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Session Preference Survey
Let us know which concurrent programs you are most likely to attend.
(Note: you are not registering for programs by completing this survey.)

Please select the two programs that interest you the most, and either of which you are most likely to attend, in each time slot. You may not select more than two in any time slot.

You can read individual program descriptions and speaker names by clicking here. They are organized by day and timeslot.

Thursday, March 27 8:30am
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Authors Readers Theatre
Bridging the Gap: Library Services to Latinos
Caught in the Middle: Immigration Controversy and Library Services
Clap! Shake! Play! Sing! Creating Musical Storytimes to Encourage Emergent Literacy
How to Improve Your Chances of Getting the Library Director Position You Want
Protect, Project and Present! Essential Tips for Supervisors, Speakers and Storytellers
Running The One Woman (or Man) Show: Successful Adult Programming When You Have a Million Things to Do!
The Digital Revolution and Libraries - Where Are We and What's Next?
Trading Spaces: Everyday Transformations to Maintain Merchandising Momentum @ your library
What Does It Take to Be Good at Reference in the Age of Google?
Where's a YA Librarian When You Need One? Teen Reader's Advisory for the Library Generalist
Why Do We Dewey?: Redesigning for a Customer-Centered Experience
Why We Borrow! Redesigning Libraries By Learning from Successful Retail Practices
'What I Really Meant Was...'
Thursday, March 27 10:30am
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Libraries Prosper with Passion, Purpose & Persuasion: A PLA Toolkit for Success
1 in 10: Reaching out to the LGBT Community
21st Century Library Design
Crouching Tigers, Reading Dragons: Learn how 5,000 American and Canadian students are reading and reaching across borders.
Everyone Is Getting Crabbier
Get Real: Nonfiction Booktalks with Huge Appeal to Kids
In This Age of the Internet, Who Uses the Public Library? Who Doesn't? and Why?
Making Cities Stronger: Public Library Contributions to Local Economic Development
Reinventing 5 - The Library Test: Questions from Your Customers in 2008
Serving Adult Learners: Three Models at Minneapolis Public Library
Technozoo
The Disconnected: Who Are They? How Can We Help them?
You're Fired! When the Ideal Candidate Becomes the Problem Employee
Thursday, March 27 2pm
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Best Practices in Blended Approaches to E-Learning
Data Is Not a Four Letter Word: Using PLA Results Tools
How Branding Can Increase the Relevance of Your Library
Jumpstarting a 105 Year-Old Community Icon: Bringing a 19th Century Library into the 21st Century
Not Just the PATRIOT ACT!: Coping with Any Law Enforcement Requests
Pain in the Brain
Science Quest: Creating Weird, Wild and Wonderful Programs at Your Library.
Sexy Senior Programming @ Your Library
So What? Using Outcome Measurement to Assess the Impact of Library Programs
Supporting Early Literacy in Young English Language Learners: Language of the Heart @ your library
Take Your Online Services to the Next Level: Audio, Video, and More!
Weeders Attract More Readers!
Thursday, March 27 4pm
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Authors Readers Theatre
Building a Winning Workplace: Gain Ground, Rebound, Resound!
Creating dynamic library atmospheres: what we can learn from theater, retail, museums, and the Container Store
Dealing with Teens...Virtually
DEWEY OR DON’T WE
Evaluating the Library Director
Learning in Uncertain Times: A School/Library/Base Partnership Fostering Learning and Community
Making the Yellow Brick Road: Guiding Patrons on the Path of Discovery Through Way-finding
Public Libraries as Community Problem Solvers
Readers' Advisory Tool Kit III: Market Driven Readers’ Advisory Skills – Promote the Backlist, Plan a Genre Study, and Track the Buzz of Books -Three More Skills to Increase Your Effectiveness as an RA Librarian
Talking without Jargon: Improving Library/IT Relations
The Angst of Your Library's Website: Mission Information, Design
Friday, March 28 8:30am
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Bilingual Subject Access for the 21st Century
Building the Library's Future - Facility Master Planning
Catch a Northern Star: MN Authors Who Speak to Teens
Gamers in the Stacks!
GO LIVE! Videoconferencing with ease
Great Libraries for Dummies! or Been There, Done That, What Now?
How to work positively and constructively in a unionized environment
In the Tradition: The Legacy of Culture Messengers From Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur
Ins and Outs of Community Surveys
Lobbying for Regular Folk
Looking Inside: Adapting Staffing for Results @ Your Public Library
Ready, Set, READ !
Remote Access: Distant Libraries of the World
Supplementing Homework Centers and Resources with Online Homework Help
Friday, March 28 10:30am
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Access Expanded: At Home Library Services
Building Buzz to Shake the Library Stereotype
Customizing Customer Self-Service
Dangerous Ideas: What if libraries ...
Handling Upset Patrons: From the Irate to the Insane
How to Move a Library
Less IS More: Vendor Partnerships Re-Engineer Collection Development/Technical Services
Optimizing Space for Results: Library Spaces for Today's Services:
Recruit Teens to Work for Your Library Now and Later
The Best in Mystery Authors Revealed!
The Cutting Edge: The Latest Information on Web 2.0
The Game Studio: 21st Century Technologies for 21st Century Teens
What Is a Public Library - And Why Do They Still Matter?
When the Story Is True: Practicing Nonfiction Readers' Advisory
Friday, March 28 2pm
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Joint Use Facilities - Find Out What You Should Know Before One Is Proposed in Your Community
Library Conflict Management for Consenting Adults
Mission Impossible—Build Your Own ILS
Native Voices: Books By and About American Indian People
Partnering to Recruit and Educate New Librarians
Prime Time Family Reading: Hardwiring Alliances for Success
RX for RA - Training Library Staff in Fiction and Nonfiction
Selling a Sponsorship Without Selling Your Soul
The Central Library: Crown Jewel or Tarnished Tiara?
Think Outside the Book: Online Services as Outreach
Utilizing Youth Volunteers After School @ Your Library
What's the Big Idea? The Idea Store and the Future of Public Libraries.
'InQUEERY,' or Out of the Stacks
'We Shall Remain': Public Libraries Team up with PBS to Explore a Native History of America
Friday, March 28 4pm
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Becoming a Better Public Library Manager: Certification Works
Catastrophe Readiness and Response: Proactive Roles for Public Libraries
First Impressions Last! Simple Branding and PR Tips for Libraries.
Former Supermarkets: Restocking the Shelves with Books
How Libraries Can Help Kids Succeed With Their Homework
Information 911: Competencies for 21st Century Library Services
Let's Get Married: Bringing Friends & Foundations Together to Raise More Money
Making Space for Teens in Libraries - Case Studies of Three California Libraries
MedlinePlus Goes Local: Linking Quality Health Information to Local Health Services Through Partnerships
Off Your Seat and On Your Feet! Proactive Reference Customer Service
The Library Literacy Assessment Platform: An Online Tool for Telling Your Literacy Story
The Need to Lead
What's Love Got to Do With It
You Want It When?!: Beating the Challenge of 48-hour Turnaround in Technical Services
Saturday, March 29 8:30am
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Navigating the Labyrinth: Explorations in Service to Foster Teens
Creating Environments from Tots to Teens
Creating new stories and investigating new literacies with virtual worlds, interactive media, and games
Customer Satisfaction Management - Using Surveys and Shoppers to Raise the Bar
It Ain't Necessarily So: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship
Marketing Without Money
Materials for Our Diverse Communities: Unfamiliar Alphabets and Characters
No Grant Needed! Cheap and Easy Accommodations for People with Disabilities
Raising Mediawise Kids: Resources to Help Train the Trainers
The Memoir: The Readers' Advisor's Dream or Nightmare
Transform Yourself, Transform Your Library
Working with Difficult Patrons
Saturday, March 29 10:15am
   Concurrent Program Sessions
Boomers - A Different Mindset for Volunteerism
Building a Respectful Workplace: A Labor-Management Collaboration
Building Your Resilient Career - Agile, Opportunistic, and Sustaining
Changing Cultures: Experiences in Fostering Innovation From Within
From Hype to Help: Making a Difference with New Technologies
Guidelines for Reference Service to Teens
Not Just for Young Adults - Graphic Novels for Kids
Superheroes to Serial Killers: Librarians in Literature
Twenty Cultures-One Voice: Nuances and Challenges of Marketing Library Services to the Hispanic Community
Libraries as Greenbuildings--What Are You in for? And What's in It for You!

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