TexasLibraryJournal volume 92, number 4 • winter 2016

TLA 2017 Conference Edition speakers | programs | events registration details YOUR Profession CURIOSITY • PASSION • INNOVATION April 19-22 San Antonio

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Keeping Up with a Changing Profession, Advocacy Made Simple, Bring a Teacher to TLA, and More Invites You to Meet Our Authors at TLA! TLA 2017 • San Antonio, TX • April 19–22 Stop by the Random House Children’s Books Booth, #2507, to meet our authors and illustrators, pick up promotional materials and advance reader’s copies of our most exciting titles, and meet our staff!

THURSDAY, APRIL 20

JENNIFER NIVEN CHRISTIAN ROBINSON KIERSTEN WHITE Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00–3:00 p.m. Signing: 3:00–4:00 p.m. Don’t miss Jennifer at the YART: Learning to Let Go: Don’t miss Christian at the Ultimate Children’s Don’t miss Kiersten’s YART panel, Working Through Grief in YA Literature Program on Picture Book Illustrators Sketch-Off on Stories That Make You Say Hmm: Wednesday, April 19, at 2:45 p.m.! Thursday, April 20, at 4:15 p.m.! Alternative Historical Fiction in YA on Thursday, April 20, at 1:45 p.m.!

FRIDAY, APRIL 21ST

SUSIN NIELSEN JEFF ZENTNER KARA THOMAS Signing: 10:00–11:00 a.m. Signing: 10:00–11:00 a.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Don’t miss Susin on the YART: Lone Star Reading List Don’t miss Jeff on the YART: TAYSHAS Reading List Author Don’t miss Kara on the YART Panel Chilling Tales to Keep Author Panel on Friday, April 21, at 8:30 a.m.! Panel on Saturday, April 22, at 9:15 a.m.! You Up at Night: YA Horror and Dark Fantasy on Thursday, April 20, at 3:00 p.m.! Photo credits: Jennifer Niven © Louis Kapeleris; Christian Robinson© Robinson; Photo credits: Photography; Jeff Zentner © Jamie Hernandez; Tallulah White © Blue Lily; Susin Nieslen Kiersten MacHale © Gayle Goodrich; © Sonya Sones; D.J. Yoon Thomas © James Shaw; Nicola Kara Andrew Clements © George

The Losers Club by Andrew Clements Coming in October COVER NOT 2017! FINAL

NICOLA YOON MONICA BROWN D. J. MACHALE ANDREW CLEMENTS Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Signing: 12:00–1:00 p.m. Signing: 1:00–2:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00–3:00 p.m. Don’t miss Nicola on the YART: TAYSHAS Reading List Don’t miss D.J. on the Middle Grade Greats panel on Don’t miss Andrew on the Middle Grade Greats panel on Author Panel on Saturday, April 22, at 9:15 a.m.! Friday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m.! Friday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m.! Art copyright © 2016 Dominique Falla

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TLA_2017_ProgramAd_6P.indd 1 12/13/16 9:43 AM TEXAS LIBRARY JOURNAL Conference Edition contents Volume 92, No 4 Winter 2016 Published by the TEXAS LIBRARY Invites You to Meet Our Authors at TLA! ASSOCIATION President’s Perspective: Ignite Your Passion...... Walter Betts...... 2 A Note from the Editor...... Wendy Woodland...... 4 TLA 2017 • San Antonio, TX • April 19–22 Guest Editorial: Own Who We Are...... Gloria Meraz...... 6 Membership in TLA is open to any Owning Your Profession in a Changing Industry Stop by the Random House Children’s Books Booth, #2507, to meet our authors and illustrators, pick up individual or institution interested promotional materials and advance reader’s copies of our most exciting titles, and meet our staff! in Texas libraries. What Is Your Clarion Call?...... Lorraine J. Haricombe...... 8 Talents, Not Titles, Define Opportunity...... Andrew Dillon..... 10 To find out more about TLA, order TLA THURSDAY, APRIL 20 publications, or place advertising in Demonstrating the Value of Libraries: Texas Library Journal, write to Advocacy Made Simple...... Jennifer D. LaBoon & Rebecca Sullivan..... 12 Texas Library Association If You Take a Teacher to TLA...... Kathleen Cady & Linda Erwin..... 14 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401 Newsnotes...... 16 Austin, Texas 78746-6763; call 1-800-580-2TLA (2852); or visit 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE our website at www.txla.org. JENNIFER NIVEN CHRISTIAN ROBINSON KIERSTEN WHITE CURIOSITY Signing: 2:00–3:00 p.m. Signing: 3:00–4:00 p.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. A directory of TLA membership is PASSION Don’t miss Jennifer at the YART: Learning to Let Go: Don’t miss Christian at the Ultimate Children’s Don’t miss Kiersten’s YART panel, Working Through Grief in YA Literature Program on Picture Book Illustrators Sketch-Off on Stories That Make You Say Hmm: available in the “Members Only” section Thursday, April 20, at 4:15 p.m.! Wednesday, April 19, at 2:45 p.m.! Alternative Historical Fiction in YA on of the website. Thursday, April 20, at 1:45 p.m.! wnYourProfession Opinions expressed in Texas Library O FRIDAY, APRIL 21ST Journal are those of the authors and are texas library association not necessarily endorsed by TLA. INNOVATION 2017 annual conference Corporate Sponsors...... 18 Featured Speakers...... 19 Journal Staff Programs by Topic...... 23 Exhibiting Companies...... 30

SUSIN NIELSEN JEFF ZENTNER KARA THOMAS Editor...... Wendy Woodland SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Signing: 10:00–11:00 a.m. Signing: 10:00–11:00 a.m. Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Preconferences (Wednesday)...... 32 Assistant Editor...... Sara Ortiz Don’t miss Susin on the YART: Lone Star Reading List Don’t miss Jeff on the YART: TAYSHAS Reading List Author Don’t miss Kara on the YART Panel Chilling Tales to Keep Tech Camp (Wednesday)...... 33 Author Panel on Friday, April 21, at 8:30 a.m.! Panel on Saturday, April 22, at 9:15 a.m.! You Up at Night: YA Horror and Dark Fantasy on Thursday, April 20, at 3:00 p.m.! Layout/Graphics.. Mary Ann Emerson Wednesday, April 19...... 36 Photo credits: Jennifer Niven © Louis Kapeleris; Christian Robinson© Robinson; Photo credits: Photography; Jeff Zentner © Jamie Hernandez; Tallulah White © Blue Lily; Susin Nieslen Kiersten MacHale © Gayle Goodrich; © Sonya Sones; D.J. Yoon Thomas © James Shaw; Nicola Kara Andrew Clements © George Advertising Mgr...... Kasey Hyde Thursday, April 20...... 41 Friday, April 21...... 52 The Losers Club Printer...... Capital Printing Saturday, April 22...... 64 by Andrew Clements Coming Index of Events, Speakers, & Sponsoring Units...... 68 in October COVER NOT 2017! FINAL © Texas Library Association FORMS & Instructions Hands on Labs Schedule...... 71 NICOLA YOON MONICA BROWN D. J. MACHALE ANDREW CLEMENTS Texas Library Journal (ISSN 0040-4446) is Signing: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Signing: 12:00–1:00 p.m. Signing: 1:00–2:00 p.m. Signing: 2:00–3:00 p.m. published quarterly in spring, summer, fall, and Conference Preregistration Form...... 73 Don’t miss Nicola on the YART: TAYSHAS Reading List Don’t miss D.J. on the Middle Grade Greats panel on Don’t miss Andrew on the Middle Grade Greats panel on winter by the Texas Library Association, 3355 TLA Membership Form...... 75 Author Panel on Saturday, April 22, at 9:15 a.m.! Friday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m.! Friday, April 21, at 11:00 a.m.! Bee Cave Road, Suite 401, Austin, Texas 78746- Conference Committees...... Inside Back Cover 6763. Periodicals Postage Paid at Austin, Texas. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Texas Art copyright © 2016 Dominique Falla Library Journal, 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401, CORRECTION: The list of authors of the Discovery & Making in the Library: Two Specialized Spaces in Austin Follow Us on Social Media! Austin, Texas 78746-6763. Subscription price: to Community College Libraries article which ran in the Texas Library Journal fall 2016 issue was not complete. members of TLA, 94 cents, included in annual We apologize for the mistake. The article was authored by the following Austin Community College librarians: Visit RHTeachersLibrarians.com, your online destination @RHCBEducators @TheRandomSchoolHouse dues; to nonmembers, $25 per year for domestic, Ashley Carr, faculty librarian; Molly Dahlstrom Ledbetter, faculty librarian; Carrie Gits, head librarian; Melinda for all the resources you need for your school or library! $30 out-of-country. Single issues: $7. Townsel, head librarian; and Betsy Young, faculty librarian.

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TLA_2017_ProgramAd_6P.indd 1 12/13/16 9:43 AM President’s Perspective by Walter Betts

excites you.” You often see passion defined MEET our penguin IGNITE YOUR PASSION as a powerful feeling of love, hate, anger, Like many librarians, my path to or sexual attraction. Within the context librarianship as a profession was rather of librarianship, I like to define passion circuitous. I developed a love for reading as intense enthusiasm. It is the fire you as a child; and as a graduate student in see in a librarian’s eyes when you mention music theory, I gained appreciation and issues such as equity of access, censorship, respect for the support libraries gave to or relevance in a technological age. It Come by theSTAR Author Signing Aisle to get a FREE book S signed! by the academic process. My decision to is the pride we all feel when we hear of one of your favorite authors. pursue a career as a librarian was a rather the actions of librarians in Ferguson and practical one. Libraries were hiring, my Baltimore on behalf of their communities, Thu. 4/20 job prospects were dismal, and I was and it is the satisfaction we experience newly married – to a librarian’s daughter. when we realize our work matters. I soon found myself in library school. “To play a wrong note is insignificant; to As a newly-minted librarian equipped play without passion is inexcusable.” This wed. with a shiny MLS, passion was not quotation, attributed to Beethoven, gets For the first time, the TLA Executive 4/19 something I associated with my chosen to the gist of the issue: without passion, Board itself will sponsor a program. We career. Yes, there were glimpses of passion librarianship is just a job. When you are Need to Talk: Hosting Civil Discussions on in a few classes: I will never forget Dr. consumed with enthusiasm and dedicate Controversial Topics will bring together Betty Carter teaching us about privacy yourself to providing the best service experts to explain why and how libraries NINA LaCOUR JOAN BAUER A.S. KING and intellectual freedom. As a systems possible, you have a profession. With can facilitate difficult discussions in 6:00 PM–7:00 PM 11:00 AM–12:00 PM 1:00 PM–2:00 PM apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you might unique and inspiring ways. librarian I found satisfaction in creating fri. 4/21 sat. 4/22 reports and writing scripts to automate have passion if you are willing to risk your I hope, however, that your conference everyday tasks – but this was not passion. job for the sake of a challenged book, if experience transcends these incredible you are willing to speak to legislators on Even now, as an adjunct instructor opportunities. Take time to enjoy behalf of shared resources, and if thinking teaching cataloging, I am still mystified the spectacle of Battledecks or the about the next great thing at your library by the thought of someone feeling excitement of the Bookcart Drill Team keeps you from sleeping. passion towards a MARC record. Competition. Meet your new best friends Early in my career, my participation in The more than 300 content programs at social events like Evening with the the Texas Library Association (TLA) was scheduled for the 2017 conference, “Own Authors or the President’s Party. But JON AGEE MARIE LU LISA GRAFF limited to conference attendance, and I Your Profession,” will provide the best most importantly, attend some business 9:00 AM–10:00 AM 10:00 AM–11:00 AM 10:00 AM–11:00 AM therefore assumed that membership was continuing education available. But there meetings and find a group that shares all about continuing education. After is even more to feed your passion: your passion. Take advantage of every EMILY HENRY several conferences, I began to observe the Three of the most dynamic general session opportunity you have to engage with your 9:30 AM–10:30 AM passion others felt for our profession and speakers to ever grace TLA’s stage will colleagues and the association. those we serve. I started to get involved, challenge and motivate you. Why am I passionate about librarianship? Visit the PENGUIN YOUNG and then someone tapped me on the In Houston we were all encouraged If I am honest, I must admit that those shoulder and said it was time for me to READERS BOOTH #2502 by Scott McClelland who presented A everyday tasks are still mundane. When I apply for TALL Texans. for FREE advanced reader Business Case for Literacy. Inspired by his need validation, I turn to the community BRYAN MEALER RUTA SEPETYS RENéE AHDIEH 11:00 AM–12:00 PM 11:00 AM–12:00 PM 12:30 PM–1:30 PM copies, tote bags, library Like many Texas librarians, I can say that address, this year’s program committee that I serve to see the cumulative effect my participation in the TALL Texans has created a new series of programs called of my efforts. The next time your energy materials, and more! Leadership Institute kindled passion for Big Ideas. Sponsored by the Texas State ebbs, look beyond your day-to-day our profession and association. Service Library, this series will feature well-known routine to see the impact you have on on Gretchen McCord’s 2006 Conference speakers from outside the library industry. your community. Take stock in what you Program Committee (Libraries: Igniting Inside the exhibits hall you will find more see, and share in my enthusiasm for our the Passion) strengthened these feelings. than 450 vendors featuring a wide variety profession. I learned to put aside my school library of products, the Innovation Lab where NIKKI LOFTIN RUTH BEHAR JACK CHENG filter and consider a holistic view of *while supplies last you will find experts from the maker “September.” O, The Oprah 2:00 PM–3:00 PM 3:00 PM–4:00 PM 3:00 PM–4:00 PM librarianship. community, and the Collaboration Space Magazine Sept. 2003: 52. Biography in Follow us on: penguinclassroom.com PenguinClass PenguinClassroom But exactly what is passion? Oprah where you will be able to “continue the Context. Web. 2 Oct. 2016. J Winfrey said that “passion is energy…the conversation” with presenters and your power that comes from focusing on what colleagues.

2 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 MEET our penguin

Come by theSTAR Author Signing Aisle to get a FREE book S signed! by one of your favorite authors. Thu. 4/20 wed. 4/19

NINA LaCOUR JOAN BAUER A.S. KING 6:00 PM–7:00 PM 11:00 AM–12:00 PM 1:00 PM–2:00 PM fri. 4/21 sat. 4/22

JON AGEE MARIE LU LISA GRAFF 9:00 AM–10:00 AM 10:00 AM–11:00 AM 10:00 AM–11:00 AM

EMILY HENRY 9:30 AM–10:30 AM

Visit the PENGUIN YOUNG READERS BOOTH #2502 BRYAN MEALER RUTA SEPETYS RENéE AHDIEH for FREE advanced reader 11:00 AM–12:00 PM 11:00 AM–12:00 PM 12:30 PM–1:30 PM copies, tote bags, library materials, and more!

NIKKI LOFTIN RUTH BEHAR JACK CHENG *while supplies last 2:00 PM–3:00 PM 3:00 PM–4:00 PM 3:00 PM–4:00 PM Follow us on: penguinclassroom.com PenguinClass PenguinClassroom knowledgeable, helpful, hard-working, recently, the Texas Restaurant Association, A Note from the and fun members and staff in my career. here I am at TLA. I look forward to So a little about me. I’m a Texas native working with members during the 85th Editor who grew up in Louisiana, which Texas Legislative Session, and to meeting means I’m an avid Texas Longhorns as many people and attending as many and LSU Tigers fan. I received a BA in sessions as possible at the 2017 Annual First, let me introduce myself: I am the Conference in San Antonio. new editor of the Texas Library Journal, Economics from UT-Austin, and a MA in and Texas Library Association (TLA) International Studies from the University I am also very excited about serving as director of communications. of South Carolina, and I enjoyed every the editor for the Texas Library Journal. minute of my liberal arts education. I love In addition to the outstanding 2017 As this issue goes to press, I’ve been on to read, and while there’s nothing like Conference Program, this issue includes the job just nine short weeks. Those weeks holding a great book; I’ve developed a inspiring articles on owning our profession have been filled with conference calls, staff serious Kindle habit, too. and being our strongest advocates; how meetings, a road trip to West Texas to visit taking a teacher to TLA can have a long- My career in the association world began members, an AASL ESSA workshop, visits term, positive impact; and why advocacy in Washington, D.C. after graduate school with Texas State Library and Archives is so important. Commission leaders, editing, writing, and – and I knew I had found my calling. reading everything I can get my hands After an April snow storm, it was time to Please contact me anytime with ideas on to help me learn about this fabulous move back south and a job in the Texas for the Journal, thoughts about TLA profession and organization. Senate made that possible. communication activities, questions about our Legislative agenda and regulatory I’m having a blast! Everyone is so Fast-forward more years than I’d like to issues, or just to say, “Hello!” welcoming. And truly, I have never admit, after working for the National Golf worked with more engaged, involved, Course Owners Association and most – Wendy Woodland J

Cutting Edge Nonprofit Library Leadership Starts Here! 2nd Annual Executive • Motivate and inspire internal and external Successful applicants will be notified on April 7. constituencies The registration fee is $1,799 for TLA members Leadership Immersion • Leverage assessments and data to support or $1,999 for non-members, which includes all July 30-August 3, 2017 leadership goals classroom materials and instruction, double room Omni Barton Creek Resort • Austin, Texas Attendees will return to their libraries energized and and meals for the duration of the event. Full registration fee is due June 19. We have identified The Texas Library Association’s Executive Leadership inspired, with tools and techniques to apply to their possible resources for grants, stipends etc. that Immersion (ELI) program is a fast-paced, multi-day specific immersion project, and others they can begin attendees can apply for to off-set some of the cost of training designed for current and aspiring managers implementing back in the workplace immediately registration. Contact TLA for more information or visit and administrators from all types of libraries. In this Plus, ELI is fun! Attendees connect with fellow www.txla.org/executive-leadership. second year, we are building on last year’s exciting professionals representing all areas of the diverse launch with expanded opportunities for collaboration, and dynamic library community, forging strong Plan now to attend! discussion and sharing. relationships as they learn from each other. Questions? Contact Ted Wanner, TLA Continuing Led by Julie Todaro, this executive experience Applications are available online at www.txla.org/ Education Specialist, via email at [email protected] features high level interactive sessions – many executive-leadership and are due by March 17. or call 800.580.2852. of which are media-driven, case studies, external experts, group discussion, individual projects, and self-directed exploration. Participants in this cutting edge, nonprofit library leadership program gain essential skills that will enable them to: • Lead organizational transformation • Develop partnerships and collaborations to drive success • Manage projects and activities • Expand the visibility and perceived value of the library and the library professional in the community

4 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Meet Your Favorite Wednesday, April 19 Authors from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group in the Author Area!

Stop by Booth #2601 to Pick Up Phil Bildner 6:00–7:00 p.m. Galleys of Our Newest Titles!

Thursday, April 20

Shannon Hale April Henry Christian Robinson Ruth Chan Angela Dominguez Courtney Alameda 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. 2:00–3:00 p.m. 2:00–3:00 p.m. 2:30–3:30 p.m. 2:30–3:30 p.m. 4:00–5:00 p.m.

Friday, April 21

Margarita Engle and Mike Curato 2:00–3:00pm

Steve Sheinkin Heather Demetrios George O’Connor Marcus Sedgwick 10:00–11:00 a.m. 10:00–11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Check conference program for dates and times of all author panels

Karen Rivers mackidseducators.com 3:00–4:00 p.m.

TLA program Ad 2017.indd 1 11/21/16 11:22 AM Guest Editorial Own Who We Are! by Gloria Meraz, assistant state librarian, Texas State Library & Archives Commission

ere’s a question for you: Do you makes her work amazing. The audience You get the gist. We should be our own enthusiastically tell people what was asked which response speaks to the best salespeople. And what a commodity H you do, as in can’t quite wait your professional (and profession) we all wish we have to offer! turn in a round of introductions to say, to embody? The choice was simple and I I realize I’m simplifying matters slightly. believe we have many such opportunities “I’m a librarian! I’m a research specialist! The information fields are rich, and each presented to us. I’m a teacher-librarian!”? Or, do you offers content and areas of practice that somehow qualify your answer or modulate Let’s choose to make the most out of are complex and which are carried out your voice? As Pat Smith likes to say, them. When you meet new teachers by an eclectic group of people. I never “Texas librarians are a feisty group,” so at the start of the school year, do you want to minimize that depth. What we I bet the vast majority of you wear your approach them enthusiastically? “Hi, I’m all do share equally, though, is a love for profession like a badge of honor. the school librarian. I’m so excited we’ll what we do and a desire for the skills and As well you should. get to work together this year. I have so commitment we offer to be recognized many wonderful ideas for helping kids do Here’s my next question: Do you translate and admired. That is natural and healthy – great work, and I’m so eager to hear your for us individually and the profession. that internal love for your work into thoughts on what I and the library can do an external testimonial? Do you make to support your needs.” So, here is your challenge. Think about others curious about what you do and the information world today. Talk to When you are introduced to faculty, do generate admiration for your work? We colleagues, be a part of your professional you share your own research? “I’m so often talk about advocacy in these pages, network, attend meaningful CE happy to meet you! What are your current but one area we tend to overlook is our experiences. Grow and be energized. Most research interests?” (Insert here faculty own advocacy for our own professional of all use these learning opportunities member’s enthusiastic description.) “That dynamism! to form your own dynamic view of the sounds fascinating. I am working on This year’s conference theme rallies us to knowledge management systems, etc. I’m information world today and YOUR place “Own Our Profession.” Building on that, looking forward to working with you and in it. Practice articulating it and sharing I’m challenging us to “Own Who We our students this semester.” that view. Show the world what you see Are!” If we are excited about what we do and what you have – ownership over one and who we are as professionals, others And, if you are a public librarian: “City of the most important and giving areas of will take notice. More than that, though, Manager John Smith, it’s great to see informational and societal progress. J we equip ourselves to be proud and you again. We are doing amazing things provocative practitioners of 21st know- at the library! We have just started xx program, and the community loves it! how. Doesn’t that sound fun, smart, and When you have business guests visiting sexy? Let’s own it! the city, I’m happy to plan a tour for At the Director’s Symposium at the 2016 them at one or more of our libraries. JOIN THE CONFERENCE CONVERSATION TLA Conference, one of the presenters We have so much going on – from high Follow TLA on social media for the latest #txla17 offered the following scenario. Two tech programming to family literacy to conference news and updates. librarians at an airport ask each other workforce development – we can tailor an We are on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Join our group on LinkedIn and subscribe to our what they do. One answers somewhat afternoon to suit just about any interest. YouTube channel. For more information, visit: shyly, without offering any additional We are happy to showcase the incredible txla.org/social-media information or conveying his excitement work of our librarians and libraries.” TexasLibraryAssociation Facebook Event: Add the 2017 TLA Annual about the profession. The other answers Conference to your events calendar. with enthusiasm and a description of what @TXLA Follow @txla for updates leading up to and during conference, and enhance your presence by using the official conference hashtag: #txla17 Membership RENEWALS @txla_1902 Yes, it’s that time of year again! 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Owning Your Profession in a Changing Industry What essential skills do information professionals need to be successful? Two leading professionals share their perspectives on how library students and those working in the field today can take advantage of possibilities to own our profession by being responsive to change, communicating the value of our work, and sharing our passion. attitudes, behaviors, and skills across understanding that will develop your What Is Your disciplines in appropriate and effective potential to become a leader – and take ways. Avoid falling into the perfectionist your career to the next level. Clarion Call? trap by keeping the big picture in mind. Allow passion not pedigree to fuel success Use systems level thinking to understand in your career. When I hire, I look for by Lorraine J. Haricombe how and why libraries and library use are knowledgeable and confident individuals. changing. The whole (system) is greater I also look for passion and drive. Success A career in library and information science than the sum of its parts (components), is based on core values of the profession comes not so much from what we do (our to ensure equal access to information as a because the relationship among the job), but how well we do it (our passion). foundation for an informed citizenry, for elements adds value to the system. Direct your career to incorporate what lifelong learning and enhancement of a Look for stakeholders with common truly excites and invigorates you. learning society. or complementary goals to form new Broaden your horizons, challenge yourself, partnerships. Assume shared responsibility surprise yourself! There is room for growth Simply put, libraries are fundamental for collaborative work and value the institutions in democratic societies to every day. Sometimes you win, sometimes individual contributions made by each you learn. Never measure your unlimited ensure that all sections of society are team member. brought into the democratic process. potential by your limited expectations. Librarians are the collectors and stewards Today’s professional relies on the ability Despite new and exciting roles for of the human record; they are organizers to respond quickly to change. Most job librarians, the well-rooted stereotypes of of the information resources they collect, advertisements state a preference, if not a librarians and information professionals adding value by making them discoverable. requirement, for applicants remain. The Libraries They take pride in preserving the to be able to work in a This is, indeed, Transform Campaign knowledge of the past and present, and changing environment. (2009-2015), an American safeguarding it for the future. Professionals who embrace an exciting time Library Association (ALA) that requirement and initiative, is designed to Librarianship as a practice has existed who show flexibility and a for millennia. Long before Gutenberg to be a librarian. increase public awareness willingness to be helpful in of the value, impact and invented printing, sources of information making necessary compromises will be an have been organized, described and services provided by libraries and library asset to their organizations to accomplish professionals. Libraries today are less about preserved in various formats. Later, those common goals. practices shaped the core of librarianship what they have for people (input) and more as a profession. Libraries as gatekeepers Everyone is a potential leader. Leadership about what they do for and with people in a predominantly analog world, and is more than a position; it can be enacted (output). Thus, library professionals have later as gateways in a digital world, have by anyone. Professionals who demonstrate abundant opportunities to demonstrate demonstrated their ability to re-engineer enthusiasm to take on initiatives to lead or their value to make a difference. They themselves and remain relevant to manage change wherever they may reside in are catalysts, creators, counselors, change their users’ needs. That transformation the organization are practicing leadership. agents and entrepreneurs. They are of libraries, in turn, has prompted They make a choice to make things happen uniquely skilled to provide essential services professionals to repurpose their skills for and to make a difference. Ambler (2013) with the potential to empower, educate, new and different roles. This is, indeed, suggests that instead of asking “am I the transform and inspire individuals. They an exciting time to be a librarian. The leader?” ask “am I exercising leadership” to have transferable skills that can be used to professional degree, however, offers only an advance common goals? help people in many different situations. entry point into the profession. It is a first Seize the opportunity to learn, to mature Often at the forefront of embracing new step to position library and information and to make unique contributions to technology, librarians are dynamic, data professionals as members within a larger your organization and beyond. As a savvy, technically-skilled, progressive, ecosystem. professional, you have a responsibility to innovative thinkers, who can put people Beyond the professional degree it is helpful keep your skills and knowledge up to date. together with information. to articulate the impact of your skills Investing in professional development During the 2008 recession, libraries more broadly, and not only in traditional starts with a commitment to personal reported huge increases in visitor numbers librarianship; that is just one path to development. Taking a committed and demands for specific job related employ your skills and competencies. approach to your continuing professional resources and services. Librarians were there Library and information professionals are development will enable you to have a to counsel, educate and inspire individuals. uniquely qualified to apply knowledge, toolkit of skills, knowledge, insight and Libraries have offered refuge in response

8 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 to community needs in times of crises. In history of civilization. Librarians’ passion, call this framework “information literacy.” recent years, repurposed library spaces have their patience and the impact of their (Lief, 2016) offered a host of possibilities to promote work are well reflected in three recent So, take pride in a profession that offers the library as a place for hands-on learning publications. In a book review of Fantasies skills that are essential to one’s ability and creative outputs that democratize of the Library, Robert Darnton (2016) to function effectively and fully in our creativity. Librarians increasingly are waxed eloquent about the power of the world: school, work, and life. These assuming these new roles to equip hopeful new Librarian of Congress to champion skills emphasize critical thinking: one entrepreneurs to develop and produce their several issues, including copyright and cannot be a good communicator, good own creative projects. Librarians collaborate open access, “to democratize access to problem-solver, good collaborator, or good with educators to instill lifelong learning our country’s culture” and issued a loud information seeker without careful and skills that students can transfer and apply drum roll for librarians at nine thousand thoughtful participation in those processes. beyond the university to the greater good public libraries and four thousand college Possessing these skills (and having the of our knowledge-driven and globally and university libraries to support her in disposition to apply them) enable us oriented society. New opportunities, doing so. In a New York Times bestseller, to tackle problems across multiple and discussions and policies are informing and The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, Joshua varied contexts, as well as best utilize the reframing the ways academic libraries are Hammer vividly reports the story of a band knowledge we have acquired. thinking about their role in the life of the of librarians’ passion and heroic efforts institution. The strong connection between “to outwit Al Qaeda and preserve Mali’s What will be your clarion call? open access and the mission of libraries – and the world’s- literary patrimony” (Brown, 2016). Finally, at a time when, positions librarians optimally to lead new Lorraine J. directions and services that assist their more than ever, the news media’s role as a mediator and gatekeeper of civic discourse Haricombe institutions in addressing changing needs is the vice- that come with mandates for open access is being questioned, Jeffrey Rutenbeck, provost and and data management. dean of American University’s School of Communication, proposes a way to tackle director of Research has shown that the Internet is the problem: “I think journalists could University of increasingly the information source of learn a lot from hanging around with Texas Libraries, choice above all other. Online education successful librarians. They have faced their The University consumers, fueled by mobile devices, own technological disruptions, and have of Texas at new learning platforms and economic responded by developing a set of principles Austin. incentives, are trying and achieving success to help their public assess the credibility with new learning models. Librarians can of information and use it ethically. They Photo provided by University of Texas maintain a competitive edge by equipping at Austin; used with permission. themselves with an understanding of the online user experience and the trends and triggers that are reshaping education. These examples describe a rich diversity of References exciting opportunities in this profession. George Ambler. Blog. “Leadership is not Title or Position.” www.georgeambler. Use the power of story-telling to share com/leadership-is-not-title-or-position/ the impact of your work. Create visibility American Library Association. Core Values of Librarianship. Social Responsibilities. for your work to transmit the value and Adopted June 29, 2004, by the ALA Council. www.ala.org/advocacy/ passion for what you do using social media, intfreedom/statementspols/corevalues conference presentations, poster sessions or Jeffrey Brown, “Meet the Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu,” review of The Bad- open access publications. If you wait for the Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious time to be perfect (or for you to be perfect) Manuscripts, by Joshua Hammer, Washington Post, April 15, 2016, Books, before you begin to try to make your mark www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/meet-the-bad-ass-librarians- you may never get started. of-timbuktu/2016/04/15/389e7010-0025-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story. The ALA defined the contribution that html librarianship can make in ameliorating or Robert Darnton, “The New Hillary Library?”, review of Fantasies of the Library, solving the critical problems of society as edited by Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turbin, New York Review of Books, “helping to inform and educate the people October 27, 2016, www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/new-hillary- of the United States on these problems and library/ to encourage them to examine the many Libraries Transform Campaign. An Initiative of the American Library Association, views on the facts regarding each problem.” 2009-2015. www.ilovelibraries.org/librariestransform/ (ALA Social Responsibility) This clarion call for libraries rang true especially during Louis Lief. “What the News Media Can Learn from Librarians.” Columbia the 2016 presidential campaign. Journalism Review, October 24, 2016. www.cjr.org/innovations/librarians_ journalism_lessons.php J The persistence of libraries as tools and agents of social change is imbedded in the

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 9 from the last century are not what current employers seek. An attitude that Talents, Not Titles, treats change as a threat rather than an

by Andrew Dillon opportunity will hold you back from Define Opportunity creative and insightful ideas. The increasing need for well-educated Being user-centered requires more than Graduates usually have two years in information professionals has opened just asking for people’s opinions. It our program in which to gain the many new career paths for graduates involves a theoretical understanding capabilities to launch a lifelong career. We accept students from different of the iSchool at UT-Austin. As the of human psychology and the undergraduate backgrounds, cultures, world’s information infrastructure methodological skills to capture reliable experiences and levels of technical evolves and all areas of human endeavor and valid user data. It means graduates knowledge, but we provide the same are impacted by digital technologies, should be aware of contemporary technologies and their limitations as curriculum for all. On the face of it, there are endless opportunities for those this is an almost impossible mix and skilled in designing, delivering and well as their applications. It also means understanding that no single discipline sometimes people wonder how such managing information resources. Job a program, without tracks, without titles are shifting, new roles are being has the answers and that you cannot hide behind a job title or professional multiple requirements or prerequisites created, and the modern information credential. You must be willing to can function well. The answer lies in the workforce does not look like it did a consider new approaches and to partner students. decade or more ago. constructively with others to solve To succeed here a student must develop This situation is both exciting and difficult problems. the intellectual flexibility to adjust, to worrying for graduates of ALA- The abilities that are developed through work with others, and to recognize what accredited programs, many of whom feel this educational philosophy apply in all they don’t know in order to gain the overwhelmed by choices and wonder contexts, in the public and corporate appropriate knowledge for themselves. how the education they receive prepares sector, working with children or adults, We do advise students on courses, them to compete in such a world. While managing people or managing data. As and we do place light regulations to I cannot speak for other programs, our we continually remind students, it is complete the program; but I continually evidence suggests this is a wonderful not what you are called that matters, remind students to make up their own time for UT iSchool graduates, with it is what you can provide. In order to minds and not follow the herd. If a employment for all who seek it upon provide worth in the modern workplace, student lacks technical competencies, graduation, many pursuing careers you must embrace the appropriate mix our school can help her acquire them. If they never imagined possible when first of values and competencies that set our a student has never experienced working applying for our degree. graduates apart. in a lab, handling physical materials, or running user studies, we provide the Our education builds As we With this orientation and opportunities. If anyone in our program on core principles of education, the ability of a thinks management is not for them, user-centeredness, continually new professional to deliver we have the course to make them think technical competence, remind students, meaningful services and otherwise and will teach them how to and interdisciplinary to contribute effectively negotiate better terms and salary for grounding. Information to their organization, their first position. it is not what regardless of its focus, is systems, a term I While I take great satisfaction in hearing use to include every greatly enhanced. The you are called old educational model of students tell me that they developed conceivable form from a being trained for a specific skills they never believed they could library to network, only that matters, it job no longer applies attain or developed interests through the function well when they since jobs themselves no program that were the exact opposite meet the needs of their is what you can longer remain static. We of what they imagined when they users. It is vital that any provide. encourage students to entered, the real goal is not the course current information envisage multiple career experiences they have. The ultimate goal professional learn paths and job titles for is to inculcate the confidence in all to how to determine user requirements, themselves. Indeed, we know that some pursue knowledge where gaps exist, and understand the capabilities, natural of our graduates end up being asked by to develop awareness of how to learn for tendencies and limitations of human their new employers to come up with oneself continually. information behavior, and help develop an appropriate title for themselves. If I can pass one piece of advice on to appropriate solutions in the form of Any technology you study in graduate those entering the profession it comes new systems that enhance people’s school will be out of date sooner rather down to this. An ability to develop capabilities. than later. Supposed ‘must-know’ rules one’s own learning is, I believe, key for

10 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 new information professionals. Accept that your knowledge is always in need of updating, that the technologies you have studied will be obsolete soon, Accepting and that someone with a different background will always know more than Applications for you about some things. This is the way TLA of the world, and it is doubly so in the information world. Student Internship Program

However, serving as a true user- by Ted Wanner advocate, equipped with the methods and knowledge to argue convincingly for In 2016, Texas Library Association (TLA) President Walter Betts added one more better user experiences, for more usable new gear in the great TLA machine – an internship initiative for library science tools and resources, for soliciting reliable students. The competitive program places up to seven library science students in and valid input from your community five key TLA committees. The students receive valuable professional experience and patrons, while respecting individual and letters of recommendation, as well as critical networking opportunities and rights to privacy and polite treatment free registration to the TLA Annual Conference. TLA receives support from new always will always, and I mean , set you professionals with cutting edge skills. apart from others. This is where the values of librarianship thrive, and it is Five students were accepted to the new program: not the collection, or the building, or Leslie Gerberman, Sam Houston State University Intellectual Freedom the title, but the attitude to your own Jewell Gibson, University of Houston Clear Lake Disaster Relief learning, to your employer’s goals and Meg Irwin, University of North Texas Public Relations & to the real needs of the people you serve that will mark you as an indispensable Marketing information professional. Such people Katarzyna Kus, Texas Woman’s University Legislative are always in short supply, so be Gina Watts, University of Texas at Austin Professional Issues & confident in your future, you get to Ethics J shape it. “My experience as an intern with TLA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee has been eye opening…. Through my experience at the annual meeting this summer, I was Andrew Dillon is dean and Louis T. Yule not only able to hear of experiences librarians have faced when materials in their Regents Professor at the libraries were challenged, but also how TLA supports them in those instances, School of Information, providing both advice and materials.” University of Texas at Austin – Leslie Gerberman, Sam Houston State University

Photo provided by University TLA President-Elect Ling Hwey Jeng hopes to continue this program in 2017-2018 of Texas at for the same five committees. Applications are open now, due on February 1. An Austin School of Information; email with unique application information was distributed at each participating used with school. Each application requires only a short essay on the student’s interest in permission one or more of the committees, and contact information for a faculty member to provide a recommendation.

“One thing that surprises me about my TLA internship is how I am able to use my intern experiences directly in my graduate school assignments. It does not feel like an extra commitment, but rather enhances my insight and involvement.” – Meg Irwin, UNT

Aspiring applicants should contact their library science program or email Ted Wanner, TLA’s continuing education specialist at [email protected].

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 11 Demonstrating the Legislative issues facing to train and assist agencies in record libraries management. The 85th Texas Legislative Session TLA opposes any cuts to the TSLAC Value of Libraries: convenes in January. The state operates budget. Our position is that TSLAC on a biennial basis, with the Legislature should maintain its current budget at meeting every two years. During this the very least. TLA also supports the Advocacy session, decisions that will determine our TSLAC exceptional items requested, but state’s laws and funding will be made as our priorities are increased funding for thousands of bills are filed, debated, and resource sharing and enhanced broadband Made Simple passed or defeated. access. What are the issues for libraries this Despite the fact that TSLAC’s total by Jennifer D. LaBoon and Rebecca Sullivan, budget request is essentially a drop in co-chairs, TLA Legislative Committee session? Funding, of course, is key. TSLAC prepared its budget required for the bucket in the overall scheme of state the 2017 – 2018 biennium and submitted finance, it is clear that new money will The Texas Library Association (TLA) it to the Legislative Budget Board (LBB). be very hard to come by in this legislative Strategic Plan lists Demonstrating Every state agency was directed by the session. The Texas State Comptroller’s Value as one of the organization’s LBB to develop budget requests with four revenue projection which will be released foundational strategies. and ten percent reductions in general in early 2017 may have bearing upon the legislature’s attitude toward spending; TLA will continue to demonstrate revenue funding. This is particularly problematic for TSLAC which sustained however, the current political climate may the value of libraries and library deep cuts (65%) in funding in 2011. override even rosy revenue projections. personnel to stakeholders through advocacy and related actions at the While key agency programs may be able How you can help to withstand a four percent reduction in local, state, and national level. It is critically important that we general revenue funding, a ten percent make our voices heard. The more our TLA is the voice of the Texas library cut would impact vital services such as elected officials hear from us, and our community, a professional organization TexShare, TexQuest, and interlibrary stakeholders, about the importance of with an organized approach to loan. libraries and the services supported by advocacy that adds huge value to In addition to their base general revenue state agencies such as TSLAC and the your membership. The TLA Legislative request, state agencies are allowed to Texas Education Agency (TEA), the Committee, working with the new submit requests for new funding for better. YOU are the expert on your director of communications, Wendy “exceptional items”. TSLAC submitted library, its programs, its value and the Woodland, is tasked with working with five exceptional items totaling $11.36 benefits it brings to your customers and million including $8 million for community. the Texas Legislature on behalf of all TexShare and TexQuest, $1 million to Now is the time to begin reaching out to members to further the cause of libraries assist libraries in accessing appropriate legislators while they are in their district and library personnel. A primary focus broadband service, enhanced security for is securing funding for library programs computer systems and resources, market and resources across the state. The adjustments for lagging agencies salaries, committee collaborates with the Texas and two government information analysts State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) to present a united front on budget requests, and we’ve developed a clear and more powerful message working together. The committee also spends time looking at initiatives that would greatly benefit our profession if enacted. For example, we’d love to have school librarians required at every K-12 campus, but in this legislative climate unfunded mandates (requirements with no money attached), no matter how worthy, will not have traction.

12 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 offices, and not in the middle of the calls are the best and most effective way in your community to do so as well. maelstrom that is the legislative session. to share your message. If the staff person For a democracy to work, we need to Establishing a relationship now makes it or representative ask questions that you stay engaged. Once you’ve had a few far easier to follow up once the session has don’t have the answers to, just direct them opportunities to do so, you’ll realize that begun.To start, find out who represents to Wendy Woodland, TLA’s director of advocating for your library’s value is easy! you. There’s a great website called “Who communications, who can provide the Represents Me?” that allows you to detailed information. Jennifer D. LaBoon is coordinator of identify your representatives for your With the recent election, many Library Technology in Fort Worth ISD, home, and for your employer if you live people are realizing the importance of and Rebecca Sullivan is director of and work in different districts. becoming more politically aware and the Ritter C. Hulsey Public Library in Here’s a quick checklist for setting up a active. We encourage you to participate Terrell, Texas. visit from your representative: in the process, and encourage others • Once you have the district office’s contact information, call to invite the representative and key staff to attend Want to learn more about working an event, tour the library, or other “photo op” opportunity. with the Texas Legislature? • When he/she arrives, highlight the Check out the final session in TLA’s Doable Action Series on Advocacy Made programs and resources you offer Simple. Recordings of this webinar, and others in the series tailored for various that are most popular with your library types, plus all of the materials and presentations, are available at www. customers; take photos. txla.org/CE. The webinars are presented by expert advocates including Ignacio Albarracin, Cindy Buchanan, Dan Burgard, Nicole Cruz, Maurice Fortin, Rhoda • Talk about the value of state resource Goldberg, Susi Grissom, Dorcas Hand, Jennifer LaBoon, Susan Mann, Nichole sharing (TexQuest/TexShare) and Robinson and Becky Sullivan. These webinars are free to members, and are archived how this makes it possible to provide so you can go back and watch one, or all, when it is convenient for you. You can digital materials, etc. to your patrons, also earn CPE credits – just another benefit of your TLA membership! J and stretches local dollars. • Write a thank you note and invite them back again. • Share the photos on social media and your website. If your representative isn’t able to come to the library, schedule a time to visit their office, even if you are just able to meet with staff. Share information about your programs and resources, and the value the library brings to the community. Offer to be a resource if they have questions about library issues. Remember YOU are the library expert, and they need the information you can provide in order to make informed policy decisions. Once the session begins, TLA may ask you to contact your representative to help with a specific bill. We will provide details and information, but don’t get put off by the legalese, just speak in lay terms, and share how this bill impacts your library, and your patrons. Having members and library patrons provide the story of why a bill is important to the representative’s community is essential. The more people representatives hear from, the better! Emails are all right, handwritten letters sent via US mail are helpful, but phone

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 13 with us.” Ten years later, Ms. Robbins is of the library. The librarian was her now our director of curriculum and special champion at the conference so, in turn, If You Take programs, and is still on the committee she is the library’s champion. She supports that was formed that week. the library with her consistent usage Dr. Neva Kelly, former assistant and promotes the services to her fellow a Teacher teachers. superintendent of instruction at ACISD, 2012 TLA Administrator of the Year, and 2011 brought devastating proposed budget to TLA... current educational consultant, shared in cuts to Texas public and school libraries, her TASL blog post, “LMaT is a thriving including library programs and critically by Kathleen Cady and Linda Erwin collaborative that organizes an annual needed digital resources. Coincidently district-wide Media Fair and develops the TLA annual conference was in Austin Fall of 2007 brought a remarkable policies for ever-evolving technology use that same year and TLA organized a rally opportunity to Aransas County ISD in ACISD schools. Media Fair consistently at the steps of the Capitol. We brought (ACISD), located in the small seaside receives the highest evaluations of all classroom teachers and two elementary town of Rockport, Texas. The district professional development sessions within administrators, along with our school library program received a substantial the district, and observation data reveal librarians. Together, we participated in the grant through the Improving Literacy that teachers have increased both the rally and visited legislators making our through School Libraries Program, quantity and quality of technology case about the importance of education which allowed for not only changes and integration.” and the key role libraries play. Our district upgrades to the collections, technology, continued to retain a certified library and physical space, but also for changes in media specialist on each campus when perceptions of our libraries. The results could only be other districts cut positions. The collaboration and professional described as magical. “Experiencing the rally first hand was development components of the grant empowering. Seeing librarians and provided funds to take classroom teachers Collaboration between teachers and other stakeholders from across the state and instructional technologists to the 2008 campus librarians increased exponentially. and country come together in unity to Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual We became part of content curriculum advocate for literacy, the freedom to read, Conference, which resulted in changed planning and respected as a go-to and equitable access to information made perceptions of the services we provide resource. Jackie Son, former ACISD me feel part of the greater good, that I and what librarians can offer our students classroom teacher and currently the library was making a difference in the lives and and teachers. The results could only be media specialist at Cannon Elementary, education of our children and families,” described as magical. Grapevine-Colley ISD, stated “Visiting stated Kathryn Stephenson, principal of After a full day of sessions, author panels, TLA was always such a treat for classroom Little Bay Primary in Rockport, Texas. and vendor exhibits, these teachers and teachers because we learned how to forge Since ACISD teachers have been attending All-New for Spring 2017 librarians would meet for dinner to check relationships with our librarians and pick the TLA conference, four have become in and de-brief. Everyone shared, planned their brains about literacy, research, and certified librarians. Ms. Son was an future collaborations, idolized authors, even classroom management strategies. English teacher at Rockport-Fulton High START SMART IMAGINE THAT! ROCKING CHAIR KIDS and discussed books. We realized that Librarians are teachers first, and it was ever School when she was approached with an to be a good sport Science that’s fun Themes of Growing Up something incredible was happening to so evident when you attended TLA!” opportunity to attend TLA. She stated, “I us as a group and we, quite frankly, didn’t Taking teachers and administrators to the was very fortunate to receive the Barbara want the magic to dissipate when we TLA conference helped build a school Bush Foundation Grant through Sam returned to the reality of running a school library support team within the campus Houston State University to gain my MLS library and teaching classes. From this and district. Librarians partnered with after my first year of teaching. One of the desire, the Library Media and Technology teachers at the conference, suggested awarded perks was getting to attend TLA, (LMaT) committee was born. sessions, and gave them inside tips on and it absolutely confirmed my decision to Jessica Robbins attended the conference visiting with publishers in the exhibit hall. become a librarian.” as a secondary English classroom teacher. According to some teachers, gathering When polled, our classroom teachers “After a day full of sessions and author advance copies of books was their favorite who had attended TLA, overwhelmingly round tables,” she experienced, “one of perk of the conference. Lindsay Olenick, responded it increased their enthusiasm a 9th grade English teacher at Rockport- the most powerful forms of collaboration for authors and reading, that they in Start Smart books Rocking Chair Kids books of my career. A group of teachers, Fulton High School, says “As a teacher, turn brought back to their students. 32 pages Ages 6–9/GR 1–3 Imagine That! series 24 & 32 pages Ages3–6 32 pages Ages 6–10/Gr 2–4 administrators, and librarians spent the the biggest return I saw in attending the Colleen Baker, a 6th grade ELA teacher at “riotously fun” next hour birthing the idea of a K-12 team conference was finding engaging books Rockport-Fulton Middle School shared, –ForeWord Reviews of professionals who would join forces to that I could immediately turn around “My students got the most out of me sustain the work around libraries, media and put into the hands of my students. attending the TLA Conference last year. Pull up a chair, BOOTH 2416 I’m always looking for ways to grow my and technology. 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14 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 not yet published. They loved seeing how popular reading actually was, and the fact On Friday, April 21, 2017, 100 that there was a week-long conference on classroom teachers will have the it blew their minds. I was also in nirvana opportunity to experience a one- when I was at the conference, and it gave day special event during the TLA me a whole new exciting attitude to bring conference, comprised of speakers, back home to my children.” TLA, we have added four librarians to activities, and pricing designed Ms. Robbins, ACISD curriculum director, our school library community, four of just for them. Planning has begun consistently sends English Language Arts the teachers we hosted now work in our for a fun, interactive day for the teachers to TLA each year. “Many ELAR Central Office, and three of our campus classroom teachers who attend, as teachers see the value of student choice administrators have attended TLA. Over well as the librarians who sponsor in reading but haven’t accessed the tools 30 teachers who attended TLA collaborate them. Participants are welcome to to make this happen seamlessly.” When with librarians and advocate for our stay for the full conference. she was a classroom teacher, she admits programs, and, best of all, thousands that she “lacked the tools to make magical of students have benefitted from the The focus of this program is for connections between students and books connections to reading, books, and authors classroom teachers who experience made just for them.” Until TLA, she that their teachers made at TLA. a TLA conference, to return to believes she “failed to see the pot of gold their districts as library advocates that was sitting in my campus library. Kathleen Cady is a library media and collaborators - and perhaps After a week of free books, authors, specialist at Rockport-Fulton High become librarians themselves. and hundreds of passionate librarians, School; Linda Erwin is a library media Details about Teacher Day at TLA I realized that my campus had what specialist at Little Bay Primary, both in and the application for teachers students needed. I just needed to make Aransas County ISD to participate can be accessed the time to get my students to the library at www.txla.org/teacher-day. For and coordinate with my librarian to get more information, please email the right books in their hands.” Kelly, Neva. “TASL Talks: Legislative and Advocacy for YOU.” How I Developed a [email protected]. J So what happens if you take a teacher to Crush on School Librarians. N.p., 23 Nov. TLA? Since we began taking teachers to 2014. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.

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2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 15 newsnotes Texas Book Festival Grant Applications Scholarships and Stipends moting your library and its services. Visit Due January 27 TLA members are invited to apply for www.txla.org/branding-iron for more scholarships and conference stipends information and to submit your entry. The Texas Book to be awarded in the spring of 2017. Stay Connected with TLA Festival’s public library Applicants must be TLA members, grant application cycle is now open. One of the most effective ways to stay and scholarship applicants must also connected to TLA and interact with your Only Texas public libraries are eligible be accepted as a graduate student at a fellow members is via our Lyris listservs to submit applications. In the case of Texas ALA-accredited library program. for districts, roundtables, interest groups, joint-use libraries (such as joint public- Numerous unit awards and stipends are task forces and committees. These listservs school libraries or joint public-commu- also available. More information and the are tremendously valuable sources of nity college libraries), the library is still online applications are found on www. information. Make sure you are receiving eligible to apply. The library grants will txla.org/awards. TLA information in your inbox by noting be awarded at the 2017 Texas Library Branding Iron Award the txla.org domain as a ‘safe sender’ in Association Annual Conference in San your email program and checking with Antonio. Applications are due January Deadline February 15 your IT department to verify that the 27, 2017. Apply online at www.texas- This award honors excellence in library Lyris server IP address 71.42.151.13 is bookfestival.org today! public relations activities. With multiple whitelisted on your organization’s mail TLA Awards Deadline categories, make sure you and your staff are server. Questions? Email technology@ recognized for the great work you do pro- txla.org January 15 There is still time to nominate Color Us Happy! outstanding individuals and programs for TLA awards! Take a minute to The TLA Coloring Book was released to great acclaim at the Texas Book Festival nominate someone for the Librarian of in November. Featuring sketches from award-winning illustrators and Texas artists, the Year Award, Distinguished Service it is a must-have for coloring enthusiasts and book art fans of all ages. Packaged as Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, a two-volume set, the TLA Coloring Book is available in the TLA online store for Outstanding Services to Libraries $20 and all proceeds benefit the Texas Library Association Disaster Relief Fund. Award, Wayne Williams Library Project Purchase four, and receive the fifth free! You will also be able to purchase the color- of the Year Award, or Libraries Change ing book at the Annual Conference in San Antonio. Communities Award. Visit TLA’s A big “Thank you!” to Kristi Betts for conceiving and leading the project, to Mary website, www.txla.org/awards for more Ann Emerson for donating her time to design the books, and to Sara Ortiz for information and the online form. editing the final product. Photo courtesy of Kristi Betts TLA Remembers

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16 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Connect to Know: Continuing Education The popular A to Z series on training for library support staff continues with monthly Color Up a Storm! webinars. Recorded versions of the earlier core classes are also available (participants Have you ordered your copy of the must pass a short quiz to receive credit). Registration and full details may be found at TLA Coloring Book? A benefit effort www.txla.org/CE-AZ. All programs are taught by ALA President Julie Todaro. for the Library Disaster Relief Fund, the publication is packaged in two January 11, 1 pm March 30, 1pm volumes and showcases more than

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18 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 featured SPEAKERS Big Idea Speakers Directors Symposium Speakers Anita Schjøll Brede Sara Kelly Johns, Cleveland by battling the digital divide, is the CEO and co- adjunct instructor at illiteracy, unemployment, and other founder of Iris AI Syracuse University community deficits with innovative – an Artificial iSchool, is a longtime programming and action at all branches. Intelligence that will school librarian, Featured Speakers read all of the library activist, and world’s science and consultant on school Helen R. Adams, help us connect the library programs. She a former Wisconsin dots. She is also a writes and presents school librarian and board member of nationally on school technology Ulstein Group. Her librarians and coordinator, is career has spanned 9 industries ranging from advocacy and was named to the EveryLibrary currently an online developing an e-learning tool in Silicon Valley Advisory Committee as a strategic initiatives instructor at Antioch and performing theatre for babies, to reducing advisor on school librarians and libraries, University-Seattle. energy consumption in the process industry helping EveryLibrary scope out ballot-level She was AASL through heat exchanger network optimization. solutions for funding programs and positions. President in 2001- She’ll share insights about AI, self-driving cars, She is the past-president of the New York 2002 and now serves genomics, robots, and the general craziness of Library Association, the American Association on the American Libraries Advisory the future – and how to use this craziness to of School Librarians, and the School Library Committee, ALA’s Intellectual Freedom make the world better. Section of the New York Library Association. Committee (IFC) and the AASL Knowledge Quest Editorial Board. She was recently Tamara Kleinberg Joe Lucia is dean of named to the Freedom to Read Foundation’s is the founder and libraries at Temple 2016 Roll of Honor. president of The University where he Carolyn Anthony is Shuuk.com, the oversees Temple’s the former director testing ground for nine libraries as well of the Skokie Public the world’s coolest as Temple University Library (IL), retiring new ideas. She Press. Prior to in 2016 after more knows what it takes joining Temple, he than 30 years. The to drive growth and served as university library, under her innovation in an librarian and guidance, worked ever-changing director of Falvey marketplace. As the Memorial Library at Villanova University. with other agencies creator of the Innovation Quotient Edge During his tenure at Villanova, Lucia in the community (IQE) Assessment, Kleinberg has developed spearheaded a number of initiatives that to offer such staple the only tool able to measure people’s natural earned national attention, including the events as the Festival of Cultures, Wednesdays innovation strengths. From being part of the development of open source discovery software on the Green, and Spring Greening to name elite group of TED speakers to completing and the establishment of open access a few. The American Library Association gave three Tough Mudders (and counting), publishing initiatives featuring university- the library the Excellence in Library Kleinberg’s life is about breaking through the sponsored journals. Falvey Library won the Programming Award for helping to lead Voices status quo for game-changing results. 2013 ACRL Excellence Award in the of Race, a months-long program that examined different aspects of race and race relations. Donavon University category. Roberson, former Felton Thomasis Susan Benton is Zappos team huddle director of the president and CEO innovator, has over Cleveland Public of the Urban 20 years of Library (CPL). He Libraries Council experience as a has positioned CPL (ULC), a coach, leader, and as a community membership facilitator presenting deficit fighter and organization of on topics ranging launched initiatives leading public from leadership aimed at addressing libraries that development to community needs in articulates the culture and organizational development. He the areas of strategic role public energizes any team and has a contagious technology, education, and economic libraries serve for strengthening their enthusiasm that is driven, inclusive, and development. During his tenure, CPL has community in economic and workforce inspiring. Roberson believes in the power of a maintained its “Five Star” status and has been development, learning and education, citizen culture driven business that is devoted to named a “Top Innovator” by the Urban engagement, health and public safety. Benton people and driven by performance. The key to Libraries Council for its use of technology and is dedicated to assisting public sector executives an amazing culture is investing in people’s lives data to inform decision making. His vision is align resources to meet the opportunities and and leaving a mark by helping them discover to position the library as a strong leader in needs of the knowledge era, and bring their the value of going after a higher purpose. defining a more prosperous future for organizations into the 21st century.

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2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 21 As director of librarians. Prior to Curt Witcher is the Anythink Libraries, joining the senior manager for Pam Sandlian- Department, Trettin Special Collections Smith has worked served as a Learning at the Allen County with a collaborative Services Librarian Public Library in team to reinvent for Howard Fort Wayne, IN libraries in Adams Community College where he manages County (CO). (MD) after serving The Genealogy Anythink is a library as Teacher in Center, the focused on Residence at the institution’s Rare participatory Library of Congress. and Fine Book learning, community engagement, and shifting Tiffany Whitehead, Collection, and the Lincoln Financial perceptions of the role of libraries. Anythink the “Mighty Little Foundation Collection of Abraham Lincoln has been awarded the IMLS 2010 National Librarian”, is an materials. Witcher is the project lead on many Medal of Honor for innovating library obsessive reader, of the library’s digitization initiatives, services, the 2011 John Cotton Dana Award, social media user, including partnerships with FamilySearch and the Library Journal 2011 Landmark and technology International, the Internet Archive, ProQuest, Library Award. Sandlian-Smith was awarded geek. She is the Ancestry, Fold3, and WeRelate, as well as the 2012 Charlie Robinson Award for Upper & Middle growing a site of free, searchable data files at innovation and risk taking in public libraries School Librarian at GenealogyCenter.org. Witcher is a member of and was the Colorado Librarian of the year in the Genealogy Committee of the American 2010. She is PLA President Elect 2017-18 and Episcopal High School in Baton Library Association, a former president of is a member of the working group for the both the Federation of Genealogical Societies Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries. Rouge, LA, served as the President for ISTE’s Librarians Network, and was recognized as and the National Genealogical Society, and the Sara Trettin is a policy advisor in the Office of one of ISTE’s 2014 Emerging Leaders. founding president of the Indiana Educational Technology at the U.S. Whitehead is National Board Certified in Genealogical Society. Department of Education where she leads the Library Media, was named one of the 2014 open education work for the Department, Library Journal Movers & Shakers, and was directs digital engagement, and leads the the 2016 recipient of the Louisiana Library office’s efforts surrounding libraries and Media Specialist Award.

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ABOUT TLA Library Instruction Round Table Library Friends, Trustees, and Advocates Business Meetings Business Meeting...... 7:30 - 8:15 am Round Table Business Meeting...... 11:45 am - 1 pm Public Libraries Division Executive Board....7:30 - 8:15 am Wednesday, April 19 Texas Library Association Special Libraries Division Executive Board Meeting 2...... 4 - 6 pm Bylaws & Resolutions Business Meeting...... 7:30 - 8:15 am Committee Meeting I...... 11 am - 12 pm Health Events Texas Association of School Librarians Wednesday, April 19 Community Engagement Task Force...... 11 am - 12 pm Advocacy/Legislative Committee...... 7:30 - 8:15 am San Antonio After Dark: Ghost Tour ...... 8:45 - 10:30 pm Texas Bluebonnet Award Joint Acquisitions and Collection Development Committee Meeting...... 11 am - 12 pm Round Table Business Meeting...... 7:30 - 9:30 am Thursday, April 20 Texas Authors and Illustrators Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing CycloSocial Party Bike Ride ...... 7 - 9 pm Round Table Business Meeting...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Round Table Business Meeting...... 11 am - 12 pm Friday, April 21 Workforce Library Partnerships Public Libraries Division Task Force...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Business Meeting...... 11 am - 12 pm Hetherington 30th Fun Run/Walk ...... 6 - 7 pm College and University Libraries Division Young Adult Round Table Social Events & Competitions All Committees...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Business Meeting...... 11 am - 12 pm Wednesday, April 19 TALL Texans Round Table District 4...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Business Meeting...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Tea Celebrating Library Pioneer District 5...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Elizabeth Howard West ...... 2:45 - 4:45 pm Introduction to TLA Finances...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Battledecks!...... 4 - 5 pm Small Community Libraries Round Table Round Table Business Meeting...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Business Meeting...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm TALL Texans Social & Awards Reception...... 5:30 - 6:30 pm Latino Caucus Round Table Exhibit Hall Grand Opening & Welcome....5:30 - 7:30 pm Texas Media Awards Committee...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Business Meeting...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Networking with New Members...... 7:30 - 8:30 pm College and University Libraries Division Legislative Committee...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Executive Board...... 4 - 5 pm Library Support Staff Round Table Thursday, April 20 District 1...... 4 - 5 pm Business Meeting...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Black Caucus Round Table Author Session: District 3...... 4 - 5 pm Partnership Task Force...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm My Life Beyond ‘Good Times’ ...... 10 am - 12:15 pm Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Committee I...... 4 - 5 pm Professional Issues & Ethics Committee....12:15 - 1:15 pm Private School Librarian Young Adult Round Table Lone Star Reference & Information Services Hang Out...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Reading List Committee...... 4 - 5 pm Round Table Business and Mentor Meetup: Diverse Library Leaders.....4:15 - 5:15 pm Young Adult Round Table Maverick Graphic Executive Board Meeting...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Ultimate Children’s Picture Book Novel Reading List Committee...... 4 - 5 pm Saturday, April 22 Illustrators Sketch-Off...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Young Adult Round Table Spirit of Texas Bylaws & Resolutions Committee Public Libraries Division Reading Committee - Middle School...... 4 - 5 pm Meeting II...... 7:15 - 7:45 am Membership Party...... 5:30 - 6:30 pm Young Adult Round Table Spirit of Texas Diversity and Inclusion Committee...... 7:15 - 7:45 am An Historic Evening with the Authors...... 6 - 9:30 pm Reading Committee - High School...... 4 - 5 pm Leadership Development Committee...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Evening Storytelling Concert...... 7 - 9 pm Young Adult Round Table Tayshas Reading Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender List Committee...... 4 - 5 pm Black Caucus Round Table Business Meeting...... 11:45 am - 1 pm Round Table Meet & Greet...... 7 - 9 pm Thursday, April 20 District Planing Committee...... 11:45 am - 1 pm Small Community Library Round Table Disaster Relief Committee...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Networking Dessert Social...... 7 - 9 pm TASL Private School Librarians Committee 2...... 11:45 am - 1 pm Intergalactic Dance Club Party ...... 9 pm - 12 am Discussion Group...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Access Services Discussion Group...... 12:30 - 1:15 pm District 7...... 12:30 - 1:15 pm District 8...... 12:30 - 1:15 pm District 9...... 12:30 - 1:15 pm Electronic Resources & Serials Management Take a Chance on Art Round Table Business Meeting...... 12:30 - 1:15 pm TLA Texas Library Intellectual Freedom Committee...... 12:30 - 1:15 pm Larson Mystery Grant Committee...... 12:30 - 1:15 pm Disaster Relief Fund Supervision, Management, and Administration Round Table Business Meeting...... 12:30 - 1:15 pm Annual Art Raffle Texas Association of School Librarians This year’s raffle features an illustration Executive Board...... 12:30 - 1:15 pm Chris Raschka and the Children’s by author, artist, and storyteller Xavier Round Table Business Meeting...... 3 - 4 pm Garza. The image reflects Garza’s Texas Association of School Librarians interest in lucha libre, which has provided Business Meeting...... 3 - 5:15 pm Retired Librarians Round Table context for two of his books. Tickets are Business Meeting...... 4:15 – 5 pm only $5 each (or 5 for $20) and will be Texas Library Association available on the TLA website and onsite Membership Meeting...... 5:15 - 5:45 pm in San Antonio during annual conference Friday, April 21 College and University Libraries Division in April. The drawing takes place during Membership Committee...... 7:30 - 8:15 am the third general session on Saturday, Copyright and Access Interest Group April 22. The annual raffle benefits TLA’s Business Meeting...... 7:30 - 8:15 am Texas Library Disaster Relief Fund created District 10...... 7:30 - 8:15 am District 2...... 7:30 - 8:15 am to assist libraries in our state as they District 6...... 7:30 - 8:15 am recover from natural disasters.

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 23 ABOUT TLA continued Thursday, April 20 Friday, April 21 PD for Seasoned Professional Developers...... 10 - 11 am Library Workflow Exchange: Sharing Friday, April 21 Engaging Professional Development Innovation in Technical Services...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Bites with LIRT...... 11:45 am - 1:45 pm for Teachers...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm If You Build It, Will They Come? Optimizing KidLit vs. YALit Lip Sync Battle 2...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Growing Toward Professional Your Linked Data Project...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Book Cart Drill Team Competition ...... 5:15 - 5:45 pm Development...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Collection Management President’s All-Conference Party...... 6:15 - 8:15 pm Brainstorming with Pixar...... 3 - 4 pm Wednesday, April 19 Latino Caucus Social...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm Activating Your Inner Are You Ready? Policies & Procedures for ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ‘Digital Professional’...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Dealing with Materials Challenges ...... 1 - 4 pm Archives Friday, April 21 Thursday, April 20 Wednesday, April 19 Google for Beginning Users...... 8:30 - 9:30 am ALA Free Pass to Guadalajara...... 3 - 4 pm Magic of Writing: Ray Bradbury’s Using US Government Documents Friday, April 21 Techniques...... 11 am - 12 pm of Genealogical Research...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Book Buzz...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Digital Collections Networking Library Workflow Exchange: Sharing Innovation in Wednesday, April 19 Wednesday, April 19 Technical Services...... 8:30 - 9:30 am #ColorOurCollections: Create Your Own TALL Texans Social & Awards Reception...... 5:30 - 6:30 pm Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab ...... 1 - 4 pm Digital Archival Coloring Book...... 1:30 - 3:45 pm Networking with New Members...... 7:30 - 8:30 pm Integrating K12 eContent: Aggregating Texas Digital Collections for the Thursday, April 20 Start with Collection Development...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Digital Public Library of America...... 4 - 5 pm AASL 101...... 10 - 11 am Keeping ER Management Out of the ER.....1:30 - 2:30 pm Thursday, April 20 Private School Librarian Saturday, April 22 Omeka...... 11:15 am - 1:15 pm Hang Out...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm eBook Record Management...... 8 - 9 am Freedmen’s Bureau Records...... 3 - 4 pm STAT Approach to Mentorship: Concrete Strategies Book Buzz 2...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Grateful Data: Data Cleaning, Digital to Develop Professional Relationships...... 3 - 4 pm CREW Manual and You: Collection Management Humanities, and Deadheads...... 3 - 4 pm Mentor Meetup: Diverse Library Leaders....4:15 - 5:15 pm & Weeding Strategies...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Local History Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Electronic Resources Wednesday, April 19 Round Table Meet & Greet...... 7 - 9 pm Wednesday, April 19 Tools and Trends in Genealogy ...... 9 am - 12 pm Small Community Library Round Table Networking Dessert Social...... 7 - 9 pm Tools and Trends in Genealogy...... 8 am - 12 pm Native American / First Nations Research...1:30 - 2:30 pm Intergalactic Dance Club Party ...... 9 pm - 12 am Caring for the Mind: Providing Mental Using US Government Documents Health Information...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm of Genealogical Research...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Friday, April 21 Native American / First Nations Research...1:30 - 2:30 pm Thursday, April 20 Director’s Symposium: Evolving to the Power Up TexQuest! - Hands on Lab 03.....2:45 - 3:45 pm Library of the Future ...... 7:30 - 9:30 am Freedmen’s Bureau Records...... 3 - 4 pm Speed Dating with Vendors...... 7:30 - 9:30 am Thursday, April 20 CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLANT a Seed! Watch Your Beyond Google: Leveraging OER Profession Grow!...... 11 am - 12 pm & TexQuest Resources with Career Guidance & Mentoring Gen Z Learners...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Bites with LIRT...... 11:45 am - 1:45 pm Wednesday, April 19 Reading from the Ears Up: Reader/Listener How To Negotiate Your Worth...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Latino Caucus Social...... 6:30 - 8:30 pm Appeal of the Audio Book...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Asserting Your Worth: Minorities Professionalism Power Up TexShare - Hands on Lab 07 .....1:45 - 2:45 pm and Women in the Library Field...... 4 - 5 pm Wednesday, April 19 Will Open Access Really Save us Money?....1:45 - 2:45 pm Thursday, April 20 So You Need to Plan a Conference...... 4 - 5 pm Virtualizing Your School Library: Growing TALLer: A Call Thursday, April 20 Be Everywhere at Once...... 3 - 4 pm for Mentors...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm AASL 101...... 10 - 11 am Free Resources for Better Multiculturalism and Multipluralism: A New Era Student Retention...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Own Your Profession: Getting Involved in Online Education and Beyond...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm with TLA...... 10 - 11 am More than Surname Surfing: Using the STAT Approach to Mentorship: Concrete Strategies Internet Resources for Genealogists...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Activating Your Inner to Develop Professional Relationships...... 3 - 4 pm ‘Digital Professional’...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Writing and Storytelling with PlayLab - Mentor Meetup: Diverse Library Leaders....4:15 - 5:15 pm Hands on Lab 09 ...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Friday, April 21 Friday, April 21 Friday, April 21 Ready to Lead? The School Librarian’s Ready to Lead? The School Librarian’s Path to Admin...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Integrating K12 eContent: Start with Collection Path to Admin...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Development...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm PLANT a Seed! Watch Your Cool Jobs 2017...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Profession Grow!...... 11 am - 12 pm Keeping ER Management Out of the ER.....1:30 - 2:30 pm Fill Your Bucket List: Create a Retirement Preparing for Leadership: Behind the Scenes Accessibility Regulations & Realities: More than Game Plan...... 11 am - 12 pm with New Directors...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Just an Addendum to a Contract...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm PLANT a Seed! Watch Your Feeling Inadequate You’re Not Alone...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Saturday, April 22 Profession Grow!...... 11 am - 12 pm ? Professional Job and Public Personas: Are You a Librarian eBook Record Management...... 8 - 9 am Preparing for Leadership: Behind the Scenes 24 Hours a Day ...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm What’s My Role OER and the with New Directors...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm ? ? Academic Library...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Are You a Leader Are You Ready Saturday, April 22 ? Breaking Bad News: Telling Faculty about Dropping to Stand TALL ...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Strategic Relationships at Work: ? Resources...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Feeling Inadequate You’re Not Alone...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Creating a Mentoring Circle...... 9:15 - 10:15 am ? CREW Manual and You: Collection Management Saturday, April 22 COLLECTION SERVICES & Weeding Strategies...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Strategic Relationships at Work: Cataloging & Metadata How User Research Drives Innovation Creating a Mentoring Circle...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Thursday, April 20 at JSTOR...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Continuing Education Managing Workflow Improvements: Spreadsheets, Scholarly Communication Wednesday, April 19 Reorgs, & Everything In Between...... 10 - 11 am Wednesday, April 19 Train the Trainer: Designing Courses The Reluctant School Library The University Press in 2025...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Cataloger...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm for Adult Learners ...... 8 am - 4 pm Becoming the Copyright Expert at Your Library .... 1 - 5 pm Getting Started with Webinars...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm

24 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Never Judge a Journal by Its Cover: Friday, April 21 Ultimate Children’s Picture Book Predatory Publishing and the In It Together: Lessons from Social Workers Illustrators Sketch-Off...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Dance of Cyberseduction...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm and Nurses in the Library...... 8:30 - 9:30 am An Evening with the Authors...... 6 - 9:30 pm Thursday, April 20 Working with Strangers: A Powerful Tool Friday, April 21 Big Data: Making Research Accessible, for Generating Collaborations...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Discover the Spirit of Texas High School Discoverable, and Reusable...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Community Development Reading Program...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Will Open Access Really Save us Money?... 1:45 - 2:45 pm with Collective Impact...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm How Libraries Impacted the Life Grateful Data: Data Cleaning, Digital Set Your Library Apart: Developing and Writing of Ray Bradbury...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Humanities, and Deadheads...... 3 - 4 pm an Email Marketing Campaign...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Lone Star Reading List Author Panel...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Friday, April 21 Saturday, April 22 Children of the World Diversity Panel...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Copyright Year in Review...... 9:45 - 10:45 am We Need to Talk: Hosting Civil Discussion Discover the Spirit of Texas Middle School Civil Rights in Black and Brown: on Controversial Topics...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Reading Program...... 9:45 - 10:45 am A Digital Humanities Collaboration...... 11 am - 12 pm Multi-type Libraries Do Author Visits Make a Difference?...... 9:45 - 10:45 am LIBRARIANSHIP Thursday, April 20 Hey Batter, Batter Swing! Service Learning Success: Partnerships Sports Fiction for YA...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Best Practices & Core Competencies Connecting Students & Community...... 3 - 4 pm Icons: Figures Who Have Inspired Wednesday, April 19 Saturday, April 22 Children’s Books...... 9:45 - 10:45 am You, Me & RFP: Making the Most The Sky’s the Limit! School & Public A Conversation with Margaret of a Complex Process ...... 1 - 4 pm Libraries Working Together!...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Peterson Haddix...... 11 am - 12 pm Becoming the Copyright Expert at Your Library ..... 1 - 5pm Adult Literature Catching Readers from the Beginning...... 11 am - 12 pm Lessons from the Research Institute Dynamic Author Duos: for Public Libraries...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Thursday, April 20 It Takes Two to Tango...... 11 am - 12 pm Owning Distance Learning: Introducing the Texas Topaz The Likability Index: Are Female Characters Nonfiction Reading List...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Three-Minute Success Stories...... 4 - 5 pm Held to a Higher Standard?...... 11 am - 12 pm Thursday, April 20 Writers of Mystery...... 3 - 4 pm Middle Grade Greats...... 11 am - 12 pm Work It! Own It! Gaining Confidence Friday, April 21 Unshelved®: Too Much Information...... 11 am - 12 pm in Assessing the ACRL Framework...... 10 - 11 am Book Buzz...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Protecting Student Privacy: School Talking About Reading!...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Author Session ...... 12 - 1:45 pm Librarians on the Front Lines...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session ...... 12 - 1:45 pm Success! Academic Librarians Author Session ...... 12 - 1:45 pm Debutante Ball: Dance with New Supporting Tenure Track Faculty...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Saturday, April 22 Children’s Authors...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Friday, April 21 Book Buzz 2...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Kidlit vs. YALit Lip Sync Battle 2...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Texas Tea: Meet and Greet Building a Community of Future Ready LITERATURE School Librarians...... 9:45 - 10:45 am with YA Authors ...... 1:30 - 3:30 pm Authors & Illustrators Entrepreneurial Librarian: The Secret Saturday, April 22 to Building an Intrapreneurial Wednesday, April 19 Children’s Round Table Author Session Organization...... 9:45 - 10:45 am What’s New with Texas Children’s with Kevin Henkes ...... 8 - 10:15 am Owning Your Inner Information Authors and Illustrators?...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Technologist...... 9:45 - 10:45 am ‘Series’ously Check Us Out...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm The Authentically Inclusive Space: Talking About Reading!...... 9:45 - 10:45 am What’s New With Texas Middle Grade Serving Special Needs Teens...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Collaboration Across the Content Areas..... 11 am - 12 pm and YA Authors?...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Closing Author Session ACRL Framework Curriculum Mapping...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Celebrating Diversity: The Brown Bookshelf with Veronica Roth ...... 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Own Your Profession: Salutes Great Books for Kids...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Children’s Literature Learning to Let Go: Working Through Effective User Analytics...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Wednesday, April 19 ACRL Framework Round Table Grief in YA Literature...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Speed Dating the Bluebonnets ...... 3 - 6 pm What’s New with Texas Children’s Discussions...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Authors and Illustrators ...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Latino Caucus Round Table Author Session...... 4 - 5 pm ? Texas School Library Standards Revision.....2:45 - 3:45 pm What’s New With Texas Middle Grade Speed Dating at the Texas Author and YA Authors ...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Saturday, April 22 and Illustrator Meet and Greet...... 4 - 5 pm ? The ACRL Framework Sandbox for Humanities, Celebrating Diversity: The Brown Bookshelf Social Sciences & STEM Librarians.....10:30 - 11:30 am Thursday, April 20 Salutes Great Books for Kids...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm CREW Manual and You: Collection Management Graphically Speaking: Graphic Novel Speed Dating the Bluebonnets ...... 3 - 6 pm & Weeding Strategies...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Authors Enticing Readers...... 10 - 11 am Independent Authors Strut Their Stuff...... 10 - 11 am Thursday, April 20 Community Engagement Ambassador Schu’s Books for You Black Caucus Round Table Author Session: and Your Readers, Too!...... 10 - 11 am Wednesday, April 19 My Life Beyond ‘Good Times’ ...... 10 am - 12:15 pm Graphically Speaking: Graphic Novel Making the Case for Funding, Programs, 13th Annual Poetry Roundup...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm and Innovation ...... 9 am - 4 pm Authors Enticing Readers...... 10 - 11 am Art of the Clue: Investigate Mystery Engaging Your Community: Using the Aspen Fiction for Young Adults...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm 13th Annual Poetry Roundup...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Report to Re-envision Your Library ...... 1 - 4:30 pm Opening Author Session...... 12:15 - 1:30 pm Cultivating Bluebonnets from Campground to Battleground.....11:15 am - 12:15 pm Meet Your Muslim Neighbor at the Library: Stories That Make You Say Hmmm: Alternative Connecting Diverse Communities...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Historical Fiction for YA...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Bluebonnet Extravaganza: A District-wide Collaboration...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Urban Libraries and Community Development..... 4 - 5 pm Chilling Tales to Keep You Up at Night: Thursday, April 20 YA Horror and Dark Fantasy...... 3 - 4 pm Introducing the Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Community Engagement à la carte...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Chris Raschka and the Children’s Scribblers: Creative Writing Round Table Business Meeting...... 3 - 4 pm Friday, April 21 in the Community...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Writers of Mystery...... 3 - 4 pm 17th Annual 2x2 Showcase: Library Beyond Walls: New Adventures Scott Westerfeld & Texas Association Books for 2 Years to 2nd Grade...... 8:30 - 9:30 am in Mobile Librarianship...... 3 - 4 pm of School Librarians Business Meeting...... 3 - 5:15 pm Children of the World Diversity Panel...... 9:45 - 10:45 am What’s On Tap at Your Library: Pura Belpre: 20 Years of Excellence Fiction or Nonfiction, Outreach with Beer...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm in Latino Literature...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Kids Want a Story!...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Icons: Figures Who Have Inspired Children’s Books...... 9:45 - 10:45 am

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 25 LITERATURE continued Thursday, April 20 Assessment Catching Readers from the Beginning...... 11 am - 12 pm Storytelling to Create Positive Change Inside Wednesday, April 19 & Outside Your Institution...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Dynamic Author Duos: Lessons from the Research Institute Storytelling Performance Basics...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm It Takes Two to Tango...... 11 am - 12 pm for Public Libraries...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Story Swap/Vendor Showcase...... 3 - 5:15 pm Middle Grade Greats...... 11 am - 12 pm Getting Started with UX...... 4 - 5 pm Once Upon a Time in Middle School: Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session ...... 12 - 1:45 pm Thursday, April 20 Beginning a Storytelling Troupe...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Connecting Readers and Authors Does Library Use Correlate Evening Storytelling Concert...... 7 - 9 pm through Video - KidLit TV...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm to College Success?...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Debutante Ball: Dance with Friday, April 21 Communicating Visually - Creating Infographics New Children’s Authors...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Library on the Go: Drama and with Piktochart - Hands on Lab 08 ...... 3 - 4 pm Tejas Star Book Reading List Storytelling to Market Services...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Learning Analytics Are Coming: Get Informed, and Program Ideas...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Encouraging Bilingual Storytelling...... 11 am - 12 pm Get Connected, Get Ready!...... 3 - 4 pm Connecting Art and Books with NCCIL...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Young Adult Literature Friday, April 21 Saturday, April 22 Wednesday, April 19 EDGE Initiative and Enhanced Children’s Round Table Author Session What’s New With Texas Middle Grade Public Service...... 8:30 - 9:30 am with Kevin Henkes ...... 8 - 10:15 am and YA Authors?...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Outcome Measurement Made Easy: 2017 Little Mavericks Graphic Novel Learning to Let Go: Working Through A Free Toolkit for Public Libraries...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Reading List...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Grief in YA Literature...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Explore TLA’s Diverse Community Baby Book Clubs: Connecting Books Thursday, April 20 at a Data Fiesta...... 9:45 - 10:45 am and Babies...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Student Retention Three Ways: Graphically Speaking: Graphic Novel Numbers, People, & Stories...... 11 am - 12 pm Diverse Literature Authors Enticing Readers...... 10 - 11 am Make Your Point with Data Visualization.....1:30 - 2:30 pm 13th Annual Poetry Roundup...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Wednesday, April 19 Own Your Profession: Celebrating Diversity: The Brown Bookshelf Art of the Clue: Investigate Mystery Effective User Analytics...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Salutes Great Books for Kids...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Fiction for Young Adults...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Saturday, April 22 Latino Caucus Round Table Author Session...... 4 - 5 pm Stories That Make You Say Hmmm: Alternative Historical Fiction for YA...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm How User Research Drives Innovation Thursday, April 20 Chilling Tales to Keep You Up at Night: at JSTOR...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Ensuring Diversity in Your School Library...... 10 - 11 am YA Horror and Dark Fantasy...... 3 - 4 pm Buildings & Facilities ALA Free Pass to Guadalajara...... 3 - 4 pm Friday, April 21 Wednesday, April 19 Pura Belpre: 20 Years of Excellence Bookmobile Bonanza: in Latino Literature...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Lone Star Reading List Author Panel...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Hey Batter, Batter Swing! Starting a School Program...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Friday, April 21 Sports Fiction for YA...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Thursday, April 20 Children of the World Diversity Panel...... 9:45 - 10:45 am A Conversation with Engaging Student Voice in The Likability Index: Are Female Characters Margaret Peterson Haddix...... 11 am - 12 pm School Library Design...... 10 - 11 am Held to a Higher Standard?...... 11 am - 12 pm The Likability Index: Are Female Characters Working on the Railroad: Active Learning Tejas Star Book Reading List Held to a Higher Standard?...... 11 am - 12 pm Spaces for Early Literacy...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm and Program Ideas...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Texas Tea: Meet and Greet Library Beyond Walls: New Adventures Reading Lists with YA Authors ...... 1:30 - 3:30 pm in Mobile Librarianship...... 3 - 4 pm Wednesday, April 19 Saturday, April 22 Friday, April 21 Speed Dating the Bluebonnets ...... 3 - 6 pm Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Data Visualization Labs: Everything You Wanted Thursday, April 20 Hot Off the Press: Great New to Know but Were Afraid to Ask...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Cultivating Bluebonnets from YA Books...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Designing Spaces for People, Campground to Battleground.....11:15 am - 12:15 pm MANAGEMENT Not Collections...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm From Cutting Edge to Common Ground: Bluebonnet Extravaganza: Administration A District-wide Collaboration...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm A Discussion about Library Space ...... 3 - 4 pm Wednesday, April 19 Introducing the Texas Topaz Saturday, April 22 Nonfiction Reading List...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Are You Ready? Policies & Procedures for A Place for All Experiences of People Dealing with Materials Challenges ...... 1 - 4 pm ? Friday, April 21 with Disabilities in the Library...... 9:15 - 10:15 am You, Me & RFP: Making the Most Libraries and Co-working Spaces...... 9:15 - 10:15 am 17th Annual 2x2 Showcase: of a Complex Process ...... 1 - 4 pm Customer Service Books for 2 Years to 2nd Grade...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Your Library Has a Brand. Are You Discover the Spirit of Texas High School Going to Shape It?...... 4 - 5 pm Wednesday, April 19 Reading Program...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Thursday, April 20 Strategic Marketing for the Lone Star Reading List Author Panel...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Non-Marketing Professional ...... 1:30 - 5:30 pm Are Overdue Fines Overdone? Eliminating Discover the Spirit of Texas Middle School Fines in Public Libraries...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Thursday, April 20 Reading Program...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Disaster & Crisis Planning Are Overdue Fines Overdone? Eliminating Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List with TTX Scenarios...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Fines in Public Libraries...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Author Session ...... 12 - 1:45 pm Appreciative Inquiry: The Positive Veterans and Military Communities: Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session ...... 12 - 1:45 pm Approach to Management...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Serving Those Who Served...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Tejas Star Book Reading List HARD Goals & Strategic Planning...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Designing Culturally Inclusive Library Programs.... 3 - 4 pm and Program Ideas...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Friday, April 21 Friday, April 21 Saturday, April 22 Preparing for Leadership: Behind the Frontline Library Stories: Unique Challenges, Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Scenes with New Directors...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Unique Solutions...... 9:45 - 10:45 am TAYSHAS Reading List Author Panel...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Accessibility Regulations & Realities: More than Saturday, April 22 2017 Little Mavericks Graphic Novel Just an Addendum to a Contract...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm A Place for All? Experiences of People Reading List...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Saturday, April 22 with Disabilities in the Library...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Storytelling Campus Carry: Where Are We Now?...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Finances Wednesday, April 19 Complete the Jigsaw Puzzle: Hire & Integrate Wednesday, April 19 Storytelling to Tweens and Teens ...... 1- 5 pm the Right Person for Your Team...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Budget Survival Skills...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm

26 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Thursday, April 20 Professional Job and Public Personas: Teen Volunteers in Your Library: Transforming Your Gen X-ers Are You a Librarian 24 Hours a Day?....2:45 - 3:45 pm 3 Models for Success...... 9:45 - 10:45 am into Gen Donors...... 10 - 11 am Set Your Library Apart: Developing Professional Job and Public Personas: an Email Marketing Campaign...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Are You a Librarian 24 Hours a Day ....2:45 - 3:45 pm Are Overdue Fines Overdone? Eliminating ? Fines in Public Libraries...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Saturday, April 22 Saturday, April 22 Rags to Riches: Recycling Books for Fun, Digital Making with Raspberry Pi Complete the Jigsaw Puzzle: Hire and Integrate the Right Fashion, and Furniture...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm - Hands on Lab 13 ...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Person for Your Team...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Saturday, April 22 Using Social Media to Promote Your Library: Pinterest, Security Breaking Bad News: Telling Faculty Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter .....10:30 - 11:30 am Thursday, April 20 about Dropping Resources...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Partnerships Disaster & Crisis Planning Leadership & Change Wednesday, April 19 with TTX Scenarios...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Wednesday, April 19 Bark & Tell! Therapy Dogs Friday, April 21 Discover Your Innovation Style ...... 1 - 4 pm in Your Library...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Active Shooter in the Building: Problem Solving with Design Thinking: Meet Your Muslim Neighbor at the Library: What Should You Do?...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Connecting Diverse Communities...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Applying Stanford’s d.school Method ...... 1 - 4 pm Saturday, April 22 Vendor Relations: A Marriage Putting Others First - Principles of Campus Carry: Where Are We Now ...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Servant Leadership...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm of Convenience...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm ? Transform Your School Library...... 4 - 5 pm Thursday, April 20 PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Thursday, April 20 Howdy, Partners: Friends with Benefits...... 10 - 11 am Diversity & Social Change Leading Gracefully: Women as Confident Scribblers: Creative Writing Wednesday, April 19 and Effective Leaders...... 10 - 11 am in the Community...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Meet Your Muslim Neighbor at the Library: Managing Workflow Improvements: Spreadsheets, WiFi Hotspot Checkout...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Connecting Diverse Communities...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Reorgs, & Everything In Between...... 10 - 11 am Partnering to Financially Empower Thursday, April 20 Users of All Ages...... 3 - 4 pm Storytelling to Create Positive Change Inside Ensuring Diversity in Your School Library...... 10 - 11 am and Outside Your Institution...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm What’s On Tap at Your Library: Outreach with Beer...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Multiculturalism and Multipluralism: A New Appreciative Inquiry: The Positive Approach to Era in Online Education and Beyond.....1:45 - 2:45 pm Management...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Small Community Library Round Table Friday, April 21 Library Beyond Walls: New Adventures Networking Dessert Social...... 7 - 9 pm in Mobile Librarianship...... 3 - 4 pm Friday, April 21 Engaging Diverse Users: Insights from the Experts...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Re-imagining the Academic Library...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Speed Dating with Vendors...... 7:30 - 9:30 am Explore TLA’s Diverse Community Friday, April 21 In It Together: Lessons from Social Workers at a Data Fiesta...... 9:45 - 10:45 am and Nurses in the Library...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Entrepreneurial Librarian: The Secret to Building Civil Rights in Black and Brown: an Intrapreneurial Organization...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Creating Seamless Student Transitions A Digital Humanities Collaboration...... 11 am - 12 pm from High School to College...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Fostering Innovation in Interlibrary Social Media for Social Justice...... 11 am - 12 pm Loan/Resource Sharing...... 11 am - 12 pm EatPlayGrow™ and HEB READ3: Early Childhood Health & Fitness...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Safe Zone Training: Building a Culture of Constant Being an LGBTQ+ Ally...... 1:30 - 3:30 pm Innovation...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Teen Volunteers in Your Library: Saturday, April 22 Are You a Leader? Are You Ready 3 Models for Success...... 9:45 - 10:45 am The Authentically Inclusive Space: to Stand TALL?...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Working with Strangers: A Powerful Tool Serving Special Needs Teens...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Saturday, April 22 for Generating Collaborations...... 9:45 - 10:45 am REFORMA’s Children in Crisis Project.....10:30 - 11:30 am Innovation Ecosystem: Creating an Atmosphere The Perfect Recipe: Cooking Programs of Innovation at Your Library...... 9:15 - 10:15 am in the Public Library...... 11 am - 12 pm We Need to Talk: Hosting Civil Discussion on Controversial Topics...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Breaking Bad News: Telling Faculty Art Unbound and Loud in the Library...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm about Dropping Resources...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Community Development Intellectual Freedom The Future Landscape with Collective Impact...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Wednesday, April 19 of School Libraries...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Connecting Art and Books with NCCIL...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Intellectual Freedom & Advocacy Marketing & Social Media Saturday, April 22 Boot Camp ...... 9 am - 12 pm Wednesday, April 19 The Embedded Librarian: Building Partnerships Are You Ready? Policies & Procedures among Public Libraries, Entrepreneurs, for Dealing with Materials Challenges ...... 1 - 4 pm Visual Branding Techniques and Small Businesses...... 8 - 9 am to Market Your Library...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Thursday, April 20 Artful Libraries: Inspiring Strategic Marketing for the Protecting Student Privacy: School Librarians Cultural Literacy...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Non-Marketing Professional ...... 1:30 - 5:30 pm on the Front Lines...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Snapchattin’ in Libraryland: Ten Seconds The Sky’s the Limit! School & Public Pride at Your Library: of Awesomeness! ...... 4 - 5 pm Libraries Working Together!...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Quality LGBT Programming...... 3 - 4 pm Your Library Has a Brand. Personnel Saturday, April 22 Are You Going to Shape It?...... 4 - 5 pm Wednesday, April 19 REFORMA’s Children in Crisis Project.....10:30 - 11:30 am Thursday, April 20 Preventing a Lifetime of Trouble: Intellectual Property Interviewing to Hire the Right People.....2:45 - 3:45 pm Creating ‘Look Books’ to Wednesday, April 19 Advertise Your Library...... 10 - 11 am Asserting Your Worth: Minorities & Becoming the Copyright Expert at Your Library .... 1 - 5 pm Market Like a Professional!...... 10 - 11 am Women in the Library Field...... 4 - 5 pm The Balanced School Library Program...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Libraries Transform: A Manager’s Friday, April 21 Human Resources Playbook...... 4 - 5 pm Market Your Library to Tweens, Copyright Year in Review...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Teens, and Twenty-Somethings...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Thursday, April 20 Leadership & Advocacy Friday, April 21 Activating Your Inner Wednesday, April 19 ‘Digital Professional’...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Library on the Go: Drama and Intellectual Freedom & Advocacy Storytelling to Market Services...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Friday, April 21 Boot Camp ...... 9 am - 12 pm Social Media for Social Justice...... 11 am - 12 pm Director’s Symposium: Evolving to the Library Advocacy in Action Connecting Readers and Authors Library of the Future ...... 7:30 - 9:30 am with EveryLibrary...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm through Video - KidLit TV...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Inside Scoop: What Administrators State of Change: Eye-Opening Demographics Favorite Tech Tools & Other Inspiration...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Look for in a School Librarian...... 8:30 - 9:30 am that Affect Your Library...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Play Your Way to an Engaged Staff...... 8:30 - 9:30 am School Librarians: Own Your Advocacy...... 4 - 5 pm

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 27 PROFESSIONAL ISSUES continued Owning Your Inner Information Friday, April 21 Technologist...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Thursday, April 20 API Integration Basics: Cutting Edge Technologies for Promoting Concepts and Applications...... 8:30 - 10:45 am AASL 101...... 10 - 11 am Your Library: FB Live, SnapChat, Protecting Student Privacy: School Librarians Periscope and More...... 11 am - 12 pm USER SERVICES on the Front Lines...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Power Up with Circuits...... 1 - 1:45 pm Core Services 85th Texas Legislative Session Update...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Favorite Tech Tools & Other Inspiration...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Wednesday, April 19 LSTA: The Next Five-Year Plan...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Playing With Matches: An Introduction Bookmobile Bonanza: Starting Advocacy Make and Take...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm to Regular Expressions...... 1:30 - 3:30 pm a School Program...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Telling the Library Story: Connecting Cloud-based Genius Hour...... 2 - 2:45 pm Using US Government Documents Neuroscience and Advocacy...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Not Your Mom’s Raspberry Pi...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm of Genealogical Research...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Friday, April 21 Saturday, April 22 Friday, April 21 Visible and Vibrant School Libraries...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Digital Making with Raspberry Pi...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Frontline Library Stories: Unique Challenges, Student Retention Three Ways: Google Apps for Advanced Users...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Unique Solutions...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Numbers, People, & Stories...... 11 am - 12 pm Data Curation & Management Creation & Fabrication Developing Advocacy Expertise...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Wednesday, April 19 Texas School Library Standards Revision.....2:45 - 3:45 pm Thursday, April 20 Big Data: Making Research Accessible, Tech Camp ...... 10 am - 4 pm Saturday, April 22 Discoverable, & Reusable...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Integrating Maker Literacies into Using Social Media to Promote Your Library: Pinterest, Grateful Data: Data Cleaning, Digital Experiential Learning Assignments...... 10:15 - 11 am Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Humanities, and Deadheads...... 3 - 4 pm Coding in the Library: Tips and Tricks Trends & Forecasting Friday, April 21 for Getting Started...... 11:15 am - 12 pm Wednesday, April 19 Is Data Literacy Important to Undergraduate 3D Design with Tinkercad - Hands on Lab 02 ...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm State of Change: Eye-Opening Demographics Information Literacy?...... 11 am - 12 pm that Affect Your Library...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Playing With Matches: An Introduction Thursday, April 20 Thursday, April 20 to Regular Expressions...... 1:30 - 3:30 pm Low Cost No Cost STEAM programming...... 12:15 - 1 pm Big Data: Making Research Accessible, Emerging Technology The Balanced School Library Program...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Discoverable, & Reusable...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Wednesday, April 19 Friday, April 21 Does Library Use Correlate Tech Camp ...... 10 am - 4 pm Dashing to Code...... 9 - 9:45 am to College Success?...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Going Places with Google Expeditions...... 1:15 - 2 pm Cutting Edge Technologies for Promoting Re-imagining the Academic Library...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Your Library: FB Live, SnapChat, Is It A Tool or an Experience?: What New Technology Friday, April 21 Is Right For You & How To Approach It...... 2:15 - 3 pm Periscope and More...... 11 am - 12 pm Building a Community of Future Thursday, April 20 Not Your Mom’s Raspberry Pi...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Ready School Librarians...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Saturday, April 22 Make Your Point with Data Visualization.....1:30 - 2:30 pm Top Tech Trends...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Building a Culture of Creating & Inventing Own Your Profession: TECHNOLOGY – Networks & Hardware in Libraries with Makerspace Effective User Analytics...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Thursday, April 20 Tools and Resources...... 9 - 9:45 am Saturday, April 22 Surviving a 1:1 Implementation...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Texas Media Awards Presentation...... 9:30 - 11:30 am Innovation Ecosystem: Creating an Atmosphere of Friday, April 21 The State of Make in Texas...... 10 - 10:45 am Innovation at Your Library...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Owning Your Inner Information Circulating ‘Take and Make’ Maker Kits...... 11 - 11:45 am The Future Landscape Technologist...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Literacy of School Libraries...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Not Your Mom’s Raspberry Pi...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Wednesday, April 19 TECHNOLOGY Saturday, April 22 Pop-Up Book Distributions: Creating an Applied Technology Digital Making with Raspberry Pi...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Oasis in a Literary Desert...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Wednesday, April 19 Systems ‘Series’ously Check Us Out...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Tech Camp ...... 10 am - 4 pm Thursday, April 20 Thursday, April 20 3D Design with Tinkercad Managing Workflow Improvements: Spreadsheets, Play & Learn: Get on the Little Read Wagon..... 10 - 11 am - Hands on Lab 02 ...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Reorgs, and Everything In Between...... 10 - 11 am Whodunnit? Programming with Teen Book Clubs of the Future: Open Source or Open Headache ... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Forensics and Mysteries...... 10 - 11 am Embracing Reading in Cyberspace...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm ? The Reluctant School Library Working on the Railroad: Active Learning #ColorOurCollections: Create Your Spaces for Early Literacy...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Own Digital Archival Coloring Book...... 1:30 - 3:45 pm Cataloger...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Community Engagement à la carte...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Getting Started with UX...... 4 - 5 pm Omeka...... 11:15 am - 1:15 pm Friday, April 21 Keep Libraries Weird: Creative Thursday, April 20 Programming for Teens...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Creating ‘Look Books’ API Integration Basics: Concepts & Applications...... 8:30 - 10:45 am Scribblers: Creative Writing to Advertise Your Library...... 10 - 11 am in the Community...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Digital Storytelling: More than Just Movies...... 10 - 11 am If You Build It, Will They Come? Optimizing Your Linked Data Project...9:45 - 10:45 am Inspiring Music Play for Infants & Toddlers...... 3 - 4 pm Best Practices for Building LibGuides...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Playing with Matches: An Introduction Friday, April 21 WiFi Hotspot Checkout...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm to Regular Expressions...... 1:30 - 3:30 pm Building Blocks of Language Learning...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Sketchnoting: Benefits for You Do Author Visits Make a Difference ...... 9:45 - 10:45 am and Your Students...... 3 - 4 pm Saturday, April 22 ? Magic of Writing: Friday, April 21 eBook Record Management...... 8 - 9 am Websites & UX Ray Bradbury’s Techniques...... 11 am - 12 pm Data Visualization Labs: Everything You Wanted Connecting Readers and Authors to Know but Were Afraid to Ask...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Wednesday, April 19 through Video - KidLit TV...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm EDGE Initiative and Enhanced Visual Branding Techniques Literature Circles: Voice and Choice...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Public Service...... 8:30 - 9:30 am to Market Your Library...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Young Children of Literacy: Google for Beginning Users...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Getting Started with UX...... 4 - 5 pm Libraries in Action...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm API Integration Basics: Your Library Has a Brand. Are You Saturday, April 22 Concepts and Applications...... 8:30 - 10:45 am Going to Shape It?...... 4 - 5 pm Baby Book Clubs: Connecting Books and Babies...... 10:30 - 11:30 am

28 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Hot Off the Press: Keep Libraries Weird: Creative Transliteracy & Instruction Great New YA Books...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Programming for Teens...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Wednesday, April 19 Inspiring Music Play for Infants & Toddlers...... 3 - 4 pm Reference Services Integrating Maker Literacies into Wednesday, April 19 Partnering to Financially Empower Experiential Learning Assignments...... 10:15 - 11 am Users of All Ages...... 3 - 4 pm Caring for the Mind: Providing Mental Coding in the Library: Tips and Tricks Health Information...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Service Learning Success: Partnerships for Getting Started...... 11:15 am - 12 pm Connecting Students and Community...... 3 - 4 pm Going Places with Google Expeditions...... 1:15 - 2 pm Thursday, April 20 DIY Escape Room...... 3:15 - 4 pm Best Practices for Building LibGuides...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Owning Distance Learning: Try Something Different in your Library Three-Minute Success Stories...... 4 - 5 pm Services for Adults with BreakoutEDU ...... 4:15 - 5 pm Thursday, April 20 Wednesday, April 19 Friday, April 21 Digital Storytelling: More than Just Movies...... 10 - 11 am Tools and Trends in Genealogy ...... 8 am - 12 pm Discover the Spirit of Texas Middle Guided Inquiry Design: School Reading Program...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Native American / First Nations Research...1:30 - 2:30 pm A Framework in Your School...... 10 - 11 am Do Author Visits Make a Difference?...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Thursday, April 20 Whodunnit? Programming with Reading from the Ears Up: Reader/Listener EatPlayGrow™ and HEB READ3: Forensics and Mysteries...... 10 - 11 am Appeal of the Audio Book...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Early Childhood Health and Fitness.....9:45 - 10:45 am Work It! Own It! Gaining Confidence Veterans and Military Communities: Pin-Worthy Library Programming in Assessing the ACRL Framework...... 10 - 11 am Serving Those Who Served...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm & Curriculum Collaborations...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Beyond Google: Leveraging OER & TexQuest Partnering to Financially Empower Music Play with Purpose: Readiness, Resources with Gen Z Learners...11:15 am - 12:15 pm Users of All Ages...... 3 - 4 pm Literacy, & Inclusion in Storytime...... 11 am - 12 pm Keep Them Listening: Tools and Tips More than Surname Surfing: Using the Girls, STEM & Entrepreneurship: to Engage an Audience...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Internet Resources for Genealogists...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Empowering the Next Generation...... 12 - 12:45 pm Librarian on the Stage: What’s On Tap at Your Library: Art Unbound and Loud in the Library...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Acting Techniques to Enhance Outreach with Beer...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Serving Secondary Special Needs Your Teaching Presence...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Students in the Library...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Friday, April 21 Low Cost No Cost STEAM programming...... 12:15 - 1 pm Connecting Art and Books with NCCIL...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Creating Seamless Student Transitions The Balanced School Library Program...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm from High School to College...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Real World Teen Services...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Best Practices for Building LibGuides...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Talking About Reading!...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Saturday, April 22 Surviving a 1:1 Implementation...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Physical Computing with Scratch ...... 10 - 10:45 am Texas Media Awards Presentation...... 9:30 - 11:30 am Sketchnoting: Benefits for You Design Thinking for Innovative Baby Book Clubs: Connecting and Your Students...... 3 - 4 pm Library Programming ...... 11 - 11:45 am Books and Babies...... 10:30 - 11:30 am DIY Escape Room ...... 3:15 - 4 pm Magic of Writing: Breakout (EDU) of Traditional Learning... 10:30 - 11:30 am Try Something Different in your Library Ray Bradbury’s Techniques...... 11 am - 12 pm Services for Special Populations with BreakoutEDU...... 4:15 - 5pm The Perfect Recipe: Cooking Programs Moving from Topics to Teaching Concepts Wednesday, April 19 Using Guided Inquiry Design...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm in the Public Library...... 11 am - 12 pm Bark & Tell! Therapy Dogs Writing and Storytelling with PlayLab...... 4:15 - 5:15 pm Art Unbound and Loud in the Library...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm in Your Library...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Historical Research Methodology: Engaging Caring for the Mind: Providing Friday, April 21 the Process to Find all the Answers...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Mental Health Information...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Building Blocks of Language Learning...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Saturday, April 22 Pop-Up Book Distributions: Creating Dashing to Code...... 9 - 9:45 am The Embedded Librarian: Building Partnerships an Oasis in a Literary Desert...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Creating Seamless Student Transitions among Public Libraries, Entrepreneurs, Urban Libraries and Community Development..... 4 - 5 pm from High School to College...... 9:45 - 10:45 am and Small Businesses...... 8 - 9 am Thursday, April 20 Pin-Worthy Library Programming & Curriculum Collaborations...... 9:45 - 10:45 am Artful Libraries: Inspiring A Path to U.S. Citizenship Cultural Literacy...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Can Start in the Library...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Physical Computing with Scratch...... 10 - 10:45 am The ACRL Framework Sandbox for Humanities, Multiculturalism and Multipluralism: A New Design Thinking for Innovative Social Sciences & STEM Librarians.....10:30 - 11:30 am Era in Online Education and Beyond.....1:45 - 2:45 pm Library Programming...... 11 - 11:45 am Services for Children & Young Adults Veterans and Military Communities: Collaboration Across the Content Areas..... 11 am - 12 pm Wednesday, April 19 Serving Those Who Served...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm Is Data Literacy Important to Undergraduate Information Literacy ...... 11 am - 12 pm Bark & Tell! Therapy Dogs Designing Culturally Inclusive Library Programs.... 3 - 4 pm ? in Your Library...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Pride at Your Library: Girls, STEM & Entrepreneurship: Empowering the next generation...... 12 - 12:45 pm Passive Programming Quality LGBT Programming...... 3 - 4 pm for Active Young Users...... 12:15 - 1:15 pm Friday, April 21 Power Up with Circuits...... 1 - 1:45 pm ACRL Framework Curriculum Mapping...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Storytelling to Tweens and Teens ...... 1 - 5pm Building Blocks of Language Learning...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Cloud-based Genius Hour...... 2 - 2:45 pm Pop-Up Book Distributions: Creating Engaging Diverse Users: an Oasis in a Literary Desert...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Insights From the Experts...... 8:30 - 9:30 am ACRL Framework Round Table Discussions...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Teen Book Clubs of the Future: In It Together: Lessons from Social Workers Embracing Reading in Cyberspace...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm and Nurses in the Library...... 8:30 - 9:30 am Savory Slides: Beyond Power Point...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Thursday, April 20 Encouraging Bilingual Storytelling...... 11 am - 12 pm Saturday, April 22 Ambassador Schu’s Books for You Serving Secondary Special Needs Engaging and Developing and Your Readers, Too!...... 10 - 11 am Students in the Library...... 1:30 - 2:30 pm Positive Digital Citizens...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Play & Learn: Get on the Little Read Wagon..... 10 - 11 am Safe Zone Training: The ACRL Framework Sandbox for Humanities, Being an LGBTQ+ Ally...... 1:30 - 3:30 pm Social Sciences & STEM Librarians.....10:30 - 11:30 am Whodunnit? Programming with Forensics and Mysteries...... 10 - 11 am Accessibility Regulations & Realities: More than Breakout (EDU) of Traditional Learning...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Cultivating Bluebonnets from Just an Addendum to a Contract...... 2:45 - 3:45 pm Campground to Battleground.....11:15 am - 12:15 pm Saturday, April 22 Google Apps for Advanced Users...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Reading from the Ears Up: Reader/Listener A Place for All Experiences of People How User Research Drives Innovation ? at JSTOR...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Appeal of the Audio Book...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm with Disabilities in the Library...... 9:15 - 10:15 am Working on the Railroad: Active Learning The Authentically Inclusive Space: Spaces for Early Literacy...... 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Serving Special Needs Teens...... 10:30 - 11:30 am Bluebonnet Extravaganza: A District-wide Collaboration...... 1:45 - 2:45 pm

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2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 31 WEDNEsday April 19 PRECONFERENCES All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Preregistration is required for all preconferences by Friday, April 7; ticket purchase is required as noted. All preconferences will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center unless otherwise noted.

New genealogy resources CPE#351: SBEC 3.0;TSLAC 3.0 Continuing Professional Education credits come online all the time and Discover Your Innovation Event State Board for TX State Library & new genealogists are engaging Number Educator Certification Archives Commission Style (Ticketed; register all the time. Explore the online only) expectations of 21st century CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 1:00 - 4:00 pm genealogists and become Program Title What style of innovator are Curt Witcher familiar with the latest tools 8:00 - 9:50 am and trends in family history you? With her Innovation Quotient Edge Assessment, research. Tamara Kleinberg Tamara Kleinberg, consultant CPE#301: SBEC 7.0; Curt Witcher, Allen County Public Library (IN). to Fortune 500 companies, can help you TSLAC 7.0 Archives, Genealogy, and Local History Round Table. develop a stronger, more valued voice for Train the Trainer: innovation and change. Attendees will receive Designing Courses for CPE#302; SBEC 6.0; TSLAC 6.0 a copy of the IQE Assessment. Adult Learners (Ticketed; Making the Case for Tamara Kleinberg, The Shuuk (CO). register online only) Conference Program Committee and Texas State Shannan Carrozza Funding, Programs, and 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Innovation (Ticketed) Library & Archives Commission. Looking for proven training techniques? 9:00 am – 4:00 pm CPE#353: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 Learn a six step process to integrate the four Designed for leaders and Nancy L. Maron Problem Solving with Design Thinking: primary principles of adult learning, create aspiring leaders in libraries lesson plans for the three parts of a course, Applying Stanford’s d.school Method of all types, this workshop offers a hands-on (Ticketed) and design relevant activities to measure approach to making the case for change. In 1:00 - 4:00 pm course objectives. Receive tools, templates, and this session, you will learn and apply tools training to design effective courses. Workshop that will help you to identify ways to better Tackle your library problems with the Stanford includes a lifetime license to use an electronic position your organization in its community, d.school (Institute of Design) method for copy of The Course Design Blue Print Kit© identify the key stakeholders you’ll need to building creative solutions. The workshop with manual and customizable templates. Visit have on your side, and articulate the case for focuses on using hands-on approaches to solve www.WorkshopWiz.com for more details. change. Teams strongly encouraged to attend. critical issues. Participants are encouraged to Shannan Carrozza, Shannan Renee Coaching and Based on the IMLS-sponsored NEXUS work with partners on concerns facing their Training. Curriculum. own libraries. Conference Program Committee. Alexia K. Riggs, Howard Payne University. Ling Hwey Jeng, (moderator), Texas Woman’s CPE#303: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 University and Nancy L. Maron, BlueSky to College and University Libraries Division. BluePrint, and Yonkers Public Library. Intellectual Freedom & Conference Program Committee and Texas State CPE#352: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 Advocacy Boot Camp Library & Archives Commission. You, Me, and RFP: Making the Most (Ticketed) CPE#350: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 of a Complex Process (Ticketed) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Are You Ready? Policies & Procedures 1:00 - 4:00 pm How do I advance intellectual Jamie LaRue for Dealing with Materials Challenges The RFP (Request for freedom within the profession Proposals) is an involved and with my stakeholders? How do I become (Ticketed) process that libraries, service a respected and effective advocate in my 1:00 - 4:00 pm groups, and companies community? The speaker answers these It is critical to have complete, undertake as part of their questions and more. clear policies and procedures Eileen Condon ongoing operations. Examine Jamie LaRue, Office of Intellectual Freedom, for dealing with challenges to the RFP workflow from the American Library Association (IL). library materials. Participants perspective of the library, the vendor, the Intellectual Freedom Committee; Black Caucus will work in facilitated small consortium, and the state government. Round Table; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender groups to develop or revise Round Table; Public Libraries Division; Special Eileen Condon, Webster University Libraries (MO); Jamie LaRue their own policies and Libraries Division; and Texas Association of Arta Kabashi, ProQuest; Carol Seiler, EBSCO School Librarians. procedures. The Information Services; J. Michael Thompson, preconference also includes best practices for University of Houston; and Russlene Waukechon, CPE#300: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0 Texas State Library & Archives Commission.

WEDNESDAY • APRIL 19 WEDNESDAY training staff to handle challenges. Texas State Library & Archives Commission. Tools and Trends in Genealogy: Courtney P. Kincaid, North Richland Hills Library; Something for Everyone - Genealogical and Jamie LaRue, Office of Intellectual Freedom, CPE#354: SBEC 3.5; TSLAC 3.5 American Library Association (IL). Reference Services in the 21st Century Intellectual Freedom Committee; Gay, Lesbian, Engaging Your Community: Using (Ticketed) Bisexual, Transgender Round Table; Latino Caucus the Aspen Report to Re-envision Your Round Table; Public Libraries Division; and Texas 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Association of School Librarians. Library (Ticketed) 1:00 - 4:30 pm

32 Texas Library Journal • Winter 20142016 Use Rising to the Challenge CPE#358: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0 and its companion Action Storytelling to Tweens and Teens Take me to conference! Guide to engage your 1:00 - 5:00 pm (Ticketed) Bring this publication to conference community in a discussion of aspirations and possibilities. Storytelling is the perfect way to keep full program details at Participants will learn about to develop rapport and share hand. A pocket-sized booklet with Maureen Sullivan the tools and techniques information with tweens and event names and locations will be developed for use at the local teens. This interactive distributed onsite, and updates level. This program will address how to apply workshop features tips and on programs and events will be the resources in academic, public, research, techniques for selecting and broadcast through TLA social and school settings. Beth Horner telling stories and provides a media and on the conference Gretchen A. Pruett, New Braunfels Public Library; model for program development. mobile app. and Maureen Sullivan, advisor, The Aspen Institute. Beth Horner, storyteller. Public Libraries Division and Workforce-Library Storytelling Round Table and Young Adult Partnerships Task Force. CPE#357: SBEC 3.0 Round Table. CPE#355: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0 CPE#356: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0 Speed Dating the Bluebonnets Becoming the Copyright Strategic Marketing for the Non- (Ticketed) 3:00 - 6:00 pm Expert at Your Library Marketing Professional (Ticketed) In a small (Ticketed) 1:30 - 5:30 pm group format, 1:00 - 5:00 pm Marketing is not about signs and eBlasts; it is several authors Whether or not it is in your about understanding your patrons and positioning your library to on the 2017- job description, people in 18 TBA your institution are turning meet their needs. Use Kevin L. Smith Master List to you for copyright expertise. segmentation, targeting, and positioning to make your will share their Develop a toolkit to address experiences the use of others’ creative works and learn how library indispensable. Participants will earn a and copyright applies to your own professional inspirations, while committee members work. Ryan Hamilton Strategic Marketing Certificates of Completion. present best practices and book-specific Naomi M. Bates, Northwest ISD (Justin); Gretchen resources to promote a lifelong love of McCord, Digital Information Law; Kevin L. Smith, Mentoring follows in the Collaboration Space. reading. University of Kansas Libraries; and Stephanie Ryan Hamilton, Goizueta Business School, Emory Swenson Towery, Texas State University. University. Texas Bluebonnet Award Committee Copyright and Access Interest Group. Conference Program Committee. • Ali launched the education nonprofit Code. conference org, which Hadi continues to lead full-time. within a Code.org has established computer science conference classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the tech most broadly used curriculum platform for K-12 computer science, and launched the Sherry Gick Jessica Malloy Kyle Pace global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students.

11:00 - 11:40 am...... Breakout Session 1 camp Participants will have 4 breakout session times,

CPE#304: SBEC 5.5; TSLAC 5.5 with multiple no repeat sessions being offered. WEDNESDAY • APRIL 19 Ticketed; register online only Attendees are encouraged to go to any and all Amy J. Mayer Hadi Partovi Nikki D. Robertson sessions they are interested in, and can move 10:00 am - 4:00 pm between sessions offered at the same time. TLA’s acclaimed Tech Camp returns with ways they can make their libraries and students 11:45 am - 12:25 pm...... Breakout Session 2 new content to equip participants with skills Future Ready! Librarians with great Future 12:30-1:20 pm...... Inspirational Lunch and knowledge to maximize social media Ready ideas are also encouraged to come to ...... with Sherry Gick& Sponsor Visits platforms, web applications, digital content, this space and share. The Future Ready Think and tech tools that wow students, teachers, Tank will be open all day, and Tech Camp Enjoy your lunch while being inspired and administrators. Learn what’s hot, what will participants are encouraged to pop in as they by Sherry Gick! Sherry Gick is a teacher- be hot, and how to master and promote these have a few minutes here and there. librarian, technology integrator, tech coach, international speaker, social media lover, resources to build learning and collaboration 9:00 - 10:00 am...... Registration at your school. Bring your own device. YA reader, technology addict, iPhone fiend, 10:00 - 10:50...... Opening Keynote with Hadi Partovi collaborator, relocated southern belle, envelope Future Ready Think Tank! Come start your day with our opening pusher, idea challenger, optimist, and runner. With the Future Ready movement in full keynote by Hadi Partovi, a tech entrepreneur, She has 20 years of experience in education swing, we want to offer a space for librarians to investor, and CEO of the education nonprofit teaching K-12 students. She was named a come together at Tech Camp and brainstorm Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2015, is a

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 33 Bammy nominee, and is the past-president for Chrome is more than just a browser, it’s a that Google Drive can do for you and your the ISTE Librarians Network. whole OS with more free options than a students! pirate’s chest! Come and learn about some of An Unshakeable Passion for 1:25 - 2:05 pm...... Breakout Session 3 the extensions and add-ons that you COULD Screencasting or How to Teach 2:10 - 2:50 pm ...... Breakout Session 4 live without...but shouldn’t in this hands-on session with Amy Mayer of friEdTechnology. Thousands for Free 3:00 - 4:00 pm...... Closing Keynote com. Be sure to bring your Mac, PC, or Amy J. Mayer, friEdTechnology ...... with Nikki D. Robertson Chromebook! I have a confession. . . I have a passion for Recap your learning from the day with Nikki screencasting, and I would love to share my Helpful Apps for 1:1 Libraries tips and tricks with an audience ready to D. Robertson for our closing smackdown! Carolyn B. Foote, Eanes ISD Nikki is a veteran educator, librarian and help 1000s of people via YouTube. Learn instructional technology facilitator for James iPads or 1:1 laptops? Having devices how to start your own YouTube channel, Clemens High School. She is passionate about available to students provides you with many add thumbnail images and captions, and 1:1 Digital Initiatives, collaboration with other opportunities to engage students. What are get your first subscribers. We’ll attempt to education professionals, and assisting students some go-to apps that are useful across many make our first video and get it uploaded in becoming well informed, critically thinking subject areas? Explore ways to collaborate with during this fast-paced session. Come ready digital citizens. Nikki is the co-founder of teachers and some helpful apps like Canva, to do and learn and find our own passion EdCamp Atlanta, co-moderator of #TLChat Flipgrid, and more! for screencastin’ with Amy. LIVE! Twitter Sessions, and producer and co- Don’t Debug Me...I’m Coding! Tech Club @Your Library anchor of TL News Night. Crissy Casey, Frisco ISD Michelle Cooper, White Oak ISD Breakout Session 1 Programs Only 1 in 4 schools teach computer Introducing STE(A)M activities into your programming, yet careers in computer science library curriculum promotes real world 11:00 - 11:40 am are on the rise. Libraries are rapidly becoming problem solving, hands on inquiry and Libraries, Makerspaces, the place to prepare students for these 21st open ended exploration, collaboration, and & Messes...oh my! century skills, and librarians must be equipped recognizing that failure is an important part Sherry Gick, Five Star Technology Solutions to meet this demand. This session will provide of the learning process. Starting a tech club We all know that learning can and should be attendees with the tools needed to introduce enables your students the opportunity to learn messy! We’ll explore various ways to engage coding to their patrons and create a coding about circuits, robotics, coding and more. students in your library and beyond with program in their library for students of any hands on learning and exploration via coding, age. Virtual Learning Commons Heather Lister, Mackin Educational Resources makerspaces, and more. Learning may be Breakout Session 2 Programs messy, but failure isn’t a dirty word. Let’s talk The idea of a Learning Commons isn’t new, about how to offer students a space to fail 11:45 am - 12:25 pm but how about taking that philosophy of a safely to learn and grow. flexible, participatory space and making it Digital Portfolios: The Rest of the Story digital. Ditch the traditional library website STEMgineers in the MAKEing Nikki D. Robertson, James Clemens High School (Madison City Schools, Madison, AL) and recreate the space into a two-way stream Jessica Malloy, Plano ISD of information, made for participation. Do you want to inspire the next generation In this session, participants will explore ways of STEMists? How about incorporating digital portfolios are a critical and powerful Breakout Session 3 Programs educational component that grow and develop Engineering Design Challenges into your 1:25 - 2:05 pm space that can connnect content across the with students throughout their lifetimes. curriculum? I’ll show you how to sneak STEM Digital portfolios allow for alternative grading, The Digital Playground: in and make a huge impact. self-reflection, and so much more! Join Nikki Who’s On Recess Duty? D Robertson to learn how you can start using Nikki D. Robertson, James Clemens High School Digital Literacy - Take Charge digital portfolios in your school starting with (Madison City Schools, Madison, AL) of Your Searching Kindergarteners all the way to YOU! Our kids are growing up on the digital Kyle Pace, Grain Valley School District (Lee’s playground and no one is on recess duty. In Summit, MO) Anytime, Anywhere. Learning for All. Laura Sheneman, ESC Region 1 this session, join Nikki D Robertson to learn Google Search is so much more than typing School librarians are in a strategic position how and why librarians should serve as role in a word and looking up information. models regarding the proper use of social Information literacy is something that all to positively impact student learning and teacher effectiveness. This workshop will media tools (Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat, teachers and students need to be skilled Instagram), support authentic learning in. The ability to locate and curate quality address strategies school librarians can use to increase their effectiveness when supporting experiences that include social media tools as information is critical for students. This a component, and advocate for ways schools session will cover how to find the information teachers with the new teacher evaluation tool (T-TESS). can use these platforms and more to inform, you’re looking for in a much more efficient involve, and engage. manner with Google’s various search Creating Even More functions. Google search also puts huge with Google Drive! Lions and Tigers and Robots....Oh my! Jessica Malloy, Plano ISD WEDNESDAY • APRIL 19 WEDNESDAY amounts of helpful day to day information Kyle Pace, Grain Valley School District (Lee’s right at your fingertips. Come get lots of tips, Summit, MO) Participants will get up close and personal tricks, and hone your Google search skills! Are you ready to take your use of Google with a robotic petting zoo. In this session Chrome Extensions You Could Live Drive beyond Docs, Sheets, and Slides? participants will have the opportunity to try Did you know there’s lots of awesome apps out various robots. After participants explore Without...But Shouldn’t! available to you in Google Drive that make the robots, they’ll receive different ideas on Amy J. Mayer, friEdTechnology it do even more! Come to this session to how to implement using robots into the learn about all of the extra awesome things curriculum and library program. 34 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 YouTube: Work Smarter. Breakout Session 4 Programs future visits and events, Google has the tools for you. Whether or not your school uses Create Harder 2:10 - 2:50 pm Kyle Pace, Grain Valley School District (Lee’s Google Apps for Education, you can still use Summit, MO) Getting HYPED with hyperdocs! these techniques. Investigate Google Forms Are you ready to increase your knowledge of Sherry Gick, Five Star Technology Solutions and learn to create Google Calendar layers YouTube beyond playing a video here and What the heck is a hyperdoc? Why should you that will keep your library running smoothly there in class? This session will cover ways to be using them with students and staff? How and YOU in the know about what’s coming not only curate existing content, but how to do I get started creating them? We’ll explore up next. Join Amy Mayer of friEdTechnology, create content, upload it, and make it work the ever expanding world of hyperdocs using a veteran EdTech guru, and Jacqueline variety of tools and resources. Your hyperdocs best for you and your students. Learn how to Higginbotham, school librarian and TALL use YouTube in new ways to not only provide tool belt will be locked, loaded, and ready to Texan for this relevant, transformative session. quality instructional content to your students, use after this session! Bring your Mac or PC Laptop and be ready to but produce quality content for your students Online Design Tools build products you will use every day! as well. Tools for creating screencasts will be Laura Sheneman, ESC Region 1 covered as well as important security settings School Libraries provide a comprehensive Explore the World for uploading content you create. collection of high-quality instructional with Google Expeditions Googliciouss: Learn How (and Why) resources and services that help students Julie M. Brem and Kara Johnson, Grapevine to Get the Google Certification develop information and digital literacy Colleyville ISD That’s Right for You skills. In this session, teachers will explore the Google Expeditions virtual reality experience, Amy J. Mayer, friEdTechnology resources that tap into your students’ interests designed for educators and learners, and imaginations. allows students to engage with a variety In the constantly changing world of Google Apps for Education, how do you make sure Twitter as a Professional of environments to enhance learning and you keep up with the changes? How can you Development Tool generate further inquiry. In this session, you achieve Google status that will help you prove Kyle Pace, Grain Valley School District (Lee’s will venture on an Expedition or two and learn your skills? Learn how, what, where, and why Summit, MO) how you can be a “Guide” on your campus as to keep up in the often confusing constantly Twitter is a widely popular tool for developing well. changing world of Google Certifications a PLN, or Personal Learning Network. It’s Let’s Get Digital with Google Apps PD Partner Amy Mayer, a quick and easy way to connect with like Nicole Graham, Fort Worth ISD minded educators, get ideas and resources, friEdTechnology. With the seemingly countless numbers of and participate in educational chats. This Ardui-No? or Yes! session will cover the basics of how to use digital tools targeted to educators, it can be Allyssa Loya, Rockwall ISD Twitter, terminology, hashtags, and making overwhelming to figure out which tool(s) to If you haven’t heard of Arduino, you need connections. Leave with a great beginning to use. We will narrow our focus to a handful to! Arduino is an incredibly versatile (and your personal learning network! of simple but effective web 2.0 tools that affordable) platform that students can use to teachers and students can use to take lessons build a number of amazing electronic projects. Tech Tools to Revolutionize and projects to the next level. This session From simple blinking lights on a circuit Your Library FREE from Google is intended for educators who are new to breadboard to coding the Arduino Uno, this Jacqueline Higginbotham, New Caney ISD & Amy J. Mayer, friEdTechnology the classroom or educators who are new is the next step for all of your tinkering and to implementing web 2.0 tools in their coding kids. This presentation will show you In this hands-on session, librarians will classrooms. the ins and outs of how to get started with the interact with real-world examples of basics of Arduino. Building, coding and ready technology integration in the library settings. Children’s Round Table, Texas Association of to print instructions will be covered in this From knowing who is using the library, and School Librarians, and Young Adult Round Table. session. Arduino is best for kids 5th grade and how often, to keeping track of scheduling up. See you there! Badge Up! Making Learning Visible •

Through Digital Badges WEDNESDAY • APRIL 19 Teresa L. Diaz, North East ISD Digital badges are a powerful tool for The TLA Escape Room identifying, validating, and virtually sharing Do you like puzzles? Can you solve riddles? diverse skills, knowledge, and competencies. Digital badges have made their way into Then you and your friends are the perfect candidates to attempt TLA’s Escape professional learning environments, the Room. This library-themed adventure is located in the Exhibit Hall and will also be occasional classroom or project assessment, but what about your library, or even your entire available during the President’s Party. school community? See how one school library scenario: TLA President Walter Betts has been detained by the FBI and is being developed a badge ecosystem for engaging, applying, and recognizing ongoing learning for questioned regarding violations of the USA Patriot Act. He is counting on his its students through flipped instruction, self- TLA colleagues to find evidence hidden in his office that will exonerate him – paced learning, and mastery-based formative while maintaining his patrons’ privacy. But you must hurry; you only have a few assessment. Explore ideas and ways to develop an integrated digital badge platform for your minutes to find and transmit the evidence to the FISA Court before Walter is own library or campus. sentenced and never heard from again!

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 35 WEDNESDAY April 19 programs & events Badge Pick-up (preregistered)...... 7:30 am All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Connection Corner (Computers, Meetings are in purple; events are black and sans serif. Housing, Internet)...... 10 am – 7 pm Registration...... 10 am – 7 pm CPE#359: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#360: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TLA Store...... 10 am – 7:30 pm Bark & Tell! Therapy Passive Programming for Career Development Center...... 1 pm – 5 pm Dogs in Your Library Active Young Users Bag Check (UPS Rent-a-Box)...... 5:30 – 7:30 pm 12:15 - 1:15 pm 12:15 - 1:15 pm Collaboration Space...... 5:30 – 7:30 pm Get your community or school barking up Limited staff? No meeting room? No Exhibits...... 5:30 – 7:30 pm your library’s tree with therapy dogs! Your programming budget? No problem! Learn Innovation Lab...... 5:30 – 7:30 pm community’s furriest members have a lot to how to incorporate self-directed and/or pop offer your library’s patrons and students. From up programs into your library’s cycle to engage increased literacy skills to stress relief, walk the differing needs, interests, and learning Continuing Professional Education credits away with ideas about how to incorporate styles of children and youth. Attendees will Event State Board for TX State Library & Number Educator Certification Archives Commission therapy dogs into your library. walk away with engaging activities they can Toni Jean Davenport, New Braunfels Public Library. implement immediately. CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Conference Program Committee. Sara Pope, Houston Public Library. Children’s Round Table and Texas State Library Program Title CPE#381: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 & Archives Commission. 8:00 - 9:50 am Caring for the Mind: Providing CPE#397: SBEC 1.0 Mental Health Information Spotlight Storytimes The University Press in 2025 12:15 - 1:15 pm 12:15 - 1:15 pm Shining a Light on Diverse Books Learn how to effectively provide mental Will the university press still (Pop Up Programs) health information at your library using free electronic resources from the National Library exist in 2025? University Watch for surprise spotlight storytimes of Medicine. Gain awareness of mental health presses struggle with viability throughout conference highlighting recent issues and learn to respond to challenging in a quickly changing diverse picture books perfect for your library. reference questions from your community. publishing climate. What Grab the mic yourself and step into the changes are being made to Sarah Miles, National Library of Medicine, South spotlight – we’ll have a basket of great books Central Region. Carey C. Newman remain relevant, and what on hand. Look out for this lively and engaging Automation and Technology Round Table role does the library play in program where people are gathered! continuing the press model? CPE#HOL370: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Kevin S. Hawkins, University of North Texas; Carey Exhibitors Round Table Golf Outing Introduction to Code.org – Hands on C. Newman, Baylor University Press; and Robyn Reid and Dan Williams, Texas Christian University. (Ticketed) Lab 01 (Ticketed; register online only) Conference Program Committee. 8:00 am - 2:00 pm 12:15 – 1:15 pm CPE#362: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 The Republic Golf Club, 4226 SE Military Drive Code.org’s free resources are Built along scenic Salado Creek, among designed to teach K-12 Visual Branding Techniques glorious oak, elm, and mesquite trees, The students coding with visual to Market Your Library Republic Golf Club has consistently been programming blocks but can 12:15 - 1:15 pm voted the #1 course in San Antonio by the be used for learners of any age Learn to use core design Express News. Measuring 7,007 yards from in or out of a school setting. principles, such as the championship tees, but with 5 sets of tees Susan F. Reeves You may have participated in typography, color, and to choose from, golfers can enjoy the course the Hour of Code, but not composition, along with easy from a distance that best suits their game and realized all the continuing to use design tools to build ability. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, courses, facilitator, and learner accounts that Shala Graham the brand identify of your April 7, through preregistration. are available at no charge on a year-round basis. Susan F. Reeves, a Code.org K-5 library and promote your Exhibitors Round Table. Facilitator, will guide participants in how to services and programs. Texas State Library & Archives Commission utilize the free Code.org resources and Shala Graham, brand strategist. 8:00 am - 3:00 pm free accounts. Participants will explore the Conference Program Committee. Code.org courses and will receive links to Bylaws & Resolutions Committee Meeting I CPE#364: SBEC 0.75 curriculum materials, vocabulary resources, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ideas for library implementation and What’s New with Texas Children’s Community Engagement Task Force

WEDNESDAY • APRIL 19 WEDNESDAY information on free training. Tickets must be Authors and Illustrators? 11:00 am – 12:00 pm purchased by Friday, April 7, through 12:15 - 1:15 pm Texas Bluebonnet Award Joint Meeting preregistration. Texas authors and illustrators introduce their Susan F. Reeves, ESC Region 20. latest projects for elementary readers and 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Automation and Technology Round Table. describe the types of programs they offer to the library community. A business meeting precedes the program.

36 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Crystal Allen; Chris Barton; Donna Janell Bowman; Thomas Fortin, San Francisco Public Library; and CPE#379: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Paige Britt; Carolyn Dee Flores; Susan Kay Jennifer Moody, Human Resources Department, Kralovansky; Cynthia Levinson; Elizabeth Garton City of San Antonio. Pop-Up Book Distributions: Scanlon; and Don Tate, authors and illustrators. Conference Program Committee. Creating an Oasis in a Literary Desert Texas Authors and Illustrators Round Table. 1:30 – 2:30 pm CPE#371: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Programming for Adults Round Table Are you concerned about the summer slide? Lessons from the Research Institute 12:15 - 1:15 pm Worried about students with little access to for Public Libraries books over school breaks? Plan and prepare Workforce Library Partnerships Task Force 1:30 - 2:30 pm for neighborhood pop-ups to distribute books Business Meeting Join us for a facilitated dialogue with librarians to students and families. Learn how to collect 12:15 - 1:15 pm who attended an intensive training on donations, solicit volunteers, and choose the CPE#HOL371: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 assessment, evaluation, and benchmarking. best times and locations. The 2nd Annual Research Institute for Public Irene Frances Kistler, Alamo Heights ISD; and Vertis 3D Design with Tinkercad - Hands on Libraries (RIPL) focused on practical tools Sheri Watkins, North East ISD (San Antonio). Lab 02 (Ticketed; register online only) for public libraries of all sizes. RIPL will be Young Adult Round Table. 1:30 - 2:30 pm replicated in Texas in the fall of 2017. CPE#3516: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Lost in the world of 3D design and printing? Brent W. Bloechle, Plano Public Library System; Learn to use Tinkercad to turn your idea David Cooksey, San Antonio Public Library; Toni Putting Others First: into a 3D model ready for printing. Tickets Jean Davenport, New Braunfels Public Library; Principles of Servant Leadership Malani Heaton, Irving Public Library; Elizabeth must be purchased by Friday, April 7, through 1:30 - 2:30 pm Hollenbeck, McAllen Public Library; Diane Insley, preregistration. San Marcos Public Library; and Jennifer Peters As leaders we do not create Maggie Rose Fox, Frisco Public Library. (moderator), Texas State Library & Archives growth. The best we can do is Automation and Technology Round Table. Commission. cultivate an environment Texas State Library & Archives Commission. conducive to growth. CPE#378: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#369: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Discover the role servant Bookmobile Bonanza: leadership can play in an Starting a School Meet Your Muslim Neighbor organization or community. Rob Franke Program at the Library: Connecting Rob Franke, mayor, City of Cedar Hill. 1:30 - 2:30 pm Diverse Communities Conference Program Committee. Are book deserts a reality in 1:30 - 2:30 pm your area? Get a bookmobile A public library worked with CPE#374: SBEC 1.0 Ana Pasarella rolling in your school Muslim and Sikh partners to ‘Series’ously Check Us Out district or community. Explore the start-up create family-friendly events 1:30 - 2:30 pm and maintenance of a bookmobile program, where local communities including the cost, staffing, stocking, and come together in a celebration Do you want to raise rock-star readers? You’ve procedural issues involved. of diversity and unity. Learn Eva Davis come to the right place. These authors reveal how series books can give beginning readers Gloria Dean Dennis, Houston ISD; Amy Louthan how to create these public and Ana Pasarella, Alvin ISD; and Liz Philippi, Texas events for any special population to make all pleasure – and confidence. Whether read State Library & Archives Commission. feel welcome in your library. independently or as family read-alouds, series books offer children continuing characters Texas Association of School Librarians. Eva Davis, Canton Public Library (MI). who inspire further reading and further CPE#372: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Diversity and Inclusion Committee. accomplishment. A life-long love of reading Budget Survival Skills CPE#373: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 begins here! 1:30 - 2:30 pm Native American / Is your budget down the drain? Learn ways a First Nations Research survival librarian overcomes budget restraints. 1:30 - 2:30 pm Emily Billings (moderator) and Coby Condrey, University of North Texas; Sharon Reed Dressel, This lecture provides an Mansfield ISD; and Maria Redburn, Bedford Public overview for the person just WEDNESDAY • APRIL 19 Library. getting started doing Native Conference Program Committee. American genealogical Monica Brown David Liss Fran Manushkin Curt Witcher research. Emphasis is placed CPE#370: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Monica Brown, Lee & Low Books; on the researcher paying David Liss, Simon & Schuster, How to close attention to historical details, the major Inc.; Fran Manushkin, Capstone Negotiate differences between Euro-American and Press; Marci Peschke, author and Dallas ISD and James Preller, Your Worth Native American societies, and conducting Macmillan Children’s Publishing 1:30 - 2:30 pm his/her research within the proper historical Group. James Preller and geographic contexts. Major records groups Children’s Round Table. What are you are defined with an extensive bibliography worth? Thomas Fortin Jennifer Moody provided. Some consequential first steps in This mock engaging in any type of Native American negotiating session will leave you feeling research are enumerated and discussed. empowered and ready to negotiate, advocate, Curt Witcher, Allen County Public Library (IN). and self-promote. Archives, Genealogy, and Local History Round Table.

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 37 CPE#367: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#384: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Equip yourself to identify and avoid open Teen Book Clubs of the Future: Getting Started with Webinars access predatory publishing. Learn about Embracing Reading in Cyberspace 2:45 - 3:45 pm exploitative open access publishers that are in it for the money but provide no editorial or 1:30 - 2:30 pm Interested in presenting webinars for your publishing services. Explore the latest trends in Expand your clubs beyond the physical patrons or staff? Discover the effectiveness predatory practices including predatory book world into cyberspace. Use different apps and and reach of the webinar format, and learn publishing and bogus professional conferences. programs to allow your clubs to meet and best practices to keep your webinars engaging, discuss books both in person and online. Bring smoothly run, and cost-effective. Brian Quinn, Texas Tech University. your own device. Kyla A. Hunt, Texas State Library & Archives Conference Program Committee. Commission. Barbara Allen, Alvin ISD. CPE#HOL372: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Distance E-Learning Round Table and Library Young Adult Round Table. Instruction Round Table. Power Up TexQuest! - Hands on Lab 03 CPE#375: SBEC 1.0 Introduction to TLA Finances (Ticketed; register online only) What’s New with Texas 2:45 - 3:45 pm 2:45 - 3:45 pm Middle Grade and YA Authors Officers are invited to learn about TLA Librarians are constantly finding new ways to help their teachers and students navigate an 1:30 - 2:30 pm budgeting, financial policies, and practices that increasing number of digital materials. Join us Hear a lineup of Texas authors and illustrators impact units and committees. as we discover resources on TexQuest.net and introduce their new projects for youthful Sherra R. Bowers, Texas Library Association. from TexQuest providers to help you connect readers and describe programs they offer to the CPE#386: SBEC 1.0 users quickly to quality digital resources. See library community. how librarians around the state are leveraging Jeff Anderson; Jessica L. Anderson (moderator); Learning to Let Go: Working Through Karen Blumenthal; Patricia J. Hoover; Caroline Grief in YA Literature their web pages, digital communication tools, and social media to share articles, Leech; Cory Putman Oakes; Jennifer Anne Park; 2:45 - 3:45 pm Christina Soontornvat; and Jennifer Ziegler, authors videos, images, and full-text eBooks. Bring YA authors share how they and illustrators. your device and get support to begin sharing navigate their characters Texas Authors and Illustrators Round Table. resources with teachers at your campus/ through the overwhelming district. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, College and University Libraries Division task of accepting the loss of a All Committees April 7, through preregistration. Nina LaCour loved one. 1:30 - 2:30 pm Nicole Ellis, La Vernia ISD; Liz Philippi, Texas State Library & Archives Commission; Marty Rossi and TALL Texans Round Table Business Meeting Ann Vyoral, ESC Region 20 1:30 - 2:30 pm Automation and Technology Round Table and Texas State Library & Archives Commission. CPE#368: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#390: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 #ColorOurCollections: Create Your Preventing a Lifetime of Trouble: Own Digital Archival Coloring Book Jennifer Niven Adam Silvera Ray Villareal Interviewing to Hire the Right People 1:30 – 3:45 pm Nina LaCour, Penguin Random A favorite pastime has returned as a method House; Jennifer Niven, Random 2:45 - 3:45 pm House Children’s Books; Adam A Chinese master states: “A single of stress relief and artistic expression. Libraries Silvera, Soho Press; Ray Villareal, are on trend with #ColorOurCollections, Arte Público Press; and Len inappropriate appointment means a lifetime highlighting digital archival materials with Vlahos, Bloomsbury Children’s of trouble.” In addition to improving downloadable coloring pages. Bring your Books. organizational practices and question laptop and learn how to create a coloring Len Vlahos Young Adult Round Table. generation, how else might search committees perfect the hiring process? Discover effective book to connect with your community in a CPE#387: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 new way. hiring practices and interviewing processes to Library Advocacy in Action make the best hire, including decoding both Jeanette Claire Sewell, Houston Public Library. with EveryLibrary verbal and nonverbal cues. Digital Libraries Round Table. 2:45 - 3:45 pm Julie B. Todaro, Austin Community College and ALA CPE#380: SBEC 1.0 Are you familiar with President. EveryLibrary? Hear about the Supervision, Management, and Administration Celebrating Diversity: The Brown Round Table. Bookshelf Salutes Great Books for Kids purpose and library advocacy efforts of the organization. CPE#383: 2:45 - 3:45 pm Learn how to better engage SBEC 1.0; Explore books written by with your communities and TSLAC 1.0 African-American authors and legislators on behalf of John Chrastka discover why reading these State of Change: Eye- libraries. books is important for all Opening Demographics children. Receive tips and John Chrastka, EveryLibrary. that Affect Your Library

WEDNESDAY • APRIL 19 WEDNESDAY Conference Program Committee. Lloyd B. Potter resources for incorporating 2:45 - 3:45 pm Kelly Starling Lyons these titles into your library CPE#389: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 The data collected by the Texas State and community. Never Judge a Journal by Its Cover: Demographer impacts the operations of Crystal Allen, author; Gwendolyn Hooks, Lee & Predatory Publishing and the your libraries. Learn about trends already Low Books; Kelly Starling Lyons, Albert Whitman reshaping the social and political landscape of & Company; Olugbemisola Rhuday-Oerkovich, Dance of Cyberseduction author HarperCollins / Arthur A. Levine. the state. What are the shifts librarians need 2:45 - 3:45 pm Black Caucus Round Table.

38 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 to recognize? How can libraries identify new CPE#3517; SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 opportunities? Aggregating Texas Digital Collections Lloyd B. Potter, University of Texas at San Antonio. for the Digital Public Library Conference Program Committee. of America CPE#363: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 4:00 – 5:00 pm In this program, the Texas Digital Library, Using US Government Documents Guadalupe Xavier Garza Diane Gonzalez University of North Texas, and Houston for Genealogical Research Garcia McCall Bertrand Public Library will discuss their work to 2:45 - 3:45 pm develop an expanded statewide aggregation David Bowles, Researching government “hub” for the Digital Public Library of University documents can be of Texas Rio America, making unique digital collections Grande Valley; intimidating. This session will from across Texas discoverable through the Guadalupe demystify the terminology Garcia McCall, DPLA’s portal. Ray Villareal author; Xavier and organization of Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library. government documents. Joe Jimenez Garza, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Conference Program Committee. Joe Jimenez, and Ray Villareal Curt Witcher There is a wealth of Arte Publico Press; and Julio Serrano Echeverria, information available to the CPE#395: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Cinco Books. genealogist and local historian in these Asserting Your Worth: Minorities Latino Caucus Round Table. collections. and Women in the Library Field CPE#3501: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Curt Witcher, Allen County Public Library (IN). 4:00 - 5:00 pm Archives, Genealogy, Libraries Transform: A Manager’s and Local History Round Table. Women and minorities currently make up Human Resources Playbook the majority of workers in the library field 4:00 - 5:00 pm CPE#391: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 yet typically make less than their white male The ALA President’s initiative – Libraries counterparts. How can this gap in pay be Vendor Relations: A Marriage Transform: The Expert in the Library – bridged? of Convenience provides standard and cutting edge HR Melanie Clark and Kimberly Vardeman, Texas Tech 2:45 - 3:45 pm information for managers. Management University. The library-vendor relationship is one built content on human resources is difficult to keep Latino Caucus Round Table and College and on interdependence. Ideally, it is a mutually University Libraries Division. current in the changing library environment. beneficial relationship in which each party Receive recommendations and resources on informs the other to improve resources and Battledecks! innovative job positions, descriptions, and services. However, differing priorities and goals 4:00 - 5:00 pm competencies. can strain such relationships. The popular Battledecks is back! Come to Julie B. Todaro, Austin Community College Emily Billings (moderator), University of North watch or to compete in this PowerPoint and ALA President. Texas; Arta Kabashi, ProQuest; Kathryn King, Fort Karaoke competition. You’ll be entertained Supervision, Management, and Administration Worth Library; and Ann Kutulas, Tarrant County Round Table. College. and leave with a fun programming idea to use in your library. CPE#3503: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Conference Program Committee. TALL Texans Round Table and New Members Round Owning Distance Learning: Small Community Libraries Round Table Table. Business Meeting Three-Minute Success Stories CPE#398: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2:45 - 3:45 pm Getting Started with UX Attendees will share their distance learning Texas Media Awards Committee 4:00 - 5:00 pm stories in three minutes or less, and the group 2:45 - 3:45 pm User experience (UX) offers will brainstorm a list of best practices for Tea Celebrating Library Pioneer Elizabeth valuable approaches for successful online environments. Bring your own device. Howard West (Ticketed) improving library services, but it’s not always easy to Yvonne J. Chandler (moderator), University of 2:45 - 4:45 pm Scott W. H. Young North Texas. know where to begin. Learn WEDNESDAY • APRIL 19 Clingman Education Gallery at the Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 Distance E-Learning Round Table. W. Market St. practical strategies for launching UX projects at your library, including specific getting- CPE#394: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Join colleagues for an afternoon tea to network started projects that can help demonstrate and learn about San Antonio library pioneer School Librarians: Own Your Advocacy the value of UX for administrators and fellow and former TLA president (1914-1916) and 4:00 - 5:00 pm librarians. State Librarian, Elizabeth Howard West. Discover resources available to support local A docent-led museum tour will be offered for Scott W. H. Young, Montana State University. school library advocacy efforts. Explore interested attendees during the event. Tickets Conference Program Committee. strategies for building a librarian network, must be purchased by Friday, April 7, through CPE#399: SBEC 1.0 identify other collaborators, and engage with preregistration. Latino Caucus Round Table colleagues who share common advocacy Retired Librarians Round Table. Author Session challenges. Becky A. Calzada, Leander ISD; Liz Philippi, Texas 4:00 - 5:00 pm State Library & Archives Commission; and Jennifer Meet exceptional Latino authors who will L. Rike, Mansfield ISD. showcase quality literature featuring diverse Texas Association of School Librarians. characters.

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 39 CPE#HOL373: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 libraries can improve services to their users, Exhibit Hall Snapchattin’ in Libraryland: Ten including special populations. Grand Opening & Welcome Seconds of Awesomeness! - Hands on Susan Benton, Urban Libraries Council. 5:30 - 7:30 pm Lab 04 (Ticketed; register online only) Conference Program Committee. Join colleagues as you settle in for the 2017 4:00 - 5:00 pm CPE#3508: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Annual Conference. Meet up with friends and Educators are using Snapchat to engage and exhibitors during this uncontested time and Your Library Has a Brand. begin four days of networking and socializing. delight their customers with exciting content. Are You Going to Shape It? Want to know how to do it? Let’s explore this Light refreshments will be provided at stations sometimes misunderstood social media tool 4:00 - 5:00 pm throughout the Exhibit Hall. that can facilitate curriculum integration, Your library has a brand, Conference Local Arrangement Committee. even if you don’t take steps communication, and promotion. Tickets BiblioTech / Via Ride & Read must be purchased by Friday, April 7, through to shape it. This session will Party Bus & Reception preregistration. help you develop strategies for (Ticketed; register online only) Heather Lamb, Castleberry ISD. shaping a positive brand for your library. pm Automation and Technology Round Table. Shala Graham 6:15 - 9:30 Shala Graham, brand strategist. BiblioTech, 3505 Pleasanton Road Continuing Professional Education credits CPE#3506: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Conference Program Committee. Share the fun of Ride and Read! Bus will So You Need to Plan a Conference... College and University Libraries Division board outside the Convention Center at 6:15 4:00 - 5:00 pm Executive Board...... 4:00 - 5:00 pm pm and 7:45 pm (two runs) and travel to a Is event planning out of your reception for TLA librarians at BiblioTech. District 1 & District 3 Caucuses.. 4:00 - 5:00 pm comfort zone? Own your Space is limited. If you have your own CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0a profession and leverage your Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List transportation, just join us for the party. Ride, Program Title Committee I...... 4:00 - 5:00 pm library skills to create Read, and Party with BiblioTech and Via! 8:00 - 9:50 am successful state, regional, and Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List Networking with New Members local meetings. Task Force...... 4:00 - 5:00 pm 7:30 - 8:30 pm Lisa Varga Lisa Varga, Virginia Library Young Adult Round Table (YART) Lone Star Association. Fuddruckers, 115 Alamo Plaza Reading List Committee...... 4:00 - 5:00 pm Conference Program Committee. Networking, networking, networking! It’s all YART Maverick Reading List CPE#3507: SBEC 1.0 about who you know! Broaden your network Committee...... 4:00 - 5:00 pm Speed Dating at the Texas Author with other new members (all conference YART Spirit of Texas-Middle School attendees welcome) at our Dutch-treat event at and Illustrator Meet and Greet Reading List Committee...... 4:00 - 5:00 pm Fuddruckers. Join us for a fun, casual evening 4:00 - 5:00 pm YART Spirit of Texas-High School of making connections, building professional Come to the Speed Dating Meet and Greet Reading List Committee...... 4:00 - 5:00 pm opportunities, and making new friends. and get to know your Texas authors and New Members Round Table. illustrators. Relax, visit, and find out who is YART TAYSHAS Reading List in your neighborhood and what kind of work Committee...... 4:00 - 5:00 pm EveryLibrary Fund Raising Event they do. Great Ideas: Posters and More 8:00 - 9:30 pm Texas Authors and Illustrators Round Table. 4:00 - 5:30 pm Location to be determined CPE#361: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TLA members open minds by presenting Join EveryLibrary for a special event near the conference center and help build voter Transform Your School Library their innovative ideas in poster sessions. See the showcase of new ideas, and leave with support for libraries! Donations accepted at 4:00 - 5:00 pm takeaways to implement in your library. www. the door. Visit action.everylibrary.org to Librarians must continually evaluate their txla.org/poster-session-proposals. RSVP, or check out @everylibrary on Twitter services and spaces to ensure user needs are or Facebook for event details. being met. Advocates for the Transform Your Conference Program Committee. School Library movement will share their Texas Library Association COUNCIL I San Antonio After Dark: Ghost Tour experiences and offer resources and inspiration 4:30 - 5:30 pm (Ticketed; register online only) for librarians who are committed to Future Council is the governing body of TLA. 8:45 - 10:30 pm Ready Learning. All conferees are invited. Take a walk back in time as Alamo City Tina Berumen, Coppell ISD; Shawna Ford Ghost Tours brings back San Antonio’s (moderator), Weatherford ISD; Michelle Griffith, TALL Texans Social & Awards Reception cruel and wicked past. Hear the blood Brazosport ISD; and Nancy Jo Lambert, Frisco ISD. 5:30 - 6:30 pm curdling stories and ghostly happenings that Texas Association of School Librarians. TALL Texans, join us for this year’s social to continue today. San Antonio is considered CPE#388: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 catch up with fellow TALLs. Welcome the one of the most haunted cities in the world. 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WEDNESDAY • APRIL 19 WEDNESDAY Standing TALL recipient. The social is the hotels are the best places to find ghosts. Community Development perfect way to connect and to kick off your Detection equipment will be handed out 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm conference! to study the paranormal for this mile walk Utilizing the Urban Libraries TALL Texans Round Table. around downtown. Learn how the events Council values – education, of San Antonio’s yesterday have created the lifelong learning, digital ghosts of today. Meet in the main lobby of the evolution, and healthy Susan Benton convention center outside of TLA registration. sustainable communities – Space is limited. 40 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Thursday April 20 programs & events All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Meetings are in purple; events are black and sans serif. Connection Corner (Computers, Housing, Internet)...... 7 am – 5 pm CPE#303: SBEC 0.5 Registration...... 7 am – 5 pm General Session I Bag Check (UPS /Rent-a-Box)...... 9 am – 6 pm 8:15 - 9:45 am Career Development Center....10:15 am – 5 pm General sessions are a highlight of the Annual Conference, and this Collaboration Space...... 10:15 am – 5 pm year’s will be no exception! Dynamic speakers representing the best of our Exhibits...... 10:15 am – 5 pm community and profession will inspire, challenge, and motivate audience Innovation Lab...... 10:15 am – 5 pm members. TLA will announce the special guests this spring. TLA Store...... 10:15 am – 5 pm Conference Program Committee.

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Event State Board for TX State Library & Advocacy is the strongest form of storytelling. programs, and literature collection be a Number Educator Certification Archives Commission How will you keep your students, teachers, reflection of our community and beyond? and parents excited about the programs Consider approaches to ensure diversity in happening in your library? Let’s create a Look your library. CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0a Book! This visual portfolio contains content Deborah B. Ford, Junior Library Guild. Program Title (images and videos) curated from your Conference Program Committee. 8:00 - 9:50 am library activities. Showcase the best moments. CPE#448: SBEC 1.0 Promote new books. Inspire and delight your Scholarship and Research Committee community as their stories are retold in this Graphically Speaking: Graphic Novel Authors Enticing Readers 7:30 - 8:15 am digital format. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, April 7, through preregistration. 10:00 - 11:00 am CPE#405: SBEC 1.0 Heather Lamb, Castleberry ISD. In this digitally-obsessed age, graphic novels AASL 101 Automation and Technology Round Table. must elbow their way through the electronic 10:00 - 11:00 am noise. Join these comics and graphic novel CPE#408: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Navigate the multiple creators as they disclose their secrets to features and benefits of AASL Digital Storytelling: engaging all kinds of readers. membership and hear about More than Just Movies practical resources to advance 10:00 - 11:00 am your career as a school library Audrey Church Learners and librarians can harness new tools professional. Learn how your membership not traditionally associated with storytelling in AASL supports the profession, how TASL to create eye-catching digital stories as part collaborates with AASL, and how of the library curriculum. Identify resources, to get involved in your national association. including Sketchnotes, stop motion, and other Drew Brockington Nathan Hale Shannon Hale Audrey Church, president, American Association of tools for producing unique digital stories. School Librarians. Naomi M. Bates, Northwest ISD (Justin). Drew Texas Association of School Librarians. Brockington, Young Adult Round Table. Little, Brown Books for CPE#403: SBEC 1.0 CPE#409: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Young Readers; Ambassador Schu’s Books Engaging Student Voice Nathan Hale, Abrams Books for You and Your James Sturm David Weisner in School Library Design for Young Readers, Too! 10:00 - 11:00 am Readers; Shannon Hale, Macmillan Children’s 10:00 - 11:00 am Redesigning a school library? What are ways to Publishing Group; James Sturm, Toon Books; and Hear about some of the empower student voice in the design of your David Wiesner, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

John Schumacher THURSDAY • APRIL 2O best new titles for emergent, space? Explore strategies for making students a Conference Program Committee. transitional, and fluent readers. Mr. Schu shares vital part of library redesign so that it becomes book trailers, websites, activities, and interviews “their” library. Spotlight Storytimes you can easily incorporate into lessons and Carolyn B. Foote, Eanes ISD; and Zandra Lopez, booktalks to get young readers excited! Leander ISD. Shining a Light on Diverse Books John E. Schumacher, Scholastic Book Fairs. Texas Association of School Librarians. (Pop Up Programs) Conference Program Committee. CPE#410: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Watch for surprise spotlight storytimes CPE#HOL470: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Ensuring Diversity throughout conference highlighting recent Creating ‘Look Books’ to Advertise in Your School Library diverse picture books perfect for your library. Grab the mic yourself and step into the 10:00 - 11:00 am Your Library - Hands on Lab 05 spotlight – we’ll have a basket of great books (Ticketed; register online only) What is diversity? Is it race, gender, ethnicity, on hand. Look out for this lively and engaging 10:00 - 11:00 am ability, or culture? If we work with diverse program where people are gathered! patrons, shouldn’t our teaching strategies,

41 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 THURSDAY • APRIL 20 42 Press. Pidge Media,LLC.;andE.S. Wesley, CuriosityQuills Sourcebooks, Inc.;MichelleStaubachGrimes, Bayliss, CuriosityQuillsPress; NancyCavanaugh, Jeff Anderson,SterlingChildren’s Books;Sharon 10:00 -11:00 Strut Their Stuff Independent Authors C D. Stimpson,Lone StarCollege-CyFair. Daniella Smith,UniversityofNorthTexas; andJane Michelle Cervantes,RoundRockPublicLibrary; inyour ownpartnerships library. Force tosurvey, evaluate, andattractstrategic toolkit developed by thePartnership Task be friendswithbenefitsandhow tousethe relationship. Learnwhatitreally meansto It’s official!TLA announcesan new exciting 10:00 -11:00 Howdy, Partners: Friends withBenefits C Leslie Maniotes,BLV K. Consulting. 10:00 -11:00 A Framework forYour School Guided Design: Inquiry C student learningandsuccess. how tosuccessfullyimplementitimpact components ofGuided Design Inquiry and P P P Leslie K. Maniotes Leslie K. Nancy Cavanaugh

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CPE#426: SBEC 1.0 HarperCollins CPE#424: SBEC .75 Children’s 13th Annual Poetry Roundup Books; Ashley Black Caucus Round Table Author 11:15 am - 12:15 pm April Henry Sheryl Scarborough Elston, Disney- Hyperion; April Session: My Life Beyond ‘Good Times’ Attendees hear poets read from their work and Henry, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group; and (Ticketed) experience firsthand the pleasures to be found Sheryl Scarborough, Tor Books. 10:00 am - 12:15 pm in the spoken word and the power of poetry Young Adult Round Table. for developing literacy and language. Bern Nadette Stanis will share CPE#433: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 her journey beyond Good Beyond Google: Leveraging Times as an actress, wife, mother, daughter, and OER & TexQuest Resources caregiver for her mother with with Gen Z Learners Alzheimers. Bern Nadette 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Bern Nadette Stanis Stanis’s memoir The Last Are Gen Z students tech-savvy when using Night recounts her challenges Jeannine Atkins Kari Holt Amalia Ortiz Google over reliable digital resources? Students as a young Black woman in Hollywood to her demand immediate, relevant, and engaging role as a caregiver to her Alzheimer’s stricken content. Online tools like TexQuest and mother. Her current passion is raising Open Ed Resources along with strategies like awareness of Alzheimer’s disease in the Black blended learning, gamification, and digital community and the work of her own badging can motivate students to go beyond foundation which advocates for Google. caregivers. Brunch tickets must be purchased by Tamera Will Wissinger Allan Wolf Janet Wong Teresa L. Diaz, Janie Flores, and Erika J. Murray, Friday, April 7, through preregistration. 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Publishers/Ecco; and Randall Silvis, Sourcebooks Sketchnoting: Benefits Landmark. CPE#4505: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 for You and Your Students Public Libraries Division. Activating Your Inner 3:00 - 4:00 pm CPE#493: SBEC 0.5 ‘Digital Professional’ Learn about Sketchnoting, a popular business Scott Westerfeld & Texas 4:15 - 5:15 pm tool, and how you can incorporate it into the A 60-minute session classroom and library. Receive introductory Association of School loaded with tips and tricks information, see examples of successful Librarians Business for the modern digital implementations, and start on the road to Meeting Tim Chase professional. Is it your time becoming a Sketchnoter to improve student 3:00 - 5:15 pm Scott Westerfield to shift from working harder to working learning. Bring your own device. TASL will Honor MVP, smarter? Let these free tools and time-saving Karin M. Perry and Holly A. 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CPE#484: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 AN Evening with the Authors also a way to experience some of San Antonio’s What’s On Tap at Your Library: (Ticketed) hidden gems. Beer and water will be provided. Outreach with Beer 6:00 - 9:30 pm Meet in the main lobby of the convention center, just outside of TLA registration. Space is limited. 4:15 - 5:15 pm La Orilla Del Rio, 203 S. St. Mary’s Street Engage the adults in your Join us for a glimpse behind Conference Local Arrangements Committee. community during library- the scenes and into authors’ CPE#EF482: SBEC 2.0 related events by sharing beers worlds at Evening with the Evening Storytelling Concert from local craft breweries. Authors. Enjoy a delightful 7:00 - 9:00 pm Learn best practices and tips dinner experience in the to get your beer event drafted treasured La Orilla building Grand Hyatt, 600 E. Market Street. Katy Kelly and off the ground. and meet writers from a Circle of Excellence storyteller Sara Paretsky Katy Kelly, University of Dayton (OH). variety of genres. Book signing (and former librarian) Beth Conference Program Committee. to folow event. Dinner tickets must be purchased Horner headlines our evening by Friday, April 7, through preregistration. of storytelling. She will be CPE#HOL471: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 menu: Caesar salad; choice joined by bilingual musician- Writing and Storytelling with PlayLab of: 1) Fiesta Petit Filet storyteller Sue Young and - Hands on Lab 09 (Ticketed; with Demi-glace, 2) Beth Horner African-American griot register online only) Grilled Salmon with DeCee Cornish, along with librarian teller Candy Casseb. 4:15 - 5:15 pm Hollandaise, or 3) Grilled Portobello Mushroom Candy Casseb, North East ISD (San Antonio); Learn how to integrate Decee Cornish, Tarrant County College; Beth PlayLab into your library, and Ruta Sepetys and French Carrots; Horner, storyteller; Mary Grace Ketner, (emcee); how to utilize free Code.org Garlic Mashed Potatoes, and Sue Young, musician-storyteller. resources and free accounts. Asparagus and Grape Tomatoes; Storytelling Round Table. Participants will use PlayLab Susan F. Reeves Strawberry Meringue Cake with Cream Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender to create a story/game, publish their work on Cheese Filling; Iced Tea and Water; Round Table Meet & Greet the web, and receive examples of storyboard Regular and Decaffeinated Coffee, tools, vocabulary, task cards, and other support Assorted Hot Teas. 7:00 - 9:00 pm materials to integrate these activities into any Sara Paretsky, HarperCollins Publishers; and Ruta Brooklynite, 516 Brooklyn Avenue Sepetys, Penguin Random House. library. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, Come party with members of the GLBT April 7, through preregistration. Conference Program Committee. Round Table at this local bar! Whether you’re Susan F. Reeves, ESC Region 20. Library School Dinners & Receptions a member of the round table or not, or if Automation and Technology Round Table. you’re LGBT or an ally, come let loose with us! Tickets must be purchased by Friday, April 7, There will be a cash bar and specialty drinks. Texas Library Association through preregistration. Transportation will not Membership Meeting be provided. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Round Table. 5:15 - 5:45 pm SHSU Dinner Small Community Libraries Round Table Bring your ideas and observations to this Networking Social (Ticketed) annual forum for all TLA members. Discuss 6:30 - 8:30 pm 7:00 - 9:00 pm hot issues facing TLA. Location TBD. Please contact Karin Perry, [email protected] for more information. The Buckhorn and Texas Ranger Museum, 318 E. Houston Street Public Libraries Division TWU Reception (Ticketed) Join us for a fun evening to network with Membership Party other small community librarians. SCLRT 6:30 - 8:00 pm 5:30 - 6:30 pm recognizes the Small Community Librarian Grand Hyatt, 600 E. Market Street. Maria Mia Mexican Bistro, 849 E. Commerce Street of the Year and the Advocate of the Year, UNT Reception and thanks sponsors and supporters of Small Join the Public Libraries Division for happy (Ticketed) pm Community Libraries. A presentation of hour! Cocktails (sponsor permitting), tasty 6:30 - 8:00 library and librarian achievements will be snacks, and door prizes abound. You will Paesanos Riverwalk, 111 W. Crockett Street, #101 showcased while attendees enjoy heavy hors have the opportunity to meet fellow PLD THURSDAY • APRIL 20 UH - Clear Lake Dinner (Ticketed) d’oeuvres, desserts, and a cash bar. members and learn about new opportunities 6:30 - 8:30 pm Small Community Libraries Round Table. for involvement. Casa Rio, 430 E. Commerce Street Public Libraries Division. Intergalactic Dance Club Party UT - Austin Reception (Ticketed) 6:30 - 8:30 pm (Ticketed) Location TBD. 9:00 pm - 12:00 am Brooklynite, 516 Brooklyn Avenue CycloSocial Party Bike Ride Join fellow good-time library colleagues and (Ticketed; register online only) friends for the one party that rises to the upper stratosphere of celebration and revelry. Tickets 7:00 – 8:00 pm or 8:00 – 9:00 pm must be purchased by Friday, April 7, through Want a fun way to cap off your evening at preregistration or may be purchased at the door. TLA? How about spending time on a party bike socializing with fourteen other conference Intergalactic Dance Club Round Table. attendees? This relaxing ride is a healthy way to see the city as Fiesta starts to gear up. It is

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 51 FRIDAY April 21 programs & events All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Meetings are in purple; events are black and sans serif.

Connection Corner (Computers, Texas Association of School Librarians showcase activities and resources you can use Housing, Internet)...... 7 am – 5 pm Advocacy/Legislative Committee to promote all 20 books. Registration...... 7 am – 5 pm 7:30 - 8:15 am Children’s Round Table. Bag Check (UPS /Rent-a-Box)...... 9 am – 6 pm Career Development Center...... 9 am – 4 pm CPE#504: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 CPE#Bi562: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Exhibits...... 9 am – 4 pm Director’s Symposium: Big Idea: Think Sideways Innovation Lab...... 9 am – 4 pm Evolving to the Library 8:30 - 9:30 am TLA Store...... 9 am – 4 pm of the Future (Ticketed) The Texas State Library & 7:30 - 9:30 am Archives Commission Grand Hyatt, 600 E. Market Street. presents Tamara Kleinberg, a serial entrepreneur and Continuing Professional Education credits With changes in technology, Sara Kelly Johns founder of The Shuuk (an Event State Board for TX State Library & user expectations, and Number Educator Certification Archives Commission online marketplace for funding realities, libraries explore new ways of innovators). Learn how to serving diverse constituencies. Organizations Tamara Kleinberg CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0a harness your curiosity and are shifting, and staff skills, tools, and creative power to push the envelope. Discover Program Title competencies are being redefined. Hear how how to foster curiosity and innovative thinking 8:00 - 9:50 am directors from academic, public, and in others to propel your organization forward. school communities are restructuring their Tamara Kleinberg, The Shuuk. Spotlight Storytimes organizations to position Texas State Library & Archives Commission and Conference Program Committee. Shining a Light on Diverse Books them for their new roles. (Pop Up Programs) Breakfast tickets must be CPE#508: SBEC 1.0 purchased by Friday, April 7, Book Buzz Watch for surprise spotlight storytimes through preregistration. throughout conference highlighting recent Joe Lucia 8:30 - 9:30 am menu: Scrambled Cage diverse picture books perfect for your library. Hear from publishers about forthcoming Free Eggs, Breakfast Grab the mic yourself and step into the titles available for addition to your library’s Potatoes, Applewood spotlight – we’ll have a basket of great books collection. Smoked Bacon, Fresh on hand. Look out for this lively and engaging Public Libraries Division. Breakfast Breads, Fruit program where people are gathered! Juice, Regular and CPE#509: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Felton Thomas Decaffeinated Coffee, Building Blocks of Language Learning Greet the Day with Yoga Assorted Hot Teas. 8:30 - 9:30 am 7:00 – 8:00 am Sara Kelly Johns, Syracuse University (NY); Joe What role does the librarian Start the day in a positive way by joining Lucia, Temple University (PA); and Felton Thomas, Cleveland Public Library Director (OH). play in building readers? This fellow librarians for a 45-minute hatha yoga Conference Program Committee. session focuses on using a rich class. This gentle class is appropriate for all poetry toolbox that supports levels including beginners. Be sure to bring CPE#505: SBEC 1.75 ELAR and ELL TEKS to your mat and a smile! Speed Dating with Vendors acquire language skills. Learn Janet Wong Cecilia Barham, North Richland Hills Public Library. 7:30 - 9:30 am to teach educators to celebrate Conference Local Arrangements Committeee. Looking for love – oops, I mean vendors – in language with humor and meaning. all the wrong places? Take a fun and informal Sylvia Vardell, Texas Woman’s University; and Janet College and University Libraries Division approach to vendor relationships. Engage Wong, Pomelo Books. Membership Committee with industry leaders, learn all about new Texas Association of School Librarians. 7:30 - 8:15 am products and services, and network with your CPE#510: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Copyright and Access Interest Group peers. Light refreshments provided by vendor Data Visualization Labs: contributions. A business meeting follows the Business Meeting Everything You Wanted to Know 7:30 - 8:15 am program. Acquisitions and Collection Development but Were Afraid to Ask District 2, 6, & 10 Caucuses Round Table. 8:30 - 9:30 am 7:30 - 8:15 am What is needed to create a successful data

FRIDAY • APRIL 21 FRIDAY CPE#507: SBEC 1.0 FRIDAY • APRIL 21 FRIDAY Library Instruction Round Table visualization lab in your library? Come Business Meeting 17th Annual 2x2 Showcase: Books for 2 Years to 2nd Grade 7:30 - 8:15 am 8:30 - 9:30 am Public Libraries Division Executive Board The Texas 2x2 Reading List Committee will 7:30 - 8:15 am introduce the titles on the current list and Special Libraries Division Business Meeting 7:30 – 8:15 am Mike Nutt E. Patrick Rashleigh Bryan Sinclair

52 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 learn from libraries that have successfully College and University Libraries Division; Gay, impact all students, teachers, and parents? Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Round Table; New implemented these spaces. Members Round Table; and Texas State Library Members of the panel will tell all as they share Tracy L. Hull (moderator), Texas Christian & Archives Commission. experiences when selecting a school librarian. University; Mike Nutt, North Carolina State University Libraries; E. Patrick Rashleigh, Brown CPE#514: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 University Library; and Bryan Sinclair, Georgia State University Library. Google for Beginning Users Conference Program Committee. 8:30 - 9:30 am CPE#511: SBEC 1.0 Participants will be introduced to basic features of Google Apps and Google Discover the Spirit of Texas High EDU. Discover how these apps can William Chapman Scott Floyd Renee Smith-Faulkner School Reading Program increase productivity as well as facilitate William Chapman, Jarrell ISD; Scott Floyd, White 8:30 - 9:30 am communication and collaboration among Oak ISD; Carolyn B. Foote (moderator), Eanes ISD; SPOT authors colleagues. Bring your own device. Renee Smith-Faulkner, Castleberry ISD. highlight their Sara Shine Pavone and Christina Eleice Taylor, Texas Association of School Librarians and Texas books and Round Rock ISD. Association of School Library Administrators. Texas Association of School Librarians. explain how to CPE#519: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 implement the CPE#515: SBEC 1.0 program in Library Workflow Marie Lu Julie Murphy high school How Libraries Impacted the Life Exchange: Sharing libraries. and Writing of Ray Bradbury Innovation in Marie Lu, Penguin Random House; and Julie 8:30 - 9:30 am Technical Services Murphy, HarperCollins Children’s Books. Sam Weller, authorized 8:30 - 9:30 am Young Adult Round Table. biographer of legendary writer Librarians and library staff Liz Woolcott CPE#512: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Ray Bradbury, will describe are often working on similar EDGE Initiative and Bradbury’s lifelong love affair projects. Workflows, procedures, and tools are with libraries and the role Enhanced Public Service developed locally but only a few get published they played in the or presented. Use the Library Workflow 8:30 - 9:30 am Sam Weller development of his singular Exchange to find workflows, tips, and tricks to The Plano Public Library System used data imagination. Learn about increase your productivity. gathered from the Edge Initiative and PLA Bradbury’s writing process. Liz Woolcott, Utah State University. Outcomes to connect with customers and Sam Weller, Columbia College (IL). Conference Program Committee. stakeholders. PPLS used the survey results Conference Program Committee. to garner support for improving the user CPE#520: SBEC 1.0 CPE#516: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 experience and better respond to the needs of Lone Star Reading List Author Panel the public. In It Together: Lessons from Social 8:30 - 9:30 am Brent W. Bloechle, Plano Public Library System; Workers and Nurses in the Library and Jennifer Peters, Texas State Library & Archives Lone Star authors highlight books on the Commission. 8:30 - 9:30 am current list and share their latest works. Public Libraries Division and Texas State Library & Archives Commission.

CPE#513: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Engaging Diverse Users: Insights from the Experts 8:30 - 9:30 am Mary Bruckmeier Leah Esguerra Robert Simmons Tara Altebrando Lisa Graff Susin Nielsen

Tara Altebrando, Looking for ways to better serve at-risk Bloomsbury populations and vulnerable customers in your Children’s library and your community? A panel of Books; Lisa Graff, Penguin groundbreaking library social workers and FRIDAY • APRIL 21 Random House; nurses reveal their experience on the front line Susin Nielsen, and offer advice for implementing a similar Random House Barbara Aranda- Aaron Bangor Gilda Garcia Steve Sheinkin Joe Shine program in your library. Children’s Naranjo Books; Steve Sheinkin, Macmillan Children’s Mary Bruckmeier, Pima County Health Deparment. Publishing Group; and Joe Shine, Soho Press. Experts working with diverse populations (AZ); Leah Esguerra, San Francisco Public Library (CA); and Robert Simmons, Oak Park Public Young Adult Round Table. share insights on issues and opportunities for Library (IL). CPE#5023: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 engaging with your library users. Conference Program Committee. Barbara Aranda-Naranjo, Outcome Measurement Made Easy: University of the Incarnate Word; CPE#517: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 A Free Toolkit for Public Libraries Aaron Bangor, Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Inside Scoop: What Administrators 8:30 - 9:30 am Disabilities; Dreanna Belden, Look for in a School Librarian The Public Library Association’s Project University of North Texas; Gilda 8:30 - 9:30 am Outcome is a free online outcome Garcia, Texas State University; and Robert Salcido, Equality What skills and mindset do administrators measurement toolkit that provides libraries Robert Salcido Texas. value in the one person who will potentially with patron-facing surveys, tools for collecting

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 53 and analyzing data, and practical guidance CPE#HOL570: SBEC 2.25; TSLAC 2.25 on using the results to take action. PLA staff API Integration Basics: Concepts will discuss how libraries can easily measure and Applications - Hands on Lab 10 outcomes for their programs and services (Ticketed; register online only) and share how participant libraries have 8:30 - 10:45 am used Project Outcome to better capture their community impact. This lab introduces application programming Margarita Engle Erin Entrada Kelly Leslea Newman interfaces (APIs) and the representational Carolyn Anthony, Skokie Public Library (retired) and Monica Brown and Leslea Newman, Lee & Low past PLA president. state transfer (REST) architectural style and Books; Jack Cheng, Penguin Random House; Margarita Engle, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Conference Program Committee. shows how these concepts can be applied to the integration of data into web applications. Group; and Erin Entrada Kelly, HarperCollins Children’s Books. CPE#522: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Participants will practice concepts using Play Your Way to an publicly available web services such as Google Children’s Round Table. Engaged Staff Maps. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, CPE#527: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 April 7, through preregistration. 8:30 - 9:30 am Cool Jobs 2017 Play is as essential to brain Ty Beauchamp, Harris County Public Library. 9:45 - 10:45 am development as sleep and can Automation and Technology Round Table. A panel of librarians with cool jobs will tell reduce stress and anxiety: you CPE#IL501: SBEC .75; TSLAC .75 you where they are and how they got there. Kim Crowley need to goof off to be more Find out how you can get there, too! Dashing to Code (Innovation Lab 8) productive. ImagineIf Libraries demonstrates Alisha Miles, Stimson Library, Fort Sam Houston; how to have more fully engaged staff by 9:00 - 9:45 am Gina Minks, Gina Minks Consulting; Carol Seiler, Learn how to implement coding into the EBSCO Information Services; and Eddy Smith, providing meaningful connections, a sense of Abilene Library Consortium. community, and opportunities for play. library program using simple robots - Dash Special Libraries Division. Sean Anderson and Kim Crowley, ImagineIf and Dot by WonderWorkshop. Participants Libraries (MT). will see how coding was incorporated into an CPE#528: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Conference Program Committee. elementary library during instructional time. Copyright Year in Review Cynthia Cooksey, McAllen ISD. CPE#518: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 9:45 - 10:45 am Conference Program Committee. Copyright law and best practices are Ready to Lead? The School constantly changing and affecting how Librarian’s Path to Admin CPE#525: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Building a Community of Future libraries provide services and support. Learn 8:30 - 9:30 am about developments in the past year and what Need a change in scenery? Be empowered by Ready School Librarians to expect in the future. 9:45 - 10:45 am passionate Texas school library administrators Gretchen McCord, Digital Information Law. sharing their different journeys along the path The Future Copyright and Access Interest Group. of leadership. Discover frequently used skill Ready CPE#529: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 sets, challenges, and rewards of administration Initiative raises in a moderated panel setting. awareness Creating Seamless Student Transitions Patricia Alvarado, Irving ISD; Jill Bellomy, Highland among district from High School to College Park ISD; Stacy Cameron (moderator), Frisco ISD; and school 9:45 - 10:45 am Carter Cook, Fort Worth ISD; Richelle O’Neil, leaders of the Mark Ray Sara Trettin High school, community college, and Garland ISD; and Mary Woodard, Mesquite ISD. invaluable role Conference Program Committee. university librarians describe how they help librarians play in successful transitions to students transition through their institutions. CPE#523: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 digital learning. Examine program goals, Topics include outreach instruction to dual Visible and Vibrant School Libraries identify areas of alignment with library credit students, a STEM camp for high school practice, and determine next steps. 8:30 - 9:30 am students on a college campus, and conducting Mark Ray, Vancouver Public Schools (WA); and Is your library an integral research studies of incoming freshmen and Sara Trettin, Office of Educational Technology, graduating seniors. part of your school’s learning Department of Education (DC). Christina H. Gola, University of Houston; JoTisa community? Advocate to your Texas Association of School Librarians. Klemm, Tarrant County College SE; Jennifer L. Rike, stakeholders how an active, CPE#545: SBEC 1.0 Mansfield ISD; and Jane D. Stimpson, Lone Star innovative library is vital to a College-CyFair. school’s culture and essential Tiffany Whitehead Children of the World Diversity Panel College and University Libraries Division, Texas for student success. 9:45 – 10:45 am Association of School Librarians, and Texas State Library & Archives Commission. Tiffany Whitehead, Episcopal School of Baton Authors, Rouge (LA). illustrators, CPE#530: SBEC 1.0 Conference Program Committee. and librarians Discover the Spirit of Texas Middle come together

FRIDAY • APRIL 21 FRIDAY School Reading Program to share ideas 9:45 - 10:45 am and strategies for promoting SPOT middle school authors highlight their Monica Brown Jack Cheng diversity in books and tell how to implement the SPOT children’s literature. This session covers reading program in middle school libraries. lists, book selections, and programs.

54 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 organization. Intrapreneurship combines the CPE#537: SBEC 1.0 risk-taking and innovative approaches of Hey Batter, Batter Swing! entrepreneurship. Learn how to build an Sports Fiction for YA environment where intrapreneurialism can 9:45 - 10:45 am flourish. Leo Lo, Old Dominion University (VA). Kathleen Baldwin Kari Holt Bryan Mealer Conference Program Committee. Crystal Allen, HarperCollins Children’s Books; Kathleen Baldwin, Tor/Forge Books; Kari Holt, CPE#534: SBEC 1.0 Chronicle Books; and Nikki Loftin and Bryan Explore TLA’s Diverse Community Mealer, Penguin Random House. at a Data Fiesta Young Adult Round Table. Carl Deuker Tim Green Miranda Longstreth 9:45 - 10:45 am CPE#531: SBEC 1.0 Join the Diversity and Score a home run with your readers by Do Author Visits Make a Difference? Inclusion Committee for a learning about the latest books in the sports 9:45 - 10:45 am Cultural Climate Survey fiction genre from some all-time favorite sports What is the impact of author Fiesta! They will provide the authors. visits to your school? Children cookies and data placemats Carl Deuker, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Tim demonstrate an increased (literally) summarizing Green, Simon & Schuster, Inc.; and Miranda interest in reading and Cynthia Olney feedback from the TLA Longstreth, Sourcebooks, Inc. writing. Join children’s Cultural Climate Survey. You Young Adult Round Table. authors as they share can contribute to the engaging conversation by CPE#5019: SBEC 1.0 anecdotal and hard evidence sharing your insights about the findings. Tim Crow to help you convince your Together we will deepen our understanding of Icons: Figures Who Have administrators of the value of inviting authors TLA’s diverse community. ¡Olé! Inspired Children’s Books to your school. Cynthia Olney and Karen J. Vargas, National 9:45 - 10:45 am Network of Libraries of Medicine Evaluation Office, Tim Crow (moderator), Taylor ISD; Carolyn Dee From University Of Washington. Flores; Susan Kay Kralovansky; Alexis O’Neill; historical Elizabeth Garton Scanlon; and Don Tate, authors Diversity and Inclusion Committee. settings to and illustrators. CPE#535: SBEC 1.0 today’s graffiti- Texas Authors and Illustrators Round Table. Fiction or Nonfiction, stained walls, iconic and CPE#532: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Kids Want a Story! EatPlayGrow™ and HEB READ3: Teri Kanefield S. D. Nelson monumental 9:45 - 10:45 am figures have Early Childhood Health and Fitness Steve Swinburne shows shaped our world and populated our literary 9:45 - 10:45 am how authors use “story” to realm as well. Authors delve into the create quality, high-interest Steve Robert Swinburne importance of living and past figures such as informational books for Jean-Michel Basquiat, Red Cloud, Alexander young readers. Through stories of people, Hamilton, and others to explain their impetus animals, and history, children can hook into a to expand on the conversation. book and grow as readers. Steve Robert Swinburne, author. Hermelinda Hesbrook Brennon Sansom Jill Tenhaken Children’s Round Table.

Learn to develop partnerships and engage CPE#536: SBEC 1.0 preschool children and caregivers in the Frontline Library Stories: Unique EatPlayGrow™ and HEB Read3 family Challenges, Unique Solutions Susanna Reich Javaka Steptoe Ben Thompson literacy, fitness, and nutrition programs. 9:45 - 10:45 am Teri Kanefield and S.D. Nelson, Abrams Books for Christa Aldrich and Hermelinda Hesbrook, H-E-B Unique challenges require unique approaches, Young Readers; Susanna Reich, Bloomsbury Read 3; Brennon Sansom and Jill Tenhaken, Harris Children’s Books; and Javaka Steptoe and Ben and sometimes the solution ends up being FRIDAY • APRIL 21 County Public Health; and Christina Thompson, Thompson, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Harris County Public Library. something unexpected. Share challenges you Conference Program Committee. Texas State Library & Archives Commission. have faced, the solutions used, and the impacts on future library processes and customer CPE#538: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#533: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 service. If You Build It, Will They Come? Entrepreneurial Librarian: Miranda J. Want, Arlington Public Library. Optimizing Your Linked Data Project The Secret to Building an Library Support Staff Round Table. 9:45 - 10:45 am Intrapreneurial Organization What makes one linked data project better 9:45 - 10:45 am than another? An academic and a public Libraries can benefit from librarian discuss aspects of their successful understanding projects and methods for evaluation. intrapreneurship, the act of Scott Carlson, Rice University; and Somer Newland, behaving like an entrepreneur Houston Area Library Automation Network. while working within a large Automation and Technology Round Table and Texas State Library & Archives Commission. Leo Lo

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 55 CPE#576: SBEC 1.0; CPE#541: SBEC 1.0 CPE#IL502: SBEC .75; TSLAC .75 TSLAC 1.0 Pin-Worthy Library Programming Circulating “Take and Make” Innovation and Curriculum Collaborations Maker Kits (Innovation Lab 9) is a Team Sport 9:45 - 10:45 am 10:00 – 10:45 am 9:45 – 10:45 am The ultimate take-away session for new Maker kits don’t need to be techy to foster a Innovation does not happen and innovative library programming and maker mindset in students. Learn how one Brian Mathews in isolation – it always curriculum collaborations! Be ready to share librarian circulates book-related “Take and involves deep collaboration. This talk will your top 3 programming ideas and curriculum Make” kits to her elementary-age students and explore the culture of innovation and the collaboration examples. In this interactive how you can replicate this in your library. ingredients of effective teamwork. Examples session participants will move around the Patricia De Winter, Oakridge School. will be drawn from corporate and non-profit room, share ideas, and inspire each other. After Conference Program Committee. organizations, as well as from athletics and all, we are #BetterTogether! CPE#IL503: SBEC .75; TSLAC .75 cultural institutions. The objective is to Tina Berumen, Coppell ISD; and Nancy Jo provide library employees with insight into Lambert, Frisco ISD. Design Thinking for Innovative the entrepreneurial mindset and a handful of Texas Association of School Librarians. Library Programming tactics they can use in their daily practices. CPE#5018: SBEC 1.0; (Innovation Lab 10) Brian Mathews, Virginia Tech Libraries. TSLAC 1.0 11:00 – 11:45 am Conference Program Committee. Talking About Reading! Human-centered Design Thinking is arguably CPE#539: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 9:45 – 10:45 am the most innovative way for problem solving Library on the Go: Drama and Learn how to help adult and critical thinking. IDEO, the creators Storytelling to Market Services customers find their next of this mindset, have published a Design great read! This hands-on Thinking toolkit specifically for libraries. Join 9:45 - 10:45 am Katie Mediatore Stover Andrea Saenz, from Chicago Public Library, Experience “Library on the Go,” a presentation workshop will introduce participants to new books, favorite Readers as she not only highlights techniques from of skits and music telling the library story. You the toolkit, but shares her experiences with its will create innovative presentations that can be Advisory tools (including online tools like Novelist), and ideas for those ‘if you like implementation as well. developed into promotional videos placed on Andrea Saenz, Chicago Public Library. your library’s website and also performed live this book, then you might like this book’ Conference Program Committee. in your community. Discover how storytelling interactions. Bring your own device. can enliven your presentation. Kaite Mediatore Stover, Kansas City Public Library. CPE#543: SBEC 0.75 Aranda Bell; Theresa Brooks; Teri Nelson; Toni Conference Program Committee. A Conversation Simmons; Travis Walvoord; and Daniel Watkins, CPE#542: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Zula B. Wylie Public Library (Cedar Hill). with Margaret Storytelling Round Table, Public Relations and Teen Volunteers in Your Library: Peterson Haddix Marketing Committee, and Texas State Library & Three Models for Success 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Archives Commission. 9:45 - 10:45 am The author of the popular CPE#PP520a: SBEC 0.5; TSLAC 0.5 series Shadow Children Managing teen volunteers in the library can be Margaret Peterson and The Missing discusses New & Noteworthy: tricky. What can they do? When should they Haddix her extensive writing career Pop Up Sessions V & VI work? To whom do they report? Learn about three models for successful teen volunteering: and shares upcoming projects. A business 9:45 - 10:45 am drop-in hours, reading buddies, and meeting precedes the program including Pop in for these quick presentations about partnerships with community groups. presentation of the Young Adult Reading ‘New & Noteworthy.’ Pop-up speakers will Ariel A. Cummins, New Braunfels Public Library; Incentive Award. be selected in the spring to give you access to Kathleen Vivian Fordyce, San Antonio Public Margaret Peterson Haddix, Simon & Schuster, Inc. the most current information about what’s Library; and April C. Toman, Schertz Public Library. Young Adult Round Table. happening in the library world! Check the Young Adult Round Table. TLA app or updated program info for speakers CPE#521: SBEC 1.0 and specific topics before conference. CPE#526: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Catching Readers from the Beginning Conference Program Committee. Working with Strangers: A Powerful 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Tool for Generating Collaborations Join authors as CPE#540: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 9:45 - 10:45 am they showcase Owning Your Inner This session covers the history, their newest Information Technologist methods, principles, and books to add 9:45 - 10:45 am results of the CoLAB to your Technology can make library work Planning Series(R) workshops carefully frustrating. Best practices are introduced that have successfully reduced Patrick McDonnell Isabel Quintero curated

FRIDAY • APRIL 21 FRIDAY in technology planning, troubleshooting, the time it takes to jumpstart collections. and communicating technology needs. By Bess de Farber new partnerships for over 600 Peter H. Reynolds Patrick McDonnell, the session’s end, you will have additional organizations, including Little, Brown resources that will let you own IT! libraries and academic institutions. A mini Books for Young Dianne Connery, Pottsboro Area Library; Debbie activity will demonstrate the benefits of Readers; Isabel Garza, Dawson County Library; Ida Gonzalez- implementing these innovative approaches. Quintero, Garza, Nueces County Public Libraries. Scholastic Press Bess de Farber, University of Florida. / Scholastic Texas State Library & Archives Commission. Texas State Library & Archives Commission. Inc.;

56 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Peter H. CPE#549: SBEC 0.75; TSLAC 0.75 Reynolds, Orchard / Fostering Innovation in Interlibrary Scholastic Inc.; Loan & Resource Sharing Bob Shea, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Disney- Hyperion; and Presenters discuss innovations related to Melissa Sweet, resource sharing practices implemented in their Bob Shea Melissa Sweet Houghton Ross Burach Mike Curato Margarita Engle libraries. A related readings list will be available. Mifflin Harcourt. A business meeting follows the program. Conference Program Committee. Ann Jerabek (moderator), Sam Houston State CPE#554: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 University; Wyoma vanDuinkerken, Texas A&M Civil Rights in Black and Brown: University System. Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing A Digital Humanities Collaboration Round Table. 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Sherry Duskey Rinker Jennifer Hamburg Tom Lichtenheld CPE#5026: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TCU faculty, archivists, and Learn about the art of collaboration and librarians collaborated to Is Data Literacy Important to creativity as dynamic teams introduce their Undergraduate Information Literacy? create a portal to disseminate new story collections: Cuban culture, sci-fi 11:00 am - 12:00 pm oral histories from African- adventures, and a mountain pond’s American, Mexican- interconnected ecosystem. Data literacy is directly related to information American, and white activists literacy and emphasizes the student’s ability Mary Saffell about freedom movements in to read, evaluate, think critically about Texas. Learn how this digital and communicate data in an ethical way. humanities project was created and how this Librarians do not need to be statisticians resource can benefit your library. to partner with their faculty in helping Jacob Brown, Max Krochmal, and Mary Saffell, undergraduate students understand the Texas Christian University. importance of data literacy. John Martin Kate Messner Christopher Silas Neal Conference Program Committee. Jesse Hamner, University of North Texas. Ross Burach and Jennifer CPE#546: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Hamburg, Scholastic Press / Conference Program Committee. Scholastic Inc.; Mike Curato and CPE#PP522a: SBEC 0.5; TSLAC 0.5 Collaboration Across the Content Areas Margarita Engle, Macmillan 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Children’s Publishing Group; Leading a Library: Ownership of our profession includes Tom Lichtenheld, Sherri Duskey Pop Up Sessions VII & VIII Rinker, Kate Messner, and collaboration with teachers to ensure students 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scott Seegert Christopher Silas Neal, Chronicle acquire research skills. Explore the progression Books; and John Martin and Pop in for quick presentations about of a collaborative relationship model that leads Scott Seegert, JIMMY Patterson Books. ‘“Leading a Library.” Pop-up speakers will be to the acquisition of information literacy skills Conference Program Committee. selected in the spring to give you access to across content areas. CPE#547: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 the most current information about library Jackie B. Chetzron, Dallas ISD. Encouraging Bilingual management! Check the TLA app or updated Conference Program Committee. program info for speakers and specific topics Storytelling CPE#HOL571: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 before conference. 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Conference Program Committee Cutting Edge Technologies for Explore telling stories in Promoting Your Library: FB Live, two languages as a way to CPE#5010: SBEC 1.0 SnapChat, Periscope and More - enrich the tale and encourage The Likability Index: Are Carolina ands on ab H L 11 cultural understanding. Quiroga-Stultz Female Characters Held (Ticketed; register online only) Bilingual storytelling will be to a Higher Standard? 11:00 am - 12:00 pm modelled while sharing tips for selecting tales. 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Participants will try out a tale using the tools Participants Female characters have to be Renee Ahdieh will analyze given with lively discussion afterwards. more likeable than their male current social Carolina Quiroga-Stultz, storyteller. counterparts. Explore this double standard. FRIDAY • APRIL 21 media Storytelling Round Table and Texas State Library & platforms and Archives Commission. best practices CPE#548: SBEC 1.0 for maximum Julie Gribble Roxie Munro Fill Your Bucket List: outreach. Create a Retirement Game Plan Learn about powerful apps for creating and 11:00 am - 12:00 pm sharing videos. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, April 7, through preregistration. What will I do when I retire? There are many Jodi Lynn Anderson Kayla Cagan Jenny Han fundamental questions and fears regarding Julie Gribble and Roxie Munro, KidLit TV. retirement. In this table-top discussion, Renee Ahdieh, Penguin Young Automation and Technology Round Table. Readers; Jodi Lynn Anderson, explore various aspects of life after work HarperCollins Children’s Books; CPE#5011: SBEC 1.0 including developing a workplace exit strategy, Kayla Cagan, Chronicle Books; pursuing your passions, and giving back. Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster, Dynamic Author Duos: Inc.; and Renee Watson, Retired Librarians Round Table. Bloomsbury Children’s Books. It Takes Two to Tango Renee Watson 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Young Adult Round Table.

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 57 CPE#5015: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 budgeting, staffing, and program and CPE#5014: SBEC 0.75 Magic of Writing: theme ideas. Unshelved®: Too Much Information Ray Bradbury’s Violeta Manzano, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Service; Bette H. McDowell, Pflugerville Public Techniques Library; and Megan C. Treseder, Azle Memorial Librarians are trying to make sense of 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Library. daunting amounts of The authorized biographer of Programming for Adults Round Table. information as they help people who expect answers legendary fantasy and science CPE#5013: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Sam Weller faster and faster. In an fiction author Ray Bradbury PLANT a Seed! leads a creative writing program teaching entertaining and highly Bradbury’s unique process, pulling back Watch Your Profession Grow! opinionated keynote, Gene the Ozian curtain on the master’s magical 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Gene Ambaum Ambaum makes the case that techniques. Learn how to plan and lead your PLANT (Public Library Administrators of now, more than ever, libraries own Bradbury writing workshop. North Texas) is a shining example of how (and books) have a vital place in our A business meeting precedes the Sam Weller, Columbia College (IL). library professionals can support one another communities. program. Conference Program Committee. across the field. Following a brief history of PLANT’s 50+ years, presenters will focus on Gene Ambaum, Unshelved Librarian; and Kevin CPE#544: SBEC 1.0 PLANT’s effectiveness as a replicable model Marsh, Copperas Cove Public Library. Middle Grade Greats of professional development, advocacy, and Public Libraries Division. 11:00 am – 12:00 pm support. Bites with LIRT Bonnie N. Case, Highland Park Library; Patricia F. Too old for picture books but 11:45 am - 1:45 pm Peters (moderator), Decatur Public Library; Dennis not quite ready for YA? Award P. Quinn, Duncanville Public Library; Toni Simmons, Join LIRT members for an offsite Dutch treat winning and up-and-coming Zula B. Wylie Public Library; and Spencer Smith, lunch and a discussion of library instruction middle grade authors discuss McKinney Public Library. Andrew Clements and information literacy topics. Participants the challenges and rewards of Conference Program Committee. should meet in the registration area in the writing for this significant group of readers. CPE#5016: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 convention center. Social Media for Library Instruction Round Table. Social Justice CPE#IL504: SBEC .75; TSLAC .75 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Girls, STEM & Entrepreneurship: Three librarians whose online presence Empowering the Next Generation involves social justice activism talk about (Innovation Lab 11) Grace Lin Janet Taylor Lisle D. J. MacHale building a social media presence. Weigh the 12:00 – 12:45 pm Andrew Clements and D.J. MacHale, Random risks of publicly supporting social justice House Children’s Books; Grace Lin, Little, Brown work, and examine why the profession should How do we empower girls to pursue their Books for Young Readers; and Janet Taylor Lisle, embrace social justice initiatives. interests in entrepreneurship, innovation and Simon & Schuster, Inc. STEM? Discuss the importance of bridging Cory Eckert, The Post Oak School Children’s Round Table. (Houston); Karen Jensen, Teen the gender divide in these fields and how to spark creativity and inspire curiosity with fun CPE#5017: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Librarian Toolbox and the Public Library of Mount Vernon and activities and services in your library. Knox County (OH); and Kendra Music Play with Purpose: Luz Cristal Glangchai, VentureLab.org. Lu Jones, Storytime Underground Readiness, Literacy, and Joint Chief (WA). Conference Program Committee. Inclusion in Storytime Diversity and Inclusion Kendra Lu Jones CPE#551: SBEC 0.75 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Committee. Jim Gill discusses how his CPE#581: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List unique creations in music Author Session (Ticketed) Jim Gill Student Retention Three Ways: play inspire children to move 12:00 - 1:45 pm Numbers, People, and Stories and make connections between words they Grand Hyatt, 600 E. Market Street. 11:00 am – 12:00 pm sing and the printed word. Leave inspired Celebrate the eighth year of Lariat’s reading Academic libraries are aligning with a new repertoire of songs and reading selections for adults. Hear from authors themselves with their play activities, as well as strategies to engage featured on last year’s list while enjoying institutions’ strategic focus on caregivers. a delicious meal. Luncheon tickets must student retention. But how Jim Gill, child development specialist. be purchased by Friday, April 7, through do libraries get retention data? Children’s Round Table. preregistration. Book signing will take place What do we do with it after immediately following the event for luncheon CPE#5012: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 we get it? And how do we tell Mary O’Kelly attendees. The Perfect Recipe: Cooking Programs our story? Hear about a FRIDAY • APRIL 21 FRIDAY in the Public Library successful, replicable model. menu: Spring Greens with Frisee and Mary O’Kelly, Grand Valley State University (MI). Baby Spinach, Grape Tomatoes, English 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Cucumbers, Carrot Curls and White Conference Program Committee. A small library with a Balsamic Vinaigrette; Rosemary Chicken limited staff and budget Breast with Divina Tomato Compote, faces challenges when Parmesan Risotto, Sauteed Zucchini; implementing a cooking Flourless Chocolate Cake, Crème program. Discuss advertising, Violeta Manzano

58 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Anglaise, Dark Chocolate Pencil, introduce lateral thinking techniques that CPE#562: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Vanilla Whipped Cream; Bread with challenge us to push beyond our foundation ACRL Framework Butter; Iced Tea and Water; Regular and and to consider unrecognized possibilities. The Curriculum Mapping Decaffeinated Coffee, Assorted Hot Teas. objective is to provide library employees with 1:30 - 2:30 pm perspective-shifting tools that can lead to Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Committee. Explore how to develop a vertical curriculum better services, new partnerships, and exciting from the Framework of Information CPE#550: SBEC 0.75 new directions. Texas Bluebonnet Award Literacy to guide students along the path Brian Mathews, Virginia Tech Libraries. from research novices to emerging experts. Author Session (Ticketed) Conference Program Committee. Discover approaches for designing a scaffolded 12:00 - 1:45 pm Districts 4 & 5 Caucuses curriculum that builds as students progress in The Texas Bluebonnet Award is a nationally- 12:15 - 1:15 pm their disciplines, as well as assessing students’ recognized children’s choice award. During understandings of the threshold concepts. the luncheon, the author of the winning Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Round Table Business Meeting Brittney S. Johnson, St. Edward’s University. Bluebonnet title will share insights on College and University Libraries Division. writing and accept this year’s award from 12:15 - 1:15 pm CPE#563: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 student representatives. Luncheon tickets Latino Caucus Round Table must be purchased by Friday, April 7, through Business Meeting Active Shooter in the Building: preregistration. Book signing will take place 12:15 - 1:15 pm What Should You Do? immediately following the event for luncheon 1:30 - 2:30 pm Legislative Committee attendees. If an active shooter enters your building, menu: Baby Gem and Crisp Greens, Hearts 12:15 - 1:15 pm what would you do? Learn what you should of Palm, Toasted Almonds and Mandarin Library Support Staff Round Table do. Participate in a discussion with TCU’s Oranges, Black Sesame-Rice Vinaigrette Business Meeting Director of Security who witnessed the OR Creamy Honey-Ginger, Served on 12:15 - 1:15 pm Wedgewood Baptist Church shooting in Fort the Side; Boneless Braised Short Ribs, Worth in 1999. Partnership Task Force Pepper-Cheddar Creamy Grits, Garlic Randy Cobb, Texas Christian University. 12:15 – 1:15 pm Green Beans and Baby Carrots; Bread Conference Program Committee and Disaster Board with Fresh Bread & Butter; Vanilla Professional Issues and Ethics Committee Relief Committee. Pannacotta (a cold Italian custard 12:15 - 1:15 pm CPE#564: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 often served with fruit) topped with Art Unbound and Loud Fresh Cut Berries or Fresh Cut Texas Reference & Information Services Round Peaches (alternating) and Whipped Table Business and Executive Board Meeting in the Library Cream; Iced Tea and Water; Regular and 12:15 - 1:15 pm 1:30 - 2:30 pm Art takes center stage at Decaffeinated Coffee, Assorted Hot Teas. CPE#IL505: SBEC .75; TSLAC .75 Texas Association of School Librarians, Houston Public Library. Children’s Round Table, and Texas Bluebonnet Power Up with Circuits Working with Houston Award Committee. (Innovation Lab 12) Xavier Garza Grand Opera, 1:00 - 1:45 pm Writers in the CPE#593: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Introducing STE(A)M activities into your Schools, the Museum of Fine Research Funding library curriculum promotes real world Arts Houston and publishers and Grant Opportunities problem solving, hands on inquiry and including Arte Público Press, 12:15 - 1:15 pm open ended exploration, collaboration, and HPL offers programming and Funding Information Networks recognizing that failure is an important part special events featuring all (FINs) provide a suite of tools and of the learning process. Learn how you can kinds of art. Learn to involve resources consisting of Foundation Center start a tech club that enables your students the locally and implement artfully Marina Tristan databases, publications and a variety of opportunity to learn about circuits, robotics, at your library. supplementary materials and services in areas coding and more. Carmen Abrego, Houston Public Library; Danielle useful to grant seekers. Learn how to utilize Michelle Cooper, White Oak ISD. Burns Wilson, author; Xavier Garza, Arte Publico Press / Cinco Puntos; and Marina Tristan, author, the resources in your region. Conference Program Committee. Arte Publico Press. FRIDAY • APRIL 21 Ellen Moutos Lee, University of Texas at Austin. CPE#HOL572: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 Public Libraries Division. Conference Program Committee. Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab CPE#PP524a: SBEC 0.5; TSLAC 0.5 CPE#552: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 (Ticketed; register online only) Beyond the Stacks: What If We Removed All Books? 1:00 - 4:00 pm Pop Up Sessions IX & X 12:15 – 1:15 pm We still have books - lots of them! And many 1:30 - 2:30 pm What if we stopped providing need tender loving care to keep them on Pop in for these quick presentations about reference service? What if we the shelves. Learn techniques for repairing topics from ‘Beyond the Stacks.’ Speakers will didn’t have a library catalog? damaged books. Each attendee will receive a be selected in the spring to provide current What if we removed all the repair kit and should bring three or four books presentations about outreach, marketing, books from our buildings? needing repair. Tickets must be purchased by and issues that affect you outside the library! These provocative questions Friday, April 7, through preregistration. Check the TLA app or updated program Brian Mathews are meant to stretch our Kary K. Barth, Kapco. info for speakers and specific topics before creative muscles. This talk will Conference Program Committee. conference. Conference Program Committee.

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 59 CPE#567: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Attend the social event of the KidLit vs. YALit Lip Sync Battle II Building a Culture season as new authors take a 1:30 - 2:30 pm of Constant Innovation bow. Meet these recent KidLit and YALit authors face off in this lively arrivals to the children’s 1:30 - 2:30 pm lip sync battle. Enjoy the hilarity as authors literature scene. Their books Panelists discuss how to create perform and discuss their latest books! may be the next hits at your and sustain a culture of Gretchen McLellan library. innovation in libraries. Learn Ruth Behar and Jack Cheng, from the experiences at some Penguin Young Readers; Donna Janell Bowman of the country’s most and Hayan Charara, Lee and Low Books; and innovative libraries. Gretchen McLellan, Peachtree Publishers. Pam Sandlian-Smith Carolyn Anthony, Skokie Public Children’s Round Table. Library (retired); Cecilia Barham Michael Buckley Kayla Cagan (moderator), North Richland Hills Public Library; CPE#571: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Shelley Holley, Frisco Public Library; and Pam Favorite Tech Tools and Sandlian-Smith, Anythink Libraries. Other Inspiration Conference Program Committee. Tim Miller 1:30 - 2:30 pm CPE#568: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 This session is jam-packed Community Development with tech tools, program with Collective Impact ideas, and library display Aaron Reynolds Karen Rivers 1:30 - 2:30 pm inspirations. Receive practical Michael Buckley, Abrams Books; Kayla Cagan, Libraries can be the ideas and resources to Chronicle Books; Nancy Jo Lambert (line judge), backbone of a holistic implement immediately. Frisco ISD; Tim Miller, HarperCollins Children’s Books; Aaron Reynolds, Simon & Schuster, Inc.; Tiffany Whitehead, Episcopal Tiffany Whitehead approach to asset-based Karen Rivers, Workman/Algonquin Young Reader; School of Baton Rouge (LA). community development. and John A. Trischitti (referee), Midland County Librarians embedded in the Conference Program Committee. Public Libraries. community serve as equal CPE#572: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 partners. This session Children’s Round Table and Young Adult Gary Henderson Integrating K12 eContent: Round Table. provides a practical introduction using successful collective Start with Collection Development CPE#575: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 impact initiatives from nonprofit sectors. 1:30 - 2:30 pm Make Your Point with Gary Henderson, United Way of Denton County; Utilize eContent in unique ways and watch Data Visualization and Ling Hwey Jeng (moderator), Texas Woman’s student engagement grow. Receive collection 1:30 - 2:30 pm University. development and management tips and A good infographic Conference Program Committee. discover how to easily integrate resources communicates dense amounts to enhance use. Hear ideas on maximizing CPE#569: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 of information quickly and eContent in lesson planning and classroom Connecting Readers and Authors effectively. Discover the collaborations to create a positive digital principles of effective chart through Video - KidLit TV school culture for academic and personal use. 1:30 - 2:30 pm design, whether you are using Naomi M. Bates and Susan L. Fitzgerald, Northwest sophisticated data technology KidLit TV is a ISD (Justin). Cynthia Olney or tried-and-true Excel. Learn free resource Texas Association of School Librarians. devoted to a process for developing a chart that helps you children’s CPE#573: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 make your point without making a mess. literature. Keeping ER Management Out of the ER Bring your own device. Cynthia Olney, National Network of Libraries Explore the 1:30 - 2:30 pm Julie Gribble Rocco Staino of Medicine Evaluation Office, University Of wealth of Good management of electronic resources Washington. content on is complicated and time consuming but also Special Libraries Division. KidLit TV and learn how librarians and extremely valuable. Panelists will discuss CPE#5020: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 parents can interact with authors and challenges, evaluation, and workflows in illustrators through the website. focused strategic areas identified in 2016 by Own Your Profession: Julie Gribble and Rocco Staino, KidLit TV. TSLAC: collaboration, purchasing, usability, Effective User Analytics Conference Program Committee. streaming video, and eBooks. 1:30 - 2:30 pm Marianne Lorio, Houston Public Library; Pru Morris, CPE#570: SBEC 1.0 Interested in user analytics? Discover how Texas A&M University-San Antonio; Liz Philippi and analytics can be used in different modes of Debutante Ball: Dance with Danielle Plumer, Texas State Library & Archives Commission; and Carol Seiler (moderator), EBSCO learning and teaching. Explore the future of New Children’s Authors Information Services. analytics and integration into information user FRIDAY • APRIL 21 FRIDAY 1:30 - 2:30 pm Acquisitions and Collection Development environments. Round Table, Electronic Resources and Serials Kinshuk, College of Information, University of North Management Round Table, and Texas State Library Texas. & Archives Commission. Conference Program Committee.

Ruth Behar Hayan Charara Jack Cheng

60 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 KidLit vs. YALit Lip Sync Battle II CPE#566: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#HOL573: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 CPE#586: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 1:30 - 2:30 pm Preparing for Leadership: Playing with Matches: An Introduction Accessibility Regulations and KidLit and YALit authors face off in this lively Behind the Scenes with New Directors to Regular Expressions - Hands on Realities: More than Just an lip sync battle. Enjoy the hilarity as authors 1:30 - 2:30 pm Lab 12 (Ticketed; register online only) Addendum to a Contract perform and discuss their latest books! Directors from public and academic libraries 1:30 - 3:30 pm 2:45 - 3:45 pm examine the process of transitioning to This course is an introduction to managing Just how accessible are your e-resources? a leadership position. Receive advice on and editing data by learning the syntax and Handouts? Instructional videos? Learn about preparing for directorship from building your construction of regular expressions. The basic the impact of tougher accessibility laws on skill set through your first months on the job. characters used to construct a pattern will be library services and purchasing of resources. Carolyn M. Booker (moderator), Lewisville Public discussed, and then the patterns will be used in Receive useful Library; Elizabeth Anne Martinez Howard, Texas hands-on examples. Tickets must be purchased tips and Wesleyan University; Yoko Matsumoto, City of Michael Buckley Kayla Cagan Arlington; Tezeno L. Roberson, Little Elm Public by Friday, April 7, through preregistration. suggestions for Library; and Suzanne E. Sears, Texas Woman’s Mike Pullin, University of North Texas Health making your University. Science Center. resources more Tim Miller Conference Program Committee. Automation and Technology Round Table. accessible to all your users. CPE#577: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#578: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 Brian Charlson Richard A. Schilke

Serving Secondary Special Needs Safe Zone Training: Brian Charlson, The Carroll Center for the Blind; Aaron Reynolds Karen Rivers Students in the Library Being an LGBTQ+ Ally and Richard A. Schilke, Texas A&M University. Conference Program Committee. Michael Buckley, Abrams Books; Kayla Cagan, 1:30 - 2:30 pm 1:30 - 3:30 pm Chronicle Books; Nancy Jo Lambert (line judge), Creating library programs for learning disabled Be a more CPE#580: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Frisco ISD; Tim Miller, HarperCollins Children’s teens can be challenging. Building collections effective ally of Books; Aaron Reynolds, Simon & Schuster, Inc.; ACRL Framework of books, finding appropriate web material, the LGBTQ+ Karen Rivers, Workman/Algonquin Young Reader; Round Table Discussions and John A. Trischitti (referee), Midland County knowing how to communicate with students, community. Public Libraries. and collaborating with special education Participants in 2:45 - 3:45 pm teachers are factors deserving attention. this training Join instruction librarians for facilitated round Children’s Round Table and Young Adult This program emphasizes meaningful and will examine table discussions about the ACRL Framework Round Table. Lauryn Farris Robert Salcido productive library time for high school the concepts for Higher Education for Information CPE#575: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 students who read below grade-level and are in of gender, become familiar with recommended Literacy. Topics include Framework threshold Make Your Point with inclusive classrooms. vocabulary, discuss issues, and learn to be an concepts, using the Framework to create Data Visualization Kimberly A. Vincent, Frisco ISD. effective ally. learning objectives, integrating the Framework Texas Association of School Librarians and into the curriculum, outreach to faculty 1:30 - 2:30 pm Naomi Brown and Lauryn Farris, Pride Center San Young Adult Round Table. regarding the Framework, and assessment A good infographic Antonio; and Robert Salcido, Equality Texas. techniques. communicates dense amounts CPE#597: SBEC 0.75 Diversity and Inclusion Committee. College and University Libraries Division. of information quickly and Tejas Star Book Reading List CPE#579: SBEC 2.0 effectively. Discover the and Program Ideas Texas Tea: Meet and Greet CPE#594: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 principles of effective chart 1:30 - 2:30 pm Are You a Leader? design, whether you are using with YA Authors (Ticketed) Do you need advice on purchasing Spanish 1:30 - 3:30 pm Are You Ready to Stand TALL? Cynthia Olney sophisticated data technology language books for your youth collection? Grand Hyatt, 600 E. Market Street. 2:45 - 3:45 pm or tried-and-true Excel. Learn Would you like programming ideas for using Librarians must be leaders in order to own a process for developing a chart that helps you these titles? Get answers from the Tejas Star Join us for the sixth annual Texas Tea, the their profession. Join a panel of librarians make your point without making a mess. Book Reading List Committee. A business premier event for YA literature enthusiasts. who will provide insight into the TALL Texan Bring your own device. meeting follows the program. Librarians stay put as YA authors move from Cynthia Olney, National Network of Libraries table to table sharing stories over tea and experience, and tell how the Institute advanced Tejas Star Book Reading List Committee. of Medicine Evaluation Office, University Of cookies. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, their careers and impacted their libraries. Washington. CPE#565: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 April 7, through preregistration. Thomas Finley, Frisco Public Library; Mark Special Libraries Division. Gottschalk, South Plains College; Susi Parks YA Authors Writing for Adults Young Adult Round Table. Grissom, Dallas ISD (retired); Karen Kessel, CPE#5020: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 1:30 - 2:30 pm Apalachicola Margaret Key Library (FL); and Leah CPE#IL506: SBEC .75; TSLAC .75 FRIDAY • APRIL 21 Own Your Profession: This panel will feature adult authors whose Mann, Lewisville ISD. Effective User Analytics writings will have cross-over appeal for young Cloud-Based Genius Hour TALL Texans Round Table. (Innovation Lab 13) 1:30 - 2:30 pm adult readers. Book signing will take place CPE#588: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 immediately following the event. 2:00 - 2:45 pm Interested in user analytics? Discover how Connecting Art and Books analytics can be used in different modes of The popular Genius Hour movement allows learning and teaching. Explore the future of students to explore their passions, encourages with the NCCIL analytics and integration into information user creativity, and provides them with a choice in 2:45 - 3:45 pm environments. their learning. Come see how this librarian The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Kinshuk, College of Information, University of North uses a cloud-based lesson integrating Literature hosts exhibitions of original artwork Texas. technology and research to bring Genius Hour from award-winning picture books, but they’re Conference Program Committee. Zach Anner Sarah Beth Durst David Williams to her library. more than just a “picture gallery.” They have Zach Anner, Macmillan/St. Martin’s Griffin; Sarah Brittney Kosev, Lubbock ISD. resources available for all librarians. Learn to Beth Durst, HarperCollins Publishers/ Harper Conference Program Committee. use simple art projects to connect children to Voyager; and David Williams, Workman Publishing the artwork they love in their favorite books. Co./Algonquin Books. Public Libraries Division.

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 61 Debbie Lillick, National Center for Children’s CPE#587: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#592: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Illustrated Literature. Literature Circles: Voice and Choice Set Your Library Apart: Developing Children’s Round Table. 2:45 - 3:45 pm an Email Marketing Campaign CPE#5022: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Have you tried taking literature circles out 2:45 - 3:45 pm Designing Spaces for People, of the hands of educators and giving learners One key to success in an Not Collections free choice. Make literature circles enjoyable industry is based on the with mini-lessons, instructional videos for the 2:45 - 3:45 pm relationship you have and flipped classroom, learner anthology booklets, The director of Anythink maintain with those you and real-world connections to projects. discusses planning spaces for serve. In this session we’ll discovery, creation, Angie Mahalik and Victoria Rae Tong, Coppell ISD. discuss what an email Donavon Roberson participation, learning, Conference Program Committee. marketing campaign is, performing, and innovation. CPE#589: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 discover why it is important to your library Pam Sandlian-Smith, Anythink and determine what type of campaign Library. Pam Sandlian-Smith Not Your Mom’s elements will set you apart. Conference Program Committee. Raspberry Pi Donavon Roberson, culture evangelist, The 2:45 - 3:45 pm Roberson Company. CPE#582: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Learn how libraries can use Conference Program Committee. Developing Advocacy Expertise Raspberry Pi to teach, learn, CPE#599: SBEC 1.0 2:45 - 3:45 pm and make throughout the Matt Richardson Texas School Library library. These multi-purpose You know libraries. You Standards Revision understand information. It computers are small, inexpensive, and easy to only takes 1000 hours to program. 2:45 - 3:45 pm become an expert at anything. Matt Richardson, product evangelist, Raspberry Pi. In 2015 a steering committee of school How many hours do you Conference Program Committee. librarians, with support from TSLAC and TEA, began revising the Texas School Library Aaron W. Dobbs spend working and speaking CPE#596: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 about issues affecting Standards. This session presents the draft libraries? Learn to talk easily about hot-button Professional Job and Public Personas: standards, requests feedback, and answers public policy issues. Are You a Librarian 24 Hours a Day? questions. Aaron W. Dobbs, Shippensburg University of 2:45 - 3:45 pm Donna A. Kearley, Denton ISD; and Sonja M. Pennsylvania. Where do you draw the line between your Schulz, Nacogdoches ISD. Conference Program Committee. professional and personal lives? Are you a Texas State Library & Archives Commission. librarian 24/7 or can you truly leave your CPE#5021: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#PP525a: SBEC 0.5; TSLAC 0.5 library work when the doors close? Exploding Boundaries: Young Children of Literacy: Heather Ann Lowe, Dallas Public Library. Libraries in Action Pop Up Sessions XI & XII Conference Program Committee. 2:45 - 3:45 pm 2:45 - 3:45 pm CPE#590: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Vygotsky says even the Pop in for these quick presentations about youngest learners are guided topics on “Exploding Boundaries” of Real World Teen Services by meaning. Attend this traditional library services. Speakers will be 2:45 - 3:45 pm interactive session on ways to selected in the spring to provide the most Are you planning teen programs at your provide direct literacy to those current information about non-traditional library, but no teens are showing up? This learners. Enlarge your library’s libraries, collections, and services! Check the session provides practical strategies for program to include practical, TLA app or updated program info for speakers engaging teens in the development and Joyce Armstrong workable, proven strategies and specific topics. implementation of library programs as well as Carroll such as reading/writing tested methods to foster teen “ownership” of Conference Program Committee. connections and student-led inquiry skills, their library experience. CPE#583: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 which lay the foundation for future learning. Jennifer Velásquez, San Antonio Public Library. Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Abydos Literacy Learning; Feeling Inadequate? Conference Program Committee. and Kristy Hill, Keller ISD. You’re Not Alone CPE#591: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Conference Program Committee. 2:45 - 3:45 pm It’s easy to feel inadequate Savory Slides: Beyond PowerPoint CPE#IL507: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 when other librarians 2:45 - 3:45 pm From Cutting Edge to Common celebrate successes you only How can we teach students to Ground: A Discussion about be effective communicators dream of achieving. Don’t Library Space (Innovation Lab 14) and digital architects of their let these negative emotions 3:00 – 4:00 pm own content? This session FRIDAY • APRIL 21 FRIDAY Dawn Gluskin stop you from being the best blends best practices and Library services have changed over the years librarian possible. Attendees and more recently this has impacted the will learn techniques to recognize and cope Lisa Johnson research-based strategies for organizing content, designing types of spaces offered to our users. Learn with feelings of inadequacy and focus instead how libraries have addressed these needs on positive methods of motivation. and constructing slides, and delivering memorable presentations. with innovative approaches to the traditional Dawn Gluskin, Blissed Communications. library space. Lisa Johnson, Eanes ISD. Conference Program Committee. Patricia Bou, Cannon Design; Victoria A. Chiavetta, Texas Association of School Librarians. William T. Cozby Library; Laura Cole, Bibliotech

62 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Bexar Digital Library; Kathleen P. Horan, McAllen Public Library; and Denelle C. Wrightson, Library Planning and Design. Conference Program Committee. The TLA Escape Room CPE#598: SBEC 0.5 Do you like puzzles? General Session II 4:00 - 5:00 pm Can you solve riddles? General sessions are a highlight of the Annual Conference, and Then you and your friends are the perfect candidates to attempt TLA’s Escape this year’s will be no exception! Room. This library-themed adventure is located in the Exhibit Hall and will also Dynamic speakers representing be available during the President’s Party. the best of our community and

profession will inspire, challenge, scenario: TLA President Walter Betts has been detained by the FBI and and motivate audience members. is being questioned regarding violations of the USA PATRIOT Act. He is TLA will announce the special guests this spring. counting on his TLA colleagues to find evidence hidden in his office that will exonerate him – while maintaining his patrons’ privacy. But you must hurry; Conference Program Committee. you only have a few minutes to find and transmit the evidence to the FISA Court before Walter is sentenced and never heard from again! Book Cart Drill Team Competition (Begins 10 minutes after GS II adjourns.) Hetherington 30th Fun Run/Walk 5:10 - 5:45 pm ? Come see your creative and talented colleagues (Ticketed) show off their skills with a choreographed 6:00 - 7:00 pm President’s routine with book carts. Yes, book carts! Book Hemisfair Park, 222 Hemisfair ParkThe 30th Annual 5K Fun Run carts are good for more than just books! Cheer Walk will be at Hemisfair Park, just behind your favorite team to victory in the Book Cart the convention center and finish up at the Drill Team Texas Championship. Master of Party President’s All-Conference Party where All-Conference Ceremonies: Eddy Smith. Team preregistration attendees can celebrate your accomplishment 6:15 - 8:15 pm is required. Visit the TLA website for details and as you illuminate the night! Check-in is at Stars at Night Ballroom an entry form. 5:45 pm at the run site. All participants Spaz out with the Spazmatics, Conference Local Arrangements receive a commemorative t-shirt, refreshments, awesome librarians, and a hip TLA Committee. and glow necklaces. First, second, and third President. Come show off your 80s place awards will be given for the men’s dance moves. Enjoy like totally rad run, the women’s run, and the walk. Tickets food and liquid libations. must be purchased by Friday, April 7, through With the Fun Run now scheduled to preregistration. take place around the Hemisfair Park Conference Local Arrangements Committee. during the start of the party, you can cheer on friends, participate, or just Latino Caucus Social enjoy all the activity. Refreshments, a 6:30 - 8:30 pm cash bar, and entertainment rounds The very first LCRT Social event to help reach out the evening. FRIDAY • APRIL 21 out to prospective members to join LCRT. The Conference Local opportunity to network with other librarians Arrangement Committee. will allow for the exchange of ideas and connections. Latino Caucus Round Table.

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2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 63 SATURDAY April 22 programs & events All sessions are open to all attendees, unless noted otherwise. Meetings are in purple; events are black and sans serif. Connection Corner (Computers, Housing, Internet)...... 7 am – 1 pm your organization with renewed creativity and 9:00 - 9:45 am Registration...... 7 am – 1 pm shared vision. We hear about makerspaces, “invention Career Development Center...... 8 am – Noon Donavon Roberson, culture evangelist, The literacy”, entrepreneurship, and future-ready. Bag Check (UPS/Rent-a-Box).....8 am – 2:30 pm Roberson Company. How does the library fit into all of this? How Texas State Library & Archives Commission and Collaboration Space...... 9 am – Noon can we get kids excited about creating rather Conference Program Committee. than consuming? Come hear an introduction Exhibits...... 9 am – Noon CPE#604: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 to creating a culture of making and inventing Innovation lab...... 9 am – Noom in school libraries. We will look at makerspace TLA Store...... 9 am – Noon eBook Record Management resources, Maker and Innovator experts, learn 8:00 - 9:00 am about the why behind makerspaces, and I’ll After implementing Alma in August 2013, give you my reviews of makerspace tools. Continuing Professional Education credits UT Dallas libraries explored resource You’ll leave with tips and tricks to inspire your Event State Board for TX State Library & management to optimize eBook record Number Educator Certification Archives Commission makers. processing workflows. Learn real-life solutions Kristi Taylor, Lewisville ISD. CPE#123: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0 for handling various vendor records. Conference Program Committee. Emily Billings, University of North Texas; Mingyu Program Title Chen and Misu Kim, University of Texas at Dallas. CPE#605: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 8:00 - 9:50 am Conference Program Committee. A Place for All? Experiences of People CPE#633: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 with Disabilities in the Library Spotlight Storytimes The Embedded Librarian: Building 9:15 - 10:15 am Shining a Light on Diverse Books Partnerships among Public Libraries, (Pop Up Programs) Entrepreneurs, and Small Businesses Watch for surprise spotlight storytimes 8:00 - 9:00 am throughout conference highlighting recent Join public librarians and partners from The diverse picture books perfect for your library. Dallas B.R.A.I.N. to discuss ways the library Grab the mic yourself and step into the can become a center for emerging businesses, Margaret A. Nosek Christopher M. Sanchez Anna Ercoli Schnitzer spotlight – we’ll have a basket of great books future innovation, and technological hotspots. on hand. Look out for this lively and engaging Jordan Bock and Richard V. Carrizales, Dallas Are we providing adequate access to people program where people are gathered! Public Library; Kerry Montz (moderator) and Randy with disabilities? Panelists will discuss user Simmans, Denton Public Library. experiences, identify resources libraries can Prepare and Share: Conference Program Committee. offer, and share best practices. Program Planning for TLA 2018 CPE#600: SBEC 0.75 Mark Michael Asteris, Lamar University; Margaret A. Nosek, Baylor College of Medicine; Christopher 7:00 - 8:00 am Children’s Round Table Author Session M. Sanchez, library user; Anna Ercoli Schnitzer, Prepare for the 2018 TLA Conference with Kevin Henkes (Ticketed) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ava M. Smith, in Dallas by getting critical information Texas State Library & Archives Commission; and 8:00 - 10:15 am on deadlines, procedures, and marketing Karen J. Vargas, National Network of Libraries of Medicine Evaluation Office, University Of opportunities. Share your program ideas Author Kevin Henkes shares insights into his writings. Washington (moderator). and find potential partners who can share Diversity and Inclusion Committee. labor and expenses. All officers with program Breakfast tickets must be planning responsibilities are urged to attend. purchased by Friday, April CPE#606: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 7, through preregistration. Conference Program Committee. Artful Libraries: Inspiring Book signing will take place Kevin Henkes Bylaws & Resolutions Committee Meeting II immediately following the event Cultural Literacy am 7:15 - 7:45 am for luncheon attendees. 9:15 - 10:15 The Georgetown Public Diversity and Inclusion Committee menu: Three Eggs Scrambled, Applewood Library serves as a cultural 7:15 - 7:45 am Smoked Bacon, Breakfast Potatoes and Grilled Tomatoes; Fresh Breakfast anchor in the community, hosting numerous arts CPE#Bi660: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Breads; Fruit Juice, Regular and Big Idea: Becoming Decaffeinated Coffee, Assorted clubs and organizations as Hot Teas. Jane Estes well as art shows and music a Culture Evangelist events. Panelists discuss the Kevin Henkes, HarperCollins Children’s Books. SATURDAY • APRIL 22 SATURDAY 8:00 - 9:00 am community-wide benefits of strong library- The Texas State Library Children’s Round Table. based fine arts programs. and Archives Commission CPE#IL601: SBEC .75; TSLAC .75 Jane Estes, Texans for the Arts; and Dana L. presents this Big Idea session. Building a Culture of Creating Hendrix and Eric Lashley, Georgetown Public Donavon Roberson Build passion into your Library. organizational culture. A culture evangelist and Inventing in Libraries with Public Libraries Division. with experience at Zappo’s and other leading Makerspace Tools and Resources edge companies will inspire you to infuse (Innovation Lab 15)

64 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 CPE#607: SBEC 1.0 Is your library an innovation ecosystem? Learn from Nashville and Washington D.C. on Book Buzz 2 how to inspire curiosity, collaboration and how to establish a partnership that shares 9:15 - 10:15 am experimentation and lead your community collections, programs and is beneficial to Publishers from several houses will discuss to creativity and new knowledge streams. both school and public libraries. The highly upcoming titles available for librarians to With takeaways from the Aspen Institute’s successful program has been chronicled by purchase for their collections. Leadership Roundtable on Library Innovation, researcher Keith Curry Lance. thought leaders offer tips for moving from Jennifer Boudrye, District of Columbia Public Public Libraries Division. libraries as usual to libraries at the edge. Schools; and Stephanie Ham, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (TN). CPE#608: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 John Bracken, Campus Carry: Where Are We Now? The John S. & Conference Program Committee. James L. Knight CPE#613: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 9:15 - 10:15 am Foundation; Discover the most up-to-date information and Andrea Strategic Relationships at Work: Saenz, Chicago on policies, strategies, and the reality of Public Library. Creating a Mentoring Circle implementing campus carry. Learn how 9:15 - 10:15 am Conference John Bracken Andrea Saenz college and university libraries across Program Learn an entrepreneurial Texas are adjusting policies and training to Committee. approach to work accommodate this legislative change. CPE#611: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 relationships and mentoring Tracey Mendoza, Alamo Colleges; Carrye K. Syma Libraries and Co-working Spaces that encourages mentees to and Nicholas J. Syma, Texas Tech University; Mary map out their developmental Ann Venner, University of North Texas; and Kelli 9:15 - 10:15 am Wendy Murphy network. Build a career that Wilder, St. Philip’s College Library. Public libraries are viewed as College and University Libraries Division. grows along with you. valuable shared work spaces Wendy Murphy, Babson College (MA). for groups and individuals. CPE#HOL671: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Conference Program Committee. Digital Making with Raspberry Pi – The major issues for designing library spaces will be CPE#614: SBEC 1.0 Hands on Lab 13 addressed based on research Ashlee Malone TAYSHAS Reading List Author Panel (Ticketed; register online only) observations. A new design 9:15 - 10:15 am 9:15 - 10:15 am framework will be shared along with design TAYSHAS authors highlight books on the A hands-on workshop application ideas supporting a reinvention of current list. showing how to bring code the library for future-ready needs. and electronics together with Ashlee Malone, Steelcase Education. Raspberry Pi, the $35 Conference Program Committee. computer. A Raspberry Pi is included in the registration. CPE#609: SBEC 1.0 Matt Richardson Tickets must be purchased by Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Friday, April 7, through 9:15 - 10:15 am Becky Albertalli Heather Demetrios Marcus Sedgwick preregistration. Maverick authors and illustrators highlight Matt Richardson, product evangelist, Raspberry Pi. books that made the list and share their latest Conference Program Committee and Automation creations. and Technology Round Table.

CPE#615: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Engaging and Developing Positive Digital Citizens Benjamin Alire Saenz Nicola Yoon Jeff Zentner Becky Albertalli, HarperCollins Children’s Books ; 9:15 - 10:15 am Heather Demetrios and Marcus Sedgwick, In order to prepare our Svetlana Chmakova Nathan Hale Mike Maihack Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group; Benjamin Alire Saenz, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; and Nicola students effectively for Svetlana Chmakova, Yen Press; Yoon and Jeff Zentner, Random House Children’s their futures, we must help Nathan Hale, Abrams Books for Books. them develop the skills Young Readers; Mike Maihack, to be astute in accessing Graphix / Scholastic; and Young Adult Round Table. SATURDAY • APRIL 22 Tiffany Whitehead George O’Connor, Macmillan CPE#617: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 information, conscientious Children’s Publishing Group. in collaboration, and savvy Young Adult Round Table. What’s My Role? OER in the digital world. This session will focus George O’Connor and the Academic Library on resources, techniques, and projects to help 9:15 - 10:15 am students develop these essential skills. CPE#612: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Open Educational Resources Tiffany Whitehead, Episcopal School of Baton The Sky’s the Limit: School & (OER) are big. This panel Rouge (LA). Public Libraries Working Together Conference Program Committee. outlines the role libraries and 9:15 - 10:15 am specifically librarians take to CPE#629: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Can school participate in the creation, Innovation Ecosystem: and public adoption, and dissemination Nicole Allen Creating an Atmosphere of libraries be of OER. partners? This Nicole Allen, SPARC; Jody Bailey and Michelle Innovation at Your Library panel shares Reed, University of Texas at Arlington; and Carrie L. 9:15 - 10:15 am experiences Jennifer Boudrye Stephanie Ham Gits, Austin Community College. Conference Program Committee. 2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 65 Distance E-Learning Round Table CPE#641: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#624: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Business Meeting The Authentically Inclusive Complete the Jigsaw Puzzle: Hire and 9:15 - 10:15 am Space: Serving Special Integrate the Right Fit for Your Team Leadership Development Committee Needs Teens 10:30 - 11:30 am 9:15 – 10:15 am 10:30 - 11:30 am You have a job opening. The author of Learn how to assess your CPE#618: SBEC 2.0 Schuyler’s team’s needs, find the right Texas Media Awards Presentation Monster candidate to meet those 9:30 - 11:30 am discusses needs, and acculturate the Texas Media Awards promote excellence in the radically Thomas Fortin new hire. student media production and its importance Robert Rummel- Schyler Rummel- changing Danita Barber, Plano Public Library; Thomas Fortin, San Francisco Public Library; and Dale K. McNeill, in lifelong learning by recognizing outstanding Hudson Hudson narrative of San Antonio Public Library. entries in various categories including disability Public Libraries Division. book trailers, photography, multimedia, rights in our society and how public spaces videography, animation, graphic design, can become central to that social revolution. CPE#630: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 web designing, music composition, and His daughter Schuyler will provide her own CREW Manual and You: Collection makerspaces. Students from all over Texas perspective as a young adult with a disability Management and Weeding Strategies receive awards and showcase their work. discovering her own path to agency and 10:30 - 11:30 am Texas Media Awards Committee. independence. Robert Rummel-Hudson, St. Martin’s Press; and Learn to integrate CREW (Continuous CPE#IL602: SBEC .75; TSLAC .75 Schuyler Rummel-Hudson, Plano ISD. Review, Evaluation, and Weeding) into your The State of Make in Texas Conference Program Committee. work with physical and electronic collections. Improve circulation with proactive weeding. (Innovation Lab 16) CPE#621: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Katherine Adelberg, Texas State Library & Archives 10:00 - 10:45 am Baby Book Clubs: Commission. Between August and November 2016, UT Connecting Books and Babies Public Libraries Division, Small Community Libraries Arlington Libraries and the Texas Innovators Round Table, and Texas State Library & Archives 10:30 - 11:30 am Group conducted a survey gathering data Commission. Reach parents and caregivers by implementing about Makerspaces on a large range of topics CPE#625: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 such as location, funding, accessibility, user a Baby Book Club. Learn to model behaviors demographics, staffing, equipment, outreach, and understand the connection between early The Future Landscape educational programs, and other policies. In childhood literacy and parent education. of School Libraries this presentation, we will present preliminary Allison Lee Glasgow and Cherise Nichols, Mesquite 10:30 - 11:30 am findings from the survey that highlights ISD. The Lilead Fellows Program is designed to aspects of the Makerspace culture in Texas. Texas Association of School Librarians and Children’s Round Table. empower, enable, and equip school district Martin Wallace, University of Texas at Arlington. library supervisors to be inspirational leaders Conference Program Committee. CPE#623: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 for change. Four Fellows will highlight their experiences and forecast trends for school CPE#619: SBEC 1.0 Breaking Bad News: Telling Faculty about Dropping Resources libraries. 2017 Little Mavericks 10:30 - 11:30 am Graphic Novel Reading List Decreasing budgets and increasing costs 10:30 - 11:30 am make collection management in academic Learn about this genre and the appeal to libraries challenging. Constant assessment and young readers. Get the scoop on the new titles evaluation of the collection must be performed and how to hook reluctant readers with this to meet the needs of the curriculum and Jennifer Boudrye Stephanie Ham Suzanna Panter exciting reading format. research. Discuss assessment techniques and Children’s Round Table. developing a communication plan to inform Jennifer Boudrye, District of Columbia Public Schools; Stephanie Ham, Metro Nashville Public CPE#620: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 the faculty of impending resource changes. Schools (TN); Suzanna Panter, Tacoma Public The ACRL Framework Sandbox Rebecca Fernandez, University of Texas at Tyler. Schools (WA); and Robin Stout, Lewisville ISD. for Humanities, Social Sciences Conference Program Committee. Conference Program Committee. & STEM Librarians CPE#622: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#626: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 10:30 - 11:30 am Breakout (EDU) Google Apps for Advanced Users The ACRL Framework Sandbox is a space for of Traditional Learning 10:30 - 11:30 am librarians to share examples of how they are 10:30 - 11:30 am Get acquainted with advanced features of using the Framework including lesson plans, Use your critical thinking skills, background Google Apps and gain an understanding rubrics, assessments, and learning outcomes. SATURDAY • APRIL 22 SATURDAY knowledge, and grit to solve a series of riddles of how Google EDU apps can increase This presentation provides tangible, discipline- and puzzles to unlock the power of engaged productivity and facilitate communication and specific tools. learning through Breakout EDU™. collaboration with fellow educators. Greg G. Hardin and Julie A. Leuzinger (moderator), Michelle S. Griffith, Brazosport ISD; and Brandi R. Sara Shine Pavone and Christina Eleice Taylor, University of North Texas; Peace Helen Ossom Rosales, Richardson ISD. Round Rock ISD. Williamson, University of Texas at Arlington; and Jane D. Stimpson, Library, Lone Star College- Texas Association of School Librarians. Texas Association of School Librarians. CyFair. Conference Program Committee.

66 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 CPE#627: SBEC 1.0 CPE#636: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#650: SBEC 0.75 Hot Off the Press: Great New YA Books We Need to Talk: Closing Author Session 10:30 - 11:30 am Hosting Civil Discussions with Veronica Roth (Ticketed) Presenters will preview new on Controversial Topics 11:45 am - 1:15 pm releases with short booktalks 10:30 - 11:30 am Grand Hyatt, 600 E. Market Street. that tie books together As trusted institutions, Journey to thrilling new thematically and suggest libraries have a mandate to worlds with New York Times strategies for linking books to facilitate civil discussions on bestselling author of the content areas. difficult issues such as racial Divergent series, Veronica Donalyn Miller Teri S. Lesesne and Karin equity, social justice, and Roth. Her new book, Carve Veronica Roth M. Perry, Department of Library Science, Sam violence in America. The Houston State University; and Donalyn Miller, Book the Mark, is the first in a highly-anticipated Whisperer, Inc. Amorette Hinderaker panelists will discuss how duology that promises to take readers by Young Adult Round Table. libraries can be catalysts for storm. Luncheon tickets must be purchased by these conversations and how Friday, April 7, through preregistration. Book CPE#635: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 librarians can gain the signing will take place immediately following the How User Research support of their governing event for luncheon attendees. Drives Innovation authorities. menu: Mixed Seasonal Greens, Tomato, at JSTOR Walter L. Betts, Texas Christian Cucumber, Almond Slices with a Otis I. Mitchell University; Amorette Hinderaker, 10:30 - 11:30 am convener of debates, Texas Chabmpagne Vinaigrette; Herb Seared Learn how to investigate the Christian University; Dale K. McNeill, San Antonio Airline Chicken, Wild Rice Pilaf, needs of your users, choose Public Library; and Otis I. Mitchell, pastor, Mount Broccolini, Charred Baby Bell Pepper Christina Spencer Zion Baptist Church (San Antonio). the right methods for your with a Red Pepper Coulis; Bread with TLA Executive Board. questions, and successfully conduct research. Butter; Prickly Pear Panacotta (cold Explore examples of how JSTOR’ research has CPE#IL603: SBEC .75; TSLAC .75 Italian custard served with a fruit informed its initiatives. sauce); Iced Tea and Water; Regular and Physical Computing with Scratch Decaffeinated Coffee, Assorted Hot Teas. Christina Spencer, User Research, ITHAKA | JSTOR. (Innovation Lab 17) Veronica Roth, HarperCollins Publishers. Conference Program Committee. 11:00 - 11:45 am Conference Program Committee. CPE#631: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 “Physical computing” brings the physical, REFORMA’s Children in Crisis Project analog world into the digital computer interface and is an engaging activity to CPE#651: SBEC 0.5 10:30 - 11:30 am promote STEM-literacy. It encourages critical The Children in Crisis project gets books into thinking and problem-solving skills, works General the hands of children held at the border and great as a team exercise, and in addition makes recent arrivals aware of library resources Session III to regular STEM competencies, physical available in the United States. Learn how you computing incorporates art and design with Chelsea Clinton can be part of this important project. and can be used for projects from weather 1:30 - 2:30 pm Oralia Garza De Cortes, consultant, Latino Chelsea Clinton Children’s Literature. science to abstract expressionism. Learn how Tackling complex global to easily incorporate physical computing as Latino Caucus Round Table and Exhibitors Round issues such as poverty, Table Round Table. a “maker” program using Scratch (a free, homelessness, food insecurity, and climate visual programming language) and a range of CPE#HOL672: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 change can be daunting. Where to start? hardware options including the MakeyMakey, Chelsea Clinton unleashes the inner Using Social Media to Promote PicoBoard, Arduino and Raspberry Pi. activist with stories about children and Your Library: Pinterest, Facebook, Patrick Ferrell, Harris County Public Library. teenagers who have made real change in Instagram, and Twitter - Hands on Lab Conference Program Committee. their communities. 14 (Ticketed; register online only) Black Caucus Round Table Business Meeting Chelsea Clinton, Penguin Random House. 10:30 - 11:30 am 11:45 am - 1:00 pm Conference Program Committee.

With the right tools and a little organization, District Planning Committee SATURDAY • APRIL 22 you can make the most of social media to 11:45 am – 1:00 pm attract a community that promotes your Texas Library Association COUNCIL II library. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List 2:45 - 3:45 pm April 7, through preregistration. Committee 2 Council is the governing body of TLA and will Deborah B. Ford, Junior Library Guild. 11:45 am - 1:00 pm convene 15 minutes after the adjournment of Automation and Technology Round Table. Library Friends, Trustees, and Advocates General Session III. All conference attendees Round Table Business Meeting are invited. 11:45 am - 1:00 pm Texas Library Association Executive Board Meeting 2 4:00 - 6:00 pm

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 67 EVENTS Speakers SPONSORING UNITS Callender, Donell 47 Condrey, Coby 37 District 9 45 Calzada, Becky A 39 Conference Local District Planning Cameron, Stacy 54 Arrangements Committee 67 Cantu, Monica G 49 Committee 40, 47, Diversity and Inclusion 51-52, 63 Abrego,Index Carmen P 59 Bates, Naomi M 33, 41, Career Development Committee 37, 50, 55, Conference Program 58, 61, 64 Accardo, Chris 43 60 Center 36, 41, 47, Bayliss, Sharon 41 52, 64 Committee 32-33, Dobbs, Aaron W. 62 Access Services 36-53, 55-67 Discussion Group 45 Beauchamp, Ty 54 Carlson, Scott 48, 55 Dominguez, Angela 50 Behar, Ruth 60 Carrizales, Richard V. 64 Connection Corner Dressel, Sharon Reed 37 Acquisitions & Collection (Internet Room) 36, Belden, Dreanna 53 Carroll, Joyce Armstrong Du, Yunfei 49-50 Development Round 41, 52, 64 Table 47, 52, 60 Bell, Aranda 56 62 Duncan, Margo M. 44 Connery, Dianne 56 Adams, Helen R.19, 44 Bellomy, Jill 54 Carrozza, Shannan 32 Durst, Sarah Beth 61 Cook, James C 54 Adelberg, Katherine 66 Benton, Susan 19, 40 Carsten, Jennifer 50 Dyer, Renee 49 Cooksey, Cynthia A 54 Agee, Jon 50 Bertrand, Diane Carter, Ally 43 Cooksey, David 67 Eckert, Cory 58 Gonzales 39 Case, Bonnie N 58 Ahdieh, Renee 57 Cool, Christina 44 Electronic Resources & Berumen, Tina M 40, 56 Casey, Crissy 34 Alameda, Courntey 48 Cooper, Michelle 34, 59 Serials Management Betley, Matthew 49 Casseb, Candyn 51 45, 47, 60 Albertalli, Becky 65 Copyright & Access Betts, Walter 2, 67 Cataloging & Metadata Aldrich, Christa 55 Round Interest Group Ellis, Nicole 38 Round Table 42, 44, Allen, Barbara Ann38 Big Idea Programs 19, 33, 52, 54 Elston, Ashley 43 46, 64 48 Allen, Crystal 37-38, 55 Cornish, Decee 51 Engle, Margarita 54, 57 Bike Social 51 Cavallaro, Brittany 43 Allen, Nicole 65 CPE Credits 36, 41, 52, Erwin, Linda 14 Cavanaugh, Nancy 42 Altebrando, Tara 53 Billings, Emily 37-38, 64 Escape Room 35, 63 44, 50, 64 Cervantes, Michelle 42 Alvarado, Patricia N54 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Tools and Trends in Genealogy 9 am - 12 pm Engaging Your Community: Aspen Report 1 - 4:30 pm Member $20 aa5 Member $50 aF1 Non-member $45 aa6 Non-member $75 aF2 These additional events are offered through ONLINE REGISTRATION ONLY. Making the Case for Funding 9 am - 4 pm Becoming the Copyright Expert 1 - 5 pm Wednesday, April 19 Member $75 aa7 Member $50 AG1 Train the Trainer: Designing Courses for Adult Non-member $100 aa8 Non-member $75 aG2 Learners Are You Ready? Materials Challenges 1 pm - 4 pm Storytelling to Tweens and Teens 1 - 5 pm Tech Camp: Technology Conference Within a Member $20 AB1 Member $40 AH1 Conference Non-member $45 aB2 Non-member $65 aH2 Discover Your Innovation Style BiblioTech / Via Ride and Read Problem Solving with Design Thinking 1 - 4 pm Strategic Marketing for the Non-Pro 1:30 - 5:30 pm San Antonio After Dark: Ghost Tour Member $40 AD1 Member $50 aI1 Non-member $65 aD2 Non-member $75 aI2 Thursday, April 20 CycloSocial Party Bike Ride

3 TICKETED EVENTS Friday, April 21 Conference registration fees NOT required; multiple tickets allowed. Basic Book Repair and Mending Lab Wednesday, April 19 ALUMNI RECEPTIONS & DINNERS TWU $20 F1 Qty ______EXHIBITORS ROUND TABLE Golf OUTING HETHERINGTON 30th FUN RUN / WALK UNT free F2 Qty ______Member $125 E1A Qty______$25 E9D Qty______UH-CL FREE F3 Qty ______Non-Member $150 E1B Qty______UT-Austin free F4 Qty ______Saturday, April 22 LIBRARY PIONEERS TEA WITH E. H. WEST CRT AUTHOR SESSION Member $30 E2A Qty______INTERGALACTIC DANCE CLUB PARTY $32 C7 Qty______Non-Member $55 E2B Qty______$20 E8 Qty______Thursday, April 20 Friday, April 21 CLOSING AUTHOR SESSION BLACK CAUCUS RT Author Session DIRECTORS SYMPOSIUM $44 C8 Qty______$36 C1 Qty______$32 C4 Qty______OPENING AUTHOR SESSION LARIAT ADULT FICTION AUTHOR SESSION $44 C2 Qty______$44 C5 Qty______Indicate if you require a special meal: Texas Bluebonnet Award AUTHOR SESSION EVENING WITH THE AUTHORS ___ Vegetarian ___ Vegan ___ Gluten-free $45 C3 Qty______$44 C6 Qty______SCLRT NETWORKING SOCIAL TEXAS TEA WITH YA AUTHORS ___ Lactose-free $30 E9C Qty______$20 E7 Qty______Other (explain) ______

When you preregister for conference online, you will also receive discounted rates. ______No purchase orders accepted; preregistration form must be postmarked by APRIL 7.

Preregistration...... $______Mail this form with check payable to TLA 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401, Austin, TX 78746-6763 Preconferences...... $ ______For CREDIT CARD payment, provide the following information: Ticketed events...... $ ______Card: VISA MC AMEX DISC 2017 Membership...... $ ______No. ______(include membership form) TOTAL DUE ...... $______CVV (sec. code)______Exp. date: Mo.______Year______For office use only: date received Name on card ______

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74 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 Texas Library Association SECTION II – DISTRICTS (One District included in Basic Dues) o I wish to be a member of my assigned district (geographical, 2017 Individual Membership based on preferred mailing address). CALENDAR YEAR JAN – DEC o I do not wish to be a member of any district. • Dues must be postmarked or entered online by February 1, 2017 to vote o I wish to be a member of the following; select all that apply: for association officers. o District 1 o District 6 • NEW MEMBER? You are encouraged to join the New Members Round Table o o in addition to Round Tables or Interest Groups in your specialized area. District 2 District 7 • Members falling into two or more categories of membership shall pay the o District 3 o District 8 highest applicable dues. o District 4 o District 9 • Individual membership dues are non-refundable and non-transferable. o District 5 o District 10 • Except for $5.20 of your dues for this year’s subscription to the Texas Library Journal and TLACast, your TLA dues may be tax deductible as a SECTION III – DIVISION charitable donation. (One Division included in Basic Dues)

To JOIN OR RENEW ONLINE (preferred) visit WWW.TXLA.ORG o College and University Libraries (1) o Community/Junior College Discussion Group (7) SECTION I – PERSONAL & DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION o Public Libraries (2)

First name ______middle name ______o Special Libraries (3) o Texas Association of School Librarians (4) last name ______o Private School Discussion Group (5) nickname (iF any) ______o No Preference (6) SECTION IV – ROUND TABLE (RT) OR INTEREST GROUP (IG) tla membership number, iF known ______(One Round Table or Interest Group included in Basic Dues) employment: institution/library ______o Acquisitions & Collection Development RT (A) o Archives, Genealogy, & Local History RT (Ll) campus branch/department ______o Assessment IG (Mm)

BUSINESS street address ______o Automation & Technology RT (N) o Black Caucus RT (Z) city ______state _____ Zip+4 ______o Cataloging & Metadata RT (C) business phone ______Fax ______o Children’s RT (D) o Copyright & Access IG (E) HOME street address ______o Digital Libraries RT (Dd) city ______state _____ Zip+4 ______o Distance/E-Learning RT (Jj) o E-SMART (electronic resources) RT (R) home phone ______cell phone ______o Exhibitors RT (formerly TPALS) (S) preFerred email ______o Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender RT (Cc) o Government Documents RT (K) secondary email ______o Intergalactic Dance Club RT (Bb) Library Type Affiliation o Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing RT (L) o Latino Caucus RT (T) o Academic o School o Other (Please Specify) o Library Friends, Trustees, & Advocates RT (G) o Public o Special o Library Instruction RT (U) Your Social Media Handles (if applicable): o Library Support Staff RT (X) o New Members RT (J) twitter ______Facebook ______o Programming for Adults RT (Kk) linked in ______other______o Reference & Information Services RT (F) o Retired Members RT (Nn) Preferred mailing address: o Home o Work o Small Community Libraries RT (Q) o Do not publish my home information o Storytelling RT (W) Please note your preference regarding useful and timely electronic o Supervision, Management, & Administration RT (M) information from TLA and occasionally from screened outside o TALL Texans RT (Y) organizations: o Texas Authors & Illustrators RT (Oo) o From TLA and outside organizations – or – o From TLA only o Young Adult RT (H) o I do NOT want to be auto-subscribed to Unit electronic lists. o No Preference

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 75 SECTION V – MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY OPTIONAL INFORMATION – Response is purely voluntary; this Individual membership dues are non-refundable & non-transferable. information will not appear in the membership directory: Dues installment plan available online. How old are you? o Personal Member (G) Librarian, Library Professional, Library Staff o 25 and under o 36 – 45 o 56 – 65 Dues Schedule: o 26 – 35 o 46 – 55 o 66 or over o Unemployed through $9,999 ...... $25 Are you: o Female o Male o Salary $10,000 through $14, 999 ...... $45 Which of these categories defined by the US Census Bureau best o Salary $15,000 through $19,999 ...... $61 describes your race/ethnicity? Select all that apply: o Salary $20,000 through $29,999 ...... $76 o Black or African American o Salary $30,000 through $39,999 ...... $106 o American Indian or Alaska Native o Salary $40,000 through $59,999 ...... $146 o Asian o Salary $60,000 through $79,999 ...... $157 o Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander o Salary $80,000 and above ...... $172 o Hispanic/Latino origin o Full-time Library Student (not currently employed in a library) or o White person not of Hispanic/Latino origin High School Student (C) ...... $25 o Person of other race(s); please identify ______o Retired Librarian (D) ...... $25 ______o Vendor (V) ...... $51 o Trustee/Layperson/Advocate (E) ...... $35 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 o Supporting Member (F) ...... $232 Worth, Houston, Laredo, Lubbock, San Antonio) o Out of State Member (G) ...... $35 o within 5 miles o 31 – 60 miles SECTION VI – PAYMENT o 5 – 15 miles o 61 – 100 miles BASIC DUES o 16 – 30 miles o Farther than 100 miles Includes one Division and one What is your highest level of education? Round Table/Interest Group $ ______o High School or GED o Associate Degree my birthday is: Each Add’l Division at 10% X Basic Dues $ ______o Bachelor’s Degree month ______Each Add’l Round Table or Interest Group o Master’s Degree at 5% X Basic Dues $ ______o Doctorate day ______o None of the above Each Add’l District at 1% X Basic Dues $ ______Do you have formal library/information Membership Directory, $30 each $ ______training or certification at any of the following levels? (check any that apply)

Professional Liability Insurance, $36 $ ______o Library/Media Specialist Certification Annually, Jan-Dec (Insurance Premium per o Bachelor’s Degree Member: $27.50; State Taxes/Fees (4.91%): o Master’s Degree, non-ALA accredited school $1.35, Association’s Administrative Fees: $7.15) $ ______total o Master’s Degree, ALA-accredited school RETURN ENTIRE FORM WITH PAYMENT o Doctorate No Purchase Orders Accepted Which college or university granted your Master’s Degree o Check or Money Order payable to TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION in Library and/or Information Science? o VISA o AMERICAN EXPRESS o MASTERCARD o Sam Houston State Univ. o University of North Texas o o o DISCOVER Texas Woman’s University University of Texas at Austin o Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake Card # ______/______/______/______o Other Texas school (please identify) ______o Non-TX American school (please identify) ______CVV (security code)______Exp. Date ______/______o International program (please identify) ______Number of years in library field ______Signature ______

OFFICE Received ______USE ONLY Check # ______3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401, Austin, TX 78746-6763 512/328-1518 • 800/580-2852 • FAX: 512/328-8852 Amount ______Email: [email protected]

76 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2016 2017 Conference Committees Conference Program Andrea N. Schorr, University of Texas Health L.G. Swift, Fort Worth Library Cecilia H. Barham, co-chair, North Richland Science Center Sarah Timm, Texas A&M University-San Antonio Hills Library CONNECTION CORNER John P. Weed, University of Texas Health Science Terry Roper, co-chair, Region 10 ESC Christie P. Hirst, North East ISD Center Aranda Bell, Zula B. Wylie Public Library Roxanne Jenke, North East ISD Kelli M. Wilder, Saint Philip’s College Kristi K. McCown Betts, Irving ISD ENTERTAINMENT REGISTRATION Rebecca Bichel, University of Texas at Arlington Nancy J. Kaida, Northwest Visa College Jessica Lilly Hughes, Northside ISD Emily Billings, University of North Texas Deanna M. O’Marah, Northside ISD Jean Ann Johnson, North East ISD Carolyn M. Booker, Lewisville Public Library EXHIBITS SOCIAL MEDIA Carolyn D. Brewer, Tarrant County College Christine Crowley, retired Sara B. Romine, North East ISD Kelly Brouillard, Lewisville Public Library Lisa Kulka, Northside ISD Natalie M. Watts, North East ISD Daniel E. Burgard, University of North Texas HEALTH EVENTS TLA STORE Health Science Center Monica Garza Bustillo, San Antonio Public Library Elma Nieto-Rodriguez, San Antonio Public Library Stacy Cameron, Frisco ISD Jacob Sherman, University of Texas at San Antonio Julia M. Ousley, Friends of New Braunfels Public Thomas Finley, Frisco Public Library HOSPITALITY Library Kandra Gibbs, North Richland Hills Library Jennifer Zinn De Waelsche, San Antonio ISD TRANSPORTATION Jan Hodge, Crowley ISD Angelia Johnson, San Antonio ISD Thomas Matthew De Waelsche, San Antonio Public Elizabeth A.M. Howard, Texas Wesleyan University INFORMATION Library Tracy L. Hull, Texas Christian University Beverly Rudkin Ingle, student, University of North D. L. T. Grant, San Antonio Public Library VOLUNTEERS Ling Hwey Jeng, Texas Woman’s University Texas Tosca O. Gonsalves, Palo Alto College Julie A. Leuzinger, University of North Texas Tina Mesa, Palo Alto College Sylvia Reyna, San Antonio Public Library Leah Rochele Mann, Lewisville ISD MEETING ROOM Sharon K. Martin, University Park Public Library Barbara Henderson, Fort Worth Library Curren R. Mclane, Azle Memorial Library Michael M. Mendez, Fort Worth ISD Renee A. Newry, Irving ISD Texas Library Association Tuan Nguyen, Mackin Educational Resources Richelle O’Neil, Garland ISD Texas Library Association is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, Peace Helen Ossom Williamson, University of regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical Texas at Arlington appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any Patricia F. Peters, Decatur Public Library form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks. Cynthia A. Pfledderer, Southlake Public Library Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees. Behave professionally. Remember Robyn Reid, Texas Christian University that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for Texas Library Association events. Brandi R. Rosales, Richardson ISD Raymond A. Sablack, Dallas Public Library Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event at the discretion of the event organizers. David W. Schuster, New York Jeanne R. Standley, University of Texas at Tyler Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public Claudia Wayland, Allen Public Library spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained Donna L. Woody disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. Local Arrangements If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem Faye L. Hagerty, co-chair, North East ISD appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference. If you are being Natalie Anne Morgan, co-chair, Patrick Heath harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a Public Library member of event staff immediately. AUTHORS AREA Event staff will be happy to help participants contact venue security or local law enforcement, Wendy L. Howk, North East ISD provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of Robin Magers Stauber, Patrick Heath Public Library the event. We value your attendance. CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER We expect participants to follow these rules at all event venues and event-related social events. Ignacio Matias Albarracin, San Antonio Public Library

2017 Annual Conference Edition: OWN YOUR PROFESSION 77 Storytelling Concerts • Music Ghost Stories • Kids’ Activities Liars Contest • Sacred Tales Concert Story Swaps • Workshops

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