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Welcome to the 2017 MLA Annual Conference! This year’s theme is Radical Librarianship - the power of libraries to provide access to the truth, strengthen our community voices, create opportunity for exploration and innovation, and assist our patrons to build a better future. Libraries have always been radical, but what does Radical Librarianship mean for us today? Join us at the 2017 MLA Annual Conference to help shape that conversation!
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Amy Boese

Ramsey County Library
Librarian
Maplewood,MN
Libraries as community spaces, responsibility of libraries to promote racial equity, Minnesota Library Association, MILE, graphic novels, board games, running, good science fiction and fantasy, but also bad science fiction and fantasy, eating, drinking, and bubble tea, which is sort of both.
Thursday, October 5
 

7:00am CDT

Welcome & Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom 2 & 3

9:10am CDT

Engaging with the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests as a Librarian/Archivist Meeting Room 102Mark Holman

10:00am CDT

Morning Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

10:30am CDT

Featured Session: Using Storytelling to Uplift Immigrant Voices: Panel with Immigrant High School Students Meeting Room 102Dr. Tea Rozman Clark

11:20am CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

11:35am CDT

Lunch & Keynote with Alicia Sojourner, YWCA Minneapolis: Intentional Inclusion: Do Not be the Monkey! Grand Ballroom 2 & 3Alicia Sojourner

12:30pm CDT

DIY Screenprinting: Make your own "This is what radical looks like" shirt TBA

1:00pm CDT

Public Library Division (PLD) Meeting Meeting Room 104

1:50pm CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

2:15pm CDT

Featured Session: Understanding ages and stages of youth development connected to race and racism Meeting Room 102Alicia Sojourner

3:05pm CDT

Afternoon Break/Dessert With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

3:35pm CDT

At the Root of Our Profession: Fundamental Changes through Fundamental Values Meeting Room 102Raina Bloom • Carrie Kruse

4:40pm CDT

MLA Membership Annual Meeting Meeting Room 102

5:45pm CDT

Happy Hour, Presentation of the Above & Beyond Awards and Social Event Riverfront Plaza
 
Friday, October 6
 

7:00am CDT

Continental Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall / Silent Auction Continues Grand Ballroom 1

8:50am CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

10:05am CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

10:30am CDT

Featured Session: Immigration and Human Rights in Minnesota Meeting Room 102Michele Garnett McKenzie

11:20am CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

11:35am CDT

Lunch Keynote with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble: Social Justice in LIS, Finding the Imperative to Act Grand Ballroom 2 & 3Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble

1:00pm CDT

Diversity and Outreach Round Table (DORT) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 105

1:50pm CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

2:15pm CDT

Featured Session: Algorithms of Oppression: What’s at stake when we automate decision making on the web and in the library Meeting Room 102Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble

3:05pm CDT

Dessert With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

3:35pm CDT

Featured Session: Intellectual Freedom Issues in Libraries Meeting Room 102Jody Gray