| 8:00 -8:50 |
1st Session |
| Yankee Hill I |
Self-publishing in the digital age (NEMA) |
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Mary Ann Bernal; Author: Self- Publishing in the Digital Age – will explore the various methods for print and electronic submission. |
| Yankee Hill II |
Ask the questions: Who, What, Why (Regional Systems) |
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Kathy Tooker-Exec. Director, Jessica Chamberlain, Director, Denise Harders, Administrator, Sharon Osenga Director, Brenda Ealey, Administrator, Terri Raburn, Coordinator: The Nebraska Regional Library System Panel will answer questions, WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE. They will help librarians across the state of Nebraska better understand what they do and what they can do for them. |
| Yankee Hill III |
Turning your library around (PLTS) |
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David Mixdorf; Library Director, Dan Nieman; Adult Programs, Odessa Meyer; Youth Librarian: When we started at the library two years ago the library was having difficult times. Circulation and attendance numbers were down. The public’s opinion of the library was not positive. In two years’ time period we have seen an increase of circulation from 21000 items to over 40000 items. We have seen attendance numbers for youth climb from 2000 to 6000 and adult attendance has gone from 800 participants to over 3000 participants. This presentation will tell what we did to turn the program around. |
| Arbor II |
Library broadband (NE Library Commission) |
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JoAnn McManus; Project & Program Manager, Rod Wagner; NCL Director & Panel of Library Directors: A panel of participating Library directors will discuss their experiences with the Federal BTOP grant process that involves 147 Nebraska libraries and extends through July of 2013. Experiences will include lessons learned and success stories concerning broadband upgrades, adding computer stations, moving to upgraded software, integrating ADA workstations, selecting computer furniture, handling electrical upgrades, and hosting kickoff events and public computing center learning nights. Rod Wagner will moderate the panel discussion and JoAnn McManus will provide a brief progress report on the 3-year grant. |
| Garrat |
Learning4Life (NEMA) |
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Judy Henning; Kearney Public Schools Director of Media Services & Dr. Sherry Crow; UNK Assistant Professor of School Library Science/Educational Media: Use Web 2.0 tools and other technologies to differentiate instruction while addressing the Learning4Life standards of collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving. Open source applications such as Xtranormal, Juxio, Prezi, and Make Beliefs Comix will be demonstrated. Samples of student projects using these technologies will also be presented along with ways to integrate into the curriculum. |
| 8:00 -8:50 |
| Hawthorne |
Learning to live without a statistical abstract (C&U) |
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James Shaw; Director of Collections: In March 2011, the division of the U.S. Census Bureau responsible for data compilations such as the Statistical Abstract of the United States revealed that it would discontinue several popular publications. The decision was largely driven by budgetary concerns, but it also reflected further evolution toward new vectors for distributing data electronically. This presentation will provide an update of the situation and offer practical advice concerning alternative resources. It will also explore the policy implications of trading away convenience and ease-of-use for enhanced data tools more suitable for advanced researchers than the general public. |
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| Ivanhoe |
Programs in a box (YART) |
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Jake Rundle; Collections Librarian, Gorday Wyant; Young Adult Services, Lindsey Tomsu; Teen Coordinator: The Young Adult Round table (YART) has begun an exciting new venture: The program in a box. The box will have all the essentials a librarian (both public and school) would need to run programs or teach lessons on a theme or title. Come hear all about the great things YART is doing for young adults and young adult librarians across the state. |
| Olive Branch |
Who’s out there (ITART) |
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Jennifer Koerber; Web Services Librarian: Any marketer or web designer will tell you that creating user personas is a great way to target your services, but just how do you do that? What are the steps involved, and how can we narrow the wide variety of people we serve down to a few “types”? By brainstorming, collecting data and talking to your users, you can make tools to help you develop new programs, focus a marketing campaign, or redesign your website. In this brief overview, Koerber will introduce the basics of persona-making and give you resources to go through the process yourself. |
| Lower Lobby |
Exploratorium |
| 9:00-9:50 |
2nd Session |
| Yankee Hill II |
Cultivating library-author-speaker connections (NEMA) |
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Jean Lukesh; Retired Librarian/Educator & Ron Lukesh; Current Author & Publisher: Dr. Jean Lukesh offers suggestions and Q & A on how to locate, cultivate, and build such connections. |
| Yankee Hill III |
Cooperation conundrum (PLTS) |
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Laureen Riedesel; Library Director, Beatrice Public Library, Becky Baker; Seward Public Library, Lisa Olivini; Crete Public Library, Barbara Hegr; Morton James Public Library Nebraska City: Everybody talks about cooperation, so why is it so hard to actually make it work? How does the Library really benefit? Are there times when it is better for the Library to operate completely on its own? A panel of four public library directors with 70+ years of experience in community cooperation share their successes and failures. Time will be allowed for audience questions. |
| Arbor I |
Twitter & Google Docs (SCYP) |
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Brent Catlett & Ann Feldmann; Instructional Technology Trainers: Twitter and Google Docs can be used for professional networking. We will demonstrate these products and discuss how we they can be used. If there is wireless internet access, participants can log in to these products as we demonstrate them. We will save time for questions. |
| 9:00-9:50 |
| Garrat |
Meeting the ever-changing needs of project based learning (NEMA) |
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Carrie Turner & Theresa Gosnel; School Librarians: Two School Librarians alongside a Project-Based Learning Coordinator developed an ongoing collaborative effort to teach the Senior Project class. Learn how we have shaped it into what it is now; a class where students are required to demonstrate mastery of critical thinking, complex reading and research skills. It evolves each year as we discover components that are missing that we need to add. We will share tools that we use as well as some lessons we have learned along the way. |
| Arbor II |
One Book, One Nebraska, and More |
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Kathryn Brockmeier; Research Analyst / Special Projects Associate & Sally Snyder; Youth Services Librarian: Take a tour of all three “One Book” websites (adults, teens and children) and see how they can engage and benefit your readers and serve as a handy resource for discussion leaders. |
| Hawthorne |
Librarians as master gardeners (C&U) |
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Joyce Neujahr; Director of Patron Services & Emily Kesten; Patron Services Assistant: By means of an information dashboard, participants will learn how to cultivate library data to visually connect departments within their library and the wider community. |
| Ivanhoe |
Unnatural alliances (YART) |
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Jake Rundle; Collections Librarian & Faye Friesen; Media Specialist: Panel talk with four librarians, two from the school library and two from the public library discussing the challenges and accomplishments of working together for the service of teens. |
| Olive Branch |
Digital Humanities (ITART) |
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Karin Dalziel; Digital Resources Designer & Elizabeth Lorang; Postdoctoral Research Associate: What are the digital humanities and what do they mean for libraries? This session will explore major trends in the emerging field of digital humanities |
| 10:00-10:50 Ballroom |
EXHIBITS BREAK |
| 11:00 – 12:00 Lancaster |
Cassandra Barnett: Keynote Speaker |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Luncheons & Business Meetings |
| Yankee Hill III |
NEMA Luncheon and Business Meeting |
| Renaissance |
NLA Luncheon and Business Meeting |
| 1:30-2:20 |
3rd Session |
| Yankee Hill I |
Libros para ninos (Reforma) |
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Jean Hatfield; Branch Manager/Youth Materials Selector: The Pura Belpre Award, presented by ALA/ALSC and REFORMA, honors Latino/a authors and illustrators of quality literature for children. The program will review the award winners and honor books as well as other recommended books for children and teens. |
| Yankee Hill II |
Let the games begin (NEMA) |
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Jean Hellwege; Scott School Librarian & Kim Ridder; 6th Grade Teacher: During this session you will learn how to empower, encourage and engage your students with an in-depth unit that teaches them how to use online digital resources for genre studies with a gaming theme. Participants will walk away with eight days full of exciting, engaging lessons using Wordle, Noodletools, search engines, Google Docs and more! Will Cinderella find Prince Charming by playing The Dating Game? Come find out! |
| 1:30-2:20 |
| Arbor I |
Blogging & Globster (SCYP) |
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Brent Catlett & Ann Feldmann; Instructional Technology Trainers: Show how teachers and school librarians can use Glogster and blogging as they collaborate on teaching curriculum. We will demonstrate these products and discuss how we they can be used. If there is wireless internet access, participants can log in to these products as we demonstrate them. We will save time for questions. |
| Arbor II |
Increasing library awareness through collaboration (PLTS) |
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Lauran Lofgren (Director), Rita McLean (Adult Services Librarian),Julie Osnes (Youth Services Librarian): The panel will discuss various collaborations with area schools, businesses and organizations undertaken by Wayne Public Library, focusing on results and effectiveness in promoting the library as an essential service. |
| Garrat |
Find it on the Web 2.0 (NMRT) |
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Bethany Grabow; Library Assistant II: One of the NMRT goals is to cultivate community connections. Today’ Librarians often turn to the Internet for communication. This presentation will provide a list of free online resources to find and share information and will demonstrate how library staff may embrace these resources in better assisting patrons. Examples include Flickr, Delicious, Google Docs, LibraryThing, and the International Children’s Digital Library collection of digital children’s books from around the world. |
| Hawthorne |
Digital natives (C&U) |
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Nora Hillyer; Business and Sciences Librarian & Linda Parker; Social Services Librarian: Librarians at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) implemented an information literacy program in 2002. In 2007, UNO began an assessment of information literacy skills in the freshmen English composition classes. Over the past 6 semesters, the scores for the pre and post-tests have increased. We decided to investigate the reasons for the increase. The goal of the study is to identify the information literacy skills that students bring to UNO. The presentation will describe our project and the impact of the project on the UNO Information Literacy Program. |
| Ivanhoe |
Creating book trailers (YART) |
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Faye Friesen; Library Media Specialist: Help reluctant readers become as interested in Twelfth Night as they are in Transformers by creating movie book trailers in IMovie. This session details how to plan and make video book trailers including rubrics. A link to how-to videos will also be shown and demoed. |
| Olive Branch |
Power of collaboration (PARAS) |
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Pam Gannon; Media Specialist &Anastasia McNulty; ELL Teacher: This one hour session will be devoted to an overview of the benefits of the collaboration between a Lincoln High School ELL teacher and the school media specialist. Various research projects, use of new technology, and benefits for ELL students will be discussed. This session will also include various examples of students’ products resulting from this collaboration. |
| Lancaster IV & V |
A Conversation with Tom Casady (ITART) |
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Tom Casady is currently Lincoln’s Public Safety Director and was formerly Lincoln’s Police Chief. Beyond being a long-time public servant he’s a blogger and supporter of using new technologies to better serve the public. In this session the Michael Sauers from the Nebraska Library Commission will be chatting with Mr. Casady about how he uses technologies such as social networking and GIS to both serve and interact with the public. |
| Lancaster I & II |
Assessment in the school library (NEMA) |
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Cassandra Barnett; AASL Past President, School Librarian, Fayetteville High School: How can I tell if my students are really learning to be effective users of information? How do I assist students in developing the habits of mind and skills to own their personal learning? How can I demonstrate that my teaching has made a difference? This session will focus on strategies school librarians can use to assess student learning in a school library context, promote student self-assessment, and communicate assessment data to demonstrate the value of the school library program. |
| 2:30 – 3:20 |
4th Session |
| Yankee Hill II |
Creating genre iMovies (NEMA) |
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Meredith Fickes; School Librarian: Genres are a huge topic for NeSA-R. For this project 4th and 5th graders studied the different genres, and then created their own iMovies to showcase what they learned. |
| Yankee Hill III |
Boards & budgets (PLTS) |
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Jim Connor; President, Trustee College: Participants will develop an actual budget based upon a case study of a strategic plan and it’s relation to real dollar amounts. The public, and library funding agencies, will fully understand the value and importance of the library budget proposal once they see the clear connection between the funding and the program and services being offered to the community. This presentation will demonstrate the accountability of the library leadership in the return on investment. It’s not about numbers. |
| Arbor I |
Wordless & otherwise wonderful graphic novels (SCYP) |
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Ann Matzke; Librarian/Writer & Tracy Nelson Maurer; Writer: Reluctant readers and today’s visual learners love comic-book formats—at least, that’s the most common rationale for including graphic novels on your library shelves. But these books offer something for everyone! Set aside your preconceived notions about this extremely popular genre, and learn what makes these books so engaging for school-age readers. See how graphic novels can transform reading to encourage critical thinking skills and complement school curricula, including those with ESL programs or language-immersion environments. Discover how these books can build vocabulary, enhance reading comprehension skills, and keep kids turning the pages. |
| Arbor II |
Nebraska.gov Intro (PLTS) |
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Carmen Easley; Director of Marketing and Operations: Nebraska.gov is the State of Nebraska’s digital government partner. Our focus is on expanding eGovernment in Nebraska, using innovative ideas together with innovations in technology to make interacting with government easy and desirable for citizens and businesses. Over the past 16 years we have developed more than 220 online services that have made interacting with government fast and easy. In our presentation we will go over some of our most popular online services that bring government within a few clicks of your computer. |
| Garrat |
ALA Emerging Leaders (NMRT) |
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Marcia Dority Baker; Access Services Librarian, Susan Franklin; Public Services Librarian, Stacy Lickteig; Public Services Librarian, Beth Lighthipe; Librarian, Reference/Instruction Librarian, & Carrie Turner; School Librarian: This is a panel discussion by at least five of the Nebraska participants of the ALA Emerging Leaders program. Discussion will include; why we participated, what the experience was like, unexpected results, advice etc. There will be time for Q&A with the audience; we hope to promote the EL program as NLA has supported a Nebraska participant for several years now. |
| 2:30 – 3:20 |
| Hawthorne |
Teaching economics (C&U) |
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Jennifer Davidson; Council Associate, Mary Lynn Reiser; Director, Erin Redemske; Public Affairs: Visit with experts on teaching economics and personal finance. See a demonstration from Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature curriculum. Learn ways to integrate economics and personal finance using any book or story. There is no need to add to your current curriculum, just point out the concepts already embedded. This will be an enlightening hands-on session. Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature, retail value $24.95. |
| Ivanhoe |
Craftable library (YART) |
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Micki Dietrich; Library Specialist, Anna Wilcoxen; Librarian, & Jake Rundle; Collections Librarian: Are you the consummate crafter? Or maybe you can’t even cut a straight line? Learn how to create a fun and successful craft programs at your library to appeal to all skill levels and ages. From hosting craft clubs, to partnering with local artisans/organizations; tying into your collection, to special events for all ages. We’ll share tips and tricks, unique craft ideas, and inspiration! |
| Olive Branch |
Dream big summer (PARAS) |
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Sally Snyder; Coordinator of Children and Young Adult Library Services: Listen to brief book talks of new titles pertaining to the 2012 Summer Reading Program themes: “Dream Big” (children’s theme) and “Own the Night” (teen theme). |
| Lancaster I & II |
Book clubs in the classroom (NEMA) |
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Cassandra Barnett; AASL Past President, School Librarian, Fayetteville High School: This session will focus on a model for school librarians and classroom teachers to collaborate together in planning and implementing book clubs in the classroom. Participants will leave with a toolkit of strategies, activities, and assessments for implementation. |
| Lincoln |
TSRT Business Meeting |
| 3:30-4:20 |
5th Session |
| Yankee Hill I |
Every child ready to read @your library – Updated (Regional Systems) |
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Jessica Chamberlain; Northeast Library System Director: The Every Child Ready to Read project, designed by the ALSC and PLA, uses simple practices, based on research, to help parents and other caregivers encourage the development in early literacy skills for children from birth to age 5. It’s been newly revised and updated, incorporating the latest scientific research. We’ll provide an overview of the program, explore the changes that were made and show you where to get the resources to learn more. |
| Yankee Hill II |
Addressing the DI in meDIA (NEMA) |
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Kristine Woods; Library Media Specialist: Examine the active role the library media program can play in supporting differentiated instruction using multi-genre inquiry and cooperative learning. Through collaborative planning with classroom teachers, we have created student-centered learning experiences to meet the needs of all learners. The session offers project examples focused on the learning process from multiple perspectives with formative assessments on the learning path to a culminating product |
| 3:30-4:20 |
| Yankee Hill III |
Dealing with boards (PLTS) |
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Jim Connor; President, Trustee College: An adaptation of the highly rated preconference program at ARSL national conference in Denver. Participants work together to identify, and offer solutions for problems related to dysfunctional boards, rogue board members etc. Actual case history scenarios are used for this problem-solving program. Suggest limit of 36 participants, or two sessions. |
| Arbor I |
Understanding by design and standards for the 21st century learner (SCPY) |
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Terry Osborn, Kate Bischoff, & Beth Aga; Media Specialists: This session explains how the Bellevue Public Schools developed K-6 library curriculum using McTighe’s and Wiggin’s Understanding by Design model and the Standards for the 21st Century Learner. |
| Arbor II |
Nebraska online legal self-help center (PLTS) |
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Debora Brownyard, J.D., Director Dispute Resolution &Rural Court Services; Janet Bancroft, Public Information Officer State Court Administrator’s Office: More and more, individuals want to “DIY” do-it-yourself when they have legal problems. Rather than going to an attorney, self-represented litigants approach public libraries for legal information and legal advice. But, library staff are prohibited in giving legal advice, but staff may offer information about where to find the law and legal resources. This workshop will provide information about the new Nebraska Online Legal Self-Help Center and other e-government court resources. Specific instruction on the role and boundaries of the reference librarian in working with self-represented litigants will be offered by UNL College of Law Library staff. |
| Garrat |
Life during & after MLS (NMRT) |
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This would be a panel discussion concerning working while studying for the MLS as well as life immediately after receiving the MLS. |
| Hawthorne |
Institutional repositories (C&U) |
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Paul Royster; Coordinator of Scholarly Communications: Institutional Repositories: Libraries Reaching Out to the World — A short history of the development and progress of institutional repositories (online open-access digital archives) in college libraries, with special emphasis on the history of the UNL DigitalCommons, the nation’s 2nd largest IR. Why we have them, who uses them, how we manage them, who benefits, and how they are a platform for electronic publishing and re-publishing of local resources. |
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| Ivanhoe |
Teen advisory boards (YART) |
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Lindsey Tomsu; Teen Coordinator & Gordon Wyant ; Young Adult Services Librarian: Adventures in starting and maintaining a Teen Advisory Board. Or how to reap the benefits of engaging teens in programming assistance, collection development, and looking cool. OR how to look good in front of your teens, your boss, AND your library board! |
| Olive Branch |
Triple threat community (PARAS) |
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Nancy Chmiel; Children’s Librarian, Deb Vinopal; School Librarian, & Sara Kolala; Recreation Supervisor: The Saddlebrook Joint-Use Facility is this country’s first building to house the Triple Threat of a Public Library, Public School and Community Center. This collaboration enables organic community connections to form providing more opportunities for success, healthy lifestyles, and access to a multitude of resources all in the same building. Join Nancy, Deb and Sara to learn how these entities work together, program together and create exciting cooperative ventures to serve the public. |
| Lincoln |
ITART Business Meeting |
| 4:30-5:20 |
6th Session |
| Yankee Hill II |
Going paperless via Noodletools and Google Docs (NEMA) |
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Jean Hellwege; Scott Middle School School Librarian: Learn how to teach the research process from start to finished product without using one sheet of paper! We used Google Docs, online databases and Noodletools to accomplish this. Come learn how to use these tools to go paperless with your next lesson! |
| Yankee Hill III |
Basic skills assembly (PLTS) |
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Laura Johnson; C.E. Coordinator: Here’s a chance to meet fellow Basic Skills students in person, and talk about the program. What has worked best (and not) for you in the online classes? |
| Arbor I |
How are you handling the new normal? (State Advisory Council) |
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Steve Fosselman – Director, Merrillene Wood – LRC/Library Coordinator, Kathryn Brockmeier – Research Analyst: The State Advisory Council on Libraries gathered information from Nebraska libraries using a survey format in the fall of 2010 and 2011 regarding the “New Normal” and the effect of the recent downtown in the economy on our state’s libraries. Discussion of the results will be had, along with perceived implications and future goals. Results will be useful by Nebraska libraries for best practices, along with continuation work on program prioritization and budget planning. 2010 survey results are posted on the Library Commission website: http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/news/content/2633.html |
| Arbor II |
One book, many libraries (SELS) |
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We hope you’ll join Southeast Library System in reading The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman for this year’s One Book Many Librarians discussion. The book includes a bit of mystery, romance, religion, business and an underlying dialogue regarding social values. Goodman received a starred review from Publishers Weekly for this title. This is a great opportunity to relax and take part in an informal book discussion, while getting to know your colleagues in the state. Refreshments will be served |
| Hawthorne |
Annual reports (C&U) |
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Sandy Placzek; Associate Director and Professor of Law Library: This program explores different reasons for creating annual reports. Target audiences will be discussed as well content and formats. |
| Ivanhoe |
YART Business Meeting |
| Olive Branch |
Cultivating NE Librarians (PARAS) |
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Mary Jo Ryan; Communications Coordinator & Kathryn Brockmeier; Research Analyst: Meet the interns, internship supervisors, and scholarship recipients who are benefitting from the Nebraska Library Commission and Nebraska Library Association’s 21st Century Librarian Program internship grants and scholarships to library students. Find out how to network with and mentor these promising librarians through the Nebraska Librarians Learn Facebook page. |
| Heartland/Nebraska |
NMRT resume review |
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A panel of librarians will be available to review your resume. The reviewers are from public and academic libraries and from University of Missouri Library Science program. |
| 5:30-6:30 |
EXHIBITOR’S BASH |
| 6:45-9:00 |
NLA BANQUET |
| 9:00- |
Battledecks! |
