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
- Creating Displays with Whole Readers Advisory (Lucy Lockley) presentation link 1, presentation link 2
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