Wisconsin Library Association Annual ConferenceAt-a-Glance Conference Programs
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For times and locations of the conference features listed below, see their entries at the conference web site under "Highlights and Speakers:"
Tuesday Pre-conferences
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- CSS: Creating Sensational Sites
- A Library and School Legal Issue and Answer Day with Tomas Lipinski -- CANCELLED
- Mainstreaming Metadata -- CANCELLED
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday
7:00 – 9:30 a.m.
8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.
- Are Thin Clients Right For Your Library Computer Lab?
- The College Library at the turn of the (20th) Century
- Gaming: What It Means for Information Literacy
- Librarians & Activism: Past and Present
- More Than Words Can Tell: Starring the Dewey Deci-Belles
- Staff Morale in Tough Budget Times
- The Water is Wide: Training Catalogers
10:00 – 10:30 a.m.
10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
- Board-erline Insanity: Creating a Successful Teen Advisory Group for Your Library
- Fashion Feng Shui: Dress for Success, Honoring Your Intended Self
- LEEDing to GREATNESS!
- The Life of Women in the Old Order Amish
- We have to start meeting like this: Video Distance Learning for Public Libraries
- Where have all the journals gone? UW-Madison’s response to high priced subscriptions
11:45 – 1:45 p.m.
1:45 – 3:30 p.m.
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
- Banta Award Winner Presentation
- Browser Wars: A New Hope
- Fee or Free: Can we charge for that?
- Healthy Living Takes Some GREAT Ideas: Get Your Mind in Shape and Your Body Will Follow
- Payment for Services Rendered: U.S. Funded Dissent and the Independent Libraries Project in Cuba
- Through the Eyes of a Child: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
- WISCAT Users Group
- Autograph Garden: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
2 :00 – 3:30 p.m.
3 :15 – 4:00 p.m.
4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
- The Campaign for Wisconsin’s Libraries: What’s In It for Your Library?
- Cuba’s Independent Libraries and a Sister Library Response
- Meet Kevin Henkes, Winner of the 2005 Burr/Worzalla and Caldecott Awards
- Poster Power: Planning and Production for Effective Poster Sessions
- Selling Out: Coffee and Gift Shops in Libraries
- A Shared System Success Story: Schools & Public Libraries Working Together
- The Sky's the Limit: Montana, Illinois, and OCLC Group Services
5:00 – 5:30 p.m.
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
- Welcome, Introduction, Keynote address: Martha Teichner, Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning
- 2nd Annual MATS Webbies Awards
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Thursday
7:00 – 9:30 a.m.
8:45 – 10:00 a.m.
- Archiving and Preservation of State Government Web Pages
- Federal and State Legislative Agenda and Budget Issues
- Geographical Approaches to Library and Information Studies
- Graphic Novels 101
- Leading to Excellence
- Library Outreach to the Incarcerated
- My Grandma was an Indian Princess: Documenting Native American Ancestry
10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
10:45 – 12:00p.m.
- Great Wisconsin Knowledge Based Economy = Great Salaries and Status for Wisconsin Library Workers
- Illuminating the LibQUAL+ ™ Project
- Keeping Public Services Statistics Flowing
- Knit 1, Purl 2: Creating Community One Row at a Time
- National History Day
- Open Meetings and Public Records: Legal Perspectives from the Attorney General’s Office
- Scientific Freedom and Democratic Politics: The Politicization of Science and Knowledge in U.S. Policymaking
Noon – 2:30p.m.
Noon – 2:00 p.m.
1:00
– 3:00p.m.
2:15– 3:30 p.m.
- From Barbara Cartland to Chick Lit: The Appeal of the Romance Genre
- How Making Picture Books in Minority Languages Helped Locate Drawing Stories Around the World
- Nothing to Laugh At: Surviving and Thriving in a “Humorless” Work Environment
- RFID Update
- Skills for Library Leadership
- The Value of Libraries: Telling the Story
- WisStat Statistical Database: An Online Database for Locating Social and Economic Information for Wisconsin’s Communities
3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
3:30– 4:15 p.m.
4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
- Creating tutorials in a collaborative environment
- Media Mania: Circulating and Supporting Equipment at Your Library
- Preview of the New DLTCL Publication on Serving Youth With Special Needs: Tips on How to Include and Manage Children with Special Needs at Story Time
- School and Public Library Collaborations
- Throw Me a Life Rope: Record Retention Strategies for Public Libraries and Public Library Systems
- Autograph Garden: Anne Pellowski, Bridget Erin Zinn
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
9:00 – 11:00 p.m.
Friday
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
- The Brain Game: Children, Libraries, Literacy and Community Partnerships
- Education for Cataloging: Balancing Many Needs
- Great Legal Information from your Desktop
- MLIS Student Perceptions on Field Work Experience
- Mentoring Future Library Leaders: Tools for Professional Growth (Part 1)
- Notable Books Marathon
11:00 – 12:15 p.m.
- Building a Healthier Wisconsin: Navigating Health Information from Your Desktop
- The Continuing Saga of Challenges to Intellectual Freedom
- Have it Your Way: MarcEdit, Voyager, and Bulk E-book Record Files
- Laughing Librarians: Breaking the Humor-Impaired Stereotype
- Mentoring Future Library Leaders: Tools for Professional Growth (Part 2)
- The Seven Million Books Project: Google Floods the Digital Plain
- Think Outside the Book
12:15 – 2:15 p.m.
1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.