2010 Conference Programming
The Registration Desk will be in the lobby of the Samoset! It is open from 7-8 PM on Wednesday, 7am to 4pm on Thursday, and 7 am to noon on Friday.
Thursday, October 7
Friday, October 8
Thursday, October 7, 2010
9-11 am
Taxonomy and "Folksonomy:" Can Ever the Twain Meet? - Jim Campbell
Some are suggesting that, with the rise of computing power and increasingly powerful search algorithms, the days of controlled vocabularies, thesauri, and other cataloguing and finding aides are just about over. Natural language "tagging" is everywhere on the Internet these days. From photo sites like Flickr to serious academic sites like Connotea, tags help all kinds of people share their concepts of meaning with others. In the aggregate, this tagging behavior is often referred to as "folksonomy" since, over time, some terms become preferred on a web site and, eventually, across web sites. "Folksonomy" has its advantages; but then so does taxonomy. We'll look at information tied to particular geographic locations to see if there may be a way that the two can come together and, in so doing, leverage the strengths of both approaches while minimizing the weaknesses.
Genealogy at the Library: Helping Your Patrons Climb the Family Tree - Emily Schroeder
The goal of this session is to provide librarians with some general guide-lines for assisting their patrons in starting genealogical research. There will be four parts for consideration:
1) What You Should Have -how tos, Maine history and local history, and other reference books.
2) What You Should Know-basic steps, websites to check out, online tutorials
3) What You Should Do-provide a “starter packet” with charts and forms, useful contacts, etc.
4) Tell Them Where to Go-tour of MSL Genealogy website, beginner’s PowerPoint, services/materials we offer, especially classes and obituary searches; other organizations
Librarians will be encouraged to develop their own local collections, and to use MSL as a backup.
Don't Be Unhinged! Book Repair with Abraham Schechter
Space is limited for this workshop. You must be registered for conference in order to reserve your slot. Participation is on a first-come , first-served basis.
This will be a real "hands-on" workshop combining procedures we will ALL do. Participants are welcome to bring their questions- and even some materials from their collections that will be added to the general discussion. Participants will be encouragd to set up their own conservation unit at their home libraries.
Battle of the Books - Megan Fuller, Abigail Luchies, Laura Phelps
Join three school librarians as they describe their successful Battle of the Books, an exciting, engaging, and fun way to promote reading in your school, district, or community. In RSU1, the Battle of the Books is an annual event for students in grades 4-6, and it appeals to strong and struggling readers alike. Having grown the program over the past five years together, this panel of librarians will give you all the information you'll need to develop your own Battle of the Books. You will be amazed to see your circulation skyrocket, your students begging for books, and your school's reading scores rise as a result of this fabulous program!
InforME - Kimberly Duplisea
As more and more state government services become available online, people turn to libraries for help accessing forms, information and telephone numbers. Many free, fee, and subscriber services are now part of Maine.gov, the official website for the state. Are you able to help your patrons renew a driver’s license or car registration, order a birth certificate, find a job, register a boat or ATV, obtain a business license, reserve a campsite, get a hunting or fishing license or find a burning permit? Learn how to access these state services and turn your library into a trusted resource for e-government in Maine. After attending this presentation by Kim Duplisea, project manager for Maine.gov, you'll be ready to help the next patron who asks “How do I find a list of farmer’s markets in Androscoggin County?, What’s the state’s song? How do I become a licensed electrician?”
The Challenge of Responding to Jobseekers in Difficult Times: New Strategies, New Tools, New Approaches - John Dorrer, Susan Preece, Barbara McDade
Maine jobseekers are facing difficult times. Statewide, there are nearly 30,000 fewer nonfarm jobs than at the start of the recession and unemployment remains high. More than ever, individuals are seeking solutions and visiting libraries in larger numbers for help in finding jobs and making career decisions.
To assist librarians responding to these individuals, the Center for Workforce Research and Information (CWRI), Maine Department of Labor, has partnered with the Maine State Library system. (CWRI is the state’s lead statistical agency responsible for collecting and analyzing labor market information, including wage data, jobs in demand, and employment and industry trends.) Two pilot projects at Topsham Public Library and Bangor Public Library are in progress to craft fresh and relevant responses to assisting Maine citizens navigating the labor market. This panel discussion will set the context of our economic situation, describe its impact on the libraries, and explore our joint response.
Ice Storms, Mass Casualties, Pandemics, and More: The Emerging Role of Libraries in Community Emergency Preparedness - Linda Oliver and Steve Trockman
Are you familiar with the Emergency Management Cycle and the disaster scenarios likely to occur in your community? Libraries throughout Maine are already assisting with emergency preparedness, disaster response, recovery and mitigation. Do you know what you can do to contribute even more? Do you know what partners to cultivate to help your community in the future? Does your community know how your library is already contributing? Join Steve Trockman from the Southern Maine Regional Resource Center at Maine Medical Center to learn more about the big picture of Emergency Management; and Linda Oliver, from Curtis Memorial Library to learn about the Community Day for Emergency Preparedness held last fall in Brunswick. The Community Day was a pilot program funded by a grant from the New England Region of the National Libraries of Medicine. Grant partners were Curtis Memorial Library, Mid Coast Hospital, Parkview Adventist Medical Center, the Brunswick Fire Department and Southern Maine Regional Resource Center. Audience participation is encouraged.
1:45-2:45 pm
The Mock Newbery Project: Encouraging Community-Wide Partnership - Louise Capizzo and Cathy Potter
Offering a Mock Newbery program in your community is an easy way to involve children, parents, teachers, and community members in reading while also building a great partnership between the public and school libraries. Louise Capizzo, current member of the 2011 Newbery Award Committee and Youth Services Librarian at the Falmouth Memorial Library, and Cathy Potter, elementary school librarian at Plummer-Motz in Falmouth will guide you on how to start your own Mock Newbery program in your community. Participants will get an inside look at the process used to select the Newbery Award and Honor books. Running your own Mock Newbury program encourages children to read and review books in hopes of guessing the next Newbery Medal winner.
Challenging Rebuttals: Ten Tools to Keep Your Difficult Conversations on Track or Ten Tools to Keep Your Feedback on Track - Lynne Richards
“Your expectations are unreasonable.” “That’s not within the scope of my duties.” “I’m not the only one who does this. Whom else have you talked to?” If you have heard any of these, or similar, this session is for you! Don’t let diverting, evasive or challenging detours take your conversation down a different path. Learn ten different communication tools to keep your conversation focused and on track.
Small College Librarians Roundtable - Moderated by Stephen LaRochelle
Archives and Special Collections Roundtable - Moderated by Abraham Schechter
K-8 Librarians Roundtable - Moderated by Margaret Vital
9-12 Librarians Roundtable - Moderated by Katie hall
Rural Librarians Roundtable - Moderated by Sonja Morgan Plummer
Reference Librarians Roundtable - Moderated by Peggy O'Kane
4-5:15 pm
What To Do With That Paper Document or Photo Collection - Kerry Charles
This presentation will help you bring your collection on paper into the 21st century. Converting paper documents to digital images will be covered as well as how to organize digital files into a database. Online options for the database will be presented including ways for the files to be viewed on the internet. Finally, revenue-generating possibilities will be discussed to explain how high-resolution copies of images, or the rights to use original images, can be sold online helping your organization to gain a new source of income.
School Resources for Visually and Physically Disabled Students - Christopher Boynton
Christopher Boynton will emphasize resources from the Maine State Library, National Library Service, and the National Instructional Materials Access Center. The program will also include a demonstration of NLS digital Talking Book player.
Nonfiction Readers Advisory: Treasures in Your Library - Linda Oliver
What do Maine libraries have that a bookstore may not have? Who reads nonfiction and why do they read it? What are the appeal factors for nonfiction and kind of nonfiction books do adults read for pleasure? Participants will receive a general overview of nonfiction readers’ advisory,
the appeal factors and types of nonfiction genres, a list of resources, many of them free and some ideas from other libraries that are integrating the promotion of nonfiction books into their reader’s advisory services. A short hands-on exercise will highlight the nonfiction genres and participants will have time to share ideas that work in their own libraries.
Access to Justice - Barbara McDade, Kathleen Caldwell and Juliet Holmes-Smith
What do you do when people come to your Library to get legal information? If you are like most librarians, you are leery about giving legal information since you don't want to be accused of practicing law. With a small grant to develop the training, representatives from the Volunteer Lawyers Project, Pine Tree Legal and Maine’s library community will present a workshop for those working in Maine libraries of all types that will teach you how to provide legal information to anyone (to provide the information, but not to give legal advise)--and how to work with the Volunteer Lawyers Project and Pine Tree Legal to provide legal help to those with low incomes and to people who wish to represent themselves in court. This is a repeat of the workshops held throughout the state this summer.
MARVEL OneSearch - James Jackson Sanborn and Peggy O'Kane
OneSearch is a single search box providing access to “MARVEL, MaineCat and more!”
It is also the newest addition to the suite of Maine library research tools. James Jackson Sanborn, Executive Director of Maine InfoNet, and Peggy O’Kane Coordinator of Reference & Research at the Maine State Library will provide an over view of how OneSearch works; how and when to use it most effectively; and how it fits in the overall universe of Maine InfoNet services. Whether you spend all of your time doing reference or only have an occasional need OneSearch is a tool you and the public will want to use regularly.
Maine Student Book Award - Karen White and Amy Hand
The MSBA program will consist of discussion of the books on the list for 2010-2011 as well as some time to discuss ways to involve students in the program. We will also describe how books are chosen and how the committee works.
Passports - Lisa Neal-Shaw
Hey, wanna earn some extra $$ for your library or municipality?? Become a passport application acceptance facility! We'll show you how to get set up, what training and materials are required, what your service will typically look like, and you don't even need to be Jack Bauer!
Friday, October 8, 2010
8:30-10 am
Connecting With Teens Using Social Media - Justin Hoenke
Teens today are coming to the library in full force with their laptops and netbooks. They’re texting, tweeting, and using Facebook. They’re diving into a world full of social networking, sharing, and collaboration. As libraries of the 21st Century become in tune with current technologies, it is our duty as librarians to understand these tools and how they apply to the teens that are using them. In this presentation, we will discuss how to use social media to connect with teens. Through reaching out using these tools and education, social media can be used to take library services to a whole new level.
For more information on this topic, please refer to my blog post at the following link:
http://tametheweb.com/2010/03/17/using-social-media-to-connect-with-teens/
This presentation will discuss the role and responsibility of the reviewer, as well as the business of reviewing. Topics will include: how we get the books, who selects titles for review, subject matter experts, the "Halo Effect," the dos and don'ts of reviewing, adverse reviews, an explanation of the four elements of a review, and the influence of e-publishing, subsidy, and vanity presses.
Blogging? Bloviating? Do You Care? How Can You Tell? : Readers Advisory in the Web 2.0 World - Tina Branco
The world of social networking has recently exploded. In addition to traditional web pages and databases, librarians are now presented with choices to gather information about books ranging from blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Virtual Bookshelf, online user catalogs such as LibraryThing.com, Goodreads, and Shelfari. What value do these sites have for the average librarian? How can busy librarians, especially those with a small staff, cull through online book reviews and advice to find the best information available online? Should they even try? Designed to address the needs of those working in the area of Readers Advisory, this workshop will look at types of RA information available in the blogosphere, assist attendees in identifying which blogs and programs meet their needs and learning/reading style, and examine tools for organizing and accessing the information from them quickly and efficiently.
An Explorer You Should Know: Donald MacMillan - Mary Morton Cowan
Imagine exploring the Arctic and Subarctic for nearly fifty years! Donald MacMillan did just that. Orphaned by twelve, he forged an adventurous life. Mary Morton Cowan, author of Captain Mac: the Life of Donald Baxter MacMillan, Arctic Explorer (Calkins Creek 2010), will highlight key elements. He played a vital role in Robert Peary’s 1908-09 North Pole Expedition and he led expeditions that resulted in extraordinary contributions to environmental science and cultural understanding. Two prominent places in this biography, Greenland and Baffin Island, are important in today’s global warming issue. Cowan will discuss how librarians can combine this book with other resources to help young readers expand their knowledge in a number of curriculum areas. This biography, full of MacMillan’s daring adventures, includes many photographs and will appeal to readers, age 10 and older, including reluctant readers.
Maine Library Commission Panel Discussion - Jamie Ritter and other Commission Members
Members of the Maine State Library Commission will be present to host a panel discussion regarding the Maine State Library. Key points for the discussion will focus on the Maine State Library’s Strategic Planning process, the role of the Commission, and the importance of the State Library’s role in advocacy of important library issues. After brief opening remarks, the Commission will field questions for the length of the morning session and looks to engage in some meaningful dialogue with participants.
Using Social Media to Promote Your Library - Lisa Neal-Shaw and Sonja Plummer Morgan
Want to promote your library's activities at no extra cost to you on one of the top search engines in the world? Want to keep your website dynamic without constantly forking over files and funds to your webmaster? It's easier than you think! We'll talk about the basics of setting them up, privacy settings, and developing a social media policy.
10:15-11:15 am
Video Gaming in Libraries 101 - Justin Hoenke
Video games are a new thing to libraries, but they’ve been well established in our culture for over 30 years. In order to reach out to all of our unique patron groups, video games in libraries should be embraced by librarians as a way to connect with our community. This presentation will focus on educating librarians on how to start a video gaming program at their public library. Taking a simple, cost effective approach, the aim of this presentation is to remove any worries about gaming in libraries and instead replace them with positive, forward thinking ideas.
For more information on this topic, please refer to my blog post at the following link:
http://blog.8bitlibrary.com/2010/03/09/video-game-collection-development-101/
Graphic Novels - Laura O'Meara and Rick Lowell
Casablanca Comics owners Laura O'Meara and Rick Lowell will discuss what is new and notable in the constantly changing world of graphic novels. Their presentation will focus on current trends, popular titles and material for readers of all ages. The titles discussed will cover a range of genres including early reader, humor, historical fiction, adventure and biographies.
Book Lover's Cafe - Iris Eichenlaub
Not everyone wants to join a book club, but many people are just dying to talk about a book that they've just read and enjoyed! Book Lover's Cafe is a model for patrons to come together and share books with each other over coffee, tea & treats. It can be as simple or as multifaceted as the facilitator wants, and is easily customizable to any size group. Anything goes at Book Lover's Cafe - nonfiction, fiction, audiobooks, "fluff" books, and weighty classics - all have equal opportunity at the Book Lover's Cafe. By taking notes while participants are book-talking, the facilitator creates a powerful readers advisory and collection development tool, and saves the participants from doing anything but listening, conversing, and nibbling snacks. With the addition of a simple, searchable blog, the readers' reviews can be online. This combination of program and blog expands readers' horizons, the facilitator's skills in readers advisory, and builds a community of readers. Come find out how to get started!
Audiobooks through Maine InfoNet's Overdrive Download Library: How they work and how to troubleshoot common user questions - Alisia Revitt
Although we will start out at the beginner level--walking through how to install, find, download, and use downloadable audio books through OverDrive--most of this session will be useful to anyone whose library subscribes to InfoNet's Download Library and either has questions themselves or answers questions from the public. Most of the user questions for OverDrive fall into a couple of key categories and can be quickly learned and solved. At the end of the hour, everyone will have the answers to those key questions.
Meet the Narrator: the Making of an audio book - Johnny Heller
Explore the wonderful world of audio books with professional narrator Johnny Heller. Johnny will provide insight into what goes into the making of a “good listen” and entertain us with some of his favorite passages. This promises to be a fun program with a very funny performer! Sponsored by Recorded Books.
Innovative Patron Services - Margaret Lourie
The NELA presentation this year, Innovative Patron Services, by New England Library Consultant Margaret Lourie, will bring attendees up to date on some of the latest innovations in how libraries deliver services to their patrons. Topics covered will include services such as reference, library catalogs and shelving, on-demand printing, patron-driven acquisitions, social media, and mobile phone library services.
Ebooks and Ebook Readers - Lisa Neal Shaw
1:30-3:30 pm
Not Again! A Copyright Overview for Media Producers (Which is Just About Everyone These Days) - Jim Campbell
Libraries are increasingly looking to multimedia as a way to better involve and serve patrons, and to tell their stories to supporters ranging from town councils to grant making agencies. While audio, video, and images are powerful media to bolster text or to stand on their own, their use brings up potential copyright questions, and in this very litigious culture, a mistake could have dire financial consequences. We’ll review basic (and some not so basic) copyright information that anyone (or any organization) that wants to produce multimedia pieces for the web, or for other means of distribution, will want to know about before sending that new program out into the world. Since a single copyright violation in the U.S. can cost up to $150,000, and since a lot of rights holders are being extremely vigilant these days, understanding what you can and can’t do with regard to copyright is a very good investment of a producer’s time.
Why Boys Lit Gets A Bad Rap - Michael Sullivan
THAT's what you want to read? It is a dilemma that teachers and parents alike face with reluctant boy readers. The one book they are willing to pick up is the one book you don't want him to read. Hear what boys like to read, why, and what it means for you from the author books for boys to read and books about boys and reading.
Getting the Grant - Kerry Charles
Grantwriting may seem like a daunting task, but there are several strategies that can streamline the process. Learn how to focus your request, research potential funding sources, prepare a budget, and provide the information that funders want to see. This will be a hands-on workshop, so bring your laptop as well as any grant proposals that you are currently considering.
Readers’ Advisory with NoveList Plus and NoveList Plus K-8 - Pamela Erickson
Connecting people with books they’ll love is what Readers’ Advisory is all about! Explore the new NoveList Plus interface! This workshop will review how to locate fiction or nonfiction titles with NoveList Plus and NoveList Plus K-8. The NoveList Plus databases add narrative non-fiction content to the well-known NoveList product. Learn how to search for Book Discussion guides, Genre Outlines, Read-a-Likes, Award Winners, Curriculum Connection booklists and much more including marketing tools!
Library Renovations - Scott Simons
Scott Simons and his associates have designed public libraries for South Paris, Norway, Springvale, Ludden (Dixfield), Brown Memorial Library (West Baldwin), Rumford and most recently the beautiful Portland Public Library renovation that Simons will use as a case study in his presentation. He will discuss what these libraries and their communities have in common, how they have responded to these challenges and changes, and how you can begin thinking about planning for renovations and additions to your library to meet the changing needs of your community.
