2012 Conference Sessions

Preconference Sessions

Preconference 1 – Interest-Based Problem Solving
Preconference 2 – Library Programming with the Brain in Mind
Preconference 3 – Preserving & Identifying Photographs Preconference 4 – Finding, Assessing, & Celebrating Authentic Indigenous Literature

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Conference Sessions

Breakout Session 1

Library Services Hit the Road: Web on Wheels
Assessing Library Services, Collections, & Facilities
Stalking the Wild eBook
NCRL, ACLU, and Filtering
Play Literacy in Your Library

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Breakout Session 2

Reading the Region
Surviving Emergencies at Your Library
Population & Economic Statistics: Taming the Beast
Shaky Stacks: New Modes of Collection Management for Uncertain Times
The Ready to Read Resource Center in Action
Reaching Distance Students with Library Instruction
Thriving in a Challenging Environment: Creating Technology-Rich, Collaborative Learning Spaces on a Shoestring
RDA: What’s Really Going On with Resource Description and Access
Monkeys in the Library: Civility & Workplace Culture
Teens Demystified: the Guidebook

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Breakout Session 3

Reaching Distance Students with Library Instruction
Thriving in a Challenging Environment: Creating Technology-Rich, Collaborative Learning Spaces on a Shoestring
RDA: What’s Really Going On with Resource Description and Access
Monkeys in the Library: Civility & Workplace Culture Teens Demystified: the Guidebook

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Breakfast: The Joy of Censorship with Joe Raiola

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Breakout Session 4

Tutor.com in Your Library and in Your Community
Web Searching & Privacy
Is EBSCO Part of Your Emergency Survival Kit?
Making the Most of the Space You Have
A Video, Two Books, and 100 Premieres: A Statewide Success
YRCA Luncheon with Debby Dahl Edwards

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YRCA Luncheon with Debby Dahl Edwardson

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Breakout Session 5

Food for Mind and Body
Staying Afloat in a Sea of Change
Digital Security: Old Problems & New Opportunities
Intellectual Freedom: Can it Survive in Changing Times?
The Choice is Yours: Bringing the Young Reader’s
Choice Award to Life in Your Library Coffee Break

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Breakout Session 6

Are You Committing a Thought Crime?
Surviving and Thriving Through Change and Transformation in Collection Development
Hiring Smart
Librarians Build Communities: Advocacy Through Volunteerism
Convincing Boys They’re Readers

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