MONDAY
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM.
First General Session - John Michael Cummings – WV LIBRARIES: STRONGHOLDS OF KNOWLEDGE, WORKPLACES FOR AUTHORS
2:15-2:30PM
BREAK
2:30-3:45 PM
Get it Together! Librarians Deserve Respect - Mary Monaghan, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Intro to EBSCO’s New Interface – EBSCO Representative
Retirement Plus - John Fisher, WV Department of Treasury
Graphic Novels A-Z - Amy Stover, Raleigh County Public Library
4:00-5:00 PM
Going Beyond Operations, Susan Hoskins, Molly Krichten, & Suzy McGinley, WVLC
Student-Centered Academic Library - Beth Royall & Linda Blake, WVU Libraries
Librarians as Knowledge Creators and Navigators: Dipping Our Toe into Academe Charles Julian, Mary F. Shipper Library, Potomac State College of WVU
Taming the E-Book Beast, Christine Lewis & Gretchen Beach, Marshall University Libraries
Best Practices of Effective Library Boards - Ann Farr, Greenbrier County Public Library
5:00 -
MLN Meeting
NorLN Meeting – Circulation followed by Cataloging
Academic Division
GovDocs RT and Public Libraries
Tuesday
8 a.m. – Past President’s Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Legal Issues Facing Your Library – Karen Goff, WVLC
Sticks and Stones May Break my Bones but Words Will Never Hurt Me? : Micro Aggressions in Every Day Life - Barbara Hengemihle & Chanelle Pickens, WVU
The Customer Isn’t Always Right, but Neither Are You - Molly Krichten, WVLC
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Archiving WV: Creating a Local History Archive and Connecting Collections - Sean Duffy & Erin Rothenbuehler
10:00 - 10:15 AM
Break
10:00 AM – 3:45 PM
Explora: EBSCO’s New Interface (Hourly sessions)
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Digitization Workshop – Nat DeBruin, MU (This is a reserve your spot event)
10:15 – 10:45 AM
Directors’ RT
Foundation Center RT
Children’s RT
Preservation RT
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
So You Want a Bookmobile? - Amy Smith & Robert Poole, Raleigh County Public Library
Community Planning and Grant Writing - Rik Rekowski, Mary H. Weir Public Library & John Deskins, WVU
Go Fund Yourself! Hali Taylor, Shepherdstown Public Library
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Unconference 2.0 - Molly Krichten, WVLC
If You Pin it, Bake it, Make it, or Caffeinate it, They Will Come: Marketing and Outreach at Your Library -Kat Phillips, Lynne Edington & Christine Lewis, MU
This Place Matters: Using Clio, a Location-Based Mobile App, to Bring History Alive - Monica Brooks, MU
2:45 - 3:30 PM
OCLC Member Update - Meryl Cinnamon, OCLC
VENDOR TIME
WV READS Meeting
3:45 – 4:45 PM
Library Friend or Library Frenemy? - Molly Krichten, WVLC
Pulp Fiction 101 - John Adkins, UC, & Melissa Adkins, Kanawha County
Make the Case for Your Library with a Data-Based Elevator Speech - Heather Campbell-Shock, WVLC
MEETINGS: 4:45-5:30
Friends Division—Hawthorne
SR RT/ILL Reference RT—Birch
Tech Services RT/Digital RT—Elm
Schools Division/Trustees Division—Willow
5:30-6:30
Cash Bar/Hors D’ouevres/Music: 5:30-6:30
6:30-9:00
Banquet/Second General Session: 6:30-9:00
Storyteller, Joe McHugh
“Slaying the Gorgon: How the Various Mediums of Storytelling Shape How We Think and Act”
Wednesday
8:00-9:30: Buffet Breakfast
8:45-9:15: State of the State Address-Karen Goff
9:15-11:00: Business Meeting/Third General Session - Ivonne Martinez, Amy Lilly, and Joan Armbruster
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