Conference Schedule - FRIDAY, October 31
Complete Schedule available in PDF | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
7:00-9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
Lobby
7:30-8:30 a.m.
Wisconsin Small Libraries Round Table Business Meeting
D5
Readers Section Business Meeting
D6
Circulation Services Round Table Business Meeting
D2
8:45-10:00 a.m.
Around the World with Read-Alouds:
Promoting Unity and Healing Through Bibliotherapy
D5
Susan Boon Murray, EdD, Associate Professor, Certified
Therapeutic Recreation Specialist, RMTR Department, University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse
Come out to play, read and sing as you experience how read-alouds promote unity and healing for all age groups as developmental bibliotherapy. Explore aging, diversity, food, culture, animals and spirituality in children's picture books, short stories, poetry and songbooks as inclusive literature. Revitalize your techniques or learn new ones in order to facilitate read-alouds where insight occurs in guided discussion of material. Annotated bibliographies, facilitation guidelines inspired by a Seattle librarian, and a discussion guide template will be available.
Sponsor: WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS
Primetime Sampler
D7
Carole DeJardin, Appleton Public Library;
Jim Trojanowski, Vaughn Public Library, Ashland
Join us to experience a session of Prime Time Family Reading Time presented by an experienced team. This family literacy program is being implemented in several public libraries in Wisconsin during 2003. We will discuss the magic the series created in our libraries and answer questions about the process.
Sponsors: YOUTH SERVICES SECTION, OUTREACH SERVICES ROUND TABLE
Training for New Public Library
Directors
D4
Peg Branson, Certification Consultant, DLTCL;
Mike Cross, Acting Director, Public Library Development,
DLTCL;
Jane Pearlmutter, Associate Director/Director
of Continuing Education, UW-Madison, School of Library and Information Studies
Upcoming changes are planned to help ensure that new library directors in Wisconsin have the training needed to do their jobs effectively. Topics covered include the planned changes in Wisconsin library directory certification requirements and planned changes in the Basic Library Management course that partially fulfills the requirements for Grade 2 and Grade 3 Wisconsin Public Librarian Certification. Also discussed will be the upcoming publication of a handbook for Wisconsin public library directors that promises to be a useful tool for orientation and training of new public library directors.
Sponsors: DIVISION FOR LIBRARIES, TECHNOLOGY, AND COMMUNITY LEARNING, WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Mystery Genre Workshop: 1
D6
Merle Jacob, Director, Library Collection Development,
Chicago Public Library
Ms. Jacob will present a fascinating overview of the mystery genre that will highlight benchmark authors, major styles and themes and contemporary trends.
Sponsor: READERS SECTION
Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
D1
Lisa Webne-Behrman, PhD, Collaborative Initiative,
Inc., Madison
What are your personal responses to conflict? How does this help or hinder you in resolving disagreements or disputes? This session will present tips to help manage conflict and difficult situations. Mediation will be one of the principal tools discussed.
Sponsors: CIRCULATION SERVICES ROUND TABLE, ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN SPECIAL LIBRARIANS, SUPPORT STAFF SECTION, LIBRARY CAREERS COMMITTEE
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Conflict Resolution in the
Workplace (continued)
D1
Lisa Webne-Behrman, PhD
DNR's New Early Childhood Activity
Guide
Grand Ballroom West
Al Stenstrup, DNR Education Outreach; Cindy Jelenchick,
DNR Education Outreach
This presentation will be an overview of the DNR's new publication on sharing nature with children ages 3-6. Session participants will receive a copy of the curriculum guide and a cassette of music for the creative movement portions of the guide. This guide is not available for sale and will be given only to those people who attend a training session.
Sponsors: YOUTH SERVICES SECTION, WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES, READERS SECTION, REFERENCE AND ADULT SERVICES SECTION, WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS
State of Library Technology:
A Review of Division Programs and Activities
D5
Richard Grobschmidt, Assistant State Superintendent,
DLTCL;
Bob Bocher, Technology Consultant, DLTCL;
Sally Drew, Director, Reference and Loan, DLTCL
This session will review several key programs that the state Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning is involved in managing or coordinating. Included will be brief updates on the WISCAT Interloan system, linking automations systems, E-Rate, the new Badgernet network, and the Gates Foundation network.
Sponsor: DIVISION FOR LIBRARIES, TECHNOLOGY, AND COMMUNITY LEARNING
Users and Non-Users of Libraries
D7
Joshua Morrill, PhD, Independent Research Consultant
Report of a research study based on a statewide survey of library users and non-users. The study was conducted by the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium and partially financed by the Wisconsin Library Association Foundation.
Sponsors: WISCONSIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION, WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Mystery Genre Workshop: 2
D6
Barbara D'Amato, mystery author
Ms. D'Amato, past-President of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) and past winner of the MWA Mary Higgins Clark award, will speak on her experience writing mysteries.
Sponsor: READERS SECTION
12:00-2:00 p.m.
President's Luncheon: "Taking
the Pulse: The Library as the Heart of the Community"
Grand Ballroom Center
James Gollata, Library Director, UW-Richland;
Ellen Kort, author;
Gene Musser, M.D., cardiologist, UW-Health Services
Tuesday | Wednesday | ThursdayThe conference theme will be the focus of the President's Luncheon presentation. Gene Musser, cardiologist and faculty member at UW-Medical School, Wisconsin poet laureate Ellen Kort, and library director, poet, and quadruple bypass survivor James A. Gollata will offer a program from their diverse perspectives of the heart as a physical entity, as poetic image and as metaphor for the library in the community. They will also perform an evocative piece written for the event.
Sponsor: WISCONSIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION