Day 3 Schedule

Session Title:  Libraries with Pizzazz 

Session Description:  Creating libraries that your patrons want to visit begins with building relationships. I will share tips on creating engaging spaces, programs and lessons that welcome all of your patrons and keeps them coming back for more. 

Session Title:  Better Together: Librarians as Crowdsourcers 

Session Description:  Join us for the "Better Together: Librarians as Crowdsourcers" workshop and discover how collaborative efforts can transform your library into a dynamic hub of collective intelligence, fostering engagement, and creating a stronger connection with your community. Together, we can unlock the tremendous potential that lies within our shared knowledge and expertise. 

Session Title:  Building a Community of Readers 

Session Description:  Learn this high school librarian's 5 tips for working with others to build a community of readers. Be ready to share your ideas, too. 

Session Title:  Make Your Library the Heart of Your High School 

Session Description:  Programming and best practices for making your high school library the cool place to be! From makerspace and crafts, to book clubs and author visits: build a culture that brings teens to the library again and again. This information could be useful and applicable to a middle school as well. 

Session Title:  Amplify Your Impact: Collaboration Hacks 

Session Description:   Elevate your collaboration game to amplify your positive ripples! Explore practical strategies for creating sustainable and meaningful partnerships. Discover tips on pitching, timing, setting boundaries, maximizing efficiency, and more to amplify your impact. 

Session Title:  Your Evaluation Using the Future Ready Librarian Framework 

Session Description:  I used the Future Ready Librarian Framework to highlight the weaker areas of my school district's library program and to teach administrators about the role of school librarians. I chose this year-long project to showcase the strengths and weaknesses within our district library program and a plan for the next few school years. 

Session Title:  Ready to Ditch (or Modify) Dewey? 

Session Description:  Have you been considering revamping your nonfiction section? Thinking about doing away with Dewey? Come listen to how one high school library is making simple changes in nonfiction that will (hopefully!) have impactful results. 

Session Title:  Super-Size your Graphic Novel Section 

Session Description:  If you're looking for recommendations for comicbooks, manga, and graphic novels, check out this session, where I'll give a marathon-rundown of awesome titles your students will enjoy! All age groups will be represented, but my recs definitely skew more towards middle and high school audiences. 

Session Title:   Planning Your Next Step as a School Library District Leader

Session Description:   In this session, aspiring school librarians will develop a career plan that provides a checklist of options to grow their leadership skills and identify a road map leading to a school library district leadership position.  Come prepared to reflect on where you are in your career, where you want to be, and how to make your dream role happen. 

Session Title:  Music Magic 

Session Description:  Pairing picture books with songs can make a read-aloud even more lively and joyful. Thanks to YouTube and book creators' websites, you don't have to be a musician to make the magic happen! 

Session Title:  Self-Preservation When Dealing with Censorship Attempts 

Session Description:  Attendees will learn ways to protect themselves on social media, precautions to take online, and tips for dealing with the stress associated with book banning and censorship attempts. It’s sad we need this in today’s world, but you can never be too safe. 

Session Title:  Integration and collaboration within a specials schedule rotation 

Session Description:  How do balance your daily library classes and collaborate with classroom teachers? This is the ultimate struggle for school librarians. Specials (or Unified Arts) schedules can be very restricting but that does not mean collaboration is impossible! Join me for tips and ideas to successfully integrate library resources in the classrooms with a variety of schedule models. 

Session Title:   When Overreach Becomes an Oversight Nightmare

Session Description:  Discussing the intersectionality of intellectual freedom & truthful multiculturalism in literature.

Session Title:  Independent Authors: Meeting the Challenge and Closing the Diversity Gap

Session Description:   With Literacy and Justice For All!

LiteracyNation, Inc., a nonprofit organization, advocates for the significance of cultural representation in literature. They shed light on the existing diversity gap within the children’s book industry and emphasize their efforts in promoting books by independent authors who offer diverse and inclusive reading materials to young readers.

Join us for an enlightening presentation discussing the vital role of cultural representation in literature, the disturbing diversity gap that exists in the children’s book industry, and the proactive initiatives taken to champion independent authors who publish diverse and inclusive books for young readers. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insight into the power of inclusive storytelling!