2004 WAPL Spring Conference
Chula Vista Resort, Wisconsin Dells
April 28-30, 2004

Registration Form
Conference Booklet
Conference Schedule at a Glance (pdf)

Wend your way to the "River of Dreams – WAPL @ the Dells." Find new frontiers! Meet new friends and greet your old friends. Network and connect. WAPL has something for everyone this spring.

Set at the lovely Chula Vista Resort just outside of town, escape to a family oriented resort with a Southwestern flavor. Take a field trip from you everyday library life. Relax. Rejuvenate. Then return to your library with wonderful ideas to implement. Here is a taste of what is on the program for the conference…

1. Keynote Address: May you Live in Exciting Times: Is it a Blessing or is it a Curse?
   
   In her keynote address, Sarah Long, director of the North Suburban Library System and past president of the American Library Association will identify eight areas of excitement and change for public libraries. Long will illustrate the possibilities in each area with real-life examples from Wisconsin libraries. How will your library rank? Are you working in all eight areas or do you need to cultivate your taste for excitement and ratchet up your enthusiasm for change? Join us for this provocative and entertaining session.



2. Library Systems in Illinois: Services, Organization, Issues, Transitions
   
   Sarah Ann Long, Keynote speaker and Director, North Suburban Library System, Wheeling, Illinois, will do a breakout session after her keynote speech. In this session, she will provide first-hand information on library systems in Illinois from her perspective as an Illinois library system director – what kinds of services they provide, how they are organized, what libraries they serve, as well as issues they are confronting in 2004 and changes/transitions in the works.
    
3. Readers Advisory on the Web
4. Another Look at the Public Library Annual Report
5. BadgerNet Update
6. WISCAT Users Group
7. Following the Money: Campaign Finance and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
8. Vote Smart at Your Library
9. Patron-Initiated Interlibrary Loan
10. Effective Advocacy – Before Advocacy is Done to You
11. Anime For Everyone: using anime and manga to reach children, teens and adults
12. Care and Feeding of Your DVD Collection
13. Managing Technology with a Customer Focus
14. Teaching Computer Literacy to Seniors
15. Exhibits & Displays in the Library Setting
16. Notable Genre Books
17. A Quick Run Through: Genealogy Training from a Script
18. Small Library Management Discussion Group
19. Los niños y las bibliotecas: Library programs for Spanish-speaking youth
20. Meet and Greet
21. Online Book Club for Kids: A Work in Progress
22. Reviewing the Reviewers
23. You, too, can have Simply Super Storytimes!
24. Storytimes, They are a changin’!
25. Status of Technology in Wisconsin’s Public Libraries
26. Socrates Cafe
27. Book Discussion
28. Pages of Discovery: Great Books for the 2004 SLP Theme
     

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