Programming Schedule

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Tuesday, March 25
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
	Romance Readers Advisory 101	Charles  Ramsdell  Boyle  Mosley  Hamilton-Selway  Stanley  Childs
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
	Spanish Language Outreach	Staley  Pomerantz  Rubin  Huertero  Staley
	Beginners' Guide to Serving Teens	Alessio  Buron
	Guys Read: Make Noise with Boys Book Discussions	McLaughlin  Barry  Swenson  McNally  Johnson  Wronka  Scieszka  Opat  O'Brien  Dillon  Lane  LaFleur  O'Brien  Dressen  Brown
	Cultural Programs for Libraries: Linking Libraries, Communities and Culture	Robertson  Solie  George  Hopkins  Mackintosh  Fournier  Wilson  Sumerford
	Children's Spaces, Family Places: Developing Interactive Early Literacy Environments in Your Library	Ghoting  Ebbighausen  Sletten  van der Veen  Sullivan  Bjerke  Redman  Ghoting  Wussow
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
	Where Readers Go Books Follow: The Future of Audio Materials in Public Libraries	Schneider  Mediatore Stover  Saricks  Chelton  Beauregard  Napier  Brick  Whitten
Wednesday, March 26
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
	Winning Media Interviews: Sure-Fire Tactics to Get Your Messages Out	Mongelluzzo
	Telling Tales for Early Literacy	Reynolds  Engelfried
	Grants for Libraries	Gerding
	Who said, "Management Can't be Fun?"	Johnson  Parr
	Bridging the Divide: Libraries Transform Communities	Willingham  Lauffer  McBride  Kranich
	HR for Results	Singer  Goodrich
Thursday, March 27
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
	Protect, Project and Present! Essential Tips for Supervisors, Speakers and Storytellers.	Damp Klossner
	Reading Special Needs Books To Children: What is the Relevance? (Talk Table)	Ellis
	Clap! Shake! Play! Sing! Creating Musical Storytimes to Encourage Emergent Literacy	Wagner  Cohen
	Bridging the Gap: Library Services to Latinos	Auwarter  Ames  Vicente  Benson  Ames
	Friendraising: Begin or Revitalize a FOL Group Using a "Murder at the Library" Fundraiser (Talk Table)
	The Digital Revolution and Libraries - Where Are We and What's Next?	Lowe  Davis  Bertot  Bolt
	Running The One Woman (or Man) Show: Successful Adult Programming When You Have a Million Things to Do!	Rauseo  Unger  Biando Edwards
	Why We Borrow! Redesigning Libraries By Learning from Successful Retail Practices	Rosenblum  Nacu  Luthro  Rosenblum
	Trading Spaces: Everyday Transformations to Maintain Merchandising Momentum @ your library	Schalk-Greene  Bernstein  Schalk-Greene
	Where's a YA Librarian When You Need One? Teen Reader's Advisory for the Library Generalist	Booth  Cox
	Caught in the Middle: Immigration Controversy and Library Services	Gitner  Gitner  Reed  Naficy  Garcia-Febo
	What I Really Meant Was...	Johnson  Parr
	Re-Thinking Our Workforce: One System's New Approach to Consulting with Member Libraries (Talk Table)	McKewon  Netz
	Why Do We Dewey?: Redesigning for a Customer-Centered Experience	Hartman  Patzer  Staley  Pyko
	How to Improve Your Chances of Getting the Library Director Position You Want	Garcia  Bradbury  Garcia
	What Does It Take to Be Good at Reference in the Age of Google?	Grodinsky  Janes
	Authors Readers Theatre	Munoz Ryan  Selznick  Weeks  Sherman  Author
	Committed to the Community: A Community Services Website (Talk Table)	Barker
	Improving Service with Continuous Process Improvement (Talk Table)	Crisp  Spencer
	Kicking the Tires: Choosing and Using Mobile Library Services Vehicles (Talk Table)	Crowther  Simpson
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
	Libraries Prosper with Passion, Purpose & Persuasion: A PLA Toolkit for Success	Young  Reif  Hearn
	1 in 10: Reaching Out to the LGBT Community	Jasumback  Ellison  Williams
	Crouching Tigers, Reading Dragons: Learn How 5,000 American and Canadian Students Are Reading and Reaching Across Borders.	Palmer  Con  Howard  Warner  Palmer
	Everyone Is Getting Crabbier	Nelson
	Library Services to Homeschoolers (Talk Table)	Furness  Poole
	You're Fired! When the Ideal Candidate Becomes the Problem Employee	Treadway  Alston  O'Connell
	Think Outside the Barn @ Your Library (Talk Table)	Greene  Miller
	21st Century Library Design	VanderPloeg  Boisvenue-Fox  Hakala-Ausperk  Bolan  Ciccarelli  VanderPloeg
	Utilizing Youth Volunteers After School @ Your Library	Glaesemann  Aracena  Humphrey  Glaesemann
	Get Real: Nonfiction Booktalks with Huge Appeal to Kids	Baxter
	What's the Buzz? Word-of-Mouth Marketing and Libraries (Talk Table)	Hoffman  Zielinski
	Neighbour Power: Community Leadership Action Model (Talk Table)	Humphrey  Toombs
	The Disconnected: Who Are They? How Can We Help Them?	Lawler  Degyansky  Kahn  Degyansky
	Take a Walk: Mobile Reference Services (Talk Table)	Bachowski  Conklin
	Making Cities Stronger: Public Library Contributions to Local Economic Development	Milam  Ryan  Gomez  Manjarrez  Rybak  Milam
	One Size Does Not Fit All: Three Successful Library Partnerships Serving Adult English Language Learners	Watts  Thornbury  Peterson  Krzewinski
	Reinventing 5 - The Library Test: Questions from Your Customers in 2008	Hyman
	In This Age of the Internet, Who Uses the Public Library? Who Doesn't? and Why?	Brown - Syed  King  Garcia  Kent
	Technozoo	Schember  Souza
	WE Lead (Talk Table)	Puntney  Strand
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
	How Branding Can Increase the Relevance of Your Library	Keller
	Take Your Online Services to the Next Level: Audio, Video, and More!	Jeske
	Supporting Early Literacy in Young English Language Learners: Language of the Heart @ your library	Neef  Duran  Bjerke  Farrell
	Not Just the PATRIOT ACT!: Coping with Any Law Enforcement Requests	Oliver  Caldwell-Stone
	Sure, the Parents Aren't Complaining, but... : Objective Storytime Observations (Talk Table)	Grazier  Williams
	Prime Time Family Reading: Hardwiring Alliances for Success	Leach  Pass  Flanagan  McPheeters
	Science Quest: Creating Weird, Wild and Wonderful Programs at Your Library.	Sollers  Rosendale
	Mix It Up: Using Blended Learning for Staff Training	Mason  Perkins  Wegner  Leininger  Feldman  Kahle
	Jumpstarting a 105 Year-Old Community Icon: Bringing a 19th Century Library into the 21st Century	Rossi  Kaplan
	Museum Adventure Pass (Talk Table)	Lederer  Caven
	Sexy Senior Programming @ Your Library	Mullen  Kalchthaler
	Technozoo	Schember  Souza
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