| Preliminary Program | |
| Thursday, October 6, 2011 | |
| 8:00 – 8:50 | Self-publishing in the Digital Age |
| Ask the questions: Who, What, Why, Where (Regional Systems) | |
| Turning your library around | |
| Learning4Life: Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction | |
| Library Broadband Builds Nebraska Communities | |
| Who’s out there: User Personas and Libraries | |
| Learning to live without a statistical abstract | |
| Programs in a box | |
| Exploratorium | |
| 9:00-9:50 | Digital Humanities and Libraries |
| Cultivating Library-Author-Speaker Connections | |
| Cooperation Conundrum | |
| Meeting the Ever-Changing Needs of Project Based Learning | |
| Librarians as master gardners, Making Statistics Bloom for your Community | |
| Twitter & Google Docs | |
| One Book, One Nebraska | |
| Unnatural alliances: Public and School Librarians Working Together to Better Serve Teens | |
| 10:00 – 10:50 | Exhibits Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Keynote: Cassandra Barnett |
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12:00-1:30 |
NLA/NEMA Luncheons & Business Meetings |
| 1:30-2:20 | Blogging & Globster |
| Let the Games Begin: Teaching Genre through Games | |
| Find it on the Web 2.0! | |
| Reinvention of Digital natives | |
| Creating Book trailers in Imovies | |
| Power of collaboration: Experiences of an ELL Teacher and the Media Specialist | |
| Assessment in the School Library | |
| Libros para ninos: The Pura Belpre Award and other books for Latino children and teens | |
| Increasing library awareness through collaboration | |
| 2:30 – 3:20 | Creating genre iMovies |
| Nebraska.gov Introduction | |
| Wordless & Otherwise Wonderful Graphic Novels | |
| Boards & Budgets: How to Put Budget Figures in you Strategic Plan | |
| ALA Emerging Leaders Program: Nebraska Representatives Report | |
| Teaching Economics and Personal Finance using Literature | |
| Craftable Library: Turning Your Library Into a Hand Made How-to Zone | |
| Dream Big: Summer Reading 2012 | |
| Book Clubs in the Classroom: An Opportunity for Collaboration | |
| TSRT Business Meeting | |
| 3:30-4:20 | Every child ready to read @your library – Updated |
| Addressing the DI in MeDIa: Differentiated Instruction in a School Library Media Program | |
| Neb online legal self-help center, E-Government, and Help from a Law Librarian | |
| Understanding by design (UBD) and Standards for the 21st Century Learner | |
| Dealing with Boards | |
| Life during & after the MLS | |
| Institutional repositories: Libraries Reaching out to the World | |
| Teen Advisory Boards & YOU! | |
| Triple threat of community connections | |
| ITART Buiness Meeting | |
| 4:30-5:20 | Going paperless via Noodletools and Google Docs |
| How are you handling the new normal? Program Prioritization, Budgeting and a New Normal for Libraries | |
| Basic Skills Assembly | |
| One book, Many Libraries (SELS) | |
| Annual reports – Why you should consider creating one | |
| YART Business Meeting | |
| Cultivating NE Librarians: Meet the Interns and Scholarship Receipients | |
| The Future of Reading | |
| NMRT Resume Review | |
| 5:30 – 6:30 | Exhibitor’s Bash |
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6:45 – 9:00 |
NLA Banquet- Lancaster Room |
| Friday, October 7, 2011 | |
| 8:00 – 8:50 | Golden Sower |
| Revised Guidelines for Public Library Accreditation | |
| Wellness for the library & beyond | |
| Managing public computer use at the UNL libraries | |
| Researchers in your library: Learn how to be a better research aid | |
| The Library Connection: Collaborative Efforts of a Joint Facility | |
| NMRT Speed Networking Breakfast | |
| Messages of hope | |
| Let’s talk about RDA | |
| 9:00-9:50 | Golden Sower |
| Letting the Patron Drive | |
| Learning Commons UNK (C&U) | |
| AFCON-Promoting Academic freedom in Schools, Colleges, & Libraries | |
| Overdrive, e-devices & troubleshooting | |
| NMRT Business Meeting | |
| Basics of Flickr and Its Possibilities at the Library | |
| There’s an app for that | |
| What’s the truth about Human Trafficking (data) in the United States? | |
| 10:00 10:50 | Connecting Tweens & Teens with space |
| Notable Books 2011 | |
| Weeding Collections: A Four Library Perspective | |
| Into the flames: An Exploration of Book Burning | |
| Panhandle Library System Shared Automation Project | |
| LibGuides @ Your Library | |
| hAPPy | |
| NMRT Poster Session | |
| Golden Sower Autographing Session | |
| Tour the Talking Book & Braille Service | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Exhibitors Break |
| 12:00-1:30 | Mad Hatter Luncheon |
| C&U Luncheon | |
| Paraprofessional Section Luncheon | |
| PTLS Luncheon | |
| S&I Luncheon | |
| 1:30 – 2:45 | Keynote: Jamie LaRue |
| 3:00-3:50 | What is a Golden Sower |
| Refugees & Immigrants: Opening Their World | |
| Be-Bop Biographies | |
| Need to write a paper? Consider Writing a Literature Review | |
| Understanding advertising by creating ads for school clubs | |
| Best New Youth Books 2011 | |
| Pioneers Progress 2011 |