District 8 2011 Fall Conference
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011, 8:30am - 1:30pm,
M.D. Anderson Library, University of Houston
DETAILS | DIRECTIONS/PARKING | SCHEDULE / PROGRAM | VIRTUAL CONFERENCE | REGISTRATION
Outlying Member Support - Apply Now!
Apply now for one of ten (10) $100 stipends for members living and working in outlying areas of District 8! Stipends cover registration and mileage to/from conference (up to a total of $100.00). To qualify, the distance between the conference venue (University of Houston-Main) and your place of employment must be at least 50 miles. To apply, complete the funding application (http://www.txla.org/groups/D8-docs) and submit it to Lee Andrew Hilyer (lahilyer@uh.edu), D8 Chair, by Monday, October 10th, 2011 at 5pm. If more than ten applications are received, stipend recipients will be determined by random drawing.
Come join your colleagues from across the District for a day of networking, continuing education and good times!
DATE: Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
TIME: 8:30am - 1:30pm
LOCATION: M.D. Anderson Library, University of Houston (Main Campus) | http://info.lib.uh.edu
ADDRESS: 4800 Calhoun Rd, Houston, TX 77004
COST: $25.00 Member (Special reduced rate for 2011!) | $35.00 Non-Member | $90.00 Exhibitor (Includes use of up to 3 tables)
General Directions and Maps to the UH Campus: http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/maps-directions
The closest parking lot to the library is Lot 1E (See campus parking map, section D-6). Accessible parking spaces for the disabled are available in Lot 1B (adjacent to 1E). Both lots are accessible from University Entrance 1.
Parking Garages are also available for a nominal fee. Entrance to the Welcome Center Garage is off of Calhoun St. Entrance to the UH Hilton Parking Garage is accessible from University Entrance 1. There is an additional parking garage accessible from Spur 5.
NOTE: October 22nd is also the day of the UH Homecoming game. Attendees should use the parking options above on the East side of campus. If there is an attendant at Lot 1E, let them know you are attending the TLA District 8 conference. We recommend you arrive no later than 9:30am to ensure a close parking spot.
| 8:30AM - 9:50AM | REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST / EXHIBITS / NETWORKING |
| 10:00AM - 10:50AM | Concurrent Sessions (See Program for details.) |
| 11:00AM - 11:50AM | Concurrent Sessions (See Program for details.) |
| 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Lunch / District Business Meeting / Doorprizes |
Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8:30am. Exhibits will also be open for you to visit with vendors.
First Concurrent Sessions (10:00 - 10:50AM)
How to Find and Create Program Partners in Your Community
Presenter: Jackie Cundiff, Clear Lake City-County, Freeman Branch Library
This session will focus on what a program partner is, what your library has to offer program partners, and who can be a program partner for your library. Jackie will discuss the current partners of the Freeman Branch library, and explain how anyone can replicate their success.
Handout: Community Partner Resources
Marketing 101: Fun, Cheap and Easy Ways to Promote Your Library
Presenter: Alex C. Simons, University of Houston Libraries
Do you want more people to learn about your library and its unique resources, but you're low on funds or don't have any extra to spend? Attend this session and find out how to create and build buzz about your library using social media, guides, and other tools.
Librarian Exchange: Walk a Mile in Someone Else’s Sensible Shoes
Presenters: Lee Andrew Hilyer, University of Houston Libraries and Deborah Sica, Harris County Public Library
Are you an Academic Librarian that wonders what your professional life would be like if your students were actually five instead of twenty-five? How about a Law Librarian who knows every title in the Nancy Drew Mysteries and always wanted to work with ‘Tweens? Maybe you are Cataloger with a flair for crafts? Or a Public Librarian looking for some Socratic refuge? Come and learn about District 8's new pilot program "Librarian Exchange." Explore how services are administered across various populations and widen your breadth of professional understanding.
Meta-Active Learning: Library Instruction Techniques Made Simple
Presenter: Shawn Vaillancourt & Loretta Wallace, University of Houston Libraries
Active learning is a key way to give students ownership over their own development of knowledge. In this session, participants will work in groups to learn about some active learning techniques they can easily integrate into their library instruction. These techniques are designed for the novice who is unsure where to start with respect to making their learning environments more active. This will be an interactive session.
Handout: Five Active Learning Techniques for Instruction
After The Fall: Moving on From the 82nd Legislature
Presenter: Rhoda Goldberg, Harris County Public Library
What should be the focus of TLA advocacy efforts? Join your colleagues for a forward-thinking discussion to help develop a plan for future legislative priorities!
eReader Technology: A Hands-On Approach to Using It for Your Library
Presenter: Angela Colmenares, Lone Star College (LSC – Montgomery Library)
Wondering which eReader technology to invest your library's time and money in? This session will bring you up to date on the latest eReader technology and show you how to use these devices to checkout ebooks from public and academic libraries. Hands-on time is included for top eReader devices such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Color Nook, as well as popular eReader apps for the iPad2. Discussions will also include using eReader technology to promote your library and common circulation policies for eReader technology.
Tours of M.D. Anderson Library, University of Houston
Presenter: University of Houston Libraries' Staff
Never been to the Anderson Library? Take a tour! Both public and staff areas will be accessible for tours.
Second Concurrent Sessions (11:00 - 11:50AM)
Using Wikispaces to Share Reference and Circulation Statistics
Presenter: Shanté Clark-Davis and Patrina Epperson, Texas Southern University (Thurgood Marshall School of Law Library)
Librarians and Library staff benefit from utilizing Wikispaces to record reference and circulation desk statistics. More importantly, Wikispaces creates a medium for all librarians to record the types of questions being asked as well as the answers patrons are provided. This session will empower librarians and library staff to begin utilizing Wikispaces as a collaborative tool to ensure that librarians and library staff are recording, digitizing, and sharing reference and circulation statistics.
Handouts: Wikispaces for K12 | Wikispaces for Higher Ed
Library Mobile Web Design: Tips, Tricks and Resources
Presenters: Rachel Vacek, University of Houston Libraries and Berika Williams, Victoria College/University of Houston – Victoria
Going mobile with your website? This presentation will walk you through some things to consider when thinking about the functionality and content of your library’s mobile presence, and point to useful tools for building your mobile website.
The Latest eBook Library Trends
Presenters: Mike Saperstein and Linda Stevens, Harris County Public Library
The future is now with regard to planning, building and marketing robust digital collections in all types of libraries. How are different publisher decisions affecting library eBook pricing? How do we offer cutting-edge technological support with minimal staffing? How do we keep the library connected to the customer when a service is offered virtually? This session will review the latest trends in the library eBook world and start a conversation to encourage library planning to meet current and future demands.
Strategic Collaboration to Expand the Library’s Impact
Presenter: Irene Ke, University of Houston Libraries
Partnering with faculty and staff outside the library is an effective way to reach out to potential users who may not be familiar with library services. However, how can we get faculty and staff to work with us effectively? With limited resources and time, how can we maximize our level of impact on campus when working collaboratively with members outside the library? Based on her years’ of experience in collaborating with staff and faculty members on campus, the presenter will share her observations, ideas and tips on how librarians can work creatively and strategically with members outside the library.
Leveling the Playing Field: Creating Metrics for Employee Evaluations
Presenter: Lisa Loranc, Brazoria County Library System
During this session, you’ll learn strategies for making the evaluation process easier for you and more fair for your employees.
Handouts: Good Job | Error Report | Attendance | FY 12 Evaluation
Citations Gone Awry: Assessing Information Literacy Skills of Intensive English Students
Presenter: Andrea Malone, University of Houston Libraries
International students are a large and vital part of any university and many of them struggle with the academic culture and have difficulty understanding and acquiring adequate information literacy skills. International students studying intensive English (IE) are at an even larger disadvantage because the primary goal of their program is to learn academic English. This presentation will introduce a project designed to teach upper level IE students fundamental information literacy skills, to evaluate their skill level in research papers using an assessment rubric, and to make suggestions to the IE faculty about how further collaboration might ensure increased success of their students once they enter into study at the university.
Handout: Information Skills Rubric
Capstone Digital Provides a Variety of Reading Solutions
Presenter: Norm Berning, Capstone Digital
In recent years, Capstone has become the leading publisher of high-interest books for children and young adults. The Capstone collection is now more than more than 15,000 titles of non-fiction, fiction, and graphic fiction. At the present time, more than 2000 of these titles are available in various exciting, interactive, digital formats. The Capstone Digital programs include state-of-the-art eBooks and Databases for Pre-K through early High School levels. This session will provide an overview of these programs and give media specialists/educators an opportunity to test the programs with young learners. Digital reading and learning activities provide contemporary learners with Solutions!
Lunch / District Business Meeting (12:00 - 1:30pm)
Tentative Agenda (Subject to Change)
- Welcome, Lee Andrew Hilyer, Chair, District 8
- Welcome, Dana Rooks, Dean of the UH Libraries
- Welcome, Jeri Williams, TLA President 2011-2012
- Remarks, Mellor Langford, Executive Board Liaison to District 8
- Report, Rhoda Goldberg, Texas Library Political Action Committee
(http://www.tlpac.org/) - By-Laws / Operating Procedures Discussion
- http://www.txla.org/groups/D8-Conference (Discussion documents to be posted here; also available at conference)
- Funding Information
- Application and Guidelines (http://www.txla.org/groups/D8-docs)
- District 8 Support for TALL Texans and other TLA programs
- Recognition of Members
- Future Projects/Ideas
- District 8 Member Participation in TLA Annual Conference (Houston 2012)
- Geocaching
- Thriller/Zombie Walk
- Creation of logo, graphics for the District
- District 8 Member Participation in TLA Annual Conference (Houston 2012)
- Door Prizes
- Adjourn
Couldn't attend in-person? For the first time at a District meeting, two sessions were webcast LIVE!
PowerPoint presentations with recordings of the original speakers are also available at the links below.
- Marketing 101, Presented by Alex Simons, University of Houston Libraries
- The Latest E-Book Trends, Presented by Linda Stevens and Mike Saperstein, Harris County Public Library
Or, follow the District Conference on Twitter using the hashtag #txlaD8!
Registration is now open! Members should log in with their TLA credentials. Non-members will need to create a free account before registering for the conference.