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WelcometotheWestVirginiaLibraryAssociation’sfallconferenceinthisour100thanniversaryyear!Ifyou’relikeme,it’seasytogetwrappedupintheday‐to‐daywork,andneglecttostepbackandlookatthebigpicture.ThisconferenceisWVLA’sopportunitytore lectonourprofession‐‐wherewe’vebeen,whereweare,andwherewe’reheaded.Itismyhopethatyouwillindsessionsthatwillinterestyou,refreshyou,andperhapschallengeyou.IencourageyoutoattendDivisionandRoundtablemeetings.Thesearewherethenitty‐grittyofWVLAhappens:supportyourelectedchairs,letthemknowyouappreciatetheirwork,andconsidertakinganactivepartinshapingourfuture.
BethRoyall
President,2014
Registra on table open from 11:00‐3:00 in Ballroom Foyer
(WVLC Mee ngs will be held throughout the day in the Eagle Boardroom)
First General Session
1:00‐2:15
Title: Librarians’ Powerful Voice: From the Na on’s Capital to Your Backyard Loca on: Ballrooms A & B
Presenter: Emily Sheketoff, ALA Washington Office
Programs
2:30‐3:45
Title: Your Students Will Become Our Students: Informa on Literacy, School to College Loca on: Ballroom A
This panel of school librarians and higher educa on librarians will dis-cuss the standards for successful informa on literacy and also show tested teaching ac vi es. You are invited to start a discussion about how best to contribute to lifelong informa on skills for our youth. (Moderated by Linda Blake)
Presenters: Charlotte Webb, Alyssa Wright, Julia Sco , & Paula McGrew
SESSIONSCHEDULEWednesday, October 8
Title: Copyright Hot Topics & Big Ideas Loca on: Ballroom B
Hear about current copyright developments and issues from Carrie Russell of ALA’s Washington Office. She will talk about current copy-right legisla on reform, status of the HathiTrust and Georgia State court appeals, and the newly established Authors Alliance. Also in-cluded will be digital first sale, interna onal copyright trea es on li-brary and archival excep ons, global licensing and copyright excep-ons for blind and print disabled. Stay informed on this constantly
changing issue!
Presenter: Carrie Russell
Title: Make the Case for Your Library with a Data-Based Elevator Speech Loca on: Cardinal
Learn how to add meaning and value to your library's elevator speech by combining sta s cs with stories to cra a powerful advocacy mes-sage for various stakeholders in your community. Par cipants are en-couraged to bring sta s cs and other data about their library for use in dra ing the message.
Presenter: Heather Campbell-Shock
Title: Working Effec vely with the Library Director Loca on: Bob‐cat
In a taped presenta on, Sally Reed, Execu ve Director of United for Libraries, will discuss ps and strategies for working effec vely with Trustees. Topics include orienta on for new Trustees, understanding roles, mee ngs, emergencies, and effec ve communica on. (Moderated by Robert Jackson and Karen Goff)
Presenter: Sally Reed
4:00‐5:00
Title: High A endance on Any Budget
Loca on: Ballroom A
Looking to raise a endance at your teen events? Whatever your budg-et, large-scale events can provide a great entry point into your teen market. Learn how we created two successful annual teen events, and used those ideas to expand teen programming overall. Get prac cal ps for developing successful teen programs including: how to choose
an event, planning scalable ac vi es, a rac ng that hard-to-reach teen element, drawing on the power of staff enthusiasm, and how to work with partners for both ac vi es and promo on.
Presenters: Kareemah Hamdan & JoLynn Holcomb
Title: Your Advocacy, the Key: Patrons Are Depending on You
Loca on: Ballroom B
Emily Sheketoff, Execu ve Director of the ALA Washington Office, shares prac cal ps on advoca ng for your library. With years of expe-rience, ranging from her work as the Washington Bureau Producer for the Monitor Channel of the Chris an Science Monitor to her adminis-tra ve posi ons with the U.S. Department of Labor and OSHA, Emily knows how to get things done. Advocacy is a skill, and you can learn it!
Presenter: Emily Sheketoff
WVLA Cons tu on Cover
Title: Providing Services that Transcend the Tradi onal
Loca on: Blue Jay
What unique services is your library providing? What has worked, needs to be improved, or would you like to implement?
Presenter: Kat Phillips
Title: Local Employment Dynamics: State and U.S. Census Bureau Partnership Project Loca on: Raccoon
This program will provide a endees with tools and resources on where and how to find data on local employment (employers and employees) condi ons from different industries and workplaces. Informa on such as workers’ ages, sex, ethnicity, residency, earning, new hires, growth in employment, etc. is among the data sets to be addressed in this ses-sion.
Presenter: Majed Khader
Title: MU Reads 150: How to Get the Ball Rolling Loca on: Bobcat
With the WV Library Commission, Marshall University Libraries started a reading ini a ve to encourage students, faculty, and staff to read 150 books or more during the course of 2014. During the presenta-on, we will discuss best prac ces for the reading ini a ve and lessons
learned.
Presenters: Sabrina Thomas, Chris ne Lewis, & Gretchen Beach
(Dinner on your own)
Event
7:00
Live music! The Elk River Ramblers in the Comedy Cellar, with board games, cash bar, & s’mores in the outdoor fire pit.
Registra on table open from 8:30‐2:00 in Ballroom Foyer
Past‐Presidents Breakfast at 8:00 in An Pasta’s Sun Room (by invita‐on)
Mee ngs
8:30‐9:30
WVLC Loca on: Eagle Boardroom
9:30‐10:00
Academic Director’s RT Loca on: Eagle Boardroom
Programs
9:00‐10:00
Title: West Virginia Library Community into the Future
Loca on: Ballroom A
What do you believe is the future of the library profession? What do you aspire libraries to become? ALA’s Transforma ve Communi es Ini a ve seeks to transform exis ng prac ces to support the fulfil-ment of our shared aspira ons. Join us for an honest conversa on about where we are and where we need to go. (Facilitated Discussion)
Presenters: Cathleen Bourdon & Majed Khader
SESSIONSCHEDULEThursday, October 9
Title: Collec ng Graphic Novels Loca on: Cardinal
You may not read graphic novels...but your patrons do! It’s more than just superheroes and Pokemon. Find out what is popular with children, teens, and adults. How do you keep up with series? What if a patron objects to the content? All of these ques ons will be answered…and more.
Presenter: Susan Maguire
Title: ESL Means Extra Special Library Services Loca on: Blue Jay
Various ESL resources are available online and in public libraries to WV residents. Among the resources to be discussed are Learning Express Library’s TOEFL and TOEIC prep materials, the U.S. Ci zen’s Exam, in-terna onal language newspapers, and a Spanish language deposit book collec on available.
Presenter: Susan Hayden
Title: Makerspaces and You! Loca on: Raccoon
Makerspace seems to be the buzz word for libraries today! Learn more about makerspaces, how to create one for your community , and why it is not another passing fad. Li le to no budget necessary!
Presenter: Heather Campbell-Shock
Title: Trustee Academy I Loca on: Bobcat
Back by popular demand, this introduc on to the development of pub-lic libraries in WV & the role of library trustees is the first in a series produced by the WVLC. A facilitated discussion will follow the presen-ta on. (Moderated by Karen Goff)
Mee ngs
10:15‐10:45
Social Responsibili es RT Loca on: Ballroom Foyer
Digital RT Loca on: Ballroom A
Directors RT Loca on: Ballroom B
Founda on Center Loca on: Cardinal
ILL/Ref RT Loca on: Blue Jay
Literacy RT Loca on: Raccoon
Preserva on RT Loca on: Bobcat
Children’s RT Loca on: Eagle Boardroom
11:00‐3:45
WVLC Loca on: Eagle Boardroom
Programs
11:00‐12:00
Title: Serving Special Needs Patrons in Your Public Library
Loca on: Ballroom A
Innova ve, easy, and free or low-cost ways to assist your patrons who are blind, have low-vision, or have physical disabili es. Introduc on to NVDA, the free, customizable screen reader your patrons can use from any public terminal; NewsLine, the free service that delivers current newspapers to your special needs patrons any way they want; low-cost note taking apps to assist students; and the latest in accessible apps and services.
Presenter: American Founda on for the Blind
Title: Preparing for the 2015 Legisla ve Session Loca on: Ballroom B
The session will review the public library funding study compiled by the WV League of Women Voters, suggest talking points for conversa ons with legislators and other funders, and provide prac cal demonstra-ons of effec ve and not-so-effec ve advocacy prac ces.
Presenters: Be y Barre , WV League of Women Voters, with the WVLA Legisla ve Commi ee
Title: Usability and You: Crea ng a Website Usability Test
Loca on: Blue Jay
Is your website performing to the best of its capabili es? Do your users find it accessible or impossible? Designing and implemen ng a website usability test is important for those seeking to create or update their virtual presence, and can be accomplished in a few simple steps for li le to no cost.
Presenter: Kat Phillips
Title: “How May I Help You?” The Art of Customer Service
Loca on: Raccoon
Join WVLC’s State Library Services librarians for customer service ps (learned from the library, retail experience, and beyond); real world examples and applica ons of said ps; and an interac ve role play ses-sion of the best (and the worst) of customer service.
Presenters: Heather Campbell-Shock, Megan Tarbe & Michelle Kubiak
Title: Tablet & Smart Phone Apps to Make Your Life Easier
Loca on: Bobcat
We will present to you with various FREE tablet and smart phone apps that will help make all aspects of your life easier and more fun! Bring your own devices so that you can download and play with these apps as we present. Come prepared to share your own favorite apps with the group.
Presenters: Barbara LaGodna & Marian Armour-Gemmen
(Lunch on your own)
1:30‐2:30
Title: Hippie Homesteaders in West Virginia
Loca on: Ballroom A
The back to the land movement of the 1960s and 1970s brought thou-sands of hippies or homesteaders to West Virginia.” Many le , but hun-dreds stayed and made a significant impact on the state. Seaton will ex-plain the forces that brought them here, the hardships they encoun-tered, and how they succeeded because of the support they found from their elder neighbors, and, in the case of ar sans and performers, the state government, which helped launch their careers.
Presenter: Carter Taylor Seaton
Title: WV’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading: Leaders of Literacy
Loca on: Ballroom B
Charlo e Webb, Coordinator of the WV Department of Educa on’s Office of Early Learning will present the state-wide Grade-Level Reading Campaign, Turn the Page West Virginia. The goal of the campaign is to help school students remain on their reading levels through work with teachers, parents, and the community. This is an opportunity for librar-ies to see how they can partner with other agencies to achieve this goal.
Presenter: Charlo e Webb
Title: Introduc on to Library Assessment & Evalua on
Loca on: Cardinal
This presenta on will discuss a variety of evalua on resources, tools, and strategies for libraries with a focus on the planning and data col-lec on por ons of conduc ng an assessment.
Presenter: Andrew Youngkin, NNLM
Title: Sign Language, Hearing Children, & Reading Loca on: Blue Jay
Sign language can be very useful for hearing children when learning to read. How? Come to this workshop and find out!
Presenter: Janelle St. Mar n
Title: Fundraising Showcase Loca on: Raccoon
This panel session will present ideas from experienced fundraisers and invite par cipants to present fundraising ideas that have either worked well or bombed so that others may profit from the success and failure of others.
Moderator: Karen Goff
Title: Cataloging Odd: Making the Seeds, Toys, and Other Library Oddi es Findable Loca on: Bobcat
Libraries are more than just books, DVDs, and Audios; they are toys, seeds, fishing poles, tools, and a lot more!
Presenter: Heather Campbell-Shock
2:45‐3:45
Title: Grrr! Why Don’t They Get It? Loca on: Ballroom A
How do we deal with those difficult patrons or co-workers? We will look at some ways to deal with these situa ons, how to calm ourselves down, and how to turn a nega ve feeling about a library experience into a posi ve one.
Presenter: David Lemming
Title: The New Change in Learning Express Library
Loca on: Ballroom B
Learning Express Library 3.0, from LearningExpress, LLC—known for basic skills improvement in reading, wri ng, math, and basic sciences; and test prepara on for academic and career tes ng—features a new tutorial and test-prepara on pla orm, with easier access to skill-building resources and new features designed to help students and adults prepare for success in school and in life. This demonstra on will introduce the new pla orm.
Presenter: Susan Hayden
Title: NASA Programming in Your Library Loca on: Cardinal
It’s FREE! It’s Fun! It’s Educa onal! Addi onally, NASA will train you and your staff for FREE! Did you know that the NASA facility in Fair-mont has virtually unlimited resources from sunspot telescopes to pre-school spacesuits; from robots controlled by laptops to dinosaur pro-grams with real fossilized dino-poop? There is truly something for eve-ry youth service age group! In this me of shrinking budgets, find out how your library can offer fantas c programs for FREE! Now every li-brarian can be a superhero!
Presenter: Todd Ensign
Title: WV Humani es Council Grants & Programs Loca on: Blue Jay
Is your library strapped for programming funding? Amy Postalwait will talk about programming opportuni es available through the WV Hu-mani es Council and the nuts and bolts about how to get one for YOUR library.
Presenter: Amy Postalwait
Title: Friends Panel Discussion Loca on: Raccoon
A panel of friends members, librarians, and interested individuals will discuss everything from forma on of a group to projects and rela ons with the library.
Moderator: Joan Armbruster
Title: Story me Yoga Loca on: Bobcat
Come and learn how to create an interac ve story that brings the mind and body together to tell a tale. Yoga storytelling takes the best of two worlds and brings them together for a memorable event your patrons will have experienced nowhere else. Please come ready to move!
Presenters: Amy Stover & Nellie Smith
Mee ngs
4:00‐4:30
Tech Services RT Loca on: Ballroom Foyer
Government Docs RT Loca on: Eagle Boardroom
Pennant from 1978
Programs
4:00‐4:30
Title: A Grant & Two Trainers: How We Started a Program to Teach Basic Technology Skills for e-Reading in a Four-County Area
Loca on: Cardinal
In Fall 2013, the Bridgeport Public Library and Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library collaborated to write a WV Technical Assistance Broad-band Grant and received funding to assist library staff with learning about using various types of tablets and e-readers to access library materials. This session will describe the project, discuss lessons learned, and share ps for doing a similar project in your area.
Presenters: Cheryl Cohen & Meredith Hankins
Title: The Librarian Liaison Program at American Public University System, an e-University Loca on: Blue Jay
This presenta on will focus on describing the librarian liaison program at American Public University System, an accredited, asynchronous online University, located in WV’s Eastern Panhandle. First, our li-brary users and staffing will be explained for context. Next, the ses-sion will focus on the components of our liaison program, describing the services we offer and how they are offered. Time will be allowed for ques ons. This presenta on will appeal to academic librarians interested in providing to distance educa on students, and those in-terested in how digital academic libraries func on.
Presenter: Marissa Smith
Title: Jump! Skip! Throw! Having a Field Day at the Library
Loca on: Bobcat
Want to have a field day at your library? Hear how one library planned their non-compe ve event, including ps for safety, suggested read-alongs, and complementary indoor ac vi es.
Presenter: Hannah Wilkes
Mee ngs
4:45‐5:30
Academic Libraries Division Loca on: Ballroom B
Friends Division Loca on: Bluejay
School Libraries Division Loca on: Raccoon
Public Libraries Division Loca on: Eagle Boardroom
Event
5:30‐6:30
Juanita Fireball and the Con nental Dri ers in the Comedy Cellar, with cash bar & light hors d’oeuvres.
6:30‐9:00
Awards Banquet & Second General Session ( cketed event)
—100th birthday celebra on —Recogni on of past presidents
Banquet Speaker: Emily Corio, “The Freedom to Report: Inves ga ve Journalism and the Value of a Media-Literate Public that Supports It”
8:00‐9:00
Buffet Breakfast in Ballrooms & Foyer
8:15‐8:30
Roundtable Chairs mee ng in Ballrooms
8:30‐9:00
State of the State Address by WV Library Commissioner
Karen Goff in the Ballrooms
9:15‐10:30
Third General Session Title: Driving Change, Crea ng Experience, & Moving Forward
Loca on: Ballrooms A & B
Presenter: Dr. Michael Stephens, San Jose State University School of Library & Informa on Studies
SESSIONSCHEDULEFriday, October 10
Programs
10:45‐11:45
Title: A One Shot Makeover: Some Ideas to Consider
Loca on: Cardinal
The merits of a new approach to the single session class taught by an academic librarian (also known as a “one shot”) will be discussed. Used of a normed rubric, brief, pre-class discussion with the faculty member, and pre-class homework for the students is proposed as a “one shot makeover.”
Presenter: Carroll Wilkinson
Title: The Evolu on of WV Dialects Loca on: Blue Jay
Dr. Kirk Hazen, a linguist in WVU’s Department of English, will talk about the past, present, and future of West Virginia dialects.
Presenter: Kirk Hazen
Title: Programming Snowflakes Loca on: Raccoon
Designing a month of programs doesn’t have to be painful. Learn to use an adapted snowflake method to quickly develop events for all ages. Par cipants will create a month-long schedule as a group that each may adapt to individual libraries. Successes, samples, and strategies will be shared.
Presenters: Dora Rowe & Rebecca Russell
Title: Hiring a Library Director Loca on: Bobcat
As the Baby Boomers exit the workforce, more and more libraries are looking at hiring new directors. This session will discuss issues from wri ng the job descrip on to making the offer.
Presenter: Karen Goff
12:00‐12:30
WVLA Business Mee ng Loca on: Cardinal/Blue Jay
12:45
Execu ve Board Lunch Mee ng in the Comedy Cellar — incoming AND outgoing board members please a end.
Conference Program Cover from 1978
Vendors
Our sincere thanks to the following vendors for their support of the West Virginia Library Associa on.
Apple Books—Jeff Holzapfel
Aspen Technologies—Rod Lipscomb
Baker & Taylor—Carlyne Patenaude
Children’s Plus—Bert Morris
EBSCO—Sarah Perlmu er & Steve Kramer
Innova ve Interfaces—Ma Wagner
J.P. Jay Associates, Inc.—James & Jay Malise
Na onal Network of Libraries of Medicine—Andrew Younghin
Overdrive—Melissa Marin
Penworthy—Catherine Connelly
ProQuest—Sean Kozak
Quality Books—Ashley Boothe
Rosen Publishing Group—Donna Palamara
SirsiDynix—Drew McHaughton
Spellbound Beads—Jayne Tremaine
University of South Carolina—Angela Wright
Sally Scollay Page “The Librarian’s Librarian”
Source: 1980 WVLA Tabloid
AbigthankyougoesouttoJaneMettersLaBarbara,AssistantCuratorfortheWestVirginia&Regional
HistoryCenteratWVULibrariesforprovidingthephotoscontained
withinthisprogram.ThesehistoricalimagesarelocatedintheCenter’s
WVLACollection.
AnotherbigthankyoutoAppleBooksforprovidingsponsorshipfora
portionofthisyear’sprogramming!