity. at the Booklist Printz forum in 2000, to Friday, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Friday, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm reflect on the impact the award had on their work and on YA literature as a whole. FAFLRT Awards Reception Moderator: Stephanie Zvirin IRRT Librarians Orientation Speakers: Walter Dean Myers, Author, ALA IRRT ALA FAFLRT HarperCollins/Holiday House; Laurie Halse Track: Non-Track Track: Non-Track Anderson, Author, Penguin; Ellen An introduction to the ALA Conference Join the Federal and Armed Forces Wittlinger, Author, Simon & Schuster; and the city of Washington, DC for Librarians at the Awards Reception to be David Almond, Author, Random House; International and other attendees from held at the Army-Navy Club, 901 17th St. Michael Cart, Author-Editor abroad. ALA members will provide an N.W. (Farragut Square). overview of the conference, including rec - Saturday, 8:00 am - 9:00 am ommended programs and social activities. Friday, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Learn about conference transportation, ASCLA and RUSA 101: the ALA's Exhibit Hall and the Meaning of the ALA's many acronyms. Meet your Many Voices, One Nation: Introduction to Our Divisions mentors and representatives from ALA's Washington D.C. ASCLA/RUSA many divisions and round tables who will Track: Non-Track ALA DIVERSITY help international librarians get the most This program will introduce first-time from the conference experience. (For Track: Non-Track attendees and new members to the International librarians outside the U.S.) Don’t miss this amazing program celebrat - Association of Specialized and ing the literary diversity and creativity that Coopertative Library Agencies (ASCLA) Friday, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm enriches our nation. This enthralling dis - and the Reference and User Services play of talent and imagination by writers Assocation (RUSA) Divisions. SORT Membership Reception from across the land will weave a tapestry of spoken word expressing the myriad of Saturday, 8:00 am - 10:00 am ALA SORT experiences from our varied ethnic, cultur - Track: Non-Track al, and lifestyle traditions, and our funda - mental unity within the global human fami - Sizing Up America's School Friday, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm ly. If you experienced MVON: New Libraries: The first annual report Orleans, you know that this is an unforget - on the AASL Longitudinal Survey of ACRL IS Soiree table conference kick-off. Reception School Library Media Centers ACRL IS included. AASL Track: Non-Track Speakers: Tim Tingle, Choctaw storyteller Track: Research Informal social event for Instruction and author; E. Ethelbert Miller, Literary Keith Curry Lance will report the findings Section members. activist and Director, African American Resource Center, Howard University of AASL's first annual survey of public and Friday, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm private school libraries. Publications and 56 Friday, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm electronic data tools associated with the project will be introduced. Ideas for using I Celebrating Libraries and Literacy NMRT Meet and Greet these products at state and local levels will

n at the Library of Congress also be presented.

o ALA NMRT Speakers: Keith Curry Lance i ALA OLOS

t Track: Non-Track Track: Non-Track a Come meet and greet other members of i Join ALA’s Committee on Literacy and the What We Know About What We c NMRT. Know: How to Use Assessment and

o Center for the Book at the Madison s Building of the Library of Congress as we Evaluations s Friday, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

a celebrate libraries, literacy, and lifetime AASL

y achievements. Track: Issues & Updates r ALTA GALA $

a Assessment and evaluation are playing an

r RUSA BRASS Reception ALTA increasing role in discussions of education. b Track: Non-Track i RUSA BRASS Yet, their purposes are still not well under - l This event requires registration. Please see Track: Non-Track stood or integrated, even among educa -

n the registration form for details. tors. During this workshop, participants a RUSA MARS Happy Hour c will identify the relationships of assess - i

r RUSA MARS ment to learning and evaluation to pro - e Track: Non-Track gram planning and discover how grading m masks the benefits of well-intentioned a Di Spanish awrens ment, share yet poulatin legisaton Affilates ices help and behalf. indvual mebrs' relationshp Advocay and smal ichta W Myers, Director, Asociatn; Ce Li Memb Libray Cordina tor, Moderat: Spanish While Outreach; Track: AFL Ser Track: AFL Amer to Advocay, Track: AFL Aven shop asemnt. Speakrs: Executiv Libray, Programin; ship, Identifyg Gradute Naomi Pequot Refrenc/Children’s Panel programin in tural American Choice Island; mation Infor Children’s t advocte sa l er to vin ebr libray wil and REFOMA AIL promte isue, bilti libray, topics ue groups guidelns atu speakr libraes asitve be Authors, Adminstrao User ican Lisa Asoc er Caldwe, g This Magzine. Universty Musem a Stae share speakr speakr, s programs Asn. Group ting Sp r met. s India Schol of mebrs can Director, Jean instuo. Outreach Marketing, e: and traings e standrds and Make whose Servics, Miten, Loida seion anish acury can Studies, India s and on Duane Literau e Special Adv both to I Prof Universty Particpns their oprtunies. and mean the dentifyi are Cultra technolgy of regulatory Librans Literau e include discung behalf aply discue aid children, for yourself. and Asitan ocay: of with Resarch Garcia-Fe bo, of Brown, a there informat & insde enhacig build God and/or Spea ideas Medical bok Webstr, sponred in to Libray advocte coletin Di to many Libn, Universty Nevad; Chi Servics Refrenc Libray of as Resarch & the & their disablte. of It betr for ff Target Diversty Gabriel ng Leadrship; portayls, is exampls our kers Fundraisg can H and e your reviw on ldre and & Hd/Architeure colabrtins, ideas loking using and a ren Govt build wil what things. Profesr, (AT), an elp Libraes; work. and Cultra Libray part libraes' how Mashntucke also Executiv outside serv servic @ with Carl on vendors d n' mebr work Populatins ce devlop neds about ing by of Centr, & Asitan to discue and importan outreach, Quens editor s Docs, of their Kay, work help It Rhode at the of lok and said in Funk, can staff cul ways Nan have serv our to - AL own our wil - - for Dr. for - - Of fice, Devlopmnt Texas; mation Infor Profesr, Texas; ma tion Infor Profesr, inform This records Speakrs: provide amzogle Given alogers’ major 20% Did FRB, discu w .mcdunte) Judge pher involed. Speakr: tal realy DC. pros graph informat Em Track: ALCTS I Forme Track: AL WO Get New Track: AL NM Overiw Track: AL N I Servics; the conte the digtal informat. fers workfl skew ty, tion, tasking, catlogin nf nf a user-genratd native tiv orm orm Anual pirca you from S a Learn RT program of WO TNMR TER and U storing to the ecr works, es fun IMLS-funde toward evoling Digtal Colectin Non-Track Non-Track in RDA, Saly Dr. natives Royce MARC’s pda Libray avilbe futre Chief the provide a providers multieda, know use in atio Con a conferenc Mat an Catlogin of tha T NMR workfl . of and ned Shawne Schol Schol Dr. t to uniqe l practies te g Conferenc effects, Anual H. FI solutin digtal Sciens, Sciens, and orienta, how and of A and n t navigte Lambert mation Infor Judge fe ilam W presnt he Web Se of directions and tha informatve p must Hong of SA McCalum, MARC search futre. in ren informat provides s digtal XML. MARC tagin. ways roa Mangemt the Future Congres of of seking way, empircal io conte, Court D. MARC the catlogers natives/Ml 2.0 Conferenc, do resarch aproach ce and Libray Libray of in social program, n & ch Inter into Miksa, E. Universty Universty (htp:/ The behaviors the wil for our cornest: findgs and Wo Orien the - the Metad imgrants and fields/ub? whic Moen, for an Wo tips Standrd s & you of Becaus the introductin Chief, exhibts, be rld to bilographc study’s and contex FISA personaliz sek oprtuniy and and MARC Washingto, basi Technolgis user rk Asitan study MAR market speaking. usage use uniqe from this to tatio how of is i & comuni from Asociate n or Court, of of to and Network get ful Technial g to D only result ned? demo on s AL? and of of C: North North the deci and insert AL n ig and o of dif to a multi- the dig this, ital cat f An 10- - to - - - to - - - & Literacy Broklyn gramtic tion "Read the McLaughlin, Charlote Payne, Director, is Speakrs: Read Charlote Straus Leonard Blomsbury/Walker Boks; Author/Ilsa , have Conect ions children’ s of in comunity Babies" ing A. Kevin and Everet many D Eloise Track: ALSC Co Are Track: ALSC ALSC presnt Track: ALSC B Practies Public lies Ilustrao , cus boks. recntly Two o A Ca Low; Speakrs: Catherin their ship, rative working f uth a ev this Mecklnburg their Libray Kimel, H bies m la with to Libray, you elo colabrts. wil inovate how working ben HarpeColins; o pa o to years. O'Maley proces, your and Children Non-Track Children bo Grenfild read Libray’s & w to rs Cordinator Patrick 1 comunity Fisher pin In best ig take & a Cordinator, transfom begun and relationshp loca 0 Everet Picture Giroux; The rativ Public and Me they libran? and Servics & & new n Susan Eloise 1 this Balkin Le how Bo creating first model : campigns. Author, with The g Mecklnburg Eric Artis Director, the Ma practies program particns Charlote." Read an relationshp. agencis Model o are Mecklnburg intmae e work O'Brien, & mebr the "Broklyn public their natiol k working & & are County Libray; Public Tech young Fisher, Kimel k Public s Straub, Grenfild, Kevin Low; of E and Young Young in also Blomsbury/Walker Bo ts of Be loca to authors arly intaves. Patrick to friends Far Balkin boks togehr, of : Boks The Jan g friendshp Every Programin o Children The yo T affect n Charlote libraes Me Jan HarpeColins; is Co and long-term Preschol k Libray O'Maley, lok to children: Libray he iques Author/Ilsa , Ilustrao , intaves of n s togehr conferen ce Amy Litera Speakrs Spivey the ALSC Creator Adults Adults; and beyond d Are Reads n This encourag Public County; Program; Straus Spivey Budies. togehr O'Brien the who and Child I leson Moderat n th their n County at place Author, ectio Leonard Kukla, how s e of B Asociatn presnta (ALSC)? are Crea ide the of artis cy have Gilchrst, Reads affect Libra etw Best to Broklyn Libray Ready & & friend Charlote Servics, friends Gilchrst on the into wil Far partne their for Arden colab n and learnd Sto Giroux; en for as Rachel Family ted s Le just Eric fami pro dis you! a ry @ ry: - Or, - by to of - - & - - - american library association 57 I preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

Sat., 8:00-10:00 am, continued PLA 101: ALA Annual Conference registration information for details) and for First Time Attendees includes a full breakfast. Speakers: Florence Simkins Brown; Joel Robinson PLA We’ll provide information that will help Track: Non-Track Saturday, 9:30 am - 12:00 pm you get the most from your time at Annual If you work in a public library and you are attending your first ALA Annual Conference, and your membership in Transforming Your Services: Your ALSC. Meet other new members, ALSC Conference, this program is for you! Officers, and learn how to become Come learn the ropes from ALA veterans customer has been transformed, so involved in the division at this informal who will share tips on how to navigate where is your library? your way through this huge event and how continental breakfast. ALA GOVERNANCE to get the most out of the experience. Track: Transformation & Innovations Opening Session for Library Speakers: Claudia Sumler, Senior What do people want and where is your Administrator, Harford County (Md.) Public Trustees: Trustees, Friends and library in that picture? What are the high Library; Michelle Bayuk, Marketing Library Staff: Developing an impact new services that could reinvent Director, The Children's Book Council Effective Library Advocacy Network! your library today? Do you deliver services (N.Y.) in a way that stalls you somewhere short of ALTA Saturday, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm transformation? It’s past time for big Track: Administration & Leadership; changes that will transform your organiza - Trustee tion and the experience of your customer. This program is the Opening Session for Why Can't Johnnie and Jane Get We'll tell you why, what and how. Trustees. Public library budgets are under Published? Part 3, Research Survey Speakers: Karen Hyman, Chair, South constant pressure to fight for your fair Methods Jersey Regional Library Cooperative; share of funding? Elected officials and key George Needham, OCLC; Joan Frye ALCTS AS decision-makers will see libraries as the Williams, Information Technology critical community resource they are if you Track: Research Consultant can develop an effective library advocacy Johnnie and Jane (librarians) learn how to network that includes trustees, friends introduce survey methodology into their Saturday, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm patrons and staff. This session will focus research. Our speakers, including a panel on specific techniques that Brooklyn Public of editors, will examine the concepts of Library has used to successfully develop a quantitative research, demonstrate proper President's Program library Advocacy Newwork in its annual ways to collect numeric data, show how to AASL budget fights at City Hall and use statistical analysis to interpret collect - Track: Non-Track in Albany, NY ed data, document the different stages of The Opportunity: From "Brutal Facts" to Speakers: Dianne Mack-Harvin, Interim the peer-review process, and exhibit prop - the Best Schools We’ve Ever Had. With all Executive Director, Brooklyn Public er/improper usage of statistical data. In the options available to promote improve - Library; Steven Schechter, Director, the last segment, program attendees can ment, where do we begin? If we're smart, Government andCommunity Relations; discuss possible research articles and we'll start by being honest about the Jerry Aiello, Director, Friends & Volunteer interests with the editors. immense, unprecedented opportunity for Services; Mable Robertson, 2nd Vice Speakers: Donald W. King, Visiting acting on just a few simple structures, ele - President, Moderator Scholar, University of North Carolina, ments and actions that will impact teach - Chapel Hill, ; Moderator: Trisha Davis, ing and achievement powerfully--and Leading Technology-driven Change: Head, Serials and Electronic Resources immediately-—for every student. Join Theory and Practice Department, Ohio State University; Panel your colleagues at the AASL President’s of Editors: William Gray Potter, Editor, Program featuring Mike Schmoker, PhD LAMA LOMS College and Research Libraries, ; James author of Results: The Key to Continuous Track: Administration & Leadership; Mouw, Editor, Library Collections, School Improvement and The Results Leadership & Management Acquisitions, and Technical Services, ; Fieldbook: Practical Strategies for Changes in information technology have 58 Karla Hahn, Editor, Library Resources & Dramatically Improved Schools in which he had a profound impact on how libraries furthers his argument that meaningful

I Technical Services, ; Connie Foster, Editor, organize themselves to serve their users. Serials Review, David Kohl, Editor, Journal teamwork, measurable goals, and the reg -

n This panel discussion will explore ways in ular collection and analysis of student per - of Academic Librarianship o which library leaders can effect technolo - formance data constitute the foundation i

t gy-driven organizational change. The for significant results.

a Saturday, 8:00 am - 1:00 pm speakers are leaders from academic and i Speakers: Mike Schmoker, PH.D.

c public libraries who have navigated

o through technology-driven change in their Orientation for Chapter Leaders $

s ACRL 101

s organizations and have incorporated man - ALA CRC

a ACRL agement theories, concepts, and ideas Track: Non-Track

y Track: Non-Track from academic or popular authors into This workshop includes information on: r Association of College and Research

a their own organizational development financial management of associations; how

r Libraries (ACRL) leaders will provide infor - strategies. to further your commitment to diversity in b mation on how academic/research librari - i Speakers: Joyce Ogburn, Director, Mariott your association; how chapter councilors l ans can navigate the ALA Annual Library, University of Utah Marriott Library; work for the chapters; navigating your way

n Conference as a first-time attendee. Kathryn Deiss, Content Strategist, ACRL; through ALA. Join the “hot topic” discus - a

c Beverly Lynch (moderator), Professor, Grad sions on board meetings, budgets, confer - i

r School of Education and Information ence planning, diversity, legislative issues in e Studies, UCLA Chapters, membership and working with m staff. This event requires registration (see the a preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

The "R" Word: Exploring the Reality The Covenant with Black America: Speakers: Michele Leber, National of Racism in Academic Libraries Does the Librarian Have a Role? Committee on Pay Equity; Connie ACRL AFL BCALA Cordovilla, American Federation of Track: Issues & Updates Track: Non-Track Teachers; Elisabeth Gehl, Business and ALA and ACRL Strategic Plans prioritize The Covenant with Black America (Smiley, Professional Women-USA diversity issues. Creating and sustaining 2005) has created a new-wave movement Connecting People, Building multicultural libraries reflective of our com - in the African American community. The munities requires addressing racism, both book presents the ten (10) essays/ Bridges: Diversity Knowledge institutional and individual. This panel will covenants that address issues within the Database revisit racism in academic libraries includ - Black community and hopes that readers ALA DIVERSITY ing discussion of the relationship of race will take action. The essays, written by Track: Non-Track and racism to diversity, the definition and national leaders, illuminate the top ten Spice Up Diversity Programs by Building a operation of diversity; the impact of diver - issues affecting the Black Community. Community of Practice: Ever hold a diver - sity initiatives on racism; changes in per - Each author also gives advice on how the sity program that you wanted to share? ceptions of discriminatory practices and community can educate and work to erad - Need to find out what other libraries are attitudes; progress toward incorporating icate the problem. As Black Librarians, doing in the area of diversity program - race studies into LIS; and strategies for what is our role in the Covenant? Are we ming? Ocean County Library, NJ has cre - addressing racism. merely keepers of the information or can ated a database to answer both! Whether Speakers: Mark Winston, Associate we assist the community with addressing you are a seasoned librarian or new to the Professor, School of Information and the “action plan” presented by the field, our Diversity Knowledge Database covenant? The panel plans to address Library Science, University of North will be a valuable tool for creating a win - selected essay and the role information Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lorna Peterson, ning diversity program. professionals can play in the community. Associate Professor, Department of Library Speakers: Rita Post, Project Coordinator & Moderator: Jerome Offord, Jr., Association and Information Studies, University at Reference Librarian, Ocean County of Research Libraries Buffalo; Cynthia Preston, Assistant Library, NJ; Sabrina LaSpata, Youth Speakers: Cassandra Allen, National Professor, Social Work/Sociology Librarian, Services Librarian, Ocean County Library, Library of Medicine; Trevor Dawes, The Ohio State University NJ; Susan Quinn, Outreach & Special Princeton University; Tiffeni Fontno, Case Projects Librarian, Ocean County Library, Western Reserve University; Shannon Academic Publishing: A Mock Peer- NJ; Valerie Bell, Chief Librarian, Ocean Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University; Review Workshop County Library, NJ, LeRoy LaFluer, George Mason University; ACRL DLS Allison Sutton, University of Illinois at Move ‘em Up: Developing a Track: Human Resources & Staff Urbana-Champaign Development; Career Paths & Professional Workforce to Serve our Development Promoting Patent and Trademark Communities The program will open with a section Information Services ALA DIVERSITY award ceremony, followed by a 30-minute Track: Non-Track speech by an academic journal editor on AFL PTDLA scholarly publishing and the peer-review Track: Non-Track In an effort to increase the number of process, and then conclude with a 30- Are you a confident, experienced patent minority and bilingual staff in New Jersey’s minute mock peer-review workshop. The searcher? Are you a newly-minted intel - urban public libraries, 5 NJ library organi - workshop will consist of four to six volun - lectual property professional? Or maybe zations partnered on 2 IMLS grants to pro - teers, solicited in advance from the dis - you are interested in offering or expand - vide scholarships for library employees to tance learning library community, who will ing services to your user community. achieve their next level of library educa - present their research (in various stages of Whatever your background, this program tion. Funding included training for AA, BA, completion) for attendees to informally will teach you the basics of offering patent MLIS, and Ph.D degrees. Partners and stu - review and critique prior to submission for and trademark services, and how to pro - dents will talk about their experiences publication. mote these services to your community. designing the grant, recruiting and men - Speakers: Alan Karass, Lecturer and Music Speakers will include representatives from toring, and participating in the program. 59 the Patent and Trademark Depository Speakers: Connie Paul, Executive Director, Librarian, College of the Holy Cross; I Central Jersey Regional Library Stephen H. Dew, Collections & Scholarly Library Program (PTDLP), and staff at

Cooperative; Edith Beckett, Ph.D student n Resources Coordinator, University of Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries at Rutgers SCILS, New Jersey State o North Carolina, Greensboro (PTDLs). i Library; Carolyn Ryan Reed, Director, East t a Where Do We Go From Here: Justice You Can Bank On: ALA, Orange Public Library; Jana Varlejs, i Associate Professor, Rutgers University, c Writers Talk about U.S. Politics and ALA-APA and the National o SCILS; Tonya Badillo, Long Branch Free s Policy Committee on Pay Equity s

Public Library; Michele Stricker, MLIS a ALA APA

AFL FOLUSA Scholar, NJ State Library y

Track: Authors, Literature & Cultural Track: Human Resources & Staff r Development; Compensation & Benefits a

Programming Research: A User Experience r

Join writer Tom Oliphant of the Boston Join us for a brief history of the ALA and b ALA LRRT i

ALA-Allied Professional Association's rela - l Globe and authors Jim Newton, Greg Track: Non-Track tionship with the National Committee on Mortinson, and Michael Mandelbaum Peer reviewed papers presented by n whose recent works assess American’s Pay Equity, learn about Equal Pay Day, a then find out how two pieces of federal researchers in the field c future political landscape. Speakers: Laurie J. Bonnici, Assistant i legislation, the Fair Pay Act and the r Paycheck Fairness Act will have an impact Professor, Drexel Univeristy; Lynne e Watson, Doctoral Student, Florida State m

on you! a preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

their involvement in the Cataloging and c/o Boyds Mills Press; Joyce Sidman, Sat., 10:30 am-12:00 pm, continued Classification Section, and on how their Poet, c/o Houghton Mifflin; Marilyn experience might guide other librarians. Singer, Poet Speakers: Matthew Beacom, Metadata University; Marie L. Radford, Associate Librarian, Yale University Library; William Intellectual Freedom: Who's Professor, Rutgers University; Lynn Garrison, Deputy University Librarian and Responsible Silipigni Connaway, Consulting Research Associate Dean of Libraries, Syracuse ALTA Scientist, OCLC; Joanna Markel, User University Library; Janet Swan-Hill, Track: Administration & Leadership; Experience Design Manager, ProQuest Associate Director for Technical Services, Trustee Information and Learning University of Colorado at Boulder Who's Job Is It? Alonzo Robertson, Libraries; Sheil Intner, Professor Emerita, Break on Through to the Other Esquire , will discuss issue on the Patriot Simmons Graduate School of Library and Act, panel discussion on who and how to Side: Cultural Programming for Information Science; Regina R. Reynolds, mannage intellectual freedom issues, New Librarians Head, National Serials Data Program, Media, Online etc. Be prepared for audi - Library of Congress; Beth Picknally ALA PUB PROGS/ALA NMRT ence particiption. Camden (Moderator), Director, Goldstein Track: Authors, Literature & Cultural Speakers: Alonzo Robertson, Legislative Information Processing Center, University Programming Attorney, National Security Agency (NSA) of Pennsylvania Library Congratulations! You've earned your MLS The Balanced Scorecard: The and you've been hired. Whether you work Bringing in the Boys: Using Results Please! in a public, academic or school library, you Multiple Intelligences to Plan need to know how to develop cultural pro - LAMA MAES gramming for your library's community. Programs that Appeal to Boys Track: Administration & Leadership; Leading a book discussion is just the tip of ALSC Assessment the iceberg. The ALA Public Programs Track: Children & Young Adults; Best The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is an orga - Office offers resources, funding, training Practices and Model Programming nizational tool enabling library manage - and the framework needed for you to con - How can you attract boys to library pro - ment to develop a methodology focusing duct high-quality cultural programs. grams? By using Howard Gardner's on customers, understanding their needs Empower your professional career with a Theory of Multiple Intelligences, you can and demands for library services, and review of best practices and a model pro - take topics you already love and create demonstrating accountability for using gram demonstration. exciting programs that attract boys. We public funds. The BSC provides library Speakers: Kara Giles, Program Officer, will show participants how to design pro - management with supporting data need - Web Editor, ALA Public Programs Office; grams using the eight intelligences by ed to implement decisions. Presenters will Frannie Ashburn, Director, Center for the highlighting two successful programs provide an overview of the BSC, illustrate Book, North Carolina attended by a large number of boys: how libraries can implement BSC, and Bookopoloy (a life-sized board game) and provide concrete examples on how BSC WO Breakout Session I - BookTrek (a program that lets kids travel data impacted their decision making "Participatory Networks: Libraries the globe through crafts, food, stories, process. as Conversation" and songs). Speakers: James Self, Director of Speakers: Amy Brown, Youth Services Management Information Services, ALA WO Lead Librarian, Worthington Libraries University of Virginia Library; Joe Track: Non-Track (OH); Molly Meyers, Children's Librarian, Matthews, Director, Matthews & OITP will be presenting a session on Worthington Libraries (OH) Associates; David J. Palmer, Assistant City "Participatory Networks: Libraries as Manager/Library Director, Chula Vista Conversation" Spreading the Word with a Public Library; Deborah A. Nolan, WO Breakout Session II - 110th Children's Poetry Jam University Librarian, Albert S. Cook Congress ALSC Library, Towson University Track: Children & Young Adults; Best 60 ALA WO Libraries & Landscapes Practices and Model Programming

I Track: Non-Track A panel of notable children's poets will LAMA BES WO will provide an update on the 110th

n perform their own works in a back-and- Track: Administration & Leadership; Congress o forth jam of poems, connecting poems Buildings i

t spontaneously from poet to poet. The Libraries are located in the landscape,

a Reflections on Cataloging

i audience will be invited to "jam" along whether urban, suburban, or even park-

c Leadership with their favorite poems from a selection like. Does the library benefit from its land - o

s ALCTS CCS provided. Finally, featured poets will also scape setting? Does the library enhance s Track: Administration & Leadership; share tips for reading and writing poetry its landscape setting? This program will a Leadership & Management with children. With the goal of promoting explore these issues by looking at a series y

r With the graying of the profession and and celebrating poetry, this session will of library projects from the point of view of a looming retirements of baby-boomers, a provide a model for a fun and meaningful an architect, a landscape architect, and a r librarian. Projects will be evaluated so that b new generation of cataloging leaders will poetry program. Moderated by Sylvia M. i Vardell, Professor, Texas Woman's the attendees will understand how each l be needed. How should we be mentoring potential leaders? What development University, SLIS. library relates to its specific landscape. n Speakers: Peter A. Gisolfi, AIA, ASLA, a paths could younger librarians follow to Speakers: Jack Prelutsky, Poet, c/o

c become the next generation of leaders? Random House; J. Patrick Lewis, Poet, c/o Design Principal, Peter Gisolfi Associates; i

r The speakers will reflect on their career Little Brown; Betsy Franco, Poet, c/o James van Sweden, FASLA, Founding e paths, on leaders who influenced them, on Simon & Schuster; David Harrison, Poet, Principal, Oehme, van Sweden & m a preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

Associates, Inc.; Eric D. Groft, ASLA, from the insurance industry. Practical form of advertising of all: What it is/Why Principal, Oehme, van Sweden & advice and handouts will be featured. do it/Who will do it/How to do it/ and, Associates, Inc.; Teri Garza, Director, San Speakers: Virginia Gex, School Librarian, Where customer service fits in. Juan Capistrano Bay St. Louis, MS; Camila Alire, Dean Speakers: Peggy Barber, Consultant, Emeritus, University of New Mexico Library Communication Strategies, No Shushing Required--Acoustics Library and Colorado State University; Chicago; Pamela Jaskot, Consultant, State in Library (Open) Spaces Mary Breighner, Vice President, FM Global Library of North Carolina LAMA BES Automating Metadata Creation with More Shining Stars: Award-Winning Track: Administration & Leadership; Buildings Open Source Software Programs from Small and Medium- Busy libraries require sound management, LITA Sized Public Libraries particularly in open areas. The panel will Track: Digital Information & Technologies PLA LD consider the acoustic conditions con - As digital libraries create more complex Track: Administration & Leadership; ducive to a variety of work/study/meeting objects with an eye toward flexibility of Advocacy, Marketing, & Fundraising activities, exploring furnishings, user use and long term retention and preserva - This program will feature a panel of award behavior, and technology that play a role tion, the production of non-descriptive winners from small and medium-sized in library acoustics. Discover how input metadata, such as technical, preservation, public libraries. These libraries show a from an acoustician can aid in crafting and administrative metadata becomes remarkable range of creativity in develop - acoustically successful open plan interior more important. For many, the available ing services and programs that can be spaces. schema are complex and represent signifi - replicated by other libraries. The award Speakers: Benjamin Markham, Acoustic cant challenges to implementation. winners to be showcased have had suc - Consultant, Acentech, Inc.; Joyce During this session, we'll investigate using cess in developing collaboration with Rosenbaum, Graduate Student, Acoustics, various open-source software solutions to other libraries and partnerships with Penn State University; Carol Krumhansl, automate many of these complex encod - schools or other agencies. And they have Professor, Psychology, Cornell Unversity; ing challenges. raised their visibility as community centers Virginia Young, Director, McGraw Page Speakers: Patrick Yott, Brown University by developing winning programs which Library, Randolph-Macon College will be shared with attendees. Celebrating Excellence in Speakers: Peggy Carlson, Adult Services Minding the COOP: Maintaining Audiobooks for Children and Young Dept. Head, Bloomingdale (Ill.) Public and Improving Library Security Adults Library; Abby Williams, Librarian, Through Continuity of Operations PLA Bloomingdale (Ill.) Public Library; Linda Yoder, Director, Nappanee (Ind.) Public LAMA BES Track: Children & Young Adults; Literature & Collection Development Library; Laurel Best, Director, Linebaugh Track: Administration & Leadership; (Tenn.) Public Library Security & Risk Management Audiobooks are a growing portion of COOP (Continuity of Operations) is a library collections. Here is an event to cel - It's Logical! Evaluating Your Summer ebrate and learn about the creation of methodology that will ensure a high level Reading Program in Context of Your of library security as well as disaster pre - quality audiobook products from the per - paredness. The objective is to maintain a spective of authors, narrators and produc - Library's Strategic Plan library's essential functions in the face of ers who build the blocks that create great PLA LD listening experiences. This program will natural or man-made disasters and emer - Track: Administration & Leadership; focus on audiobooks for young adults and gencies. A COOP plan emphasizes the Assessment children and is cosponsored by ALSC and protection of facilities and assets, enabling How do you communicate, measure and YALSA. vital functions to take place while safe - market the success of your library’s pro - Speakers: Judy Blume, Author, Books on guarding staff and collections. The pro - grams? The answer is in your evaluation. Tape/Listening Library; Bruce Coville, gram will provide enough relevant infor - Participants will learn how to create a logic Author, Full Cast Audio; Jack Gantos, mation to establish an effective COOP model that focuses on the outcomes that plan. Author, Books on Tape/Listening Library; they hope to achieve based on the 61 Speakers: Dr. Elizabeth Titus, Director, John Green, Author, Brilliance Chicago Public Library’s success story. New Mexico State University; Curtiss Audiobooks; Mary Burkey, Moderator, Speakers: Bernadette Nowakowski, I Bartell, Executive Manager, Continuity Odyssey Award Committee Chair Director, Children & YA Services, Chicago n

Planning for the Senate; Steve Jones, Public Library; Amy Eshleman, Assistant o Word of Mouth Marketing Is i CEO, First Response Coalition Commissioner, Development & Outreach, t a

Everybody's Job Chicago Public Library; Dr. Neil Vincent, i Insurance and Tragedy: Lessons PLA LD Assistant Professor, Social Work Program, c o

Learned Track: Administration & Leadership; De Paul University, Chicago s s

LAMA LOMS Advocacy, Marketing, & Fundraising a Diplomacy 101: Dealing with Track: Administration & Leadership; Learn about the importance of word of y Security & Risk Management mouth marketing, based on the premise Difficult Customers r a

Disaster hits and your library hopes to that all of us who believe in libraries can PLA LD r help get the message across and can, by b recover and rebuild as soon as possible. Track: Human Resources & Staff i

our own enthusiasm, inspire others to use l Are you ready? What are the insurance Development

and support this unique resource. In this n basics (coverage, caveats, and documen - This program will outline ways to assess tation) every library should consider before age of dot.coms, cell phones, and road a and defuse potentially volatile situations c it’s too late? Hear real life experiences rage, caring and conviction still rule. It's i

while ensuring customer and staff safety. r time to get passionate about "selling" and lessons learned from university and It will also explore the legal ramifications e

libraries. Learn about the most powerful m school libraries as well as expert advice of banning customers, or enforcing other a preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

about their role and importance in rela - Shakespeare and Libraries: On Sat. 10:30 am-12:00 pm, continued tionships, society, and in the world. The Stage, Online, Off the Shelves annual award is administered by YALSA ACRL LES/Theatre Library Association and sponsored by School Library Journal Track: Authors, Literature & Cultural policies already vetted by the library's magazine. This event requires registration. Programming; Literature legal counsel. Speakers: Mark Willis, Please see the registration information for Prompted by the “landmark festival” Community Relations Manager, Dayton details. Shakespeare in Washington running from (Oh.) Metro Library Saturday, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm January-June 2007, the LES/TLA Program Who's In Charge? I Am?! How to will address how library resources, espe - cially those of the Folger Shakespeare Be the Person in Charge; How to BRASS Forum Library, are used to prepare for theatrical Train Your Staff to Be in Charge RUSA BRASS productions of Shakespeare's plays; how PLA LD Track: Non-Track libraries can be involved in public pro - Track: Human Resources & Staff gramming (readings/performances, lec - tures, exhibitions, blogs) pertaining to Development; Staff Training Saturday, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Shakespeare; and how this classic figure is You are the person in charge, but do you making the transition to the electronic know what to do? Staff: Learn the skills it Using Federal Documents in world. takes to be a successful person in charge. African American Historical Speakers: Georgianna Ziegler, Louis B. Managers: Learn how to increase your Thalheimer Head of Reference, Folger staff's confidence and effectiveness when Research they are the person in charge. ACRL AFAS Shakespeare Library, President, Speakers: Adrianne Peterson, Head, Track: User Services, Reference & Shakespeare Association of America; Information Services, Jefferson County Outreach; Reference Services James L. Harner, Samuel Rhea Gammon (Colo.) Public Library; Ann Bever, Assistant Reginald Washington, author and geneal - Professor of Liberal Arts,Texas A & M Manager, Dallas Public Library; Mary Jo ogy specialist at the National Archives will University, Editor, World Shakespeare Giudice, Branch Manager, Dallas Public conduct a workshop on the use of unique Bibliography Online; Aaron Posner, Library; Marcia Trent, Branch federal documents in African American Director, Two River Theater, Co-founder of Administrator, Dallas Public Library historical and genealogical research. Arden Theatre Company; Caleen Sinnette Federal records, i.e. Freedman’s Bureau, Jennings, Professor, Department of We Have the Data, Now What? U.S. Census and pension records repre - Performing Arts, American University sent a rich compilation of first-hand infor - Putting Your Collection Assessment Can Blogs Be Trusted? Data to Work mation chronicling the experience of Africans in America. Mr. Washington will ACRL LPSS RUSA CODES present key research techniques to help Track: Digital Information & Technologies Track: Collection Management & Technical librarians assist researchers using these Whether it is the controversial role war - Services; Collection Development and other federal resources in African bloggers play in supporting the war in Iraq Collection assessment initiatives can con - American historical research. or in defeating Joe Lieberman in his pri - sume vast amounts of resources, time, and Speakers: Reginald Washington, African mary, blogs have had an undeniable influ - energy; hence, library administrators American Genealogy Specialist, National ence on politics. But are blogs a reliable should seek to produce tangible results Archives and Records Administration source of information? Jason Zengerle with the data they collect. Many libraries will talk about his experience as a journal - gather assessment data, but drop the ball Gaming, Information Literacy and ist covering the blogging phenomenon. when it comes to analysis and the use of the College Student Jessamyn West, a blogging pioneer, will data to inform significant collection man - ACRL CJCLS speak on blogs from a librarian’s perspec - agement decisions. The goal of this panel Track: User Services, Reference & tive. Eric Alterman will discuss his blog discussion is to highlight successful proj - Altercation. Outreach; Information Literacy ects that have made use of collection Speakers: Jason Zengerle, Senior Editor, Can the skill acquired through mastery of 62 assessment data in significant and innova - The New Republic; Jessamyn West, tive ways. videogames be applied to students

I Systems Administrator, Metafilter.com; Speaker: Shirley Baker, Vice Chancellor for attempting to conquer a maze of library databases and research? How have video Eric Alterman, Columnist, The Nation n Information Technoloy & Dean of

o University Libraries, Washington University games shaped the way students learn and i process information and how can we use Leadership or Management: Which t in St. Louis a that understanding of these students in Is It? i

c Saturday, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm libraries? Learn how the gaming elements ACRL ULS o of urgency, complexity, learning by trial- Track: Administration & Leadership; s

s and-error, active learning, experiential Leadership & Management

a Margaret A. Edwards Luncheon $ learning, and problem-based learning Visionary leadership and able manage - y YALSA inform our goal of producing information

r ment are critical to the success of any

a Track: Non-Track literate students. organization. Given the anticipated retire - r Come listen to Lois Lowry, the winner of Speakers: George M. Needham, Vice

b ment of forty percent of the nation's librar - i the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which President, Member Services, OCLC; Paul ians in the next decade, this program l honors an author’s lifetime achievement James Gee, Tashia Morgridge Professor of addresses growing concerns about where n for writing book(s) that have been popular Reading, University of Wisconsin-Madison our next generation of leaders and man - a over a period of time. Lowry is being hon - c agers will come from and explores ways to i ored for The Giver because of its ability in

r develop future leaders and managers

e helping adolescents become aware of within the profession. The ULS Social will m themselves and addressing questions immediately follow. a preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

Speakers: Julie Todaro, Dean of Library The Original Wireless Connection: Track: Non-Track Services, Austin Community College; Involvement and networking within Susan F. Wood, PhD, will discuss the value Karen Williams, Associate University professional organizations of sound science in health care policy Librarian, University of Minnesota; decision-making, the growing politiciza - ALA DIVERSITY Moderator, Shelley Phipps, Assistant tion of science, and the importance of sci - Track: Non-Track Dean, Team Facilitation, University of entific freedom in safeguarding the public Success and effectiveness in careers and Arizona; Sheldon McCorn, Head, Access interest. Dr. Wood resigned as Assistant within professional organizations may Services, University of California, Los Commissioner for Women's Health at the depend on one’s ability to schmooze in Angeles Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the right fashion and with the right peo - August 31, 2005, in protest of the decision Teens Read! ple. Four established and highly respect - to once again delay over-the-counter sta - ed leaders in librarianship and in diversity tus to Plan B emergency contraception, AFL FOLUSA issues discuss why, when, how, and how which recently received partial approval by Track: Authors, Literature & Cultural not to network for optimal success in your the FDA. Programming career and in a way that will lead to contri - Speaker: Susan Wood, PhD Join Lisi Harrison ( The Clique Series ), butions to the profession. Sponsored by Lynda Madaras ( My Body, Myself for Girls ) the Spectrum Scholar Interest Group, Cooperation Among Libraries and authors Alyson Noel, Sherman Alexie, moderated by Shannon Jones. Within the Same Geographic and Laurie Halse Anderson for a fun and Speakers: DeEtta Jones, Diversity Trainer, fact-filled afternoon on why teen lit is so DeEtta Jones and Associates; Patty Wong, Region-Intl. Paper Session special. Deputy Director of Library Services, ALA IRRT Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Track: Non-Track Lessons From the Field: Effective Library The 2007 International Papers Program Tools for Telling Your Library's theme is "Cooperation Among Libraries Literacy Story The Need for Information Ethics Within the Same Geographic Region." Education The IRRT Papers Committee invites librari - AFL FOLUSA ans to submit papers that describe region - Track: Non-Track ALA ETHICS al library cooperative programs that The Library Literacy Assessment Platform Track: Non-Track enhance user services; improve access to (LLAP) is an online tool especially As ALA begins its review of the COA collections; serve as models for resource- designed to help libraries report on the Standards, a panel featuring members of sharing; increase efficiency in bibliograph - impact of their literacy activities. The the ALISE Information Ethics Special ic control; collaborates preservation proj - LLAP uses a standardized format for col - Interest Group (IE-SIG) and current and ects; or demonstrate application of lecting data and reporting information on former members of the ALA Committee emerging technologies. Other topics per - your literacy programs and services, adult on Professional Ethics will discuss issues taining to geographic regional coopera - learners, and funding sources. Members of for teaching, research, and service for tive programs will be considered as well. the LLAP fielding testing group will tell information ethics education. Following their stories and demonstrate how the their presentations, questions will be Information Seeking Behavior from LLAP works ‘in real life’. Sponsors: Office solicited from the audience. Childhood through College for Literacy & Outreach Services, ALA Committee on Literacy Transforming Your Library, and ALA LRRT Your Library’s Future, with Track: Research Getting What You're Worth Salary Technology Faculty members will present the results of Workshop their research into information seeking ALA GOVERNANCE behavior across the age spectrum, from ALA APA Track: Transformation & Innovations childhood to the “Tween” years and on Track: Human Resources & Staff Technology can transform your library and through college students’ mental models Development; Compensation & Benefits its services, as it is transforming the lives of information organization and their affect This interactive session will give you the of your patrons. From do-it-now technolo - on academic information seeking behav - opportunity to learn the principles of gy improvements to next-generation ior. Presented in sequence from youngest 63 salary negotiation during your interview implementations, from software to to oldest, we can attempt to discern pat - I and your promotions and engage in mock SOPACs, from in-your-face competition to terns in the evolution of this behavior and

negotiations. over-the-horizon transformations, three glimpse how childhood information seek - n o

accomplished experts will instruct, enlight - ing habits impact upon this same behavior i

Learning When There's No Time en and challenge you to use technology to in college students. t a

(or Money to Learn) make your library more relevant to your Speakers: Lynn McKechnie, Associate i patrons -- today and tomorrow. Professor, University of Western Ontario; c ALA CLENERT o Speakers: Alan Kirk Gray, co-Chair, Darien Beverly Cleary, Visiting Professor, s

Track: Human Resources & Staff s

(CT) Library; John Blyberg, co-Chair, Ann a Development; Staff Training University of Washington - Information Arbor District Library, MI; Lori Ayre, The Are you running out of ideas for ways to School; Melissa Gross, Associate y Galecia Group; Casey Bisson, Plymouth Professor, Florida State University - r

keep your staff current, up-to-date, and a

informed when time and money are limit - State University, NY; Roy Tennant, College of Information; Karen E. Fisher, r California Digital Library b ed? If you’re experiencing shrinking budg - Professor & Chair, University of i ets, information overload, complex tech - Washington - Information School; Lynn l

nologies and fast-paced change, you’re Scientific & Health Information: Westbrook, Assistant Professor, University n The Threat Posed by Political of Texas at Austin - School of Information a

not alone. Don’t be frustrated! Instead, c meet your training challenge with excite - i

Interference r

ment, a fresh perspective and a renewed e ALA IFRT purpose. m a preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

lar reading genre of urban and suburban working and casual conversation. Sat., 1:30-3:30 pm, continued teens (but often unpopular with librarians) as a means to teach teens how to critically Mentoring for Success: You Can Do analyze what they read and how the nov - It. ALCTS Can Help NMRT President's Program: els relate to their daily lives. ALCTS Navigating the Rapids: Myths and Tuning in on Rural, Native, Tribal Track: Human Resources & Staff Realities of Intergenerational Libraries of All Kinds: A Town Hall Development; Career Paths & Professional Workplaces Development Meeting ALA NMRT Most library mentoring programs have more mentees than mentors. How best to Track: Human Resources & Staff ALA OLOS close this gap? This program will show Development Track: User Services, Reference & that you already have many of the skills, Pat Wagner of Pattern Research will Outreach; Outreach to Target Populations knowledge, and experience to be a men - conduct a concensus-building presenta - tor. Gain confidence to share your knowl - tion and discussion of "intergenerational" Creating Advocacy Leaders: An edge with others in a mentor-mentee rela - workplaces. (Gen X, Gen Y, Baby Advocacy Institute Leadership tionship. Find out about the roles of men - Boomers, etc.) Program tors and mentees, characteristics of a Speaker: Pat Wagner, Pattern ALA PIO good mentor, elements of a successful Research, Inc. Track: Administration & Leadership; mentoring program, and how to begin Rural and Small Libraries vs. Small Advocacy, Marketing, & Fundraising mentoring. How do you advocate for your library? Speakers: Shoshana Kaufmann, Associate Salaries Whether you're a community organizer, Library Director, Benjamin Rosenthal ALA OLOS networker, web master or an advocacy Library, Queens College, Flushing, NY; Track: Administration & Leadership presenter, your expertise is crucial to the Priscilla Williams, Chair, CETRC Mentoring Salaries for librarians working in rural areas work of library advocacy. This two-hour Subcommittee; Moderator: Rhonda have been historically far below their session will help you refine your skills, Marker, Rutgers University Libraries, New urban counterparts. How can small and build or strengthen coalitions back at Brunswick, NJ rural libraries make their salaries more home, and transform you into a library competitive in order to attract qualified advocacy leader. New Developments in Form/Genre people to their job openings? Our Panel Access: where we are, where are we Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will discuss where salaries now stand and heading, and where we want to be how some libraries are addressing the Holiday Multicultural Idea issue. MODERATOR: Carol Barta, Exchange ALCTS CCS Assistant Director, North Central Kansas Track: Collection Management & Technical ALA SRRT Libraries System, and Chair, ALA Services; Cataloging & Metadata Track: Authors, Literature & Cultural Committee on Rural, Native and Tribal Many Library of Congress Subject Programming; Cultural Diversity Libraries of All Kinds PANELISTS: Jenifer Headings represent what materials are Lyn Miller-Lachman, award winning author Grady, director ALA-APA; Judy Rule, rather than what they are about, especially and editor of the "MultiCultural Review" director Cabell County (WV) Public in the areas of literature, film, music, and will be the moderator for a panel of repre - Library; and Amy Grasmick, director, cartographic resources. Authority records sentatives from public,academic, and Kimball Public Library, Randolph, VT. Co- for form/genre terms and use of the school libraries. The panelists will provide MARC 21 655 field provide new opportuni - Sponsored by: ALA Office for Literacy & highlights of acclaimed activities to ties for access to form headings in the Outreach Services; ALA Rural, Native and observe the 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King, library catalog. The program will intro - Tribal Libraries of All Kinds Committee; Jr. Holiday with emphasis on library efforts duce general form/genre issues and ALA-Allied Professional Association. that "Keep the Dream Alive." explore how libraries and patrons are How to Engage New Learners @ managing and using form/genre terms. SRRT-FTF: Introduction to Speakers: Adam Schiff, Principal 64 Your Library Women’s Issues at ALA, “I’m not a Cataloger, University of Washington;

I ALA OLOS feminist,” Geraldine Ostrove, Cataloging Policy and Track: User Services, Reference & Support Office, Library of Congress n ALA SRRT/ACRL WSS

o Outreach; Information Literacy i Track: Non-Track Digital Asset Management: t Demonstration of three models of innova - Have you ever thought or said, "I'm not a a tive ways that libraries can use to interest i feminist, but.."? If so, how you finished Implications for Preservation

c non-traditional adult and young adult that sentence could inform the develop - ALCTS PARS o learners: Writing Your Story: Author s ment of agenda in SRRT Feminist Task Track: Digital Information & Technologies s Gretchen Laskas ( The Midwife's Tale ) will Force (FTF), Committee on the Status of a Preservation decisions about digital files demonstrate a technique that opens peo - Women in Librarianship (COSWL), ACRL’s

y need to be made at the time of file cre - ple's eyes to their own unique and special r Women's Studies Section (WSS) or the ation, unlike traditional approaches to pre - a way of seeing the world around them. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Round

r serving print materials (repairing, micro - "Read and Write Around Florida," an b Table (GLBTRT). Representatives from filming, photocopying), which can address i adaptation of the traditional book discus -

l these and other groups will be there to preservation concerns well into the materi - sion program, uses short stories and an learn from you what the issues are and

n al’s lifespan. This program will explore online writing tool based on Florida's liter - a they will be able to tell you about the ways of addressing these concerns when c ature and culture. Street Lit Discussion opportunities to participate in their current i an institution begins a digital reformatting Groups: Vanessa Morris, former teen r work. The first hour will be the program, program. It will examine program manage - e librarian at the Free Library of the second hour will be set aside for net - ment (including selection, reformatting m Philadelphia, will show how to use a popu - a preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

quality guidelines, and metadata) and dren create their own Readers Theatre The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries innovative approaches to archiving digital performances. A panel discussion will Innovate? masters. address questions about this highly suc - LITA Speakers: Janet Gertz, Director for cessful read-aloud experience that expos - Track: Transformation & Innovations Preservation, Columbia University; Robin es children to good books and provides a Libraries did not invent Google Book Wendler, Metadata Analyst, Office for means for becoming more deeply Search, Library Think, Facebook, or any Information Systems, Harvard University; involved with and personally responsive to other innovation critical to the new infor - Joseph JaJa, Professor: Electrical and quality literature. Speakers: David Almond, Author, Random mation era/knowledge economy. We Computer Engineering, Institute for make use of these inventions. But is that House; Cornelia Funke, Author, Scholastic; Advanced Computer Studies, University of enough? What prevents us from being Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author, Hyperion; Maryland more inventive? Join four thought-provok - Tim Wynne-Jones, Author, Farrar Straus & ing speakers for a debate on these ques - Making E-Resource Infrastructure Giroux; Elizabeth Poe, Children's/Young tions and a search for answers. Work: Effective Metadata Exchange Adult Literature Specialist Speakers: Roy Tennant, California Digital & Exposure ALTA's President's Program: From Library; Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix; Joseph Janes, University of Washignton; ALCTS SS Advocate to Player: Trustees Karen Schneider, Florida State university Track: Collection Management & Technical Transforming LIbraies Services; Cataloging & Metadata The Literature of Ideas In a few short years, we have built and ALTA now rely on an e-resources access infra - Track: Administration & Leadership; Trustee LITA structure largely based on the invention of Does your library sit at community deci - Track: Non-Track the OpenURL, DOIs, and data exchange sion-making tables or wait underneath for Three distinguished science fiction and and harvesting. This infrastructure is both crumbs to fall off? Veteran trustees and fantasy authors will discuss the visonary robust and fragile, and is dependent on authors Ellen G. Miller and Patricia H. nature of their craft, how speculative litera - the cooperation of many players to make Fisher discuss going from advocate to ture suggests new ideas and technologies, it work seamlessly. Experts from libraries, community player. It starts by understand - and the possible impacts these develop - publishing, database production, system ing the six major community tables. Find ments could have on society in the future. providers and search engine providers will out why economic development is a major The discussion will be followed by a short discuss the multiple facets of this infra - factor. Participants will work in pairs to meeting for Imagineering Interest Group structure. plan how to position your library as a members and those interested in joining. Moderator: Gary Ives, Texas A&M community player. University; Trisha Davis, Ohio State Speakers: Ellen Miller, Consultant, Ellen Programming Not Just for University Miller Group; Patricia Fisher, Consultant & Boomers: Programming and Author, P. Fisher & Associates; Rose Services Libraries + Lobbying = Success Mosley, Moderator PLA LS/ALA OLOS ALSC Track: Authors, Literature & Cultural Track: Administration & Leadership; Why is this Dog in my Library? Federal Resources for Public Programming Advocacy, Marketing, & Fundraising This program will overview successful col - Lobbying = the ability to try to influence Libraries laborative learning adventures, services the thinking of legislators or other public ASCLA and general programs from public libraries officials in support of a specific cause. Track: Administration & Leadership across the country for two often neglected Learn how you can advocate for A panel of representatives of federal age groups--adults 20 to 40 and those 70 children/youth services in your library. A agencies available nation-wide by tele - and above. Presenters will cover program panel of experts will share three different phone and email to answer questions design, marketing, and evaluative tech - perspectives on the value of lobbying. regarding accessbility and reasonable niques. Adults are pursuing education to Speakers: Kathleen Reif, Director, St. accommodation for applicants, employ - advance their careers or for general knowl - Mary's County Library, Leonardtown, MD; edge and libraries can provide a support - ees, patrons of library facilities, programs 65 Maria Salvadore, , Salvadore Consulting, and services. ive environment and foster learning for

Washington, D.C.; Emily Sheketoff, these age groups. Cosponsored by OLOS I Associate Executive Director, Washington RFID In Libraries: New and RUSA. n

Office, American Library Association; Developments Speakers: Allan Kleinman, Assistant o Bessie Condos, Library Facilities Director, Old Bridge (N.J.) Public Library; i LITA t Consultant, California State Library, Rita Rouse, a Track: Digital Information & Technologies i Sacramento, CA Programming/Communications Director, c

This program will provide insight into new o Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg developments in library RFID technology, s Nurturing a Love of Books Through County (N.C.); Marshall Shore, Adult s

from theory to practice. The speakers will a Readers Theatre Services Coordinator, Maricopa County

represent viewpoints from an RFID stan - y

ALSC/YALSA dards committee, an RFID hardware manu - (Ariz.) Library District r a

Track: Children & Young Adults; Programs r facturer, a library RFID vendor, and a pub - Roadmap to Targeted Marketing: & Services lic library. Join us to hear about inventory b i

Four Prominent Children's/Young Adult control, standards, hardware and more! Collections, Campaigns and l

authors will give a Readers Theatre per - Speakers: Brian Green, EDITEUR/ISBN, Customers n formance using scripts they have devel - UK; Melanie Rieback, Vrije Universiteit, a

PLA IC c oped from each other's work. Amsterdam; Vinod Chachra, VTLS; Track: Research i Children's/YA literature specialist Elizabeth r Douglas M. Karp, TagSys; Vicki Terbovich, Library managers are mandated to identify e

Poe will share ways librarians can help chil - m Maricopa County Public Library customer markets, which is an essential a preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

Electronic Databases - Training Saturday, 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Sat., 1:30-3:30 pm, continued That Works RUSA MARS AASL 101 Track: Non-Track AASL process for cost-effectively delivering tar - As libraries offer more and more online Track: Non-Track geted programs and services. This pro - databases to their patrons, how do we Learn from experienced Association of gram introduces demographic resources insure that librarians are trained to use and School Librarians (AASL) members on how which can be used in combination with instruct patrons in their use? Our panel to navigate Annual Conference, and learn library use statistics to successfully facili - members will describe their staff training about how AASL membership will tate target marketing. programs and answer questions from the enhance your career, connect you with Speakers: Christie Koontz, Director, audience. Attendees are encouraged to resources for your library, and provide you GeoLib, Florida State University, share samples of their own training materi - with excellent CE opportunities. First time Tallahassee; Raymond Santiago, Director, als at our Swap & Shop. attendees and prospective members will Miami-Dade Public Library System; Susan Speakers: Marty Onieal, Adult Services are invited to attend and long time mem - Waxter, Planning & Evaluation Coordinator, Broward County Library; bers are welcome at this great networking Coordinator, Baltimore County (Md.) Margaret Mohundro, Director of INSPIRE, opportunity. Public Library; Bob Molyneux, SIRSI Dynix INCOLSA; Howard Trace, INSPIRE librari - Saturday, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Cooperative Monographic an, INCOLSA Collection Development - Recent Saturday, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm 2007 Diversity and Outreach Fair Trends ALA OLOS RUSA CODES Empowering Data: Persuasion Track: Non-Track Track: Collection Management & Technical Through Presentation Saturday, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Services; Collection Development ACRL EBSS Libraries have a long, but only moderately Track: Research successful, history of attempts at coopera - Libraries and other organizations collect The Google Five Libraries: Two tive collection development of mono - data to inform decision making, document Years, Six Months, and Seven Days graphs. With a record of success in shar - effectiveness, and justify funding. This pro - ing access to electronic resources, and in the Life of Google Library gram focuses on ways to effectively use Project with improved technology for discovery data for these purposes and Library and delivery of print resources, combined research. Members of the panel will dis - LITA with ever shrinking budgets, now may be cuss guiding principles (with examples) for Track: Non-Track the time for success in these ventures. understanding your audience, as well as The landscape of mass digitization and This program will present the experiences selecting and presenting empowered digital library initiatives has undergone of five groups of libraries in sharing mono - data. This 2-hour program will be preced - seismic shifts since the first announcement graphic collection responsibilities. ed by the Distinguished EBSS Librarian of the Google Library Project rattled the Speakers: Michael Levine-Clark, Award Ceremony (10-minutes) and fol - library world in December of 2004. This Collections Librarian; Julia Gammon, lowed at 3:30 by the EBSS Research program will bring the project managers Head, Acquisitions Department, University Forum. back from Google and the original library of Akron; Ewa Elizabeth Barczyk, Interim partners for a discussion about how the Director, University of Wisconsin- Teen Graphic Novels: Maintaining project has developed, the new questions Milwaukee Libraries; Eric Pumroy, Director Your Collection for Maximum and posibilities it has opened, the criti - of Library Collections, Seymour Adelman Impact! cisms it has weathered, and the future of Head of Special Collection; Kathryn mass digitization in libraries. Crowe, Interim Associate Director, PLA LS/YALSA Speakers: Adam Smith, Google Inc; John University Libraries, UNC Greensboro; Track: Children & Young Adults Price, University of Michigan; Catherine Susi Seiler, Head of Technical Services, Graphic novel collections have become Tierney, Stanford University; Dale Flecker, 66 Alvin Sherman Library, Research and established fixtures of most teen sections Harvard University Library; John Balow, of public libraries. What can librarians do I Information Technology Center New York Public Library; Ronald Milne, to keep collections contemporary, attrac - Bodleian Library n Electronic Resources: Training that tive, and popular? Panelists will give their o i Works thoughts on selection, withdrawal, space Saturday, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm t allocation, budget, series and more. The a

i RUSA MARS second half of the program will celebrate

c ACRL/SPARC Forum Track: User Services, Reference & the premier list of YALSA's Great Graphic o

s Outreach; Best Practices Novels for Teens. Committee members ACRL s As libraries offer more and more online will booktalk titles from the list. Track: Non-Track a databases to their patrons, how do we Speakers: Todd Krueger, Collection Through its standing Scholarly y

r insure that librarians are trained to use and Development Librarian, Baltimore County Communication Committee, ACRL spon - a instruct patrons in their use? Our panel (Md.) Public Library; Robin Brenner, Teen sors a regular forum at both the midwinter r

b members will describe their training pro - Librarian, Brookline (Mass.) Public Library; and annual conference to broaden the i base of academic librarians who are l grams and answer questions from the Michael Pawuk, Teen Services Librarian, audience. Attendees are encouraged to knowledgeable about and engaged in

n Cuyahoga County (Oh.) Public Library;

a share their own training materials with the Angela Reynolds, Children's and YA scholarly communication issues. The high - c group at the Swap & Shop table. ly-popular forum series is co-sponsored by i Librarian, Annapolis Valley (N.S.) Regional

r the Scholarly Publishing and Academic

e Library Resources Coalition (SPARC). The topic m

a and speakers are chosen in the spring preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

based on issues that are most relevant at or education professor(s) to conduct inno - Librarian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln the time. vative research aimed at meausring and Libraries; Charity Martin, Cataloging evaluating the impact of school library Librarian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Saturday, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm media programs on learning and educa - Libraries tion. The 2006 recipient, Judith Dzikowski Promoting Diversity through Young will present her project. NMRT Annual Program: Using Past Adult Literature Lives to Launch Your Library Global Collaborative Learning AASL Career through Video Conference Track: Authors, Literature & Cultural ALA NMRT Programming; Cultural Diversity AASL ISS Track: Human Resources & Staff Sharing quality young adult literature that - Track: Children & Young Adults; Best Development; Career Paths & Professional contains diversity can give teens a broader Practices and Model Programming Development view of the world while enjoying dynamic Learn how to use video conferencing and Program will consist of a panel of speakers characters and exciting plots. virtual presentation software to foster col - who will explain how their previous careers Collaboration between librarians and laborative educational initiatives among have helped them in their work as librari - teachers, whether in public libraries or schools at both the domestic and interna - ans. schools, can encourage creative activities tional levels. Sidwell Friends School uses that will extend literature and provide the "Virtual Collaboratory," an integrated Finding Environmental authentic learning. Class discussion may suite of Internet-based software applica - Information in the New focus on such topics as identifying tions that provides for both synchronous themes, making connections, comparing (live) and asynchronous (written or record - Millennium: Continuing the and contrasting experiences, or taking a ed) exchanges. Examples of applications Dialogu e look at history or geography. include collaborative student-based proj - ALA SRRT ects between the US and China, web- Track: User Services, Reference & Using Creative Drama to Develop based "pen pals," educational games and Outreach Literacy and Pre-literacy Skills quiz bowls, and faculty professional devel - In the past year there has been much talk opment. AASL and discussion about access to environ - Speakers: Pat Moser, Upper School Head mental information. Much of the contro - Track: Children & Young Adults; Best Librarian & Director of Information Practices and Model Programming versy stems from the restructuring of the Services, Sidwell Friends School; Joe Environmental Protection Agency’s Drama focuses and motivates young learn - Perpich, President, JGPerpich, LLC; ers. This hands-on workshop shares sim - National Library Network, which has seen Melanie Leitner, Program Officer, ple techniques for using drama with K-2 the closing of five of its units in response JGPerpich, LLC; Jon Zeljo, Director, students. Warmup exercises, an to a $2 million cut in its fiscal year 2007 Chinese Studies and Global Initiatives exploratory storytime reading, and strate - budget (about an 80 percent reduction). The EPA stopped further library closing gies for drama in the round can harness Charting Courses: Diversity young students' natural kinesthetic energy and engaged in a lengthy and frank dis - for a deeper and more meaningful explo - Research Grants cussion of its actions in 2006 with regard to its libraries. Various speakers represent - ration of literature. These methods devel - ALA DIVERSITY ing different perspectives on this issue, op literacy and pre-literacy skills such as Track: Non-Track including speakers from the Public predication, sequencing, and cause and 2006 Diversity Research Grant Recipients Employees for Environmental effect. Core text: The Mitten . share findings. Join us for these discus - Responsibility, the EPA Library Users com - sions: the results of "Analysis and munity, and the EPA Office of Utilizing Learning Theory in Adaptation of 'Earphone English': A Public Environmental Information will continue Online Environments Library Program for Limited English this dialogue on access to environmental Proficient Youth"; the project "End-User AASL information. Track: Digital Information & Technologies Searching: Comparing ESL Students and 67 This program will show how use of learn - Native English Students," examining the Picture Books for Older Readers I ing theories and their accompanying searching habits of students with English as a second language compared to native ALSC strategies can help provide targeted, per - Track: Children & Young Adults; Literature n English-speaking students; and how insti - o

sonalized service to library users in online i tutional change at Randall Library (UNC- & Collection Development environments. Librarians who provide vir - t Wilmington) was measured by assessing The picture book has seen an influx of a tual Q/A, perform IM reference, use blogs i innovation during the past few decades. or forums, or who want to teach in 3-D vir - the impact that the library diversity com - c mittee and diversity programming have on Within a few short years traditional bound - o tual worlds like Second Life will learn how s

aries have not merely blurred but have s to differentiate instruction in these online the library staff. These award-winning exploded in multiple directions. The a environments to maximize user knowl - researchers will be joined by the 2007 Achievement in Diversity Honoree. sophistication now evident in many picture y

edge, understanding, and independence. r books (in writing, illustration, and format) Speakers: Timnah Card, Doctoral Student, a

GSLIS University of Illinois at Urbana- makes their use ideal for older readers. r

AASL Highsmith Research Award b

Champaign; Liza Palmer, Creative and Sharon McQueen provides a brief historic i

Forum l Fine Arts Librarian, University of North overview of the picture books for older AASL Carolina Wilmington; Anne Pemberton, readers genre. From there she explores n Track: Issues & Updates exciting new titles and takes a fresh look a Coordinator of Instructional Services, c The AASL/Highsmith Research Grant is at those that have already become i University of North Carolina Wilmington; r

favorites. An extensive bibliography will be e awarded annually to one or more school Jolie Ogg Graybill, Multicultural Services library media specialists, library provided. Speakers: Sharon McQueen, m

Librarian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln a Asst. Professor, University of Kentucky educator(s), or library information science Libraries; Charlene Maxey-Harris, Diversity preliminary program annual conference & exhibition 2007 I

Evergreen software development project Saturday, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Sat., 4:00-5:30 pm, continued is creating much interest in the library community. Pines Libraries began using Stories for a Saturday Evening the software in late 2006. PINES staff will ALSC discuss various aspects of the Evergreen Track: Non-Track Trit Trot to Washington: The Whys project. An overview of the University of Rochester extensible catalog project will Take a break from the hectic days and and Hows of Using Rhymes, Songs, nights of programs, exhibits, and meet - Books and Games in Early Literacy also be presented during the session. Speakers: Brad LaJeunesse, PINES ings. Kick off your shoes, settle back, and join us for an evening of storytelling that Programs for Babies and Toddlers Project; Jennifer Bowen, University of will amaze, amuse and enchant you. This ALSC Rochester may just be the highlight of your trip to Track: Children & Young Adults; Programs D.C.! & Services LITA 101: LITA Open House Speakers: Dr. Wajuppa Tossa, Thai story - This lively panel of children's librarians will LITA teller; David Novak, Storyteller; Additional share their creative strategies to serving Track: Non-Track storyteller to be announced babies, toddlers and parents in diverse LITA Open House is a great opportunity communities. Learn about different but for current and prospective members to equally excellent library programs that Sunday, 7:00 am - 9:00 am talk with Library and Information meet the developmental needs of babies Technology Association (LITA) leaders and and toddlers. Find something that fits FTF Amelia Bloomer Project learn how to make connections and your library and sing along as we share the become more involved in LITA activities. Breakfast:- Who Needs Feminist magic of rhymes, songs, books and games Attendees will get a chance to hear from Books? $ for babies and toddlers! LITA President Speakers: Tess Prendergast, Children's ALA SRRT Speakers: Bonnie Postlethwaite, LITA Librarian, Vancouver Public Library; Jane Track: Non-Track President; Scott Muir, Committee Chair; Cobb, Mother Goose Coordinator, Join the Amelia Bloomer Project of the Matthew Calsada, Interest Group Chair; Vancouver Public Library; Kathryn Lee, Feminist Task Force for a breakfast presen - Pat Ensor, Membeship Development Children's Librarian, Burnaby Public tation looking at literature for children and Committee Library; Betsy Diamant-Cohen, Children's teens through the lens of feminism. This event requires registration ($25). Please Programming Specialist, Enoch Pratt Free Alex Award Winners 2007 see the registration information for details. Library YALSA New Technical Services Supervisor? Track: Children & Young Adults; Literature Sunday, 7:30 am - 8:30 am Check Here for Help & Collection Development The 2007 Alex Award winners--what they Networking Breakfast LAMA SASS are and how to booktalk them to young ALA APA Track: Collection Management & Technical adults--are highlighted in this panel pres - Track: Non-Track Services entation. The 2007 Alex Awards were The winner of the SirsiDynix-ALA-APA Are you a first-time technical services given to the following 10 adult titles that Award for Promoting Salaries will be hon - supervisor and feeling a bit overwhelmed? have appeal to young adults: John ored at this breakfast. It is also an oppor - Whether you are new to the profession or Connolly for “The Book of Lost Things”; tunity to network with colleagues who are new to the management of technical serv - Ivan Doig for “The Whistling Season”; interested in unions. ices operations, checklists are helpful Michae D'Orso for “Eagle Blue: A Team, A tools. This session will examine how a Tribe, and A High School Basketball Sunday, 8:00 am - 10:00 am first-time technical services supervisor Season in Arctic Alaska”; Sara Gruen for effectively employs checklists in order to “Water for Elephants”; Pamela Carter Awards Breakfast & Membership manage operations. The session coin - Joern for “Floor of the Sky”; John cides with the summer 2007 LAMA publi - Hamamura for “Color of the Sea”; Michael Meeting 68 cation entitled "New Technical Services Lewis for “The Blind Side: Evolution of a ACRL CJCLS Supervisors: A Guide Using Checklists." Game”; David Mitchell for “ Black Swan Track: Non-Track I Speakers: Nancy Myers, Director, Green”; Ron Rash for “The World Made Annual CJCLS-EBSCO Awards Breakfast

n Beresford School District; Lila (Angie) Straight”; and Diane Setterfield for “The and Membership Meeting. o Ohler, Acquisitions Librarian, University of Thirteenth Tale". i

t Oklahoma; Joan Giesecke, Dean of Transforming Your Staff a

i Saturday, 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ALA GOVERNANCE c

o Track: Transformation & Innovations

s The Open ILS: PINES, the Marta Lange / CQ Press Award

s What makes a library great? How can you

a Evergreen Open-ILS Program & Reception hire and motivate staff to provide flexible,

y The University of Rochester ACRL LPSS responsive, innovative, transformational r services? What can you do about those a Extensible Catalog Project Track: Non-Track r The Law and Political Science Section of who don’t? Come and learn from those b LITA i ACRL, under CQ Press's sponsorship, will who’ve succeeded. l Track: Administration & Leadership; New Speakers: Jennifer Morris, Chair, Pioneer Models for Collaboration honor an outstanding librarian in law/polit - n ical science librarianship. Registration is Library System, NY; Pam Sandlian Smith, a Georgia's PINES program has embarked West Palm Beach Public Library; Tom c required to attend the reception. i on a project to design & implement an Galante, Queens Public Library; Maureen r open source integrated library system for

e Sullivan, Consultant; Stanley Wilder, the use of its 252 public libraries. The m University of Rochester a