WAPL Conference 2008
Conference Program
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Wednesday, April 30
12:30-4:00 Preconference
So What Do I Do Now? Practical Approaches to Archival Processing (WIGLHR)
4 – 6 p.m. WAPL Board Meeting
5 – 8 p.m. Registration
Thursday, May 1
7 – 8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Registration
8:45 – 10 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: David Ward, President and
Founder, NorthStar Economics
10 – 10:30 a.m. BREAK
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m Concurrent Sessions
Investment Returns: Using the Public Library Economic Impact Study Results in Your LibraryDavid Ward and Alan Hart of NorthStar Economics
David Ward and Alan Hart of NorthStar Economics will show how the results of the Wisconsin Public Library Economic Impact Study (to be released at the conference) can be tailored and applied to your library’s local circumstances. Learn how to interpret the results and use them to support and enhance library operations in your library.
SPONSORS: DLTCL, WLAF
What’s New in Digital Wisconsin
Mindy King, Serials Librarian , UW-Stevens Point
Cathy Palmini, Wisconsin Documents/Reference Librarian, UW-Stevens Point,
Sample the riches of three major Wisconsin digital collections--Wisconsin Heritage Online, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, and Wisconsin Historical Society. Their growing collections of images, historical materials, and other digital resources are freely available to the public. So, how do you sort them out? We’ll highlight some favorites (and show you how to efficiently search them). Please plan to share if you have a favorite Wisconsin digital site.
SPONSORS: RASS, SSS
Interlibrary Loan in a “Do It Yourself” World
Garrett Erickson, Customer Service Manager, Marathon County Public Library
Debra Kindler, Interlibrary Loan Staff, Marathon County Public Library
Elaine Rurode, Interlibrary Loan Staff, Marathon County Public Library
Rebecca Lemons, Interlibrary Loan Staff, Marathon County Public Library
People bank, shop, make appointments, and do research online. Libraries are following suit: people can email or chat with a librarian about their questions and place holds in the library’s catalog online. But when it comes to things that aren’t in the catalog, an Interlibrary Loan (“ILL”) request is in order. In public libraries, this often means they need to call or come in and fill out a form, or, in some cases, fill out a web or email form. Marathon County Public Library offers true “do it yourself” ILL. Customers are able to place their own ILL requests using OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing. Come and learn more about how the service was initiated, staff workflow, and how well it’s working.
SPONSORS: RSRT, SSS
Imagine That: Intergenerational Storytelling with People with Dementia
Joan Williamson, certified TimeSlips Trainer
The TimeSlips Storytelling Project offers a method of improvisational storytelling that is particularly effective for people with memory loss. The stories that emerge reflect participants’ hopes and humor alongside worries and regrets, making it an idea tool to use to bridge generations. More families find themselves facing memory loss among parents, grandparents, and loved ones. Usually, it is met with fear or denial. This session explores how intergenerational storytelling can raise awareness of dementia without raising stigma.
SPONSOR: WAPL
Reel to Real: Facilitating Film Discussions at Your Library
Lynne Blinkenberg, Director of Community Outreach, Wisconsin Public Television
Shawn Brommer, Youth Services and Outreach Coordinator, South Central Library System Cheryl Becker, Public Library Administrative Consultant, South Central Library System
Learn how to build community programs around the abundance of thought-provoking films available on Wisconsin Public Television (WPT). After viewing a WPT film together at the library, participants can engage in a discussion about the content and what it means for their community. Presenters will walk you through the steps of choosing a film and give you guidelines for partnering with other community organizations. You’ll get tips for facilitating the event or choosing a facilitator, and planning and promoting the event. WLA and WPT recently agreed to a partnership to promote Reel to Real as part of WLA’s membership in the Cultural Coalition of Wisconsin.
SPONSOR: WLA
Playing to Learn, Learning to Play
Mary Driscoll, Outreach Librarian, Dane County Library Service
Through imaginative play, young children can learn the fun as well as importance of reading and writing in everyday life. Dane County Library Service has been providing Play Literacy programming to child care programs serving low-income families since 2002 with books, toys, and literacy materials centered on dramatic-play themes such as the grocery store, pizza parlor, and doctor’s office. Materials are brought to the center, allowing children to explore the materials in their everyday environment.
SPONSOR: YSS
12 noon – 1:45 p.m.Thursday Luncheon
Jay Rath, Madison journalist
Jay Rath is a multimedia writer and cartoonist who has contributed to NPR, MTV and many newspapers and magazines. He served on the staff forThe Onion and has written three regional books on unexplained phenomena. He's also written plays and radio dramas, and worked on the animated TV series "Doug" and "Astroboy."
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Digitization of Local History Materials: LSTA Success Stories
Sally Drew, Reference and Loan Library, Department of Public Instruction
Sally Drew will describe the process of planning and conducting a library digitization project using Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds and working with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center. A panel of library staff members who have recently completed digitization projects will describe their experiences and also explain how the digitized materials are being used and the impact on their library.
SPONSOR: DLTCL
Hispanic Outreach: Best Practices from the Gates’ 2007-08 Training Workshops
Barbara Huntington, DLTCL
Nancy Fletcher, Waukesha
Leah Langby, Indianhead
Jamie Matczak, Nicolet
Marcia Sarnowski, Winding Rivers
DLTCL is coordinating twelve regional workshops during 2007-2008 for the ¡HOLA Project (Hispanic Outreach Library Action Project). The project is funded by a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and is being offered in cooperation with WebJunction. This session will highlight the best practices, resources, and Hispanic outreach examples that came about as a result of the training sessions. The session is open to anyone interested in Hispanic Outreach Services, but participants in the regional workshops are especially encouraged to attend.
SPONSOR: DLTCL, OSRT
WORKnet: Information to Grow Wisconsin's Workforce
Deborah Holt, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) Program Manager, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
WORKnet (http://worknet.wisconsin.gov/worknet/) is the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development’s Labor Market Information System. It provides a wealth of information on employment trends, wages, careers, and even buildings, sites, and locations for businesses looking to expand. DWD’s Deb Holt (Deb.Holt@dwd.state.wi.us) will guide us through this extensive and data-rich web site.
SPONSOR: GIRT
“One Book One Community” Reading Programs: The Do’s and Don’ts
Jessica McPhail, Director, Racine Public Library
Meg Shriver, Librarian, Appleton Public Library
Michael Kenney, Librarian, Appleton Public Library
Ellen Connor, Director, Manawa Public Library
“One Book” community reading promotion projects, which connect people to literature through reading and discussion, have exploded in popularity in recent years. Usually organized by libraries, they bring members of a community together to read and discuss the same literary work. Panelists from small, medium and large size public libraries currently sponsoring this program will speak about their experience in bringing people together through the reading and discussion of a common book.
SPONSOR: READ
Where are We Going?: Strategic Planning for Results
Cheryl Becker, Public Library Administrative Consultant, South Central Library System
Where is your library going? How are you going to get there? What are your priorities? Public libraries can’t do all the things they would like to do with limited resources. Having a strategic plan helps you allocate your resources so you provide the services that are a priority for your community, which in turn helps you show that you are making wise use of the tax dollars you receive. Come learn how the standard public library planning process, The New Planning for Results: A Streamlined Approach, and the new library service responses from the Public Library Association can help you create a plan which answers the question, “what difference does the library make?”
SPONSOR: WISLR
MySpace - Don’t Be Intimidated By It! Can It Work For Your Library?
Amanda Tuthill, Young Adult Librarian, Milwaukee Public Library
A young adult librarian from Milwaukee Public Library explains the process of proposing, creating and maintaining a MySpace page for her library system. Get acquainted with some features of this social networking tool and see if MySpace can serve a purpose for your teen population! You don’t need to be a programming wizard to set up a page and we’ll prove it during the session.
SPONSOR: YSS
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Is the Plaque Free? Myths and Facts About the National and State Registers of Historic Places
Daina Penkiunas, National Register Coordinator, Wisconsin Historical Society
How does a site end up on the State or National Registers of Historic Places? What sources can help you research the history of a place? How can you learn more about places on the registers, and what information is available? Even if your own home is newly-built, chances are you’ll find this illustrated talk entertaining as well as informative.
SPONSORS: GIRT, WIGLHR
Unintended Consequences: Traditional Library Practices as Barriers
René Bue, Bilingual Outreach Coordinator, Hedberg Public Library
Tammy Pineda, Madison SLIS student
Join us to discuss ways to help us as public librarians recognize barriers in our libraries and clarify our opportunities to remove barriers and to improve our services to the entire local community, including new immigrants. We would like to celebrate what we, as public libraries, are doing right, with examples from the audience.
SPONSOR: OSRT
Continuing Education in Your Pajamas—New Technologies Bring New Opportunities
Attending a workshop in your PJs? Most of us would think of it five years ago, but today’s new methods of providing training online allow for participation anywhere a computer and the internet are available. Join a panel discussion of new ways of keeping up to date with the library world.
SPONSOR: P2C2
Complementary Medicine: Connecting with the Mind-Body Connection
Colleen Angel, Reference and Interlibrary Loan, UW-Stevens Point
When people ask about meditation, Therapeutic Touch, yoga, Reiki, Tai Chi, or Qi Gong, do you just wish someone else would field their questions? In this easy to understand presentation you can learn a bit about the mind-body connection and gather ideas on good sources for such topics. You can help people inform themselves, or even offer a program on these topics, whether you think it is “new age” or “age old wisdom.”
SPONSOR: RASS
Tell Me More About WiLS
Kathy Schneider, Director, WiLS
Kirsten Houtman, Member Services Librarian, WiLS
Sara Van Cleef, Consortial Licensing Associate, WiLS
In April 2007 WiLS contracted with Morrill Solutions Research to conduct a member satisfaction survey. Over two hundred individuals from public libraries and library systems completed surveys and made comments such as: “I would like to know more about WiLS”; “WiLS needs to be more visible”; “I would like to understand what WiLS is and what it does for my library”; and “Many of the things I am seeing on the survey are familiar to me however I do not associate WiLS or anything other than my system with these services.” Join us and learn more about wondrous world of WiLS!
SPONSORS: WiLS, RSRT
Dynamic Children’s Departments
Jill Lininger, Youth Services Librarian, Racine Public Library; Barb Huntington, DLTCL
Touring libraries is the best way to pick up great ideas to enhance existing buildings or for remodeling projects and new building construction. But if you can't get around to visit the many wonderful libraries in Wisconsin the next best thing is a virtual tour. See the unveiling of a new feature on the YSS website - virtual library tours of children’s spaces. Jill Lininger has undertaken a project that will offer virtual tours of some of the most exciting children’s departments in libraries throughout Wisconsin. Jill will explain the web page project and present photos taken at the libraries. Barb Huntington will describe the interesting story hour rooms, seating options, shelving and display choices, and some of the very unique and creative reading nooks and play areas in libraries throughout the state. Small, medium, and large libraries will be featured because great libraries come in all sizes.
SPONSOR: YSS
4:45 – 6 p.m. Business Meetings: OSRT, READ, WISLR, YSS
4:45 – 8 p.m. Dinner on your own
8 – 10 p.m. Reception at Portage County Public Library
Friday, May 2
7 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast buffet
7:30 – 10 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Concurrent Session
Investment Returns: Using the Public Library Economic Impact Study Results in Your Library (repeat of Thursday’s program)
David Ward and Alan Hart of NorthStar Economics
David Ward and Alan Hart of NorthStar Economics will show how the results of the Wisconsin Public Library Economic Impact Study (to be released at the conference) can be tailored and applied to your library’s local circumstances. Learn how to interpret the results and use them to support and enhance library operations in your library.
SPONSORS: DLTCL, WLAF
Speed Training: Teaching in a Hurry
Molly Mathias, Library Instruction Coordinator – Research and Instructional Support, UW-Milwaukee Libraries
Pamela O’Donnell, Academic Librarian, College Library, UW-Madison
Are you short on time in a library workshop? What if you have only fifteen minutes to teach your colleagues about a new database? Do you try to sneak in some instruction while answering questions at the Reference Desk? Attend this session and learn to develop succinct and effective lessons (with built-in assessment) for patrons, students and library staff. Because brief, but active, training is both memorable and efficient, participants will learn quick instruction techniques and abbreviated assessment methods. Expect to work in small groups on different training scenarios and to create active material to present to workshop attendees.
SPONSOR: LUERT
Beth Carpenter, Library Services Manager, Outagamie Waupaca Library System
Stef Morrill, Associate Director, South Central Library System
Tasha Saecker, Director, Menasha Public Library
Joy Schwarz, Web Librarian, Winnefox Library System
Come along as your hosts share recent finds in new technology trends and services, in libraries and beyond. We’ll highlight easy, free ideas you can take back to your communities. We guarantee there will be something new for everyone!
SPONSOR: MATS
A Thousand Splendid Suns: Book Discussion
Gary Niebuhr, Director, Greendale Public Library
Please join Gary Niebuhr and READ for a lively and interesting discussion of the book: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review: “Hosseini gives a forceful but nuanced portrait of a patriarchal despotism where women are agonizingly dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the bearing of male children being their sole path to social status. His tale is a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters.”
SPONSOR: READ
The Public Library as the Heart Beat of the Community: How We Can Show Our Relevance to Our Communities and Funders
Norma Jean LeMoine, Director, Rock Springs Public Library
Mary Friesen, Director, Wyocena Public Library
Is your library struggling for its existence? Are your funders squeezing their pennies? In these days of funding crunches, small libraries need to step forward and show why they are relevant. Our tag-team presentation/workshop will lead a discussion on practical ways to highlight the heart beat of the community -- your small library! We will offer examples of displays to promote your library’s assets and share statistics in an easy to understand and attractive manner.
SPONSOR: WISLR
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Session
Digital State Government Information: Now Available to Your Library
Abby Swanton
Abby Swanton will describe the Wisconsin Document Depository Program and Wisconsin Digital Archives and explain changes to the distribution of information and how it is used. She will explain how all public libraries can access and provide electronic state government documents to their library patrons.
SPONSOR: DLTCL
Intellectual Freedom Matters in Theory and Practice for Children and Teens
Helen Adams, online instructor, Mansfield University (retired school librarian)
Elizabeth Buchanan, UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies
Svetha Hetzler, Middleton Public Library
Megan Schliesman, Librarian, Cooperative Children’s Book Center
Amanda Tuthill, Young Adult Librarian, Milwaukee Public Library (Washington Park Branch)
From the specter of filters to social networking, from materials challenges to self-censorship, librarians serving youth today face barriers to intellectual freedom on many fronts. What issues are of greatest concern to you as you navigate the sometimes murky territory where professional principles of intellectual freedom meet the pragmatics of practice? This panel program will address some of the challenges that can arise, and
invites attendees to share their own concerns, ideas and opinions.
SPONSORS: IFRT, YSS
Experience of the Local Immigrant
Presenter TBA, from Voces de la Frontera
Join us for an opportunity to put a face on the new immigrants in our communities and to understand the variety of issues that drive the political reality around this polarizing part of American society.
SPONSOR: OSRT
Notable Genre Book Discussion
Kirsten Houtman, Member Services Librarian, WiLS
Maureen Welch, ILL and Reference Coordinator, Indianhead Federated Library System
Susan Gillis Ringer, Reference Librarian, Fond du Lac Public Library;
Kristin Lade, Young Adult Services Librarian, West Bend Community Memorial Library
Panelists will discuss award winners and other great titles in a variety of categories, including non-fiction that reads like fiction, romance, gentle reads and young adult fiction.
SPONSOR: READ
Be the Boss of your Browser
Tasha Saecker, Director, Menasha Public Library
Firefox and Internet Explorer let you customize your browser more than ever before. At this presentation, you will find all sorts of ideas to maximize your time spent online at work. From Web 2.0 sites that integrate fully with your browser to add-ons like LibX, that give new sorts of access to your library catalog, you are guaranteed to find something new to add to your browser.
SPONSOR: SSS
Friday Luncheon 12 noon – 1:45 p.m.
Dick Bennett, former UW-GB and Wisconsin men's basketball head coach
Clintonville, Wisconsin native Dick Bennett is one of the most successful and highly recognized coaches in men’s collegiate basketball. He coached highly successful teams at UW-Stevens Point, UW-Green Bay, the University of Wisconsin, and most recently at Washington State. He led the Wisconsin Badgers to three NCAA Tournament appearances, including NCAA Final Four in 2000.