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LLA Annual Conference March 13-15, 2019
Schedule-at-a-Glance
Tentative Schedule (Subject to Change)
Wednesday March 13, 2019
Time Event/Session Location
9:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Atrium
9:00 am - 11:00 am Pre-Con: Host it and They Will Come! Cypress I
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Pre-Con: Escape to LLA Conference Room 253
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Pre-Con: Business Librarianship Bayou & Levee
10:00 am - 12:00 pm LASL Executive Board Meeting Chairman’s Library
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Pre-Con: Host it and They Will Come! Cypress I
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Pre-Con: Escape to LLA Conference Room 253
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Pre-Con: Google Tools: G Suite & Beyond Bayou & Levee
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm LLA Executive Board Meeting Chairman’s Library
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Ribbon Cutting & Exhibits Party Premier II & III
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Past President’s Dinner (By Invitation Only)
Thursday March 14, 2019
Time Event/Session Location
7:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration Atrium
8:00 am - 8:50 pm Program Session 1 Meeting Rooms
9:00 am - 5:00 pm Exhibits Open Premier II & III
9:00 am - 9:50 am No Conflict Breakfast Premier II & III
10:00 am - 10:50 am Program Session 2 Meeting Rooms
11:00 am - 11:50 am Program Session 3 Meeting Rooms
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Public/Trustee Luncheon Premier I
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Academic LLA/ACRL-LA Luncheon Bayou & Levee
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm Program Session 4 Meeting Rooms
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm Program Session 5 Meeting Rooms
3:30 pm - 4:20 pm Program Session 6 Meeting Rooms
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm No Conflict Final Voting Friendliest Booth Premier II & III
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Cash Bar Awards Reception Atrium
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Awards Ceremony & Dinner Reception Premier I
Friday March 15, 2019
Time Event/Session Location
7:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration Atrium
8:00 am - 11:00 am Exhibits Open Premier II & III
8:00 am - 2:00 pm Poster Session Atrium
8:00 am - 9:50 am GODORT Breakfast & Business Meeting Premier I
8:00 am - 8:50 am Program Session 7 Meeting Rooms
9:00 am - 9:50 am Program Session 8 Meeting Rooms
10:00 am - 10:30 am No Conflict Time for Last View of Exhibits Premier II & III
10:30 am - 11:50 am President’s Program & Business Meeting Cypress I & II
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm LASL Makerspace Lunch & Learn Premier I
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm Program Session 9 Meeting Rooms
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm Program Session 10 Meeting RoomsMeeting Room Schedule - Thursday, March 14, 2019
Cypress I Cypress II Premier I Premier II&III Room 253 Room 254 Creole
Queen
7:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration
Migrating from What’s New In
Refreshing our
Physical to Children’s Literature Feast on Graphic Eugene P. Watson:
Roundtable Image: How We are
8:00 am - 8:50 am Streaming Media and How to Use Novels Across the Louisiana Library
Session 1 Making the Library
Collections: A Case Them In Teaching Curriculum Legend
More Welcoming
Study and Programming
9:00 am - 5:00 pm Exhibits Open
9:00 am - 9:50 am No Conflict
Breakfast in the
Exhibit Hall
God has left the
Building: Library
10:00 am - 10:50 am Roundtable Children’s Services Panel Discussion:
Recruitment Architecture,
Session 2 Discussion Group Southern Writers
Strategies for Librarianship, and
Finding Your the Soul
a Diverse LIS
Ancestors:
Population/
Genealogy in Print
Diversity Interest The Role of
and Online
Group Business Children’s Book Academic Libraries in
11:00 am - 11:50 pm Meeting Panel Discussion: Accreditation: What I
Repair, A How-To learned about created
Mystery Writers
Session program impact
studies
Public/ Trustees
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Luncheon
Attorney, Teacher,
Copyright and Copy Librarian: How One
Wrong: Helping Talented Information Academic Section Public Section
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm School Campuses Professional Meshed Lightning Talks
Business Meeting Business Meeting
“Keep it Legal” in the Varying Strategies to
Digital Age Successfully Engage
Once Reluctant Readers
Subject Specialists Connecting World Hosting Job Fair at
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm
Business Meeting Book to your Library Public Library
Legal Information Needs
Resources for Discussing Diversity
Self-Represented in Children’s Picture Visits with Leonardo
Litigants: LEAP is Books UL Lafayette
Here to Help! Institutional Best Practices for
3:30 pm - 4:20 pm Repository: Choosing Being the Most
the Right Platform Effective Board
for Our University’s Member You Can Be
Scholarship
No Conflict Final
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Voting “Friendliest
Booth”
Cash Bar Before
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Awards
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Awards Ceremony
& Dinner Reception
6:30 pm - 8:00 pmMeeting Room Schedule - Thursday, March 14, 2019
Riverboat Bayou & Natchez Samuel Delta Queen Mississippi
Levee Clemens Queen
7:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration
More Than a Pretty Coding for Little Bits: Best Practices In Librarians Read and
Interface: The Louisiana Using Coding Concepts Library Managers Marketing & Outreach Rave: Upcoming Books
8:00 am - 8:50 am Power Up Your TAB
Digital Library as a Data in Classrooms and Youth Interest Group Business To Amplify Discovery & that Librarians are Wild
Hub Programming Meeting Engagement About
9:00 am - 5:00 pm Exhibits Open
9:00 am - 9:50 am
The Well-Tended Not Your Average Excuse Me, I Believe
Team: Germination Outreach Services/ No Space, No Panel: Tugging @ Your You Have My Stapler...
10:00 am - 10:50 am and Growth through Bookmobile Interest State of the State and Other Business
Problem Heartstrings to Impact
Training, Teaching, and Group Meeting Library Reference Questions
Students (& “Loving” It
Trickery While You’re at It!) You Shouldn’t Ignore
Public Libraries as Partners
Technology The Wonderful for Community Health: Print Culture & Books
11:00 am - 11:50 pm Catch ‘Em All: Crash How the New Orleans
Enhanced Lessons World of Library Public Library is Working
Interest Group Business
Course with Canva
for Libraries Centers to Improve Health and Meeting
Promote Health Literacy
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Academic LLA/
ACRL-LA Luncheon
3-5th Grade Booktalks
Tech Tools and
The Last Bastions of for the 2019-2020 A Roadmap to LaSSAL Business
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm Techiniques for
Democracy Louisiana Young Innovation Meeting
Collaboration
Readers’ Choice
6-8th Grade Adventurous
Puzzles and Pop
A Model Public Booktalks for the Collection
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm Culture: Planning Writing for
Library Board 2019-2020 Louisiana Development:
Escape Rooms for Publication 101
Meeting BreakoutEDU: Young Readers’ Finding Indie
Preteen Patrons
Thinking Outside Choice (LYRC) Treasures
of the Box for
Growing eBook
Library & Classroom
and eAudiobook
Collaboration Louisiana Collection, You, too, can run a
3:30 pm - 4:20 pm Collections in
Louisiana via State Library of tween/teen book Presentations 101
cloudLink by Louisiana group
cloudLibrary™
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
6:30 pm - 8:00 pmMeeting Room Schedule - Friday, March 15, 2019
Cypress I Cypress II Premier I Premier II&III Room 253 Room 254 Creole
Queen
7:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration
8:00 am - 11:00 am Exhibits Open
Feeding Young “How do I reach
Minds: Libraries Cutting edge or these people?”
Beyond Trinkets: 3D Respond to the
8:00 am - 8:50 am crazy idea? You Successful practices
Printers as Library Needs of Hungry decide from the second
Program Enhancers Kids smallest parish in
population.
GODORT Breakfast &
Performer Showcase
Business Meeting
Withdrawn!: 2nd Teaching Truly Collaborative:
Annual Cutthroat HarperCollins Digital Information Literacy School and Public
9:00 am - 9:50 am
Library Competition Book Buzz Through Drawing Library Partnerships
for the Crafty and Short Stories for Successful
Summer Learning
No Conflict Time for
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Last View of Exhibits
All Conference Session -
10:30 am - 11:50 am
President’s Program (ft. Dr.
Tommy Karam) & Business
Meeting
LASL Makersspace
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Lunch & Learn
Roundtable LASL Business Learning Kits from
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm Contributed Papers
Session 3 Meeting A to Z
Preservation of Your
Library Materials
Let’s Get Social:
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm Using Social Media
at Your LibraryMeeting Room Schedule - Friday, March 15, 2019
Riverboat Bayou & Natchez Samuel Delta Queen Mississippi
Levee Clemens Queen
7:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration
8:00 am - 11:00 am Exhibits Open
No Money, Don’t
Access for All: Create Inspiring
Worry: Finding
Making Your Human Library Spaces - A Case
8:00 am - 8:50 am ACT Summer Camp and Curating Free
Library Accessibility Collection Study
Open Educational
Friendly
Resources
Parliamentary
Procedures: The
Root of Effective
Meetings
2019-2020 Louisiana The Classroom and
How to Weed Your
Teen Readers’ the Street: Two More HELP! I’m a School
Attic: Getting Rid Media Literacy Week
9:00 am - 9:50 am Choice Booktalks Sites for Change Librarian! Now
of Junk Without at Your Library
(9th-12th Grade Patricia Brown, what?
Destroying History
Nominated Titles) Dayne Sherman
10:00 am - 10:30 am
10:30 am - 11:50 am
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Beyond an Apple
Creating an Equity
a Day: Providing Patent and
Strategy: The Good,
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm Consumer Health Trademark Resource
the Bad, and the
Information at Your Center: An Overview
Awkward
Library
Caring for the Mind: Patrons and Profits:
Providing Mental A Library’s Response Processing Passport
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm
Health Information to the Opioid Crisis Applications at
at Your Library Public LibrariesProgram Sessions Wednesday & Thursday
Wednesday, March 13 the clues and ESCAPE before she returns or personal Google Account login, which
(in 35 minutes). will allow them to try out applications are
Upon completion of the scenario above, they are shared.
Pre-Conference Programs you will have time for questions and to Speaker(s): Kim Howell, Tiffany
examine the components of the escape Whitehead, Stephanie Wilkes, Chris Young
Host It and They Will Come! room more closely. You will leave not
9:00 – 11:00 am, 1:00 – 3:00 pm // Cypress I only with a unique experience, but also LLA Executive Board Meeting
Sponsor(s): Public Section a program guide for this and additional 2:00 – 6:00 pm // Chairman’s Library
Description: Large scale community escape rooms that you can replicate at
programs can help a library connect users your own library! Ribbon Cutting & Exhibits Party
to the services offered. Attend our LLA Speaker(s): Jeremy Bolom, Head of 6:30 – 8:30 pm // Premier II & III
Fair to meet and mingle with small and Public Service, and Kris Patrick, Teen
medium sized libraries that host Writer’s Coordinator, Lincoln Parish Library Past President’s Dinner
Conferences, Book Festivals, Judged Art 7:00 – 9:00 pm // Invitation Only
Shows, STEM/Science Days, Comic Cons, Business Librarianship: Helping
and TEDx events. Walk away with outlines Researchers and Entrepreneurs
on hosting an event. Win door prizes! Thursday, March 14
Navigate the World of Business
Speaker(s): Jessi Suire, Adult Services, Information
Terrebonne Parish Library; Misty 9:00 am – 12:00 pm // Bayou & Levee Program Session 1
Noble-Hodges, Outreach Coordinator, Sponsor(s): Subject Specialists 8:00 – 8:50 am
Tangipahoa Parish Library; Sarah Description: Business librarians are vital
Colombo, Assistant Director, West Baton when it comes to assisting researchers Migrating from Physical to Streaming
Rouge Parish Library; Lesley Campbell, in discovering resources, providing Media Collections: A Case Study
Head of Youth Services, Livingston Parish knowledge, and supporting business 8:00 – 8:50 am // Cypress I
Library; Ann Gomez, Branch Manager, innovation. This workshop covers four Sponsor(s): Academic Section
Livingston Parish Library; Jennifer Seneca, presentations that delve into the work Description: Academic libraries are
Assistant Director, Livingston Parish of business librarians and how they increasingly moving away from physical
Library connect researchers, entrepreneurs, media collections toward more desirable
and community business owners to streaming media platforms that allow
Escape to LLA Conference: A Harry information. The presentations are for unlimited simultaneous users
Potter Themed Escape Room designed for those with little or no and unrestricted public performance
Experience knowledge of business librarianship, rights. The presenters will provide an
9:00 am – 12:00 pm, 1:00 – 4:00 pm // though are also beneficial for public and introduction to the various streaming
Room 253 academic reference librarians, library services and Acquisition models
Sponsor(s): Public Section science students, and business owners. available to libraries. This presentation
Description: Learning through Speaker(s): Tom Diamond, Allison will also illustrate a yearlong project to
experience is the quickest way to gaining Gallaspy, Ian Richardson, Andrew significantly downsize Sims Memorial
new ideas. And, who said this couldn’t be Tadman, Natalie Denby Library’s physical media collections
fun! Join us for an hour on Wednesday, at Southeastern Louisiana University.
March 13, 2018 for a Harry Potter escape Emphasis will be placed on transitioning
room experience. LASL Executive Board Meeting from an outdated VHS and DVD collection
At Hogwarts School, there are few 10:00 am – 12:00 pm // Chairman’s Library to streaming media platforms like
professors that strike as much fear and Academic Video Online: Premium and
loathing into the heart of any student in Films on Demand, staff training initiatives,
the secret organization of “Dumbledore’s Google Tools: G Suite and Beyond and the results of the weeding process.
Army” as Delores Umbridge. 1:00 – 4:00 pm // Bayou & Levee Speaker(s): Angela Dunnington and Paul
Unfortunately, you have caught her Sponsor(s): LASL Kelsey, Southeastern Louisiana University
keen eye while practicing precise wand Description: G Suite applications have
movements for a defensive spell under the ability to streamline your workflow What’s New In Children’s Literature
your desk. Now you sit in her office for and increase your productivity. This and How to Use Them In Teaching and
an evening’s detention. Suddenly, as she session will highlight the functionality Programming
runs off to investigate illicit activities and best practices for frequently used G 8:00 – 8:50 am // Cypress II
outside the Room of Requirement, you Suite applications, as well as some other Sponsor(s): LASL, Children’s Services/
have been left alone, locked in her office. Google tools that can make your life Programming Interest Group
This is your chance for action, but will you (and work) easier. Attendees will benefit Description: Come and find out what is
escape or face her compounded wrath from bringing a laptop with the Chrome new and fun in PreK-5th grade literature
upon her return? See if you (and your browser installed and access to a G Suite and how to use it to teach to the state
colleagues) have what it takes to solve standards in your school library or forProgram Sessions Thursday
programming in your public library. This finding documents online, helpful Description: Have you ever wondered
interactive and fast-paced session will resources, and an overview of depository how to make your library more
leave you with many ideas. work. This session will have information welcoming and aesthetically pleasing
Speaker(s): Shannan L. Hicks, Caddo useful for newcomers, experienced to students and patrons? Through the
Parish Public Schools librarians, and library managers and creation and efforts of our library building
directors. Questions are encouraged committee, we at Louisiana Tech’s
Roundtable Session 1 throughout the meeting. Prescott Memorial Library are striving to
8:00 – 8:50 am // Premier I do just that. This presentation will focus
Feast on Graphic Novels Across the on the ways in which our committee is
Transforming School Libraries in Curriculum addressing the needs of our students
Louisiana 8:00 – 8:50 am // Room 253 and patron base through addressing the
Description: There are many ways to Sponsor(s): Subject Specialists, LASL, building aesthetics, signage, outreach
transform school libraries. From remixing Children’s Services/Programming Interest and programing, and working with
what we have to fresh starts made each Group student organizations on campus. We will
year, librarians are constantly updating Description: Once referred to as “the also be addressing the challenges and
and transforming their libraries. This marijuana of the nursery” and the “bane limitations we have faced as a committee
round table discussion will center on of the bassinet,” comics and graphic throughout our continued efforts to
the steps taken in Caddo Public School novels have become increasingly better serve our students and patrons.
district to refresh and renew, with popular. Of course, librarians have Speaker(s): Abigail DeSoto, Government
input from the audience as to what has supported graphic novels for decades Documents Librarian, and Nolan Eller,
been done in other districts. From the because they can convey complex ideas, University Archivist, Louisiana Tech
discussion, new ideas will emerge on how increase vocabulary, and teach multiple Univeristy
librarians can continue to be relevant and literacies while engaging students. The
continue to transform their libraries to graphic novel format spans genres Eugene P. Watson: Louisiana Library
better serve their patrons and schools. (fantasy, historic fiction, realistic fiction, Legend
biography, and informational texts) and 8:00 – 8:50 am // Creole Queen
School Library and Public Library curricula including ELA, science, history, Sponsor(s): Academic Section
Partnerships math, arts, and geography. The format Description: Eugene Payne Watson
Description: Join the Children’s Services often makes text and information more (June 29th, 1911-February 29th, 1964),
Interest Group to discuss ways to develop accessible and enjoyable for students librarian, Catholic, scholar, chess
relationships with your Public Librarian who have grown up in a digital world. aficionado, and polio survivor, achieved
or School Librarian to make the best Yet, many educators are still wary of much in his brief span of fifty-two years.
possible experience for the children we using them in the classroom. Join us He was president of Louisiana Library
service. It takes a village and there are as we Feast on Graphic Novels across Association (1947-1948), founder of the
ways we can work together to promote the Curriculum. Get ideas on how to Louisiana state documents program
information literacy. What works? What incorporate the graphic novel into your and a major contributor to the Louisiana
doesn’t? Please bring positive success classroom—which graphic novels to Newspaper Index. He also established the
stories as well as speed bumps from choose, how to convince others about “Louisiana Room” of the Russell Library
either side. More heads are better than the benefits of graphic novels, and how which collected materials pertaining to
one! to teach using the graphic novel. Not north Louisiana history. From 1950 to
only do graphic novels prepare students 1961 he dedicated his life to founding
Louisiana Documents Educational for the SAT (which was updated in 2016 Alpha Beta Alpha, the only coeducational
Programming Overview to include more visual literacy) and for library fraternity. Over this ten-year
Description: In a roundtable format, college, they also fulfill the Common Core period Watson gradually built a national
the State Library of Louisiana’s Recorder ELA standard requiring evaluation of reputation as a leader in librarianship for
of Documents and members of the content “presented in diverse formats and his work in recruitment of new librarians
state depository program will hold media.” Best of all, graphic novels create to the profession. This paper will focus on
an overview of educational series LIFELONG READERS. Eugene Watson, the expansion of Alpha
and discussion about Louisiana Speaker(s): Alicia Schwarzenbach, Beta Alpha into a national fraternity of
Documents. The discussion topics grew Delgado Community College, and Soline forty-five chapters (and 2000 members)
out of the responses that depository Holmes, Academy of the Sacred Heart and will conclude with a brief discussion
librarians provided to a survey that of the library which bears his name.
the Advisory Council of the Louisiana Refreshing our Image: How We Are Speaker(s): Michael E. Matthews,
Public Documents Depository Program Making the Library More Welcoming Northwestern State University
conducted. Topics will include 8:00 – 8:50 am // Room 254
information on working with the public, Sponsor(s): Subject Specialists, Academic
understanding the classification system, Section, LaSSAL, Reference Interest GroupProgram Sessions Thursday
More Than a Pretty Interface: The network of libraries to raise awareness designing and developing a program
Louisiana Digital Library as a Data Hub and usage of your OverDrive service. We’ll that will be offered during the summer as
8:00 – 8:50 am // Riverboat touch on the importance of goal setting, “Teen Advisory Board presents…” These
Sponsor(s): Academic Section, leveraging the Resource Center, curation programs show that our teens have a
Preservation Interest Group and much more. strong voice in our system and that we
Description: The Louisiana Digital Library Speaker(s): Whit Arnold, Product hear them.
(LDL) is an online platform for libraries, Support Specialist Speaker(s): Lesley Campbell, Livingston
museums, archives, and historical Parish Library
organizations across the state. The books, Librarians Read and Rave: Upcoming
manuscripts, oral histories, maps, and Books that Librarians Are Wild About Exhibits Open
photographs held in the LDL showcase 8:00 – 8:50 am // Delta Queen 9:00 am – 5:00 pm // Premier I & II
the cultural resources of Louisiana. Sponsor(s): Public Section Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall: 9:00 – 9:50
The metadata about these items is also Description: Join this panel of public am
a great asset. When explored in their librarians from around the state as they
entirety, the data held in the LDL is as sound off about the upcoming books that Program Session 2
valuable as the digital facsimiles. This they are most excited about and can’t
talk will explore the LDL as a data hub, a wait to share with their patrons. (With 10:00 – 10:50 am
place to gather and share the metadata thanks to publishers Hachette, Houghton
of the participating institutions. Open Mifflin Harcourt, Ingram Publisher Finding Your Ancestors: Genealogy in
data is a growing trend in archives and Services, Macmillan, Penguin Random Print and Online
special collections, enabling new types of House, Sourcebooks, Workman, W.W. 10:00 – 11:50 am // Cypress I
interactions with collection material. We Norton. And special thanks to program Sponsor(s): Subject Specialists,
will contextualize the field of open data advisor, Vicki Nesting!) Preservation Interest Group, Academic
in historical institutions, and explore uses Speaker(s): Shemeka Adams, Tangipahoa Section, Reference Interest Group
for downloaded metadata from the LDL. Parish Library; Zach Bartlett, New Description: For the beginner to
Speaker(s): Scott Ziegler, LSU Libraries Orleans Public Library; Lauren Bordelon, advanced researcher, come learn about
Assumption Parish Library; Rebecca print and online resources for useful
Coding for Little Bits: Using Coding Cloud, Lincoln Parish Library; Sarah genealogical research.
Concepts in Classrooms and Youth Colombo, West Baton Rouge Library Speaker(s): Charlene Bonnette, Manager,
Programming Louisiana Department, State Library of
8:00 – 8:50 am // Bayou & Levee Power Up Your TAB Louisiana
Sponsor(s): Children’s Services/ 8:00 – 8:50 am // Mississippi Queen
Programming Interest Group Sponsor(s): Public Section Recruitment Strategies for a Diverse
Description: Through a grant funded Description: Teen Advisory Boards can LIS Population/Diversity Interest
partnership with Southeastern Louisiana make a huge impact on your library Group Business Meeting
University, branch managers Lindsey and in your community, but in a multi- 10:00 – 11:50 am // Cypress II
Hines and Avery Smith, MLS developed a branch system it is difficult to bring the Sponsor(s): Diversity Interest Group,
training including a wealth of resources teens together. Livingston Parish Library Public Section
and hands-on activities to be used in has implemented a series of successful Description: In a panel discussion,
classrooms and libraries. Come learn TAB programs that served to unite the Project Recovery Scholars and
teaching strategies, do fun activities, and teens into a cohesive front. In January recipients of the Ollie H. Burns Minority
take home plugged-in and unplugged 2017, we hosted our first annual TAB Scholarship reflect on the challenges
resources to enhance your programming! Convention. This program featured an and opportunities they have faced post-
Speaker(s): Lindsey Hines, Tangipahoa opening address, three breakout sessions, SLIS graduation and what strategies are
Parish Library, and Avery Smith, MLS, and, of course, lots of food. The TAB also needed to recruit and retain a diverse
Tangipahoa Parish Library attend field trips to a local book store workforce to mirror our communities.
to purchase materials for the collection. Following the panel discussion, a short
Library Managers Interest Group The teens sold colored hair streaks at Diversity Interest Group Business Meeting
Business Meeting our annual Book Festival to raise money will be held.
8:00 – 8:50 am // Natchez to purchase t-shirts for all members. Speaker(s): Dr. Alma Dawson, Professor
At our upcoming TAB Convention, we Emeritus, LSU School of Library and
Best Practices In Marketing & Outreach are planning on launching two new Information Science, Project Recovery
To Amplify Discovery & Engagement initiatives in the coming year. The TAB Scholars and Ollie H. Burns Minority
8:00 – 8:50 am // Samuel Clemens Reader’s Choice Awards will be a teen- Scholarship Recipients
Sponsor(s): Public Section driven program in which they nominate
Description: Take away best practices titles, refine the list, and open voting to
for marketing and outreach from our whole of the parish. Teens will also beProgram Sessions Thursday
Round Table Session 2 or in the next few years? Most academic Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
10:00 – 10:50 am // Premier I libraries in Louisiana are active in the for Novel-in-Progress. His debut novel
Southern Association of Colleges and We Cast a Shadow was called “a singular
Cataloging Round Table Schools (SACS) reaffirmation and interim and unforgettable work of political art”
Description: The RoundTable will discuss reporting process. Responsibilities by Publishers Weekly and “Brilliant and
cataloging issues, practices, innovations, include data collection, draft writing, devastating” by Booklist.
procedures, and standards. All library compilation of supporting documents Speaker(s): Kent Wascom, Southeastern
types and skill levels are welcome. Library and other duties. Furthermore, Louisiana University, David Armand,
school students and non-catalogers are libraries are frequently involved in the Southeastern Louisiana University, and
welcome, too! Bring your cataloging establishment and implementation of Sarah Colombo, West Baton Rouge
issues and questions and we can the accompanying Quality Enhancement Library
brainstorm together. Plan (QEP). This round table serves as
a discussion and support session for God has left the Building: Library
Accessibility and Libraries those administrators and faculty who are Architecture, Librarianship, and the
Description: Do you have a lot of involved in SACS accreditation. Soul
questions about accessibility and 10:00 – 10:50 am // Creole Queen
libraries? This round table is for you! Do Children’s Services Discussion Group Sponsor(s): Academic Section, Public
you have a lot of answers to questions 10:00 – 10:50 am // Room 253 Section, Preservation Interest Group
about accessibility and libraries? This Sponsor(s): Children’s Services/ Description: This session will explore the
round table is also for you! Let’s get Programming Interest Group radical changes in public and academic
together to ask questions and try to Description: This is a chance for library architecture over the past 150
get some answers together. Specific Children’s Services staff to discuss what’s years. Libraries were once considered to
topics that may be discussed include new on the horizon, problems, and have be centers of both the intellect and the
accessibility of print resources, digital questions answered. It is a time to share divine spirit, second only in importance
resources, physical spaces, and assistive what we do and how we do it. to the campus chapel or local church.
technology in the library. This round table Today, the library is transforming from a
is appropriate for all types of libraries. Panel Discussion: Southern Writers sacred space to a retail space. Why? The
10:00 – 10:50 am // Room 254 presenter will provide a historical tour
Somebody’s Watching Me: A Sponsor(s): Public Section of library architecture from the middle
Roundtable about Paranoia and the Description: Join authors Kent Wascom, 19th century to the present day and will
Public Library David Armand, and Maurice Carlos discuss how seemingly small changes
Description: Every library has a couple Ruffin as they discuss what it means to in construction were likewise reflected
of patrons who believe some odd things. be a modern writer in the South. The in the “evolution” of librarianship (from
Maybe that Toby Keith is breaking into discussion will be moderated by Sarah vocation to profession) and users (from
their computer to steal song lyrics. Or Colombo, Assistant Director of the West patrons to customers).
maybe it is that plumbers are planting Baton Rouge Library and book review Speaker(s): Michael Matthews,
mold into people’s homes to make them columnist for the West Side Journal. Northwestern State University of
ill. We all have these peculiar patrons and Kent Wascom is the author of The Blood Louisiana
typically they come to us for information of Heaven, named a best book of the
requests or technical help and, aside year by the Washington Post and NPR, The Well-Tended Team: Germination
from their belief they appear normal. The Secessia, and The New Inheritors. He and Growth through Training,
question is, “how do you best help these was the winner of the 2012 Tennessee Teaching, and Trickery
patrons without being drawn into their Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival 10:00 – 10:50 am // Riverboat
story and keep yourself and the library Prize for Fiction, selected as one of Sponsor(s): Public Section, Library
from becoming part of the ‘conspiracy’?” Gambit‘s 40 Under 40, and described Managers Interest Group
There is a ton of information out that by The Washington Post as “one of the Description: The excuse of being
helps out with so called “difficult” patrons most exhilarating historical novelists in “too busy” to include developmental
and a fair amount about patrons with the country.” David Armand is a novelist, opportunities for your staff and team can
mental illness, but information about memoirist, and poet. He is the author be damaging to your workplace. Over
helping paranoid patrons can be difficult of The Pugilist’s Wife, Harlow, The Deep time neglect may lead to individual and
to find. Let’s brain storm on how to best Woods, My Mother’s Home, and Debt. organizational stagnation, burn-out, and,
help your paranoid patron! He is the winner of the George Garrett in some cases, apathy and negativity.
Fiction Prize and the Writer-in-Residence Supervisors should assume responsibility
Affirming Ourselves: Libraries and the at Southeastern Louisiana University. and take the initiative to incorporate as
Accreditation Process Maurice Carlos Ruffin has been a recipient many training opportunities into their
Description: Is your academic library of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and a employees’ routines as possible. Come
participating in accreditation this year winner of the William Faulkner–William join the harvest of inspirationalProgram Sessions Thursday
ideas today and sow your own seeds of students love being a part of! Description: Children’s books take a lot
achievement in your team tomorrow. Speaker(s): Moderator-Tiffany of wear and tear, especially those Disney
Speaker(s): Jeremy Bolom, Lincoln Parish Whitehead, LASL President; Student books! Learn the basics of book repair so
Library Presenters-Joy Sutton, LTLA State you can: Tip a new page in to replace torn
Treasurer, & JaeLynn Taylor, Zachary HS; out or crayoned book pages, stabilize
Outreach Services/Bookmobile Natalie Clemmons, LTLA Vice President, a book spine, learn what best removes
Interest Group Meeting Lacassine HS (note: additional officers pencil and crayon, receive a list of fairly
10:00 – 10:50 am // Bayou & Levee may attend-names to be submitted); inexpensive supplies with places to
Description: Interest Group gathering Librarian-Sponsors-Christina Knight, purchase them, And more! Bring a book
for those working on bookmobiles or Student Relations Committee (SRC) Chair, you would like to repair.
offering outreach services. The discussion Zachary HS; Renee Martin, Past SRC Chair, Speaker(s): Susan Broussard, Children’s
will be based on the needs of those in Central Private School; Janet Lathrop, SRC Services East Baton Rouge Parish Library
attendance such as, homebound services, Hotel/Convention Center Liaison, West
programming out of the library, pop-up Feliciana MS (note: additional librarian- Panel Discussion: Mystery Writers
libraries, and services to senior or daycare sponsors may attend; names to be 11:00 – 11:50 am // Room 254
centers. submitted) Description: Join authors Rob Kuehnle,
Cheré Coen, and Ashley Weaver for a
No Space, No Problem State of the State Library panel discussion moderated by Sarah
10:00 – 10:50 am // Natchez 10:00 – 10:50 am // Delta Queen Colombo, Assistant Director of the West
Sponsor(s): Public Section Sponsor(s): Public Section Baton Rouge Library and book review
Description: Don’t have a meeting Description: State Librarian Rebecca columnist for the West Side Journal.
room or an inch of space to spare? Don’t Hamilton will present an overview of The panel will discuss mystery writing.
know how to make your incredible ideas the activities and initiatives of the State Rob Kuehnle’s is a graduate of the
happen in your current library layout? No Library of Louisiana. University of the South (Sewanee)
problem! Join us as we talk about how to Speaker(s): Rebecca Hamilton, State where he studied creative writing under
creatively use existing library spaces for Librarian, State Library of Louisiana Sewanee Review editor, Andrew Lytle.
fun and innovative library programming His debut murder mystery novel, Grand
in both small and large branches. We Excuse Me, I Believe You Have My Slam Murders, will be released in January
will share how we went from story time Stapler... and Other Business Reference of 2019 under the pen name R.J. Lee.
and book club to tech talks, coding club, Questions You Shouldn’t Ignore Cheré Coen is a veteran newspaper and
jewelry making, and even a mystery 10:00 – 10:50 am // Mississippi Queen magazine journalist who writes freelance
dinner! No budget? Branch too busy Sponsor(s): Reference Interest Group, travel and food stories for print, blogs
to take up valuable real estate with a Subject Specialists, Academic Section and social media. She is the author of the
“traditional” program? We will also discuss Description: This presentation will Viola Valentine Mystery Series under the
passive programming, displays, social serve as a primer for reference librarians pen name Cherie Claire. Ashley Weaver is
media, and more ways to engage patrons! looking to develop or sharpen their the Technical Services Coordinator for the
Join us for some practical and fun ideas business subject knowledge. Topics Allen Parish Libraries in Louisiana. She is
that you can start using right away. covered will include the most common the author of the Amory Ames Mysteries.
Speaker(s): Jennifer Mayer, Crissie types of information resources She was nominated for an Edgar Award
Molina, Virginia Parker, and JoAnna patrons need and how to find them in for Best First Novel for the first book in
Reeves (St. Tammany Parish Library) comprehensive database collections to the series, Murder at the Brightwell.
which you may already have access or
Not Your Average Panel: Tugging @ using free and open resources. There’s no The Role of Academic Libraries in
Your Heartstrings to Impact Students reason a business reference question has Accreditation: What I Learned About
(& “Loving” It While You’re At It!) to be a drag! Those TPS reports might be Created Program Impact Studies
10:00 – 10:50 am // Samuel Clemens another matter. 11:00 – 11:50 am // Creole Queen
Sponsor(s): LASL Speaker(s): Allison Gallaspy Sponsor(s): Academic Section, Subject
Description: Student members of the Specialists, Distance Learning Interest
Louisiana Teen-age Librarians Association Program Session 3 Group
(LTLA) and their librarian-sponsors will 11:00 – 11:50 am Description: This pertains to how
“lure” you into providing fun and student- academic libraries help the programs
loving experiences to students who love Children’s Book Repair, A How-To at their institutions with accreditation
to read, be involved &/or yearning to be Session or re-accreditation. I will go over how I
a part of a “home” (a.k.a. club). After a 11:00 – 11:50 am // Room 253 create my studies using information from
presentation about the LTLA, students Sponsor(s): Children’s Services/ my library’s OPAC and Word. I will talk
& sponsors will answer questions Programming Interest Group, LASL, about how I have changed how I do them
as potential LTLA sponsors ponder LaSSAL over the years and the information that is
becoming a part of a dynamic group that typically requested. I will talk about whatProgram Sessions Thursday
happens during a site visit and how the Parish Schools Description: Scott Ziegler, Head of
studies help with showing your worth to Digital Problems and Services at LSU
the department (s) in question. Public Libraries as Partners for Libraries will be speaking about the New
Speaker(s): Caitlin Cooper, Delgado Community Health: How the New and Notable in the Louisiana Digital
Community College Orleans Public Library is Working to Library. Academic Librarian Luncheon
Improve Health and Promote Health co-sponsored by ACRL-LA and the LLA
Technology Enhanced Lessons for and Promote Health Literacy Academic section. Always a good time
Libraries 11:00 – 11:50 am // Delta Queen and great opportunity to connect with
11:00 – 11:50 am // Riverboat Sponsor(s): Public Section colleagues.
Sponsor(s): LASL Description: In this presentation, NOPL Speaker(s): Scott Ziegler, Head of Digital
Description: Elementary, Middle, Deputy Director, Jessica Styons; Tulane Problems and Services, LSU Libraries
and High School librarians will share University’s Matas Library of the Health
technology enhanced lessons that have Sciences Librarian, Elaine Hicks; and Program Session 4
been taught in the libraries of Louisiana. NOPL Health Literacy Educator, Dana 1:30 – 2:20 pm
Participants will be able to dissect the Wilkosz discuss the importance of
lessons & ask questions on best practices health literacy and ways libraries can Copyright and Copy Wrong: Helping
using technology in the library setting. improve community and individual School Campuses “Keep it Legal” in the
Speaker(s): Kim Howell, Kristy Sturm, health, as well as the types of activities Digital Age
Charlene Picheloup and programming the NOPL has 1:30 – 2:20 pm // Cypress I
implemented. Through a grant awarded Sponsor(s): Subject Specialists, LASL,
Catch ‘Em All: Crash Course with Canva to the New Orleans Public Library LaSSAL, Preservation Interest Group
11:00 – 11:50 am // Natchez from the NIH, the NOPL hired a Health Description: Do students--and many
Sponsor(s): Public Section Literacy Educator who is implementing teachers--at your school seem to regard
Description: Learn how to take your community health programming and everything on the internet as fair game?
marketing from drab to dynamic with health literacy efforts throughout the In this session, we will explore the
the free, online graphic design software library system, while providing general common pitfalls concerning fair use and
Canva! Programming Coordinator Misty awareness of the NIH All of Us Research the kinds of digital media common to
Noble-Hodge, MLIS, and Branch Manager Program. Participants can expect every school campus--movies, online
Avery Smith, MLS, share best practices in tips for engaging customers around print materials, music, and more. During
marketing and show you just how easy health literacy, as well as easy ways to the discussion, we will also connect fair
graphic design can be by giving a crash implement health programming in your use of digital media to the Louisiana
course in Canva. You’ll leave this session library. Library Standards on ethical information
prepared to maximize the effectiveness Speaker(s): Jessica Styons, New Orleans use. Participants will walk away with
of your marketing and equipped with Public Library Deputy Director; Elaine talking points and activities to use in
the skills to create modern, eye-catching Hicks, Tulane University Matas Library the classroom with students and at
fliers, bookmarks, infographics, and more. of the Health Sciences Public Health professional development days with staff
Speaker(s): Misty Noble-Hodge, MLIS, Librarian; Dana Wilkosz, New Orleans at your schools.
of Tangipahoa Parish Library, and Avery Public Library Health Literacy Educator Speaker(s): Leslye Jackson Gilchrist,
Smith, MLS, of Tangipahoa Parish Library Caddo Parish Magnet High
Print Culture & Books Interest Group
The Wonderful World of Library Business Meeting Attorney, Teacher, Librarian: How One
Centers 11:00 – 11:50 am // Mississippi Queen Talented Information Professional
11:00 – 11:50 am // Samuel Clemens Meshed Varying Strategies to
Sponsor(s): LASL Section Luncheons Successfully Engage Once Reluctant
Description: During this session, you will Readers
learn how to incorporate various types Public/Trustees Luncheon 1:30 – 2:20 pm // Cypress II
of centers into the Library curriculum. 12:00 – 1:20 pm // Premier I Sponsor(s): Diversity Interest Group,
Two elementary school librarians will Sponsor(s): Public Section LASL
share their journey to using centers in Description: Dan Heitman, of The Description: One fierce educator
their library programs. You will see some Advocate (Baton Rouge newspaper), will confronted with a well-known dilemma
center ideas as well as ways to implement be the featured speaker. faced by many teachers; getting reluctant
them into your daily lessons for all grade Speaker(s): Dan Heitman, of The readers to read. Kiera Vargas incorporates
levels. Advocate a model that encompasses an interactive
Speaker(s): Kim McInnis, Librarian, A. C. approach to instruction. This not only
Steere Elementary School, Caddo Parish Academic LLA/ACRL-LA Luncheon improves students’ literary engagement,
Schools; Jennifer Powers, Librarian, 12:00 – 1:20 pm // Bayou & Levee but also encourages students to read
Riverside Elementary School, Caddo Sponsor(s): Academic Section more and actually become lovers ofProgram Sessions Thursday
reading. She credits listening to her 3D Printing Demystified library staff are in a constant state of
students makes her a better teacher. She Description: A 5-minute introduction rearranging, remixing, and reimagining.
employs empathy to make the content on the process of 3D printing, from the While modern technology certainly
of the books applicable to present day tools needed to design your print to the fosters innovation, it is a road fraught
issues. Once capturing their appreciation anatomy of the 3D printer. with potential peril. Join me as I revisit
for the written word, she is then able my journey from Alaska to Louisiana and
to introduce them to more challenging Public Section Business Meeting the tech pit stops along the way. This
literary works such as Richard Wright’s 1:30 – 2:20 pm // Creole Queen session will serve as a roadmap for the
Native Son, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Sponsor(s): Public Section trail I blazed: From proposal, purchase,
Scarlet Letter, and John Steinbeck’s, Of and needs assessment, to customization
Mice and Men. The Last Bastions of Democracy and programming. The final destination,
Speaker(s): Kiera Vargas, Educator and 1:30 – 2:20 pm // Riverboat iPads in my library, was well worth the
2019 Teacher of the Year for Madison Sponsor(s): Public Section, Academic trip. I hope to get you inspired and on the
County, Florida Section, GODORT, Subject Specialists road, too!
Description: Libraries are often seen Speaker(s): Stephanie Niesen,
Academic Section Business Meeting as the epitome of democracy, largely Beauregard Parish Library
1:30 – 2:20 pm // Room 253 because of the commitment librarians
Sponsor(s): Academic Section and their institutions have made to the Tech Tools and Techniques for
Description: Join this open meeting for American Library Association’s Library Collaboration
current and prospective members of the Bill of Rights. While this remains true, 1:30 – 2:20 pm // Delta Queen
LLA Academic Section to hear reports on libraries are actually doing much more Description: This session will be an
recent section activities, budget, and our to promote democracy than ever overview of free software that enables
plans for the year ahead. What else can before. Libraries are engaging with collaboration. Specific tools to be
we offer as a section to support Louisiana the community, in a nonpartisan way, surveyed will include Git, GitHub,
Academic Libraries? How can we make to ensure that our users are exercising Slack, Trello and others. We’ll also
our next virtual conference even better? their civic rights. Whether that means look at techniques that programmers
Catch up on recent events and participate registering people to vote or hosting and technologists use to harness the
in this lively discussion. a naturalization ceremony, all types of collective wisdom of their teams, such
Speaker(s): Jennifer Hamilton, LLA libraries are finding ways to get people as pair programming and Agile sprint
Academic Section Chair; Heather excited about what it means to be a planning meetings.
Plaisance, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect; and citizen. See what ideas might work for Speaker(s): Mike Waugh, Library Services
Sarah Dauterive, Secretary your library! Platform Manager, LOUIS Libraries
Speaker(s): Tony Barnes, New Orleans
Lightning Talks Public Library; Monique Breaux, LaSSAL Business Meeting
1:30 – 2:20 pm // Room 254 University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 1:30 – 2:20 pm // Mississippi Queen
Tiffany Ellis, University of Louisiana at Sponsor(s): LaSSAL
Curiosity v. the Cat: Who really was Lafayette; Sonnet Ireland, St. Tammany Description: Support Staff of all Libraries
killed? Public Library; Bill Snyder, New Orleans are invited to attend. Come and find out
Description: Cat memes are funny and Public Library what LaSSAL is all about!
cute, but in the information/internet age Speaker(s): Kathy Tuminello, Chair
are we seeing a death of curiosity? And 3-5th Grade Book Talks for the 2019-
what can librarians do about it? 2020 Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Program Session 5
1:30 – 2:20 pm // Natchez 2:30 – 3:20 pm
Impacting Students with One Heart, Sponsor(s): Children’s Services/
One Voice @ a Time! Programming Interest Group Legal Information Resources for Self-
Description: Participants will mingle Description: The 3rd-5th grade Louisiana Represented Litigants: LEAP is Here to
with student & librarian-sponsor Young Readers’ Choice committee Help!
members of the LA Teen-age Librarians will booktalk the exciting lineup of 15 2:30 – 4:20 pm // Cypress I
Association (LTLA) as they introduce the nominated titles. This is the book list Sponsor(s): Reference Interest Group,
highlights & advantages of the student students are encouraged to read and vote Subject Specialists, Public Section,
organization; share pictures, scrapbooks on during the 2019-2020 school year. GODORT
& brochures; answer questions & ”lure” Speaker(s): Angela Germany Description: The need for legal self-
school librarians to provide a library help services in Louisiana is immense
club that is geared to peak interest, A Roadmap to Innovation and continues to grow. Often those
promote friendship & cooperation, 1:30 – 2:20 pm // Samuel Clemens with legal needs can’t afford an attorney
develop leadership, & inspire interest in Sponsor(s): LaSSAL, Public Section and don’t know where else to turn but
librarianship as a profession! Description: As pioneers of technology, their local library. Librarians feel theyProgram Sessions Thursday
are not qualified to help these patrons, introduced the father of the scientific complemented by current periodicals
or they fear they will end up providing method to more than 1000 youth and 400 and related Web sites.
unauthorized legal advice. However, adults through fifty-one events hosted Speaker(s): Tanya Cambre Bares, M.L.I.S.,
there is a middle ground. Librarians can by the West Baton Rouge Parish Library. Educational Sales Consultant, World
do what they do best, which is to provide “Visits” may be presented as a self-guided Book, Inc.
information and assistance. This program interactive exhibit and as a program of six
will introduce attendees to the variety different modules that can be modified Hosting Job Fair at Public Library
of services and resources available to for different audiences and settings. The 2:30 – 3:20 pm // Creole Queen
librarians for helping patrons with legal six program modules provide students Sponsor(s): Diversity Interest Group
needs in their communities, including with background information and Description: On Monday, October 29th
the Legal Education Assistance Program encouragement to problem solve to: the East Houma Library hosted a free Job
(LEAP), public law libraries, local and build a freestanding bridge, investigate Fair from 9 AM to 12 noon. We worked
statewide service providers, and online the capacity and accuracy of different with the Louisiana Workforce Commission
legal information resources. catapult and parachute designs, test and the Louisiana Rehabilitation Services
Speaker(s): Miriam Childs, Director, the Vitruvian theories of human body to plan and organize the event.
Law Library of Louisiana; Sara Pic, proportions, and explore shadows and The purpose of the Job Fair was to
Research Lawyer/Librarian, Law Library mirror writing. The exhibit includes the connect library patrons who were
of Louisiana; Michael Schachtman, six program modules and showcases unemployed and looking for work with
Self-Represented Litigation Counsel, models of Leo’s inventions, copies of his companies and organizations in the Tri-
Louisiana State Bar Association; Rachael military weaponry, architectural, and Parish area who had job openings and
Mills, Access to Justice Projects Counsel, anatomical sketches, and online views were looking to hire.
Louisiana State Bar Association of his notebook owned by the British The Job Fair was the offspring of the
Museum. library’s Workforce Development
Discussing Diversity in Children’s Speaker(s): Judy Boyce - West Baton Program, a program where library
Picture Books Rouge Parish Library; Maria Bridevaux employees provided technical assistance
2:30 – 4:20 pm // Cypress II - Artist and Art Educator; Nancy Ward - to patrons in constructing a resume,
Sponsor(s): Diversity Interest Group, West Baton Rouge Parish Library; Melissa writing a Cover Letter. Additionally,
Public Section, Children’s Services/ Smith - West Baton Rouge Parish Library; instruction was provided using job search
Programming Interest Group Bridgette Johnson - West Baton Rouge engines and library database, Learning
Description: Attendees will hear a short Parish Library Express Library. Moreover, library books
introduction to diversity in picture books; on interviewing and newspaper classified
hear such a picture book presented as Subject Specialists & Preservation ads were placed on displays for further
if for children, and have a chance to Interest Group Business Meeting patron assistance.
present a picture book to the group. A 2:30 – 3:20 pm // Room 253 Over 75 patrons showed up for the
list of Diversity in Picture Books will be Sponsor(s): Subject Specialists, job fair and it was a huge success! We
distributed. Preservation Interest Group learned a lot in planning the job fair and
Speaker(s): Angela Criddle and Greg Description: Join us at the annual look forward to doing it annually. A
Martin, Lafayette Public Library meeting of the Subject Specialists job fair is an excellent program to help
Section of LLA. We will discuss issues, library patrons who struggle to find
Visits with Leonardo: Getting Into developments, and concerns in special employment, lack transportation but who
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mind Set Through libraries and libraries with special desire self-sufficiency. As public servants,
Hands-On Activities Exploring the collections. it is our duty to empower our patrons.
Science Behind His Art, Engineering Speaker(s): Zack Stein, Chair, University Speaker(s): Carlos Crockett
Feats, and Incredible Inventive Ideas of Louisiana at Lafayette; Janelle Zetty,
2:30 – 4:20 pm // Premier I Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, University of A Model Public Library Board Meeting
Description: For the past six months Louisiana at Lafayette 2:30 – 3:20 pm // Riverboat
the West Baton Rouge Parish Library Sponsor(s): Public Section
has brought Leonardo Da Vinci to visit Connecting World Book to your Library Description: Presented by public library
summer camps, school classrooms, Needs directors of the green gold library
and the library. Program participants 2:30 – 3:20 pm // Room 254 consortium. Do you ever wonder if
experienced his mind set through Sponsor(s): LASL, Reference Interest your board meetings are being run as
hands-on activities, presentations, and Group, Public Section efficiently and effectively as they should?
exhibits that explored his art techniques, Description: World Book Online is a Is there a way you could save time and
his engineering feats, and his incredible suite of online research tools that include still cover everything? A mock public
inventive mind. “Visits with Leonardo,” encyclopedia articles, primary source library board meeting will take place,
the recipient of a $500 mini grant collections, educator tools, student from establishing quorum, observing
from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, activities, pictures, audio, and video, standard meeting practices and openProgram Sessions Thursday
meeting laws, considering gift policies, Writing for Publication 101 Program Session 6
and more. 2:30 – 3:20 pm // Delta Queen 3:30 – 4:20 pm
Speaker(s): Directors from the Green Sponsor(s): Academic Section, Public
Gold Library Consortium Section UL Lafayette Institutional Repository:
Description: Have you ever thought Choosing the Right Platform for Our
BreakoutEDU: Thinking Outside about sharing your knowledge in an University’s Scholarship
of the Box for Library & Classroom article? Have you dreamed of seeing 3:30 – 4:20 pm // Room 254
Collaboration your name in Louisiana Libraries or Sponsor(s): Subject Specialists, Academic
2:30 – 4:20 pm // Bayou & Levee Codex? Have you secretly coveted that Section
Sponsor(s): LASL beautiful Article of the Year plaque at the Description: Edith Garland Dupré Library
Description: Looking for different ways LLA Annual Conference? Well, we can’t of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
to attract teachers to use the library and make promises, but we can certainly get recently launched the University’s new
keep students engaged? Look no further! you on the “write” track. In this session, institutional repository. The main goal of
Come and learn about BreakoutEDU you will learn useful tips from the editors the repository is to provide a home for
with a HANDS ON demonstration! Due of Louisiana’s two finest library journals: the University’s scholarship, making it
to limited amount of boxes, only the Megan Lowe, Codex, and Celise Reech- visible and accessible to researchers all
first 35 participants will be allowed to Harper, Louisiana Libraries. Hear what over. The Library’s process of choosing
demonstrate. Others are welcome to they (and their reviewers) look for in an the right platform was based on a
attend and watch. article, learn from the most common variety of factors, including available
Speaker(s): Stephanie Wilkes, Good mistakes they’ve encountered, and resources, ease of use, and the provision
Hope Middle School and Amy Cummings, explore ways to turn an idea into a of necessary services. This presentation
Calhoun Middle School published article. Other topics include: will focus on the process Dupré Library
the pros and cons of both going solo followed in selecting and ultimately
6-8th Grade Booktalks for the 2019- and co-writing a piece, the differences implementing its intuitional repository,
2020 Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice between writing an article and a book including researching the different kinds
(LYRC) chapter, and how to find opportunities to of platforms, seeking administrative
2:30 – 3:20 pm // Natchez publish in the field. support, and providing outreach to
Sponsor(s): Children’s Services/ Speaker(s): Sonnet Ireland, St. Tammany faculty. The presentation will also present
Programming Interest Group Parish Library; Megan Lowe, University of challenges faced and the plans for
Description: The 6th-8th grade Louisiana Louisiana at Monroe; Celise Reech-Harper, moving forward with the repository.
Young Readers’ Choice committee Beauregard Parish Library Speaker(s): Zack Stein, University of
will booktalk the exciting lineup of Louisiana at Lafayette
12 nominated titles. Students are Adventurous Collection Development:
encouraged to read and vote on these Finding Indie Treasures Best Practices for Being the Most
books during the 2019-2020 school year. 2:30 – 3:20 pm // Mississippi Queen Effective Board Member You Can Be
Speaker(s): Angela Germany Sponsor(s): Public Section 3:30 – 4:20 pm // Creole Queen
Description: Looking for ways to spread Sponsor(s): Public Section, Subject
Puzzles and Pop Culture: Planning your collection riches farther? You Specialists
Escape Rooms for Preteen Patrons might have to go on an adventure off Description: Being a library board
2:30 – 3:20 pm // Samuel Clemens the beaten path into the world of indie member is a huge commitment and takes
Sponsor(s): Diversity Interest Group, books and audiobooks. Indie and self- a lot of hard work and dedication. Learn
Public Section, Children’s Services/ publishing is steadily growing, giving you best practices and strategies for being
Programming Interest Group more choices than you ever had before, a highly effective and engaged board
Description: Love the idea of escape especially for your digital collections. You member. Also, current library board
rooms for children, but feel nervous or don’t have to be a famous archaeologist members will answer questions and give
out of your depth on how to actually to find the best treasures for your library advice on issues and trends in Louisiana
design one from scratch? Learn from our collections, but you will need a new map. public libraries.
mistakes! We will discuss our experiences The same old review resources aren’t the Speaker(s): Meg Placke, State Library of
in planning and designing escape best tools to navigate the world of indies. Louisiana
rooms for children and tweens. Topics Come to this session, and you can learn
will include puzzle variation, room flow, some of the tips and tricks to avoid the Growing eBook and eAudiobook
story scenarios, safe spaces, parental common pitfalls and stretch your budget Collections in Louisiana via cloudLink
involvement, and more. farther by going indie. by cloudLibrary™
Speaker(s): Angela Criddle and Greg Speaker(s): Julie D. Moncada 3:30 – 4:20 pm // Riverboat
Martin, Lafayette Public Library Description: Libraries are continually
seeking cost effective ways to offer
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