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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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Keri Ostby

Rochester (MN) Public Library
Head of Technical Services
Rochester, MN
Websitehttps://rochesterpubliclibrary.org/
Thursday, October 5
 

8:00am CDT

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

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

10:30am CDT

Reinventing ourselves: Making Organizational Changes Work Meeting Room 113Matt Rosendahl

11:35am CDT

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

1:00pm CDT

Public Library Division (PLD) Meeting Meeting Room 104

2:15pm CDT

Revitalizing, Re-energizing and Reforming: an OCLC reclamation process Meeting Room 110Chris Austin • Ingvild Herfindahl • Cheryl Hill • Becky Lashinski

3:35pm CDT

MNLINK 2.0, one year into the implementation of the new search program Meeting Room 111Nick Banitt

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
 

8:00am CDT

Cataloging for Inclusion: A Case Study and Space for Conversation Meeting Room 102Christie Schultz • Lori Veldhuis

9:15am CDT

Light Bulb to Launch and Beyond: Libraries Growing the Economy Meeting Room 110Erin Cavell • Lindsey Dyer • Amanda Feist

10:30am CDT

Dewey Decimation: Going Dewey-free with Book Map at Rochester Public Library Rochester Public Library AuditoriumKeri Ostby • Laura Randolph

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

Technical Services Section (TSS) Subunit Meeting Meeting Room 114

2:15pm CDT

Some Like It Hotspot Meeting Room 113Brian Lind • Steve Mosing • Keri Ostby • Andy Stehr

3:35pm CDT

Staffing a Digitization Project Successfully with Student Volunteers Meeting Room 113Katie Johnson • Naomi Skulan