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  • Monday, June 26, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 8:05 AM CT
    Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    2023 ALSC Awards
  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
  • 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    ALA HRDR Advisory
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    All Committee Meeting (RUSA)
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    iBlackCaucus & Mentoring
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Past Presidents Breakfast (PLA)
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Your Morning is Booked: ALMA/LibraryReads Adult Author Panel
  • 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Share-VDE - Share Virtual Discovery Environment Workshop
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CT
    Rachel Elliott: THE REAL RILEY MAYES signing
  • 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
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Building Joy-Centric Libraries: an Experiential Workshop
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Creative Aging: Cultivating Healthier Older Adulthood For Library Patrons Through Social and Creative Engagement
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    How to Launch a VR-Based Skilled Trades Program for Patrons
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    iBlackCaucus & Mentoring
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Interdisciplinarity and Humanities Librarianship: Are librarians (and Libraries) Keeping Pace, and What’s Next?
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Is Your Library Challenge Ready?
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Library Card Policies: Do They Work for Teens?
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    OCLC Research update—Partner with purpose for greater impact
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Passion Project to Socially Conscious Business: Librarians Building Communities One Story at a Time
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Revealing Chicago’s Planning Past Digitally: Chicago Government Information Transformed for Access
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    The Music Modernization Act and Libraries: New Opportunities for Music Collections
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Thinking To Produce Results
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Ukrainian Libraries Session
  • 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Council III
  • 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM CT
    Banned Books from the Big Chair
  • 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM CT
    The Library Marketplace
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: LPBD Amanda Gorman by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Community of Care Quiet Room
  • 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Accelerating Literacy with the Toniebox
  • 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM CT
    Art and Humor with Art Baltazar
  • 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM CT
    Giving Characters Permission to Dream Big: Writing Happy Endings for Queer, Gay, and Trans Youth with Edd Tello
  • 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM CT
    How stories from the past inform our thinking today, and in the future
  • 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM CT
    WNDB Presents Books Save Lives: BIPOC + LGBTQ voices in solidarity
  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    Amy Chu: Writing Comics & Graphic Novels
  • 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM CT
    Katie Siegel: CHARLOTTE ILLES IS NOT A DETECTIVE
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Colby Maddox: American Bluegrass & Old-Time/Fiddle
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Dustin Brady: World's Worst Time Machine
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Liz Lee Heinecke: The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology for Kids
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Hannah Templer/Cosmoknights, Cosmoknights 2, Flung out of Space
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Signing - Kim van Alkemade: COUNTING LOST STARS
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    William A. Morris Award Celebration
  • 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM CT
    PLA 2024 Conference Committee Meeting
  • 10:10 AM – 10:40 AM CT
    Simon & Schuster Book Buzz: New Children's & Adult Books!
  • 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    Library is Open Podcast!
  • 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Kemper Donovan: THE BUSY BODY
  • 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    Dark Fantasy and Jewish Folklore in YA Fiction
  • 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    Let's Talk About Light Novels! What Are They and Who Are They For? - Presented by Yen Press/Yen On
  • 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    We're All In This Together: Building Community for Teen Readers
  • 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    YA Romance for the Neurodiverse: Jackie Khalilieh and her debut novel Something More
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    2023 RUSA ETS Technology Showcase
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    “Cataloging Correctly For Kids:" The Basics of Cataloging Materials for Young People
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    ALSC Membership Meeting
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Booklist and LibraryReads Read 'N' Rave
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Cloud Watching for NASA!
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Federated Authentication: Browser changes and what to expect
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    FMRT and Labor Go to the Movies!
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    iCLAE - International Council of Library Association Executives
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Leading the Way: Community Engagement in Small & Rural Libraries
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Library Services to Persons with Print Disabilities Interest Group Meeting
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Listen to Win: Hearing from Audiobook Winners and the Judges Who Select Them
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    New Discoveries in Reference: The 29th Annual Reference Research Forum
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Picture This! The Literacy of Digital Images
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Promoting Climate Resiliency
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Supporting New and Emerging Forms of Scholarship through E-Resource Licensing
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Update on the ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey Editorial Board
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Working with Newcomers and English Learners in Your Community
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Youth Entrepreneurship: Engaging a New Generation in Small Business Development
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    All Community Meeting of the Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services (ODLOS)
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    B.A.D.D.
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Cancelled: Chicago Stories: The Union Stockyards
  • 10:50 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    Cancelled: Image Comics Book Buzz Spectacular
  • 10:50 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    Exciting New Releases from Andrews McMeel Publishing and Andrews McMeel Kids
  • 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    DUKEScomics: The future is in books (and comics)!
  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    Heather Redmond: DEATH AND THE SISTERS
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Sergio Ruzzier: FISH AND WAVE signing
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Taylor: African/Percussion
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Christopher Denise: Knight Owl
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    The Hammock - Inspirations From My Heart to Yours
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Art Baltazar:Yahgz The Craynobi Tales Volume 1
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Melissa Iwai: GIGI AND OJIJI signing
  • 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM CT
    Scalable Media Labs: Building Your Own Public Library Media Space
  • 11:30 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    The Library Love Fest Podcast
  • 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Jana Tropper: Animal Rescue Friends
  • 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Kensington Mysteries Then & Now Book Buzz
  • 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM CT
    Return to the Ring with Hannah Templer of COSMOKNIGHTS!
  • 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM CT
    Teaching Truth through Children’s Books with Not Done Yet Author Tameka Fryer Brown
  • 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM CT
    Walking Grandma Home: How Stories of Grief Can Bring Hope and Healing
  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM CT
    Schneider Family Book Award Luncheon
  • 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM CT
    The Library Love Fest Podcast
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CT
    McCoy Mrubata, Gary Wittner: South African Jazz
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CT
    Sylvia Notini: JUST A GIRL signing
  • 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Claribel Ortega, FRIZZY
  • 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Federico Erabia, signs Pedro & Daniel
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    MATTHEW CORDELL, author of the CORNBREAD & POPPY series
  • 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Core Board Meeting
  • 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Board of Directors III Meeting (AASL)
  • 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM CT
    "Exploring Asian Perspectives: Royal Collins Publishing (#4137) - Unveiling Chinese Studies and Bridging Cultural Understanding for the Academic World"
  • 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM CT
    Author and Former Librarian Alechia Dow Introduces A Song of Salvation
  • 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM CT
    Comics for Emerging Readers: I Like to Read® Comics—Introducing this year’s Theodor Geisel Medalist Michael Emberley and Honoree Vikram Madan—with Executive Editor Grace Maccarone and Senior Editor Sally Morgridge.
  • 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM CT
    Emmy-award winner, PJ Caldas, who was named the 2023 Jury President of the Artificial Intelligence Awards at the Art Director's Club and Curator of a Global immersive exhibit of designers collaborating with AI, presents his new novel.
  • 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM CT
    Saving Planet Earth: Introducing The Books for a Better Earth™ collection with author Laurie Lawlor and Holiday House Vice President and editor in chief, Mary Cash
  • 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM CT
    Calkins Creek Editorial Director Carolyn Yoder talks with author Ray Anthony Shepard
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    A Strategic Plan to Live By
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Capacity Building
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    K-12 Copyright 101 for School Librarians
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Updates on ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Accomplishments
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    YALSA President's Program
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Arab Israeli Dialogue/Imagine Peace
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    BRASS Leadership Council
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Expanding Information Access for People who are Incarcerated: Service Standards and Mapping
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Leading with Your Hands and Your Heart: A Conversation about Leading from Wherever You Are
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    REFORMA General Membership Meeting
  • 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Stonewall Book Awards
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    ALA Executive Board Meeting II
  • 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    Xue Mo and His Light
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Gala Author Tea sponsored by Data Axle Reference Solutions
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Catholic Library Association: Looking back and looking forward
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    COL Business Meeting II
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Cultural Humility in Practice
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Ending the Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation: The Library's Role
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    How You Can Build Better: Effective Library Project Management
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Library linked data strategies in action: institutional linked data frameworks for collections, discovery, and access
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Library Research Round Table Virtual Mentoring Program Symposium and Information Session
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Read Romance/Fight the Patriarchy
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Serving your Patrons with Dementia
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Budget Committee (ALSC)
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    Category: Woman
  • 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    2023 Odyssey Awards
  • 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM CT
    AIA Awards and Reception
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Expanding Professional Engagement through Online Conference Access: Working toward Inclusive and Effective Hybrid Models
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Welcoming Spaces: Creating Welcoming Environments for Immigrant and Refugee Families
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    Ecosystem Subcommittee Meeting
  • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CT
    International Librarians Reception