Conference Highlights
Featured Speakers
Will DurstEveryone's favorite political satirist will be the conference keynote speaker on Wednesday, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
James Gollata, library director, Ellen Kort, author, and Gene Musser, cardiologist, will present an evocative piece on the conference theme "Libraries @ the Heart" at the President's Luncheon on Friday.
Neil Gaiman
Winner of this year's Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla award for his YA novel,
Coraline, Mr. Gaiman will speak at the Youth Services Section luncheon
on Wednesday.
Other Speakers:
- Deborah Blum, Banta award winner and author of Love at Goon Park
- Pat Boelter, Advisor, Cudahy & Delafield Public Libraries
- Nicholas Burbules, Professor, University of Illinois
- Shawn Chilson, St. Ann Center of Intergenerational Care
- Barbara D'Amato, mystery author
- Carole McGinley Edland, Founder/Director, Butterfly Ministry
- James D. Friedman, Partner, Quarles & Brady, LLP
- James Gollata, Director of the Library at the UW-Richland
- Richard Grobschmidt, Assistant State Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction
- John Gurda, Milwaukee Writer and Historian
- Merle Jacob, Director for Library Collection Development, Chicago Public Library
- Ellen Kort, author and Wisconsin poet laureate
- Paul LaPorte, Economist, U.S. Dept. of Labor
- Peggy Lautenschlager, Wisconsin Attorney General
- Richard Moore, Investigative Reporter and Columnist
- Joshua Morrill, Independent Research Consultant
- Susan Boon Murray, Associate Professor, UW-La Crosse
- Andrea Musher, Poet Laureate, Madison and Associate Professor, UW-Whitewater
- Sue McCleaf Nespeca, Kid Lit Plus Consulting
- Marion C. Smith, Director of Labor Research, Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP
- Al Stenstrup, DNR Educator
- Roy Tennant, Manager, eScholarship Web & Services Design, California Digital Library