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SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
(no tickets required)
All-Conference
Welcome Party
Nasher Sculpture Gardens
April 15, 6:30 – 8:30
pm
Lynda Becker Memorial
Downtown Walking Tour
Wed., April 16, 7 – 8 am
3nd Annual Book Cart
Drill Team State Championship
Wed., April 16, 5 – 6 pm
The President’s Party
Wed., April 16, 8 – 10:30 pm
Eddie Deen’s Ranch
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MEAL FUNCTIONS
Tickets for all conference meal functions must be purchased in advance as
part of the conference preregistration process. Tickets will not be sold
onsite. Encourage friends, family, and colleagues to join you to hear a
favorite author. While meal function tickets must be purchased in advance,
conference registration is not required to attend these events. Ticket
prices are based on the cost of menu selections, catering service charges,
room set-up charges, speaker fees, and other expenses.
The banquet hall doors will be open 30 minutes prior to the starting time
of each meal function. Space permitting, gallery seating will be available
30 minutes after the meal function begins for attendees without meal
tickets who wish to hear the speaker. For details, see the daily schedule.
VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers are needed to assist the Local Arrangements Committees in
several areas during the 2008 annual conference. If you’re interested,
complete the online volunteer form linked from the conference homepage. Volunteers should be
willing to serve at least two hours during the annual conference. While
librarians must be registered for the conference, paraprofessionals and
support staff who are not registered for the annual conference will
receive a complimentary exhibits-only pass for four hours of volunteer
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DALLAS
is the ninth largest city in the United States and third largest in Texas.
If you haven’t visited Dallas in a while, you’re in for a treat! Dallas’
new slogan – Live Large. Think Big – describes the essence of a
city built on big ideas with an attitude that all things are possible. Get
a head start in planning your trip by visiting the Dallas Convention and
Visitors Bureau website: www.visitdallas.com/visitors/
AUTHORS AREA
Obtain autographs from your favorite author(s) at the Authors Area in the
TLA Exhibit Hall. Conferees may bring up to five (5) items to be signed
per author per visit. The Authors Area and book signing schedules will be
listed in the Exhibits Directory and Buyers Guide, and up-to-the-minute
schedules will be posted in the Registration Area and in the Authors Area.
Authors will now be allowed to sign in the exhibit booth, at the
discretion of the Authors Area Committee.
TLA AWARDS will be presented during the conference as follows:
- General Session I
Wednesday, April 16, 8:30 – 9:50 am
Gumdrop Book
Scholarship and TLA Awards: Lifetime Achievement, Wayne Williams Library
Project of the Year, Outstanding Service to Libraries, and Librarian of
the Year
- Opening Author Session ( LiFTA Round Table)
Wednesday, April 16, noon – 1:50 pm
TLA Benefactor
Awards; J. Frank Dobie Awards; James Love Award
- Texas Media Awards
Thursday, April 17, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
- General Session II
Thursday, April 17, 4:00 – 5:40 pm
Highsmith Awards,DEMCO Research Grants,TLA Disaster Relief Fund
Raffle winner, and Texas Book Festival grants
- TLA unit awards are presented during the respective unit meetings, listed
in the Schedule of Events.
BUSINESS MEETINGS
Unit business meetings, which are sometimes included as part of a
unit-sponsored program, are listed in the Schedule of Events. When part of
a program, the meeting’s length and agenda are determined by the unit’s
program planners.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
To preregister, go online at www.txla.org or complete the
PDF form and send it with payment to TLA. The form must be submitted electronically
or postmarked by Tuesday, March 25, 2008. After that date, all forms will
be returned to sender. Attendees who have not preregistered by this
deadline must register onsite at a higher rate. No meal tickets will be
sold onsite. Registration discounts will be available for online preregistration ONLY.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
CREDIT
CPE credit is available for school and public librarians needing to meet
certification requirements from the State Board for Educator Certification
(SBEC) and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC). CPE
hours meeting TLA criteria are noted in each appropriate conference
program abstract as 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, etc. to denote the number of hours of
training allowed for credit. CPE hours are written as SBEC 1.0 and/or
TSLAC 1.0 to delineate between the two state agencies.
Conference attendees can print their own certificates after conference by
accessing the TLA website and recording the programs they attended. This
feature will be available May 1.
DISASTER RELIEF RAFFLE
An illustration by Diane Stanley is this year’s masterpiece.
EXHIBITS
Located in Exhibit
Halls B & C of the convention center, TLA exhibits offer a variety of
new and innovative products and services. The exhibits directory, the
authors listing and signing schedule, the buyers guide listing
exhibitors by product category, and floor plans of the exhibit hall are
included in the Exhibits Directory and Buyers Guide. If necessary, an
addendum listing last-minute exhibitors will be available in the
registration area in Exhibit Hall A. Also located in the exhibit hall
are the Authors Autograph Area, Post Office, Net Fair, and Technology
Showcase.
HANDOUTS
New for 2008, in an effort to help the environment and eliminate the
problem of never having enough handouts available, the TLA staff will no
longer prepare or ship paper handouts for conference sessions. Program
speakers have been encouraged to prepare electronic handouts and submit
them to the TLA Office for posting on the TLA website. An index of
the 2008 handouts will be found at www.txla.org/conference/handouts.html beginning April 1,
2008. Additional handouts will be added as they are received. Attendees
will be able to download the program/session handouts before or during the
conference if they want to have them on hand during the presentations.
Printers will be available in the Internet Room if downloading to a
personal computer is not an option.
PLACEMENT CENTER
Located in
Exhibit Hall A. All registered conferees may use the Placement Center as
either prospective employers or job seekers.
ROOMMATE SERVICE
Do you need a roommate to help with housing expenses for the conference?
TLA’s roommate program will allow individuals to post and read messages
via TLA’s webpage (www.txla.org/conference/conf.html), where attendees can
send and receive postings via roommates@txla.org.
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