Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference 2002
Libraries...a basic freedom"
Friday, November 1
Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
7:30
- 8:30 a.m.
Readers Section Business Meeting
Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries Spring Conference Program Planning Committee
8:45
- 10:00 a.m.
Creating and Building Library Endowment Funds
William Mott, Library Funding Associates
Endowment funds can have a significant impact on the library’s ability to provide even greater collections, services, and programs. What are the strategies needed to create or build on an endowment program? This workshop will equip participants with information on the steps to having a successful endowment program.
Sponsor: Wisconsin Library Association Foundation
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Nation’s Experience with War: Novels and Memoirs
Librarian Panel
Readers Section presents a discussion of war literature. Memoirs and novels about American involvement in wars, including World War II and the Civil War, will be highlighted and bibliographies distributed. These may be books that will attract additional male readers in your libraries.
Sponsor: Readers Section
Serving
Adults with Special Needs: Publication Highlights
Barbara Huntington, Youth and Special Services Consultant, Division
for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning; Coral Swanson, Library
Consultant
The DLTCL anticipates distributing a new publication early in 2003 on serving adults who need accommodations in public libraries. This session will include highlights of Census 2002 population data that became available during the summer of 2002. Major findings and trends on how libraries in Wisconsin provide accommodations for adults will be presented. Core service recommendations for groups of adult patrons who need specific types of accommodations will be discussed. There will be an opportunity for participants to have input on the final document.
Sponsors: Outreach Services Round Table; Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning
Think
Globally, Act Locally
Gretchen Revie, Reference Librarian, Seeley G. Mudd Library, Lawrence
University; Sandra Lockett, Assistant City Librarian, Milwaukee Public
Library
The suggestion that we think globally and act locally is a good idea, but how do we implement it? This session looks at new developments in Wisconsin and ways in which you can empower your own community.
Sponsor: Intellectual Freedom Round Table
10:30
a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Building Annual and Sustaining Funds for Libraries
William Mott, Library Funding Associates
Many libraries believe that the most effective way to have an annual giving program is through a Friends membership program. While this may be part of the equation, there is much more that can be achieved through a comprehensive annual giving program. This workshop will explore the various strategies and tactics libraries can use to attract donors.
Sponsor: Wisconsin Library Association Foundation
Expecting
the Unexpected: Lessons from the Sun Prairie Experience
Sharon Zindars, Director, Sun Prairie Public Library;
Peter Hamon, Director, South Central Library System
The Sun Prairie Public Library became the center of controversy after an off-duty police officer discovered child pornography downloaded from the Internet in the men’s restroom. What ensued is instructional to us all from the standpoint of strengthening library policy, maintaining service while cooperating with a police investigation, and coping with the media. You hope it never happens at your library. If it does, are you ready to handle it?
Sponsor: Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries, Intellectual Freedom Round Table
Introducing
TeachingBooks.net: Children’s Book Authors, Illustrators and Curricular
Resources Cyberspaced to You!
Nicholas
Glass, President and Creator, TeachingBooks.net
TeachingBooks.net is all about using Internet technology to give educators unparalleled access to children’s book authors and curricular resources for sharing with children.
Sponsor: Youth Services Section
Notable
Books Marathon
James Gollata, Director, Miller Memorial Library, UW-Richland; Beverly
DeWeese, Speaker, Book Reviewer; Helene Androski, Reference Librarian,
Memorial Library, UW-Madison; Gary Warren Niebuhr, Director, Greendale
Public Library
An annual event offering thoughtful, inspiring, humorous and fast-paced reviews of notable titles selected by ALA and the WLA Literary Awards Committee. Our presenters are all experienced, knowledgeable book talk and discussion leaders.
Sponsors: Readers Section, Literary Awards Committee, Reference and Adult Services Section
Understanding
Islam and the Middle East: Meeting the Information Needs of a Diverse
Community
Ahmed A. Kraima, Outreach Coordinator, Golda Meir Library, UW-Milwaukee;
George Wagner, Librarian, Milwaukee Public Library
The events of September 11 have impacted the lives of many people here and abroad. The need for understanding world cultures, especially the Middle East and Islam, is greater than ever. As information professionals we need to have a broad understanding of the issues and dynamics, people and places that led to these events. This panel will present facts and commonly held beliefs and myths about both Islam and the Middle East. In addition to presenting information helpful to all library patrons, the panel will explore the topic of serving the information needs of Muslims, Middle Eastern and Arab-American patrons.
Sponsors: Social Responsibilities Round Table, Outreach Services Round Table
12:00
- 2:00 p.m.
President’s Luncheon
Life in a Distributed Age
Dr.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Department of Culture and Communication, New York
University
Imagine a world where information flows freely through easily accessible, broad-based, global systems like Napster™ and Gnutella™. These distributed information systems challenge our ideas on copyright and invite the wrath of governments and media companies. Now imagine connected borderless communities such as Falun Gong, Open Source programming groups, scientists, and Al Queda. These “real world” distributed systems defy everything from computer companies to entire countries. Distributed systems are a relatively unexamined function of globalization. Explore how distributed systems challenge the stability and relevance of modern corporations and the nation-state.
Sponsor: Wisconsin Library Association
2:30
- 4:30 p.m.
UW-Madison SLIS Post-Conference Open House
Barbara J. Arnold, SLIS Admissions and Placement Adviser; Pam Noyd,
President, SLIS Alumni Association; Louise S. Robbins, SLIS Director;
Jane Pearlmutter, SLIS Associate Director and Director of Continuing
Education
Come to the School of Library and Information Studies on the UW-Madison campus. Meet faculty and staff and students currently enrolled in the master’s and doctoral programs. Learn about new developments at the School, in the curriculum and in the Continuing Education Services Office. Have some light refreshments before you leave for home.
Sponsor: UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies
Last revised: October 1, 2002
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