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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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Wednesday, October 4
 

5:30pm CDT

Dine Around: Public Libraries Division (PLD) The Loop

6:00pm CDT

Dine Around: Magical Metadata Fairies Chester's Dine Around: RART Happy Hour & Dinner Victoria's

6:30pm CDT

Dine Around: Youth Services Unite! The Tap House

8:00pm CDT

Dine Around: ARLD Knows Happy Hour Forager Brewery
 
Thursday, October 5
 

7:00am CDT

Welcome & Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom 2 & 3 Registration Ballroom Lobby

8:00am CDT

Queering the Stacks: LGBTQ Young Adult Literature Meeting Room 104Molly Hazelton • Chayse Sundt Radical all along: A historical look at Minnesota librarianship Meeting Room 102Olivia Moris • Sara Ring • Ann Walker Smalley Project Management for the Uninitiated, or Why It's Never Okay to Call Your Coworkers 'Monkeys' Meeting Room 111Brittany Brown • Sarah Ethier • Lisa Motschke • Cindy Purser Radical Membership - Conference Apps & Hacks Meeting Room 109Deborah Bifulk • Kellie Meehlhause Small Libraries as a Makerspace Meeting Room 112Jodi Edstrom • Suzi Stephenson Community Engagement: State of the State Meeting Room 110Joe Manion • Jennifer Verbrugge Minnesota Public Library Structures - Simplified Meeting Room 113Karen Pundsack • Mollie Stanford Strategies for Tackling Tough Data Questions Meeting Room 105Alicia Kubas • Jenny McBurney Volunteer Summers: The Experience Meeting Room 103Katlin Heidgerken-Greene • Stacey R. Hendren

9:10am CDT

Never forget who you really work for : Radical cataloging and the case for local adaptation Meeting Room 109Hannah Buckland • Violet Fox • Tina Gross • Jessica Schomberg Fundraising: the good, the bad, the 'What was I thinking?' Meeting Room 112Meredith Stanton Vaselaar Minitex, where libraries are strong, staff are good-looking, and patrons are above average Meeting Room 110Carol Nelson Creating a culture of collaboration with 3D printing Meeting Room 113Jonathan D. Carlson • Dr. Diana Fenton • Adam Konczewski • Sarah Lauer Locking In Literacy: Using Breakout Boxes for Library Programming Meeting Room 104Meg Curtiss • Angie Gustafson • Alice Henderson Engaging with the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests as a Librarian/Archivist Meeting Room 102Mark Holman Serving our Emerging Bilingual Community Members: Best Practices and Big Holes Meeting Room 103Dr. Mary Wilkins Jordan Flipping Information Literacy Meeting Room 105Mary Beth Sancomb-Moran Transforming Summer Reading: Using Outcomes to Create More Impactful Summer Reading Programs Meeting Room 111Julia Carlis • Renee Grassi

10:00am CDT

Morning Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1 Silent Auction Grand Ballroom 1

10:30am CDT

Privilege: Calling In, Calling Out, and Promoting Conversation Meeting Room 103Emilie Hanson • Daniel Ostroot From the Ground Up: Re-framing Assessment @ The Carl B. Meeting Room 105Leah Anderson • Mary Anderson • Kevin Baggett • Virginia Connell Gamification: Training Edition Meeting Room 112Mackenzie Morning Faith Talk Show - A Program That Breaks the Rules Meeting Room 111Robin DeVries • Regina Mustafa Would Trader Joe's Hire You?: Lessons from the Best Retailers Meeting Room 104Tasha McLachlan • Dr. Anthony Molaro • Suzi Stephenson Let's Talk About Serving Patrons with Dementia Meeting Room 114Carrie Brunsberg • Laura Carlson • Carol Jackson • Janet Kleckner • Susan Lubbers Using STEM in Afterschool Best Practices Meeting Room 110Brandon Bagaason Featured Session: Using Storytelling to Uplift Immigrant Voices: Panel with Immigrant High School Students Meeting Room 102Dr. Tea Rozman Clark Reinventing ourselves: Making Organizational Changes Work Meeting Room 113Matt Rosendahl When in Doubt, Throw It Out: When Storytime Isn't Working Meeting Room 109Mary Dubbs

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

Academic and Research Library Division (ARLD) Meeting Meeting Room 102 Minnesota Library Trustees and Advocates (MLTA) Meeting Meeting Room 103 Public Library Division (PLD) Meeting Meeting Room 104

1:50pm CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

2:15pm CDT

Wikipedia as Community Organizing Meeting Room 104Ben Weiss • Rachel Wexelbaum • Margit Wilson Legislative Insider Report Meeting Room 109Jami Trenam • Sam Walseth Revitalizing, Re-energizing and Reforming: an OCLC reclamation process Meeting Room 110Chris Austin • Ingvild Herfindahl • Cheryl Hill • Becky Lashinski Engaging Community through Cultural Arts Experiences Meeting Room 105Shakun Maheshwari • Betsy Mowry Voss 100 Years/100 Stories: How Saint Paul Public Library Used New Storytelling Tools to Advance Community Engagement Meeting Room 114Tracy Baumann • Phoebe Larson • Chase Maxwell • Therese Scherbel Library Marketing: You Want a Revolution? I want a Revelation! Meeting Room 112Jennifer Harveland • Karen Lemke 23 Framework Things: Minnesota Librarians on the Cutting Edge of Information Literacy Practice Meeting Room 103Trent Brager • Amy Mars Summer Reading Programs for Youth: Breaking the Mold Meeting Room 111Tracy Kampa • Gail Nordstrom • Mollie Stanford Featured Session: Understanding ages and stages of youth development connected to race and racism Meeting Room 102Alicia Sojourner Government Documents During Times of Strife and Change Meeting Room 113Danya Leebaw

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 Un-prom: Alternative Prom Programs for Large and Small Libraries Meeting Room 110Angie Gustafson • Laura Mielenhausen MNLINK 2.0, one year into the implementation of the new search program Meeting Room 111Nick Banitt Planting the Seeds of Learning: The Library as a Nature Based Learning Center Meeting Room 109Alison Reiter • Monica Stratton • Katrina Hartz Taylor • Jody Yungers Revolting Librarians Make Art Meeting Room 104Monica R. Howell Libraries: Fighting Childhood Food Insecurity Year-Round For a Better Future! Meeting Room 113Jenny Butcher RART Bookblast: 40 in 50 Fiction Meeting Room 103Kimberly Edson • Rachel Gray • Angie Noyes • Katie Polley Like a Boss: 10 Pathways to Non-Management Leadership Meeting Room 105Kelsey Johnson-Kaiser • Marge Loch-Wouters Librarian on the Loose Meeting Room 112Shari Carlson

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 Registration Ballroom Lobby

8:00am CDT

Libraries Were Never Neutral: Advocating for Social Justice in the Library Meeting Room 104Chip Gehring • Emilie Hanson • Katie Pierce State Library Services: Annual Update Meeting Room 109Jennifer Nelson Every Minnesotan an Author: Self-Publishing Using Your Local Library Meeting Room 103Rita Baladad • Anne Hatinen • Andrea McKennan Leave It to the Teens: Running a successful YA book group . . . by not running it Meeting Room 111Jennifer DeJonghe • Emily Ganzel • Mallory Haskin • Colette Johnson Practical Strategies for Digital Literacy Outreach Meeting Room 105Hannah Buckland • Lindsey Dyer • Brian Lind • Jill Wujcik Filling a Gap in Children's Literature - Where are all the sporty girls? Meeting Room 110Shelly Boyum-Breen • Kara Thom Online Chat - Best Practices in an Academic Library Meeting Room 112Sara Stambaugh Small But Mighty! Rural Library Staff Lightning Rounds Meeting Room 113Peter Bremer • Nate Deprey • Steve Harsin • Stacy Lienemann • Nicole Miller Cataloging for Inclusion: A Case Study and Space for Conversation Meeting Room 102Christie Schultz • Lori Veldhuis

8:50am CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

9:15am CDT

Tricky Legal Questions: A Radical Approach to Making Them Satisfying for Patrons and for You! Meeting Room 111Pauline Afuso • Karen Westwood Digital Preservation Day at the Library: A How-To Guide Meeting Room 109Jolie Graybill • Sara Ring MNLINK: May the Source Be With You Meeting Room 113Cindy Baker • Pam O'Hara Escape the Library: Creating and Hosting an 'Escape the Room' Style Program for Youth at Your Library Meeting Room 102Amy Oelkers • Martha Riel Light Bulb to Launch and Beyond: Libraries Growing the Economy Meeting Room 110Erin Cavell • Lindsey Dyer • Amanda Feist RA Crutches Meeting Room 105Angie Noyes • Katie Polley • Suzanne Yoch UX is social change: The feminist impact of User Experience work Meeting Room 103Jennifer DeJonghe • Tony Hirt • Christine Larson • Amy Luedtke When Home Won't Let You Stay: Telling the Story of Refugees Living in Minnesota Meeting Room 104James Bowey • Lezlea Dahlke • Alice Henderson Learning is For Everyone! Making staff-wide training a reality Meeting Room 114Lisa Motschke • Elizabeth Proell • Cindy Purser Execute Your Brand Meeting Room 112Karen Lemke

10:05am CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1 Silent Auction Grand Ballroom 2 & 3

10:30am CDT

#Librarianshipsowhite: Using Critical Race Theory to Form a Call for Action Meeting Room 103Amy Mars • Deborah A. Torres Dewey Decimation: Going Dewey-free with Book Map at Rochester Public Library Rochester Public Library AuditoriumKeri Ostby • Laura Randolph Collaborations that engage communities in transforming libraries Meeting Room 110Sue Grove • Rollin Hall • Joseph Owens • Jim Weygand Blinded Me With Science!: STEAM-based programs for toddlers & preschoolers Meeting Room 112Tricia Wehrenberg TransFabulous: Celebrating the Gender Spectrum Through Community and Art Meeting Room 105Erin Dahl • Amy McNally • Ben Weiss Lost in the Library: Tales of Inventory Adventures and Lesson Learned! Meeting Room 109Chris Magnusson • Mollie Stanford Mapping the State: Place-based Discovery in Minnesota Reflections Meeting Room 113Greta Bahnemann • Jason Roy Featured Session: Immigration and Human Rights in Minnesota Meeting Room 102Michele Garnett McKenzie Practical Strategies for Change Management Meeting Room 104Sarah Beth Weeks So All Can Read : How Technology is Reinventing the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library Meeting Room 111Catherine A. Durivage • Dan Malosh

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

Children and Young People's Section (CYP) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 109 Diversity and Outreach Round Table (DORT) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 105 Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 110 Instruction Round Table (IRT) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 111 Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 112 Minnesota Association of Library Friends (MALF ) Annual Meeting and idea exchange Meeting Room 103 Readers Advisory Round Table (RART) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 102 Reference and Adult Services Section (RASS) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 104 Small and Rural Libraries Round Table (SRLRT) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 113 Technical Services Section (TSS) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 114

1:50pm CDT

Break With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

2:15pm CDT

Health in the Headlines: Critical Evaluation to Combat 'Fake News' Meeting Room 103Katherine Chew • Elizabeth Kiscaden Let's Get Together, YA YA YA! or How an Elementary Media Center and a Public Library Worked Together for their Community Meeting Room 111Connie Stirling • Ann Wahlstrom Resources for Artists and Artists as Resources Meeting Room 105Noah Keesecker • Peter Haakon Thompson "Just the Facts, Ma'am": Informational Books for Kids and Tweens Meeting Room 112Marge Loch-Wouters • Gail Nordstrom Beyond Debbie Macomber and E.L. James: Reaching the Non-Library User Romance Reader Meeting Room 114Sarah Wethern Shining a light on Minnesota's digitized legal archives Meeting Room 109Erica Nutzman • Sheree Speer Diversity in Tights: Creating graphic novel collections that more closely mirror an evolving America Meeting Room 104Nate Deprey 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 Evy Nordley Best Projects by Friends groups and Stand Up for Stand Out Friends Awards Meeting Room 110Judy Schotzko Some Like It Hotspot Meeting Room 113Brian Lind • Steve Mosing • Keri Ostby • Andy Stehr

3:05pm CDT

Dessert With Exhibitors Grand Ballroom 1

3:35pm CDT

Featured Session: Intellectual Freedom Issues in Libraries Meeting Room 102Jody Gray Better Together: Building Partnerships with Adult Education and Workforce Meeting Room 109Tom Cytron-Hysom • Emily Kissane • Rebecca Ryan • Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt Staffing a Digitization Project Successfully with Student Volunteers Meeting Room 113Katie Johnson • Naomi Skulan Revolution Zine Style Now! Meeting Room 103James Arnold • Sarah Joynt Creating Autism-Friendly Libraries Meeting Room 104Tony Hirt • Maureen Millea Smith • Jody Wurl • Sara Zettervall RART Bookblast! 40 in 50 Nonfiction Meeting Room 112Rachel Gray • Luann Phillipich • Jean Silverberg Internet Security And You: Being Your Own First Line of Defense Meeting Room 111Kristin Boeshans • Michael Flores Conversations in a Difficult Time: The Role of Libraries in Finding Common Ground Meeting Room 105Aimee Gourlay • Dan Greensweig
 
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