2014 Presentations

Full Conference Program (PDF)

Wednesday October 8

8:00 a.m. Uke Can Do It! Using the Ukelele in Story Time (Christy Schink) PDF handout

8:30 a.m. Pre-Conference Library Columbia Public Library and Southern Boone County Public Library (Elinor Barrett) PDF tour handout, PDF tour handout 2, PDF tour handout 3

9:30 a.m. Mizzou LIS Adjunct Workshop

10:00 a.m. MLA Play Preconference PDF handout

1:00 p.m. Keynote Address

2:15 p.m. Toddlers in the Library

2:15 p.m. Reinvent Your Library

2:15 p.m. New Learning Express Library

2:15 p.m. Reference Librarians On the Prowl (Jen Gravley, Beth Shapiro, and Karalyn Skinner) presentation link

2:30 p.m. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (Moses Brower)  PowerPoint slides

2:30 p.m. Need-to-Know Teen Lit

3:15 p.m. The Future of Bibliographic Records

3:15 p.m. Save Seeds, Save the World

3:15 p.m. Tech Tool Trends 2014 (Cynthia Dudenhöffer) PowerPoint slides, PDF handout

3:15 Make a Real Impact

4:15 p.m. Making It All Add Up

4:15 p.m. Project Mayibuye (Thomas R. Kochtanek) PowerPoint slides

4:15 p.m. iPad Appy Hour

4:15 p.m. MSL’s Early Literacy Initiative

Thursday October 9

9:15 a.m. 2014 Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award Nominees (Jerilyn Hahn) PDF handout

9:15 a.m. Table Talks

9:15 a.m. Entertaining the Entrepreneur

9:15 a.m. Making a Commitment to User-Centered Design (Kelley Martin and David Lindahl ) PDF slides handout, PDF checklist 

9:15 a.m. Getting Your Weeding Project Off the Ground (Susan Kromrie) PDF slides handout, PDF handout

9:15 a.m. Thinking About Academic Library Leadership?

10:15 a.m. Game On! Board Gaming With Kids and Teens

10:15 a.m. The Gender Evolution in Adolescent Literature

10:15 a.m. Google Docs

10:15 a.m. Reader’s Advisory for a New Age of Readers

10:15 a.m. Want Engaged Employees?  Try Servant Leadership (PDF presentation) , Vicky Baker

11:15 a.m. Finding and Keeping Your Creativity at Work (Gray) PDF handout

11:15 a.m. Chrome Appy Hour

11:15 a.m. A Multicultural Experience in E-Library

11:15 a.m. It’s a Tornado! Are We Prepared? (Amy Nickless) Presentation material link

11:15 a.m. Building an E-book Platform (Christine Peterson) PDF handout

1:00 p.m. Can a Scavenger Think Critically?

1:00 p.m.   The Myth of Multitasking

1:00 p.m.  Your Library Google Sites

1:00 p.m.  Publish and Mobilize Your Archive Collections!

1:00 p.m.  Bringing Teens’ Original Content into Existence

2:00 p.m. Nightmare on Mold Street

2:00 p.m. The Future of Access Services – Lightning Talks (Joshua Lambert) presentation link, (Katherine Bohnenkamper) PowerPoint slides, PDF handout

2:00 p.m. Supporting the Common Core in the Library

2:00 p.m. Minecraft At Your Library (Nicholas O’Neal) PDF handout

2:00 p.m. Happier At Work

5:00 p.m. Poster Sessions

  • Celebrate Free Comic Book Day @ Your Library (Christine Mills) website link
  • Book Talk Diversity (Anna Francesca) accompanying prezi link
  • Learning About Diversity: The Roles of LIS Education, LIS Associations, and Lived Experience (Charles Yier, Christina Virden, and Denice Adkins) PDF poster

Friday October 10

8:15 a.m. And the Oscar Goes to…The Nighthawks

8:15 a.m. Data Mining and Google Analytics for Libraries

8:15 a.m. Stu-jitsu: The Gentle Art of Supervising Student Workers

8:15 a.m. Reader’s Advisory: Beyond the Half-Day Workshop

8:15 a.m. Unprogramming for Kids and Teens (Angie Soetebier-McDonnell and Amy Koester) presentation link

8:15 a.m. Video Tutorials in Your Library

9:15 a.m. What is a Family Place Library and Why Would You Want One?

9:15 a.m.  The Representations of African Cultures in Picture Books

9:15 a.m.  Forgotten Google Tools

9:15 a.m.  Integrating Library Instruction Into the Blackboard Environment

9:15 a.m. University City Public Library’s Progress Report (Christa Van Herreweghe and Bill Coleman) PDF handout

9:15 a.m.  Quality Metadata: Reinventing Service (Felicity Dykas, Heather Lea Moulaison, and Kristen Gallant) PDF handout

10:00 a.m. Moving To LibGuides 2.0

10:00 a.m. Google Forms

10:00 a.m. Taking the Team Approach to Library Security

10:00 a.m. Design on a Dime: Website Redesign on a Minimal Budget (Jodie Borgerding  and Heidi Vix) PowerPoint slides

10:00 a.m. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Manuscripts, Papers and Scholarship

10:00 a.m. Making It Click: E-Government in Public Libraries (Alison Griffith) PDF handout

11:15 a.m. Pulling It All Together (Peggy Ridlen and Jane Theissen) presentation link

11:15 a.m. World Premier: Two New Librarian 411 Videos

11:15 a.m. Innovation in Library Services at the Pryor Learning Commons

11:15 a.m. So You Want To Blog (Sarah Bean Thompson and Amy Koester) presentation link

11:15 a.m. Big Help for Small Business

11:15 a.m. Techno Tots: Technology and Early Literacy (Stacy Hisle-Chaudri and Kat Wright) presentation link PDF handout