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TEXAS LIBRARY 5 A VISION FOR ALL TEXANS JOURNAL 5 President’s Perspective Published by the TEXAS LIBRARY Cecilia Barham ASSOCIATION HOUSTON 7 Editor’s Letter Membership in TLA is open to any Wendy Woodland MARCH 24 27 individual or institution interested in George R Brown Convention Center Texas libraries. For advertising information, contact Kasey Hyde, TLA Vendor & Meeting Associate at: [email protected] 8 For editorial information, contact Wendy Woodland, TLA Director, Why Your Library Needs Social Advocacy & Communications at: 8 [email protected] Media Ambassadors 26 Cesar Garza Opinions expressed in Texas Library Journal are those of the authors and 12 Voter Registration Events: TLA 2020 CONFERENCE are not necessarily endorsed by TLA. A Great Collaboration 27 Featured Speakers Opportunity Nicole Cruz 30 Corporate Sponsors Programs by Topic Journal Staff 14 Pottsboro Library Teams Up 31 Editor for Esports 43 Conference Committees Wendy Woodland Michele Chan Santos 44 Exhibiting Companies Assistant Editor Guided Pathways: Sharpening Michele Chan Santos 16 Career Focus for Community Graphic Designer College Students Joanna King Lorely Ambriz Advertising Introducing E-Read Texas 46 Kasey Hyde 20 Danielle Cunniff Plumer Printer SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Capital Printing 46 Preconferences (Tuesday) 48 Tuesday, March 24 22 Wednesday, March 25 54 65 Thursday, March 26 22 Newsnotes 76 Friday, March 27 24 Continuing Education 80 Index of Events, Speakers, and 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401 Sponsoring Units Austin, Texas 78746-6763 AD INDEX 512.328.1518 www.txla.org 4 American Library Association © Texas Library Association 6 DK Publishing Media Flex/OPALS Texas Library Journal (ISSN 0040-4446) 13 84 is published quarterly in spring, summer, 2 Penguin Young Readers fall, and winter by the Texas Library 10 Teacher Day @ TLA FORMS Association, 3355 Bee Cave Road, 13 Tejas Storytelling Festival Suite 401, Austin, Texas 78746-6763. TLA Disaster Relief Art Raffle Conference Preregistration Subscription price: to members of TLA, 47 84 TLA Membership 94 cents, included in annual dues; to 88 86 TLA Membership nonmembers, $25 per year for domestic, 25 TLA Reading Lists $30 out-of-country. Single issues: $7. 42 Texas State Library & Archives Commission 24 UNT iSchool 11 UT Press

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By Cecilia Barham

This past week the 2020 Conference Program went to the printer. It was a busy and exciting week and a milestone worth celebrating. I am pleased to share that when you get your program you will see that Newbery Medal winner, and author of The Giver, Lois Lowry will be joining us as a Presidential Spotlight speaker. TLA is honored to have her joining our illustrious lineup of speakers, which includes Lisa See, Jason Reynolds, and Nick Offerman. Registration is open now!

The TLA Conference is not the only opportunity to see She is a member- presenters who inspire us or teach us new ways of doing focused leader with things. I recently had the honor of attending several of TLA’s a proven record district meetings, including District 6/Border Region Library of implementing Association/REFORMA El Paso Chapter Joint Conference in El successful Paso. I was deeply moved by the warm welcome I received and initiatives and by their amazing keynote speaker, playwright Octavio Solis, sustaining organizational growth. As a successful relationship who brought most of the crowd to tears with artful readings builder and collaborator, she exhibits a membership-focused from his work. service philosophy, and has extensive experience working I also enjoyed hearing SEL Mindfulness Specialist James with members, boards, volunteers, vendors, and community Butler at the District 7 meeting. James shared ways in which partners. we can bring mindfulness into our work and our libraries. He Her first day at TLA is January 9, 2020. Please join me in created an amazing resources page that can be found at welcoming Shirley to the TLA family! bit.ly/mindfuld7. Kudos to all the districts for their well-organized fall IN OTHER NEWS meetings, and for the timely and important topics they Another task force that is hard at work is the Information highlighted. Migration Task Force. They have been working with units and divisions to identify needs and have created some great NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SELECTED resources to help chairs and webmasters access, organize, and After conducting an extensive search and thoroughly provide members with key information. More information on vetting candidates, the Executive Director Search task force these resources will be coming out soon. recommended, and the Executive Board selected, Shirley Robinson, CAE as the new TLA executive director. Robinson’s A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE experience is aligned with the Executive Board and members’ I want to send a huge thank you to the TLA staff for all the goals for TLA’s future: work they do to make our organization the biggest and best • To increase its presence in political spheres and to advance state library association in the country. They have answered the profession questions, solved problems, anticipated needs, and done these things with kindness and humor. I am grateful. • To provide services and professional development in an increasing menu of online options • To position the organization to be structurally and fiscally sustainable Robinson has more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit Cecilia Barham trade association management at statewide organizations. [email protected] 817-427-6813

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6 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 EDITOR’S LETTER Should Your Library Be the Hero of the Story? By Wendy Woodland

Build relationships. Share most important thing to remember is Communications conference. At your stories. Have an elevator that you and your library are not the one of the programs, the presenter, heroes of these stories. Your patrons Elaine Acker of Sparx360, a certified speech. Present data in are the true heroes. Librarians and StoryBrand guide, walked us through interesting ways. Advocate libraries are guides for the heroes of author Donald Miller’s (Building a for your library. Promote your these stories, providing the resources, StoryBrand) exercise to develop a short professional brand. Champion solutions, support, and inspiration answer to the dreaded question, “What the profession. Foster needed for individuals to live their best do you do?” partnerships. These messages lives. Start by stating the problem or Consider: Our library provided challenge that many of your patrons provide the framework for most computer classes to more than 40 face. Then describe your solution to that advocacy-related information individuals in the past month. problem or challenge. Expand on your found in editorials, toolkits, Or: A growing number of employers solution, what success looks like and blogs, websites, presentations, require online applications, but the lack how your patrons feel after utilizing the and other sources of advice. of basic computer skills is a tremendous service. Then put it all together! barrier for many job seekers in our Here’s one I crafted: Most people community. To bridge that gap, the believe they can find all the information There are tips, steps, how-tos, and best library launched our Get Online and they need online and that libraries are practices for all of these activities, but I Apply program. We’ve helped 40 people on the way out. The truth is, today’s believe that stories are the cornerstone this month gain those necessary skills, librarians are educators and libraries upon which any advocacy effort is built. and the confidence to complete online are important community centers, The human brain is attuned inspiring people to grow, learn to respond to stories. Stories and reach for excellence. TLA influence our emotions, and TLA gives librarians gives librarians all the support when we make that connection, they need to be essential we are more likely to remember all the support they need resources for their communities the information being shared. for years to come. Stories help make complex to be essential resources Not perfect by any means, topics more easily understood but an improvement over, “TLA by sharing how issues affect real for their communities is a nonprofit association that people. provides continuing education, How do you craft a story that for years to come. networking opportunities, will resonate with others, and “ and resources to all types of help you build relationships, librarians.” advocate for your library, present applications. Now, some of them have Because what would you remember complex information, champion the jobs and are spreading the word about better — “We provided books about profession, and foster partnerships? our new program. magic tricks in our children’s library,” Perhaps following the maxims about Just a slight shift in the message or “Several children were so inspired narrative structure, plot, and character to make those served the heroes by the magic trick books they got at the development learned in high school or demonstrates in a meaningful way how” library, that they come in every week college English classes; or applying the the library is addressing a community looking for other magic books and have lessons learned in storytelling classes need, and how effective the program has a magic show they put on for others ”? offered by MLS programs or at TLA been. Who are your heroes? They’re waiting Annual Conferences, would be helpful. Last month, I attended the Texas for you to tell their story. While the storytelling guidelines Society of Association Executives’ we’ve learned are certainly useful, the (TSAE) Membership, Marketing &

Texas Library Association | 7 Why Your Library Needs Social Media Ambassadors, Now By Cesar Garza

art volunteers, part friends, part superfans with an a reaction? Social media is what it is today – alternately messy emphasis on super, social media ambassadors are and focused, mean and compassionate – for the simple reason P powerful partners for your library’s marketing efforts. that people are people. We strive to be seen and heard. That press release that didn’t make your local paper? They The challenge is achieving organic reach (how many people can tweet the news that the library is extending services to see any given post published on your business page) rather than those in need with pride. That tour of your library not everyone having to pay the social network for that reach. Over the years gets to take? They might spend an entire summer visiting networks have phased out free organic reach in favor of paid every branch in the library system and posting photos of their reach, a.k.a. advertising a.k.a. money. self-guided tour on Facebook. That library swag you want “You’ll see less public content like posts from businesses, customers to plug to others? They can buy a library-branded brands, and media,” announced Mark Zuckerberg in his cap, and then show it off with a selfie on Instagram. consequential update January 2018 update to the Facebook Social media ambassadors news feed. The feed of the largest help your library break through social network on Earth currently congested social news feeds by prioritizes content from your functioning, essentially, as word- family, friends, and groups over of-mouth marketers – speaking content from business pages like through shares, retweets, favorites, your libraries. hearts, likes and reactions for the Andrew Hutchinson at library they love. SocialMediaToday.com reported In 2015, my coworkers at the in February 2019 that the average Austin Public Library (APL) engagement rate per post on in Austin, Texas and I began Facebook pages is a meager 0.09 organizing ambassadors. Library percent; on Instagram 1.60 percent; fans go to our library.austintexas. on Twitter 0.048 percent across all gov/ambassador webpage to industries. learn what an ambassador does In other words, the social and to sign up by providing their names and emails through algorithm that determines what people see in their news feeds a simple form (no application required). APL then emails has shifted from person-to-page to person-to-person. In its its ambassadors as a group to share the scoop on upcoming reporting on 2019’s top five social media trends, Hootsuite library events, services, or projects. They’re also encouraged articulated the shift this way: “Brands get human as the circle to use relevant hashtags, such as #APLambassador. APL is of trust on social media tightens.” now in year five of its ambassador mobilization effort, and As a group, social media ambassadors form a circle of trust I’m convinced that libraries of all types and sizes would around your library. They embody organic reach. In fact, they see the same benefits of this program as we have. Indeed, can reach family, friends, and groups to an extent your library a few libraries across the U.S. recently started recruiting can’t. ambassadors of their own. (Shout out to the public libraries in Pima County, Arizona; Edwardsville, Illinois; and the Calvert HOW TO RECRUIT, ENGAGE & MEASURE SUCCESS Library in Maryland.) APL took the idea of community members donating their digital voices and fashioned it into a framework for recruiting, BUILDING A CIRCLE OF TRUST & EXPANDING YOUR REACH engaging, and measuring the activity of ambassadors to raise What’s a tweet without a retweet, or a Facebook post without the public’s awareness of the library and, at the same time, raise

8 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Library Director Roosevelt Weeks welcomes APL Social Media Ambassadors to a sneak preview of the new Central Library

the library’s awareness of its supporters on social media. Engagement Tip #1 – Align your emails with a long- The goal is a kind of partnership for the news feed-driven term strategy based on your library’s “big moments,” times in which we live. And in these times, when a single tweet then use those moments as incentives to sign up and can spur countless retweets in response, we recognize that speak up. there is no way to completely control the library’s message Plot the next few months or even years in your library’s life: online. In fact, we email our ambassadors to cultivate a certain the exciting things happening are your big moments. Maybe message, not to dictate it. How ambassadors share the message it’s the opening or reopening of a library facility, the launch of is up to them. The library-ambassador partnership is the center a new service, program, or partnership. For APL a big moment of the circle of trust. So far, that trust has been well placed. was the opening of Austin’s new Central Recruitment Tip #1 – Make it simple Library building. We decided to give to sign up and, like libraries, open to our ambassadors a sneak preview of everyone. the new library before it opened to the While profit-driven businesses have general public in October 2017. For two vested interests in screening applications years we dropped hints then, through for ambassadors, libraries are people- email, revealed our plan. Community driven, no application for entry required. members got wind of the fact that they Have confidence in your community’s could attend the sneak preview if they passion for its library. They’ll sign up. To were ambassadors, so they signed up by date, we have over 1,300 ambassadors who the hundreds. On the day of the sneak signed up using a simple web form that preview, ambassadors shared over 300 asks only for name, email, and the social social media posts from inside the new networks they can help us on. library, generating buzz heading into opening day. Recruitment Tip #2 – Build an email list to communicate calls to speak up for your library. Engagement Tip #2 – Follow the sneak preview playbook. APL subscribes to an email marketing platform – any will do – to collect names and emails in a single distribution list. The idea Sneak previews are exciting incentives. In 2017 tickets to our is to email that list as often as you think necessary with calls to ambassadors’ sneak preview of Austin’s new Central Library speak up for your library, e.g. to use a certain hashtag(s) or to were free but limited. We issued tickets through Eventbrite. share stories, particularly what they love about your library – com and they sold out in five minutes. In 2018 we organized a maybe an upcoming event, a recent blog post, a favorite branch, sneak preview of a new event series premiering at the Central or what they’re reading, watching and listening to. Library called APL After Dark. Free tickets sold out in a day. In 2019 we staged our third ticketed event, a Woodstock-

Texas Library Association | 9 themed appreciation party and sneak preview of exciting, all sorts of ways, which is to say the spirit of APL’s ambassador upcoming library events that would benefit from their support program inspired them to do their own thing. There was the and social networking. The overall approach is what I dub the ambassador who documented on Facebook her self-guided “sneak preview playbook,” an engagement tactic in which you summer tour of every branch in the APL system. host special, ambassador-only events at your library to see Another ambassador once tweeted these wistful song them and thank them in person. lyrics: “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely you Measuring Tip #1 – Track your can always go... to your local library.” Another documented on group’s superfan signal. Instagram every book she read in 2019, all 80+ books, one by one. Every email we send to our Scroll through #APLambassador ambassadors reminds them to use on Instagram, Facebook, and the group’s superfan signal, a.k.a. Twitter to experience the their hashtag: #APLambassador. cumulative effect of their Since our first email I’ve tracked superpowers. And don’t put it off: the signal for my library. Once start a social media ambassadors a month I count and note in a group for your library, now! spreadsheet how many times Need help? I joined with ambassadors used their hashtag on colleagues at other U.S. libraries each of the major social networks. I with ambassadors to open an can tell you, to date, they’ve spoken informal Facebook group called up for my library 2,390 times and Social Media Ambassadors for counting. I can also tell you they’re Libraries. The purpose of this most active on 1) Instagram, 2) Twitter, and 3) Facebook. group at facebook.com/groups/libraryamb is to share ideas, Measuring Tip #2 – How often do they surprise you? success stories, and/or best practices for engaging library ambassadors. Join us! Surprise is what turns superfans into superheroes in this universal quest to raise awareness of how libraries serve their Cesar Garza is the assistant branch manager at the Terrazas Branch communities. In Austin our ambassadors have surprised us in Library, Austin Public Library.

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Texas Library Association | 11 VOTER REGISTRATION EVENTS A Great Collaboration Opportunity By Nicole Cruz Sharyland High School students completed voter registration; Credit: Robert Barbosa

exas law requires high schools to register eligible necessary supplies (blue pens, etc.), and most importantly, get students to vote twice a year. The Texas Election Code the voter registration cards. Mr. Barbosa took care of getting T mandates that the principal of each public and private the registration cards from the Texas Secretary of State’s high school in Texas or the principal’s designee, serve as the high office. I reserved the library lecture hall. Together we recruited school deputy registrar and offer voter registration applications volunteers including our campus principal, dean of instruction, to students, along with a notice explaining how the students may counselors, and central office consultants. We advertised submit the applications to the state, twice per year. the event on the campus announcements, on scrolling However, according to a groundbreaking report by the announcements via televisions across the campus, the digital Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) and Lawyers Committee for marquee in front of the school, approved Sharyland ISD social Civil Rights Under Law published in 2017, only six percent of media accounts, staff emails, and through our social studies schools across the state requested voter registration forms from classes. The monthly and weekly reminders that I received the Secretary of State in the semester leading up to the 2016 via ALA were very important, and helped me focus on what I presidential election. needed to do and what I had done to prepare. In addition to that startling statistic, the Our goal for the first registration event was to report also found that: 159 out of 234 counties register 25 students. We exceeded that with in Texas with public high schools or 68%, did 36 students completing voter registration not request a single voter registration form. cards on the day of the event, and another Of the five largest counties in Texas, none eight students registering a day later through had more than 12% of their high schools Mr. Barbosa’s conference period. request a voter registration form. Norberto Manzanares, Sharyland High Even the schools that requested forms did School senior, participated and registered to not request nearly enough to cover all eligible vote at the event. He said, “Personally, I would students. have taken the initiative to register to vote on How can school librarians impact these my own, but I feel many of my peers would dismal statistics? By volunteering to host voter not have taken the opportunity. I am engaged registration day events. This year I partnered with Robert in the political process. I try to keep up with events, listen to Barbosa, Sharyland High School Social Studies Department debates, and view press conferences.” When asked what has Chair to host a voter registration event. This year, National influenced him to be an engaged citizen, he replied, “I’ve seen Voter Registration Day was September 24, which coincided so much that I feel is personally wrong and I want to have the with Banned Books Week, September 22 – 28. We decided, opportunity to make changes and even run for office in the along with our campus principal Lori Ann Garza, to host future. Impact to illicit change starts with voting. Becoming the event on September 24 during Banned Book Week to informed of issues and casting your vote can and will change emphasize the freedom we have to choose what we read, the future.” that freedom is the cornerstone of democracy, and voting is Based on the success of this first registration event, we plan essential to our democracy. The American Library Association to host two more events to coincide with students becoming provided materials online to assist in planning and promoting eligible to register based on their 18th birthdate throughout voter registration so I registered for that program and was able this school year with a goal of registering even more eligible to access valuable resources. students. Prior to the event we needed to reserve a school venue, Nicole Cruz is the librarian at Sharyland High School and Sharyland advertise the event, enlist and train volunteers, obtain Advanced Academic Academy, and the Sharyland ISD lead librarian.

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(940) 380-9320 Texas Library Association | 13 Photo courtesy of Pottsboro Library POTTSBORO LIBRARY TEAMS UP FOR ESPORTS

by Michele Chan Santos

14 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 hanks to a $49,657 grant from the Institute of Museum Casy Blanton is a career tech teacher at Pottsboro High and Library Services, the local library in Pottsboro, School. He oversees the esports program from the high school Texas, is now home to an esports team made up of end, working as a liaison between Connery and the students. TPottsboro High students, coached by nearby college gamers. “The kids are really jumping after it, they want to know more A town of about 2,500 people in Northeast Texas, Pottsboro and more about it, they’re excited to learn about the games and sits near the Texas-Oklahoma border, close to Lake Texoma. game play,” Blanton said. With 55 students wanting to be on the The project is the brainchild of Pottsboro Library Director newly formed team, there will be competitive tryouts for spots. Dianne Connery. Esports familiarizes students with computers and networks, “In the library, we want to go where the kids are, to go where and gives them teammates, versus just playing video games their interests are,” she said. “We can work on learning skills alone at home, Blanton and Boessen said. And like other using esports as a platform for learning. Especially in a town competitive sports, there are various ways for more students where a lot of people aren’t connected (online) the way they to become involved, whether making videos of the game play, would be in other places, we want to put them on a level playing broadcasting the games live online, or doing commentary for field with kids from other cities.” the games. Some students will be creating graphic designs Esports are organized, multi-player video game to support the team, for example, while others can serve as competitions. Teams hold tryouts and have players who managers. specialize in certain positions; they compete against other Boessen said he was impressed with the turnout and energy schools and organizations. at the esports’ program’s kickoff event at the Pottsboro library. “Beforehand, I thought, how many kids would go to the library BETTER ACCESS FOR EVERYONE on a Saturday?” he said. “But there were easily two dozen In addition to energizing local students — Pottsboro High teenagers ready to go for this Super Smash Bros. tournament. has about 450 students, 55 of whom expressed interest in the That multi-use room was packed.” esports team — the grant is improving the prospects of many In the esports world, multi-player teams compete at people in town, thanks to the upgraded computer equipment tournaments and play popular games such as Overwatch, and faster Wi-Fi speeds now offered in the library. Before, the which is played as a six-on-six match. Each player selects upload speed was a sluggish 18 mbps (megabits per second), from a roster of more than 30 characters, known as “heroes.” and now it’s a zippy 500 mbps (a good home Wi-Fi speed, in Each hero has a unique skill set. More than 40 million people comparison, is above 25 mbps.) internationally have played Overwatch since its inception. “With 500 mbps, everyone can do what they need to be The Pottsboro Library team will begin engaging in Overwatch doing,” Connery said. Multiple patrons can use the computers competition this spring, Boessen said, and will expand to have in the library, or bring in their own laptops or other devices. teams competing in other games as well. The team will be part The library keeps the Wi-Fi up and available 24 hours a day. A of the North America Scholastic Esports Federation (NASEF). local Eagle Scout built and installed benches outside. Now, even Both Coffman and Schnaible can coach players in Overwatch, when the library is closed, people can bring their own devices as well as League of Legends and other games. to use the free Wi-Fi while seated outside. “People here don’t have technology access the way they do A HIDDEN GEM in other cities,” Connery explained. “Our library has become a Both Blanton and Boessen say Connery’s energy and catalyst for better things for the community.” enthusiasm, as well as her innovative ideas, are what make the The Pottsboro Library is now open from 1-5 p.m. on Pottsboro Library an integral part of the town. Connery said Saturdays solely for esports. The students needed time to she has coffee meetings “just to talk to the community about practice when they didn’t have to worry about keeping the what matters to them.” room quiet for other patrons, Connery said. “Dianne is amazing,” Blanton said of Connery. “The library The grant allowed the library to purchase 10 gaming PCs, is a hidden gem. There is so much there.” Blanton’s four-year- which are available to patrons when the team is not using them. old son, Jett, “wants to go up to the library every day.” Jett enjoys playing with the builder toys and the imagination toys LEARNING TRUST AND COMMUNICATION especially. “They have so many resources that you wouldn’t The team’s mentors attend Austin College in Sherman, located expect to have there.” about 12 miles from Pottsboro, where Dr. Brett Boessen is an Connery wants other librarians to know that an esports associate professor of media studies, and the communication, program is doable. “Esports are scalable to different libraries, media and theater department chair. He’s also the director of it can look like a lot of different things in a lot of different the esports program at the college. libraries,” she said. NASEF, has many free resources available at Electra Coffman, sophomore, will be coaching the Pottsboro www.esportsfed.org. library team, along with Chloe Schnaible, a junior. Both play for The library’s esports team “is a great opportunity, a huge the Austin College esports team. Coffman specializes in League source of buzz and positivity,” Blanton said. “Kids from every of Legends, and Schnaible plays Overwatch. walk of student life want to participate.” The benefits of competing in esports are similar to the benefits derived from more traditional sports, Boessen said. Michele Chan Santos is the marketing specialist at the Texas Library Team-based video game play teaches students “cooperation, Association. leadership, trust and communication,” he said.

Texas Library Association | 15 GUIDED PATHWAYS Sharpening Career Focus for Community College Students By Lorely Ambriz

16 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 LOST IN THE SHUFFLE – BEFORE PATHWAYS part of the Pathways Project, an initiative led by You gotta be kidding! That was what I thought the American Association of Community Colleges 20 years ago when I transferred from El Paso (AACC) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Community College (EPCC) to New Mexico State Foundation.2 EPCC was chosen because of its University (NMSU) with 30+ credit hours more history of data-informed innovation, engaged than I needed for a degree in Journalism and Mass faculty, and readiness for transformational change. Communications. It was shocking to hear that while EPCC has been building a Pathways approach to I needed only 18 hours more in my field to complete student success and college completion and has my degree, I would have to stay at the university for been recognized for advancing Pathways in the 55 additional hours in order to attain a degree from AACC Community College Journal. NMSU. It was my understanding that all journalism EPCC’s goal is to design and implement credits would transfer and they did. But I was structured academic and career pathways college- unaware that most of those classes needed to be wide. More recently, EPCC joined Texas Pathways, taken at the university to count towards a degree. a statewide five-year strategy to build capacity for Nevertheless, that rocky path has had its Texas community colleges. advantages for me, I discovered my passion for Integrating guided pathways at scale is colossal education and information literacy, and that EPCC effort requiring curriculum alignment and program was and is the best place to start and finish. mapping, aligned both to university transfer Today, I am part of the EPCC faculty, as a librarian programs and the labor market; reconfiguration and associate professor. In my role, I can guide of developmental education as an accelerated students and help make their career pathway a little and contextualized onramp to programs of study; less rocky, requiring less time and less money. ongoing advising and monitoring of student Making the transfer decision too late, as I did two progress; integrated academic support and student decades ago, could be a more pronounced issue services; integrated approaches to hands-on for students today, they have so many potential application of learning; and alignment of co- paths, making it harder to pick and pursue just curricular learning. “Implementing pathways one enjoyable, fulfilling career. The U.S. National requires collaboration and involvement from the Center for Education Statistics reports that entire college,” EPCC President William Serrata between the fiscal year 2000–01 and 2016–17, there said. “I am proud of the dedication and efforts being was a 195% increase in conferred associate degrees made by EPCC’s faculty and staff to optimize the in multi/interdisciplinary studies, from 10,400 student experience through pathways.” to 30,800 degrees.1 The significant increase in community college students graduating with a BEGIN WITH THE END GOAL IN MIND multi/interdisciplinary degree can be an indication Guided Pathways Maps serve as a reality check of the lack of clear career paths or of students to students to determine what they will need to experiencing information overload. complete a degree, from testing and supplies, to According to EPCC Vice President of Instruction courses to be taken, and job market information. and Workforce Steve Smith, EPCC is no exception At EPCC there are program maps developed across to those statistics, as 50 percent of first-time college eight areas of study available at www.epcc.edu/ students are on a multidisciplinary degree path or Academics/Catalog/programs-of-study. The overall have an undeclared major. goals of Pathways are to improve rates of Pathways EPCC is working diligently to change this by college completion, transfer, and attainment of jobs implementing the Guided Pathways Project with value in the labor market — and to achieve 3 which data shows is changing this trend. According equity in those outcomes. to Smith, “Since we have implemented guided As part of the Pathways initiative, EPCC is in the pathways, EPCC has seen a decrease in students process of analyzing data and trends, including declaring multidisciplinary degree plans and graduation rates, number of students taking co- an increase in students declaring their intent to requisite courses for college level courses such pursue associate degrees in specific programs such as math and English within the first year, and the as the associate of applied science, the associate of number of credit hours completed within the science degrees and others. Thus, this data suggests first year. EPCC also tracks to see if students are that students are steering away from degrees in finishing their associate’s degree or certificate general studies and are being directed into more degree within the recommended time-frame, cohesive Pathways.” usually three years. Pathways work doesn’t end once a student GUIDED PATHWAYS graduates. EPCC collects student academic and In 2016, EPCC was one of 30 institutions nationwide workforce data for students who have left the competitively selected, out of 89 colleges, to be community college.

Texas Library Association | 17 INCREASED COLLABORATION TO IMPACT valuable information. One of the highlights I can STUDENT SUCCESS give is, for example, 64% of our students say they Included in Pathways Maps’ strategic thinking are struggling with money to pay for school, 46% of is the acknowledgment of the socioeconomic our students are struggling with housing and 27% barriers (in addition to possible academic struggles) of our students are showing signs of very low food that affect student decision-making. Angeles security.” “Pathways not only addresses student’s Vazquez, manager at EPCC Institutional Research academic needs, but also helps identify other areas Department and EPCC’s Texas Pathways lead that need to be addressed to ensure students are said that, “through the Texas Pathways4 work, successful,” Vazquez added. the student financial wellness survey provides Margie Nelson-Rodriguez, EPCC Pathways Instruction Liaison and English Faculty, provided insights into the strategic thinking behind EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE Pathways. All community colleges participating in the Guided Pathways Initiative have gone through STUDENT FINANCIAL a set of institutes to learn how to manage and WELLNESS SURVEY RESULTS sustain a large-scale transformational change, FALL 2018 from planning and implementation to evaluation. Nelson-Rodriguez shared, “We have used those Understanding the connection between student finances and institutes and the knowledge gained to have our student success is essential to supporting the 21st century student. own institutes here at the college, to make sure that all the students know about Pathways, to 60% of students have create our program maps, our areas of study, % RUN OUT OF MONEY and many, many, many other things you have to 64of students 3 or more times do to implement Pathways. We’ve improved our in the past year WORRY ABOUT HAVING articulation associated with the University of Texas ENOUGH MONEY to pay for school x3 at El Paso (UTEP), our major transfer partner. When we were creating our program maps, some of our disciplines thought that the courses transferred seamlessly to UTEP but there had been changes 46 % of students show % of students indicate that SIGNS OF HOUSING INSECURITY 61 it is important to them to either on our side or their side and maybe some of (struggling to pay rent/utilities or the need to move frequently) SUPPORT THEIR FAMILY FINANCIALLY while in school the communication had not been maintained.”

% PATHWAYS 2.0 The second phase of Pathways brings the 40 of borrowers indicate that they of students show signs of HAVE MORE STUDENT LOAN DEBT % VERY LOW FOOD SECURITY opportunity to improve the model, based on than they expected to have at this point 27 according to the USDA scale (skipping meals, eating less or less nutritious food) feedback and experience. Yvette Huerta, EPCC director of curriculum, explained how staff is working hard to streamline the student experience

%of STUDENTS ARE by revising the 234 maps developed across eight 66 LESS THAN CONFIDENT areas of study. These maps vary in length from they will be able to %of students pay for college using money eight to 24 pages, and EPCC is working on a newly they acquired while in school 49 from their current employment designed template that will make them more consistent, with a desired length of two to four % pages. “We are trying to make sure that all the 69 information that is important is upfront in the 45% % of students say they find the total DEBT 32 WOULD USE program maps for the student, thus when a student of students pay for college amount to be OVERWHELMING FINANCIAL SUPPORT is considering registering in the program, they (credit card, car loan, money owed to family/friends) with CREDIT CARDS services o ered by their school know the cost and time required. For example, in the culinary arts program they might need special 70%of students say they would have TROUBLE GETTING $500 knives, therefore that information should be in the in cash or credit to meet an unexpected need within the next month program maps so students know they not only have to pay tuition and fees, but also will have to get y e

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18 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 The groups focus on student financial stability, they should take, but in helping them guide them onboarding, communication, technology and user through the maze of information is very critical and experience through focus groups. Dr. Escamilla our librarians are doing an excellent job,” Mitchell said that, “overall these groups are focusing on said. The EPCC Libraries have an electronic guide working with the Student Success core team, we where students can find all the career information are trying to develop what the student experience sources, available at epcc.libguides.com/ will look like from the time they come into the careerresources. college all the way to the time they graduate and EPCC has been recognized for its efforts to elevate the one of the things that we want to see is that the prospects of first-generation, economically disadvantaged counselors have multiple touch points with the and Hispanic students, in 2015, EPCC was named as one of student throughout their experience at EPCC.” the Top 10 Community Colleges in the nation by the Aspen The technology group is also working on a mobile Institute for its innovative programs and student support version of the maps, thus students will have an services; and #1 in the U.S. for 13th consecutive year, for granting associate degrees to Hispanic students by two- interactive map to help them achieve their goals. year schools in Hispanic Outlook.

PARALLEL EFFORTS THAT SUPPORT PATHWAYS Lorely Ambriz is the head librarian and assistant professor Dr. Paula Mitchell, EPCC associate vice president of at El Paso Community College Northwest Campus Library instruction and student success, stated that there / Jenna Welch & Laura Bush Community Library, and the are parallel efforts that enhance Pathways and current chair of the TLA Library Instruction Round Table. improve student success. “Texas House Bill 2223 asked us to put college support co-requisite courses with our college level courses to improve their chances of success when they need developmental 4 Pillars of AACC’s education courses,” Mitchell said. Guided Pathways Mitchell also shared that the early alert first year experience works directly with first-time college students so that they also have an education plan 1 Clarify the Path and a pathway by the time they finish their first ACADEMIC PROGRAM STRUCTURE semester, or at least their first year, and that they 2 Help Students Get on a Path are on track for early graduation. NEW STUDENT INTAKE

THE ROLE OF LIBRARIANS 3 Help Students Stay on Their Path For students, it can be challenging to translate PROGRESS MONITORING AND SUPPORT interests and skills into a career; and choosing 4 Ensure Students are Learning a career is a major decision making process. As INSTRUCTION librarians, we have the expertise to guide undecided students through the array of information sources, identifying alternatives, weighing the evidence, and More information about finding new information to add to their current understanding and knowledge base to make an Guided Pathways informed decision. Choosing a career path requires more than a 15-30 minute visit to the counseling American Association of or career office. It can take weeks, months or even Community Colleges years as students continue to learn what they want www.aacc.nche.edu/programs/aacc-pathways- and need in a job. project At EPCC, students who take the Education 1300 course attend at least one and up to three library Texas Association of Community Colleges tacc.org/tsc/what-we-do sessions to learn how to use library services and research their careers. “The importance of the role Pathways at El Paso Community College of librarians in advising students, not in terms of www.epcc.edu/About/pathways giving them out degree plans and what courses

1“Undergraduate Degree Fields.” The Condition of Education - Postsecondary Education - Programs, Courses, and Completions - Undergraduate Degree Fields - Indicator May (2019). National center for Education Statistics, May 2019. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cta.asp. 2 “AACC Pathways Project.” AACC. American Association of Community Colleges, 2019. https://www.aacc.nche.edu/programs/aacc-pathways-project. 3 “AACC Pathways Project Implementation Graphic.” AACC. American Association of Community Colleges, 2019. www.aacc.nche.edu/wp-content/ uploads/2017/09/PathwaysGraphic462017.pdf 4 “Texas Pathways.” Texas Association of Community Colleges. Texas Association of Community Colleges, 2019. https://tacc.org/tsc/what-we-do.\

Texas Library Association | 19 Introducing E-Read Texas! By Danielle Cunniff Plumer

In July 2019, the Texas State Library and Archives without forcing patrons to visit multiple websites or download Commission (TSLAC) announced a new program, multiple apps. TSLAC requested an exceptional item for the 2020-2021 E-Read Texas, to bring electronic books to Texans biennium that would have provided $4.2 million in funding served by small community libraries in all parts of from the Legislature for affordable e-books. Unfortunately, this the state. Six months later, library patrons are using request was not funded in the 2019 Legislative Session. Instead, the SimplyE app to check out e-books from their we decided to work on the project incrementally, using existing libraries, and TSLAC is providing a growing E-Read funds. Texas Collection for them to enjoy. A contract with Amigos Library Services is funding the implementation and hosting of the SimplyE app for up to 200 small community libraries in all parts of the state. The TSLAC has known for many years that public libraries wanted initial contract focuses on libraries using the Apollo ILS from support for their e-book purchasing. However, we couldn’t Biblionix. Biblionix has worked with Amigos to ensure that see how we could assist. The majority of Texas public libraries library patrons can check e-books out using the SimplyE app use OverDrive for their e-book collections, but many use other using their library accounts, without any additional usernames providers such as Bibliotheca, RBdigital, or Axis 360. We knew or passwords. As of November 1, 2019, 36 libraries have been that purchasing from any one of those would cause difficulties added, with more ready to join! for some of our libraries. Concurrently with the work around SimplyE, TSLAC began Enter SimplyE. In 2013, the Institute of Museum and looking at e-book content. Our initial estimate was that roughly Library Services awarded a grant to the New York Public a third of public libraries serving communities of fewer than Library and nine partner libraries to develop a new tool to 10,000 residents do not offer e-books to their patrons. As we simplify library e-book lending. began hearing from public libraries, however, we learned The goal of the project was that there was widespread frustration with existing e-book to develop an e-book reader providers and a lot of interest in adding new content for all that allowed readers to access libraries. content in just three clicks: once The TexShare Advisory Board created a new TexShare to discover, once to download, E-Books Working Group, with an initial charge to create an and once more to read. In 2016, e-book collection development policy and prepare an initial the SimplyE app was released order of e-books for the E-Read Texas Collection. The E-Books for iPhone/iPad and Android Working Group, co-chaired by Miranda Robbins from New devices. Braunfels Public Library and Dana Hendrix from Georgetown TSLAC monitored this project Public Library, met regularly in July and August 2019 to meet and eventually decided to make this goal. The E-Books Collection Development Policy, adopted SimplyE the cornerstone of a by the TexShare Advisory Board at its November 2019 meeting, new e-books program. Because is available at hwww.tsl.texas.gov/texshare/ebookspolicy.html. the SimplyE app is provider- TSLAC joined the Digital Public Library of America neutral, libraries could continue (DPLA), a national non-profit best known for their aggregation to purchase content from their of cultural heritage materials from libraries throughout the preferred providers. Content United States. The DPLA e-book Exchange (exchange.dp.la) from TSLAC could be added to marketplace was launched in 2017, and TSLAC used the supplement local collections Exchange for our initial purchases of e-books. Members of the

20 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 E-Books Working Group selected the titles to be purchased. adult books from North Star Editions; and books from These fall into three basic groups: Motivational Press, Pelican Book Group, Beaufort Books, Eye Books, and other publishers. Best of all, there will be 1. The E-Read Texas Collection from DPLA includes no holds or waitlists for these e-books! over 500 popular fiction and non-fiction titles from 3. The DPLA Open Bookshelf Collection includes publishers including HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, classic fiction in the public domain, curated by the Rowan & Littlefield, Greenwillow, Scribner, and E-Books Working Group. Titles in this collection are also others. While the collection does not include current available from other providers at no cost to libraries, but bestsellers, it does include the types of content that we hope that a curation focusing on popular classics and libraries tell us their patrons want most. This collection books often used in high school classes will be useful to will only be available through the SimplyE app. The libraries. books in this collection are all single-user, and most include some form of metered access. TSLAC will be Attendees at the 2020 TLA Conference may wish to attend monitoring holds and usage to add copies as funding the TSLAC-sponsored session “Navigating the Library E-Book permits. Market” on Tuesday, March 24, from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. to learn 2. The E-Read Texas Unlimited Collection includes titles more about our efforts in the e-books arena. A panel of provided by BiblioBoard in partnership with DPLA. speakers including Alan Inouye from the American Library These titles are available statewide on the BiblioBoard Association Washington Office, Ramiro Salazar from San website at e-readtx.biblioboard.com/ and in the SimplyE Antonio Public Library, and Michael Blackwell from St. Mary’s app. This collection of over 2,000 e-books includes County Library in Maryland will discuss changes in the library books on crafting and making from the publisher e-book market and how libraries can respond. We hope to see Annie’s; high-interest, low reading level fiction designed you there! to excite even the most reluctant readers from Orca Danielle Cunniff Plumer is the statewide resource sharing administrator Book Publishers; cookbooks from Gibbs Smith; young at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

For more information about participating in the E-Read Texas Program, see our webpage at www.tsl.texas.gov/ldn/ebooks or email [email protected].

Texas Library Association | 21 NEWSNOTES Applications Open for TALL Texans 2020 The TALL Texans Leadership Development Institute provides advanced leadership and management education in service to the libraries of Texas and the communities they serve. Participants study strategic planning, risk-taking, conflict negotiation, team-building, coaching, ethics, advocacy, personal career planning, and more. Applications are due by January 31, 2020. www.txla.org/tall-texans

TLA AWARDS DEADLINE TLA SCHOLARSHIPS BRANDING IRON AWARD FEBRUARY 5 DEADLINE JANUARY 25 DEADLINE FEBRUARY 15 Honoring excellence in, and contributions TLA’s scholarships support library education, Whether they have substantial marketing to, the library profession, TLA’s awards and encourage future librarians. All funds and staff, or a shoestring budget celebrate the individuals and organizations applicants must be Texas residents, and and marketing is among ‘other duties as which inspire us all. From leadership, current TLA members. Applicants will be assigned,’ librarians are creating amazing lifetime achievement, and library service, notified of their status by March 9. work to promote their services, programs, to advocacy, outstanding projects, and www.txla.org/scholarships and events. TLA’s Branding Iron Awards innovative partnerships, the awards honor this inspiring and creative work with showcase the best of the profession. awards presented in several categories, and www.txla.org/awards one overall Best of Show winner. www.txla.org/branding-iron

SAM G. WHITTEN INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AWARD UNIT AWARDS, DEADLINE FEBRUARY 28 SCHOLARSHIPS & The Sam J. Whitten Intellectual Freedom Award will be awarded annually to an individual or STIPENDS organization in the library community who actively promotes intellectual freedom in Texas. Many of TLA’s divisions, districts and Anyone who is actively promoting intellectual freedom in Texas is eligible for the Sam J. Whitten round tables present award to recognize Intellectual Freedom Award. Intellectual freedom is defined by the American Library Association outstanding achievement by librarians of as “the freedom to express one’s beliefs or ideas through any mode of communication and all types, scholarships to support those the right of unrestricted access to all information and ideas regardless of the medium of pursuing a MLS degree, and stipends to help communication used.” offset the cost of attending the TLA Annual www.txla.org/intellectual-freedom Conference. www.txla.org/awards

TLA Grants TOCKER FOUNDATION TLA TRAVEL STIPEND DEADLINE JANUARY 20 JEANETTE & JIM LARSON GRANT The Tocker Foundation provides travel stipends for staff at rural DEADLINE JANUARY 24 libraries (towns of 12,000 or less) to attend the TLA Annual Conference. A grant is awarded to a public library to acquire materials in the First-time attendees are given priority in the grant selection. mystery genre. www.tocker.org/library-grants/professional- www.txla.org/grants development-grants WOLL MEMORIAL FUND DEADLINE JANUARY 31 Grants are awarded to Texas public or school libraries that serve children age 12 and under to enhance collections, programming or curriculum. www.txla.org/grants

22 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 NEWSNOTES Meet the Executive All About the Authors Board Candidates Area at TLA 2020 In 2020, members will elect a president-elect, two representatives- Authors are librarians’ rock stars and many of your favorites will be at-large, and a treasurer to serve on the Executive Board. To vote, joining us at TLA 2020! you must be a current TLA member by January 31, 2020. Learn more Did you know? about the candidates and their vision for TLA at www.txla.org/tla- • At the 2019 TLA Authors Area over 180 authors signed copies of candidates. their books. PRESIDENT-ELECT • Many publishers provided FREE copies of ARCs and published books. DAN BURGARD, University Librarian & Vice Provost for Scholarly • The Authors Area had over 60 volunteers in 2019. Information Management, University of North Texas Health Science • We are hoping to have 75 volunteers in the Authors Area Center for TLA 2020. KAREN HOPKINS, Retired, Special Collections LIbrarian, University of Texas at Arlington Let’s talk about line etiquette: • The Authors Area volunteers are there to help things run REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE (school library) smoothly; please listen to them and ask them any questions you NICOLE CRUZ, Sharyland High School Librarian, Sharyland may have. Advanced Academic Academy Librarian, Sharyland ISD Lead Librarian • If you arrive early for an author, please don’t start your own line, MIKE MENDEZ, Librarian, Rosemont Middle School, Fort Worth ISD ask a volunteer for help. • Many publishers provide the book or ARC for free, REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE (special library) please be thankful. , Consultant, Mackin Educational Resources TUAN NGUYEN • If a book is provided for free and you leave the line before , Director of Research Data PEACE OSSOM-WILLIAMSON getting it signed, the book can be taken back. Services, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries • There are limited copies of books, so please don’t save spots TREASURER in line. • Be sure to look at the sign about the book cost before getting EDWARD KOWNSLAR, Head of Research & Instructional Services, Ralph W. Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University in line. If you have any questions, ask! DIANNA MORGANTI, Librarian, Texas State University To volunteer visit www.txla.org/volunteer

TLA MEMBER ELECTED DELEGATE-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TLA Remembers/ Lorely Ambriz, head librarian and associate professor at El Paso Community College Northwest Campus Library / Jenna Welch & Laura Bush Community Library, In Memoriam has been elected as an Americas Delegate-at-Large for Global Council Executive Committee and as Chair of the Program Committee for the OCLC Global Council. Sharon Castleberry Ambriz also chairs TLA’s Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT). Kenneth Ferstl The OCLC Global and Regional Councils work to reflect the interests, issues, concerns, and challenges that OCLC members face. Every year the councils select Arlyne Goddard an area of interest to explore further. This year the Global Council is exploring how Billie Grace Herring individuals discover and get access to these resources. Bill Lukenbill Texas library leaders are invited to share their perspectives by participating in the Discovery and Fulfillment Survey, in partnership with OCLC Research and the OCLC Marvin Rich Global Council. The survey’s goal is to engage a global audience of librarians to gain a Jeaux (Joseph) White shared understanding of the user expectations and challenges libraries are currently dealing with as they support discovery and fulfillment activities. All types of libraries are encouraged to complete the survey which is relevant to all staff who work with discovery and fulfillment activities in their library, especially those that work directly with library users. This survey is available at oc.lc/discoverygc and should take 5-10 minutes to complete. Thank you for sharing your library’s and customers’ use and expectations related to discovery and fulfillment services.

Texas Library Association | 23 CONTINUING EDUCATION

All webinars are FREE for TLA members. Webinars are recorded and a link to the recorded version is shared with those who register. Times are Central Time. www.txla.org/CE TEXAS READS! JANUARY 8 JANUARY 14 FEBRUARY 11 10 expertly curated 12:00 – 12:30 PM 1:00 – 2:00 PM 1:00 – 2:00 PM TASL Lunch & Learn: AZ: Prevention, Handling AZ: Children’s and Youth reading lists for ages 2 – 102 Rubik’s Cube Lending and Post-Response: Services Library Dealing with Difficult Situations Fiction Picture Books

MARCH 10 APRIL 23 MAY 12 Nonfiction Bilingual 1:00 – 2:00 PM 1:00 – 2:00 PM 1:00 – 2:00 PM AZ: Collection AZ: Introduction to AZ: Keeping Up with Graphic Novels Multicultural Development for Library Project Management Trends Specialists

What’s Your Reading Pleasure?

txla.org/reading-lists

24 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 TEXAS READS! 10 expertly curated reading lists for ages 2 – 102

Fiction Picture Books Nonfiction Bilingual Graphic Novels Multicultural

What’s Your Reading Pleasure?

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Texas Library Association | 25 A VISION FOR ALL TEXANS

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Hello! I am thrilled to share the official TLA 2020 Conference Program with you! Our conference theme was inspired by the Texas Library Association’s envisioned future that “Each and every Texan recognizes the value that libraries bring to their lives.” With this powerful vision in mind, the 2020 Program Committee selected the theme TLA 2020: A Vision for All Texans, and programs focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion; advocacy and marketing; and the future of libraries.

TLA 2020 is a wonderful opportunity to grow your professional network and learn what’s new in our profession, and I promise you will leave with ideas that you can implement in your own library. There are hundreds of education sessions for all types of libraries; a huge exhibit hall showcasing the latest products, services, and books; many fun events and networking opportunities; and of course, authors, authors and more authors!

I look forward to seeing you in Houston!

Cecilia Barham TLA 2019 – 2020 President Director, North Richland Hills Library

26 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Featured Speakers FEATURED SPEAKERS

GENERAL SESSIONS PRESIDENT’S SPOTLIGHT

LISA SEE is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls, China Dolls, and Dreams of Joy, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See has also written a mystery series that takes place in China. Her new novel, The Island of Sea Women, is about the free-diving women of South Korea’s Jeju Island. She was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the History Maker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women. LOIS LOWRY is the author of more than JASON REYNOLDS is the New York Times bestselling author of When forty books for children and young adults, I Was the Greatest, Boy in the Black Suit, All American Boys (co-written including the New York Times bestselling with Brendan Kiely), As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series Giver Quartet and popular Anastasia Krupnik (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu), Long Way Down, and Look Both Ways. series. She received Newbery Medals for He is a National Book Award finalist; the recipient of a Newbery Honor, two of her novels, Number the Stars and a Printz Honor, and multiple Coretta Scott King Honors. Reynolds was The Giver. “My books have varied in content recently named to the TIME 100 Next List, which showcases rising stars and style,” Lowry writes, “yet it seems that who are shaping the future of their industries. “Every human being was all of them deal, essentially, with the same put here for service,” he said at the TIME 100 event. “My conduit for general theme: the importance of human service is literature, specifically literature for and about young people connections.” of color.” He wrote a Marvel graphic novel, Miles Morales: Spider Man and his latest book is a non-fiction work, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, created with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. “This is not a history book,” Reynolds said to Booksource. “It’s a book about the here and now. It talks about the why. You have the opportunity to undo the paradigm of racism.”

DIRECTOR’S SYMPOSIUM

WANDA BROWN is the 2019-2020 KATHRYN LEWIS is the Director of president of the American Library Libraries and Instructional Technology for Association. Brown holds a BA in English Norman Public Schools. Kathryn serves from Winston-Salem State and an MLS as the Immediate Past President of the from the University of North Carolina at American Association of School Librarians Greensboro (UNCG). She was awarded the (AASL). She was a member of the AASL 2009 UNCG Kovacs Award for Outstanding Standards and Guidelines Editorial Board Alumni Achievement and a 2013 UNCG and a member of the first LILEAD Fellow School of Education Outstanding Alumni class. She also serves on the board of Achievement Award. Brown is the Director Oklahoma Technology Association and is a of Library Services for the C. G. O’Kelly past president of that organization. Lewis Library at Winston-Salem State University. was recognized with the 2018 Oklahoma “My vision for libraries is that we remain Library Association (OLA) Distinguished at the heart of the communities we serve, Service Award, 2013 University of Oklahoma connecting people with ideas, resources, SLIS Outstanding Alumni Award, the ISTE and support,” Brown told the Library Making IT Happen Award, Oklahoma’s Journal. “We are an essential link to 2012 Outstanding Technology Leader, and developing and sustaining informed and the 2010 OLA Library Legend designation. well-educated communities.” She is a Past Chair of the AASL Supervisors Section, past Region 6 Representative to RICHARD KONG is the director of Skokie Public Library, an award- the AASL Board of Directors, and a past winning institution that serves a diverse population of 65,000 just north President of OLA. of Chicago, Illinois. He contributes actively to the library profession at both state and national levels, and was previously on the board of the Public Library Association. Richard participated in the Synergy Illinois Library Leadership Initiative and the Public Library Association Leadership Academy, and was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2012.

Texas Library Association | 27 OPENING AUTHOR SESSION ADDITIONAL FEATURED SPEAKERS

MARISA DE LOS SANTOS is the New York EMANUELEE OUTSPOKEN BEAN is a Times bestselling author of six novels for performance poet, writer, compassionate mentor, adults, including Love Walked In, I’ll Be Your electric entertainer and educator, 2017 Mayor’s Office Blue Sky, and I’d Give Anything (out May 12, of Cultural Affairs Artist in Resident, and 2016 Andy 2020), and two for middle grade readers Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Idea co-written with her husband David Teague. Fund recipient. Bean uses poetry to collaborate with She has a BA in English from the University other mediums and institutions. He was the first poet of Virginia, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah to perform on a main stage production of Houston Lawrence College, and a PhD in English Ballet’s Play, and he also created his own festival, and Creative Writing from the University of Plus Fest: the EVERYTHING plus POETRY Festival. Houston. He was a 2011 Texas poet laureate nominee, ranked 9th in the Individual World Poetry Slam 2013, ranked MAGDALENA NEWMAN and her son 2nd in collaborative poetry at Group Piece Finals Nathaniel live in Seattle, Washington, 2013, and ranked 9th at National Poetry Slam 2014. together with the rest of the family — dad He started performing spoken-word in 2005. In his Russel, brother Jacob and their four dogs. senior year at Prairie View A&M, Bean founded and Magdalena was born in Sanok, Poland. She coached the University’s first poetry slam team. Bean graduated from the Academy of Music in has worked with many youth organizations from Gdaansk, Poland with a Master’s Degree across the country, including Inside Out in Detroit, in the Theory and Composition of Classical Youth Speaks in San Francisco, and WordSpeak in Music. She moved to the United States in Miami. 2002, where she and Russel were married and started their family. Since moving KATHLEEN BLOOMFIELD is President-Elect of the to the US, Magdalena and her family Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL.) AJL promotes have navigated extensive challenges as Jewish literacy through the enhancement of libraries outlined in her moving memoir, Normal: and library resources and through leadership for the A Mother and Her Beautiful Son. The profession and practitioners of Judaica librarianship. memoir describes their family’s story of The association fosters access to information, hardship and triumph; Nathaniel has a learning, teaching and research relating to Jews, rare craniofacial condition called Treacher Judaism, the Jewish experience and Israel. Find out Collins syndrome, which requires complex more at jewishlibraries.org. medical care. In addition to being a wife and mother, Magdalena has worked in the fitness industry for the past eight years and Additional Featured Speakers continued on next page also works in the retail yoga/fitness apparel industry.

CLOSING AUTHOR SESSION CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD, a New York Times best-selling author and poet, was named the 2019 Washington CARLOS HERNANDEZ has published Post Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction more than thirty works of fiction, poetry, and Award winner. Her numerous books for drama, most notably a book of short stories children include the Coretta Scott King for adults entitled The Assimilated Cuban’s Author Award Honor Book Becoming Billie Guide to Quantum Santeria. He is an English Holiday, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; the professor at City University of New York, and Caldecott Honor Books Moses: When he loves to both play and design games. He Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, is a coauthor of Abecedarium and was the illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and Voice of lead writer on Meriwether, a computer role Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the playing game (CRPG) about the Lewis and Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Clark Expedition. Holmes, which was also a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; and the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, illustrated by Eric Velasquez.

SKIP HOLLANDSWORTH grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas, attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and after graduation worked as a reporter and columnist for newspapers in Dallas. He also worked as a television producer and documentary filmmaker. He joined Texas Monthly magazine in 1989 as a staff writer, and is currently executive editor. He has received several journalism awards, including a National Headliners Award, the national John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism, the City and Regional Magazine gold award for feature writing, and the Texas Institute of Letters O. Henry award for magazine writing. The movie Bernie, which Hollandsworth co-wrote with Richard Linklater, was released in May 2012. It is based on a story he wrote in the January 1998 Texas Monthly titled Midnight in the Garden of East Texas. His book, The Midnight Assassin, a true historical thriller, was published in April 2016 and became a New York Times bestseller.

28 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 KATHERINE CENTER is the New York Times NICK OFFERMAN is an actor, writer and FEATURED SPEAKERS bestselling author of seven novels, including How to woodworker, best known as the character of Ron Walk Away, Happiness for Beginners, and The Bright Swanson on NBC’s hit comedy series Parks & Side of Disaster. Her fourth novel, The Lost Husband, Recreation and Karl Weathers in the acclaimed FX is soon to be a movie starring Josh Duhamel. Center series Fargo. Recent film credits include Hearts Beat has been compared to both Nora Ephron and Jane Loud, The Founder, Bad Times at the El Royale, Lucy Austen, and the Dallas Morning News calls her in the Sky, The Hero, The LEGO Movie (1&2), White stories “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” Fang, and The Little Hours. Offerman has penned Center recently gave a TEDx talk on how stories four New York Times bestselling books, Paddle Your teach us empathy, and her work has appeared in Own Canoe, Gumption, Good Clean Fun, and most USA Today, InStyle, Redbook, People, The Atlantic, recently The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, written Real Simple, and others. with his wife, Megan Mullally. In his spare time, he can be found at his woodshop in Los Angeles building hand-crafted items ranging from fine EMILY DRABINSKI is Critical Pedagogy Librarian at the Graduate Center, City University of New furniture to canoes to ukuleles. York (CUNY) in New York City. She has published and presented widely on critical perspectives JENNA SKYY (Joseph Hoselton) has Bachelor’s in librarianship. She currently serves as an ALA and Master’s degrees in Music Education from Councilor-at-Large and on the editorial board of the University of Texas at Arlington and Southern College & Research Libraries. Drabinski is series Methodist University, and works full-time at SMU in editor of Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies, a graduate admissions for the performing and visual book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books. arts programs. Jenna performs weekly at Station 4’s Rose Room in Dallas and has been participating in Tall Tales and High Heels in Dallas since it began. REBECCA HANKINS is a full professor, Africana and Women’s Studies Librarian and Curator at Texas A&M University in College Staton, Texas. Her JOHN SPENCER is a former middle school teacher scholarly publications have been featured in library, and current college professor who is passionate archival, science fiction and other peer-reviewed about seeing kids reach their creative potential. He journals, as well as book chapters. Her areas of is the co-author of the bestselling books Launch and expertise include building collections and scholarly Empower. In 2013, he spoke at the White House, resources for the study of the African Diaspora, sharing a vision for how to empower students to be Women & Gender Studies, and Area Studies. In 2016 future-ready through creativity and design thinking. her book, co-authored by Miguel Juarez, Ph.D., titled Where are All the Librarians of Color: The LAUREN TARSHIS’S New York Times bestselling Experiences of People of Color in Academia was I Survived series tells stories of young people published by Library Juice Press. and their resilience and strength in the midst of unimaginable disasters and times of turmoil. Tarshi VUTHY “WOODY” KUON has spoken to and has brought her signature warmth and exhaustive motivated nearly a million students and adults since research to topics such as the battle of D-Day, the 1996. He is an author, illustrator, and speaker, and American Revolution, Hurricane Katrina, the bombing currently has over 80 books published. Having been of Pearl Harbor, and other world events. featured on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX television, his speeches and workshops are most known for their PAT TUCKER WILSON works as a media and energy and humor, going on the belief that people communications manager at Prairie View A&M absorb most when they are entertained. He has University, in Prairie View, TX, during the day. At shared his personal story of escaping a war-torn night, she is a talented writer with a knack for telling Cambodia, living in a refugee camp in Thailand and page-turning stories. A former radio and television now living in the United States as a successful author news reporter, she draws on her background to craft and entrepreneur, with thousands of students. stories readers will love. With more than twenty years of media experience, the award-winning broadcast DENISE NELSON, serves as President of the journalist has worked as a reporter for ABC, NBC Board of Directors of the Association of Christian and Fox affiliate TV stations and radio stations in Librarians and is the Director of Ryan Library at California and Texas. Wilson is the author of 20 Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA. novels and has participated in three anthologies. A Her most recent publication is a book chapter, “In a graduate of San Jose State University, Wilson is a Manner Worthy of God: Hospitality and the Christian member of the National and Houston Association of Librarian” in The Faithful Librarian: Essays on Black Journalists and an active member of Sigma Christianity in the Profession (McFarland). She has Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. She has been featured in also published on college student satisfaction and Essence and Ebony magazines and written guest psychosocial thriving. blogs for the Huffington Post, the Houston Chronicle, Essence.com and YahooShine. CASSIE NOVA (James Love) is a Dallas-based drag queen with over 25 years in the business. Cassie is one of the Dallas area’s longest-performing drag queens and is a regular at Station 4’s Rose Room, as well as the venue’s show director.

Texas Library Association | 29 2020 Corporate Sponsors As of December 6, 2019

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30 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Programs by Topic Legend

Programs are categorized by topic. To find a session on a particular topic, reference the Track on the legend and find the program under that Track on the following pages.

TOPIC TRACK TOPIC TRACK Acquisitions...... COLLECTION SERVICES Intellectual Freedom...... PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Administration...... MANAGEMENT Intellectual Property...... PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Adult Literature...... LITERATURE Leadership & Advocacy...... PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Alternate Careers...... CAREER DEVELOPMENT Leadership & Change...... MANAGEMENT Applied Technology...... TECHNOLOGY Literacy...... USER SERVICES Archives...... ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Local History...... ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Assessment...... MANAGEMENT Marketing & Social Media...... MANAGEMENT Authors & Illustrators...... LITERATURE Multitype Libraries...... LIBRARIANSHIP Best Practices & Core Competencies...... LIBRARIANSHIP Networking...... CAREER DEVELOPMENT Buildings & Facilities...... MANAGEMENT Networks & Hardware...... TECHNOLOGY Business Meetings...... ABOUT TLA Open Educational Resources...... TECHNOLOGY Career Guidance & Mentoring...... CAREER DEVELOPMENT Partnerships...... MANAGEMENT Cataloging & Metadata...... COLLECTION SERVICES Personnel...... MANAGEMENT Children’s Literature...... LITERATURE Professionalism...... CAREER DEVELOPMENT Collection Management...... COLLECTION SERVICES Reading Lists...... LITERATURE Community Engagement...... LIBRARIANSHIP Reference Services...... USER SERVICES Continuing Education...... CAREER DEVELOPMENT Scholarly Communication...... COLLECTION SERVICES Core Services...... USER SERVICES Security...... MANAGEMENT Creation & Fabrication...... USER SERVICES Services for Adults...... USER SERVICES Customer Service...... MANAGEMENT Services for Children & Young Adults...... USER SERVICES Data Curation & Management...... TECHNOLOGY Services for Special Populations...... USER SERVICES Digital Collections...... ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Social Events & Competitions...... ABOUT TLA Digitization & Preservation...... ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Standards...... LIBRARIANSHIP Diverse Literature...... LITERATURE Storytelling...... LITERATURE Diversity & Social Change...... PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Systems...... TECHNOLOGY Electronic Resources...... COLLECTION SERVICES Transliteracy & Instruction...... USER SERVICES Emerging Technology...... TECHNOLOGY Trends & Forecasting...... PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Finances...... MANAGEMENT Websites & UX...... TECHNOLOGY Health Events...... ABOUT TLA Young Adult Literature...... LITERATURE

Texas Library Association | 31 Programs by Track

ABOUT TLA District 3 Business Meeting...... 7:15 — 7:45 AM Werewolf at After Hours...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM District 4 Business Meeting...... 7:15 — 7:45 AM Wednesday, March 25 @TLA District 6 Business Meeting...... 7:15 — 7:45 AM Opening Author and Awards Session....12:15 — 1:45 PM Tuesday, March 24 District 8 Business Meeting...... 7:15 — 7:45 AM President’s All-Conference Party...... 5:30 — 7:00 PM First Conference Jitters? TLA Conference Orientation District 10 Business Meeting...... 7:15 — 7:45 AM Thursday, March 26 ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Library Instruction Round Table Business Meeting Special Libraries Division Social...... 4:30 — 6:30 PM TLA 101...... 12:15 — 1:15 PM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Public Libraries Division Membership Party TLA Officer Financial Training...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Public Libraries Division Executive Board Meeting ...... 5:30 — 6:30 PM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Wednesday, March 25 Small Community Libraries Round Table Social Scholarship Committee ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM So You Want To Be On A Reading List Committee ...... 6:30 — 8:30 PM Texas Municipal Library Directors Association ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM University of Houston-Clear Lake Student and Business Meeting...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Alumni Reception...... 6:30 — 9:00 PM BUSINESS MEETINGS Tejas Star Reading List Committee...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Black Caucus Round Table 30th Anniversary Reception: Monday, March 23 Professional Issues and Ethics Committee State of African American Librarians and Libraries Texas Library Association Executive Board Meeting I ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 7:30 — 9:30 PM ...... 12:00 — 3:30 PM Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List Committee Latino Caucus Social...... 7:30 — 9:30 PM Tuesday, March 24 ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Archives Genealogy Local History Round Table Friday, March 27 Electronic Resources Serials Management Round Table Closing Author Session...... 11:45 AM — 1:15 PM Business Meeting...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Business Meeting...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Latino Caucus Business Meeting..11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Programming for Adults Round Table Business Meeting Reference and Information Services Round Table ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ARCHIVES & SPECIAL Business Meeting...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Thinking about changing your ILS?...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM COLLECTIONS Upstart Committee ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM College and University Libraries Division Membership Legislative Committee ...... 12:15 — 2:15 PM and Business Meeting...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ARCHIVES Intellectual Freedom Committee...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Disaster Relief Committee...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Tuesday, March 24 Library Friends, Trustees and Advocates Round Table Small Community Libraries Round Table Literacy, Letters, and Libraries: Texas General Land Business Meeting...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Business Meeting...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Office Archives...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Lone Star Committee...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Friday, March 27 Wednesday, March 25 Maverick Committee...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Exhibitors Round Table Business Meeting Effective Local and Family History Research Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Committee...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 8:00 — 9:00 AM ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM TAYSHAS Committee...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM New Member Round Table Business Meeting Thursday, March 26 TLA Officer Financial Training...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Opening the Door: Archives and Libraries Working with Texas Library Association Council I...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Supervision, Management, and Administration Round Underrepresented Groups...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Wednesday, March 25 Table Business Meeting...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Managing a Local News Archive in a Digital Setting Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing Round Table Texas Association of School Librarians Legislative & ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Business Meeting...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Advocacy Committee...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Doing More with Archives: Activities TALL Texans Round Table Business Meeting Texas Association of School Librarians Executive Board Outside the Box...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Meeting...... 11:45 AM- 1:00 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM DIGITAL COLLECTIONS To Be Continued...Series Books in YA Lit Young Adult Round Table Executive Board Meeting ...... 10:00 — 11:30 AM ...... 11:45 AM — 1:00 PM Wednesday, March 25 Moving Towards a Professional Library Publishing Children’s Round Table Executive Board Meeting Texas Library Association Membership Meeting Program...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:00 PM TxDOT & TSLAC: Digitizing Government Documents Children’s Round Table Business Meeting Texas Library Association Council II...... 2:15 — 3:15 PM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 12:15 — 1:15 PM Texas Library Association Executive Board Meeting 2 Special Libraries Division Business Meeting ...... 3:30 — 5:30 PM Thursday, March 26 Usability Testing Makes All the Difference ...... 12:15 — 1:15 PM HEALTH EVENTS Letters About Literature: How Books Change Lives ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Tuesday, March 24 Digital Resources From the Lone Star State ...... 1:30 — 3:00 PM Therapy Dogs...... 11:00 AM — 2:00 PM Black Caucus Round Table Business Meeting ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Wednesday, March 25 Managing a Local News Archive in a Digital Setting Therapy Dogs...... 11:00 AM — 2:00 PM Copyright and Access Round Table Business Meeting ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Thursday, March 26 DIGITALIZATION & Digital Libraries Round Table Business Meeting Hetherington XXXIII Fun Run/Walk ...... 7:00 — 8:30 AM PRESERVATION ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM SOCIAL EVENTS & Tuesday, March 24 Queers & Allies Round Table Business Meeting COMPETITIONS Holocaust Museum Tour Book Smugglers: Partisans, ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Tuesday, March 24 Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from Innovation & Technology Round Table A Toast to Library Pioneer Elenora Alexander the Nazis...... 8:00 AM — 3:00 PM Business Meeting...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 1:00 — 3:00 PM Retired Librarians Round Table Business Meeting Wednesday, March 25 Tour the Exhibit Hall with the New Members Basic Book Repair & Mending Lab — Hands on Lab ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Round Table ...... 3:15 — 3:45 PM ...... 2:00 — 5:00 PM Texas Youth Creators Award Committee TALL Texans Social & Standing TALL Award Thursday, March 26 ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 5:00 — 6:00 PM District 2 Business Meeting...... 5:45 — 6:45 PM Opening the Door: Archives and Libraries Working with Drag Queen Storytime...... 8:15 — 9:00 PM Underrepresented Groups...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM District 5 Business Meeting...... 5:45 — 6:45 PM The Outspoken Bean Presents Poetry for Everyone District 7 Business Meeting...... 5:45 — 6:45 PM Managing a Local News Archive in a Digital Setting ...... 8:15 — 9:00 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM District 9 Business Meeting...... 5:45 — 6:45 PM Storytelling Through Song: A Concert With Thursday, March 26 David LaMotte...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM District 1 Business Meeting...... 7:15 — 7:45 AM

32 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Tour the Exhibit Hall with the New Members Graduating Poster Sessions to Papers LOCAL HISTORY PROGRAMS BY TRACK Tuesday, March 24 Round Table...... 3:15 — 3:45 PM and Publishing...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Literacy, Letters, and Libraries: Texas General Land TALL Texans Social & Standing TALL Award Assessment Discussion Group Happy Hour Office Archives...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 5:00 — 6:00 PM ...... 5:30 — 6:30 PM Faces and Voices of History: The Bullock Museum’s Battledecks...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM Small Community Libraries Round Table Social Texas Story Project...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Werewolf at After Hours...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM ...... 6:30 — 8:30 PM Wednesday, March 25 Wednesday, March 25 Effective Local and Family History Research 30th Anniversary Black Caucus Round Table COLLECTION SERVICES ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Author Session...... 10:00 — 11:50 AM Let it Happen Naturally- Organic Mentoring ACQUISITIONS Thursday, March 26 ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Opening the Door: Archives and Libraries Working with Tuesday, March 24 Speed Mentoring for Managers...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Learn to Love Serials Management.....12:00 — 3:00 PM Underrepresented Groups...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Thursday, March 26 Manga for Your Age Group...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Friday, March 27 Birds of a Feather: Table Talks for Special Librarians or Navigating the Library eBook Market....1:30 — 2:30 PM Collecting and Sharing Stories from Diverse Unique Settings...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Book Buzzed...... 8:15 — 10:00 PM Communities...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Small Talk Is a Big Deal...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Wednesday, March 25 Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network-The How Reading Success Matters: Increase Literacy and CAREER DEVELOPMENT and Why...... 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM Reading Engagement with Large Print Special Libraries Division Social...... 4:30 — 6:30 PM ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ALTERNATE CAREERS Assessment Discussion Group Happy Hour Thursday, March 26 Wednesday, March 25 ...... 5:30 — 6:30 PM Librarians for Career and Tech ED? YES! Cool Jobs...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Small Community Libraries Round Table Social ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Friday, March 27 ...... 6:30 — 8:30 PM Ready to Make a Move? Librarian Speed Dating University of Houston-Clear Lake CATALOGING & METADATA ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Student and Alumni Reception...... 6:30 — 9:00 PM Thursday, March 26 Thinking about changing your ILS?...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM CAREER GUIDANCE & Queers & Allies Round Table Social...... 7:00 — 9:00 PM MENTORING Latino Caucus Social...... 7:30 — 9:30 PM COLLECTION MANAGEMENT Tuesday, March 24 Friday, March 27 Tuesday, March 24 First Conference Jitters? TLA Conference Orientation Librarians Unite! Starting a Professional Network for Burn, Censor, and Sanitize: Trends in Intellectual ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Local Librarians...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Freedom Challenges...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Personal Strategic Planning: Who Are You and Where Ready to Make a Move? Librarian Speed Dating Manga for Your Age Group...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Are You Going?...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Wednesday, March 25 A Toast to Library Pioneer Elenora Alexander PROFESSIONALISM The Evolution of Open Access...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 1:00 — 3:00 PM Tuesday, March 24 Reading Success Matters: Increase Literacy and Library Life Is the Best Life! Renew Your Passion and Gender and Sexuality Advocacy Training Reading Engagement with Large Print Revitalize Your Vision...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM So You Want to Sit in the Big Seat...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Grant Writing 101...... 9:00 AM — 12:00 PM Are You Ready? Planning for Intellectual Freedom Director’s Hotseat...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM Personal Strategic Planning: Who Are You and Where Challenges...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Wednesday, March 25 Are You Going?...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Reflection, Worldview, and Connection: Inclusive Let it Happen Naturally- Organic Mentoring Librarians IRL...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM School Library Collection Development ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Wednesday, March 25 ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Do You See What I See? A Shared Library Vision for The Three Lifehacks of Productive Librarians Representing All Readers: Creating Inclusive Support Staff...... 1:30 — 3:00 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Collections for Adults...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Speed Mentoring for Managers...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Get a Year’s Worth of Work Done in the Basic Book Repair & Mending Lab — Hands on Lab Thursday, March 26 Next 90 Days...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 2:00 — 5:00 PM Birds of a Feather: Table Talks for Special Librarians or Do You See What I See? A Shared Library Vision for Listen Up! Audiobook Collection Development, Unique Settings...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Support Staff...... 1:30 — 3:00 PM Readers Advisory, and Programming.3:15 — 4:15 PM Innovating Against a Brick Wall: Rebuilding the I Can’t Believe I Did That! Library Leaders Graphic Medicine: Using Comics to Teach About Health Structures That Shape Our Teaching in Academic and the Mistakes That Shaped Their Careers and Illness...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Libraries...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Libraries for Everyone: How to Reach English Graduating Poster Sessions to Papers and Publishing Partnerships that Hook Parents: Collaboration within Language Learners...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Your District...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Thursday, March 26 Friday, March 27 Time Flies, How to Manage Your Calendar Incredibly True Stories: Topaz Nonfiction Author Panel Ready to Make a Move? Librarian Speed Dating ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Win Friends and Influence People: How to Talk So Finding Quality Latinx Middle Grade and YA Lit School Administrators Listen...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM CONTINUING EDUCATION Thursday, March 26 But Do They Really Use It? Understanding E-Resource Tuesday, March 24 Curate Your Digital Presence...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Usage — Hands on Lab...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM What is a TALL Texan? Why Do I Want to Be One? Does the MLS Have Value?...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Collection Development for Media Librarians ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Innovating Against a Brick Wall: Rebuilding the ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM So You Want to Sit in the Big Seat...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Structures That Shape Our Teaching in Reader’s Advisory for Adults: Using the TLA Lariat and Thursday, March 26 Academic Libraries...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Topaz Lists for All Interests...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Graduating Poster Sessions to Papers and Publishing The Seven Types of Creative Teacher Librarians Friday, March 27 ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Hot Off the Press: Great New Books for Grades 4-12 NETWORKING Meetings Suck, But Yours Don’t Have To ...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM The Graphic Novel Utility Belt: Where to Get Those Tuesday, March 24 ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Wonderful Toys...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Personal Strategic Planning: Who Are You and Where Unmasking Your Leadership Potential The Bookless Library: The Whys, Hows, and Are You Going?...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM What Nows...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM TLA 101...... 12:15 — 1:15 PM Using Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness A Toast to Library Pioneer Elenora Alexander to Navigate Librarianship...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ...... 1:00 — 3:00 PM Go with the Flow: Maximizing K-12 Tuesday, March 24 Student Engagement...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM EZproxy Basics...... 8:00 — 11:00 AM

Texas Library Association | 33 Advanced EZproxy Tips...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM Legal Issues in Public Libraries...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM The Creative Space Movement; Beyond the Learn to Love Serials Management.....12:00 — 3:00 PM Battledecks...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM MakerSpace (Innovation Lab Stage) Alternative Metrics: Measuring the Social Impact of Wednesday, March 25 ...... 11:45 AM — 12:45 PM Publications...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM A Vision for Community Engagement: A More Perfect Union: American History and Sustained Navigating the Library eBook Market....1:30 — 2:30 PM The TLA Tool Kit...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Silent Reading...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Wednesday, March 25 Copyright for Educators...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in TexQuest and Google: Don’t Beat Them, Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing Round Table Libraries Daily — Part 1...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Join Them...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Business Meeting...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM We Got IT! Tech Talk with High School Students Listen Up! Audiobook Collection Development, The Three Lifehacks of Productive Librarians ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Readers Advisory, and Programming.3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Advocating to Your Stakeholders: Making the Most of Open Educational Resources Mini-Grants Get a Year’s Worth of Work Done in the Next 90 Days Social Media — Hands on Lab...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM in Academic Libraries...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in Thursday, March 26 If you Give a Librarian a STEM Program Libraries Daily — Part 2 Interactive Discussion PROGRAMS BY TRACK PROGRAMS BY A Question of Access: Electronic Resources, Section ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM 508, and You...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Reading Success Matters: Increase Literacy and Community College Libraries and Workforce Librarians for Career and Tech ED? YES! Reading Engagement with Large Print Development Programs...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Doing More with Archives: Activities Outside the Box Supporting the New ELAR Standards with TexQuest Are You Ready? Planning for Intellectual Freedom ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Digital Resources...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Challenges...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Empowering Stories Through Digital Creation Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Higher Begin with YES! School Librarians and Instructional ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Education: Updates from the Texas Higher Coaches Unite...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Have You Tried Rebooting? Conversations with IT Education Coordinating Board...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Computational Thinking for Teens...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM But Do They Really Use It? Understanding E-Resource Pay Attention: Engaging Adults During Storytime Texas School Library Standards Meet the ACRL Usage — Hands on Lab...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Framework for Information Literacy.2:45 — 3:45 PM Digital Resources From the Lone Star State Rethinking School Outreach: A Public Library The Power of Maker Challenges...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Perspective...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Friday, March 27 Collection Development for Media Librarians Stronger Together: Librarians and Principals Bright Futures Ahead: TexQuest Support for College ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Collaborating for Student Success..2:00 — 3:00 PM and Career Readiness...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Friday, March 27 Bringing Visibility to Afro-Latinx Stories.. 3:15 — 4:15 PM Creating an Inclusive Environment and Bridging TexQuest & TexShare Updates...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM TexQuest Toolbox: Quick and Easy Ways to Utilize Cultural Gaps...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Digital Resources Across Curriculum.3:15 — 4:15 PM From Platform to Pathways: The Future Work of SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION The Logic of Successful Grant Writing.... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Small Libraries...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Tuesday, March 24 Understanding the Needs of International Populations Give It Up: Students Take Over the Learning Alternative Metrics: Measuring the Social Impact of in Libraries...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Publications...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Level Up Your Library with Instructional Technology Human Trafficking and the Human Trafficking Rescue Wednesday, March 25 ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Alliance Task Force...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Moving Towards a Professional Library Publishing Libraries for Everyone: How to Reach English Improving Library Quality and Efficiency: Getting Program...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Language Learners...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Started with Assessment...... 9:15 - 10:15 AM Open Educational Resources: Adoption Challenges Library Marketing on a Budget...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM More than a Story: Engaging Early Learners at and Successes...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Small Staff, Big Needs...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Your Library...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Open Educational Resources Mini-Grants in Time Flies, How to Manage Your Calendar Practicing Critical Pedagogy: A Strengths-Based Academic Libraries...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Approach to Teaching Information Literacy in Thursday, March 26 What Really Happens in an Elementary School Library? Academic Libraries...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Higher ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Supporting Teachers in the Readers Writers Workshop Education: Updates from the Texas Higher Win Friends and Influence People: How to Talk So Model...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Education Coordinating Board...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM School Administrators Listen...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM The Graphic Novel Utility Belt: Where to Get Those Thursday, March 26 Wonderful Toys...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM LIBRARIANSHIP Developing Media Literacy with Cross-Curricular Through the Looking Glass: Finding Hidden Worlds in Graphic Novels...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Your Library...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM BEST PRACTICES & CORE Does the MLS have Value?...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Who’s Afraid of Partnerships? A Practical Guide to COMPETENCIES Take One! Students as Video Producers Setting Boundaries...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Design Thinking Methods in the School Library Tuesday, March 24 ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Bring it On! High School Battle of the Books I Vant to Vlog: Bring Life Back Into the Library Developing Social-Emotional Skills in ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM School Libraries...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Burn, Censor, and Sanitize: Trends in Intellectual Inquiry Skills for Real Life in School Libraries We Think, We Learn, We Share: Crowdsourcing Ideas Freedom Challenges...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM for ALL Librarians...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Diverse Perspectives and Structured Critiques Improve Teacher Discourse: You Have a Voice.9:45 — 10:45 AM Everyone’s Writing...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM The Magic of Reading: Project Alternatives to Online COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Book Testing...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Introducing Project ReShare: An Open Source, Tuesday, March 24 Community-Owned Resource Sharing Platform The Seven Types of Creative Teacher Librarians What Patrons Need to Know to Improve Their ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Financial Lives...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Navigator Interlibrary Loan Updates and All In: Collaborative Program Planning Build Youth Financial Literacy at Your Library Best Practices...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM What Should I Read Next? Bringing Library Literacy to Classroom Teachers Faces and Voices of History: The Bullock Museum’s Readers Advisory Services...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Texas Story Project...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Learn to Love Serials Management.....12:00 — 3:00 PM Hosting Museums Exhibits in the School Library Drag Queen Storytime...... 8:15 — 9:00 PM Creating a Vision for a Community of Readers ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Meetings Suck, But Yours Don’t Have To Wednesday, March 25 ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM A Vision for Community Engagement: The TLA ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Where Does Information Literacy Fit? Curriculum Tool Kit...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM The Eight Stages of the Teacher Librarian Technology Mapping Core Courses to the ACRL Framework Literacy for the High School’s Littlest Learners and Journey...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM their Teen Parents...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Those Darn Kids! Teen Engagement for Public Basic Genealogy Resources and Services for Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Library Staff...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Non-Genealogy Librarians...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Powerlessness...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM

34 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Library Support for Financial Capability: Building a Your Public Library Presents: Sarah Bird LITERATURE PROGRAMS BY TRACK Money Smart Community...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 9:45 — 12:00 PM Driving Discovery — The Think Tank, powered by HEB ADULT LITERATURE Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Reads! (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Tuesday, March 24 ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Future Readiness in Public Libraries.....2:00 — 3:00 PM Katherine Center speaks on Reading for Joy Truth: Narrative Nonfiction YA Lit..11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Public Library as a Center for Creative Placemaking ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Authors for Your Book Club...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Book Buzzed...... 8:15 — 10:00 PM New Books from Texas Authors and Illustrators Building Empowering Partnerships for the Future: ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Wednesday, March 25 Libraries, Advocates, and Friends..... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading Program.1:30 — 2:30 PM Top Texas Topaz Picks...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM All Through the Town: Early Literacy Outreach YA Lit Can Change the World...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Representing All Readers: Creating Inclusive ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Middle Grade Mysteries...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Collections for Adults...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Libraries for Everyone: How to Reach English Out of the Fire: Women and Gender Nonconforming Language Learners...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Thursday, March 26 Authors of Color Rise Up...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Silver Pride — Representing Senior LGBTQ+ New Adult Lit: Age 18 — 25ish...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM You CAN Handle the Truth: Non-Fiction Authors Community Members...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Authors for Your Book Club...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM What Music Can Teach Us About Peace and Conflict Reader’s Advisory for Adults: Using the TLA Lariat and Evening with the Authors...... 6:00 — 9:00 pm ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Topaz Lists for All Interests...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Storytelling Concert...... 7:00 — 9:00 PM You CAN Handle the Truth: Non-Fiction Authors Thursday, March 26 ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Friday, March 27 Creating Community through Active Learning in Your General Session II with Jason Reynolds Library...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Friday, March 27 ...... 8:00 — 9:00 AM Connecting Tech and Community Needs with Edge Meet the Lariat List Authors...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Meet the Lariat List Authors...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS Scare Up a Story: Creepy Books for Middle Grade Libraries Creating Dementia Friendly Communities Tuesday, March 24 ...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Speed Dating the Texas Bluebonnet Award List Leading the Way: Picture Book Biographies Engaging Your Community Around Health Information ...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine #Identity: Culture, Gender, Religion...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Short and Sweet: Collections of YA Fiction and & All of Us...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Katherine Center speaks on Reading for Joy Nonfiction...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Integrating Wellness into Children’s and Teen ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM What’s New in Middle Grade Series... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Programming...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Tough Topics in Middle Grade...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Closing Author Session...... 11:45 — 1:15 PM The Power of Art Partnership: A Story of a Successful What’s New With Texas YA and Middle Grade Authors CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Community Engagement Initiative....2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Tuesday, March 24 STANDARDS Children’s Lit Pub Trivia: After Dark with Authors and Speed Dating the Texas Bluebonnet Award List Illustrators...... 8:15 — 10:00 PM Tuesday, March 24 ...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM Collaborating with a Common Purpose: Information Wednesday, March 25 Building A Diverse Library Collection.....2:45 — 3:45 PM Literacy Skills for Success in College and Career Grace and the Moon, Bridging Divides Through Books Tough Topics in Middle Grade...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Children’s Lit Pub Trivia: After Dark with Authors and Envision Your Library in Your Quality Enhancement Plan Vuthy Kuon: An Author’s Refugee Story Illustrators...... 8:15 — 10:00 PM ...... 12:15 — 1:15 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Wednesday, March 25 Where Does Information Literacy Fit? Curriculum To Be Continued...Series Books in YA Lit Exploring Spanish and Bilingual Books with the Mapping Core Courses to the ACRL Framework ...... 10:00 — 11:30 AM Tejas Star Reading List...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM #NoFilter: Real, Raw, Teen...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Grace and the Moon, Bridging Divides Through Books Making the Jump From Picture Books to Wednesday, March 25 ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Copyright for Educators...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Chapter Books...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Literacy for the High School’s Littlest Learners and EdTech Tools & AASL Standards, Part 1 What’s New With Texas Picture Book and Middle their Teen Parents...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Grade Authors...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Vuthy Kuon: An Author’s Refugee Story HB 2223 and Corequisite Courses: Implications for Children’s Round Table Business Meeting ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Academic Libraries...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 12:15 — 1:15 PM Making the Jump From Picture Books to SACS Accreditation: Strategies for Academic Opening Author and Awards Session....12:15 — 1:45 PM Chapter Books...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Libraries to Prepare...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Letters About Literature: How Books Change Lives Top Texas Topaz Picks...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM EdTech + Information Literacy = Information ...... 1:30 — 3:00 PM What’s New With Texas Picture Book and Technology Heaven...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM 2x2 Reading List Showcase...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Middle Grade Authors...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Escape Room Challenge: Changing the Game on Gather Around the Latinx Table...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Children’s Round Table Business Meeting Teaching the ACRL Framework...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM New Books From Newbery Authors...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 12:15 — 1:15 PM No Way! Unreliable Narrators in YA Lit.2:00 — 3:00 PM 2x2 Reading List Showcase...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Thursday, March 26 Abracadabra! Magical Realism in YA Lit. 3:15 — 4:15 PM Engage Apathetic Teenagers: Teaching Information Books + Reading + Music = Love...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Texas Tea: Meet & Greet with YA Authors Literacy Through Drawing and Stories New Books From Newbery Authors...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 3:15 — 5:15 PM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM But I Don’t Know How to Booktalk!...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Illustrator Sketch-Off...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Supporting the New ELAR Standards with TexQuest Digital Storytelling: Endless Possibilities in Speed Dating with Texas Authors and Illustrators Digital Resources...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Primary Grades...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Texas School Library Standards Meet the ACRL Beyond Text: Using Art to Enhance Literacy — Framework for Information Literacy.2:45 — 3:45 PM Thursday, March 26 Hands on Lab...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Incredibly True Stories: Topaz Nonfiction Author Panel Illustrator Sketch-Off...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Friday, March 27 ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM From Platform to Pathways: The Future Work of Speed Dating with Texas Authors and Illustrators New Picture Books from Favorite Authors and Small Libraries...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Illustrators...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Texas Youth Creators Awards Ceremony Thursday, March 26 TAYSHAS Reading List...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 9:15 AM — 12:15 PM New Picture Books from Favorite Authors and Word Play and Humor in Kidlit...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Illustrators...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Finding Quality Latinx Middle Grade and YA Lit Word Play and Humor in Kidlit...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Dismantling the Patriarchy: Girl Power in New Middle Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Showcase Grade Fiction...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Showcase Lone Star Reading List...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM New Adult Lit: Age 18 — 25ish...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM

Texas Library Association | 35 The Magic of Reading: Project Alternatives to Online Thursday, March 26 Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading Program.1:30 — 2:30 PM Book Testing...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Incredibly True Stories: Topaz Nonfiction Author Panel YA Lit Can Change the World...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Out of the Fire: Women and Gender Nonconforming ...... 12:00 — 1:45 pm TAYSHAS Reading List...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Authors of Color Rise Up...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Best Day Ever! A 2x2 STEAM Event for Primary Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Showcase Friday, March 27 Students...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Hot off The Press: Great New Books for New Books from Texas Authors and Illustrators Lone Star Reading List...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Grades 4-12...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Supporting Teachers in the Readers Writers Middle Grade Mysteries...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Workshop Model...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Friday, March 27 Best Day Ever! A 2x2 STEAM Event for Primary Short and Sweet: Collections of YA Fiction and Hot Off the Press: Great New Books for Students...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Nonfiction...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Grades 4-12...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading Program.1:30 — 2:30 PM Teen Book Clubs...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Scare Up a Story: Creepy Books for Friday, March 27 PROGRAMS BY TRACK PROGRAMS BY Middle Grade...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Meet the Lariat List Authors...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM MANAGEMENT Leading the Way: Picture Book Biographies Programming with the TLA Adult Reading Lists ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM ADMINISTRATION What’s New in Middle Grade Series... 10:30 — 11:30 AM STORYTELLING Tuesday, March 24 DIVERSE LITERATURE Tuesday, March 24 Grant Writing 101...... 9:00 AM — 12:00 PM Tuesday, March 24 Elefantes & Alligators: Storytelling Techniques with Trauma, Resiliency, and Self-care: Cultivating a Culture Diverse Perspectives and Structured Critiques Improve Language and Learning to Engage All Listeners of Compassion...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM Everyone’s Writing...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 12:30 — 3:30 PM Legal Issues in Public Libraries...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM #Identity: Culture, Gender, Religion...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Faces and Voices of History: The Bullock Museum’s Wednesday, March 25 Building A Diverse Library Collection.....2:45 — 3:45 PM Texas Story Project...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM General Session I with Lisa See...... 8:15 — 9:45 AM The Outspoken Bean Presents Poetry for Everyone Storytelling Through Song: A Concert With Future Ready School Library Administrators ...... 8:15 — 9:00 PM David LaMotte...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Wednesday, March 25 Wednesday, March 25 Reading Our Way Out: Liberation Through Literature Exploring Spanish and Bilingual Books with the Vuthy Kuon: An Author’s Refugee Story ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Tejas Star Reading List...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Responding Compassionately to Opioid and Substance Grace and the Moon, Bridging Divides Through Books Books + Reading + Music = Love...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Use in Your Community...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Digital Storytelling: Endless Possibilities in The Three Lifehacks of Productive Librarians Reading Our Way Out: Liberation Through Literature Primary Grades...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Performance Poetry for Everyone...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM A Networking of Public Libraries, Large and Small: 30th Anniversary Black Caucus Round Table Storytelling Swap and Showcase...... 4:00 — 6:00 PM Collaborating for Success...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Author Session...... 10:00 — 11:50 AM I Can’t Believe I Did That! Library Leaders and the Thursday, March 26 Mistakes That Shaped Their Careers #NoFilter: Real, Raw, Teen...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Catch the Vision of Storytelling!...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM What’s New With Texas Picture Book and Middle Storytelling Concert...... 7:00 — 9:00 PM Grade Authors...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Discovering and Living Your Vision: Planning for Friday, March 27 Reflection, Worldview, and Connection: Inclusive Public Libraries...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM From Oral Story to Written Story: Using Storytelling to Riding the Waves of Change: How to Lead Your Team School Library Collection Development Spark Creative Writing...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM When Unexpected Changes Come.... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Collecting and Sharing Stories from Diverse How to Win a Texas Book Festival Grant for Your Public Representing All Readers: Creating Inclusive Communities...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Collections for Adults...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Library...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Embrace It, Feel It, Celebrate It! Inclusive YA Titles YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE Small Staff, Big Needs...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Tuesday, March 24 Thursday, March 26 Thursday, March 26 Bring it On! High School Battle of the Books Director’s Symposium: Creating a Culture of Inclusivity Developing Media Literacy with Cross-Curricular ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 8:00 — 9:30 AM Graphic Novels...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM #Identity: Culture, Gender, Religion...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Institution of Last Resort: Protecting Vulnerable and Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a What’s New With Texas YA and Middle Grade Authors Stigmatized Public Library Patrons..8:30 — 9:30 AM Transgender Journey...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Connecting Tech and Community Needs with Edge Dismantling the Patriarchy: Girl Power in New Middle Wednesday, March 25 ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Grade Fiction...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM So You Want To Be On A Reading List Committee Cultivating a Compassionate and Inclusive Finding Quality Latinx Middle Grade and YA Lit ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Organizational Culture...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM To Be Continued...Series Books in YA Lit Train Your Support Staff to Run the Reference Desk Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session ...... 10:00 — 11:30 AM Like a Pro...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 12:00 — 1:45 PM #NoFilter: Real, Raw, Teen...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Friday, March 27 Out of the Fire: Women and Gender Nonconforming No Way! Unreliable Narrators in YA Lit.2:00 — 3:00 PM Exploring ACRL Library Diversity Alliance Residencies: Authors of Color Rise Up...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Abracadabra! Magical Realism in YA Lit. 3:15 — 4:15 PM How to Support Current & Future Resident Friday, March 27 But I Don’t Know How to Booktalk!...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Librarians...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Windows and Mirrors: Exploring the Embrace It, Feel It, Celebrate It! Inclusive YA Titles The Bookless Library: The Whys, Hows, and What Tomas Rivera Book Award...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Nows...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Texas Tea: Meet & Greet with YA Authors ASSESSMENT READING LISTS ...... 3:15 — 5:15 PM Tuesday, March 24 Tuesday, March 24 Speed Dating with Texas Authors and Illustrators Envision Your Library in Your Quality Enhancement Plan Diverse Perspectives and Structured Critiques Improve ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Everyone’s Writing...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 12:15 — 1:15 PM Thursday, March 26 Launching a Library-Focused Quality Enhancement Speed Dating the Texas Bluebonnet Award List TAYSHAS Reading List...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM Plan...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Lone Star Reading List...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Weed ‘em and Reap: Using GreenGlass in Academic Wednesday, March 25 New Adult Lit: Age 18 — 25ish...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Libraries...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Exploring Spanish and Bilingual Books with the Tejas Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Wednesday, March 25 Star Reading List...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM SACS Accreditation: Strategies for Academic Libraries Top Texas Topaz Picks...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Truth: Narrative Nonfiction YA Lit..11:00 AM — 12:00 PM to Prepare...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM 2x2 Reading List Showcase...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM A More Perfect Union: American History and Sustained New Books From Newbery Authors...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Silent Reading...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM

36 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Rethinking School Outreach: A Public Library Thursday, March 26 Wednesday, March 25 PROGRAMS BY TRACK Connecting Tech and Community Needs with Edge Lessons Learned: Implementing a Makerspace with Perspective...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Grant Funding...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Library, Camera, Action: Create and Market Your Usability Testing Makes All the Difference Think Inside the Box: Equity, Access, and Innovation Library with Videos...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM with Kits...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Library Marketing on a Budget...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Assessment Discussion Group Happy Hour The Logic of Successful Grant Writing.... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Thursday, March 26 ...... 5:30 — 6:30 PM How to win a Texas Book Festival Grant for Your Curate Your Digital Presence...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Friday, March 27 Public Library...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM What They Didn’t Teach in Library School: The Cycle of Improving Library Quality and Efficiency: Getting Thursday, March 26 True Marketing...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Started with Assessment...... 9:15 - 10:15 AM Collaborating for Cash — Grant Opportunities #MoreThanBooks: Scalable Outreach Programming ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM BUILDINGS & FACILITIES Making Flyers that Don’t Suck-Hands on Lab Tuesday, March 24 LEADERSHIP & CHANGE ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Library Safety: Better Security, Better Facilities Tuesday, March 24 Advocating to Your Stakeholders: Making the Most of ...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM EDIcon: Foundations of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Social Media — Hands on Lab...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Creating LGBTQ+ Spaces for Academic Libraries ...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Award Winning Marketing Strategies.....2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM What is a TALL Texan? Why Do I Want to Be One? Wednesday, March 25 ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM PARTNERSHIPS My Library is Tiny! How to be Creative with So You Want to Sit in the Big Seat...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Tuesday, March 24 Small Spaces...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM What’s So Critical About Critical Librarianship? What Patrons Need to Know to Improve Their Thursday, March 26 ...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Financial Lives...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Creating Community through Active Learning in Director’s Hotseat...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM Bring it On! High School Battle of the Books Your Library...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Wednesday, March 25 ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM The Creative Space Movement: Beyond the Future Ready School Library Administrators Build Youth Financial Literacy at Your Library MakerSpace (Innovation Lab Stage) ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 11:45 AM — 12:45 PM Let it Happen Naturally- Organic Mentoring Wednesday, March 25 ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM A Vision for Community Engagement: The TLA Tool Kit CUSTOMER SERVICE Do You See What I See? A Shared Library Vision for ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Tuesday, March 24 Support Staff...... 1:30 — 3:00 PM Future Ready School Library Administrators Gender and Sexuality Advocacy Training A Networking of Public Libraries, Large and Small: ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Collaborating for Success...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Student Transitions in Texas: Creating Successful A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Except I Can’t Believe I Did That! Library Leaders and the Transitions to College, Military, and Career When it Isn’t...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Mistakes That Shaped Their Careers ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM What should I read next? Readers Advisory Services ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Library Support for Financial Capability: Building a ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Stronger Together: Librarians and Principals Money Smart Community...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Library Safety: Better Security, Better Facilities Collaborating for Student Success..2:00 — 3:00 PM Opening Author and Awards Session....12:15 — 1:45 PM ...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM Discovering and Living Your Vision: Planning for A Networking of Public Libraries, Large and Small: Creating LGBTQ+ Spaces for Academic Libraries Public Libraries...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Collaborating for Success...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Partnerships that Hook Parents: Collaboration within Begin with YES! School Librarians and Instructional Instructing from the Reference Desk.....2:45 — 3:45 PM Your District...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Coaches Unite...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Basic Genealogy Resources and Services for Riding the Waves of Change: How to Lead Your Team Rethinking School Outreach: A Public Library Non-Genealogy Librarians...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM When Unexpected Changes Come.... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Perspective...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Legal Issues in Public Libraries...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Small Staff, Big Needs...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Stronger Together: Librarians and Principals Wednesday, March 25 Thursday, March 26 Collaborating for Student Success..2:00 — 3:00 PM Serving the Spectrum: The Autism Community in All In: Collaborative Program Planning Building Empowering Partnerships for the Future: Your Library...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Libraries, Advocates, and Friends..... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Best Practices for Engaging Community College Unmasking Your Leadership Potential Serving People Experiencing Homelessness Students...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Helpful Resources for your Homeschool Population Cultivating a Compassionate and Inclusive Get Carded: Student Access to Public Libraries ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Organizational Culture...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Serving People Experiencing Homelessness TLA’s Legislative Vision: Empowering Texas Libraries Thursday, March 26 ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Books on the Bus: Diversify and Innovate Reading Speed Dating with Planners for Adult Programs Black Caucus Round Table 30th Anniversary Reception: Environments...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM State of African American Librarians and Libraries Libraries Creating Dementia Friendly Communities All Through the Town: Early Literacy Outreach ...... 7:30 — 9:30 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Friday, March 27 School, Public, and Academic Libraries: The Perfect Thursday, March 26 We Think, We Learn, We Share: Crowdsourcing Ideas Research Partners...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM A Question of Access: Electronic Resources, Section for ALL Librarians...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Bringing Library Literacy to Classroom Teachers 508, and You...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM What They Didn’t Teach in Library School: The Cycle of MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA Hosting Museums Exhibits in the School Library True Marketing...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Tuesday, March 24 ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Those Darn Kids! Teen Engagement for Public Communicating the Library Vision to Stakeholders: Collaborating for Cash — Grant Opportunities Library Staff...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Presentations for Impact...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Making Flyers that Don’t Suck-Hands on Lab Creating a Vision for a Community of Readers Harness the Energy of Teen Volunteers.2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Have You Tried Rebooting? Conversations with IT Check Your Social Awareness...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Wednesday, March 25 ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Friday, March 27 Mining Texas Public Library Statistics for Reports and Integrating Wellness into Children’s and Teen Serving Patrons with Print Disabilities: The Talking Presentations...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Programming...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Book Program...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Promoting Your Collections: Messaging, Reaching Teachers: Practical Tips for Public Librarians Merchandising, and More...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM FINANCES Best Practices for Engaging Community College The Power of Art Partnership: A Story of a Successful Tuesday, March 24 Students...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Community Engagement Initiative....2:45 — 3:45 PM Grant Writing 101...... 9:00 AM — 12:00 PM Let’s (Book) Chat with Twitter...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM

Texas Library Association | 37 Friday, March 27 Gather Around the Latinx Table...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Communicating the Library Vision to Stakeholders: Who’s Afraid of Partnerships? A Practical Guide to Reflection, Worldview, and Connection: Inclusive Presentations for Impact...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Setting Boundaries...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM School Library Collection Development What is a TALL Texan? Why Do I Want to Be One? ‘Colorado, Houston’s Calling!’ A Read Across America ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Partnership...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Bringing Visibility to Afro-Latinx Stories.. 3:15 — 4:15 PM TALL Texans Social & Standing TALL Award Human Rights Campaign: Welcoming Schools ...... 5:00 — 6:00 PM PERSONNEL ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Tuesday, March 24 Wednesday, March 25 Understanding the Needs of International Populations Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Trauma, Resiliency, and Self-care: Cultivating a Culture in Libraries...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Powerlessness...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM of Compassion...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM Library Services to Incarcerated Populations Building Empowering Partnerships for the Future: Creating LGBTQ+ Spaces for Academic Libraries ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Libraries, Advocates, and Friends..... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Silver Pride — Representing Senior LGBTQ+ Community Partnerships that Hook Parents : Collaboration within Wednesday, March 25 Members...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Your District...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Riding the Waves of Change: How to Lead Your Team PROGRAMS BY TRACK PROGRAMS BY What Music Can Teach Us About Peace and Conflict Library Marketing on a Budget...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM When Unexpected Changes Come.... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM What Music Can Teach Us About Peace and Conflict Speed Mentoring for Managers...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Thursday, March 26 ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Thursday, March 26 Director’s Symposium: Creating a Culture of Inclusivity Win Friends and Influence People: How to Talk So Director’s Symposium: Creating a Culture of Inclusivity ...... 8:00 — 9:30 AM School Administrators Listen...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 8:00 — 9:30 AM Institution of Last Resort: Protecting Vulnerable and Thursday, March 26 Does the MLS have Value?...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Stigmatized Public Library Patrons..8:30 — 9:30 AM Innovating Against a Brick Wall: Rebuilding the Unmasking Your Leadership Potential Dismantling the Patriarchy: Girl Power in New Middle Structures That Shape Our Teaching in ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Grade Fiction...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Academic Libraries...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Train Your Support Staff to Run the Reference Desk School, Public, and Academic Libraries: The Perfect Small Talk Is a Big Deal...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Like a Pro...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Research Partners...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Calling Out or Calling In: Working Against Friday, March 27 Calling Out or Calling In: Working Against Microaggressions and Implicit Bias in Our Libraries Weathering the Storms — Preparing for Disasters with Microaggressions and Implicit Bias in Our Libraries ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM the Texas Storm Chasers...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM TLA’s Legislative Vision: Empowering Texas Libraries Exploring ACRL Library Diversity Alliance Residencies: Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM How to Support Current & Future Resident Libraries Daily — Part 1...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Tracking What Matters: Marrying the Reader’s Librarians...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Cultivating a Compassionate and Inclusive Notebook with the Bullet Journal.....2:45 — 3:45 PM SECURITY Organizational Culture...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Friday, March 27 Literacy and Community Engagement...1:30 — 2:30 PM From Platform to Pathways: The Future Work of Small Tuesday, March 24 Next Chapter Book Club: People with Disabilities Library Safety: Better Security, Better Facilities Libraries...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Enjoying Books, Friends, and Community ...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM TRENDS & FORECASTING Wednesday, March 25 YA Lit Can Change the World...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Tuesday, March 24 Responding Compassionately to Opioid and Substance Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in Navigating the Library eBook Market....1:30 — 2:30 PM Use in Your Community...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Libraries Daily — Part 2 Interactive Discussion Academic Game Collections and Engaged Learning Friday, March 27 ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Human Trafficking and the Human Trafficking Rescue Check Your Social Awareness...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Thursday, March 26 Alliance Task Force...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Black Caucus Round Table 30th Anniversary Reception: Help Students Defeat Digital Distractions Weathering the Storms — Preparing for Disasters with State of African American Librarians and Libraries ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM the Texas Storm Chasers...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 7:30 — 9:30 PM Birds of a Feather: Table Talks for Special Librarians or Latino Caucus Social...... 7:30 — 9:30 PM Unique Settings...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Friday, March 27 I Vant to Vlog: Bring Life Back Into The Library Exploring ACRL Library Diversity Alliance Residencies: ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM DIVERSITY & SOCIAL CHANGE How to Support Current & Future Resident Tracking What Matters: Marrying the Reader’s Tuesday, March 24 Librarians...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Notebook with the Bullet Journal.....2:45 — 3:45 PM EDIcon: Foundations of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Windows and Mirrors: Exploring the Tomàs Rivera ...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Book Award...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM TECHNOLOGY Gender and Sexuality Advocacy Training INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM ...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM APPLIED TECHNOLOGY Tuesday, March 24 Holocaust Museum Tour Book Smugglers: Partisans, Tuesday, March 24 Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from Burn, Censor, and Sanitize: Trends in Intellectual Freedom Challenges...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Weed ‘em and Reap: Using GreenGlass in the Nazis...... 8:00 AM — 3:00 PM Academic Libraries...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Wednesday, March 25 Creating a Digital Media Lab...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Except When it Isn’t...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Are You Ready? Planning for Intellectual Freedom Creating Free Space: The Library as a Creative Space Equity Diversity & Inclusion, Part 1...... 11:30 — 2:30 PM Challenges...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM for Teens...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Equity Diversity & Inclusion, Part 2...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Thursday, March 26 Dueling MakerSpaces: Curriculum Connected or Open What’s So Critical About Critical Librarianship? Faith and Intellectual Freedom...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Ended? You Decide!...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM ...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Wednesday, March 25 Drag Queen Storytime...... 8:15 — 9:00 PM EdTech Tools & AASL Standards, Part 1 The Outspoken Bean Presents Poetry for Everyone Tuesday, March 24 Introducing Project ReShare: An Open Source, ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 8:15 — 9:00 PM Community-Owned Resource Sharing Platform EdTech Tools & AASL Standards, Part 2.11:15 — 12:15 PM Storytelling Through Song: A Concert ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM If You Give a Librarian a STEM Program With David LaMotte...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM Wednesday, March 25 ...... 11:15 — 12:15 PM Wednesday, March 25 Copyright for Educators...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Computational Thinking for Teens...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Digital Storytelling: Endless Possibilities in Primary Powerlessness...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM LEADERSHIP & ADVOCACY Grades...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM 30th Anniversary Black Caucus Round Table Tuesday, March 24 EdTech + Information Literacy = Information Author Session...... 10:00 — 11:50 AM EDIcon: Foundations of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Technology Heaven...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Serving the Spectrum: The Autism Community in ...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Library, Camera, Action: Create and Market Your Your Library...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM TLA 101...... 12:15 — 1:15 PM Library with Videos...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM

38 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Go Go Green Screen!...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 1:00 — 2:00 PM Thursday, March 26 PROGRAMS BY TRACK Level Up Your Library with Instructional Technology All Means All: Meeting K-12 Learners’ Individual Needs All In: Collaborative Program Planning ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM with Technology...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Thursday, March 26 Marketing your Makerspace, Even If You Don’t Want To Check Your Social Awareness...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Clean Up Your Google Life — Hands on Lab (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 2:15 — 3:15 PM Friday, March 27 ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM TexQuest + Digital Tools: Team up to Create Powerful The Bookless Library: The Whys, Hows, and Help Students Defeat Digital Distractions Projects & Assessments...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM What Nows...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM The Power of Maker Challenges...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Working with Neurodiverse Students in the Take One! Students as Video Producers Friday, March 27 College Setting...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM eSports for the Win!...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM CREATION & FABRICATION Chrome 101 Hands on Lab...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM NETWORKS & HARDWARE I Vant to Vlog: Bring Life Back Into The Library Tuesday, March 24 ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Wednesday, March 25 Academic Game Collections and Engaged Learning Bridging the Digital Divide One Hotspot at a Time Hosting Museums Exhibits in the School Library ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Creating Free Space: The Library as a Creative Space Newcomer’s Guide to Podcasting at Your School OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES for Teens...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Dueling MakerSpaces: Curriculum Connected or Open Wednesday, March 25 Ended? You Decide!...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM The Eight Stages of the Teacher Librarian Technology The Evolution of Open Access...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Journey...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Open Educational Resources: Adoption Challenges and Wednesday, March 25 ADA: More than a Checklist...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Successes...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Lessons Learned: Implementing a Makerspace with All Means All: Meeting K-12 Learners’ Individual Needs Open Educational Resources Mini-Grants in Academic Grant Funding...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM with Technology...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Libraries...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Creating Interactive Videos Using Camtasia For We Got IT! Tech Talk with High School Students Beginners (Innovation Lab Stage).... 12:45 — 1:45 PM Thursday, March 26 Public Library as a Center for Creative Placemaking ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Higher (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Advocating to Your Stakeholders: Making the Most of Education: Updates from the Texas Higher Rags to Riches: Recycling Books for Fun, Fashion, Social Media — Hands on Lab...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Education Coordinating Board...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Empowering Stories Through Digital Creation and Furniture...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM SYSTEMS Thursday, March 26 TexQuest + Digital Tools: Team up to Create Powerful Tuesday, March 24 Performance Poetry for Everyone...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Projects & Assessments...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM EZproxy Basics...... 8:00 — 11:00 AM AR/VR Technology in the Library (Innovation Lab Stage) Friday, March 27 Introducing Project ReShare: An Open Source, ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Bright Futures Ahead: TexQuest Support for College Community-Owned Resource Sharing Platform Make & Take: Crafting and Maker Programs for Adults and Career Readiness...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM eSports for the Win!...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Advanced EZproxy Tips...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM The Creative Space Movement; Beyond the Serving Patrons with Print Disabilities: The Talking Thursday, March 26 MakerSpace (Innovation Lab Stage) Book Program...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Thinking about changing your ILS?...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 11:45 AM — 12:45 PM Escape the Ordinary: Using Escape Rooms to DATA CURATION & MANAGEMENT WEBSITES & UX Encourage Engaged Play and Reinforce Learning Tuesday, March 24 Tuesday, March 24 (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 1:00 — 2:00 PM Communicating the Library Vision to Stakeholders: EZproxy Basics...... 8:00 — 11:00 AM Making Flyers that Don’t Suck-Hands on Lab Presentations for Impact...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Advanced EZproxy Tips...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 1:30 PM — 2:30 PM Weed ‘em and Reap: Using GreenGlass Thursday, March 26 Marketing your Makerspace, Even if You Don’t Want to in Academic Libraries...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM A Question of Access: Electronic Resources, Section (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 2:15 — 3:15 PM Wednesday, March 25 508, and You...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Friday, March 27 Mining Texas Public Library Statistics for Reports Usability Testing Makes All the Difference Texas Youth Creators Awards Ceremony and Presentations...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM ...... 9:15 AM — 12:15 PM Moving Towards a Professional Library But Do They Really Use It? Understanding E-Resource Publishing Program...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Usage Hands on Lab...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM LITERACY TxDOT & TSLAC: Digitizing Government Documents Digital Resources From the Lone Star State Tuesday, March 24 ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM What Should I Read Next? Readers Advisory Services ADA: More than a Checklist...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM EMERGING TECHNOLOGY Elefantes & Alligators: Storytelling Techniques with Tuesday, March 24 USER SERVICES Language and Learning to Engage All Listeners Academic Game Collections and Engaged Learning ...... 12:30 — 3:30 PM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM CORE SERVICES 16th Annual Poetry Roundup...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Creating a Digital Media Lab...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Tuesday, March 24 Building A Diverse Library Collection.....2:45 — 3:45 PM Wednesday, March 25 Navigator Interlibrary Loan Updates and Best Practices Tough Topics in Middle Grade...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM EdTech Tools & AASL Standards, Part 2 ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM What’s New With Texas YA and Middle Grade Authors ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Creating Interactive Videos Using Camtasia For Wednesday, March 25 Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing Round Table Wednesday, March 25 Beginners (Innovation Lab Stage) Business Meeting...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Reading Our Way Out: Liberation Through Literature ...... 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM HB 2223 and Corequisite Courses: Implications for ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Driving Discovery — The Think Tank, powered by HEB Academic Libraries...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Making the Jump From Picture Books to Chapter Reads! (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Wellness Across the Lifespan: Trusted Health Books...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Bridging the Digital Divide One Hotspot at a Time Information...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Let’s (Book) Chat with Twitter...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Bridging the Digital Divide One Hotspot at a Time Listen Up! Audiobook Collection Development, Go Go Green Screen!...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Readers Advisory, and Programming.3:15 — 4:15 PM Level Up Your Library with Instructional Technology Pay Attention: Engaging Adults During Storytime Beyond Text: Using Art to Enhance ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Literacy — Hands on Lab...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Thursday, March 26 Speed Dating with Planners for Adult Programs Thursday, March 26 AR/VR Technology in the Library (Innovation Lab Stage) ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Books on the Bus: Diversify and Innovate Reading ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Get Carded: Student Access to Public Libraries Environments...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Escape the Ordinary: Using Escape Rooms to ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM New Picture Books from Favorite Authors and Encourage Engaged Play and Reinforce Learning Illustrators...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM

Texas Library Association | 39 Catch the Vision of Storytelling!...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Make & Take: Crafting and Maker Programs for Adults Driving Discovery — The Think Tank, powered by HEB The Magic of Reading: Project Alternatives to Online ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Reads! (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Book Testing...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Authors for Your Book Club...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Begin with YES! School Librarians and Instructional Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session Collection Development for Media Librarians Coaches Unite...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 12:00 — 1:45 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Books + Reading + Music = Love...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Literacy and Community Engagement...1:30 — 2:30 PM Community College Libraries and Workforce Computational Thinking for Teens...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM New Books from Texas Authors and Illustrators Development Programs...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Future Readiness in Public Libraries.....2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Engaging Your Community Around Health Information Gather Around the Latinx Table...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM Next Chapter Book Club: People with Disabilities with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pay Attention: Engaging Adults During Storytime Enjoying Books, Friends, and Community & All of Us...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Reaching Teachers: Practical Tips for Public Librarians But I Don’t Know How to Booktalk!...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Tracking What Matters: Marrying the Reader’s ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Embrace It, Feel It, Celebrate It! Inclusive YA Titles Notebook with the Bullet Journal.....2:45 — 3:45 PM Reader’s Advisory for Adults: Using the TLA Lariat and ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM

PROGRAMS BY TRACK PROGRAMS BY Friday, March 27 Topaz Lists for All Interests...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Helpful Resources for your Homeschool Population From Oral Story to Written Story: Using Storytelling to You CAN Handle the Truth: Non-Fiction Authors ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Spark Creative Writing...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Human Rights Campaign: Welcoming Schools More than a Story: Engaging Early Learners at Your Storytelling Concert...... 7:00 — 9:00 PM ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Library...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Friday, March 27 Performance Poetry for Everyone...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Scare Up a Story: Creepy Books for Middle Grade Practicing Critical Pedagogy: A Strengths-Based TexQuest Toolbox: Quick and Easy Ways to Utilize ...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Approach to Teaching Information Literacy in Digital Resources Across Curriculum Supporting Teachers in the Readers Writers Academic Libraries...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Workshop Model...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Weathering the Storms — Preparing for Disasters with Storytelling Swap and Showcase...... 4:00 — 6:00 PM ‘Colorado, Houston’s Calling!’ A Read Across the Texas Storm Chasers...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM All Through the Town: Early Literacy Outreach America Partnership...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Collecting and Sharing Stories from Diverse ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Make Time for Child-Directed Play..... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Communities...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Beyond Text: Using Art to Enhance Literacy — What’s New in Middle Grade Series... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Programming with the TLA Adult Reading Lists Hands on Lab...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Get Carded: Student Access to Public Libraries REFERENCE SERVICES ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Tuesday, March 24 SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & Go Go Green Screen!...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Instructing from the Reference Desk.....2:45 — 3:45 PM YOUNG ADULTS Illustrator Sketch-Off...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Basic Genealogy Resources and Services for Non- Tuesday, March 24 What Really Happens in an Elementary School Library? Genealogy Librarians...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Collaborating with a Common Purpose: Information ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Battledecks...... 9:15 — 10:00 PM Literacy Skills for Success in College and Career Thursday, March 26 Wednesday, March 25 ...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Balancing Two Worlds: Library Services for Dual Credit Effective Local and Family History Research Literacy, Letters, and Libraries: Texas General Land and Early College Students...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Office Archives...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Books on the Bus: Diversify and Innovate Reading Library Support for Financial Capability: Building a Build Youth Financial Literacy at Your Library Environments...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Money Smart Community...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM Engage Apathetic Teenagers: Teaching Information Wellness Across the Lifespan: Trusted Health Elefantes & Alligators: Storytelling Techniques with Literacy Through Drawing and Stories Information...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Language and Learning to Engage All Listeners ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Graphic Medicine: Using Comics to Teach About Health ...... 12:30 — 3:30 PM Help Students Defeat Digital Distractions and Illness...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM 16th Annual Poetry Roundup...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Library Services to Incarcerated Populations Creating a Vision for a Community of Readers Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Transgender Journey...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Thursday, March 26 Creating Free Space: The Library as a Creative Space Performance Poetry for Everyone...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Balancing Two Worlds: Library Services for Dual Credit for Teens...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Take One! Students as Video Producers and Early College Students...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Dueling MakerSpaces: Curriculum Connected or Open ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Train Your Support Staff to Run the Reference Desk Ended? You Decide!...... 4:00 — 5:00 PM Catch the Vision of Storytelling!...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Like a Pro...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Dungeons and Dragons and Teens, Oh My! Inquiry Skills for Real Life in School Libraries ...... 8:15 — 9:00 PM Friday, March 27 ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM TexQuest & TexShare Updates...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Wednesday, March 25 School, Public, and Academic Libraries: The Perfect EdTech Tools & AASL Standards, Part 1 Research Partners...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM SERVICES FOR ADULTS ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Teacher Discourse: You Have a Voice.9:45 — 10:45 AM Tuesday, March 24 Literacy for the High School’s Littlest Learners and The Seven Types of Creative Teacher Librarians What Patrons Need to Know to Improve Their their Teen Parents...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Financial Lives...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM My Library is Tiny! How to be Creative with Small Research Says — Encourage Creativity and Doodling in Creating a Digital Media Lab...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Spaces...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM the Classroom...... 9:45 AM — 12:00 PM Book Buzzed...... 8:15 — 10:00 PM So You Want To Be On A Reading List Committee Newcomer’s Guide to Podcasting at Your School Wednesday, March 25 ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Your Kids Don’t Want Your Stuff...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Student Transitions in Texas: Creating Successful The Eight Stages of the Teacher Librarian Technology Wellness Across the Lifespan: Trusted Health Transitions to College, Military, and Career Journey...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Information...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Those Darn Kids! Teen Engagement for Public Library Best Practices for Engaging Community College EdTech Tools & AASL Standards, Part 2 Staff...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Students...... 2:00 — 3:00 PM ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM #MoreThanBooks: Scalable Outreach Programming Bringing Visibility to Afro-Latinx Stories.. 3:15 — 4:15 PM Pop Up — From Books to Puppet Skills ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Speed Dating with Planners for Adult Programs ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM All Means All: Meeting K-12 Learners’ Individual Needs ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Tech Tools: If You Like That, Try This! with Technology...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Storytelling Swap and Showcase...... 4:00 — 6:00 PM ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Best Day Ever! A 2x2 STEAM Event for Primary Rags to Riches: Recycling Books for Fun, Fashion, and Think Inside the Box: Equity, Access, and Innovation Students...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Furniture...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM with Kits...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Glitch-Free: Video Gaming in the Library Thursday, March 26 Creating Interactive Videos Using Camtasia For ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Your Public Library Presents: Sarah Bird Beginners (Innovation Lab Stage).... 12:45 — 1:45 PM Go with the Flow: Maximizing K-12 Student ...... 9:45 AM — 12:00 PM Letters About Literature: How Books Change Lives Engagement...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 1:30 — 3:00 PM Literacy and Community Engagement...1:30 — 2:30 PM

40 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 We Got IT! Tech Talk with High School Students Helpful Resources for your Homeschool Population Wednesday, March 25 PROGRAMS BY TRACK ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Student Transitions in Texas: Creating Successful Marketing your Makerspace, Even if You Don’t Want to Human Rights Campaign: Welcoming Schools Transitions to College, Military, and Career (Innovation Lab Stage)...... 2:15 — 3:15 PM ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Empowering Stories Through Digital Creation Serving People Experiencing Homelessness TexQuest and Google: Don’t Beat Them, Join Them ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM ...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Harness the Energy of Teen Volunteers.2:45 — 3:45 PM Understanding the Needs of International Populations The Evolution of Open Access...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM Integrating Wellness into Children’s and Teen in Libraries...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Tech Tools: If You Like That, Try This! Programming...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Library Services to Incarcerated Populations ...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Interactive Story Times for Students with Special Needs ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM EdTech + Information Literacy = Information Technology ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Silver Pride — Representing Senior LGBTQ+ Community Heaven...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM Reaching Teachers: Practical Tips for Public Librarians Members...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Escape Room Challenge: Changing the Game on ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Thursday, March 26 Teaching the ACRL Framework...... 3:15 — 4:15 PM TexQuest + Digital Tools: Team up to Create Powerful Balancing Two Worlds: Library Services for Dual Credit TexQuest Toolbox: Quick and Easy Ways to Utilize Projects & Assessments...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM and Early College Students...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Digital Resources Across Curriculum.3:15 — 4:15 PM The Power of Maker Challenges...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Institution of Last Resort: Protecting Vulnerable and What Really Happens in an Elementary School Library? Friday, March 27 Stigmatized Public Library Patrons..8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 4:30 — 5:30 PM Bright Futures Ahead: TexQuest Support for College Librarians for Career and Tech ED? YES! Thursday, March 26 and Career Readiness...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Developing Media Literacy with Cross-Curricular Creating an Inclusive Environment and Bridging Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Graphic Novels...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Cultural Gaps...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Transgender Journey...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Engage Apathetic Teenagers: Teaching Information From Oral Story to Written Story: Using Storytelling to Libraries Creating Dementia Friendly Communities Literacy Through Drawing and Stories Spark Creative Writing...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM ...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Give It Up: Students Take Over the Learning ADA: More than a Checklist...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Performance Poetry for Everyone...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in Supporting the New ELAR Standards with TexQuest More than a Story: Engaging Early Learners at Your Libraries Daily — Part 1...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Digital Resources...... 8:30 — 9:30 AM Library...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Next Chapter Book Club: People with Disabilities Inquiry Skills for Real Life in School Libraries Through the Looking Glass: Finding Hidden Worlds in Enjoying Books, Friends, and Community ...... 9:45 — 10:45 AM Your Library...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM ...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Research Says — Encourage Creativity and Doodling in Texas Youth Creators Awards Ceremony Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in the Classroom...... 9:45 AM — 12:00 PM ...... 9:15 AM — 12:15 PM Libraries Daily — Part 2 Interactive Discussion Bringing Library Literacy to Classroom Teachers ‘Colorado, Houston’s Calling!’ A Read Across America ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Partnership...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Interactive Story Times for Students with Special Needs Bites with LIRT (Library Instruction Round Table) Design Thinking Methods in the School Library ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM ...... 11:45 — 1:45 pm ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Friday, March 27 A More Perfect Union: American History and Sustained Developing Social-Emotional Skills in School Libraries Creating an Inclusive Environment and Bridging Silent Reading...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Cultural Gaps...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Go with the Flow: Maximizing K-12 Student eSports for the Win!...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Serving Patrons with Print Disabilities: The Talking Engagement...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM Make Time for Child-Directed Play..... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Book Program...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Community College Libraries and Workforce Teen Book Clubs...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Working with Neurodiverse Students in the College Development Programs...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Windows and Mirrors: Exploring the Setting...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM Doing More with Archives: Activities Outside the Box Tomas Rivera Book Award...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM TRANSLITERACY & INSTRUCTION Interactive Story Times for Students with Special Needs SERVICES FOR SPECIAL Tuesday, March 24 POPULATIONS ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Collaborating with a Common Purpose: Information Texas School Library Standards Meet the ACRL Tuesday, March 24 Literacy Skills for Success in College and Career Framework for Information Literacy.2:45 — 3:45 PM A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Except When it ...... 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Friday, March 27 Isn’t...... 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Launching a Library-Focused Quality Enhancement Give It Up: Students Take Over the Learning Trauma, Resiliency, and Self-care: Cultivating a Culture Plan...... 1:30 — 2:30 PM ...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM of Compassion...... 12:00 — 3:00 PM Instructing from the Reference Desk.....2:45 — 3:45 PM Practicing Critical Pedagogy: A Strengths-Based Where Does Information Literacy Fit? Curriculum Wednesday, March 25 Approach to Teaching Information Literacy in Responding Compassionately to Opioid and Substance Mapping Core Courses to the ACRL Framework Academic Libraries...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Use in Your Community...... 10:00 — 11:00 AM ...... 2:45 — 3:45 PM Through the Looking Glass: Finding Hidden Worlds in Serving the Spectrum: The Autism Community in Your Your Library...... 9:15 — 10:15 AM Library...... 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Design Thinking Methods in the School Library ...... 10:30 — 11:30 AM

Texas Library Association | 41 The Texas State Library and Archives Commission Our mission for over 100 years has been to We support programs for the partner with the library community Texas library community. to serve the people of Texas. Visit us in booth #2736

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Thursday, March 26, 2020 Family Engagement Preconference (Ticketed, by Supporting the New ELAR Standards with Invitation Only), 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. TexQuest Digital Resources, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Second Annual New Public Library Director A Question of Access: Electronic Resources, Orientation (Ticketed, by invitation only), Section 508, and You, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. Connecting Tech and Community Needs with Navigator Interlibrary Loan Updates and Best Edge, 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Practices, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. But Do They Really Use It? Understanding Trauma, Resiliency, and Self-care: Cultivating a E-Resource Usage Hands On Lab (Ticketed, Culture of Compassion (Ticketed), 12 – 3 p.m. Register Online Only), 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Navigating the Library eBook Market, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Institution of Last Resort: Protecting Vulnerable Communicating the Library Vision to Stakeholders: and Stigmatized Public Library Patrons, Presentations for Impact, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in Libraries Daily - Part 1, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. TexQuest and Google: Don’t Beat Them, Join Them, 10 - 11 a.m. Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in Libraries Daily - Part 2 Interactive Discussion, Responding Compassionately to Opioid and 2:45 – 3:45 p.m. Substance Use in Your Community, 10 – 11 a.m. Harness the Energy of Teen Volunteers, School Administrators Conference (by Invitation 2:45 – 3:45 p.m. Only), 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Texas School Library Standards Meet the ACRL Mining Texas Public Library Statistics for Reports Framework for Information Literacy, and Presentations, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:45 – 3:45 p.m. Future Readiness in Public Libraries, 2 – 3 p.m. A Networking of Public Libraries, Large and Friday, March 27, 2020 Small: Collaborating for Success, 2 – 3 p.m. From Platform to Pathways: The Future Work of Computational Thinking for Teens, 2 – 3 p.m. Small Libraries, 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Serving Patrons with Print Disabilities: The www.tsl.texas.gov/tla Talking Book Program, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. TexQuest and TexShare Updates, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

42 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 2020 Conference Committees

CONFERENCE PROGRAM Leah Mann, co-chair, Prosper ISD Abby Harrison, Greenhill School Laquanda Onyemeh, Texas A&M University Robyn Reid, co-chair, Texas Christian Jacqueline Higginbotham, New Caney ISD Sue Parks, University of North Texas University Jan Hodge, Crowley ISD Jennifer Peters, Texas State Library & Naomi Bates, Follett School Solutions Amanda Hunt, New Braunfels ISD Archives Commission Yolanda Botello, Mansfield Public Library Renee Jones, Prosper ISD Patricia Peters, Decatur Public Library The Texas State Library and Archives Commission Stacy Cameron, Frisco ISD Kimberly Kinnaird, Lewisville ISD Michael Pullin, University of North Texas Our mission for Marnie Cushing, Crandall ISD Jacob Mangum, University of North Texas Health Science Center Melissa Dease, Dallas Public Library April Martinez, Tarrant County College Erica Richardson, Benbrook Public Library over 100 years Kathryn Delamarter, Lewisville ISD Kayla Middleton, EBSCO Brandi Rosales-Dawson, Richardson ISD Linsy DePooter, Tarrant County College Daisy Ngo, The Kincaid School Geoffrey Sams, Roanoke Public Library has been to We support programs for the Jill Donegan, Tom Green County Library Lydia Noble, Sherman ISD Edward Smith, Abilene Library Consortium partner with the Sonja Gaddy, Texas Wesleyan University Sarah Northam, Texas A&M University - Jane Stimpson, Lone Star College Kandra Gibbs, North Richland Hills Library Commerce Christine Walczyk, Trainers-R-Us library community Texas library community. to serve the LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS people of Texas. Visit us in booth #2736 Robin Cashman, co-chair, Katy ISD HEALTH EVENTS SPEAKER CONCIERGE Lee Hilyer, co-chair, University of Houston Crystal Holloway, Pasadena ISD Alexandra Simons, University of Houston Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Thursday, March 26, 2020 AUTHORS AREA Melanie Poncik, Katy ISD Shelby Slay, Spring Branch ISD Elizabeth Nebeker, CyFair ISD INFORMATION TLA STORE Family Engagement Preconference (Ticketed, by Supporting the New ELAR Standards with Melanie Wachsmann, Harris County Melissa Rippy, Pasadena ISD Karen Harrell, Spring Branch ISD Public Library Steve Perez, Stafford MSD Elizabeth Hensley, Aldine ISD Invitation Only), 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. TexQuest Digital Resources, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Kelly Wadyko, Pasadena ISD INNOVATION LAB TRANSPORTATION Second Annual New Public Library Director A Question of Access: Electronic Resources, CAREER CENTER Elizabeth Gilbert, Aldine ISD Jennifer Finch, Harris County Public Library Orientation (Ticketed, by invitation only), Section 508, and You, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Lisa Loranc, Brazoria County Library Jennifer Holland, University of Houston – Raquel Garza, Pasadena ISD Anne Washington, University of Houston Clear Lake 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. VOLUNTEERS Connecting Tech and Community Needs with CONNECTION CORNER MEETING ROOMS Shawn Anderson, Houston Community Navigator Interlibrary Loan Updates and Best Edge, 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Nikitra Hamilton, Houston ISD Helena Gawu, Lamar State College – College Practices, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Xiping Liu, University of Houston Port Arthur Elizabeth Meshkoff, Spring Branch ISD But Do They Really Use It? Understanding ENTERTAINMENT Ian Knabe, University of Houston Trauma, Resiliency, and Self-care: Cultivating a E-Resource Usage Hands On Lab (Ticketed, Joel Bangilan, Harris County Public Library REGISTRATION Culture of Compassion (Ticketed), 12 – 3 p.m. Register Online Only), 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Israel Favela, Harris County Public Library Sofia Darcy, Houston ISD EXHIBITS Susan Garrison, Rice University Navigating the Library eBook Market, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Institution of Last Resort: Protecting Vulnerable Mary Cohrs, Bellaire City Library SOCIAL MEDIA and Stigmatized Public Library Patrons, Diona West, Lone Star College Jennifer Bacall, Harris County Public Library Communicating the Library Vision to Stakeholders: Devery Johnson, Montgomery County Presentations for Impact, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Library System Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in Libraries Daily - Part 1, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. TexQuest and Google: Don’t Beat Them, Join Code of Conduct Them, 10 - 11 a.m. Beyond Pride Month: Integrating LGBT+ Services in Libraries Daily - Part 2 Interactive Discussion, Responding Compassionately to Opioid and 2:45 – 3:45 p.m. The Texas Library Association (TLA) is dedicated to providing a physical appearance, body size, age, ethnicity, military status, race, Substance Use in Your Community, 10 – 11 a.m. Harness the Energy of Teen Volunteers, harassment-free environment for everyone engaged with the or religion. Sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, School Administrators Conference (by Invitation association at events and on social media channels, regardless of stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained 2:45 – 3:45 p.m. Only), 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, Texas School Library Standards Meet the ACRL physical appearance, body size, age, ethnicity, military status, race, unwelcome sexual attention, online bullying, cyberstalking, name Mining Texas Public Library Statistics for Reports Framework for Information Literacy, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment in any form at any TLA calling or humiliating or disparaging language is not tolerated. and Presentations, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 2:45 – 3:45 p.m. events or activities, or on any TLA social media channels, including Individuals asked to stop any harassing behavior at events or online Future Readiness in Public Libraries, 2 – 3 p.m. those managed by TLA units. are expected to comply immediately. A Networking of Public Libraries, Large and Friday, March 27, 2020 We encourage productive and constructive discussion and If an individual engages in harassing behavior, TLA may take any Small: Collaborating for Success, 2 – 3 p.m. From Platform to Pathways: The Future Work of participation. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down others. action deemed appropriate, including warning the offender, expelling Small Libraries, 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Behave professionally. Remember that harassment, and sexist, racist, them from the event, banning them from future events, hiding or Computational Thinking for Teens, 2 – 3 p.m. or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate. deleting comments, and/or blocking the offender from any TLA social Serving Patrons with Print Disabilities: The Harassment includes offensive comments or actions related to media channels. Talking Book Program, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. www.tsl.texas.gov/tla gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, TexQuest and TexShare Updates, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Texas Library Association | 43 Exhibiting Companies As of December 11, 2019

24 Hour Library BooksByDennis The TLA Exhibit Hall features hundreds of companies offering 3branch Bound To Stay Bound Books the latest library-related products and services. Be sure to allow 3M Library Systems Boyds Mills & Kane plenty of time to visit. Boyds Mills Press 720 Design Plan your time in the hall on the TLA 2020 App. Brainfuse A. Bargas & Associates, LLC Brainstorm Shop exhibitors year-round at tlabuyersguide.com. ABC-CLIO Britannica Digital Learning ABC-CLIO Solutions Brodart Company Dennis Matthew, Author Press ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Bullfrog Books Diamond Book Distributors Groundwood Books ABDO ByWater Solutions LLC ABDO Digital Digital Knowledge Central Gumdrop Books alkins Creek ABDO Kids C Discovery Maker H.W. Wilson Candlewick Press ABDO Publishing Disney-Hyperion Hachette Book Group Capstone ABDO Zoom DK Publishing Half Price Books Carolrhoda Books ABRAMS The Art of Books DKC, ESC-20 Hank the Cowdog Carolrhoda LAB Albert Whitman & Company DLB Books, Inc. Hardrock Ink Cavendish Square Alexandria Library Automation DLSG at Image Access Harlequin Cavendish Square Digital Algonquin Young Readers/ Dreamstar Publications HarperCollins Children’s Books CERF - Curriculum Education Workman Driving on the Right Side of the HarperCollins Christian Resource Finder Road All of Us - NIH Research Program HarperCollins Leadership Charlesbridge American Library Association BSCO Information Services HarperCollins Publishers Cherry Lake Publishing/Sleeping E American Psychological Edge Bear Press Headline Books Association emdinteractives Children’s Plus, Inc. H-E-B Read 3: Grow Young Minds, Amicus Enslow Publishers, Inc. Read 3 Times a Week Child’s Play Amigos Library Services EnvisionWare HEB Think Tank (Hurst-Euless- Child’s World Books Annick Press EPIC Press Bedford ISD) Choice Partners Artcobell Epilog Laser Corp. Hidell Associates Architects Chrismer, Melanie, Author Arte Público Press ePRINTit Holiday House Chronicle Books Attic Journals Equinox Open Library Initiative The Horn Book Cinco Puntos Press Austin Creative Alliance Estey Shelving Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Claire Lynn Designs Austin Public Library Eustis Chair, LLC Human Rights Campaign Austin Reptile Shows College of Information, University of North Texas abLab Houston IDW Publishing Authors and More F CoLibri Systems North America, Fabled Films Press Image Access Authors Sherry Garland and Inc. INDECO Sales / Maco Melanie Chrismer FactCite Lincoln Library Online Comprise Technologies Manufacturing Authors Tim Tingle and Doc Moore Facts On File Connectrac FamilySearch Independent Publishers Group AV2 by Weigle Publishers Inc. (IPG) Constructive Playthings FE Technologies Averus Corporation Infobase Consumer Financial Protection Films On Demand aker & Taylor Bureau (CFPB) Ingram Content Group B Firefly Books BattleQuestions.com Conversight.ai Ingram Library Services (ILS) Flyaway Books Bearport Publishing Copyright and Creativity for Ethical Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Follett BELFOR Property Restoration Digital Citizens Institute for Learning Perspectives Follett/Baker & Taylor Bellwether Learning Cover One ITC Systems Four Authors--Amazing Author Crabtree Books Bellwether Media Visits J. Appleseed Crabtree Publishing Company BiblioCommons Inc. Freshcoast Furniture JIMMY Patterson Books The Creative Company Biblionix Friends of the Fort Worth Library Julian Franklin-Library Rat bibliotheca The Crowley Company ale, A Cengage Company Jump! Bilingual Storyteller, Sue Young CTLS - Connecting Texas Libraries G Gareth Stevens Publishing, Inc. Junior Library Guild Black Rabbit Books Cuentology Books in Spanish Garland, Sherry, Author KAPCO Book Protection Blackstone Library arby Creek D Garrett Book Company KEVA planks Education Blink DC Comics GOBI Library Solutions Keystone Books and Media Bloom’s Deanan Gourmet Popcorn Goodbuy Purchasing Cooperative KO Kids Books Bloomsbury Children’s Books Del Alma Publications, LLC Graphic Universe Komatsu Architecture Book Systems, Inc. Delaney Education Enterprises, Inc. Greenhaven Kore Design LLC Book Taco Demco Grey House Publishing & Salem KwikBoost by Indeco Sales

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Texas Library Association | 45 Tuesday, March 24 Preconferences

All sessions are open to all attendees, unless otherwise noted. Preregistration is required for all LEGEND preconferences by Monday, March 23; ticket purchase is required as noted. All preconferences will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center unless otherwise noted. Marketing & Advocacy EdTech CPE#P100: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 #P101: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0 Equity, Diversity & Inclusion EZproxy Basics Gender and Sexuality Advocacy President’s Program (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) Training (TICKETED) Continuing Professional 8:00 — 11:00 AM 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Education Credits EZproxy is one of the most commonly applied This interactive training explores the differences remote access management tools that libraries between sex assigned at birth, gender identity, CPE#264: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 currently use. This workshop will introduce gender expression, sexuality, and romantic Event State Board TX State Library & the novice or early system administrator to the attraction, as well as the coming out process, Number for Educator Archives Commission basics of EZproxy and offer experiential insights pronouns, resources and skills for allyship. Certification on how to effectively administer their system(s). Facilitators and participants will explore relevant Tickets must be purchased by Monday, March applications of knowledge and skills. This 23 through preregistration. program was made possible by a donation made Glenn Bunton, University of South Carolina. in the memory of Martha Hughes. Tickets must INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY ROUND TABLE. be purchased by Monday, March 23 through preregistration. #P102: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0 Kathleen Hobson, University of North Texas. Collaborating with a Common 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Purpose: Information Literacy Skills for Success in College and CPE#P106: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0 Career (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) Literacy, Letters, and Libraries: Texas General Land Office Archives 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM Two former K-12 educators and current academic (TICKETED) librarians discuss their top 10 ways to help all 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM students transition successfully to college and Historical records sit patiently waiting for careers. Through collaboration between all someone to unlock and share their stories. types of libraries, we connect the American Librarians will receive an introduction to the Association of School Librarians, Texas School scope and nature of the Texas General Land Library Standards, and Association of College Office Archives, and learn about specific TEKS- and Research Libraries Framework to help connected primary sources. Educators will learn students succeed through information literacy. how to open these stories to students through Tickets must be purchased by Monday, March the Save Texas History program. Tickets must 23 through preregistration. be purchased by Monday, March 23 through Kelly Hoppe, West Texas A&M University, preregistration. and Karlee Vineyard, Lubbock Christian Buck Cole, Texas General Land Office University. Archives. LIBRARY INSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE. ARCHIVES, GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY ROUND TABLE. CPE#P103: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0 EDIcon: Foundations of Equity, CPE#P107: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0 Diversity, and Inclusion (TICKETED) What Patrons Need to Know to Improve Their Financial Lives 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM EDIcon introduces equity, diversity, and inclusion (TICKETED) within a social justice framework. The workshop 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM explores cultural competence, implicit bias, and Learn how to build financial capacity in privilege in the context of librarianship and the your community using free financial literacy communities served by libraries. Tickets must resources, implement financial literacy be purchased by Monday, March 23 through programming in your library through the preregistration. utilization of these resources, and develop Mariel Colbert and Briana Jarnagin, key community partnerships. Tickets must American Library Association. be purchased by Monday, March 23 through 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. preregistration. Kevin Crown, Association of Financial Educators; and Kenneth McDonnell, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE.

46 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 CPE#OP099: SBEC 3.0 Leslie Jones, Consumer Financial Protection Bluebonnet Award Master List. Participate in SCHEDULE | PRECONFERENCES Holocaust Museum Houston Bureau. activities that correspond with titles on the list Workshop and Tour: Book 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. and receive autographed copies of the books. Smugglers: Partisans, Poets and the Tickets must be purchased by Monday, March Race to Save Jewish Treasures from CPE#P153: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 23 through preregistration. Learn to Love Serials Management TEXAS BLUEBONNET AWARD COMMITTEE. the Nazis (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) 8:00 AM — 3:00 PM 12:00 — 3:00 PM CPE#P156: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 Become a change agent and discover ways Trauma, Resiliency, and Self-Care: to support human rights in your community Effectively managing continuing resources Cultivating a Culture of Compassion with Holocaust Museum Houston. This can be a tall order. Take a deep dive into all interactive workshop introduces participants things serials and leave equipped with the tools (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) to the evolution of human rights and the ways needed to address the daunting world of serials 12:00 — 3:00 PM advocacy by librarians and bookish upstanders management with proficiency and grace. Tickets Understand how past trauma affects the brain can shape the future. Tour the newly remodeled must be purchased by Monday, March 23 and influences behavior. Librarians must take Holocaust Museum Houston, featuring the through preregistration. these experiences into consideration in order exhibit Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets and the Carol Seiler, EBSCO Information Services. to deliver compassionate, effective customer Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis. ELECTRONIC RESOURCES & SERIALS MANAGEMENT service. Learn best practices for fostering ROUND TABLE. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 6 community resiliency. Tickets must be purchased through preregistration. by Monday, March 23 through preregistration. CPE#P154: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 Elissa Hardy, Denver Public Library (CO) and Laurie Garcia, Jenna Norris, Michelle Tovar, Library Safety: Better Security, and Wendy Warren, Holocaust Museum Patrick Lloyd, Georgetown Public Library. Houston. Better Facilities(TICKETED) TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 12:00 — 3:00 PM A leading expert on library safety and security CPE#P157: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 CPE#P105: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 who has trained thousands of library employees Elefantes & Alligators: Storytelling Grant Writing 101 (TICKETED) on handling challenging situations will share Techniques with Language and practical and realistic tools to make your facility 9:00 AM — 12:00 PM Learning to Engage All Listeners a better place to work with safe workplace Beginning grant writers will receive a general (TICKETED) behaviors, new security measures, and “high- overview of the grant process, which includes 12:30 — 3:30 PM risk” customer service skills. Tickets must finding funding opportunities, becoming familiar Storytelling programs can engage all be purchased by Monday, March 23 through with proposal components, documenting the personalities and backgrounds, include a preregistration. need, and evaluating programs. Tickets must second language in an effective way, and get be purchased by Monday, March 23 through Steve Albrecht, Consultant. kids to read and do math — all while having fun. preregistration. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Explore strategies to identify the potential that Debbie Montenegro, National Network of stories have to be transformed into entertaining Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region. CPE#P155: SBEC 3.0 educational experiences for all ages. Tickets 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Speed Dating the Texas Bluebonnet must be purchased by Monday, March 23 Award List (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) through preregistration. CPE#P150: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 12:00 — 3:00 PM Carolina Quiroga-Stultz, Storyteller. Advanced EZproxy Tips (TICKETED) Meet authors and illustrators from the Texas STORYTELLING ROUND TABLE. 12:00 — 3:00 PM EZproxy is one of the most commonly applied remote access management tools currently used by libraries. This workshop will focus on customization, authentication, and assessment aspects related to EZproxy use. Tickets must be purchased by Monday, March 23 through preregistration. Glenn Bunton, University of South Carolina. INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY ROUND TABLE. CPE#P151: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 TEXAS Build Youth Financial Literacy at Your Library (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) STRONG! Enter to win this one-of-a-kind painting by graffiti artist Man One which was 12:00 — 3:00 PM created during a demonstration at the 2018 TLA Annual Conference. Financial capability skills are typically acquired at different rates over three broad developmental All proceeds benefit the TLA Disaster Relief Fund which assists libraries across stages: early childhood, middle childhood, and the state impacted by natural disasters. the teen years. Learn about free resources to Tickets are $5 each (or five for $20) and can be purchased at the TLA Annual help parents and kids learn more about lifelong money management. Tickets must be purchased Conference in Houston, or online at txla.org/disaster-relief-art-raffle. by Monday, March 23 through preregistration. The drawing will take place during the Closing Author Session at the conference on Friday, March 27.

Texas Library Association | 47 Tuesday, March 24 Programs & Events

All sessions are open to all attendees, unless otherwise noted.

LEGEND CPE#201: SBEC 1.0 First Conference Jitters? TLA Marketing & Advocacy A Picture is Worth a Thousand Conference Orientation EdTech Words, Except When it Isn’t 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Never fear, the TLA New Members Round Table Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Ather Sharif is a web designer who became is here! Join us for a discussion on best practices President’s Program quadriplegic after a car accident in March of for navigating the conference successfully, 2013. Now, his mission is to make the web getting the most out of your experience, and Continuing Professional accessible for everyone. Sharif is a PhD student networking with your peers. Education Credits at the University of Washington, a software Kelly Dibbens, Texas Library Association; CPE#264: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 engineer and “Philly’s Geek of the Year 2015.” Jen Ortiz and Janelle Valera, Desoto Public His goal is to make “the digital world as Library. Event State Board TX State Library & accessible to people with disabilities as it is for NEW MEMBERS ROUND TABLE. Number for Educator Archives Commission Certification able-bodied people.” Ather Sharif, Comcast. CPE#208: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Introducing Project ReShare: An Registration...... 7:30 AM – 7:00 PM Open Source, Community-Owned CPE#203: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Hotel Shuttle...... 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM Resource Sharing Platform Bring it On! High School Battle of 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Exhibits...... 3:45 – 6:45 PM the Books The greatest asset of Project ReShare, an open Authors Area...... 3:45 – 6:45 PM 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM source interlibrary loan platform, is its robust High school educators from small and large community. Libraries, consortia, developers, Career Center...... 1:00 – 5:00 PM districts will share how they have developed and vendors, and open information advocates Connection Corner created successful book battle programs for high are collaborating with a shared vision of (Computers, Housing, Internet) schools. Learn how to build a book battle from strengthening the health of libraries’ resource ...... 7:30 AM – 7:00 PM the ground up, develop a book list, and create sharing ecosystem. Once the ReShare software student interest through marketing. is developed, it will be freely available as open TLA Store...... 3:45 – 6:45 PM Brenda Allen, Mesquite ISD; Courtney Anne source software. Bag Check (Rent-A-Box) Flynt, Keller ISD; and Carol Hafer, Crowley Nora Dethloff, University of Houston; and ...... 3:45 – 7:00 PM ISD. Anne McKee, Greater Western Library 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Alliance. INTERLIBRARY LOAN AND RESOURCE SHARING ROUND CPE#205: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TABLE. Burn, Censor, and Sanitize: Trends in Intellectual Freedom Challenges CPE#209: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Navigator Interlibrary Loan Updates 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM and Best Practices Over the past year, librarians have responded to intellectual freedom challenges, including efforts 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM to limit books, displays, exhibits, speakers, and Join experts from the Texas State Library & programs. Understand the shifting landscape Archives Commission and librarians from and how to prepare for those challenges. public libraries across the state to discuss Kristin Pekoll, American Library Association. best practices using Navigator for statewide interlibrary loan. INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM COMMITTEE AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. Sara Hayes, Texas State Library & Archives Commission. CPE#206: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Diverse Perspectives and Structured Critiques Improve CPE#213: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Everyone’s Writing Personal Strategic Planning: Who Are You and Where Are You Going? 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Watch authors at work as they use a guideline 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM to critique a work-in-progress. Then, in small Learn how your unique purpose can give clarity groups, practice the technique by critiquing on where you are, where you want to be, and another manuscript by one of the authors. the key next steps to get there. Varsha Bajaj, Nancy Paulsen Books; and Edward Smith, Tharseo Group, LLC. Cynthia Levinson, Author 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE.

48 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 CPE#214: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TLA 101 of online engagement with an article, including SCHEDULE | TUESDAY What Should I Read Next? Readers 12:15 — 1:15 PM social media mentions, media coverage, Advisory Services Curious to know the difference between a Wikipedia citations, bookmarks, and downloads. 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM division, district, and round table? Are you Discover why altmetrics are important, how to Discover the theories and best practices of looking to become more involved with TLA but access and read them, and how librarians are readers advisory services. From passive to you’re not sure how to get started? Learn how playing an important role in promoting research. individual one-on-one services, learn how to others got started and walk out with tips to Laurissa Gann, University of Texas MD create a library environment that builds staff become a more active member of TLA. Anderson Cancer Center. knowledge and skills, and develop relationships Cecilia Barham, North Richland Hills Public COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. with recreational readers. Library; Kelly Dibbens, Texas Library Savannah Dorsett, Jordan Manuel, and Association; Christina Gola, University CPE#258: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Scott Peters, Houston Public Library; and of Houston; and Jen Ortiz, Desoto Public Communicating the Library Elizabeth Nebeker, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. Library. Vision to Stakeholders: 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. NEW MEMBERS ROUND TABLE. Presentations for Impact Legislative Committee Meeting 1:30 — 2:30 PM Electronic Resources Serials Libraries must compete with other essential 12:15 — 2:15 PM Management Round Table Business community services for funds, which can be Meeting challenging. Learn how to identify audiences and 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM A Toast to Library Pioneer Elenora develop storytelling techniques that demonstrate Alexander (TICKETED) the library’s value to stakeholders. Get tips and Latino Caucus Business Meeting 1:00 — 3:00 PM tricks for creating an effective presentation. 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Join colleagues for high tea at the 5th Annual Valicia Greenwood, Texas State Library & Celebrating Library Pioneers event honoring Archives Commission. Reference and Information Services Texas library champion Elenora Alexander. Round Table Business Meeting TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Network with colleagues and learn about 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM this icon of Texas librarianship. Tickets must CPE#259: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 be purchased by Friday, March 6 through Upstart Committee Creating a Vision for a Community preregistration. of Readers 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM RETIRED LIBRARIANS ROUND TABLE. 1:30 — 2:30 PM Working better together — when public Therapy Dogs CPE#255: SBEC 1.0 librarians and school librarians collaborate, they 11:00 AM — 2:00 PM #Identity: Culture, Gender, can create programs and opportunities that Always wanted to have a therapy dog program Religion benefit both libraries. Whether in the school or a “Read to the Dogs” program but were 1:30 — 2:30 PM year or in the summer, discover how this type unsure how to begin? Test out the program at Diversity, in its many forms, is a major focus in of collaboration strengthens communities that TLA 2020! Stop by the registration area in the the publishing world. Young adult authors will value literacy. Exhibit Hall to pet and cuddle with cute therapy provide insight into how their life experiences Caricia Zepeda, Dallas ISD. dogs. The dogs and their handlers are part of have impacted their creative processes. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DIVISION. Tender Loving K9s in Houston and regularly Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy, Little visit hospitals, daycares, nursing homes, Brown; Susan Kuklin, Candlewick; Phil CPE#261: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 rehabilitation centers, and libraries. For more Stamper, Bloomsbury; and Sherry Thomas, Equity Diversity and Inclusion information on the therapy group, visit https:// Lee and Low. Forum, Part 1 tlk9.org/. YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. 2020 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE. 1:30 — 2:30 PM CPE#256: SBEC 1.0 Find out how to influence change in order CPE#251: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 16th Annual Poetry Roundup to serve the profession and retain librarians Envision Your Library in Your of color. In Part 2, participants will have 1:30 — 2:30 PM opportunities to discuss challenging scenarios Quality Enhancement Plan Since 2005, the Poetry Roundup has hosted with colleagues and develop inclusive strategies 12:15 — 1:15 PM more than 80 poets showcasing the best and for working with diverse groups. Part 2 follows Discover how to be an active participant in latest poetry for young people. Hear poets read immediately after the session. your institution’s Quality Enhancement Plan from their work and experience firsthand the Julius Jefferson, ALA President-Elect, (QEP) process for Southern Association of pleasures to be found in the spoken word and Library of Congress. Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges the power of poetry for developing literacy and accreditation. Panelists will highlight their QEPs, 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE AND language. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMITTEE. which include information literacy, strategies and Leslie Bulion, Peachtree; Zetta Elliott, Disney; skills for well-being, and programs for reducing Ellen Hopkins, Simon & Schuster; Irene CPE#262: SBEC 1.0 student debt. Latham and Vikram Madan, Boyds Mills Faces and Voices of History: The Celita Avila and Ernest Tsacalis, San Antonio Press; and Naomi Nye, HarperCollins. Bullock Museum’s Texas Story College; Jonathan Helmke and Paul Henley, CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. Stephen F. Austin University; and Michele Project Whitehead, University of North Texas Health CPE#257: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 1:30 — 2:30 PM Science Center. Alternative Metrics: Measuring the Be inspired by the unexpected outcomes from COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. Social Impact of Publications university and high school students’ story contributions to the Bullock Museum’s Texas 1:30 — 2:30 PM Story Project, a crowd-sourced public history Alternative metrics (altmetrics) are indicators initiative. By publishing stories in the project,

Texas Library Association | 49 students launched careers, commemorated Alexandra Cornejo, Vilia Garcia, and Betsy and Library Services (IMLS) grant project, historical events, connected with heroes, and Vela, Harlingen CISD. Transforming Libraries into Community Anchors discovered meaning in their lives. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. in Rural Texas (TLCART) will present five group David Munns,The Bullock Texas State History presentations of community-based projects to Museum; and Teresa Van Hoy, St. Mary’s CPE#267: SBEC 1.0 demonstrate the applications of design theory University. Manga for Your Age Group and asset-based community development. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 1:30 — 2:30 PM TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY. Children and teens love to read manga. Get a CPE#263: SBEC 1.0 great list of titles, broken down by age group, CPE#273: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Katherine that would be appropriate for your students. Academic Game Collections and Center Speaks on Tuan Nguyen, Mackin Educational Engaged Learning Reading for Joy Resources; and Lisa Zinkie, Fort Worth ISD. 2:45 — 3:45 PM SCHEDULE | TUESDAY SCHEDULE | TUESDAY 1:30 — 2:30 PM 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Participants will learn about game collections Katherine Center, New and their value beyond recreation. Learn the York Times best-selling CPE#268: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 best ways to incorporate engaged learning author of How to Walk Navigating the Library eBook through shared experiences and play with Away and Things You Save Market collection development and programming that in a Fire, shares her passion with audiences all 1:30 — 2:30 PM incorporates tabletop games, breakouts, escape over the country. She will share insights into the Leaders in library eBook advocacy will share rooms, and cross reality (XR) devices. importance of reading for pleasure, her writing the latest changes in the library eBook market, Jeremy Kincaid and Diane Robson, University life, and her love of book clubs. focusing on efforts by the American Library of North Texas. Katherine Center, Macmillan. Association, the Chief Officers of State Library COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Agencies, and other groups to make it more friendly to libraries. CPE:#274: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#264: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Michael Blackwell, St. Mary’s County Library Building A Diverse Library Launching a Library-Focused (MD); Alan Inouye, American Library Collection Quality Enhancement Plan Association; and Ramiro Salazar, San Antonio 2:45 — 3:45 PM Public Library. 1:30 — 2:30 PM Are you constantly trying to find books for TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Learn how to make your library an active the many diverse members of your learning and integral part of your institution’s Quality community? Learn how to evaluate, expand CPE#270: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Enhancement Plan (QEP) from librarians who and balance your collection to represent your have successfully advocated for a library- Weed ‘em and Reap: Using community. focused QEP or enhanced their non-library GreenGlass in Academic Libraries Tamiko Brown, Tania Castillo, and Felicia centered QEP through library involvement. 1:30 — 2:30 PM Morgan, Clear Creek ISD; and Sara Ranzau, Ashley Crane and Brian Loft, Sam Houston As academic libraries are increasingly under Boerne ISD and Schreiner University. State University; and Kimberly Gay, Prairie space pressure they are looking at deselection 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. View A&M University. projects. GreenGlass is an analytics tool LIBRARY INSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE AND COLLEGE AND optimized for making data-informed deselection CPE#275: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION decisions. Learn how Sam Houston State Creating a Digital Media Lab University uses this tool to inform their subject 2:45 — 3:45 PM CPE#265: SBEC 1.0 selectors in making decisions about deselecting Digital Media Labs (DML) provide opportunities Librarians IRL materials. A business meeting follows the to build advanced digital literacy skills and 1:30 — 2:30 PM program. offer avenues for creativity and preservation. What do other librarians do in real life? Do Michael Hanson and Zachary Valdes, Sam Learn how a public library built their DML, what public librarians have to clean the bathrooms? Houston State University; and Peter Zeimet, equipment and software is included, how it Do school librarians really do it all? How many OCLC. differs from a makerspace, and tips for creating committees does an academic librarian have to ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT ROUND your own. TABLE. be on? Experienced librarians will answer these Kelly Brouillard, Lewisville Public Library. burning questions. PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. CPE#2700: SBEC 1.5 Elizabeth Anne Howard, Texas Wesleyan Great Ideas Lightning Talks University; and Curren McLane, Azle CPE#2755: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Memorial Library. 2:00 — 3:30 PM Creating Free Space: The Library as 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Get unique and innovative ideas to implement a Creative Space for Teens at your library at these lightning talks, combined CPE#266: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 with poster sessions. Great Ideas Lighting 2:45 — 3:45 PM Getting teens to use creative free spaces Library Life Is the Best Life! Renew Talks are five-minute sessions that engage the can be challenging, especially when they are Your Passion and Revitalize Your audience and feature new or innovative ideas. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. increasingly career-driven. Plano Public Library’s Vision Digital Creativity intern program frames creativity 1:30 — 2:30 PM CPE#271: SBEC 1.0 as an internship to appeal to career-minded Learn how a tired, disgruntled librarian Transforming Libraries into teens. Discover how the program was created transformed into a productive Library Media and evolved, and what outcomes were achieved. Community Anchors in Rural Texas Specialist who loves her profession again. Robert Loftin and Sarah O’Pella, Plano Public Discover how to focus, engage, encourage, Cohort Presentations Library. empower, and renew your passion. Revitalize 2:00 — 5:00 PM PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. your vision for your library! Cohort members of the Institute of Museum

50 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 CPE#276: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Get your questions answered so you are Tour the Exhibit Hall and find out about the SCHEDULE | TUESDAY Creating LGBTQ+ Spaces for prepared to apply for this renowned leadership Innovation Lab, Exhibitor Showcases, Author Academic Libraries training program. Signings, and what exhibitors have to offer. 2:45 — 3:45 PM Tuan Nguyen, Mackin Educational Meet outside Exhibit Hall D. Space is limited to Hear how academic librarians work to make sure Resources. the first 20 people who sign up. Tickets must LGBTQ+ faculty and students feel comfortable, TALL TEXANS ROUND TABLE. be purchased by Monday, March 23 through regardless of identity or orientation, by creating preregistration. and maintaining a confidential and safe library CPE#284: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 NEW MEMBERS ROUND TABLE. space. Where Does Information Literacy Kimberly Gay, Prairie View A&M; Elizabeth Fit? Curriculum Mapping Core Exhibit Hall Grand Opening Goode, Texas A&M-Kingsville; and Julie Courses to the ACRL Framework and Welcome Leuzinger, University of North Texas. 2:45 — 3:45 PM 3:45 — 6:45 PM QUEERS & ALLIES ROUND TABLE AND COLLEGE AND The curriculum mapping project at the University UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. of North Texas Libraries maps student learning Exhibit Hall outcomes on course syllabi to the Association Join your colleagues as you settle in for the CPE#277: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2020 Annual TLA Conference. Meet up with Equity Diversity & Inclusion, Framework for Information Literacy and the friends and exhibitors and begin four days of Part 2 Association of American Colleges & Universities networking and socializing. Light refreshments 2:45 — 3:45 PM (AAC&U) Information Literacy VALUE Rubric. will be provided at stations throughout the Find out how to influence change in order Information gleaned helps identify gaps in library Exhibit Hall. to serve the profession and retain librarians instruction and information literacy needs. 2020 CONFERENCE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE. of color. Discuss challenging scenarios with Greg Hardin and Carol Nakano Hargis, colleagues and develop inclusive strategies for University of North Texas. CPE#293: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 working with diverse groups. Part 1 immediately 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Basic Genealogy Resources and precedes this session. Services for Non-Genealogy Julius Jefferson, ALA President-Elect, Intellectual Freedom Committee Librarians Library of Congress. 2:45 — 3:45 PM 4:00 — 5:00 PM 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Library Friends, Trustees and Learn basic reference interview skills and discover tools to help the ever-growing CPE#278: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Advocates Round Table Business population of family history researchers walking Instructing from the Reference Meeting through your library doors. Explore general 2:45 — 3:45 PM Desk subscription websites and a number of free 2:45 — 3:45 PM Lone Star Committee websites to suggest to your patrons. Don’t just show patrons where the information 2:45 — 3:45 PM Susan Kaufman, Houston Public Library. is; teach them how to find it themselves. Get ARCHIVES, GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY ROUND helpful tips on how to instruct library users Maverick Committee TABLE AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. through reference interactions and one-on-one 2:45 — 3:45 PM consultations. CPE#294 SBEC 1.0 Margaret Dawson, Texas A&M-Central Texas; Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Committee Dueling MakerSpaces: and Janie Richardson, Stephen F. Austin 2:45 — 3:45 PM Curriculum Connected or Open State University. Ended? You Decide! LIBRARY INSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE AND REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES ROUND TABLE. TAYSHAS Committee 4:00 – 5:00 PM 2:45 — 3:45 PM Come to this session to hear two secondary CPE#282: SBEC 1.0 librarians duel as they present and defend Tough Topics in Middle Grades CPE#2900: SBEC 1.0 curriculum connected makerspaces versus those which are more open-ended and true to the 2:45 — 3:45 PM Get Your TLA Unit’s Financial House original maker movement. Tackle heavy topics using middle grade books in Order to steer children through real-life issues. Help 2:45 — 3:45 PM Tania Castillo and Shirley Dickey, Clear Creek ISD. readers find hope, develop empathy, and feel Current, past and future TLA officers will get empowered and encouraged to share their own the inside scoop on TLA’s budgeting, financial YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE hard stories. policies, and practices that impact units and CPE#295: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Ellen Hopkins, Penguin Random House; committees. You’ll learn where to find the unit’s Anne LeZotte, Scholastic; and Rex Ogle, W. budgets from prior years, how to plan and Indigenous Representation: W. Norton. budget for the upcoming year, and more! Don’t A How-To on the Ethical Inclusion CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. miss this important session which will prepare of Natives you to manage your unit’s budget successfully. 4:00 — 5:00 PM CPE#283: SBEC 1.0 Sherra Bowers, Texas Library Association. How are North American Indigenous Peoples’ What Is a TALL Texan? Why Do I COUNCIL/GOVERNANCE. narrative influenced by selection criteria? Learn Want to Be One? how librarians can combat stereotypes and how 2:45 — 3:45 PM CPE#291: SBEC 1.0 educator and information sharers can be more TALL (Texas Accelerated Library Leaders Tour the Exhibit Hall with the New inclusive in their collection development. Institute) Texans who have gone through the Members Round Table (TICKETED, Catherine Baty, Lake Travis Community program will share how the institute impacted REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) Library. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE their careers and why you should be involved. 3:15 — 3:45 PM

Texas Library Association | 51 CPE#296: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#298: SBEC 1.0; how they choose their topics, handle research, Legal Issues in Public Libraries TSLAC 1.0 and tackle school visits, and share a wealth of 4:00 — 5:00 PM What’s So Critical information that librarians can take back to their Are you unknowingly breaking the law in your About Critical young readers. library? Texas law regulates voter registration, Librarianship? Varsha Bajaj, Penguin Young Readers raffles, bingo, and service animals, to name a Group; Samantha Clark, Simon & Schuster; 4:00 — 5:00 PM Meredith Davis, Scholastic; P. J. (Tricia) few. Learn how these laws affect public libraries, As librarians select, and how requirements may vary from city to city. Hoover and Madeline Smoot, CBAY Books; acquire, organize, Mari Mancusi, Disney Books; Cory Putman Danielle Folsom, City of Houston. preserve, and facilitate access to collections, we Oakes, Sourcebooks; Leila Sales, The Book 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. build infrastructures that reflect and re-create Engineer; and Steve Wilson, Penguin systemic inequalities. Understand how critical Random House. CPE#297: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 librarianship interrogates those systems and TEXAS AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS ROUND TABLE. SCHEDULE | TUESDAY SCHEDULE | TUESDAY So You Want to Sit in the Big Seat asks how they could be different. Re-reading 4:00 — 5:00 PM librarianship through the social and political TLA Council I A dynamic group of Texas library directors will enables us to imagine and create the world we 4:00 — 5:00 PM discuss the roads they took to get into the big want. Council is the governing body of TLA. All office. There is no single path to follow to reach Emily Drabinski, City University of New York conference attendees are invited. your end goal. Hear creative ways to navigate (NY). COUNCIL/GOVERNANCE. and overcome any obstacles, and gain insight 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COLLEGE into continuing education opportunities to AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION AND LIBRARY TALL Texans Social & Standing TALL INSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE. develop your leadership skills. Award Debbie Garza, Midland County Public 5:00 — 6:00 PM CPE#299: SBEC 1.0 Library; Dean Hendrix, University of Texas at The incoming TALL Texans class will be San Antonio; Edward Melton, Harris County What’s New With Texas YA and announced, and the Standing TALL Award Public Library; Elizabeth Polk, Austin ISD; Middle Grade Authors presented. There will be a cash bar. and Roosevelt Weeks, Austin Public Library. 4:00 — 5:00 PM TALL TEXANS ROUND TABLE. SUPERVISION, MANAGEMENT, AND ADMINISTRATION Explore the wide variety of fiction and nonfiction ROUND TABLE. YA and middle-grade books from beloved Texas TLCART Advisory Board Meeting authors and illustrators. Panelists will discuss 6:00 — 8:00 PM TEXAS WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY

HANDS-ON LABS Seating is limited for all Hands-on Lab sessions. These labs are ticketed events, and reservations must be made by Monday, March 23 through online preregistration only. Devices or supplies provided unless noted as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 THURSDAY, MARCH 26

Basic Book Repair & Mending Lab...2:00 – 5:00 PM Clean Up Your Google Life...... 8:30 – 9:30 AM

Library, Camera, Action: Create and Market Your Chrome 101...... 9:45 – 10:45 AM Library with Videos (BYOD)...... 3:15 – 4:15 PM Research Says – Encourage Creativity and Beyond Text: Using Art to Enhance Literacy Doodling in the Classroom...... 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM ...... 4:30 – 5:30 PM But Do They Really Use It? Understanding E-Resource Usage...... 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Making Flyers that Don’t Suck...... 1:30 – 2:30 PM

Advocating to Your Stakeholders: Making the Most of Social Media...... 2:45 – 3:45 PM

52 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 TLA AFTER HOURS 7:00 – 10:00 PM SCHEDULE | TUESDAY

CPE#E2985: SBEC 0.5 CPE#E2989: SBEC 1.75 TLA After Hours Keynote Book Buzzed with Nick Offerman 8:15 — 10:00 PM 7:15 — 8:00 PM Get the scoop on forthcoming titles for adults. Sponsored by the Adult If you watch Parks & Recreation, you know that the Library Marketing Association. A selection of adult beverages will be served. character Ron Swanson thinks that libraries are “the Jen Childs, Penguin Random House; Margaret Coffee, Sourcebooks; worst place ever.” Fortunately, Nick Offerman, the actor Linette Kim, Bloomsbury; Michelle Leo, Simon & Schuster; Annie who portrayed Ron, does not agree. Nick’s family is full Mazes, Workman; Susan McConnell, Ingram; Melissa Nicholas, of librarians, including his sister. Nick Offerman is an Hachette; Anthony Parisi, Tor; Golda Rademacher, W.W. Norton; actor, writer and woodworker, best known as the character of Ron Swanson Amanda Rountree, Macmillan; Virginia Stanley, HarperCollins; and Chris Vaccari, Sterling Publishing. on NBC’s hit comedy series Parks & Recreation and Karl Weathers in the acclaimed FX series Fargo. Offerman has penned four New York Times PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. bestselling books, Paddle Your Own Canoe, Gumption, Good Clean Fun and, most recently, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, written with his wife, CPE#E2990: SBEC 2.0 Megan Mullally. Children’s Lit Pub Trivia: After Dark with Nick Offerman. Authors and Illustrators (TICKETED) 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 8:15 — 10:00 PM Trivia hounds — spend an evening testing your kid lit knowledge! Get up close and personal with authors and illustrators and compete with other librarians in an evening of fun and games. Tickets must be purchased by Monday, March 23 through preregistration. CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE.

Battledecks Cassie Nova Jenna Skyy 9:15 — 10:00 PM CPE#E2986: SBEC 1.0 Each contestant will speak for up to four minutes on 10 slides provided by Drag Queen Storytime the contest organizers on the same topic. A panel of judges will determine 8:15 — 9:00 PM the winner. Prizes are given for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Experience a live Drag Queen Storytime. The audience will be introduced TALL TEXANS ROUND TABLE. to components of a Drag Queen Storytime program and hear first-hand accounts from the storytellers. CPE#E2992: SBEC 1.0 Cassie Nova and Jenna Skyy, S4 Rose Room. Director’s Hotseat 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 9:15 – 10:00 PM A star-studded panel of Texas library directors field questions on what it is CPE#E2987: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 really like to be in the big chair. Dungeons and Dragons and Teens, Oh My! Lisa German, University of Houston; Edward Melton, Harris County 8:15 — 9:00 PM Public Library; Edward Smith, Abilene Library Consortium; Michael A librarian who has been a Dungeon Master (DM) for teens at a public library Stafford, Houston Community College; Roosevelt Weeks, Austin Public Library; and Mary Woodard, Mesquite ISD. will share the benefits of Dungeons and Dragons. Learn DM best practices, tips and tricks for introducing the game to teens, and resources to help start 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE COMMITTEE. this wickedly popular program at your library! CPE#E2993: SBEC 0.75 Dustan Archer, Rosenberg Library. Storytelling Through Song: A Concert YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. With David LaMotte CPE#E2988: SBEC 1.0 9:15 — 10:00 PM The Outspoken Bean Presents Music brings people together. Come hear stories in song from a master Poetry for Everyone musical storyteller who is passionate about peace and building inclusive communities. 8:15 — 9:00 PM David LaMotte, Dryad Publishing, Inc. Nationally-ranked performance poet The Outspoken Bean performs, demonstrating how libraries can bring 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. diversity and opportunity to their patrons via poetry and open-mic nights. Emanuelee Outspoken Bean is a Werewolf at After Hours 2011 Texas Poet Laureate nominee and 2017 Houston 9:15 — 10:00 PM Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Artist-in-Residence. Join your fellow librarians for this interactive game of deception. Whether Outspoken Bean, Plus Fest. you are a werewolf or a villager, the object of the game is to stay alive. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Learn to trust or distrust the people around you to eliminate the werewolves before they eliminate the village. Yolanda Botello, Mansfield Public Library; Geoffrey Sams, Roanoke Public Library. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE.

Texas Library Association | 53 Wednesday, March 25 Programs & Events

All sessions are open to all attendees, unless otherwise noted.

LEGEND CPE#301: SBEC 0.5 CPE#304: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Marketing & Advocacy General Session I Copyright for Educators with Lisa See 10:00 — 11:00 AM EdTech 8:15 — 9:45 AM Attorney Gretchen McCord will provide an Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Lisa See is the New overview of copyright law, identifying the works and rights associated with creative content, and President’s Program York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of the rights of creators (teachers and students) in Continuing Professional Hummingbird Lane, Snow the classroom. Usage permissions and fair use Education Credits Flower and the Secret exceptions will be reviewed and applications to CPE#264: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls, China Dolls, the classroom setting discussed. and Dreams of Joy, which debuted at #1. She Gretchen McCord, Digital Information Law. Event State Board TX State Library & is also the author of On Gold Mountain, which COPYRIGHT AND ACCESS ROUND TABLE. Number for Educator Archives Commission tells the story of her Chinese American family’s Certification settlement in Los Angeles. See has also written CPE#305: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 a mystery series that takes place in China. Her EdTech Tools and AASL new novel, The Island of Sea Women, is about Standards, Part 1 Registration...... 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM the free-diving women of South Korea’s Jeju 10:00 — 11:00 AM Hotel Shuttle...... 6:30 – 11:30 AM; Island. She was the recipient of the Golden Spike Be ready to share and get ideas on EdTech ...... 5:00 – 8:00 PM Award from the Chinese Historical Association tools to inspire students to inquire, include, (No service between 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM) of Southern California and the History Maker’s collaborate, curate, and explore. Whether you Award from the Chinese American Museum. She Exhibits...... 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM are an expert on the National School Library was also named National Woman of the Year by Standards or didn’t know such a thing existed, Authors Area...... 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM the Organization of Chinese American Women. together we will engage, think, create, and Career Center...... 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Lisa See, Simon & Schuster. share. Part 2 follows immediately after the 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. session. Collaboration Space Brandi Rosales-Dawson, Richardson ISD; and ...... 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM CPE#302: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Kristi Starr, Lubbock ISD. Connection Corner A Vision for Community TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. (Computers, Housing, Internet) Engagement: The TLA Toolkit ...... 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM CPE#306: SBEC 1.0 10:00 — 11:00 AM TLA Store...... 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM The TLA Community Engagement Task Force Exploring Spanish and introduces their toolkit, designed to assist all Bilingual Books with the Tejas Star Bag Check (Rent-A-Box) library types in meeting community needs. Learn Reading List ...... 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM terminology used for community engagement, 10:00 — 11:00 AM how to begin, and how to identify potential The Tejas Star Reading List committee will community collaborators. present the 2020-2021 list and its corresponding Devery Johnson, Montgomery County activity guide. Committee members will give Library System; Jennifer Pacheco, City of booktalks and share activities for each of the Carrollton; and Holly Russell, Highland Park books. Attendees will engage in interactive Library. activities and have the opportunity to meet 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. authors from the current and past lists. Priscilla Delgado, St. John’s University. CPE#303: SBEC 1.0 TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS AND Cool Jobs 2020 CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. 10:00 — 11:00 AM Librarians with unusual and interesting jobs will CPE#307: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 tell you about their work, how they got there, Future Ready School Library and what you can do if you’d like a job like Administrators theirs. 10:00 — 11:00 AM Jon Evans, Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Calling all school library directors, coordinators, Kaylee Harrington, Wycombe Abbey School and lead librarians. Members of the North Texas of Changzhou (China); Misty Harris, San Area School Library Directors group will share Antonio Express News; and Melissa Torres, a new Future Ready Library Administrators Phillips 66. framework and how you can use it to support SPECIAL LIBRARIES DIVISION. your own work. Stacy Cameron, Frisco ISD; Emma McDonald and Mary Woodard, Mesquite ISD; and Lydia Noble, Sherman ISD. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE.

54 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 CPE#3901: SBEC 1.0 CPE#309: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#311: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY Grace and the Moon: Bridging Literacy for the High School’s Reading Our Way Out: Liberation Divides Through Books Littlest Learners, and Their Teen Through Literature 10:00 — 11:00 AM Parents 10:00 — 11:00 AM Turk Pipkin, actor and author, will share two 10:00 — 11:00 AM Traditional book clubs draw avid readers, but versions of his bilingual children’s book, Grace Navarro Library partnered with the campus this club is designed for students who do not see and the Moon, and discuss his global education Child Development Center to create a parenting themselves as readers — yet. Using inclusive nonprofit, The Nobelity Project. Stay after education program for pregnant and parenting literature, we can build relationships while the presentation to receive a complimentary students. The partnership began with the library putting mirror books into students’ hands so they hardcover edition of the English/Spanish and sponsoring baby book drives but has grown see they have a seat at the reading table. English/Kiswahili books to add to your library into a daily class including events such as Amianne Bailey, Mesquite ISD. collection. parent/child storytime, parent/child music class, 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Turk Pipkin, The Nobelity Project. and parent education. Learn how to support 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. these underserved students and build outside CPE#312: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 community partnerships. Responding Compassionately to CPE#308: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Emily Hersh and Kelly Hickman, Austin ISD. Opioid and Substance Use in Your Lessons Learned: Implementing a 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Community Makerspace with Grant Funding 10:00 — 11:00 AM 10:00 — 11:00 AM CPE#310: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 The current opioid/substance use epidemic With a grant from the Texas State Library and My Library is Tiny! How to be is headline news and libraries can be found Archives Commission, Texas Wesleyan’s West Creative with Small Spaces. on the front line. Learn how to respond Library implemented the TXWES Makers Lab. 10:00 — 11:00 AM compassionately and proactively to an Speakers will share the lessons learned while Libraries aren’t always as big as we’d like them emergency and move toward harm reduction navigating the complexities of grant writing, to be, but working in a smaller space provides and possible intervention. funding, training, instruction, and implementing a opportunities for creativity. Learn how to manage Elissa Hardy, Denver Public Library (CO). multi-faceted program from the ground up. space to allow for programming, stacks, and TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Nancy Edge, Dennis Miles and Caitlin lots of fun. Come ready to share your ideas for Rookey, Texas Wesleyan University. maximizing small spaces. CPE#313: SBEC 1.0 COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. Jessica Hedrick, Point Isabel ISD. So You Want to Be On a Reading List YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. Committee 10:00 — 11:00 AM Many Young Adult Round Table (YART) members want to be a part of a reading list committee, but EDUCATION IN THE EXHIBIT HALL Find more information and links to schedules at www.txla.org/education-exhibit-hall. AUTHORS AREA INNOVATION LAB Hundreds of authors participate in the TLA Annual The Innovation Lab is a unique, interactive space Conference, signing their latest books in the in the Exhibit Hall that features an array of STEAM- Authors Area in the Exhibit Hall and/or in their focused events including educational sessions, publishers’ booths, and speaking on panels. The list table demonstrations, STEAM vehicles and adjoining of confirmed authors, signing times, and speakers is exhibitors. updated frequently. Don’t miss your favorite authors at TLA2020! SMALL LIBRARY RESOURCE CENTER Learn about the wealth of support available for your EXHIBITOR SHOWCASES small community library in booth #2929. Learn about diverse topics in sessions hosted by Thank you to our sponsor experts from exhibiting companies. Showcases are 50 minutes long and are presented in the Exhibit Hall Wednesday from 10am – 4:50pm, and Thursday from 9am – 3:50pm.

Texas Library Association | 55 don’t know how or where to start. This panel will CPE#317: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#323: SBEC 1.0 provide guidance and insight into the work that The Three Lifehacks of Productive To Be Continued...Series Books YART reading list committees do and how to get Librarians in YA Lit involved. 10:00 — 11:00 AM 10:00 — 11:30 AM Jeri Calcote, Poolville ISD; Stephanie Galvan- Discover the three things you must do to be Writing a book series can be incredibly Russell, Austin ISD; Kimberly Herrington, productive and efficient. Leave this talk with challenging, but can generate a devoted fan Pearland ISD; and Kelly Wadyko, Pasadena new strategies that will give you more focus and base. Authors will detail the intricacies of writing ISD. energy to crush your to-do list and get ahead at books for a series. A business meeting precedes YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. work. the program. Thanh Pham, Asian Efficiency. Tomi Adeyemi and Roshani Chokshi, CPE#314: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Macmillan; Katharine McGee, Random Student Transitions in Texas: House; Kristen Simmons, TOR; and Gita Creating Successful Transitions to CPE#318: SBEC 1.0 Trelease, Flatiron Books. College, Military, and Career Vuthy Kuon: An YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY 10:00 — 11:00 AM Author’s CPE#300: SBEC 0.75 Students face challenges as they transition from Refugee Story K-12 to college, military, or careers. Student 30th Anniversary transition efforts using Open Educational 10:00 — 11:00 AM Black Caucus Vuthy Kuon will share his Resources (OER), and school and academic Round Table Author library standards crosswalks are being escape story from war-torn Cambodia and life in a Session (TICKETED, implemented in Texas libraries. Learn about a REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) variety of initiatives that support students no Thailand refugee camp, 10:00 — 11:50 AM matter where they are on their educational to living the American dream as a children’s Join members of the journey. book author/illustrator. Witness an interactive art session where the audience becomes models Black Caucus Round Collette Knight, Harlandale ISD; Nina Martin, for his latest creation. Table to celebrate their 30th Anniversary! Plano Public Library; Kayla Middleton, EBSCO Information Services; Elizabeth Vuthy Kuon, Providence Publishing Author Pat Tucker from Simon & Schuster is Philippi, Texas State Library & Archives Company. the guest speaker in this panel discussion. The Commission; Jennifer Rike, Mansfield ISD; 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. discussion will cover situations and scandals in and Jane Stimpson, Lone Star College. writing; publishing and reading for multicultural 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. CPE#319: SBEC 1.0 literacy; and other professional issues related to Worldchanging 101: Challenging the developing diverse reading literacy initiatives for CPE#315: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Myth of Powerlessness all ages. Tickets must be purchased by March 6 through preregistration. TexQuest and Google: Don’t Beat 10:00 — 11:00 AM Them, Join Them U.S. culture has a ubiquitous, and often Kimberly Gay, Prairie View A&M; and Pat Tucker, Simon & Schuster. 10:00 — 11:00 AM unexamined, story about the way to fix large BLACK CAUCUS ROUND TABLE. “And don’t use Google” used to be a common problems. In his book Worldchanging 101, David refrain from teachers and librarians when LaMotte suggests that this story is both wrong CPE#IL348: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 preparing students for classroom inquiry. Join us and toxic, and proposes a more accurate, and MakerMaven: Why Connecting the as we explore ways TexQuest digital resources more hopeful, lens to look through. integrate beautifully with Google functionality. David LaMotte, Dryad Publishing, Inc. TEKS Matters and How To Do It Discover how these powerful partners can make 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. With Makerspace inquiry and research authentic and engaging. 10:15 — 11:15 AM Susan Reeves and Ann Vyoral, ESC Region CPE#320: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 J’amie Garcia, owner of MakerMaven, will show 20. Your Kids Don’t Want Your Stuff how the TEKS connect to K12 instruction through makerspace materials. TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. 10:00 — 11:00 AM As baby boomers and traditionalists retire and J’amie Garcia, MakerMaven. CPE#316: SBEC 1.0 move into smaller houses, they’re discovering 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE The Evolution of Open Access a hard truth: Their kids don’t want their stuff. 10:00 — 11:00 AM Downsizing is physically and emotionally Therapy Dogs What does Open Access (OA) look like in exhausting. Where do you even start? Learn 11:00 AM — 2:00 PM academia today? Examine the evolution of ways to begin downsizing now, what to keep, Always wanted to have a therapy dog program Open Access in higher education and its impact and what to do with your stuff. or a “Read to the Dogs” program but were on librarians. Gain insights into the current Janice Simon, MD Anderson Cancer Center. unsure how to begin? Test out the program at landscape of repositories, OA publishing, digital RETIRED LIBRARIANS ROUND TABLE. TLA 2020! Stop by the registration area in the projects and Open Educational Resources (OER), Exhibit Hall to pet and cuddle with cute therapy and learn what “open” looks like for the future. Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing dogs. The dogs and their handlers are part of Kris Helge, Texas Woman’s University; Round Table Business Meeting Tender Loving K9s in Houston and regularly Ramona Holmes, University of North Texas 10:00 — 11:00 AM visit hospitals, daycares, nursing homes, Health Science Center; Colleen Lyon, rehabilitation centers, and libraries. For more University of Texas at Austin; Kelly Visnak, Presenters Discussion Group information on the therapy group, visit https:// University of Texas at Arlington; and Laura 10:00 — 11:00 AM tlk9.org/. Waugh, Texas State University. 2020 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. TALL Texans Round Table Business Meeting 10:00 — 11:00 AM

56 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 CPE#330: SBEC 1.0 Keylan Morgan, Texas Higher Education Steven Weinberg, Chronicle. SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY #NoFilter: Real, Raw, Teen Coordinating Board. CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM LIBRARY INSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE AND COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. These authors capture real, raw teen voices. CPE#338: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Their characters don’t flinch away from the Mining Texas Public Library CPE#334: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 emotional and physical realities of teens past Statistics for Reports and If You Give a Librarian a and present, and the incredible resonance these Presentations STEM Program… decisions have with readers. 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Sharon Cameron, Scholastic; Traci Chee, 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Impress stakeholders with informative charts, Camryn Garrett, and Carl Deuker, Houghton Taught by nationally certified STEM librarians, presentations, and reports created using the Mifflin Harcourt; Emery Lord, Bloomsbury; this session will provide information on how Texas Public Libraries Annual Report data. and Courtney Summers, Macmillan. to support STEM teachers. Leave with lists of Explore the Texas State Library & Archives YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. books to use in lessons and to add to the library Commission website and Texas LibPAS, the collection, as well as lessons and programming public library data collection portal. CPE#331: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 used successfully in school libraries. Valicia Greenwood, Texas State Library & EdTech Tools & AASL Kathryn Hoffman and Tracy Rutan, Archives Commission. Lewisville ISD. Standards, Part 2 TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Be ready to share and get ideas on EdTech CPE#339: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 tools to inspire students to inquire, include, CPE#335: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Moving Towards a Professional Let it Happen Naturally- Organic collaborate, curate, and explore. Whether you Library Publishing Program are an expert on the National School Library Mentoring 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Standards or didn’t know such a thing existed, 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM This program will cover a professional journal together we will engage, think, create, and Mentors and their mentees discuss how their publishing service for the university faculty at share. Part 1 immediately precedes the session. relationships were built organically. Learn why the Ralph W. Steen Library (Stephen F. Austin Brandi Rosales-Dawson, Richardson ISD; and they became mentors, how mentors have State University). Efforts to provide publishing Kristi Starr, Lubbock ISD. changed their careers, and how they chose their services such as minting DOIs, requesting ISSNs, TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DIVISION. mentor/mentee. submitting journals for indexing, and helping Nancy Edge and Elizabeth Anne Howard, editors follow best practices in policies for online CPE#332: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Texas Wesleyan University; Thomas Finley, open access journals will be discussed. Frisco Public Library; Kelly Holt, City of Effective Local and Family History Ronald Reynolds, Stephen F. Austin State Research Keller; Jana Prock, Keller Public Library; and Tina Urdiales and Cynthia Velis, Aldine ISD. University. COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Understand the commonalities, differences, and effective use of archives and genealogy libraries CPE#336: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#3400: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 for family and local history research. Highlights Library Support for Financial Promoting Your Collections: will include exciting resources available in both Capability: Building a Money Smart Messaging, Merchandising, and libraries and archives that are unusual and fun. More ARCHIVES, GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY ROUND Community TABLE. 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM How can libraries support community financial Collections are the mainstays of libraries. CPE#3899: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 capability? Gain from the experience of an active After spending money and time making them Get a Year’s Worth of Work Done in suburban library that partnered with the Federal available, they must be promoted! Marketing the Next 90 Days Reserve and Consumer Financial Protection maven Kathy Dempsey will explain why you should talk less about your items and more 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Bureau to train staff and implement community programs. Learn about tools, resources, and about why they matter. Get tips on marketing, Crush library and career goals in record time cross-promotion, and using social media with a framework that high performers use. programming approaches for engaging multi- age users in financial literacy. effectively. Learn to set elastic, actionable goals, implement Kathy Dempsey, Libraries Are Essential. those goals, and develop habits to help you Kristin Linscott and Sarah O’Pella, Plano 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. succeed. Public Library; Susan Kizer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; and Kenneth McDonnell, Thanh Pham, Asian Efficiency. Bureau of Consumer Finance Protection. CPE#341: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. Reading Success Matters: Increase Literacy and Reading Engagement CPE#333: SBEC 1.0 CPE#337: SBEC 1.0 with Large Print HB 2223 and Corequisite Courses: Making the Jump From Picture Implications for Academic Libraries 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Books to Chapter Books Students who read large print titles, with their 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM larger font size and increased white space, HB 2223 requires Texas public higher education Bridging the gap between picture books and have less difficulty recognizing letters, decoding institutions to enroll underprepared students in a chapter books isn’t always easy. In this session, words, and skipping lines. When these errors corequisite model, in which the student takes an authors will discuss their beginning chapter are minimized, fluency, comprehension, and entry-level college course and a developmental books and how they are crafted. satisfaction increase. Learn about a solution for education course simultaneously. A Nick Bruel, Macmillan; Jon Klassen and all students to create confident and engaged representative from the Texas Higher Education Amy Timberlake, Workman; Kate Klise and readers. Coordinating Board will share insights into the Sarah Klise, Algonquin; Jon Scieszka, Abrams Becky Calzada, Leander ISD; Carter Cook, potential impact on academic libraries. Books; Kashmira Sheth, Peachtree; and Fort Worth ISD; Sabine McAlpine, Thorndike

Texas Library Association | 57 Press; Julie Moore, Arlington ISD; and Renee CPE#3491: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Special Libraries Division Business Newry, Irving ISD. Wellness Across the Lifespan: Meeting 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Trusted Health Information 12:15 — 1:15 PM 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM CPE#342: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Learn about issues surrounding health Serving the Spectrum: The information and authoritative health resources Autism Community in Your Library available from the National Library of Medicine, 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and More than 3.5 million Americans live with an other agencies. Audiences and programming for Marisa de los autism spectrum disorder. Learn how to raise some of these resources will be explored for all Magda Newman Santos frontline staff awareness and equip employees library types. CPE#350: SBEC 0.5 to better serve the autism community in your Brian Leaf, National Network of Libraries of library. Leave with information about adaptive Medicine, South Central Region. Opening Author and Awards Session services and programs to implement. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS ROUND TABLE, SPECIAL (TICKETED) SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY Birgit Fisher, Fisher and Associates; and LIBRARIES DIVISION AND TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & 12:15 — 1:45 PM Robin Lynn Rettie, Lighthouse Learning ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Join us for a lively discussion with two Resources. outstanding authors. Marisa de los Santos will 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. CPE#3492: SBEC 1.0 share insights into her upcoming book, I’d What’s New With Texas Picture Give Anything, a profound and heart-rending CPE#343: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Book and Middle Grade Authors story about a horrific tragedy that marks one Tech Tools: If You Like That, 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM woman and her hometown, and the explosive Try This! Explore the wide variety of fiction and nonfiction secrets that come to light 20 years later. Magda 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM picture books and early chapter books from Newman will discuss Normal: A Mother and Her Websites and learning tools are constantly beloved Texas authors and illustrators. The Beautiful Son, her new memoir about raising emerging and re-emerging. Walk through sites authors will discuss how they selected their her son who was born with severe Treacher and tools based on curated categories, including topics, handle research, meet young fans at Collins syndrome, a craniofacial condition. Google, Microsoft, and Apple apps for schools, school visits, and generally share information This uplifting story of a family tackling complex multiple tool sites, communication tools, open that librarians can take back to their students. circumstances with love and resilience is a true educational resources (OER), and sites to Cate Berry, HarperCollins; Donna Janell testament to families everywhere who quietly integrate into your curriculum. A crowd-sourced Bowman, Peachtree; Nancy Churnin, Creston and courageously persist. The TLA Benefactor, document for participants to add and share Books; Jason June, Simon & Schuster; Outstanding Services to Libraries, and Libraries ideas will be created. Susan Kralovansky, Pelican Publishing; Change Communities Awards will be presented. Carmen Oliver, The Booking Biz; Lupe Ruiz- Naomi Bates, Follett School Solutions; Nikki Tickets must be purchased by March 6 through Flores, Lerner; Liz Garton Scanlon, Beech preregistration. Robertson, ESC Region 13; and Cindy Tucker, Lane Books; and Christina Soontornvat, Marisa de los Santos, HarperCollins; and Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD. Candlewick. Magda Newman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. TEXAS AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS ROUND TABLE. LIBRARY FRIENDS, TRUSTEES, AND ADVOCATES ROUND TABLE. CPE#347: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Children’s Round Table Executive Think Inside the Box: Equity, Board Meeting CPE#IL352: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Access, and Innovation with Kits 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Creating Interactive Videos Using 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Camtasia For Beginners CPE#IL330: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Learn to budget, create, and track a kit system (Innovation Lab Stage) designed to provide equitable program and Coding While Broke outreach offerings for libraries. Maximize (Innovation Lab Stage) 12:45 — 1:45 PM budgets while providing the same quality Want to learn how to make more interactive 11:30 AM — 12:30 PM and engaging content? Let us show you how! programming and equipping every library in a Allyssa Loya, author of the Disney Coding system to host innovative STEM programs, story In this presentation, attendees will receive Adventures Series and Sports Coding Concepts, an overview of Camtasia Studio, a screencast times, diverse tabletop games, and inspired arts will provide coding activities and ideas for and crafts. and video creation suite. We will share fun and students and librarians in elementary schools. creative ways you can use Camtasia in your Rebecca Denham and Sara Pope, Houston Allyssa Loya, Rockwall ISD. Public Library. video creations. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. LaQuanda Onyemeh and Babette Perkins, Texas A&M University. Children’s Round Table Business 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. CPE#349: SBEC 1.0 Meeting Top Texas Topaz Picks 12:15 — 1:15 PM CPE#353: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 11:15 AM — 12:15 PM Attendees will take part in a brief business Do You See What I See? A Shared Discover the newest and best nonfiction for all meeting for the Children’s Round Table. After the Library Vision for Support Staff ages. Committee members will introduce the meeting, authors Victoria Jamieson and Omar top Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List picks. Mohamed will speak. 1:30 — 3:00 PM Expect to get rapid-fire titles to use for collection Victoria Jamieson, Macmillan; and Omar Library support staff and librarians will share development. Bonus: Texas Topaz titles and Mohamed, Penguin Random House. the vision of librarianship, how to develop other nonfiction books will be given as door CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. professionally, and support programming, prizes. collection development, reference services, and TEXAS TOPAZ NONFICTION READING LIST COMMITTEE. customer service. A business meeting precedes the program. Sara Pope, Houston Public Library;

58 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Sara Tebes-Kokojan, Irving Public Library; Kate Horan, McAllen Public Library; Kyla CPE#360: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY and Michele Whitehead, University of North Hunt, Texas State Library & Archives Bridging the Digital Divide One Texas Health Science Center. Commission; Marisol Vidales, Dr. Hector P. Hotspot at a Time LIBRARY SUPPORT STAFF ROUND TABLE. Garcia Memorial Library (Mercedes). TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. 2:00 — 3:00 PM This program will share ideas and best practices CPE#354: SBEC 1.0 resulting from a set of research projects in two Letters About CPE#357: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Are You Ready? Planning for states and from a Texas-based hotspot program Literature: How with six public libraries. Tech support needs, Intellectual Freedom Challenges Books Change Lives user agreements, dealing with theft or loss, and 1:30 — 3:00 PM 2:00 — 3:00 PM community impacts will be discussed. Celebrate how books can Are you prepared for challenges in your Michael Garr, Bandera Public Library and change lives with Lauren library? From reporting to creating policies and Sharon Strover, University of Texas at Austin. Tarshis, author of the I procedures to follow when challenges occur, be 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE AND TOCKER Survived series which tells ready to defend intellectual freedom and defeat FOUNDATION COMMITTEE. stories of young people and their resilience and censorship. strength in the midst of unimaginable disasters Kristin Pekoll, American Library Association. CPE#361: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 and times of turmoil. Student winners of the INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM COMMITTEE, TEXAS STATE Computational Thinking for Texas Letters about Literature contest will read LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION, AND PUBLIC Teens LIBRARIES DIVISION. their winning entries about their favorite authors. 2:00 — 3:00 PM A business meeting and award ceremony will CPE#358: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 According to an American Library Association precede this program. Begin with YES! School Librarians report, libraries are the ideal place to meet the Rebekah Manley, Texas State Library & and Instructional Coaches Unite teen demand for coding experience. Help teens Archives Commission; and Lauren Tarshis, build critical computational thinking skills by Scholastic. 2:00 — 3:00 PM learning to implement computational thinking TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. Learn how librarians can build partnerships with programs in your library. instructional coaches from day one. Explore five Joel Bangilan, Harris County Public Library; CPE#IL355: SBEC 1.0 effective ways to collaborate on your campus and Bethany Wilson, Texas State Library & Driving Discovery: The Think Tank, and the technology tools that will drive success. Archives Commission. powered by HEB Reads! Martine Brown, Angie Green, and Carole TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. (Innovation Lab Stage) Jane Hensleigh, Garland ISD. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DIVISION. 2:00 — 3:00 PM CPE#362: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Come take a ride with us! The Think Tank, Future Readiness in Public CPE#359: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 powered by Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD’s HEB Libraries Best Practices for Engaging Reads!, is a mobile STEM lab. It brings inquiry 2:00 — 3:00 PM Community College Students and learning to life through engaging hands-on Understand the importance of being a Future experiences for people of all ages, and drives 2:00 — 3:00 PM Ready library to help middle schoolers explore an interest in STEM by fostering curiosity and Engaging students at community colleges their interests. Implement programs that will discovery. can be difficult. Librarians and student affairs teach social, soft and emotional skills through Kiera Elledge, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD. professionals will share tips for student outreach, community partnerships in the public library 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. including innovative library orientations, finals setting. programs, and leveraging events and clubs to Dianne Connery, Pottsboro Public Library; CPE#355: SBEC 1.0 reach students where they are. John Hayden, Bonham Public Library; and 2x2 Reading List Showcase Alexandra Almestica and Alexa Azzopardi, Allison Shimek, Fayette Public Library. Houston Community College; Jane Stimpson, 2:00 — 3:00 PM SMALL COMMUNITY LIBRARIES ROUND TABLE AND TEXAS Lone Star College; and Holly Williams, Alvin STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Discover the Texas 2x2 reading list for age two Community College. to grade two and the accompanying resources. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. CPE#363: SBEC 1.0 Authors will also discuss their latest books. Gather Around the Latinx Table Cynthia Cooksey, McAllen ISD; Lita Judge, CPE#3600: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2:00 — 3:00 PM Simon and Schuster. Books + Reading + Music = Love CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. Latinx authors from Las Musas (a Latinx author 2:00 — 3:00 PM collective) will discuss culture, marginalization, CPE#356: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Learn how librarians are incorporating music and family as represented in Latinx children’s A Network of Public Libraries to increase reading engagement for young literature. Explore diversity within Latinx culture readers. Students build social-emotional skills by Large and Small: Collaborating for and understand how librarians can promote connecting with characters in books and songs. Latinx books through diverse narratives. Success Incorporate music to help build strong reading Adrianna Cuevas, FSG/Macmillan; Mayra 2:00 — 3:00 PM communities and generate excitement about Cuevas, Blink/HarperCollins; Anna Meriano, The Hidalgo County Library System (HCLS) reading. Walden Pond Press; Laura Taylor Namey, is a federated system of 13 public libraries. Dayna Collings and Emily Gardner, Round Simon & Schuster; and Natalia Sylvester, Learn how HCLS library directors network, Rock ISD. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. create sharing agreements, and collaborate on CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. projects and training. Understand how libraries representing communities large and small can learn from each other. Arnold Becho, Weslaco Public Library; Yenni Espinoza, City of Peñitas Public Library;

Texas Library Association | 59 CPE#364: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 this behavior and create an atmosphere Julie Todaro, Austin Community College. I Can’t Believe I Did That! Library geared toward modeling instead of correcting COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. Leaders and the Mistakes That behaviors. Shaped Their Careers Leigh Kapsos, Grapevine Public Library; and CPE#376: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Kansas Terry, Haltom City Public Library. 2:00 — 3:00 PM Stronger Together: Librarians A panel of Texas library leaders will discuss some 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. and Principals Collaborating for of their biggest mistakes, how they adapted, Student Success CPE#372: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 and what they learned. Discover new ways to 2:00 — 3:00 PM respond to your mistakes to become the leader Reflection, Worldview, and Administrators support librarians as essential your team needs. Connection: Inclusive School educators who develop interactive lessons Heather Lowe, Dallas Public Library; Chris Library Collection Development using new instructional technologies. Through Matz, Angelo State University; Sue Ridnour, 2:00 — 3:00 PM this collaboration, the library program will drive Flower Mound Public Library; Martha Rinn, Discussions about diversity can be student success. Texas Lutheran University; Manya Shorr, Fort uncomfortable, especially topics of ethnicity, Roger Ceballos and Rosenid Hernandez SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY Worth Public Library; and Robin Swaringen, religion, sexuality, and gender expression. Badia, Dallas ISD. Hurst Public Library. Librarians safeguard the principles of the TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DIVISION. SUPERVISION, MANAGEMENT, AND ADMINISTRATION ROUND TABLE. freedom to read, but may self-censor or exhibit implicit bias. Explore titles, web resources, and CPE#377: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#365: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 book lists of inclusive literature. TxDOT & TSLAC: Digitizing Let’s (Book) Chat with Gordon Herring, Follett School Solutions; Government Documents and Janice Newsum, University of Houston Twitter 2:00 — 3:00 PM — Clear Lake. Librarians and staff from the Texas Department 2:00 — 3:00 PM BLACK CAUCUS ROUND TABLE. of Transportation and the Texas State Library & Join Joel Garza and Scott Bayer, secondary Archives Commission collaborated on a large- English teachers and co-founders of the popular CPE#373: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 scale, long-term digitization project that led to #THEBOOKCHAT, to learn how to create, Representing All Readers: the establishment of a digitization program. maintain, and grow an online book chat using Creating Inclusive Collections Learn how to embark on similar projects and Twitter. Apply their knowledge and tips to create for Adults establish digitization efforts in your library. your own unique book chat and build influence in your library community. 2:00 — 3:00 PM Zachary Bruton, Texas State Library & Archives Commission; and Matthew Jimenez, Scott Bayer, Montgomery County Schools Discover tools to find new voices in literature Elizabeth Osgood, and Kelsey Peduzzi, Texas (MD); and Joel Garza, Greenhill School (TX). for adult programs, reader’s advisory, collection Department of Transportation. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. development, and personal enrichment. Learn the importance of diverse and marginalized SPECIAL LIBRARIES DIVISION. narratives, and how developing inclusive CPE#366: SBEC 1.0 Black Caucus Round Table Business New Books from Newbery Authors collections can aid in creating new programs and a better understanding of your community. Meeting 2:00 — 3:00 PM Jessica Jones, Bryan College Station Public 2:00 — 3:00 PM Three awesome Newbery Authors sharing their Library; and Yaika Sabat, North Richland new books — you can’t miss this! Come and Hills Library. Copyright and Access Round Table hear greatness from Renee Watson, Linda Sue PROGRAMMING FOR ADULTS ROUND TABLE. Business Meeting Park, and Rebecca Stead in an author panel 2:00 — 3:00 PM setting. CPE#374: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Digital Libraries Round Table Linda Sue Park, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Rethinking School Outreach: Business Meeting Rebecca Stead, Penguin Random House; and A Public Library Perspective Renee Watson, Bloomsbury. 2:00 — 3:00 PM CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. 2:00 — 3:00 PM In this interactive session, learn how to build Queers & Allies Round Table CPE#367: SBEC 1.0 on traditional outreach techniques to connect Business Meeting No Way! Unreliable Narrators in YA with K-12 students, parents, teachers, and 2:00 — 3:00 PM Lit administrators in your community. Attendees will develop a school outreach menu of services and 2:00 — 3:00 PM CPE#H301C: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0 an action plan for the upcoming school year. Basic Book Repair & Mending Lab — Explore how using intriguing, untrustworthy Amy Mikel, Brooklyn Public Library (NY). characters can blur the lines of reality and be a Hands on Lab (TICKETED; REGISTER ONLINE 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. powerful narrative element. ONLY) Sara Holland, Bloomsbury; Tricia CPE#375: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2:00 — 5:00 PM Levenseller, Macmillan; Kylie Schachte, Little SACS Accreditation: Strategies for We still have books — lots of them! And many Brown; and Alyssa Sheinmel, Sourcebooks. need some tender loving care to keep them Assessment and Supporting the YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. on the shelves. Learn techniques to implement Quality Enhancement Plan at your library for repairing damaged books. CPE#368: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2:00 — 3:00 PM Attendees should bring three — four books to Pay Attention: Engaging Adults Most Texas academic institutions are required repair and will receive a repair kit. Tickets must During Storytime to be accredited by The Southern Association of be purchased by Monday, March 23 through Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges 2:00 — 3:00 PM preregistration. It’s hard enough keeping kids’ attention during (SACSCOC). A library director will discuss the Debra Preston, Allen Public Library. storytime, but what about when the caregivers strategies that their library and campus used for INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY ROUND TABLE. are misbehaving? Learn ways to address a successful re-accreditation.

60 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 CPE#IL364: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Library; Janis Test, Abilene Public Library; CPE#3817: SBEC 1.0 SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY Public Library as a Center for and Julie Todaro, Austin Community College. Embrace It, Feel It, Celebrate It! Creative Placemaking LIBRARY FRIENDS, TRUSTEES, AND ADVOCATES ROUND Inclusive YA Titles TABLE, PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION, SMALL COMMUNITY (Innovation Lab Stage) LIBRARIES ROUND TABLE, AND TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & 3:15 — 4:15 PM 3:15 — 4:15 PM ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Library patrons, including teens and tweens, Get practical and scalable methods that can come from all walks of life and lifestyles. be applied to both modest and grand ideas CPE#3813: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Librarians will booktalk inclusive YA titles, which in any locale, with a focus on ways to make a But I Don’t Know How to Booktalk! can be added to any library collection. public library central to creative placemaking 3:15 — 4:15 PM Naomi Bates, Follett School Solutions; Jaime and community identity. We focus on the maker An effective booktalk can help connect books Leroy, Northwest ISD; and Christina Taylor, mindset of learn-it and do-it-yourself. and readers. Practice and hone your booktalking Round Rock ISD. Crystal Hicks, Nacogdoches Public Library. skills and learn about a variety of digital YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. platforms you can use to build excitement about books. CPE#3818: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#3811: SBEC 1.0 Allie Cornejo, Harlingen CISD; Stephanie Escape Room Challenge: Changing Abracadabra! Magical Realism in Galvan-Russell, Austin ISD; and Jennifer the Game on Teaching the ACRL YA Lit Stewart, Fort Worth ISD. Framework 3:15 — 4:15 PM YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. 3:15 — 4:15 PM When is a book considered magical realism Explore how to create an escape room instead of science fiction or fantasy? Authors CPE#3814: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 experience that teaches information literacy. Get discuss their use of magical elements and how Digital Storytelling: Endless practical ideas for building your own successful they can be a powerful tool to make a point Possibilities in Primary Grades game that incorporates best research practices. about reality. 3:15 — 4:15 PM Tosca Gonsalves and Linda Plevak, Palo Alto Echo Brown, Macmillan; Helene Dunbar, How can elementary librarians engage readers College; and Diane Robson, University of Sourcebooks; Anna-Marie McLemore, to become better storytellers? Learn about the North Texas. Random House; Mark Oshiro, Tor Teen; and benefits of digital storytelling and methods to COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. Amy Tintera, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. implement it in your library. Explore web-based YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. tools and apps to use with students to support CPE#3819: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TEKS as they use digital media to share their Helpful Resources for Your CPE#385: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 message. Homeschool Population Bringing Visibility to Afro- Deborah Politsch, Waller ISD; and Charlotte 3:15 — 4:15 PM Latinx Stories Polk, Brenham ISD. Homeschooling presents unique challenges 3:15 — 4:15 PM CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. for public libraries. Learn about resources, Afro-Latin@s are frequently overlooked at all collections, and programs to support levels of society, in public and private institutions CPE#3815: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 homeschool parents and their children. and agencies as well as in the general discourse Discovering and Living Your Vision: Leah Flippin, Weatherford Public Library; on race and ethnicity. Despite the fact that Planning for Public Libraries Leigh Kapsos, Grapevine Public Library; and African descendants constitute over a third of 3:15 — 4:15 PM Erica Lynne Richardson, Benbrook Public the total population in Latin America, black and The great Yogi Berra said, “If you don’t know Library. Latinx are often incorrectly seen as mutually where you are going, you might wind up 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. exclusive. Explore underrepresented stories from someplace else.” Learn how to develop a vision, relevant Afro-Latin@s in the United States. set goals, and create an action plan for your CPE#382: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Raul Orlando Edwards, Rice University; Ana public library, so that you will wind up exactly Human Rights Campaign: Frade, Houston Public Library; Jasminne where you plan to be. Welcoming Schools Méndez , Author; and Marina Tristan, Arte Larry Fisher, Consultant; and Kathy Ramsey, 3:15 — 4:15 PM Público Press. Aubrey Area Library (TX) Welcoming Schools is an elementary program LATINO CAUCUS ROUND TABLE AND DIVERSITY AND 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. providing professional development and INCLUSION COMMITTEE. resources to create inclusive and affirming CPE#3816: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 spaces so that all children can thrive. This CPE: #3812: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 EdTech + Information Literacy = professional development training will enhance Building Empowering Information Technology Heaven educator effectiveness in embracing family Partnerships for the Future: diversity, supporting transgender and non-binary Libraries, Advocates, and Friends 3:15 — 4:15 PM Students have the technology but those tools students, preventing bias-based bullying, and 3:15 — 4:15 PM only go so far without the most important piece: creating LGBTQ and gender-inclusive classrooms Effective and empowering partnerships between information literacy. Discover how to integrate and libraries. libraries and their advocates, including friends technology to elevate student learning in Cynthia Bohrer, Human Rights Campaign. groups, community leaders, parents, and standards-based instruction in your library. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. trustees, must be carefully built and nurtured. Judy Boone, Richardson ISD. Get tips and success stories, along with a few CPE#H301D: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. challenges and caveats, from library advocates Library, Camera, Action: Create and librarians, and develop concrete strategies and Market Your Library with for moving forward. Videos — Hands on Lab (TICKETED, Shelda Dean and June Koelker, Texas REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) Christian University; Eric Lashley and Janet Thompson, Georgetown Public Library; 3:15 — 4:15 PM Garrett Smith, Friends of the Abilene Public Looking for new ways to promote events and

Texas Library Association | 61 services? Learn the basics of shooting video on be prepared for when unexpected changes CPE#388: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 your device, how to post videos on platforms come. Library leaders share how they weathered TexQuest Toolbox: Quick such as YouTube and Facebook, and design a variety of unexpected changes in their and Easy Ways to Utilize Digital a video marketing plan that engages your organizations and what they learned from the Resources Across Curriculum community. Bring your own device. Tickets must experiences. 3:15 — 4:15 PM be purchased by Monday, March 23 through Sian Brannon, University of North Texas; Demonstrate how educators and students preregistration. Sandra Cannon, Austin Public Library; can better access reliable information using Annie Guzman, Plano Public Library. Howard Marks, Midland College; Cynthia TexQuest tools. Incorporate bell ringers and PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. Peterson, Unger Memorial Library; and Martin Shupla, Pasadena Public Library. other mini-lessons in your library instruction to develop more effective inquiry. CPE#383: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 SUPERVISION, MANAGEMENT, AND ADMINISTRATION ROUND TABLE. Gina King and Paige Portele, Garland ISD. Listen Up! Audiobook Collection TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. Development, Readers Advisory, CPE#3850: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 and Programming

SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY Serving People Experiencing CPE#389: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 3:15 — 4:15 PM Homelessness The Logic of Successful Grant Audiobooks are exploding in popularity. Do 3:15 — 4:15 PM Writing your patrons know about your audiobook Gain a better understanding of individuals 3:15 — 4:15 PM collection? How do you manage and promote experiencing homelessness in your community. What are the top five elements of a successful audio formats effectively? Learn the ins and outs How can the library collaborate with other grant application? What is the difference of audiobooks, including selection, reader’s organizations to create resources and engaging between a goal and objective? What do all advisory, and programming. programs for these patrons? grants have in common? An experienced grant Elizabeth Nebeker, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD; Suzanne Glover and Heather Lowe, Dallas writer will provide insights into getting grants Sharon Parker, Penguin Random House; and Public Library; Dayra Gonzalez, Houston funded. Melanie Wachsmann, Lone Star College. Public Library; Patrick Lloyd, Georgetown Charles Etheridge, Texas A&M University — 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Public Library; and Stacy McKenzie, Lubbock Corpus Christi; and Daniel Schwartz, Corpus Public Libraries. Christi Public Library. CPE#384: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE AND BLACK PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION AND COLLEGE AND Partnerships that Hook Parents: CAUCUS ROUND TABLE. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION Collaboration within Your District 3:15 — 4:15 PM CPE#386: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#3893: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Learn how to partner with other departments Speed Dating with Planners for Understanding the Needs in the school district to help promote literacy Adult Programs of International Populations in and learning. Examples include: participation 3:15 — 4:15 PM Libraries in Parent University, presenting at the annual Reinvigorate your programming for adults! 3:15 — 4:15 PM Parent Expo, partnerships with the local Experienced program planners have ironed Gain insights into the needs of international Neighborhood Center. out the details for you. Gain confidence from populations and ways to meet those LaTashia Abrams, Cindy Buchanan, and their lessons learned and leave with a toolkit of communities where they are via programming, Alonda Jacks-Moorehead, Aldine ISD. program ideas and planning guides. outreach, and staff training. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DIVISION. Margaret Bond, Austin Public Library; Helen Chou, Houston Public Library; and Angelica Garcia, NCO Leadership Center Andrea Malone, University of Houston. CPE#3841: SBEC 1.0 of Excellence (TX); Gwin Grimes, Jeff Davis 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Performance Poetry County Library; Brooke Mjolsness, San Antonio Public Library; and Rachel Reeves, for Everyone Weatherford Public Library. CPE#3896: SBEC 2.0 3:15 — 4:15 PM PROGRAMMING FOR ADULTS ROUND TABLE. Texas Tea: Meet & Greet with YA Performance poet, The Authors (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) Outspoken Bean, talks CPE#387: SBEC 1.0 3:15 — 5:15 PM about his craft and Speed Mentoring for Managers Join us for the annual Texas Tea, the premier how libraries can bring TLA event for young adult literature enthusiasts. diversity and opportunity 3:15 — 4:15 PM Come and get some advice from other YA authors will rotate among tables and interact to their patrons via poetry and open-mic nights. managers! Seasoned managers share their with participants. Tickets must be purchased by Experience the presentation he can bring to experiences. Monday, March 23 through preregistration. your library. Emanuelee Outspoken Bean is a YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. 2011 Texas Poet Laureate nominee and 2017 Chad Alvey-Henderson, Moore Memorial Public Library; Sian Brannon and Diane Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Artist- Bruxvoort, University of North Texas; CPE#3897: SBEC 2.0 in-Residence. Program repeated Thursday at Jennifer Cummings, Frisco Public Library; Storytelling Swap and Showcase 8:30 AM. Libby Holtmann, Plano Public Library; Lisa Outspoken Bean, Plus Fest 4:00 — 6:00 PM Loranc, Brazoria County Library; Chris Bring a story to tell or plan to preview a program 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Matz, Angelo State University; Elma Nieto- Rodriguez, San Antonio Public Library; for your library. Librarian storytellers will share ideas and information on storytellers who can CPE#3842: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Rachel Orozco, Smith Public Library; and visit your library. A business meeting precedes Riding the Waves of Change: How to Danyelle Weiss and Robin Swaringen, Hurst Public Library. the program. Lead Your Team When Unexpected SUPERVISION, MANAGEMENT, AND ADMINISTRATION STORYTELLING ROUND TABLE. Changes Come ROUND TABLE. 3:15 — 4:15 PM We can’t always plan for changes, but we can

62 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 CPE#3898: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#3902: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 development, programming, and providing a SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY All Through the Town: Early Graphic Medicine: Using Comics to safe space. Literacy Outreach Teach about Health and Illness Lolianette Cavazos and Tina Urdiales, Aldine 4:30 — 5:30 PM 4:30 — 5:30 PM ISD. The San Antonio Public Library’s early literacy Graphic medicine is the intersection of comics 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. outreach team, Little Read Wagon, takes early and health. It presents opportunities in teaching literacy on the road with engaging hands-on health topics and promoting empathy and CPE#397: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 programs designed to reach families wherever understanding of those dealing with illness as Library Marketing on a Budget they live, learn, or play. Learn from nearly 20 patient, caregiver, or health care professional. 4:30 — 5:30 PM years of experience, which took place under all Learn about graphic medicine, why it is Discuss strategies, tools, and techniques with kinds of conditions and scenarios, and how to important, and how it can be used in your library. two highly innovative members of the University apply those lessons to your library. Alice Jaggers, Graphic Medicine Collective. of North Texas Libraries’ award-winning Cresencia Huff, Clair Larkin and Julia SPECIAL LIBRARIES DIVISION. marketing team that can be adapted by your Lazarin, San Antonio Public Library. library for successful marketing and advocacy. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. CPE#391: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Joshua Sylve, University of North Texas. How to Win a Texas Book Festival 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. CPE#H301E: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Grant for Your Public Library Beyond Text: Using Art to Enhance 4:30 — 5:30 PM CPE#3967: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Literacy — Hands on Lab (TICKETED, The Texas Book Festival Grant is changing. Come Library Services to REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) find out all you need to know to win a grant for Incarcerated Populations 4:30 — 5:30 PM your public library. 4:30 — 5:30 PM The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Darryl Tocker, Tocker Foundation; and Lucy Public librarians hold a collective mission Literature (NCCIL), an art museum dedicated to Velez, Texas Book Festival. to welcome and serve all people. With children’s books, engages visitors with projects TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL COMMITTEE. incarceration rates rising, there is a call to action connecting art with books and readers of all to provide increased library services to these ages. The talented NCCIL team demonstrates Illustrator Sketch-Off individuals. In this session, librarians will share how to use art projects in your library to cultivate how they are providing library services to youth 4:30 — 5:30 PM the love of books and reading. Tickets must Join us for our 6th Annual TLA Illustrator and adults who are incarcerated. be purchased by Monday, March 23 through Sketch-Off. Illustrators will have only minutes Joyce Fugit, Wendy Nielsen and Amber Seely, preregistration. to complete whimsical sketches, which will be Harris County Public Library; and Rebecca Gillen, Windham School District. Trish Dressen, National Center for Children’s signed and given away to lucky members of the Illustrated Literature. audience. Discover if these illustrators’ sense of PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. humor is equal to their artistic talent. Fun for all! CPE#3833: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Nick Bruel and Ngozi Ukazu, Macmillan; CPE#3900: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Angela Dominguez, Candlewick; Robin Ha, Open Educational Resources Mini- Get Carded: Student Access to HarperCollins; Shawn Harris, Chronicle Grants in Academic Libraries Public Libraries Books; Ekua Holmes, Simon & Schuster; 4:30 — 5:30 PM 4:30 — 5:30 PM Roxie Munro, KidLit TV. Create opportunities and build partnerships with Public and school librarians who have 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. an Open Educational Resource (OER) mini-grant successfully implemented partnerships to get initiative. The discussion will address planning public library cards in the hands of all students CPE#394: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 and promotion, winner selection, outcome will share the challenges they had to overcome Level Up Your Library with metrics, and communication. Brief interactive and important issues that must be considered. Instructional Technology activities will be integrated into the session. Kallie Benes, Houston ISD; Mary Wagoner, 4:30 — 5:30 PM Erin Owens, Sam Houston State University. Houston Public Library; Melody Boren, Empower learners in a technology-driven world. COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. Amarillo Public Library; Lynne McLaughlin, Incorporate lesson ideas that will spark student Amarillo ISD; Jenny Pennington, Austin creativity while giving them voice and choice in CPE#3981: SBEC 1.0 ISD; and Troyce Wilson, Harrington Library the library. Connect activities to the Substitution Rags to Riches: Recycling Books for Consortium. Augmentation Modification Redefinition (SAMR) Fun, Fashion, and Furniture 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. model and literacy. Leave with engaging ideas 4:30 — 5:30 PM to implement immediately to help create your CPE#390: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Crafty bibliophiles will be inspired and learn new future-ready library. Go Go Green Screen! techniques for recycling books. Rachel Calhoun, Traci Kirkland, Nathan Julia Ousley, New Braunfels Public Library. 4:30 — 5:30 PM Smith, and Delaine Ulmer, Prosper ISD. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Use a green screen in your library to spice up TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. lessons and read alouds. Encourage teachers to use the green screen to create interactive CPE#399: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#395: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Silver Pride: Representing lessons in the classroom, too. Libraries for Everyone: How to Senior LGBTQ+ Community Jennifer Chen and Lesley Norris, Mansfield Reach English Language Learners ISD; and Alicia Rosales, Pasadena Public Members 4:30 — 5:30 PM Library. 4:30 — 5:30 PM English Learners are a growing population in 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. The Dallas Public Library’s Silver Pride Project Texas and libraries are finding ways to meet offers programs and events for senior LGBTQ+ their needs. Two Houston-area school librarians community members. Learn how to identify the will share how they impact their community needs of this community and creative ways to by reaching these patrons through collection

Texas Library Association | 63 serve them. Michelle Touchet, Dallas ISD. Retired Librarians Round Table Portia Cantrell, Silver Pride Project. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DIVISION. Business Meeting 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 4:30 — 5:30 PM CPE#3996: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#3991: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Win Friends and Influence Texas Youth Creators Award Small Staff, Big Needs People: How to Talk So School Committee 4:30 — 5:30 PM Administrators Listen 4:30 — 5:30 PM How can you provide high-impact services if 4:30 — 5:30 PM you have a small staff? Library leaders from Move past “I love books and children” and President’s All-Conference Party academic, public, and school libraries will structure your conversations with district and 5:30 — 7:00 PM discuss possible solutions. campus administrators to successfully advocate Party with the TLA President at this casual, fun Mark Gottschalk, South Plains College; for your library program. Campus and district event! Entertainment, refreshments, and a cash Carol Hafer, Crowley ISD; Jacob Mangum, administrators will share insights into what bar will be provided. All attendees and exhibitors University of North Texas; and Curren messages resonate with them. are welcome. SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE | WEDNESDAY McLane, Azle Memorial Library. Grace Delgado, Tara Fulton, Lorin Furlow, 2020 CONFERENCE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Michelle Griffith, Rebecca Kelley, and Clara Sale-Davis, Brazosport ISD. District 2 Meeting CPE#3992: SBEC 1.0 TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DIVISION. 5:45 — 6:45 PM Speed Dating with Texas Authors and Illustrators Innovation & Technology Round District 5 Meeting Table Business Meeting 4:30 — 5:30 PM 5:45 — 6:45 PM Come to a free speed dating meet-and-greet 4:30 — 5:30 PM District 7 Meeting and get to know Texas authors and illustrators. Relax, visit, and find out who’s in your 5:45 — 6:45 PM neighborhood, and what kind of work they do. District 9 Meeting TEXAS AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS ROUND TABLE. 5:45 — 6:45 PM CPE#348: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Time Flies, How to Manage Your Calendar 4:30 PM — 5:30 PM Do you look back at year’s end and feel like nothing was accomplished? Pre-plan the year on PRESIDENT’S paper or digitally, and save your sanity. Judy Boone and Brandi Rosales-Dawson, Richardson ISD. ALL-CONFERENCE 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE.

CPE#3994: SBEC 1.0 PARTY What Music Can Teach Us About Peace and Conflict 5:30 – 7:00 PM 4:30 — 5:30 PM Join us for a conversation with a professional musician who has played 3,000 concerts on five GEORGE R. BROWN CONVENTION CENTER continents, and is also a Rotary Peace Fellow with a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Resolution. Learn what these disciplines have in common, and what each can teach us about Party with the TLA the other. David LaMotte, Dryad Publishing, Inc. President at this 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. casual, fun event! CPE#3995: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Entertainment, What Really Happens in an Elementary School Library? refreshments, and 4:30 — 5:30 PM Participants will become students again as a cash bar will be the presenter facilitates a 35-minute library provided. All attendees lesson geared toward Pre-K through 2nd grade students. Utilizing the American Association of and exhibitors are School Librarians standards as the foundation, the presenter will model activating prior welcome. knowledge, the use of print and electronic resources, thinking maps, shared writing, and accountable talk.

64 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Thursday, March 26 Programs & Events SCHEDULE | THURSDAY

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LEGEND Hetherington XXXIII Fun Run/Walk Norman Public Schools (OK). Marketing & Advocacy (TICKETED) 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. EdTech 7:00 — 8:30 AM You don’t have to go fast, you just have to go! CPE#4403: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Walk or run through Houston’s truly green park, A Question of Access: President’s Program which runs on 100% clean, renewable wind Electronic Resources, Section 508, sources for power. Enjoy the jog by Kinder Lake and You Continuing Professional and the permanent art exhibits. Participants Education Credits 8:30 — 9:30 AM will receive a commemorative T-shirt and State agencies and libraries often struggle CPE#264: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 refreshments. The annual Hetherington Fun Run to incorporate accessibility requirements, proceeds go to the Glen & Jerre Hetherington primarily the latest Web Content Accessibility State Board TX State Library & Leadership Fund, which supports the training for Educator Archives Commission Guidelines (WCAG), into collection development Certification and development of future TLA leaders. Tickets for electronic resources. Learn how to improve must be purchased by Friday, March 6 through user experiences, reduce institutional risk, and preregistration. generally move the needle when it comes to Registration...... 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM 2020 CONFERENCE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE. accessibility. Danielle Plumer and Katharine Reagor, Texas Hotel Shuttle...... 6:30 – 11:30 AM; District 1 Meeting State Library & Archives Commission...... 4:00 – 7:00 PM 7:15 — 7:45 AM TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. (No service between 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM) Exhibits...... 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM District 3 Meeting CPE#403: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 7:15 — 7:45 AM Authors Area...... 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Balancing Two Worlds: Library Services for Dual Credit and Early District 4 Meeting Career Center...... 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM College Students 7:15 — 7:45 AM Collaboration Space 8:30 — 9:30 AM ...... 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM District 6 Meeting Qualified high school students can earn college Connection Corner 7:15 — 7:45 AM credit with either dual credit, which allows (Computers, Housing, Internet) students to receive college and high school ...... 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM District 8 Meeting credit for a class, or with early college programs. Academic and school librarians will discuss 7:15 — 7:45 AM TLA Store...... 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM strategies to ensure easy access to required Bag Check (Rent-A-Box) District 10 Meeting library resources...... 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 7:15 — 7:45 AM Jesus Campos and Patricia Saenz, South Texas College; Kristyn Pittman, Austin Community College; Jennifer Rike, Mansfield ISD. COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION.

CPE#4174: SBEC 1.0 Books on the Bus: Diversify and Wanda Brown Richard Kong Kathryn Lewis Innovate Reading Environments CPE#402: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5 8:30 — 9:30 AM Director’s Symposium: Creating School districts are collaborating with their a Culture of Inclusivity (TICKETED) transportation departments to provide access to eBooks on the bus. QR codes are placed inside 8:00 — 9:30 AM the school bus where students can download Library directors from the academic, public, from the comfort of their seats. and school sectors share their strategies for developing a culture of inclusion throughout Nora Galvan, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD; Steve Perez, Stafford MSD; and Alma Salinas, their organizations. From staff selection and La Joya ISD. professional development to collection building 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. to programming and facilities, these leaders offer their expertise to help participants make CPE#H402A: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 their own organizations fully inclusive. Breakfast Clean Up Your Google Life — tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 6 through preregistration. Hands on Lab Wanda Brown, ALA President, Winston- (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) Salem State University (NC); Richard Kong, 8:30 — 9:30 AM Skokie Public Library (IL); Kathryn Lewis, Does your Google life look like a teenager’s

Texas Library Association | 65 bedroom floor? If so, join us for this Hands the value of the MLS in public libraries of 2020. narrative? These authors have crafted engaging on Lab and get things under control. Bring Spencer Smith, McKinney Public Library. and unique nonfiction based on painstaking organization and order to your Google Drive, PUBLIC LIBRARY ADMINISTRATORS OF NORTH TEXAS research, which has landed them on the Topaz Mail, and other Google platforms. Tickets must List. They join us to discuss their work, their be purchased by Monday, March 23 through CPE#4106: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 process, and the things that inspire them. preregistration. Engage Apathetic Teenagers: Chris Barton, Simon & Schuster; Karen Melissa Donovan Balcom and Shelly Veron, Teaching Information Literacy Blumenthal, Macmillan; Donna Bowman, Lee and Low; and Barry Wittenstein, Foster Elementary, Humble ISD. Through Drawing and Stories 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Charlesbridge. 8:30 — 9:30 AM TEXAS TOPAZ NONFICTION READING LIST COMMITTEE. Many students aren’t interested in information CPE#4180: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 literacy; however, the act of drawing and Creating Community Through CPE#411: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 reading short stories are effective ways to help Institution of Last Resort: Active Learning in Your Library them learn. Through examples and interactive SCHEDULE | THURSDAY SCHEDULE | THURSDAY Protecting Vulnerable and 8:30 — 9:30 AM exercises, presenters will explain how these Stigmatized Public Library Patrons No matter the size of your space or your tools enable students to gain new insights budget, you can ignite active learning at into the Association of College and Research 8:30 — 9:30 AM your library that provides your community Libraries Framework and the American Libraries have the potential to be lifesaving. members an opportunity to participate and Association of School Libraries Standards The resources, relationships, and tools libraries collaborate in hands-on learning and strengthen Framework for Learners. offer are particularly important to vulnerable, social connections. Learn from the dynamic David Brier and Vicky Lebbin, University of stigmatized individuals. Understand the concept experiences of fifteen small libraries that Hawaii at Manoa. of protective factors and how the library re-imagined and reconfigured “smart spaces” 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. mitigates risk in the lives of people whose basic using design thinking strategies. Before- needs are not currently being met by existing and-after photos tell a dramatic story of real community resources. Begin to consider how transformation. Get inspired, because you to build on your ability to grow your protective too can follow the steps they took to discover impact. community needs and genuinely engage Patrick Lloyd, Georgetown Public Library. community members to generate and prototype TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. ideas, co-create the space and the programs, Kathleen Rebecca and actively learn together. Bloomfield Hankins Denise Nelson CPE#413: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Betha Gutsche, WebJunction. CPE#4097: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Librarians for Career and Tech 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Faith and Intellectual Freedom ED? YES! 8:30 — 9:30 AM 8:30 AM — 9:30 AM CPE#404: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 How do you approach collection development Career and Tech school librarians share their Curate Your Digital Presence and programming and promote intellectual tips, tricks, and the learning curves involved 8:30 — 9:30 AM freedom when resources don’t align with in serving a career and technical high school Join us as we share how to curate a digital personal values and faith? Learn from the campus. portfolio for professional success. Participants experiences of librarians who have faced these Jennifer Brabston and Amy Whalen, will have the opportunity to begin creating their challenges. Pasadena ISD. Kayla Middleton, EBSCO own portfolio with easy-to-use online resources. Kathleen Bloomfield, Association of Jewish Information Services; and Rachel Pilcher, Judy Boone, Richardson ISD. Libraries; Rebecca Hankins, Texas A&M Fort Worth ISD. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. University; Leah Mann, Prosper ISD and 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Denise Nelson, Association of Christian CPE#405: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Librarians. CPE#4130: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Developing Media Literacy with 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Mindfulness: Librarian Self-Care Cross-Curricular Graphic Novels and Use in the Library CPE#4058: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 8:30 — 9:30 AM 8:30 — 9:30 AM Help Students Defeat Digital Fiction and nonfiction graphic novels can be Mindfulness is a big buzzword right now, but Distractions used in cross-curricular units to develop media how exactly can it impact librarians? Participants literacy skills. Develop scaffolding techniques 8:30 — 9:30 AM will learn how mindfulness impacts the brain for English Language Learners and struggling Students are bombarded by tech and other and nervous system to help with self-care, readers using high-interest graphic novels to distractions during every moment of their experience some mindfulness practices promote a love of reading. Participants will leave personal and school life. Utilizing student first hand, and learn how librarians can be with a list of graphic novels and lesson plans. feedback, discussion strategies, and research- instrumental in mindfulness education. Rachelle Cameron, Jan MacWatters, and Tori based practices from higher education and the James Butler, Mindful Classrooms. Ray, Round Rock ISD. workplace, this session highlights strategies for 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. defeating digital distractions. Lisa Johnson, Eanes ISD. CPE#414: SBEC 1.0 CPE#4316: SBEC 1.0 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. New Picture Books from Favorite Does the MLS have Value? Authors and Illustrators CPE#410: SBEC 1.0 8:30 — 9:30 AM 8:30 — 9:30 AM Did your job require an MLS degree and you Incredibly True Stories: Texas Favorite authors and illustrators will share their don’t know why? Is information learned in your Topaz Nonfiction Author Panel latest works and discuss writing for children. graduate coursework indispensable to your work 8:30 — 9:30 AM Mac Barnett, Abrams; Maribeth Boelts and in the public library? Public librarians will debate What transforms facts into a compelling Angela Dominguez, Candlewick; and

66 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Evan Turk, Simon & Schuster. articles, images, charts, and eBooks. unique areas, such as special libraries, libraries SCHEDULE | THURSDAY CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. Terry Roper, ESC Region 10; and Ann Vyoral, with solo librarians, or nontraditional settings ESC Region 20. to discuss interesting collaborations, issues, CPE#415: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. challenges, and trends. Participants are Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A encouraged to bring topics to discuss. Family Memoir of a Transgender CPE#4079: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Valerie Prilop, MD Anderson Cancer Center. Journey Take One! Students as Video SPECIAL LIBRARIES DIVISION. 8:30 — 9:30 AM Producers Author Jo Ivester and librarian Angela Hartman 8:30 — 9:30 AM CPE#4292: SBEC 1.0 will describe the issues facing transgender Dive into the different video creation resources Catch the Vision of Storytelling! students in Texas today and guide participants available to educators and students. Understand 9:45 — 10:45 AM through a discussion of steps to take to ensure the benefits of students as producers, not No experience necessary! Learn the basics of that all students are treated with the dignity and consumers, and how curating resources to telling stories and start your storytelling journey. respect they deserve. create a video impact student learning. Allow This interactive session will include games and Angela Hartman, Hutto ISD; and Jo Ivester, K-12 students to have ownership of their learning exercises to develop your skills. Demonstrations She Writes Press. by incorporating the 4 Cs: Communication, and practice will enable you to clearly see 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Creativity, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking. yourself as a storyteller. Whitney Agee, Ryan Miller, Nathan Smith Toni Simmons, Storyteller and Author. CPE#416: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 and Josh Watkins, Prosper ISD. STORYTELLING ROUND TABLE. Opening the Door: Archives TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. and Libraries Working with CPE#H251C SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Underrepresented Groups CPE#419: SBEC 1.0 Chrome 101 — Hands on Lab TAYSHAS Reading List 8:30 — 9:30 AM (TICKETED; REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) Presenters will discuss working with different 8:30 — 9:30 AM 9:45 — 10:45 AM communities and balancing community Authors from the TAYSHAS Reading List for high Google Chrome offers users lots of extra bells expectations with best practices. Discover school students will highlight titles on the latest and whistles. Learn the most popular extensions strategies for educating community members list. One set of the 2020 TAYSHAS books will be as well as other tips and tricks to ease your about archival processes, sharing and given away. workflow and increase productivity. Tickets must communicating priorities, asking for community Deb Caletti, Simon & Schuster; Dana be purchased by Monday, March 23 through input, and facilitating creative productions by the Davis, Inkyard Press; Tiffany Jackson, preregistration. community. HarperCollins; and Jeff Zenter, Penguin Emma McDonald, Mesquite ISD. Random House. ARCHIVES, GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY ROUND 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. TABLE. YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. CPE#4293: SBEC 1.0 CPE#424: SBEC 1.0 CPE#4217: SBEC 1.0 Connecting Tech and Community Word Play and Humor in Kidlit Performance Poetry Needs with Edge for Everyone 8:30 — 9:30 AM Authors and illustrators will showcase new titles 9:45 — 10:45 AM 8:30 — 9:30 AM Library technology advances more rapidly each featuring word play or humor in children’s books. Performance poet, The year, making it difficult to decide what services Cate Berry, Macmillan; Shawn Harris and Outspoken Bean, talks and tools will lift your community. Hear how about his craft and Sherri Duskey Rinker, Chronicle; and Jessica Kim, Penguin Random House. Texas public libraries (small and large) used the how libraries can bring Edge toolkit to make strategic decisions to align CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. diversity and opportunity technology resources to community priorities. to their patrons via poetry and open-mic nights. Lourdes Aceves, Urban Libraries Council; Experience the presentation he can bring to Library Instruction Round Table Business Meeting and Cindy Fisher, Texas State Library & your library. Emanuelee Outspoken Bean is a Archives Commission. 8:30 — 9:30 AM 2011 Texas Poet Laureate nominee and 2017 TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Artist- in-Residence. (Repeat program from Wednesday Public Libraries Division Executive Board Meeting CPE#4295: SBEC 1.0 at 3:15 PM.) 8:30 — 9:30 AM Dismantling the Patriarchy: Girl Outspoken Bean, Plus Fest. Power in New Middle Grade Fiction 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Scholarship Committee 9:45 — 10:45 AM Children’s authors will discuss new and CPE#418: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 8:30 — 9:30 AM forthcoming middle grade fiction featuring the Supporting the New ELAR Texas Municipal Library Directors theme of girl power, the social and political Standards with TexQuest Digital Association Business Meeting implications of these books, and ideas for Resources 8:30 — 9:30 AM sparking discussions to promote empathy, 8:30 — 9:30 AM inquiry, understanding, gender equality, and As Texas educators dive into the new English CPE#4291: SBEC 1.0 empowerment of all voices. Language Arts and Reading (ELAR) standards, Birds of a Feather: Table Talks Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Penguin librarians can support them by sharing for Special Librarians or Unique Random House; Becky Calzada, Leander relevant resources found on digital platforms Settings ISD; Barbara Dee, Aladdin; Saadia Faruqi like TexQuest, including genre-specific and and Laura Shovan, Clarion; and Elly Swartz, 9:45 — 10:45 AM multimodal texts, videos and podcasts, and Farrar Straus Giroux. This session brings together librarians from reader’s theater scripts, as well as TEKS-aligned CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE.

Texas Library Association | 67 CPE#4296: SBEC 1.0 CPE#4299: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#432: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Finding Quality Latinx Middle Libraries Creating Dementia- Open Educational Resources (OER) Grade and YA Lit Friendly Communities in Texas Higher Education: Updates 9:45 — 10:45 AM 9:45 — 10:45 AM from the Texas Higher Education Take a journey with two librarians as they The Plaza Branch (Kansas City Public Library) has Coordinating Board explore books and publishers that are reshaping been developing dementia-friendly programming 9:45 — 10:45 AM Latinx literature for middle grade and young over two years. From just one program, the Learn about current state requirements for adults. They confront stereotypes and help you activities have expanded to monthly programs, public colleges and universities; opportunities learn how to choose the best books to meet the workshops, and events creating a metro-wide to participate in the OER grant program, status needs of your patrons. movement. Learn about Movies and Memories, of the state’s OER repository initiative; and an Maria Olivarez and Clemencia Ramírez, and Memory Cafe, and how to explore analysis of the results of the OER in Texas Higher Aldine ISD. partnerships with community organizations to Education Landscape Survey. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. make dementia-friendly communities. Kylah Torre, Texas Higher Education SCHEDULE | THURSDAY SCHEDULE | THURSDAY April Roy, Kansas City Public Library; Coordinating Board CPE#4297: TSLAC 1.0 SBEC 1.0 and Deborah Shouse and Ron Zoglin, The COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. I Vant to Vlog: Bring Life Back Creativity Connection. Into the Library 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. CPE#433: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 9:45 — 10:45 AM School, Public, and Academic CPE#430: SBEC 1.0 Video, especially through vlogging, is a great Libraries: The Perfect Research communication tool for getting information Little Maverick Graphic Novel Partners Reading List Showcase out to your community or the world. Vlogster 9:45 — 10:45 AM librarians will teach you how to create a vlog 9:45 — 10:45 AM Learn how one school library leveraged local, using YouTube. Introducing the 2020 Little Maverick Graphic public, and academic library collections and Naomi Bates, Follett School Solutions; Sallee Novel Reading List! Join in celebrating the 5th librarians to research local hate crimes. Primary Clark, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD; and anniversary of this list, with a look back at our sources, news footage, and special documents Stephanie Galvan-Russell, Austin ISD. favorites from all the lists. Authors will discuss incited student discussion of the complexities 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. their work and we will review the starred titles of news, encouraged examination of issues on the list which were unanimously selected by through historical and current lenses, and CPE#4298: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 the committee. inspired students to enact change. Innovating Against a Brick Wall: Tom Angleberger and Maria Scrivan, Areeba Amer, University of Texas at Austin; Rebuilding the Structures That Scholastic; Katherine Counterman, Katy ISD; Priscilla Escobedo, University of Texas at Shape Our Teaching in Academic John Patrick Green, Macmillan; and Kayla Arlington; and Abby Harrison, Sonja Hayes Miller, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Libraries and Tom Perryman, Greenhill School CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. (Addison). 9:45 — 10:45 AM 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. As teaching librarians in higher education, we CPE#431: SBEC 1.0 work within structures that weren’t built for us. Lone Star Reading List CPE#434: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 This talk draws on relational-cultural theory and Small Talk Is a Big Deal Adrienne Maree Brown’s Emergent Strategy 9:45 — 10:45 AM The Lone Star Reading List is targeted to readers to examine the structures that influence our 9:45 — 10:45 AM in grades 6 — 8. Authors discuss their books on teaching; challenge the assumptions we make Making small talk plays a big role in building past and present Lone Star lists. about ourselves, faculty, and students; and comfort and trust, which leads to connection and ultimately work towards subverting the systems Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Disney; Veera collaboration, essential skills for advocacy and Hiranandani, Penguin Young Readers; and that shape our work. communicating vision. Explore the challenges Sandhya Menon, Simon & Schuster. Veronica Arellano Douglas, University of and competencies necessary for creating YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. Houston. meaningful conversations and relationships. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Introverts, extroverts, and in-betweens will learn CPE#4312: SBEC 1.0 to develop comfortable, concrete strategies for New Adult Lit: Age 18 — 25ish CPE#4379: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 engaging others. Inquiry Skills for Real Life in School 9:45 — 10:45 AM Walter Betts, Texas Christian University; Kathy Hillman, Baylor University; Jennifer Libraries New Adult (NA) titles reach those transitioning into the legal and emotional responsibility of LaBoon, Fort Worth ISD; and Susan Mann, 9:45 — 10:45 AM adulthood. Gain perspective and understand the Hillsboro City Library. Learn how to implement real life inquiry focus of this new category, and the challenges LIBRARY FRIENDS, TRUSTEES, AND ADVOCATES ROUND skills instruction in library programming. This and rewards experienced in writing for NA. TABLE, COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION, interactive program will include strategies for LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE, PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION, Sophie Jordan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; SMALL COMMUNITY LIBRARIES ROUND TABLE, AND TEXAS all grade levels that are hands-on, fun, and Maxym Martineau, Sourcebooks; Casey ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. engaging for learners. Strategies align with McQuiston, Macmillan; and Cynthia Salaysay, the School Library Programs: Standards and Candlewick. CPE#435: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Guidelines for Texas Strand 2 that focus on YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. Teacher Discourse: You Have a Voice inquiry. 9:45 — 10:45 AM Kristy Hill, Keller ISD. Presenters will demonstrate several strategies TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. that facilitate honest discourse about difficult topics. Topics will include homework, BYOD, high stakes testing, plus others. Silent discourse through technology tools will also be addressed.

68 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Whitney Agee, Ryan Miller, Nathan Smith CPE#4395: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 definitions, strategies, reasoning, and the steps SCHEDULE | THURSDAY and Josh Watkins, Prosper ISD. in the Cycle of True Marketing. All In: Collaborative Program TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. Kathy Dempsey, Libraries Are Essential. Planning 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM CPE#439: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Change is hard. Changing how a library plans The Magic of Reading: Project Tejas Star Reading List Committee and implements programs, from location-specific Alternatives to Online Book Testing Meeting to organization-wide, is even harder. Challenges 9:45 — 10:45 AM 9:45 — 10:45 AM and strategies for collaborative program Sick of the stress brought on by reading planning will be discussed, including overcoming comprehension tests? Through no small feat of CPE#H301A: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 competition between workgroups. Learn how to magic, Barbara Allen, a teacher and librarian, Research Says — Encourage improve communication, clarify expectations for and Barbie Love, a librarian (both avid Harry Creativity and Doodling in the staff, and hire to fit community needs. Potter fans and Ravenclaw devotees) will Classroom — Hands on Lab (TICKETED, Gary Landeck, McKinney Public Library; share ideas on how to engage readers without REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) and Nina Eve Martin, Plano Public Library breaking into the wizard bank, Gringotts, to System. 9:45 AM — 12:00 PM afford formal assessments. Our Hermione- Flexible thinking and creative problem solving PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. inspired options will empower every reader are skills needed in society, but often lost in through projects, digital reports, and much more. our test-driven world. Learn how ‘sketchnoting’ CPE#4396: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Barbara Allen and Barbie Love, Alvin ISD. taps into students’ inner creativity and the ways Bringing Library Literacy to TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. neuroscientific research supports its use. Classroom Teachers Tickets must be purchased by Monday, March 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM CPE#4391: SBEC 1.0; 23 through preregistration. Join Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) to learn TSLAC 1.0 about their successful Teacher Lab program, The Seven Types of Karin Perry and Holly Weimar, Sam Houston State University . an information literacy course designed to help Creative Teacher 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. K-12 teachers reconnect with their library. Learn Librarians how BPL developed this program, and receive 9:45 — 10:45 AM CPE#4393: SBEC 1.0 step-by-step guidance in adapting strategies to Creativity is often viewed Your Public Library Presents: Sarah engage a new audience; regardless of type, size through an artistic lens. Bird or budget. However, creativity can Amy Mikel, Brooklyn Public Library (NY). 9:45 — 12:00 PM manifest itself in different ways on campus. John 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Your Public Library Presents is a new Public Spencer, co-author of Launch, explores creative Libraries Division (PLD)-sponsored conference mindsets to help librarians identify and analyze CPE#H251B: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 program that features a fabulous author their creative identity, while also empowering presentation and book signing, along with an But Do They Really Use It? students to embrace creativity. opportunity to hear about PLD news! We are Understanding E-Resource Usage John Spencer, Spencer Creative Services. thrilled that our inaugural program features Hands on Lab TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. Sarah Bird, who will discuss Daughter of a (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) Daughter of a Queen. 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM CPE#4592: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Sarah Bird, Macmillan. Measuring how your patrons use electronic Usability Testing Makes All the PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. resources, eBooks, and even your website Difference can help you make important collection 9:45 — 10:45 AM CPE#IL463: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 development decisions and show your funders Libraries offer increasing amounts of content AR/VR Technology in the Library that the services they pay for are being used. through digital collections, including electronic (Innovation Lab Stage) Understand the interfaces and tools that will resources, special collections, archives, and help you determine the value of these electronic 10:30 — 11:30 AM repositories. But how do patrons interact with Join library technology consultants from the resources. Tickets must be purchased by the digital collections, and are they finding what Texas State Library & Archives Commission as Monday, March 23 through preregistration. they need? Review the importance, examples, they discuss the latest trends in Augmented Danielle Plumer, Texas State Library & and frameworks for usability testing. Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) with a focus Archives Commission. Tricia Boucher, Texas State University; on libraries. Get a sneak peek at the future with TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION AND Ana Jean Krahmer and Jennifer Stayton, ELECTRONIC RESOURCES & SERIALS MANAGEMENT a hands-on chance to play with Merge Cubes University of North Texas; and Daniel ROUND TABLE. Pshock, University of Houston. and the new Oculus Go goggles. DIGITAL LIBRARIES ROUND TABLE. Henry Stokes & Cindy Fisher, Texas State CPE#440: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Library & Archives Commission. Calling Out or Calling In: Working CPE#4382: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Against Microaggressions and What They Didn’t Teach in Implicit Bias in Our Libraries CPE#4394: SBEC 1.0 Library School: The Cycle of True Academic Book Buzz 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Marketing Explore microaggression, including the 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM definition, examples, and how it manifests 9:45 — 10:45 AM Join representatives of two university presses Have you been tasked with marketing library itself in an institutional context. Participants to learn about the top new titles for academic events or services without a course that taught will brainstorm opportunities to create a more libraries. you how? You’re not alone! Kathy Dempsey, equitable and just workplace thus reducing John Brock, Texas Tech University Press; and author of The Accidental Library Marketer, will instances of microaggression. Cameron Ludwick, University of Texas Press. give you a solid foundation in library marketing, Mea Warren and Orolando Duffus, University 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE.

Texas Library Association | 69 of Houston. CPE#443: SBEC 1.0 service to this population. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Maverick Graphic Novel Reading Joel Bangilan and John Michael Harbaugh, List Harris County Public Library; Monique Christian-Long, Dallas Public Library; Dawn CPE#4397: SBEC 1.0; 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Wilbert, Decatur Public Library; and Bethany Cultivate Your Personal Learning Authors from past and present Maverick reading Network — The How and Why Wilson, Texas State Library & Archives lists will speak about their books and the Commission. 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM importance of graphic novels as a literary tool 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Meet fellow librarians and intentionally grow for young adults. your personal learning network (PLN). From Laura Lee Gulledge, Abrams Books; and CPE#448: SBEC 1.0 work colleagues to social media contacts, Ngozi Ukazu, Macmillan. Truth: Narrative Nonfiction YA Lit whether you are looking for mentoring, fresh YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. ideas, or professional collaborations, your PLN is 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM invaluable. Leave with an expanded PLN. CPE#4431: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Authors share how to write nonfiction that

SCHEDULE | THURSDAY SCHEDULE | THURSDAY reads like fiction, combining quality research Renee Jones, Prosper ISD; and Deborah Meetings Suck, But Yours Don’t with compelling character-driven storytelling Zeman, Celina ISD. Have To to produce an alternative to the traditional 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM nonfiction writing style. Learn how to make meetings less tortuous. CPE#4498: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Karen Blumenthal, Macmillan; Candace Engage in a witty discussion of how to make Fleming, Penguin Random House; Digital Resources From the Lone these boring parts of our professional lives Lawrence Goldstone, Scholastic; Robin Star State better. Ha, HarperCollins; and Carole Boston 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Daniel Dylla, Houston Community College. Weatherford, Candlewick. Institutions and organizations throughout the 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. state are working on digitization projects to make materials freely available online. Discover CPE#444: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#4480: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 new resources that can be used for research, Newcomer’s Guide to Unmasking Your Leadership teaching, and outreach. Podcasting at Your School Potential Nikole Koehlert, Austin Public Library; Jacob 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Mangum, University of North Texas; Robert A former chief of police and city manager shares Weaver, Texas Tech University; and Caitlin Thinking about a podcast? No idea where to how to create a leadership culture characterized Rookey, Texas Wesleyan University. start? Hear how elementary, intermediate and by making all employees feel like valued DIGITAL LIBRARIES ROUND TABLE. high school librarians are using podcasting in a variety of ways to connect with students, support stakeholders. To achieve this, leaders must understand individual behavior and performance CPE#4399: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 faculty, and connect professionally. and the unique set of talents, skills, needs, and Hosting Museum Exhibits in the Tamiko Brown, Darci Burroughs, Shirley deficiencies individuals bring to an organization. School Library Dickey, Laura Gladney-Lemon, Melinda Hutt, Erin Logan, and Katrina Zannier, Clear Creek Learn to use different approaches to help each 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ISD. organizational member contribute to achieving Learn how school librarians can collaborate with 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. organizational goals. social studies teachers and host traveling and Mike Alexander, Lion Organizational digital exhibits to make primary sources come to CPE#446: SBEC 1.0; Development Institute. life. The information presented in this program TSLAC 1.0 PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. can be adapted to fit any school library budget. The Eight Lisa Antaki and Monica Babaian, Fort Bend Stages of the CPE#449: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 ISD. Teacher Librarian Using Emotional Intelligence TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. Technology Journey and Mindfulness to Navigate Librarianship CPE#442: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Make & Take: Crafting and Maker Using the metaphor of a 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM A former law librarian turned youth mindfulness Programs for Adults journey, John Spencer, co-author of Launch, will lead educators through instructor discusses emotional intelligence and 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM the phases of technology integration from tech teaches how to practice mindfulness as a way Librarians will share a variety of successful tourism to tech citizenship. Participants will of enhancing your personal and professional creation programs for adults, including reflect on their journey while also developing life. Learn the basics of mindfulness meditation popular craft projects, low-tech creation, and coaching questions they can use with their to reduce stress, relax, and improve focus in all makerspace programs. Discover sources colleagues. aspects of life. for program ideas and get tips for running a John Spencer, Spencer Creative Services. Ashley Moye, Youth Meditation. successful program on a variety of budgets. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Kelly Brouillard, Lewisville Public Library; Crystal Hicks, Nacogdoches Public Library; CPE#447: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Professional Issues and Ethics Faria Matin, Mansfield Public Library; and Committee Margaret Miller, Pflugerville Public Library. Those Darn Kids! Teen Engagement 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM PROGRAMMING FOR ADULTS ROUND TABLE. for Public Library Staff 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List Working with teenagers in the library can be a Committee challenge. Seasoned teen specialists will share 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM ways to improve staff engagement and develop strategies to provide outstanding customer

70 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 CPE#IL449: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 discussions. CPE#454: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 SCHEDULE | THURSDAY The Creative Space Movement; Lizette Gallardo and Arnulfo (AJ) Talamantes, Beyond Pride Month: Beyond the MakerSpace Northside ISD; and Susan Reeves, ESC Integrating LGBTQ+ Services in (Innovation Lab Stage) Region 20. Libraries Daily, Part 1 TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. 11:45 AM — 12:45 PM 1:30 — 2:30 PM Reflecting on our community, its unique needs, CPE#4551: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Supporting the LGBTQ+ community is about and the distinctive layout of our building, the ADA: More than a Checklist more than a book display for Pride Month. Dallas Public Library developed spaces that Librarians will provide tested strategies, preserve heritage, tell a story, and support 1:30 — 2:30 PM resources, and outreach ideas for serving sustainability in our city. Learn to view regular library services from the the LBGTQ+ community year-round. (Part 2 Tiffany Bailey, Stephanie Bennett, and perspectives of unique patrons, develop ADA- immediately follows this program.) Kristen Calvert, Dallas Public Library. friendly LibGuides, websites and other online April Rose Gain, Dallas Public Library, 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. resources, and explore popular tools and open Kimberly Gay, Prairie View A&M University, source alternatives. Explore how fonts, links, alt Elizabeth Goode, Texas A&M University- Bites with LIRT (Library Instruction texts, and images support accessibility. Kingsville, Heather Hornor, Dallas ISD, and Round Table) Margaret Dawson, Texas A&M University- Adela Justice, MD Anderson Cancer Center. Central Texas; and Genaro Medrano and QUEERS & ALLIES ROUND TABLE, TEXAS ASSOCIATION 11:45 AM — 1:45 PM Bailey Smith, Texas A&M University- OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, AND TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & Join LIRT members for an offsite Dutch treat Kingsville. ARCHIVES COMMISSION. lunch and a discussion of library instruction and REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES ROUND TABLE. information literacy topics. CPE#456: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 LIBRARY INSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE. CPE#4252: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 #MoreThanBooks: Scalable All Means All: Meeting K-12 Outreach Programming CPE#450: SBEC 0.75 Learners’ Individual Needs with 1:30 — 2:30 PM Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Technology Take in-library programming on the go! Discover Session (TICKETED) 1:30 — 2:30 PM successful tabletop activities that take five 12:00 — 1:45 PM Providing differentiated instruction can be a minutes or less, such as littleBits Spin Art and The Texas Bluebonnet Award is a nationally- daunting task. Learn how to utilize technology musical instruments, which work well at fast- recognized children’s choice award. During to meet the needs of all students using paced events like open houses. Learn how to the luncheon, the author of the winning Chromebooks, GSuite, and other tools and connect with community partners to offer longer Bluebonnet title will share insights on their strategies. classes, such as Bullet Journaling and digital writing and will accept this year’s award from Whitney Agee, Ryan Miller, Nathan Smith literacy. Leave knowing how to empower staff student representatives. Luncheon tickets and Josh Watkins, Prosper ISD. to be flexible, capitalize on staff talents and must be purchased by Friday, March 6 through TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. interests, and utilize supplies you already own. preregistration. Rachel Yzaguirre, Plano Public Library. Children’s Round Table, Texas Association CPE#452: SBEC 1.0 PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. of School Librarians, and Texas Bluebonnet Authors for Your Book Club Award Committee. CPE#457: SBEC 1.0 1:30 — 2:30 PM Stymied about what your book club might Collection Development for Media CPE#IL453: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 like to read? Searching for books suitable for Librarians Escape the Ordinary: Using Escape discussion? Authors will share information on 1:30 — 2:30 PM Rooms to Encourage Engaged Play their new titles that will spark conversation Examine the need for both popular and and Reinforce Learning among your members. A book signing will follow. educational films in media or audiovisual (Innovation Lab Stage) Katherine Center, Macmillan; Caroline collections in public and academic libraries, and 1:00 — 2:00 PM Leavitt, Workman/Algonquin; Elizabeth evaluate select streaming media services. Learn about escape rooms and breakouts, Wetmore, HarperCollins; and Rita Woods, Jill Donegan, Tom Green County Library; and discuss ways to use these tools to reinforce Forge Books. Erin Miller, University of North Texas. learning, and create a simple escape workflow PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. and puzzle to support a learning goal. Diane Robson and Sarah Bryant, University CPE#453: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#458: SBEC 1.0 of North Texas. Best Day Ever! A 2x2 STEAM Event Cultivating 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. for Primary Students a Compassionate 1:30 — 2:30 PM and Inclusive CPE#451: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Need to jump start collaboration and engage Organizational A More Perfect Union: American PK-second grade readers with a fun, cross- Culture curricular event? Learn how to host a 2x2 History and Sustained Silent 1:30 — 2:30 PM Reading STEAM Celebration to promote teacher- Whether they realize it or 1:30 — 2:30 PM librarian collaboration, integrate STEAM into not, leaders set the tone Delve into the American experience with an the curriculum, and encourage enthusiasm for their organizations and help determine an 8th grade lesson using three self-selected for the fantastic books from the Texas Library organization’s culture and values. Explore what it texts addressing issues of immigration, human Association 2x2 reading list. would look like if more library leaders prioritized rights, and modernity. Learn how a more perfect Ashley Rawson, Elgin ISD. compassion, inclusion, and a concern for the union between content and self-selected texts CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE AND TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF well-being of others over all else. SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. can be created utilizing Google Classroom Richard Kong, Skokie Public Library (IL). for standards-aligned, thought-provoking 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Texas Library Association | 71 CPE#459: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 flyers that will wow your target audience. Tickets Ingram, Cedar Park Public Library; Glitch-Free: Video Gaming in the must be purchased by Monday, March 23 Hannah Olsen, Duncanville Public Library; Library through preregistration. Mary Scanlon Rausch, West Texas A&M 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. University; and Jesse James Saunders, Austin 1:30 — 2:30 PM Community College. Starting a video gaming program in the library CATALOGING AND METADATA ROUND TABLE. is a great way of expanding the libraries’ youth CPE#4595: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Managing a Local News Archive in a programs. Learn how to fund, prepare, and run CPE#4630: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Digital Setting a program where youth come to the library to Train Your Support Staff to Run the have fun while becoming aware of all the other 1:30 — 2:30 PM Reference Desk Like a Pro library services. The University of North Texas holds the NBC-5/ Beth Hiatt, Bowie Public Library; Geoff Sams, KSAX news archive. Explore preservation, 1:30 — 2:30 PM Roanoke Public Library; and Chris Shenkir, conservation, storage, and access as well as Support staff are integral to library operations, so Decatur Public Library. licensing issues relating to the news archive. it is important to provide training in conducting

SCHEDULE | THURSDAY SCHEDULE | THURSDAY reference interviews and triage, as well as library SMALL COMMUNITY LIBRARIES ROUND TABLE. Morgan Gieringer, University of North Texas. ethics. An effective plan for training qualified COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. CPE#4590: SBEC 1.0; support staff to handle reference thoroughly and ethically will be shared. TSLAC 1.0 CPE#4597: SBEC 1.0 Kate Margolis, The Colony Public Library. Go with the Flow: New Books from Texas Authors and 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Maximizing Illustrators K-12 Student 1:30 — 2:30 PM Engagement CPE#464: SBEC 1.0 Many wonderful children’s literature authors and We Got IT! Tech Talk with High 1:30 — 2:30 PM illustrators are proud to call Texas home. Learn School Students Ever been “in the zone” about new books from this robust and diverse while working on a project? author community. 1:30 — 2:30 PM Students from Talon Tech, the technology Those moments are tied into something called Chris Barton, Simon & Schuster; Donna Flow Theory. How do we create experiences, Janell Bowman, Peachtree; Bridget Farr, help desk at Prosper High School, share their projects, and spaces that maximize flow for Little Brown; Christina Soontornvat, perspectives on the importance of student students? John Spencer, co-author of Launch, Candlewick; and Don Tate, Peachtree. voices in the classroom, tech use in education, will lead an interactive discussion where CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. and why it is important to give students input in participants will create a tool to increase flow in their learning. learning. CPE#4598: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Josh Watkins, Prosper ISD. John Spencer, Spencer Creative Services. Next Chapter Book Club: People TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. with Disabilities Enjoying Books, Friends, and Community CPE#465: SBEC 1.0 YA Lit Can Change the World CPE#4591: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 1:30 — 2:30 PM Graduating Poster Sessions to Next Chapter Book Club (NCBC) provides 1:30 — 2:30 PM Papers and Publishing resources and training for book clubs for adults Critically acclaimed authors discuss their latest 1:30 — 2:30 PM with developmental disabilities. NCBC began books, aimed at galvanizing change in an Three experienced academic writers will in 2002 and has 350 clubs in North America, already powerful generation of young readers. discuss the step-by-step details of scholarly Europe, Canada, Australia and Rwanda. Clubs Adi Alsaid, Inkyard Press; Tonya Bolden, communication. Learn how to package your meet in libraries, bookstores and coffee shops — Abrams; Brandy Colbert and Zetta Elliott, research for publication. learn how to start a club at your library! Disney; and Natalia Sylvester, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Jeffrey Bond, Texas Christian University; Thomas Fish, Chapters Ahead. YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. Sian Brannon and John Martin, University of 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. North Texas. Archives, Genealogy, Local History 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. CPE#461: SBEC 1.0 Round Table Business Meeting Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading 1:30 — 2:30 PM CPE#4594: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Program Literacy and Community 1:30 — 2:30 PM Programming for Adults Round Table Engagement Authors from past and present Spirit of Texas Business Meeting 1:30 — 2:30 PM (SPOT) reading programs will highlight their 1:30 — 2:30 PM Hear from experts in community engagement books and resources. and literacy about how to build effective Samantha Mabry, Algonquin Young Readers; CPE#IL479: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 partnerships and reach constituents. and Julie Murphy, HarperCollins. Marketing Your Makerspace, Dawn Wilbert, Decatur Public Library; YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. Even If You Don’t Want To Tammy Korns, Plano Public Library; and (Innovation Lab Stage) Gleniece Robinson, City of Fort Worth. CPE#463: SBEC 0.5; TSLAC 0.5 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 2:15 — 3:15 PM Thinking about Changing Your ILS? How do you market your space when you don’t 1:30 — 2:30 PM CPE#H251A: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 have the time, energy, or interest to do so? Librarians share their experiences selecting a Making Flyers that Don’t Suck — Learn some ways, big and small, to market your new ILS for their institutions. Learn to evaluate makerspace and get the most out of what you Hands on Lab and implement both traditional vendor products have. (TICKETED; REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) and open source ILS. A business meeting follows Erica Richardson, Benbrook Public Library. 1:30 — 2:30 PM the program. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Learn the basics of graphic design while creating Bonnie Hauser, Austin ISD; Catherine

72 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Escobedo, University of Texas at Arlington; CPE#4696: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#H501A: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 SCHEDULE | THURSDAY Advocating to Your School’s and Rebecca Hankins, Texas A&M University. Engaging Your Community Around Stakeholders: Making the Most of 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Health Information with the Social Media — Hands on Lab National Network of Libraries of CPE#4691: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) Medicine & the All of Us research Collaborating for Cash — Grant program 2:45 — 3:45 PM Opportunities Learn how to engage with multiple audiences 2:45 — 3:45 PM using various social media platforms. Take 2:45 — 3:45 PM Lead your community to quality health the same content and tailor it specifically for Bring your grant ideas and work with a information by joining the NNLM All of Us different social media platforms and audiences. successful grant team to bring your grant to life. Community Engagement Network. This Tickets must be purchased by Monday, March This interactive session will start with a vertical network works with libraries to engage local 23 through preregistration. team of Mansfield ISD librarians sharing how communities, improve health literacy, and raise they have successfully written, and received, Heather Hornor, Dallas ISD; and Brooke awareness about the All of Us research program King, Humble ISD. tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of grants to for populations underrepresented in biomedical enhance instruction. Speakers will help session TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. research. participants work on their own grants. Bring Rachel Tims, National Network of Libraries your technology and your ideas. CPE#467: SBEC 0.5; TSLAC 0.5 of Medicine, South Central Region. Tricia Becht, Pamela Pinkerton, Jennifer Award-winning Marketing 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Rike and Jeneene Tahaney, Mansfield ISD; Strategies and Kayla Middleton, EBSCO Information CPE#4697: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2:45 — 3:45 PM Services. Harness the Energy of Teen You don’t need a specialized marketing 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. department or a large budget to garner Volunteers participation in programming and events CPE#4692: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2:45 — 3:45 PM and to generate community awareness and Community College Libraries and Learn about the challenges and successes appreciation for your library. Previous TLA Workforce Development Programs experienced by three librarians as they Branding Iron award winners will share their developed and utilized a facilitation guide. The 2:45 — 3:45 PM guide was designed to create opportunities for best and most effective ideas that you can Community college librarians support many connected learning as well as the development incorporate into your next marketing campaign. paths to student success, including students and utilization of social and emotional learning A business meeting follows the program. enrolled in workforce and dual-credit programs. skills for teens at Georgetown Public Library. Rachel Nguyen, Austin Public Library; Lucy How do community college libraries provide Podmore, Northside ISD; Cate Sweeney, Bee outreach and instruction to future welders, Amanda Cawthon, Pflugerville Public Cave Public Library; and Rachel Yzaguirre, Library; Melissa Mote, Georgetown Public nurses, construction workers, and other Plano Public Library. Library; and Bethany Wilson, Texas State professionals? A variety of community college PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING COMMITTEE. Library & Archives Commission. librarians share their tips and best practices. TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. CPE#468: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Bethany Herman and Rumela Bose, Houston Community College; Lisa Muilenburg, Del CPE#4698: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Beyond Pride Month: Mar College; Jane Stimpson, Lone Star Integrating LGBTQ+ Services in College; and Betsy Young, Austin Community Have You Tried Rebooting? Libraries Daily — Part 2 College. Conversations with IT 2:45 — 3:45 PM 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 2:45 — 3:45 PM During this facilitated discussion, librarians will In the library system, the staff are represented break out into groups by similar library types CPE#4694: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 by two separate but equally important groups: and speak with their peers to develop creative Doing More with Archives: the librarians who assist customers, and the IT solutions to support LGBTQ+ communities. (This Activities Outside the Box department, who also helps customers. These are their stories. follows part 1 at 1:30 PM) 2:45 — 3:45 PM April Rose Gain, Dallas Public Library; Expand the use of archives beyond just standard Saima Kadir, Houston Public Library. Kimberly Gay, Prairie View A&M University; research projects. Learn how archival materials 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Elizabeth Goode, Texas A&M University- can be integrated into middle school and high Kingsville; Heather Hornor, Dallas ISD; and school classes. CPE#4699: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Adela Justice, MD Anderson Cancer Center. Megan Firestone, Southwestern University. Integrating Wellness into Children’s QUEERS & ALLIES ROUND TABLE AND TEXAS STATE and Teen Programming LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. ARCHIVES, GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY ROUND TABLE. 2:45 — 3:45 PM CPE#469: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Learn how to integrate wellness into children’s CPE#4695: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Check Your Social Awareness and teen programming by developing Empowering Stories Through partnerships with healthcare providers, seeking 2:45 — 3:45 PM Digital Creation funding, staff training, and more. Explore Libraries take pride in being welcoming to all, successful outreach models and program but are we as “woke” as we think? Learn to 2:45 — 3:45 PM design. identify personal biases, social marginalization Learn practical ways to empower students and Destinee Barton, Amanda Hairston and Lisa and systemic barriers to equity within your educators with innovative, technology-based digital storytelling/digital communications. Bring Youngblood, Harker Heights Public Library; community. Through a series of activities, you Lori Purser and Cynthia Oser, Central Texas will understand your role in the process of social stories to life through emotionally engaging formats so they will resonate with stakeholders. College; and Bronwyn Rumsey, Brazosport justice and equitable change. ISD. Whitney Agee, Ryan Miller, Nathan Smith Shannon Adams and Monique Christian- CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. Long, Dallas Public Library; Priscilla and Josh Watkins, Prosper ISD. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS.

Texas Library Association | 73 CPE#4700: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 practices on learning how to select books to be CPE#478: SBEC 1.0; Interactive Story Times for used for book clubs, book programming, and TSLAC 1.0 Students with Special Needs reader advisory groups from members of both The Power 2:45 — 3:45 PM Lariat Adult Fiction and Texas Topaz Nonfiction of Maker With a focus on reaching K-5 students with Reading Lists’ committees, as well as a member Challenges special needs, this librarian and special of EBSCO’s NoveList. 2:45 — 3:45 PM education teacher duo will share ready-to- Kaitlin Conner, Novelist; Jennifer Franz, Limitations and challenges implement resources to enhance the literacy Cozby Library; Yaika Sabat, North Richland can be frustrating. experience for all types of learners. Attendees Hills Library; and Linda Stevens, Harris However, they can also be County Public Library. will leave with ideas for technology integration, the creative constraint that leads to problem- STEAM activities, and cooperative play TEXAS TOPAZ NONFICTION READING LIST COMMITTEE. solving and divergent thinking. Students love appropriate for all abilities. challenges that they find engaging, intriguing, CPE#475: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Jackie Conley and Shannon Houston, Round and meaningful. John Spencer, co-author of SCHEDULE | THURSDAY SCHEDULE | THURSDAY Rock ISD. Texas School Library Standards Launch, will explore what it looks like to create TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. Meet the ACRL Framework for maker challenges to spark student creativity. Information Literacy John Spencer, Spencer Creative Services. CPE#470: SBEC 1.0 2:45 — 3:45 PM TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. Middle Grade Mysteries Examine the crosswalk between the Texas 2:45 — 3:45 PM School Library Standards and the Association CPE#4748: SBEC 1.0 This panel will showcase middle grade mystery of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) TLA’s Legislative Vision: authors, who will discuss their latest works and Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Empowering Texas Libraries Education, focusing on using those intersections the mystery genre for young readers. 2:45 PM — 3:45 PM and connections to prepare and sustain our Josephine Cameron, Macmillan; Beth Eller, TLA’s legislative vision is to empower Texas students in their successful pursuit of a post K-12 Bloomsbury; William Lashner, Disney; Janae libraries to build essential community degree. Marks, HarperCollins; and James Ponti, infrastructure by focusing our legislative Simon & Schuster. Kyla Hunt and Elizabeth Philippi, Texas State and regulatory efforts on access, economic Library & Archives Commission. CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. development, and education. Learn about TLA’s TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. new, proactive legislative platform, and how you CPE#471: SBEC 1.0 can use it to build relationships and advocate in CPE#476: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Out of the Fire: Women your community. TexQuest + Digital Tools: Team and Gender Nonconforming Becky Calzada, Leander ISD; Mark Authors of Color Rise Up up to Create Powerful Projects & Gottschalk, South Plains College; Susan 2:45 — 3:45 PM Assessments Mann, Hillsboro City Library; and Gretchen Editor of A Phoenix First Must Burn, Patrice 2:45 — 3:45 PM Pruett, New Braunfels Public Library. Caldwell, moderates a conversation among best- Take curriculum-aligned resources, add LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. selling and award-winning authors discussing the appropriate digital tool, and you have the women of color/gender non-conforming the formula for creative student-centered CPE#479: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 experience through books involving fantasy, investigations and projects. Participants will Tracking What Matters: Marrying science fiction, and magic. explore ways to structure projects by selecting the Reader’s Notebook with the Tomi Adeyemi and Anna-Marie McLerome, TexQuest resources to combine with online tools Bullet Journal Macmillan; Patrice Caldwell and Danny Lore, for assignments that encourage content mastery, 2:45 — 3:45 PM Penguin Random House; and Charlotte Davis, as well as use of authentic, credible resources. Reader’s notebooks are effective tools for Tor. Susan Reeves and Ann Vyoral, ESC Region literacy, reflection, comprehension, goal-setting, YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. 20. and gaining insight about yourself as a reader, TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. writer, and learner. Infusing technology and CPE#472: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 ideas from the planner, book bento, and bullet Reaching Teachers: Practical Tips CPE#477: SBEC 1.0 journal can provide engaging strategies to make for Public Librarians The Power of Art Partnership: A reader’s notebooks an authentic tool for the 2:45 — 3:45 PM Story of a Successful Community present and the future. Public librarians work hard to connect with K-12 Engagement Initiative Lisa Johnson, Eanes ISD. students and parents, but teachers may be an 2:45 — 3:45 PM 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. overlooked and intimidating audience. Learn Tomball Community Art Showcase was formed practical methods to engage teachers more as a result of a collaboration between the CPE#4791: SBEC 1.0 deeply with your library’s services, programs, community library, community college and You CAN Handle the Truth: Non- and collections. school district to promote local student art. Learn Fiction Authors Amy Mikel, Brooklyn Public Library (NY). how it developed into an essential mechanism 2:45 — 3:45 PM 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. for building a vibrant, inspired and engaged Hear about upcoming nonfiction releases from community. By creating unique experiences, debut and best-selling authors. CPE#473: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 the partnership brought together students, Kendra Atleework, Workman/Algonquin; Reader’s Advisory for Adults: Using educators, parents, art enthusiasts, community Katherine Landdeck, Texas Woman’s the Lariat and Texas Topaz Lists for leaders and local organizations. University; and Jamie Thompson, Macmillan. All Interests Janna Hoglund, Harris County Public PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. 2:45 — 3:45 PM Library; JD Janda, Tomball ISD; and Lee Ann Nutt, Lone Star College-Tomball. What do you read next? Your patrons are on PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. the hunt for just the right book. Gather best

74 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 College and University Libraries Public Libraries Division friendship. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, SCHEDULE | THURSDAY Division Membership and Business Membership Party March 6 through preregistration. Meeting 5:30 — 6:30 PM UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON. 2:45 — 3:45 PM Join your fellow PLD-ers for mingling, networking, and of course, food and Queers & Allies Round Table Disaster Relief Committee refreshments. This membership party has been (Q&ART) Social 2:45 — 3:45 PM graciously sponsored by Ingram and Biblionix. 7:00 — 9:00 PM PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. This is an annual social event for the round Small Community Libraries Round table to spend time together, connecting and Table Business Meeting Texas Woman’s University Library networking with other community members, 2:45 — 3:45 PM School Reception (TICKETED) and serves as a way to engage new members 6:30 — 8:00 pm and share our organization with potential new Cosplay Fashion Show and Contest Tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 6 members. 3:00 — 4:00 PM through preregistration. QUEERS & ALLIES ROUND TABLE. Don’t miss the 2020 TLA Cosplay Fashion Show TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY. and Contest! Come dressed in your favorite CPE#E4990: SBEC 2.0 cosplay costume and be prepared for your Small Community Libraries Round Storytelling Concert imagination to run wild when characters and Table Social 7:00 — 9:00 PM designs come to life. Please note: Weapon Join us for a lively evening of stories presented 6:30 — 8:30 PM replicas will not be allowed at the conference or by a diverse group of amazing storytellers. This is a social for librarians from small city in the Exhibit Hall. Carolina Quiroga-Stultz, bilingual storyteller; libraries to come together for networking, 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Tim Tingle, Choctaw storyteller and author, and professional growth and fun. Candi Boehme, librarian-teller, will give you a SMALL COMMUNITY LIBRARIES ROUND TABLE. CPE#445: SBEC 0.5 wonderful evening to remember. Presidential Candi Rae Boehme, Channelview ISD; Spotlight: Lois University of North Texas Library Carolina Quiroga-Stultz, Storyteller; and Tim Lowry School Alumni Dinner (TICKETED) Tingle, Author/Storyteller. 4:00 — 5:00 PM 6:30 — 8:30 PM STORYTELLING ROUND TABLE. Newbery Medal winner Tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 6 Lois Lowry is the author through preregistration. CPE#O491: SBEC 1.0 of more than forty books University of North Texas. Black Caucus Round Table 30th for children and young Anniversary Reception: State of adults, including the New York Times bestselling University of Texas at Austin African American Librarians and Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik Reception (TICKETED) Libraries series. In this very special appearance, she 6:30 — 8:30 PM 7:30 — 9:30 PM will talk about her latest book, On the Horizon: Tickets must be purchased by Friday, March 6 African American library directors and librarians, Memories of World War II. through preregistration. and African American Studies professors weigh Lois Lowry, Houghton Mifflin. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. in on the state of African American librarianship 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE in the age of digital technology, graying of the CPE#E488: SBEC 0.75 profession, adapting new library skills, and the Special Libraries Division Social Evening with the Authors transition from brick and mortar buildings to 4:30 — 6:30 PM (TICKETED; REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) virtual spaces. Join other special librarians for networking and Miguell Ceasar and Rhea Lawson, Houston 6:00 — 9:00 PM Public Library; James Conyers, Jr., University fun at the SLD social. Join your colleagues and friends for an evening SPECIAL LIBRARIES DIVISION. of Houston; Kimberly Gay, Prairie View A&M to meet, mingle, and chat with authors at the University; Rebecca Hankins, Texas A&M Houston Public Library Julia Ideson Building University; Sonja Hayes, Greenhill School Assessment Discussion Group Reading Room. Dinner will be served. Tickets (Addison); and Tracy Timmons, Houston Happy Hour must be purchased by February 29th through Community College. 5:30 — 6:30 PM preregistration. BLACK CAUCUS ROUND TABLE. The Assessment Discussion Group welcomes Matt de la Peña, Penguin Random House; Starr Hoffman, director of planning and Rachel Heng, Macmillan; Gail Tsukiyama, Latino Caucus Social assessment at the University of Nevada — Las HarperCollins; DiAnn Mills, Tyndale; and Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster. 7:30 — 9:30 PM Vegas, who will lead our happy hour networking Come have a chat and a drink with the members 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. discussion on using assessment for marketing of the Latino Caucus. and advocacy for your library. LATINO CAUCUS ROUND TABLE. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. University of Houston--Clear Lake 2020 Student and Alumni Reception (TICKETED, REGISTER ONLINE ONLY) 6:30 — 9:00 pm Please join us for a welcoming celebration of friends, old and new. Come and reminisce with former and current UHCL students and friends as we gather for a “dutch treat” reception. Let’s reconnect for an evening of laughter and

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All sessions are open to all attendees, unless otherwise noted. LEGEND Marketing & Advocacy CPE#501: SBEC 0.5 well-rounded hearing students, and making EdTech General Session II sure bilingual and deaf communities are well with Jason Reynolds represented. Equity, Diversity & Inclusion 8:00 — 9:00 AM Jaclyn Long, Irving ISD. President’s Program Racist ideas in America TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. Continuing Professional were built to last. Let’s start tearing them down. CPE#506: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Education Credits Bestselling author Jason From Oral to Written Story: Using CPE#264: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Reynolds will talk about his Storytelling to Spark Creative new book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and Writing Event State Board TX State Library & Number for Educator Archives Commission You, a remix of the National Book Award-winning 9:15 — 10:15 AM Certification Stamped from the Beginning. This re-imagining Personal stories are an amazing tool to spark reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and great writing. Using a tried-and-true method, inspires hope for an antiracist future by providing author/storyteller/Choctaw oral historian Tim Registration...... 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM ways readers can identify and stamp out racist Tingle will model how to use story prompts to thoughts in their daily lives. Hotel Shuttle...... 6:30 AM – 4:00 PM brainstorm, then turn the oral stories into written Reynolds is the bestselling author of When I Was stories. Career Center...... 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM the Greatest, Boy in the Black Suit, All American Tim Tingle, Author and Storyteller. Connection Corner Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely), As Brave STORYTELLING ROUND TABLE. (Computers, Housing, Internet) as You, For Every One, the Track series (Ghost, ...... 7:00 – 11:30 AM Patina, Sunny, and Lu), Long Way Down, and CPE#5067: SBEC 1.0 Look Both Ways. He is a National Book Award From Platform to Pathways: The Bag Check (Rent-A-Box) finalist; the recipient of a Newbery Honor, a Future Work of Small Libraries ...... 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Printz Honor, and multiple Coretta Scott King Honors. 9:15 — 10:15 AM Libraries increasingly serve community needs, Jason Reynolds, Little, Brown and Company. which expand beyond traditional definitions of 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. information and education. Recent descriptions of library service view the library as a platform Exhibitors Round Table Business onto which roles, programs, and experiences are Meeting built. In order to meet shifting emerging needs 8:00 — 9:00 AM in small libraries, let’s not provide access to a platform on which community aspirations can CPE#504: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 be built, but rather build the pathways which Bright Futures Ahead: facilitate the realization of those aspirations. Attendees will leave with not only a conceptual TexQuest Support for College and model for how they do their work, but also some Career Readiness practice with applying it. 9:15 — 10:15 AM Margo Gustina, Southern Tier Library TexQuest resources can help students prepare System. for college and military entrance exams, explore SMALL COMMUNITY LIBRARIES ROUND TABLE AND TEXAS careers, and even write resumes. Learn about STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. these materials, as well as resources to support middle school career planning and Career and CPE#507: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Technology Education (CTE) classes. Explore Give It Up: Students Take Over the resources to help your students envision their Learning future with TexQuest. 9:15 — 10:15 AM Ann Vyoral, ESC Region 20. Students are often taught without allowing for TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. information saturation through multiple learning strategies. In this interactive session, participants CPE#505: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 will engage in ways to facilitate learning instead Creating an Inclusive Environment of being the “sage on the stage” and how and Bridging Cultural Gaps to make students active rather than passive 9:15 — 10:15 AM learners. How do we ensure that the library is the safest Naomi Bates, Follett School Solutions; and place in the school? Discover how the Britain Sarah Thomasson, Northwest ISD. Elementary library helps bridge cultural gaps 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. by advocating for deaf students, fostering

76 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 CPE#508: SBEC 1.0 CPE#518: SBEC 1.0 Book signing to follow. SCHEDULE | FRIDAY Hot Off the Press: Great New Books LARIAT ADULT FICTION READING LIST COMMITTEE. The Graphic Novel Utility Belt: for Grades 4-12 Where to Get Those Wonderful Toys 9:15 — 10:15 AM CPE#511: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 9:15 — 10:15 AM Keeping up with new and forthcoming books More than a Story: Engaging Early All too frequently, graphic novels are not is difficult. We’ll make it easier by sharing Learners at Your Library well supported by conventional collection information about what’s coming soon. 9:15 — 10:15 AM development tools, despite being in high Teri Lesesne and Karin Perry, Sam Houston Does your programming support your goals? demand. Explore best practices and resources State University. Learn strategies for creating intentional early for selection and facilitating informed decision- CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE AND YOUNG ADULT ROUND literacy-based programs to share with your making about meritorious acquisitions. TABLE. community. Develop a staff training module Neisha Campbell, Lubbock ISD; Sarah Chase, and programming templates that are easily Carroll ISD; Alexandra Cornejo, Harlingen CPE#509: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 replicated and learn strategies to engage staff in CISD; Stephanie Galvan-Russell, Austin Human Trafficking early literacy initiatives. ISD; Elizabeth Gilbert, Aldine ISD; Lorraine Roussin, San Antonio ISD; April Toman, 9:15 — 10:15 AM Nina Martin, Plano Public Library System. Schertz Public Library; Marianne Vadney, The Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance Task PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION. Abilene Public Library; and Lisa Zinkie, Fort Force has become one of the largest HT Task Worth ISD. Forces in the U.S. Their mission is to identify CPE#512: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. victims, proactively investigate and prosecute Practicing Critical Pedagogy: A human trafficking cases at the state and federal Strengths-Based Approach to CPE#519: SBEC 1.0 levels, and provide victims with a comprehensive Teaching Information Literacy in Through the Looking Glass: Finding array of services. Learn indicators of a human Academic Libraries trafficking situation and how to respond. Hidden Worlds in Your Library 9:15 — 10:15 AM John Wall, Houston Police Department. 9:15 — 10:15 AM As critical pedagogy approaches have gained 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. School librarians will lead you through an more widespread acceptance in academic interactive ELA surgery center. Help them libraries, many teaching librarians are shifting CPE#409: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 rescue their patients who are suffering from toward a strengths-based approach, where Improving Library Quality and text-feature-itis. Leave with plans for your own students’ prior knowledge and experiences surgery center plus ideas for other engaged Efficiency: Getting Started with are valued as meaningful components of the spaces. Assessment learning experience. Join us for an active Penny Greeno and Buffie Massey, Mesquite 9:15 — 10:15 AM learning session to learn how to integrate critical ISD. Is there a library service, space, or other area pedagogy. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. that you’d like to improve? Not sure how to Emily Deal and Carolina Hernandez, get started or what to assess? Afraid that University of Houston. CPE#520: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 saying “let’s do an assessment project” will 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Weathering the Storms: Preparing cause panic? Learn how to get started, scope for Disasters with the Texas Storm realistically, find data, and get everyone on CPE#515: SBEC 1.0 Chasers board. Scare Up a Story: Creepy Books for 9:15 — 10:15 AM Starr Hoffman, University of Nevada Las Middle Grade Readers Vegas. The Texas Storm Chasers track dangerous 9:15 — 10:15 AM COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. weather across the state. Learn from one of Horror is an often maligned and misunderstood their team members about how to prepare for genre. Authors will discuss how they write CPE#5090: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods, and help your age-appropriate scary stories, supporting social- community recover from these disasters. Librarians Unite! Starting a emotional learning in children. Professional Network for Local Chelsea Burnett, Texas Storm Chasers; and Rena Barron, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Sharon Strover, University of Texas at Austin. Librarians Juliana Brandt, Alex Aster, and MarcyKate DISASTER RELIEF COMMITTEE. 9:15 — 10:15 AM Connolly, Sourcebooks; Christian Heidicker, Macmillan; and Kenneth Oppel, Penguin Since 1934, Dallas ISD librarians have been CPE#5200: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 a part of their own local network, the Dallas Random House. CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. Who’s Afraid of Partnerships? Association of School Librarians. This group A Practical Guide to Setting serves the professional development, advocacy, Boundaries and fellowship needs of Dallas ISD librarians. CPE#517: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Learn how to develop a local library network for Supporting Teachers in the Readers 9:15 — 10:15 AM the librarians in your area. Writers Workshop Model This session offers a practical guide to successfully communicating your vision to Dianne McCorcle, Gail Perry, Valerie Tagoe, 9:15 — 10:15 AM and Michelle Touchet, Dallas ISD; and Angela Are you a secondary librarian who supports new and current community partners, using Watts, Wylie ISD. English teachers in the Readers Writers formal and informal agreements, setting clear 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Workshop model? Learn ways librarians support boundaries, and meeting challenges like a their teachers and students in this model using champ, no matter how large or small your library. CPE#510: SBEC 1.0 collaborations, programming, grants, and Mark Gottschalk, South Plains College; Kate Meet the Lariat List Authors podcasting. Horan, McAllen Public Library; Marisol Vidales, Dr. H.P. Garcia Memorial Library; 9:15 — 10:15 AM Shirley Dickey, Billy Eastman, Laura Gladney- and Roberto Zapata, Houston Public Library. Lemon and Melinda Hutt, Clear Creek ISD. Authors from the 2020 Lariat Reading List TEXAS MUNICIPAL LIBRARY DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION. will discuss their chosen books and answer 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. questions from the audience.

Texas Library Association | 77 New Members Round Table Business Whittaker, Frisco ISD. Monique Cline-Ransome, Simon & Schuster; Meeting 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Deborah Hopkinson, Peachtree; and Laura Freeman and Katheryn Russell-Brown, 9:15 — 10:15 AM CPE#527: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Bloomsbury. Supervision, Management, and Developing Social-Emotional Skills CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. Administration Round Table Business in School Libraries Meeting CPE#535: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 10:30 — 11:30 AM Make Time for Child-Directed Play 9:15 — 10:15 AM Participants will learn to promote a culture of belonging through social-emotional 10:30 — 11:30 AM CPE#523: SBEC 3.0 programming. This hands-on workshop will Through play, children learn about themselves Texas Youth Creators Awards include make-and-take activities, programming and the world around them. Presenters will share programming ideas which take patrons SCHEDULE | FRIDAY SCHEDULE | FRIDAY Ceremony ideas, and resources that allow librarians to outdoors, and build literacy and problem-solving 9:15 AM — 12:15 PM implement strategies immediately. skills. Learn about the professional discipline of Texas Youth Creators Awards promote Kristy Hill, Keller ISD; and Angela Watts, playwork and how it can be applied for all ages excellence in student media production and its Wylie ISD. and abilities. importance in life-long learning. Outstanding TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. entries in nine media categories including book Joel Bangilan, Harris County Public Library; Montana Rindahl, Mammen Family Public CPE#528: SBEC 1.0 trailers, photography, multimedia, videography, Library (Bulverde); and Jill Wood, The Parish animation, graphic design, web design, music eSports for the Win! School (Houston). composition, and coding are recognized. 10:30 — 11:30 AM CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. Students from all over Texas receive awards and eSports, the competitive wing of electronic showcase their work. gaming, is experiencing explosive growth. The CPE#536: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 TEXAS YOUTH CREATORS AWARD COMMITTEE. speaker will share information on resources Programming with the TLA Adult libraries need to meet young people with an Reading Lists CPE#524: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 interest-driven learning environment. The Collecting and Sharing Stories learning ecosystem encompasses a variety of 10:30 — 11:30 AM Take the TLA adult reading lists off the page and from Diverse Communities roles beyond the players, such as videographers, on to the stage! Join us to learn creative ideas graphic designers, and writers. 10:30 — 11:30 AM for engaging communities with diverse library Dianne Connery, Pottsboro Library. Encouraging diverse communities to share their programs. Members of the Lariat and Texas stories can involve strategies as varied as the PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION AND COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIVISION. Topaz reading list committees will share ideas individuals themselves. Oral historians, program to spruce up book-based programs across all planners, and storytellers will share how to library types. draw out community members to share their CPE#529: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Exploring ACRL Library Diversity Jessica Jones, Bryan College Station Public stories, and how these stories are preserved and Library; Terry Roper, Region 10 ESC; shared. Alliance Residencies: How to Catherine Spencer, Plano Public Library; and Mikaela Selley, and Valerie Wade, Houston Support Current & Future Resident Amy Watterman, Abilene Public Library. Public Library; and Jay Stailey, Friendswood Librarians LARIAT ADULT FICTION READING LIST COMMITTEE AND ISD. 10:30 — 11:30 AM TEXAS TOPAZ NONFICTION READING LIST COMMITTEE. STORYTELLING ROUND TABLE. Presenters will discuss the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity CPE#537: SBEC 1.0 CPE#525: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Alliance program’s mission and goals. Learn Ready to Make a Move? Librarian ‘Colorado, Houston’s Calling!’ A how academic libraries can and do support Speed Dating Read Across America Partnership current and future resident librarians from 10:30 — 11:30 AM 10:30 — 11:30 AM underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and Round table discussions with library leaders A Colorado public librarian and a Texas school prepare residents for success in scholarship, where new librarians, or librarians looking to librarian pair up to encourage students to Read professional service, and leadership. Program change library type, can ask questions to gauge Across America virtually using social media, participants will also share their unique which library type might be the best fit for them. eliminating geographical barriers to learning. perspectives and experiences. Kimberly Johnson, Texas Women’s Teachers and librarians connect by inviting Deborah Caldwell and Gerald Holmes, University; Julie Leuzinger, University of others on this learning journey of possibilities. University of North Carolina Greensboro North Texas; Spencer Smith, McKinney Learn to build virtual connections to establish a Libraries; Martin Halbert, University of Public Library; Bernadette Trammell, collaborative network. North Texas; Natalie Hill and Laura Tadena, Prosper ISD. Julia MacDonell, Mesa County Public Library University of Texas at Austin; and LaQuanda 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. (CO); and Lucia Malo, Klein ISD. Onyemeh, Texas A&M University. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. CPE#539: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Serving Patrons with Print CPE#526: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 CPE#534: SBEC 1.0 Disabilities: The Talking Book Design Thinking Methods in Leading the Way: Picture Book Program Biographies the School Library 10:30 — 11:30 AM 10:30 — 11:30 AM 10:30 — 11:30 AM Being able to serve everyone in your community Design thinking is a process for creative problem Authors and illustrators will share an array can be a daunting task, but the Talking Book solving. Learn about various design thinking of new picture book biographies featuring Program and the Disability Information and methods and how to implement them with inspirational history-makers, discuss their writing Referral Center can assist in helping this learners in a school library. processes, and showcase new titles. underserved population. Learn about assistive Megan Tumulty, Prosper ISD; and Kristen Monica Brown, Lee & Low Books; Lesa technology, training, and funding at the national,

78 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 state, and local level, and bring people with We Think, We Learn, We Share: Texas Association of School SCHEDULE | FRIDAY visual and other print disabilities into your library. Crowdsourcing Ideas for ALL Librarians Legislative & Advocacy Dina Abramson and Meagan Daniels, Texas Librarians Committee State Library & Archives Commission. 10:30 — 11:30 AM 10:30 — 11:30 AM TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Librarians will come together to learn from each other in a crowd-sourced environment. Working Texas Association of School Librarians Executive Board Meeting CPE#5390: SBEC 1.0 together, participants will walk away with brand Short and Sweet: Collections of YA new ideas shared, learned, and discussed. 11:45 — 1:00 PM Fiction and Nonfiction Cecily Ponce de Leon, Plano Public Library; Young Adult Round Table Executive and Sonja Schulz, Nacogdoches ISD. 10:30 — 11:30 AM Board Meeting How do authors fully develop a theme, 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. characters, and plot in fewer words? Does 11:45 AM — 1:00 PM the research process change when creating a CPE#542: SBEC 1.0 shorter work? Authors share their experiences. What’s New in Middle Grade Series Dahlia Adler, Flatiron Books; S.K. Ali, 10:30 — 11:30 AM Abrams; Rose Brock, Penguin Random Learn about new series from beloved authors House; Kelly Jensen, Algonquin Young and new books in established series. Authors Readers; and Saundra Mitchell, Inkyard Press. share how they keep their series exciting and Carlos Skip Carole fresh, and why reading a series is good for Hernandez Hollandsworth Weatherford YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. young readers. CPE#550: SBEC 0.75 Michael Buckley, Penguin Random House; CPE#5391: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Closing Author Session (TICKETED) Stuart Gibbs and Kate Hannigan, Simon & Teen Book Clubs Schuster; Louis Sachar, HarperCollins; and 11:45 AM — 1:15 PM 10:30 — 11:30 AM Katie Zhao, Bloomsbury. Skip Hollandsworth, Editor of Texas Monthly, What works and what should be avoided CHILDREN’S ROUND TABLE. author and award-winning journalist, brings his when starting a teen book club? Leave with interviewing skills to this insightful discussion indispensable tools to kick-start a book club, and CPE#543: SBEC 1.0 with authors Carlos Hernandez (Sal and Gabi learn various methods to market book clubs to Windows and Mirrors: Exploring Break the Universe, Disney Book Group) and Carole Boston Weatherford (Voice of teen audiences. the Tomas Rivera Book Award Nelly Barrera-Manzetti, La Joya ISD. Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil 10:30 — 11:30 AM YOUNG ADULT ROUND TABLE. Rights Movement, Candlewick). Tickets must The Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children’s be purchased by Friday, March 6 through Book Award will celebrate its 25th anniversary preregistration. CPE#5392: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 in 2020. Celebrate the award’s legacy with an TexQuest & TexShare Updates Carlos Hernandez, Disney; Skip author panel of recent Rivera Award winners. Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly; and Carole 10:30 — 11:30 AM Strategies for using these books with readers of Weatherford, Candlewick Press. This news-you-can-use session about the all ages will be shared. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. TexShare and TexQuest programs will give you David Bowles, University of Texas Rio Grande the latest information on these vital resource Valley; Priscilla Delgado, St. John’s University; Texas Library Association sharing programs and how to participate in Xelena Gonzalez, Tomas Rivera Book Awards; Membership Meeting and Sandra Murillo-Sutterby, Texas State them. 1:30 — 2:00 PM University. Elizabeth Philippi, Danielle Plumer and Bring your ideas and observations to this annual Russlene Waukechon, Texas State Library & DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMITTEE, 2020 forum for all TLA members. Archives Commission. CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE, AND LATINO CAUCUS ROUND TABLE. TEXAS STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES COMMISSION. Texas Library Association Council II CPE#544: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 2:15 — 3:15 PM CPE#540: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0 Working with Neurodiverse Council is the governing body of TLA. All The Bookless Library: The Whys, Students in the College Setting conference attendees are invited. Hows, and What Nows 10:30 — 11:30 AM COUNCIL/GOVERNANCE. 10:30 — 11:30 AM This presentation will provide librarians with a What does it mean to go all digital in an Texas Library Association Executive general overview of the behaviors associated academic library? What needs to be considered Board Meeting 2 with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Our focus and how does it impact student learning? will be on the strengths students with ASD bring 3:30 — 5:30 PM Librarians working in libraries that have gone to college life and the support libraries can offer digital or are in the process of going digital to help them achieve academic success. will share insights into the process and how to address challenges that arise. Chelsea Anderson and Erin O’Toole, University of North Texas. Kimberly Gay, Prairie View A&M University; 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Marilyn Goff, Texas Women’s University Institute of Health Sciences; Shannon Hausinger, Lone Star College; Sandra Hayes, Texas A&M University-Commerce; and Tracey Rinehart, Southern Methodist University. 2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE.

Texas Library Association | 79 Index: Events, Speakers & Sponsoring Units

brams, LaTashia...... 62 Becho, Arnold...... 59 Calvert, Kristen...... 71 Copyright and Access Round Table A ...... 54, 60 Abramson, Dina...... 79 Becht, Tricia...... 73 Calzada, Becky...... 57, 67, 74 Cornejo, Alexandra...... 50, 61, 77 Aceves, Lourdes...... 67 Benes, Kallie...... 63 Cameron, Josephine...... 74 Cosplay Fashion Show...... 75 Acquisitions and Collection Bennett, Stephanie...... 71 Cameron, Rachelle...... 66 Development Round Table Berry, Cate...... 58, 67 Cameron, Sharon...... 57 Council/Governance...... 51-52, 79 ...... 50-51 Betts, Walter...... 68 Cameron, Stacy...... 54 Counterman, Katherine...... 68 Adams, Shannon...... 73 Bird, Sarah...... 69 Campbell, Neisha...... 77 Crane, Ashley...... 50 Adeyemi, Tomi...... 56, 74 Black Caucus Round Table Campos, Jesus...... 65 Crown, Kevin...... 46 Adler, Dahlia...... 79 ...... 56, 60, 62, 75 Cannon, Sandra...... 62 Cruz, Nicole...... 12 Advocacy...... 7 Blackwell, Michael...... 50 Cantrell, Portia...... 64 Cuevas, Adrianna...... 59 Agee, Whitney...... 67, 69, 71, 73 Bloomfield, Kathleen...... 28, 66 Capetta, Amy Rose...... 49 Cuevas, Mayra...... 59 Albrecht, Steve...... 47 Blumenthal, Karen...... 66, 70 Career Center...... 48, 54, 65, 76 Cummings, Jennifer...... 62 Alexander, Mike...... 70 Boehme, Candi...... 75 Career path...... 16 - 19 Daniels, Meagan...... 79 Ali, S.K...... 79 Boelts, Maribeth...... 66 Castillo, Tania...... 50-51 Davis, Charlotte...... 74 Allen, Barbara...... 69 Bohrer, Cynthia...... 61 Cataloging and Metadata Round Davis, Dana...... 67 Allen, Brenda...... 48 Bolden, Tonya...... 72 Table...... 72 Davis, Meredith...... 52 Almestica, Alexandra...... 59 Bond, Jeffrey...... 72 Cavazos, Lolianette...... 63 Dawson, Margaret...... 51, 71 Alsaid, Adi...... 72 Bond, Margaret...... 62 Cawthon, Amanda...... 73 de la Pena, Mathew...... 75 Alvey-Henderson, Chad...... 62 Boone, Judy...... 61, 64, 66 Ceasar, Miguell...... 75 de los Santos, Marisa...... 28, 58 Ambriz, Lorely...... 16, 23 Boren, Melody...... 63 Ceballos, Roger...... 60 Deal, Emily...... 77 Amer, Areeba...... 68 Bose, Rumela...... 73 Center, Katherine...... 29, 50, 71 Dean, Shelda...... 61 American Association of Botello, Yolanda...... 53 Chase, Sarah...... 77 Dee, Barbara...... 67 Community Colleges (AACC)... 17 Boucher, Tricia...... 69 Chee, Traci...... 57 Delgado, Grace...... 64 Anderson, Chelsea...... 79 Bowers, Sherra...... 51 Chen, Jennifer...... 63 Delgado, Priscilla...... 54, 79 Angleberger, Tom...... 68 Bowles, David...... 79 Children’s Round Table...... 49, Dempsey, Kathy...... 57, 69 51, 53-54, 57-61, 67-68, 71-74, Antaki, Lisa...... 70 Bowman, Donna...... 58, 66, 72 Denham, Rebecca...... 77-79 58 Archer, Dustan...... 53 Brabston, Jennifer...... 66 Dethloff, Nora...... Childs, Jen...... 53 48 Archives, Genealogy, and Local Bradley, Kimberly...... 67 Deuker, Carl...... 57 History Round Table Chokshi, Roshani...... 56 Brandt, Juliana...... 77 Dewitt-Miller, Erin...... 71 ...... 46, 57, 67, 72, 73 Chou, Helen...... 62 Brannon, Sian...... 62, 72 Dibbens, Kelly...... 48-49 Aster, Alex...... 77 Christian-Long, Monique.... 70, 73 Brier, David...... 66 Dickey, Shirley...... 51, 70, 77 Atleework, Kendra...... 74 Churnin, Nancy...... 58 Brock, John...... 69 Digital Libraries Round Table Austin Public Library...... 8 Clark, Sallee...... 68 Brock, Rose...... 79 ...... 60, 69-70 Authors Area...... 23, 48, 54, 65 Clark, Samantha...... 52 Brouillard, Kelly...... 50, 70 Director’s Symposium...... 27, 65 Avila, Celita...... 49 Cline-Ransome, Lesa...... 78 Brown, Echo...... 61 Disaster Relief Art Raffle...... 47 Awards.22, 49, 52, 59, 64, 71, 78 Closing Author Session...... 28, 79 Brown, Martine...... 59 Disaster Relief Committee... 75, 77 Azzopardi, Alexa...... 59 Code of Conduct...... 43 Brown, Monica...... 78 District 1...... 65 Coffee, Margaret...... 53 Babaian, Monica...... 70 Brown, Tamiko...... 50, 70 District 2...... 64 Colbert, Brandy...... 72 Bailey, Amianne...... 55 Brown, Wanda...... 27, 65 District 3...... 65 Colbert, Mariel...... 46 Bailey, Tiffany...... 71 Bruel, Nick...... 57, 63 District 4...... 65 Cole, Buck...... 46 Bajaj, Varsha...... 48, 52 Bruton, Zachary...... 60 District 5...... 64 College and University Libraries Balcom, Melissa...... 66 Bruxvoort, Diane...... 62 District 6...... Division... 49-52, 55, 57, 60-63, 65 Bryant, Sarah...... 71 Bangilan, Joel...... 59, 70, 78 65, 68, 72, 75, 77-78 District 7...... 64 Buchanan, Cindy...... 62 Barham, Cecilia...... 5, 49 Collings, Dayna...... 59 District 8...... 65 Buckley, Michael...... Barnes, Jennifer...... 68 79 Conference Program Committee District 9...... 64 Barnett, Mac...... 66 Bulion, Leslie...... 49 ...... 43, 46-56, 58-64, 66-79 District 10...... 65 Barrera-Manzetti, Nelly...... 79 Bunton, Glenn...... 46-47 Conley, Jackie...... 74 Diversity and Inclusion Committee Barron, Rena...... 77 Burnett, Chelsea...... 77 Connection Corner. 48, 54, 65, 76 ...... 49, 61, 79 Barton, Chris...... 66, 72 Burroughs, Darci...... 70 Conner, Kaitlin...... 74 Dominguez, Angela...... 63, 66 Barton, Destinee...... 73 Butler, James...... 66 Connery, Dianne...... 59, 78 Donegan, Jill...... 71 Bates, Naomi...... 58, 61, 68, 76 Calcote, Jeri...... 56 Connolly, MarcyKate...... 77 Dorsett, Savannah...... 49 Battledecks...... 53 Caldwell, Deborah...... 78 Continuing Education Douglas, Veronica...... 68 Baty, Catherine...... 51 Caldwell, Patrice...... 74 ...... 24, 46, 48, 54, 65, 76 Drabinski, Emily...... 29, 52 Bayer, Scott...... 60 Caletti, Deb...... 67 Conyers, James...... 75 Dressen, Trish...... 63 Bean, Outspoken... 28, 53, 62, 67 Calhoun, Rachel...... 63 Cooksey, Cynthia...... 59 Duffus, Orolando...... 69

80 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Dunbar, Helene...... 61 Gieringer, Morgan...... 72 Herman, Bethany...... 73 Johnson, Kimberly...... 78 INDEX Dylla, Daniel...... 70 Gilbert, Elizabeth...... 77 Hernandez, Carlos...... 28, 79 Johnson, Lisa...... 66, 74 Eastman, Billy...... 77 Gillen, Rebecca...... 63 Hernandez, Carolina...... 77 Jones, Jessica...... 60, 78 Edge, Nancy...... 55, 57 Gladney-Lemon, Laura...... 70, 77 Hernandez-Badia, Rosenid...... 60 Jones, Leslie...... 47 Edwards, Raul...... 61 Glover, Suzanne...... 62 Herring, Gordon...... 60 Jones, Renee...... 70 Electronic Resources and Serials Goff, Marilyn...... 79 Herrington, Kimberly...... 56 Jordan, Sophie...... 68 Management Round Table Gola, Christina...... 49 Hersh, Emily...... 55 Judge, Lita...... 59 ...... 47, 49, 69 Goldstone, Lawrence...... 70 Hetherington Fun Run/Walk..... 65 June, Jason...... 58 Elledge, Kiera...... 59 Gonsalves, Tosca...... 61 Hiatt, Benetta...... 72 Justice, Adela...... 71, 73 Eller, Beth...... 74 Gonzalez, Dayra...... 62 Hickman, Kelly...... 55 Kadir, Saima...... 73 Elliott, Zetta...... 49, 72 Gonzalez, Xelena...... 79 Hicks, Crystal...... 61, 70 Kapsos, Leigh...... 60-61 El Paso Community College...... 19 Goode, Elizabeth...... 51, 71, 73 Hill, Kristy...... 68, 78 Kaufman, Susan...... 51 E-Read Texas...... 20 - 21 Gottschalk, Mark...... 64, 74, 77 Hill, Natalie...... 78 Kelley, Rebecca...... 64 Escobedo, Priscilla...... 68, 73 Government Documents Hillman, Kathy...... 68 Kim, Jessica...... 67 Round Table...... 58 Espinoza, Yenni...... 59 Hiranandani, Veera...... 68 Kim, Linette...... 53 Great Ideas Lightning Talks & eSports...... 14 - 15 Hobson, Kathleen...... 46 Kincaid, Jeremy...... Poster Sessions...... 50 50 Etheridge, Charles...... 62 Hoffman, Kathryn...... 57 King, Brooke...... Green, Angie...... 59 73 Evans, Jon...... 54 Hoffman, Starr...... 77 King, Gina...... Green, John...... 68 62 Evening with the Authors...... 75 Hoglund, Janna...... 74 Kirkland, Traci...... Greeno, Penny...... 77 63 Exhibit Hall...... 48, 54-55, 65 Holland, Sara...... 60 Kizer, Susan...... Greenwood, Valicia...... 49, 57 57 Exhibitors Round Table...... 76 Hollandsworth, Skip...... 28, 79 Klassen, Jon...... 57 Griffith, Michelle...... 64 Holmes, Ekua...... Farr, Bridget...... 72 63 Klise, Kate...... 57 Grimes, Gwin...... 62 Holmes, Gerald...... Faruqi, Saadia...... 67 78 Klise, Sarah...... 57 Guided Pathways Project... 16 - 19 Holmes, Ramona...... Finley, Thomas...... 57 56 Knight, Collette...... 56 Gulledge, Laura...... 70 Holt, Kelly...... Firestone, Megan...... 73 57 Koehlert, Nikole...... 70 Gustina, Margo...... 76 Holtmann, Libby...... Fish, Thomas...... 72 62 Koelker, June...... 61 Gutsche, Betha...... 66 Hoover, P. J. (Tricia)...... Fisher, Birgit...... 58 52 Kong, Richard...... 65, 71 Guzman, Annie...... 62 Hopkins, Ellen...... , Fisher, Cindy...... 67, 69 49 51 Korns, Tammy...... 72 Hopkinson, Deborah...... Fisher, Larry...... 61 Ha, Robin...... 63, 70 78 Krahmer, Ana...... 69 Hoppe, Kelly...... Fleming, Candace...... 70 Hafer, Carol...... 48, 64 46 Kralovansky, Susan...... 58 Horan, Kate...... , Flippin, Leah...... 61 Hairston, Amanda...... 73 59 77 Kuklin, Susan...... 49 Hornor, Heather...... , Flynt, Courtney...... 48 Halbert, Martin...... 78 71 73 Kuon, Vuthy...... 29, 56 Houston, Shannon...... Folsom, Danielle...... 52 Hands-on Labs...... 52, 60-61, 74 ...... 63, 65, 67, 69, 72-73 Howard, Elizabeth...... , LaBoon, Jennifer...... 68 Frade, Ana...... 61 50 57 Hankins, Rebecca.. 29, 66, 73, 75 Huff, Cresencia...... LaMotte, David...... 53, 56, 64 Franz, Jennifer...... 74 63 Hannigan, Kate...... 79 Hunt, Kyla...... , Landdeck, Katherine...... 74 Freeman, Laura...... 78 59 74 Hanson, Michael...... 50 Hutt, Melinda...... , Landeck, Gary...... 69 Fugit, Joyce...... 63 70 77 Harbaugh, John...... 70 Lariat Reading List Committee Fulton, Tara...... 64 llustrator Sketch-Off...... 63 ...... - Hardin, Greg...... 51 I 77 78 Furlow, Lorin...... 64 Ingram, Catherine...... 72 Larkin, Clair...... Hardy, Elissa...... 47, 55 63 Innovation and Technology Lashley, Eric...... Gain, April...... 71, 73 Hargis, Carol...... 51 61 Round Table...... 46-47, 60, 64 Lashner, William...... Gallardo, Lizette...... 71 Harrington, Kaylee...... 54 74 Innovation Lab Latham, Irene...... 49 Galvan Russell, Stephanie Harris, Misty...... 54 ...... 55, 58, 59, 61, 69, 71-72 Latino Caucus Round Table ...... 56, 61, 68, 77 Harris, Shawn...... 63, 67 Inouye, Alan...... 50 ...... 49, 61, 75, 79 Galvan, Nora...... 65 Harrison, Abby...... 68 Intellectual Freedom Committee Lawson, Rhea...... 75 Gann, Laurissa...... 49 Hartman, Angela...... 67 ...... 48, 51, 59 Lazarin, Julia...... 63 Garcia, Angelica...... 62 Hauser, Bonnie...... 72 Interlibrary Loan and Resource Leaf, Brian...... 58 Garcia, J’amie...... 56 Hausinger, Shannon...... 79 Sharing Round Table...... 48, 56 Leavitt, Caroline...... 71 Garcia, Laurie...... 47 Hayden, John...... 59 Ivester, Jo...... 67 Lebbin, Vicky...... 66 Garcia, Vilia...... 50 Hayes, Sandra...... 79 Jacks-Moorehead, Alonda...... 62 Legislative Committee...... 68, 74 Gardner, Emily...... 59 Hayes, Sara...... 48 Jackson, Tiffany...... 67 Leo, Michelle...... 53 Garr, Michael...... 59 Hayes, Sonja...... 68, 75 Jaggers, Alice...... 63 LeRoy, Jaime...... 61 Garrett, Camryn...... 57 Hedrick, Jessica...... 55 Jamieson, Victoria...... 58 Lesesne, Teri...... 77 Garza, Cesar...... 8 Heidicker, Christian...... 77 Janda, JD...... 74 Letters About Literature...... 59 Garza, Debbie...... 52 Helge, Kris...... 56 Jarnagin, Briana...... 46 Leuzinger, Julie...... 51, 78 Garza, Joel...... 60 Helmke, Jonathan...... 49 Jefferson Jr., Julius...... 49, 51 Levenseller, Tricia...... 60 Gay, Kimberly Hendrix, Dean...... 52 ...... 50-51, 56, 71, 73, 79 Jensen, Kelly...... 79 Levinson, Cynthia...... 48 Heng, Rachel...... 75 German, Lisa...... 53 Jimenez, Matthew...... 60 Lewis, Kathryn...... 27, 65 Henley, Paul...... 49 Gibbs, Stuart...... 79 Johnson, Devery...... 54 LeZotte, Anne...... 51 Hensleigh, Carole...... 59

Texas Library Association | 81 Library Friends, Trustees, and McLemore, Anna-Marie...... 61, 74 Ortiz, Jen...... 48-49 Ramsey, Kathy...... 61 Advocates Round Table McQuiston, Casey...... 68 Oser, Cynthia...... 73 Ranzau, Sara...... 50 ...... 51, 58, 61, 68 Medrano, Genaro...... 71 Osgood, Elizabeth...... 60 Rausch, Mary...... 72 Library Instruction Round Table INDEX Melton, Edward...... 52, 53 Oshiro, Mark...... 61 Rawson, Ashley...... 71 ...... 46, 50-52, 57, 67, 71 Mendez, Jasminne...... 61 O’Toole, Erin...... 79 Ray, Tori...... 66 Library School Alumni Events.... 75 Menon, Sandhya...... 68 Ousley, Julia...... 63 Reagor, Katharine...... 65 Library Support Staff Round Table Meriano, Anna...... 59 Owens, Erin...... 63 Reeves, Rachel...... 62 ...... 59 Middleton, Kayla...... 56, 66, 73 Reeves, Susan...... 56, 71, 74 Linscott, Kristin...... 57 Pacheco, Jennifer...... 54 Mikel, Amy...... 60, 69, 74 Reference and Information Lloyd, Patrick...... 47, 62, 66 Parisi, Anthony...... 53 Miles, Dennis...... Services Round Table. 49, 51, 74 Local Arrangements Committee 55 Park, Linda Sue...... 60 Registration...... 48, 54, 65, 76 ...... 43, 49, 51, 56, 64-65 Miller, Kayla...... 68 Parker, Sharon...... 62 Retired Librarians Round Table Loft, Brian...... 50 Miller, Margaret...... 70 Peduzzi, Kelsey...... 60 ...... 49, 56, 64 Loftin, Robert...... 50 Miller, Ryan...... 67, 69, 71, 73 Pekoll, Kristin...... , 48 59 Rettie, Robin...... 58 Logan, Erin...... 70 Mills, DiAnn...... 75 Pennington, Jenny...... 63 Reynolds, Jason...... 27, 76 Long, Jaclyn...... 76 Mitchell, Saundra...... 79 Perez, Steve...... 65 Reynolds, Ronald...... 57 Loranc, Lisa...... 62 Mjolsness, Brooke...... 62 Perkins, Babette...... 58 Richardson, Erica...... 61, 72 Lord, Emery...... 57 Mohamed, Omar...... 58 Perry, Gail...... 77 Richardson, Janie...... 51 Lore, Danny...... 74 Montenegro, Debbie...... 47 Perry, Karin...... , 69 77 Ridnour, Sue...... 60 Love, Barbie...... 69 Moore, Julie...... 58 Perryman, Tom...... 68 Rike, Jennifer...... 56, 65, 73 Lowe, Heather...... 60, 62 Morgan, Felicia...... 50 Peters, Scott...... 49 Rindahl, Montana...... 78 Lowry, Lois...... 27, 75 Morgan, Keylan...... 57 Peterson, Cynthia...... 62 Rinehart, Tracey...... 79 Loya, Allyssa...... 58 Mote, Melissa...... 73 Pham, Thanh...... - 56 57 Rinker, Sherri...... 67 Ludwick, Cameron...... 69 Moye, Ashley...... 70 Philippi, Elizabeth...... , , 56 74 79 Rinn, Martha...... 60 Lyon, Colleen...... 56 Muilenburg, Lisa...... 73 Pilcher, Rachel...... 66 Robertson, Nikki...... 58 Munns, David...... 50 Pinkerton, Pamela...... Mabry, Samantha...... 72 73 Robinson, Gleniece...... 72 Munro, Roxie...... 63 Pipkin, Turk...... MacDonell, Julia...... 78 55 Robson, Diane...... 50, 61, 71 Murillo-Sutterby, Sandra...... 79 Pittman, Kristyn...... MacWatters, Jan...... 66 65 Rookey, Caitlin...... 55, 70 Murphy, Julie...... 72 Plevak, Linda...... Madan, Vikram...... 49 61 Roper, Terry...... 67, 78 amey, Laura...... Plumer, Danielle..... , , , Malo, Lucia...... 78 N 59 20 65 69 79 Rosales, Alicia...... 63 Malone, Andrea...... 62 Nebeker, Elizabeth...... 49, 62 Podmore, Lucy...... 73 Rosales-Dawson, Brandi Mancusi, Mari...... 52 Nelson, Denise...... 29, 66 Politsch, Deborah...... 61 ...... 54, 57, 64 Mangum, Jacob...... 64, 70 New Members Round Table Polk, Charlotte...... 61 Rountree, Amanda...... 53 ...... 48-49, 51, 78 Manley, Rebekah...... 59 Polk, Elizabeth...... 52 Roussin, Lorraine...... 77 Newman, Magdalena...... 28, 58 Mann, Leah...... 66 Ponce De Leon, Cecily...... 79 Roy, April...... 68 Newry, Renee...... 58 Mann, Susan...... 68, 74 Ponti, James...... 74 Ruiz-Flores, Lupe...... 58 Newsum, Janice...... 60 Manuel, Jordan...... 49 Pope, Sara...... 58 Rumsey, Bronwyn...... 73 Nguyen, Rachel...... 73 Margolis, Kate...... 72 Portele, Paige...... 62 Russell, Holly...... 54 Nguyen, Tuan...... 50-51 Marketing...... 8 - 10 Pottsboro Public Library..... 14 - 15 Russell-Brown, Katheryn...... 78 Nicholas, Melissa...... 53 Marks, Howard...... 62 Preconferences...... 46-47 Rutan, Tracy...... 57 Nielsen, Wendy...... 63 Marks, Janae...... 74 Preston, Debra...... 60 Nieto-Rodriguez, Elma...... 62 Sabat, Yaika...... 60, 74 Martin, John...... 72 Prilop, Valerie...... 67 Noble, Lydia...... 54 Sachar, Louis...... 79 Martin, Nina...... 56, 69, 77 Prock, Jana...... 57 Norris, Jenna...... 47 Saenz, Patricia...... 65 Martineau, Maxym...... 68 Professional Issues and Ethics Norris, Lesley...... 63 Committee...... 70 Salaysay, Cynthia...... 68 Massey, Buffie...... 77 Nova, Cassie...... 29, 53 Programming for Adults Round Salazar, Ramiro...... 50 Matin, Faria...... 70 Nutt, Lee Ann...... 74 Table...... 60, 62, 70, 72 Sale-Davis, Clara...... 64 Matz, Chris...... 60, 62 Nye, Naomi...... 49 Pruett, Gretchen...... 74 Sales, Leila...... 52 Mazes, Annie...... 53 Pshock, Daniel...... 69 Salinas, Alma...... 65 McAlpine, Sabine...... 57 akes, Cory...... 52 O Public Libraries Division Sams, Geoffrey...... 53, 72 Offerman, Nick...... , McCarthy, Cori...... 49 29 53 ...... 48, 50-51, 53, 57, 59, Santos, Michele...... 14 Ogle, Rex...... McConnell, Susan...... 53 51 ...... 61-63, 67-71, 74-75, 77-78 Saunders, Jesse...... 72 Olivarez, Maria...... McCorcle, Dianne...... 77 68 Public Relations and Marketing Scanlon, Elizabeth...... 58 Oliver, Carmen...... McCord, Gretchen...... 54 58 Committee...... 73 Schachte, Kylie...... 60 Olsen, Hannah...... McDonald, Emma...... 54, 67 72 Purser, Lori...... 73 Scholarship Committee...... 67 Onyemeh, Laquanda...... , McDonnell, Kenneth...... 46, 57 58 78 Queers and Allies Round Table Schulz, Sonja...... 79 O’Pella, Sarah...... , McGee, Katharine...... 56 50 57 ...... 51, 60, 71, 73, 75 Schwartz, Daniel...... 62 Opening Awards & Author Session McKee, Anne...... 48 Quiroga-Stultz, Carolina..... 47, 75 Scieszka, Jon...... 57 ...... 28, 58 McKenzie, Stacy...... 62 Scrivan, Maria...... 68 Oppel, Kenneth...... 77 Rademacher, Golda...... 53 McLane, Curren...... 50, 64 See, Lisa...... 27, 54 Orozco, Rachel...... 62 Ramirez, Clemencia...... 68 McLaughlin, Lynne...... 63 Seely, Amber...... 63

82 | Texas Library Journal WINTER 2019 Seiler, Carol...... 47 Supervision, Management, and Timmons, Tracy...... 75 achsmann, Melanie...... 62 INDEX Administration Round Table W Selley, Mikaela...... 78 Tims, Rachel...... 73 Wade, Valerie...... 52, 60, 62, 78 78 Sharif, Ather...... 48 Tingle, Tim...... 75-76 Wadyko, Kelly...... Swaringen, Robin...... 60, 62 56 Sharyland ISD...... 12 Tintera, Amy...... 61 Wagoner, Mary...... Swartz, Elly...... 67 63 Sheinmel, Alyssa...... 60 TLA After Hours...... 53 Wall, John...... Sweeney, Cate...... 73 77 Shenkir, Christofer...... 72 TLA Executive Board Candidates Warren, Mea...... 69 Sylve, Joshua...... 63 ...... 23 Sheth, Kashmira...... 57 Warren, Wendy...... 47 Sylvester, Natalia...... 59, 72 TLA Store...... 48, 54, 65 Shimek, Allison...... 59 Watkins, Joshua...... 67, 69, 71-73 Tocker Committee...... 59 Shorr, Manya...... 60 Tadena, Laura...... 78 Watson, Renée...... 60 Tocker, Darryl...... 63 Shouse, Deborah...... 68 Tagoe, Valerie...... 77 Watterman, Amy...... 78 Todaro, Julie...... 60-61 Shovan, Laura...... 67 Tahaney, Jeneene...... 73 Watts, Angela...... 77-78 Toman, April...... 77 Shupla, Martin...... 62 Talamantes, Arnulfo (AJ)...... 71 Waugh, Laura...... 56 Torre, Kylah...... 68 Shusterman, Neal...... 75 TALL Texans Round Table Waukechon, Russlene...... 79 ...... 51-53, 56 Torres, Melissa...... 54 Shuttle Service...... 48, 54, 65, 76 Weatherford, Carole..... 28, 70, 79 Tarshis, Lauren...... 59 Touchet, Michelle...... 64, 77 Simmons, Kristen...... 56 Weaver, Robert...... 70 Tate, Don...... 72 Tovar, Michelle...... 47 Simmons, Toni...... 67 Weeks, Roosevelt...... 52 Taylor, Christina...... 61 Trammell, Bernadette...... 78 Simon, Janice...... 56 Weimar, Holly...... 69 Tebes-Kokojan, Sara...... 59 Trelease, Gita...... 56 Skyy, Jenna...... 29, 53 Weinberg, Steven...... 57 Tejas Star Reading List Committee Tristan, Marina...... 61 Small Community Libraries Round Weiss, Danyelle...... 62 Table...... 59, 61, 68, 72, 75-76 ...... 69 Tsacalis, Ernest...... 49 Wetmore, Elizabeth...... 71 Smith, Bailey...... 71 Terry, Kansas...... 60 Tsukiyama, Gail...... 75 Whalen, Amy...... 66 Smith, Edward...... 48, 53 Test, Janis...... 61 Tucker, Cindy...... 58 Whitehead, Michele...... 49, 59 Smith, Garrett...... 61 Texas Association of School Tucker, Pat...... 29, 56 Whittaker, Kristen...... 78 Smith, Nathan.. 63, 67, 69, 71, 73 Librarians...... 49, 54, 57, 59-64, Tumulty, Megan...... 78 ...... 66-74, 76-79 Wilbert, Dawn...... 70, 72 Smith, Spencer...... 66, 78 Turk, Evan...... 67 Texas Authors and Illustrators Williams, Holly...... 59 Smoot, Madeline...... 52 Round Table...... 52, 58, 64 Ukazu, Ngozi...... 63, 70 Wilson, Bethany...... 59, 70, 73 Social media...... 8-10 Texas Bluebonnet Award Ulmer, Delaine...... 63 Wilson, Steve...... 52 Soontornvat, Christina...... 58, 72 Programming Committee...... 47 University of Houston - Clear Lake Wilson, Troyce...... 63 Special Libraries Division Texas Bluebonnet Award Selection ...... 75 Wittenstein, Barry...... 66 ...... 54, 58, 63, 67, 75 Committee...... 71 University of North Texas...... 75 Wood, Jill...... 78 Spencer, Catherine...... 78 Texas Book Festival Committee. 63 University of Texas at Austin...... 75 Woodard, Mary...... 53-54 Spencer, John.. 29, 69-70, 72, 74 Texas State Library & Archives Upstart Committee...... 49 Woodland, Wendy...... 7 Stafford, Michael...... 53 Commission... 21, 47-50, 55-59, Urdiales, Tina...... 57, 63 Woods, Rita...... Stailey, Jay...... 78 ...... 61, 65-67, 69, 71, 73-76, 79 71 Stamper, Phil...... 49 Texas Tea...... 62 Vaccari, Chris...... 53 Young Adult Round Table Stanley, Virginia...... 53 Texas Topaz Reading List Vadney, Marianne...... 77 ...... 49, 51, 53, 55-58, 60-62, Starr, Kristi...... 54, 57 Committee..... 58, 66, 70, 74, 78 Valdes, Zachary...... 50 ...... 67-68, 70, 72, 74, 77, 79 Stayton, Jennifer...... 69 Texas Municipal Library Directors Valera, Janelle...... 48 Young, Betsy...... 73 Stead, Rebecca...... 60 Association...... 67, 77 Van Hoy, Teresa...... 50 Youngblood, Lisa...... 73 Stevens, Linda...... 74 Texas Woman’s University Vela, Betsy...... 50 Yzaguirre, Rachel...... 71, 73 ...... 50, 52, 75 Stewart, Jennifer...... 61 Vélez, Lucy...... 63 annier, Katrina...... 70 Texas Youth Creator Awards Z Stimpson, Jane...... , , Velis, Cynthia...... 57 56 59 73 Committee...... 64, 78 Zapata, Roberto...... 77 Stokes, Henry...... Veron, Shelly...... 66 69 Therapy Dogs...... 49, 56 Zeimet, Peter...... 50 Storytelling Round Table Vidales, Marisol...... 59, 77 Thomas, Sherry...... 49 Zeman, Deborah...... 70 ...... 47, 62, 67, 75-76, 78 Vineyard, Karlee...... 46 Thomasson, Sarah...... 76 Zentner, Jeff...... 67 Strover, Sharon...... 59, 77 Visnak, Kelly...... 56 Thompson, Jamie...... 74 Zepeda, Caricia...... 49 Summers, Courtney...... 57 Voter registration...... 12 Zhao, Katie...... 79 Thompson, Janet...... 61 Vyoral, Ann...... 56, 67, 74, 76 Timberlake, Amy...... 57 Zinkie, Lisa...... 50, 77 Zoglin, Ron...... 68

Texas Library Association | 83 Preregistration postmark deadline is PREREGISTRATION MARCH 6, 2020 HOUSTON FORM √ Refund requests must be submitted via email MARCH 24 27 to [email protected] no later than March 17, 2020. Check here if you prefer to receive emails from exhibitors with news and information about Refunds will be issued with a $50 processing fee NOT deducted. conference booth events, drawings, giveaways, news, etc.

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√ Individual TLA member dues for 2020 must be √ Name badges are required for all programs, events, paid prior to or with this preregistration to receive exhibits, and shuttle buses. discounted TLA member rates. Join online or download the membership application at √ For TLA members, the city and state that appear on √ Exhibits-only passes are sold www.txla.org/join. your name badge reflects your business address, if through online registration as well available. as onsite. √ Calculate preregistration, preconference, ticketed events, and (if applicable) membership fees on the lines indicated on the reverse of this form. TLA Membership #______First Name to Display on Badge ______10 character limit Library Type Affiliation: ___ Academic ___ Public ___ School ___ Special ___ Does not apply PLEASE FILL IN ALL INFO

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Gender and Sexuality Advocacy What Patrons Need to Know to Improve These additional events are offered through Training 8 AM - 12 PM Their Financial Lives 8 AM - 12 PM ONLINE REGISTRATION ONLY. FREE Free AA4 Member $5 AH1 Tuesday, March 24 EDIcon: Foundations of Equity, Non-Member $35 AH2 EZproxy Basics/ Advanced EZproxy Diversity, and Inclusion 8 AM - 12 PM Collaborating with a Common Purpose Library Safety: Better Security, Build Youth Financial Literacy Member $5 AC1 Better Facilities 12 - 3 PM Learn to Love Serials Managment Non-Member $35 AC2 Member $5 AN1 Speed Dating the Bluebonnets Trauma, Resiliency, and Self-Care Non-Member $35 AN2 Holocaust Museum Tour Grant Writing 101 8 AM - 12 PM Tour the Exhibit Hall Member $5 AD1 Elefantes & Alligators: Storytelling Wednesday, March 25 Non-Member $35 AD2 Techniques with Language and Basic Book Repair Lab Learning to Engage All Listeners 12:30 - 3:30 PM Beyond Text Lab Library, Camera, Action Lab Member $45 AP1 Literacy Letters, and Libraries: Texas Thursday, March 26 Non-member $75 AP2 General Land Office Archives 8 AM - 12 PM Clean Up Your Google Life Lab

FREE Free AG1 Research Says- Doodling Lab Pt 1 & 2 Making Flyers Lab But Do They Really Use It? Lab 3 TICKETED EVENTS Conference registration fees NOT required Chrome 101 Lab Friday, March 27 Tuesday, March 24 Texas Bluebonnet Award Author Session Advocating to Stakeholders Lab A Toast to Library Pioneer Elenora Alexander $50 CD1 QTY____ $30 AR3 QTY____ Evening with the Authors Indicate if you require a special meal: Children's Lit Pub Trivia: After Dark $75 CE1 QTY____ Member $25 AT1 ___ Vegetarian ___ Vegan ___ Gluten-free Wednesday, March 25 Small Communiy Libraries Round Table Social 30th Anniversary Black Caucus FREE AW1 QTY______Lactose-free Round Table Author Session $30 CAB QTY____ TWU Library School Reception ___ Other (explain) ______Opening Author Session $20 FB1 QTY____ $50 CB1 QTY______UNT Library School Alumni Dinner Texas Tea: Meet & Greet YA Authors $35 AU1 QTY____ $25 FC1 QTY____ Thursday, March 26 UT Austin Reception Hetherington XXXIII Fun Run/Walk FREE FD QTY____ When you preregister for conference online, Runner (Dry Fit Shirt) you will also receive discounted rates. $25 AV1 QTY____ University of Houston-- Clear Lake Reception Spectator/Virtual Runner (cotton) No purchase orders accepted; $25 AW1 QTY____ FREE FE QTY____ preregistration form must be postmarked by MARCH 6. One T-shirt per ticket; indicate size and quantity. S ____ M ____ XL ____ 2XL ____ 3XL ____ 4XL ____ Friday, March 27 Director's Symposium: Leading Through Change Closing Author Session $35 CC1 QTY____ $50 CF1 QTY____

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 2020 Membership ...... $ ______No. ______(include membership form) TOTAL DUE ...... $ ______CVV (sec. code) ______Exp. date: Mo. ______Year ______

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Texas Library Association | 85 Texas Library Association Salary $20,000 through $29,999 ...... $81

2020 Individual Membership Salary $30,000 through $39,999 ...... $113 CALENDAR YEAR JAN - DEC Salary $40,000 through $59,999 ...... $156 • Dues must be postmarked or entered online by January 31, 2020 to vote for association officers. Salary $60,000 through $79,999 ...... $167 Distance/E-Learning DG

• Members falling into two or more categories of membership shall pay the highest Salary $80,000 and above ...... $184 applicable dues. Full-time Library Student (not currently employed in a library) or • Individual membership dues are non-refundable and non-transferable. High School Student (C) ...... $25 • Except for $5.42 of your dues for this year’s subscription to the Texas Library Retired Librarian (D) ...... $38 Journal and TLACast, your TLA dues may be tax deductible as a charitable donation. Consult with your tax advisor to determine eligibility. Vendor (V) ...... $100

To JOIN OR RENEW ONLINE (preferred) visit WWW.TXLA.ORG/JOIN Trustee/Layperson/Advocate (E) ...... $38

Supporting Member (F) ...... $248

Out of State Member (G) ...... $65 STEP ONE: Tell us about yourself. STEP THREE: Select your Division. FIRST NAME ______MIDDLE NAME ______(One Division included in basic dues)

LAST NAME ______College and University Libraries (1)

Public Libraries (2) NICKNAME (IF ANY) ______Special Libraries or other library related work places (3)

TLA MEMBERSHIP NUMBER, IF KNOWN ______Texas Association of School Librarians (4)

EMPLOYMENT: INSTITUTION/LIBRARY ______STEP FOUR: Select your Round Tables. (One Round Table included in basic dues) ( )

TITLE ______Acquisitions & Collection Development RT (A)

Archives, Genealogy, & Local History RT (Ll) CAMPUS BRANCH/DEPARTMENT ______Black Caucus RT (Z) Preferred mailing address: Home Work Cataloging & Metadata RT (C) WORK STREET ADDRESS ______Annually, Jan-Dec (Insurance Premium per Children’s RT (D) Member: $28.00; State Taxes/Fees (5%): $1.40; Association’s Administrative Fees: $10.60) Copyright & Access RT (E) CITY ______STATE ______ZIP+4 ______

Digital Libraries RT (Dd) WORK PHONE ______FAX______E-SMART (electronic resources) RT (R)

HOME STREET ADDRESS ______Exhibitors RT (formerly TPALS) (S)

Government Documents RT (K) CITY ______STATE ______ZIP+4 ______

Do not publish my home information Innovation & Technology RT (N)

HOME PHONE ______CELL PHONE ______Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing RT (L) Other U.S. school ______

Latino Caucus RT (T) PREFERRED EMAIL ______Library Friends, Trustees, & Advocates RT (G)

SECONDARY EMAIL ______Library Instruction RT (U)

Library Support Staff RT (X) Please note your preference regarding useful and timely electronic information from TLA and occasionally from screened outside organizations: Programming for Adults RT (Kk)

From TLA and outside organizations - or - From TLA only Queers & Allies RT (Cc)

I do NOT want to be auto-subscribed to Unit electronic lists. Reference & Information Services RT (F)

STEP TWO: Select your membership category.

Individual membership dues are non-refundable & non-transferable.

Personal Member (G) Librarian, Library Professional, Library Staff Dues Schedule:

Unemployed through $9,999 ...... $25

Salary $10,000 through $14,999 ...... $48

Salary $15,000 through $19,999 ...... $65

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Other U.S. school ______

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