Conference Schedule

 

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Friday, March 13, 2009

Preconference Sessions and Tours

 

8:00 AM – 12:30 PM      Museums and More Tour

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM        Advocating for our Libraries: The Art of Creating and Delivering a

                                             Persuasive Message with Nina Malyshev [1]

                                    OCLC Western Members' Meeting - The High Impact Library:

                                             Creating Value that Matters with OCLC Western Staff [2]

                                    Technology Planning & Network Security with Steve Shields [3]

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM    Coast Guard Integrated Support Command Tour

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM       Russian Church, Seminary & Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Tour

                                   Kodiak Libraries Tour

                                   Senior Outreach with Bill Harmer [4]

                                   Copyright for schools (K-12) with Heather Clark of BCR [5]

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM       ALN Board Meeting [6]

                                   New Executive Council Member Orientation [7]

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM       Opening Reception [8]

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM       E-Council Dinner Meeting [9]

                                   ALN General Membership Meeting [10]

 

Saturday March 14th

 

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM     AkASL Grant Recipients' Meeting [11]

                                 College Credit at Conference [12]

7:30 AM – 9:00 AM     Adult Readers Roundtable Meeting with Georgine Olson [13]

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM     1st Time Attendee Orientation [14]

                                 ANIR Roundtable with Linda Wynne [15]

                                 The North Side of the Brain with Teri Sloat [16]

                                 The Story of LOCKSS @ the Alaska State Library with Sheri Somerville [17]

9:15 AM –10:30 AM    Opening Session with Keynote speaker Willie Hensley [18]

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Battle of the Books Ideas with Shelly Logsdon & Erika Drain [19]

                                 Baby Lap Sit on a Budget with Candace Kopperud & Karen Davis [20]

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Building Community Through Stories with Father Michael Oleksa [21]

                                 Information Literacy Program Development and Assessment with Elise Tomlinson cancelled

                                      NOW: Small Network Troubleshooting with Steve Shields [22]

                                 Partnership, Outreach, and Advocacy with Bill Harmer [23]

                                 Dynamic Metadata and Data Curation for Digital Collections with OCLC Staff [24]

                                 Unmined Nuggets of the Digital Pipeline with Jacque Peterson [25]

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM   Authors to Alaska Luncheon with Roland Smith [26]

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM     Conflict Management 101: Raising Difficult Issues, Part 1 with Nina Malyshev NOTE: This

                                        is now a standalone session, repeated at 4:00pm. [27]

                                 Early Literacy Resources & Programs for Children Age 3 and Under with Elizabeth

                                        Moreau & Terrie Chang [28]

                                 Alaska's Internet Circle of Safety with Sue Sherif & Staci Cox [29]

                                 Communication and Community with Father Michael Oleksa [30]

                                 The Assessment Story: Measuring the Impact of Programming and

                                        Services with OCLC Staff [31]

                                 SLED2 – A Modest Proposal with James Huesmann [32]

                                 Pros and Cons of Metasearch with Mike Robinson [38]a Formerly scheduled this day 4:00pm

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM     Taking YA Literature the Distance with Suzanne Metcalfe [33]

                                 Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Proposals – 1959 to Present with Betty Galbraith [34]

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM     Conflict Management 101: Raising Difficult Issues, Part 2 with Nina Malyshev NOTE: This

                                         is now a standalone session, repeated from 2:00pm. [35]

                                 Academic Library Instruction in Alaska: Learning from Each Other,

                                 Finding Synergies and Partnerships with Page Brannon – with moderator, Deb Mole,

                                        and Suzan Hahn and Elise Tomlinson [36]

                                 One Room Schoolhouses, correctly titled Living History @ Your Library: The One-Room

                                        Schoolhouse Project with Bill Harmer [37]

                                 Pros and Cons of Metasearch with Mike Robinson Now offered this day at 2:00pm [38]

                                 Roland Smith presents: In the Forest with the Elephants [39]

                                 Computer Hardware Overview with Steve Shields [95]

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM     Do I Need a Technology Plan for my Public Library? with Valerie Oliver [40]

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM     Exhibitors Reception [41]

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM     Authors Book Signing [42]

7:30 PM – 10:30 PM   Out Loud! Kodiak, Fishing & the Sea ($10 admission/pay at door)

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM   Film Showing: “We Shall Remain” with Loriene Roy [43]

 

Sunday March 15th

 

7:30 AM – 9:00 AM     AkASL E-Board [44]

7:45 AM – 8:45 AM     Government Documents Roundtable with Sheri Somerville [45]

                                 Intellectual Freedom Committee Meeting with June Pinnell-Stephens Now offered

                                        Monday at 7:45am. [46]

                                 Statewide Databases Coordinating Committee with Steve Rollins [47]

                                 ALA Forum with Jim Rettig and Loriene Roy [96]

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM   Management in the 21st Century: Anarchy, Democracy or Benign Dictatorship with

                                        Will Manley [48]

                                 Coming Out From Beneath the Sealskin Blanket: Mirrors and Windows

                                        For Alaska's Youngest Readers with Debby Edwardson [49]

                                 Best Practices for Elementary School Librarians with Suzanne Richards [50]

                                 Disaster Preparedness with Sheri Somerville [51]

                                 Librarianship: The 2nd Oldest Profession with Virginia Lowell [52]

                                 Make your Budget Go Further Through Strategic Resource Management

                                        with Stan Winters [91]a Formerly scheduled Monday at 11:30

                                 Thank God for Libraries: Preservation of Knowledge to Waken a Nearly Lost Culture

                                        with Sven Haakanson [94]

                                 Civil Liberties Update: Privacy Protections post-PATRIOT ACT with Jeffrey Mittman

                                        [59]a Formerly scheduled this day at 2:00pm

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM   Getting Past What You Want to Hear with Daniel Cornwall Now offered this day at

                                        2:00pm [53]

                                 From Barrow to Beijing: Doing Something Different with your MLS with Jacque

                                        Peterson Now offered this day at 4:00 pm [54]

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM  AkLA General Membership Meeting [55]

12:15 PM – 1:45 PM   State of the State Luncheon with Linda Thibodeau [56]

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM     Keeping Legal: Distance Delivery Options for Your Required CE with Sue Sherif

                                        and Aja Razumny [57]

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM     Intellectual Freedom: Do We Practice what We Preach? with Will Manley [58]

                                 Civil Liberties Update: Privacy Protections post-PATRIOT ACT with Jeffrey

                                        Mittman Now offered this day at 9:00am [59]

                                 Inspiring Boys to Read with Greg Hill and Mike Kolasa [60]

                                 Pimping Your OPAC with Mike Robinson [61]

                                 Capturing the Captive Audience with Chris Cook [62]

                                 Extending Library Services with Social Technologies with Sam Sayre [63]

                                 Getting Past What You Want to Hear with Daniel Cornwall [53]a Formerly

                                        scheduled this day at 9:00am

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM    Talk Tables with Aja Razumny [64]

                                 Laptops in the Library: Expand Computer Access to Suit Your Building and

                                        your Community with Matt Gallagher [65]

                                 Saving the Stratton with Ginny Blackson [66]

                                 Copyright Q & A with Freya Anderson [67]

                                 Personal Relations between Librarians and Readers--Anachronism or Foundation?

                                        with Jim Rettig [68]

                                 Resource Sharing Workflows: Quick & Easy. Where Do You Stack Up?

                                        with Sam Sayre [69]

                                 From Barrow to Beijing: Doing Something Different with your MLS with

                                        Jacque Peterson [54]a Formerly scheduled this day at 9:00am

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM    AkASL General Membership [70]

5:15 PM – 6:15 PM    Academic Roundtable Meeting with Page L. Brannon [71]

                                Public Roundtable Annual Meeting with Patty Christensen [72]

                                Special Libraries Roundtable [73]

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM  Awards Banquet [74]

 

Monday March 16th

 

7:45 AM – 8:45 AM    Cataloging Roundtable Meeting with Robyn Russell [75]

                                Authors to Alaska Roundtable Meeting with Carol Race [76]

                                SLED Advisory Group with Suzan Hahn, Proposer Cancelled [77]

                                Continuing Education Committee Meeting with Freya Anderson, Proposer [78]

                                DirLead with Joe D‟Elia, Proposer [79]

                                Intellectual Freedom Committee Meeting with June Pinnell-Stephens [46]a Formerly

                                        scheduled Sunday at 7:45am

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM  Improving Connectivity in Rural Alaska with Valerie Oliver [80]

                                Secondary School Librarians Tell It All with Robin Turk [81]

                                Summer Reading 2009 and Beyond with Sue Sherif [82]

                                ListenAlaska with Sue Fry [83]

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM  Creating Connections--Thoughts on Our Future with Jim Rettig [84]

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM Lower Your IT Costs and Get More Life Out of Your Library Computers with Free

                                        Software with Paul Adasiak [85]

                                 Catching the Alaska Spirit of Reading with Ginny Blackson, Kari Sagel, Erika Drain [86]

                                 Gifts: There are No Free Ones! with Jodee Kawasaki [87]

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Learning About Library Users: Assessment Tools and Techniques with Karen Jensen,

                                        Anne Christie, & Susan Mitchell [88]

                                 WorldCat.org: Where Libraries and Users Connect with Sam Sayre [89]

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ALN Work Camp Results with Kerri Canepa [90]

                                 Manage Your Library changed to Make your Budget Go Further Through

                                        Strategic Resource Managemen with Stan Winters [91] Now offered Sunday at 9:00am

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM   Closing Lunch: The Lighter side of Librarianship with Will Manley [92]

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM     E-Council Meeting [93]