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Preliminary Program

Preliminary Program

  • Thursday, June 22, 2023
  • 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Inclusion, Resources, and Joy: Serving the Alzheimer’s/Dementia Community in Public Libraries
  • 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT
    Research in the Heart of America: Chicago Area Resources for Genealogy and Local History
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Walking Tour of Chicago
  • Friday, June 23, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Global Libraries as Advocates for Information Policy Change
  • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT
    A Joint Workshop with NARDAC and PCC SCT RDA Training Task Group: Unlocking the Power of RDA
  • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT
    Assembling Your Consultant Tool Kit: What you Need to Know to Become a Successful Consultant
  • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT
    Core Chicago Area Public Libraries Tour
  • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT
    Core Merchandise Mart Furniture Showrooms and Factory Tour
  • 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Exploring with Tweens! Creating STEAM Exploration Spaces that are Inclusive, Equitable, and Accessible for Youth
  • 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    New Digital Tools for Capturing Learning Outcomes and Impact
  • 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT
    Chapter Leaders Forum
  • 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT
    Core Innovative Learning Spaces: A Tour of Innovative Chicago Area Academic Institutions
  • 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT
    ISS School Tour
  • 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT
    Preservation in Action
  • 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Cookies & Conversation for Trustees, Friends, and Foundations
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Introduction to Library Assessment
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Project Outcome: Data for Impact and Improvement
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM CT
    Booklist and YALSA Present: The 2023 Michael L. Printz Awards
  • Saturday, June 24, 2023
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    A Procrastinator's Guide to the 2023/2024 Solar Eclipses
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    “Asking for help makes me nervous”: High School to College Library Experiences
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    CALA President’s Program 2023: A Panel Discussion with NALCo Leaders & Presidents
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Health Programming at Your Library: Project Ideas, Resources, and Opportunities
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Library Advocacy for Trustees, Friends, and Foundations
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Pairing WWII Graphic Novels and Primary Sources for Collaborative Instruction
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Poetry is for Everyone (Especially in Libraries): A 10-Year Review of the National Student Poets Program
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Reimagining School Readiness Toolkit for Libraries
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Socioeconomic Mixing: Creating Public Libraries Where Everyone Belongs
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Systematic and Evidence Synthesis Reviews: Supporting Research in the Social Sciences
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Talk Story: Centering Oral Traditions to Advance Literacy Justice and Transform Community Relationships
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    The Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    The Living Library: Responsive Physical and Virtual Design
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    What's Your Point?: Gamification for Professional Development & Student Engagement
  • 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    President's Program (AASL)
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    GNCRT President's Program - Past, Present, and Future
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    APALA President’s Program
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    LearnRT Program
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    REFORMA President's Program: Advancing Digital Inclusion in Latinx Communities: A Panel Presentation
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Cultivating, Applying, and Assessing the DEIA Lens: Building on the diversity count
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    #RealRep: The Power of Authentic Pacific Islander Representation
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    A Bridge to Parent Engagement in School Partnerships
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Approaches to Collaborative Programming From Local to Statewide
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    At a Crossroads: The Intersection of Access, Accessibility, and Emerging Tech
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Biophilic Design: Impacting the Emotional Wellbeing of Library Goers
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Colonies in SF/F: Exploring Brave New Worlds and Oppressive Conquerors
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Communication Strategies for Engaging Non-Native English Speaking Library Patrons Beyond Google Translate.
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Culture In My Neighborhood: Bringing the Arts To Every Community and Every Library
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Equity and Diversity in the Metaverse: Building a sustainable metaverse for libraries
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Finding a New Normal: Library Policies and Practices
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Intellectual Freedom for Trustees, Friends, and Foundations
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Libraries as “Spokes” in an Entrepreneurial “Hub”: Lessons From the SBA Community Navigator Grant
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Making a Difference with School Libraries in Kenya- and Opportunities for You to Volunteer
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Making DEI a Core Part of Technical Services
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Reconsideration Committee: Strengthening our Response to Customer Challenges
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Small and Rural Libraries: The Heart of Innovation
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Strategies for Teaching and Promoting Data Literacy Skills among Students and Librarians
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Substance Misuse: Programming to Support Healthy Communities
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Wrangling Institutional Advisory Efforts: How One Public Library System Created a Platform for All Format, All Ages Advisory Services
  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM CT
    Polish American Librarians Association Presidents Program and membership meeting
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    40+ Sure-fire Ways to Spark a Love of Reading
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    An Introduction to Organizing and Collective Bargaining in Libraries
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Connecting Library Experiences: Collaboration across library types to better support our patrons
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Conquering Cataloging: new perspectives with a new tool
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Diversi-TEAM | Building effective teams with diversity in mind
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Executive Perspectives: A Conversation on the Future of the Library Technology Industry
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    First Author, First Book
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Harnessing Jazz and American song to ignite the creativity and voice of youth. Build community, compassion and self-understanding through free arts-based activities designed for youth programming in libraries.
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Hear Me Out: Podcasting as Community Connection
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Just the "T": Duty, Authority, Responsibility & Liability- Library Trustees as Public Officials
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Latinx Kidlit Book Festival
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Leading for Justice: Surveying the Intersection of Social Justice and User Services
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Programming for Accessibility: workshops, graphic design and 508 compliance
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Reading Nation Waterfall Year Two: The Role of Libraries in Supporting Early Children's Literacy in Tribal Communities
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    The Contextual Nature of Research as a Threshold Concept for Information Literacy
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Transforming Readers Advisory: Read Beyond
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Universal Design for Learning: Planning for All Learners
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Using Virtual Reality to Explore the World Around Us
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Wish there was an App for that? Build one! Learn the processes needed to create a custom application and take your library from wishing to the app stores.
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Preserving the Past, Providing Access and Anticipating Future Needs
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    GNCRT's 2023 Magical Comics Tea
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    American Indian Library Association President's Program
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Censorship and Diversity: How Do Librarians Continue to Protect the Rights of Marginalized Communities Amid Targeted Book Challenges?
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Collecting Stories from Underrepresented Communities: How to Co-Design a Community Archive at Your Public Library
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Discovery by Design: developing intentional online user experiences designed to amplify library customer discovery in alignment with organizational strategy.
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Growing Equitable Library Services (GELS)
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Hybrid Work Culture Post-Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities from Geographically Diverse Libraries
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Isn't it Romantic?
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Learners of 2030: Preparing for Literacies and Skills of the Future
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Learnings from Chicago: How the Library Catalyzes a City's Equity-Driven Community Economic Development Agenda
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Libraries, Literature, & the Counseling Connection
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Library of Things: Increasing Engagement & Digital Literacy to Empower Your Community
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Memory Cafes and Library Dementia Services
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Metadata Rights of Libraries: A Panel Discussion
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Narrowing the Divide: Using Intersectionality to Re-Examine Pandemic Learning Loss & Online Library Usage
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Readers' Advisory Trends and Topics
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    SOS: Save Our Shelves!
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    The Freedom of Information Act: Requests to Redactions
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Using Twitch at Your Public Library
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    US-Iran Relations in the Biden Era
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    You're a Grown-Up--So Why Are You Reading a YA Book?
  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    The Importance of Outreach and Meeting Folx Where They Are
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    A Bird in the Hand: Strategies for Retaining Library Employees
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Americans and the Holocaust: Bringing Holocaust History to Local Communities
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Ecosystem Tools for Your State Leadership, a Working Session
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    How You Can Build Better: Effective Library Project Management
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Leaning International: Notes from the Field
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Learning Apprenticeships in the Media and Information Literacy Classroom
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Leverage Federal Funds to Advance Digital Equity in Your Community Update
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Libraries Helping Refugees and New Immigrants Learn the U.S. Financial System
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Library linked data strategies in action: institutional linked data frameworks for collections, discovery, and access
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Near-Peer Leadership at the Library: Teens Inspiring Kids through Tutoring, Storytelling, and Readers’ Advisory
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Research with people who are currently or have been incarcerated in the United States
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Supporting Invisibly Disabled Students in the Library Classroom
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Using children's literature to address social and emotional development of children after COVID-19
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Core President's Program
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM CT
    The Laugh's On Us sponsored by Ingram Content Group
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM CT
    2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Award Ceremony and Reception
  • Sunday, June 25, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    54th Annual Coretta Scott King Book Awards Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Literary Tastes: Celebrating The Best Reading of the Year (RUSA
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    LSSRT President's Program
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    "Birds Aren't Real": How Students Can Work Against Misinformation
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    A Technology Library of Things Year 2: The Library Technology Integration Lab
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Facilitating Conversations Around Data Privacy: A New Toolkit For Library Workers and Their Patrons
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Fundraising Basics: How to Prioritize Efforts to Maximize Success
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    How We Created a Research Rubric Meant for Everyone: Making the Library and Its University Partners More Student-Ready
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    In Search of Teens: A Discussion on How to Welcome More Teens into our Libraries
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Libraries Transforming Communities: Hosting Accessible Community Conversations
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Libraries.Today: National Forum Findings and Policy Recommendations on Post-COVID School Libraires
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Library of Experiences: Collaborative Learning Spaces and Makerspaces in a rural, public library.
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Library Resilience from Coast to Coast: Lessons from Disaster Research to Engage Your Community and Empower Your Staff
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    NAGPRA in a Public Library: Real Life Experiences and Practical Advice for Institutions That Must Comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Online Checkout of Software Licenses for Patrons' Own Devices: A New Model for Expanding Access
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Stories to Empower our Communities: Promoting Diverse LGBTQIA+ Narratives in Picture Book Collections
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Therapy Cards: Mental Health Resources at the Library
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Thinking Outside of Your Positionalities: Centering DEIA in Your Library
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Transforming Your Library: Fostering Individuality and Equity Through Design
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Understanding Community by the Numbers
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    GameRT President's Program: Creating Role-Playing Games in the Library
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    YA Author Coffee Klatch
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    2023 LHRT Edward G. Holley Memorial Lecture
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    AJL President's Program: Title TBD
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    “Cataloging Correctly For Kids:" The Basics of Cataloging Materials for Young People
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Accessible Library Services through National Library Service
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Achieving Equity through Literacy in an Increasingly Digital World
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    At Your Fingertips: Creating a Virtual Interactive Library Tour
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Bringing Art and Humor into your Libraries with Art Baltazar
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Chicago Data in Action: Insights for Policy, Priorities, and Social Change
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Coworker to Supervisor - How to Manage Previous Peers
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Friends & Fiction Live! How 4 NYT Bestselling Authors turned Pandemic Fear into a thriving online community supporting readers, writers, libraries and bookstores!
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Fundraising Inc.: How to Unlock Corporate Support for Your Library
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Help! Don’t Ban Our Books!
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Innovative Asian Public Libraries Transforming Services and Communities
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Reflections on a Successful Semicentennial of Collaborative Transformational Learning in the Library
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Scalable Media Labs: Building Your Own Public Library Media Space
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Sharing Knowledge: Projects and outreach for Indigenous Patrons, Languages, and Doucments
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    StoryTeen: Training Teen Interns & Volunteers to Offer Storytime and Support Early Literacy
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Telehealth in Libraries: What You Need to Know
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Understanding and Advocating for Net-Zero and Energy Sustainability in your Library Building Project
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    United for Libraries President's Program
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Beyond Differences: Using Analytics for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Beyond the Vote: Steps for Effective Advocacy-GODORT
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok, Oh My: Understanding the Online "Bookaverse" As Tool for Professional Development
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Changing the Representation of Disabilities in Description & Classification
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Federated Authentication: Does enhancing user experience mean libraries need to sacrifice privacy?
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Inclusion of Justice-Involved Individuals in Library Services
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    It’s Not Either/Or: How to Include Open Access Materials to Transform Curriculum and Collections
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Jumpstart Your Library Career with Committee Work, Reviewing, and Community Engagement/Projects
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Lead Your Friends Organization Through Transformation
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Navigating Challenging Topics with Graphic Novels and Manga
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Protecting Patron Access to Reproductive Health Information
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Reads Like Fiction: Nonfiction You Can't Put Down
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    RMRT President's Program
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Share our Stories: Asian and Pacific Islander Literature for Children and Young Adults
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    The Marvelous Middle: Finding ways to Grow and Thrive in Middle Management
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    The Top 5 Mistakes Renovating your Library - And How to Avoid Them!
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Transforming Community: A Rural Librarians Story
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Transforming Everyday Spaces: Deepening Equity in Early Childhood Learning
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Trust the Kids: How Chicago Public Library Supports Youth Autonomy
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Understanding Land Acknowledgements
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    From Pandemic to Endemic: Global Experiences and Perspectives on the OCLC New Model Library
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    "Education Never Ends" - Teaching and Learning with Sherlock Holmes
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Advancing Social Justice With Young Adult Literature
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Autism is Welcome Here: How to Engage Neurodivergent Children and Teens
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Creating Opportunities to Shop Small: Two Approaches for Public Libraries
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Designing Community-Responsive Mental Health Programs
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Dialogues in Metadata: Bridging the Gap Between LIS Education and Metadata in Practice
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Discovering Humboldt Project: Leveraging Google Maps & metadata to enhance discovery and outreach, student recruitment and retention strategies, and tourism
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Expanding the Diversity Umbrella: Libraries Are for Everyone
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    It's a Mystery to Me
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Nurses at the Library: How to Create a Successful Partnership
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Nurturing Writers Workshops in Prison
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Rare Materials Video Reference on a Shoestring
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Resisting Book Bans: A Proactive Approach to Critical Inclusivity of Coretta Scott King Book Awards Winning titles (for all learners), in K-12 Schools, Academic and Public Library Collections
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Seeing the Big Picture: Engaging Future Educators in Critical Visual Literacy through Picture Books
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Showing Off: End of Year Reporting
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Small Team, Big Job: A Model for Sustainable Critical Cataloging and Reparative Description
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    The Storm is Already Here: A National Study on Public Library Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Thinking Big: How Systemwide Planning & Design Optimize Service & Maximize Engagement
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Transformative Outreach - Growth Through Impactful Partnerships and Inquiry-Based Programming
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Transforming Public Libraries’ Approach to Digital Literacy: Tools for Success
  • 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    ALA Awards Presentation & President’s Program featuring ............
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    LRRT Chair's Program: Research Forum and Shera Award Presentations
  • 6:30 PM – 11:00 PM CT
    Newbery-Caldecott-Legacy Awards Banquet
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CT
    ALA Trivia Championship
  • 8:00 PM – 10:55 PM CT
    Rainbow Round Table 50th Anniversary Celebration (RRT)
  • Monday, June 26, 2023
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Academic Libraries, Campus Partners, and Student Success
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Accessible Digital Libraries: Navigating Library Reading Apps with Vision-Impaired Patrons