Free Minds, Free People

NLA 2005
Schedule of Programs

Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
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Wednesday - Marketing Pre-Conference

Time Washoe A Washoe B Washoe C Washoe D Washoe E-F Esmeralda
8:30-10:00         Registration/Poster Sessions

Media Tools for Marketing

Presenter: TBA

 
10:00-11:30         Keynote

The Little Library That Could

Presenter: Wigen

 
11:30-11:45

15 minute Break

11:45-12:45         Box Lunch

The Great Marketing Adventure

Presenter:  Davis

 
12:45-1:00

15 minute Break

1:00-2:30 Rural Libraries

Marketing Begins with a State of Mind and Ends with a Story

Presenters Wigen, Thieme

Urban Libraries

Working with the Media

Presenter: Harmon

Academic & Special Libraries

Creating a Specialized Multilingual Open Access Database and Marketing It

Presenters: Etcheverria, Curtis

     
2:30-4:00       Marketing the Library and Staying Sane

Presenter: Munk

Marketing Project for Esmeralda County Libraries

Presenter: Wright

Marketing Your Rural Library: Starting from Scratch without Scratch

Presenters: Thieme, Wigen

Marketing Your Library With a Health Fair

Presenters: Wing, Gardner

 
4:00-5:30        

Marketing Your Library Through Special Events

and

"Tisket a Tasket" Basket Assembly

Presenter: Honig-Bear

 
5:30-7:00

All Conference Buffet Dinner and Silent Auction for Baskets - Prospector's Club (6:45 Auction closing)

7:00-9:00

Bowling at the National Bowling Stadium

Thursday - Regular Sessions

Time Washoe A Washoe B Washoe C Washoe D Washoe E-F Esmeralda / Other
8:00-8:45 CAPTAIN Business Meeting   NNAG Business Meeting ACTION Business Meeting   PLATO Business Meeting (Esmeralda) Washoe County Libraries All Staff Meeting

(Sammy's Showroom)

8:45-9:00

15 minute Break

9:00-10:00

KEYNOTE - Sammy's Showroom - Matt Bowles (20 min & 20 Qs) Belly Dancing (20 min)

10:00-10:30

EXHIBITS

10:30-noon The Tahoe Project: Building a Web Site with Team Work and Technology

Presenters: Aldrich, Blesse, Greene, Shannon, Taylor

Statewide Summer Reading Program

Presenters: Johnson, King

REFORMA

Providing Library Services to Latinos: 5 Core Values

Presenter: Balderrama

Southern District

Body Language: Send What You Intend / Recognize What You Receive

Presenters: McGuire, Golod

NSCLS

Raising a Difficult Book: The Joys of Parenting Your Own Ideas

Presenter: Sloat

NCIS: Nevada Career Information System

Presenter: Huggins

 

noon-1:30

Box Lunch

 and EXHIBITS

Nevada Academic Librarians' Luncheon

(Café Andreotti)

1:30-3:00 President-Elect's Program

Libraries and Legislators: the ABCs of Lobbying

Presenter: TBA

GODIG

Finding Government Information Across 50 States

Presenter: Cornwall

Southern District

Librarians Abroad

Presenters: Hagendorn, Hutchinson, Causey

 

ACRL Utah Chapter

The Reference Interview

Presenters: Camacho, Spackman

Past President's Program

How My Parents Learned to Eat: Dim Sum, Fry Bread, Collard greens and Tacos in the Library

Presenters: Thomas, Jr., McGuire, Avila

Teaching Library Technology Through Distance Education: The 21st Century Version

Presenters: Scull, Starr

(60 minutes)

3:00-3:30

EXHIBITS

3:30-4:30 Many Voices: Creating Multicultural Books

Presenter: Williams

 

Nevada Go Local: Consumer Health Information

Presenters: Curtis, Jakus, Keith

Six Degrees of Separation: A Look at the Interconnectivity of Computer Use Policies in Nevada's Public and Academic Libraries

Presenters: Watson, Nozero, Morss

RAISON

Digging for Non-Profit Money in Nevada

Presenter: Weiner

CAPTAIN

The Future of Technical Services

Presenters: Busch, Smith, Rankin, Bierman

MPLA

Is Your Library Building User Friendly?

Presenter: Avery 

4:30-4:45

15 minute Break

4:45-5:45 Collaborative Collection Development

Presenters: Sinha, Anderson

Understanding Portal Technologies

Presenter: Whittle

 
Opening Doors and Improving Communication Between Managers and Staff

Presenter: Bierman

 

Nevada Literacy Coalition

Making the Connection

Presenter: Starr

GODIG

Capturing E-Docs on the Last Frontier

Presenter: Cornwall

 

Pre-Cocktail Yoga Chill

Presenter: McGuire

5:30 - 7:00 VENDORS' RECEPTION - Vendor Area

Friday - Regular Sessions

Time Washoe A Washoe B Washoe C Washoe D Washoe E-F Esmeralda
8:00-8:45 NSCLS Business Meeting

State Publications Distribution Center Business Meeting (NSLA)

Presenters: Timko, Rush

RAISON Business Meeting Southern District Business Meeting Northwest District Business Meeting NYRA Business Meeting
8:45-9:00

15 minute break

9:00-10:00

NLA Membership Meeting - Sammy's Showroom

10:00-10:30

EXHIBITS

10:30-noon It's Time to Rhyme: Jelly Beans and Phonemic Awareness / Addressing Nevada's Pre-K Through Story Time

Presenters: Wren, Walkowicz, Johnson

NSCLS

Going Places With Teen Outreach

Presenters: King, Johnson, Pfeil

 

GODIG

Who's Government Information? Our Government Information!

Presenters: Cornwall, Yeo, Jacobs, Jacobs

NYRA

Free Minds, Discover the Nevada Young Readers' Program

Presenters: Deadmond, Heggeness, Jacobs, Mitchell, Sara, Wood

NSCLS

Creative Power of Oral Storytelling

Presenter: Cogan

Nevada Literacy Coalition

Summer Reading Programs and Outcome Based Evaluations

Presenter: Smith

noon-1:30

All-Conference Luncheon - Cafe Andreotti

and EXHIBITS

GODIG Luncheon Meeting
(Café Andreotti)

1:30-2:30 NSCLS

Measuring Achievement using a Balanced Scorecard Approach

Presenter: Fuller

NSCLS

The Glory of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards

Presenter: Dowell

Nevada Literacy Coalition

Build Literacy @ Your Library

Presenter: Lipschulz

NSCLS

Participation Tales in Story Hour

Presenter: Cogan

Wikis, Blogs, and Your Library

Presenter: Fox

Building Your Legal Reference and Referral Confidence

Presenter: Clanton

2:30-3:00

EXHIBITS

3:00-4:00 NSCLS

Jokes in the Library

Presenter: Sneddon

Electronic Reserves at UNR and Beyond

Presenter: Ressel

NNAG

eBooks and dBooks - Digital Content to Go!

Presenters: Stokes, Cuglietta

Accessing Government Information at Home or Your Local Library

Presenters: Edwards, Timko

NSCLS

Finding Diamonds: Building a Database of Read-Alouds for All Ages

Presenter: Sloat

Unit Cost Studies in Libraries: Why are there so few? Does it matter?

Presenter: Bierman  

4:00-4:15

15 minute break

4:15-5:15 NSCLS

Storyhour Favorites for Older Listeners (Age 10 and up)

Presenter: Cogan

 

NSCLS

Reading Research and School Librarianship

Presenter: Goodin

 

Google and Libraries

Presenters: Finley, Greene, Taylor

NCRL

NCRL Professional Forum

Presenters: TBA

Information Literacy Panel

Presenters: Starr, Botzenhardt, Doyle, Fockler,Fuke, Gordon, Lukasko, Strader, Steffen, Strange

Library Learning to the Desktop: Reality Now

Presenters: Turner, Werchan

 

6:00-7:30 PRESIDENTS' RECEPTION - Downtown Library
8:15-10:00 PLAY - "A Single Woman" - Downtown Library

 

Saturday - NYRA and Post-Conferences

Time Washoe A-B Washoe C Washoe D Washoe E-F Esmeralda
9:00-11:00

Post-Conference (9:00-4:00)

NSLA - IMLS Project

Rural Libraries

Presenters: Jones, Smith, Thompson 

NYRA Breakfast - Sammy's Showroom
11:00-12:30 NYRA - Meet the Authors - Sammy's Showroom
12:30 - 1:00      

Looking to the Future: the 2005 AASL Strategic Plan

Presenter: Vaughn

 
1:00 - 5:00     Post-Conference (12:30-5:00)

Marketing Your School Library

Keynote: Siminitus

Presenters: Munk, Fockler, Fickes, Farley

Box lunch, raffle, etc.

 
4:00-5:00