Wisconsin Library Association Annual ConferenceFriday, October 28
7:00 - 11:00 a.m.
La Crosse Center Lobby
7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Library Research Round Table Business Meeting
Radisson Iowa
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Radisson Ballroom
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
La Crosse Center, Lower Level (near Exhibits)
Did you remember to visit the store? Do you have mementos to take back to the library or home? Have you shopped 'til you dropped? One more opportunity before the store closes!
8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
La Crosse Center, Lower Level, Escalator Area
Take time out to connect with friends, family and colleagues while attending the conference.
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
The Brain Game: Children, Libraries, Literacy and Community
Partnerships
La Crosse Center B2
Chuck Hanson, Attorney, Chair of the Brain Game
Project; Nan Brien, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families; Diane Range, Family Services Coordinator, Learning Together
Family Literacy; Hal Keitel, Chair, Reedsburg Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of La Crosse has developed a book designed to assist
parents and caregivers of newborns in helping their children develop pre-literacy
skills. Come learn about the research background of the project, and ways
YOU can use it in your library with the help of your local Rotary or other
service club! Two free copies of the book will be given as door prizes.
(Copies will be available for sale after the program.)
Sponsor: Youth Services Section
Education for Cataloguing: Balancing Many Needs
La Crosse Center E2
Hope A. Olson, Professor, UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies
This session will explore cataloging education in today’s context.
Who are we recruiting? Do they want to catalog? What is the right balance
between theory and practice? What about continuing education? The presentation
will supply information about the curriculum of the UW-Milwaukee School of Information
Studies. Those attending the
session will be invited to offer insights on the evolving needs of the
profession.
Sponsors: Technical Services Section,
Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians
Great Legal Information from Your Desktop
La Crosse Center D
Carol Schmitt, Law Library Manager, Boardman Suhr
Curry & Field LLP, Madison; Beverly Butula, Assistant Director of Library Services,
Davis & Kuelthau S.C., Madison
This session demonstrates federal, state, and local web sites that can
assist librarians in locating legal information. Speakers will describe
several categories of information and will then demonstrate specific sites
pertinent to each category. The session is intended for reference librarians
and others interested in expanding their “useful sites lists.”
Sponsors: Association of Wisconsin Special
Librarians, Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin, Government Information
Round Table, Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians
MLIS Student Perceptions on Field Work Experience
La Crosse Center A2
Elizabeth Buchanan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UW-Milwaukee School
of Information Studies, and Co-Director of the Center for Information
Policy Research; Stephanie Reister, Graduate Student, UW-Milwaukee School of Information
Studies
The speakers will present their research study results on the experiences
of MLIS students who have participated in fieldwork practices in their
graduate coursework. The researchers investigated the role of fieldwork
experiences of students in the UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies and
will report on how LIS graduate students perceive the fieldwork experience,
whether the fieldwork experience serves as a mentoring experience, and
which conditions make for the most successful fieldwork experience to
optimize learning.
Sponsor: Library Research Round Table
Mentoring Future Library Leaders: Tools for Professional Growth
(Part 1)
La Crosse Center C
Tom Howe, Coordinator, Wisconsin New Teacher Project, UW-Madison; Sharon Nelson, Program Director, Wisconsin New Teacher
Project, UW-Madison
This three-hour workshop will explore the varied roles and responsibilities
of mentorship. Mentoring requires focusing and reflecting on professional
norms and standards as well as best practice models. Mentoring strategies
and tools will be introduced and practiced in this groundbreaking double
session. Anyone working with new and emerging library leaders and hoping
to give an exciting boost to their own professional practice is encouraged
to attend this dynamic program.
Sponsors: Wisconsin Educational Media Association,
Library User Education Round Table
Notable Books Marathon
La Crosse Center E1
James A. Gollata, Director, UW-Richland Center Miller Memorial Library;
Beverly DeWeese, retired Deputy City Librarian, Milwaukee
Public Library; Helene Androski, retired Reference Librarian, UW-Madison Memorial
Library; Sandra Sechrest, WLA Literary Awards Committee Chair
An annual event offering thoughtful, inspiring, humorous, and fast-paced
reviews of notable titles selected from the ALA Notable Books list and
the WLA Literary Awards Committee’s notable books. Our great presenters
are all experienced knowledgeable book talk and discussion leaders.
Sponsor: Readers Section
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Building a Healthier Wisconsin: Navigating Health Information
from Your Desktop
La Crosse Center A2
Ulrike Dieterle, Distance and Outreach Services Coordinator,
UW-Madison Ebling Library, Health Sciences Learning Center; Mary Jo Boland, MALS, Consumer Health Librarian, Corporate
Knowledge Resources, Gundersen Lutheran Health System, La Crosse; Jean Anderson, Adult Services Librarian, Sun Prairie Public Library
This is an interactive exploration of the health sciences information
found online at Wisconsin’s Badgerlink web site. Participants will
learn how to navigate a health-based reference encounter, to recognize
the health-based resources BadgerLink provides, how to tap the right resources
in BadgerLink for the information need, and when it’s time to go
beyond BadgerLink for assistance or referral. This session is appropriate
for librarians with health-based information needs and access to BadgerLink’s
online resources.
Sponsors: Association of Wisconsin Special
Librarians; Wisconsin Health Sciences Library Association; Government Information
Round Table
The Continuing Saga of Challenges to Intellectual Freedom
La Crosse Center D
Elizabeth Buchanan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UW-Milwaukee School
of Information Studies, and Co-Director of the Center for Information
Policy Research; Stephanie Reister, Graduate Student, UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies
This session will be a highly interactive discussion of the ongoing threats
to the principles of the profession. Intellectual freedom principles and
the importance of professional dedication to them in light of increasing
challenges will be discussed.
Sponsor: Intellectual Freedom Round Table
Have it Your Way: MarcEdit, Voyager, and Bulk E-book Record Files
La Crosse Center A1
Joe Tomich, Cataloguer/Metadata Librarian, UW-Milwaukee
Libraries
With the ever-increasing prominence of e-books in library collections
and catalogs, it is important that librarians have the tools to make the
records meet their own standards of excellence in a timely, efficient
manner. This presentation will consist of a live demo of MarcEdit, freeware
from Oregon State University that allows users to do complex editing of
bulk MARC record files. The demo will showcase UW-Milwaukee’s customizations
of some of its e-book record files.
Sponsor: Technical Services Section
Laughing Librarians: Breaking the Humor-Impaired Stereotype
La Crosse Center E2
Bridget Zinn, recent graduate, UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies; Jeff Rand,
Reference Librarian, La Crosse Public Library
Besides having glasses, sensible shoes, and wearing their hair in a bun
(and female), the stereotypical librarian is also an unsmiling professional
who had their funny bone removed. But here is your chance to help break
that humor-impaired stereotype! From a short film to a monologue about
librarians’ footwear to answering the philosophical inquiry “Is
there such a thing as a dumb question?” this program encourages
laughter, giggles, snickers, and possibly even a few snorts.
Sponsor: Wisconsin Small Libraries Round Table
Mentoring Future Library Leaders: Tools for Professional Growth
(Part 2)
La Crosse Center C
Tom Howe, Coordinator, Wisconsin New Teacher Project, UW-Madison; Sharon Nelson, Program Director, Wisconsin New Teacher
Project, UW-Madison
This three-hour workshop will explore the varied roles and responsibilities
of mentorship. Mentoring requires focusing and reflecting on professional
norms and standards as well as best practice models. Mentoring strategies
and tools will be introduced and practiced in this groundbreaking double
session. Anyone working with new and emerging library leaders and hoping
to give an exciting boost to their own professional practice is encouraged
to attend this dynamic program. (Continued from the earlier session)
Sponsors: Wisconsin Educational Media Association,
Library User Education Round Table
The Seven Million Books Project: Google Floods the Digital Plain
La Crosse Center E1
Abigail Potter,
formerly Digital Projects Librarian, University of Michigan; Rebecca Dunkle, Librarian, Library Onsite Access, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In December 2004, Google and five major research libraries agreed to
participate in the Seven Million Books Project: an initiative to digitize
millions of titles held in research libraries. The University of Michigan
was alone among these libraries in allowing all of its titles to be scanned.
Project staff Rebecca Dunkle and Abigail Potter will share their perspectives
on this project, its potential for unleashing library resources, and the
challenges of this unprecedented partnership.
Sponsor: Wisconsin Association of Academic
Librarians
Think Outside the Book
La Crosse Center B2
Jessica Becker, Program Officer, Wisconsin Humanities
Council, Madison; Sandra Bonnici Hoercherl, Program Specialist, Madison
Children’s Museum; Shawn Brommer, Youth Services & Outreach Coordinator,
South Central Library System, Madison
Think Outside the Book, a book discussion program for middle school students
and their parents, encourages families to create a dialogue about democratic
principles based on themes found in novels and other works of fiction.
Using book discussion questions, activities, and creative exercises, children
and parents begin to discuss community
building and the rights and responsibilities of active citizenship.
Sponsor: Youth Services Section
12:15 – 2:15 p.m.
President's Luncheon
Retiring But Not Shy: Lessons Learned from Lives in Libraries
Radisson Ballroom
Librarians retiring in 2005 reflect on thoughts about their careers. Featured speakers are: Peter Hamon (past President of WLA, former Librarian of the Year) who retires this year as Director of the South Central Library System, and Vonna Pitel (COLAND member and WEMA representative on the WLA Board) who retired this year from her position as Head of Cedarburg School District Library Media & High School IMC Director.
We have also invited Senator Russ Feingold to speak at the luncheon.
Sponsor: Wisconsin Library Association
Partner: Wisconsin Library Assocation Foundation
1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Tour
Down a Country Road: Amish Gift Shop and Amish Community Tour
Departing from and returning to the La Crosse Center
(pre-registration required for tour and box lunch [available at bus stop])
Your tour bus will head for Cashton where you will be welcomed by the
Kuderers, a non-Amish family, who live on a small farm in the heart of
Wisconsin Amish Country. There you’ll find several gift shops, including
the Amish Shop, filled with hand-crafted treasures supplied by 45 Amish
families. Back on the bus, you’ll enjoy the narrative of an experienced
tour guide as we travel down country roads making stops in the Amish community.
Sponsor: WLA Conference Committee
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Post-Conference
Collection Maintenance and Development: Putting a Library Collection Together
Is Like Assembling a Wardrobe
(pre-registration required)
Radisson Iowa
Kelly Krieg-Sigman, Director, La Crosse
Public Library
This program will provide a review of the principles of assessing your
collection, materials selection, and weeding, for medium-size and smaller
libraries.
Sponsor: Wisconsin Association of Public
Libraries