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Barb Svoboda

Dakota County Library
Branch Manager
Farmington, MN
Websitehttps://co.dakota.mn.us/libraries
Wednesday, October 4
 

7:00am CDT

Breakfast Ballrooms A-D

7:50am CDT

Welcome to the Conference - featuring Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz Ballrooms A-DJulia Carlis

8:00am CDT

Expanding (Not Just Protecting) the Right to Read: Librarianship in the Age of Censorship Ballrooms A-DNick Higgins

8:50am CDT

Break: Exhibits open & Silent Auction Ballroom Concourse

9:20am CDT

Essential elements for successful change management. Meeting Room 4Emily Waitz Teen Takeover: how to deal when teens takeover the library. Meeting Room 9Meg Deignan • Stefannye Slaughter • Natalie Eierman

10:35am CDT

PLD Division Meeting Meeting Room 5

11:35am CDT

Lunch Ballrooms A-D

12:00pm CDT

2023 MLA Awards Presentation Ballrooms A-D

1:00pm CDT

BPL Featured Session: Books Unbanned: A Blueprint for Your Library Meeting Room 13/14Amy Mikel • Nick Higgins Creating a robotics program Meeting Room 9Laura Ehling Growing a Healthy Library Culture Meeting Room 6Jeannie Dilger

2:15pm CDT

Author Panel (John Coy, Shannon Gibney, Molly Beth Griffin, Naomi Kritzer, Mindy Mejia, Sun Yung Shin) Meeting Room 5Mary Berning • Christie Kess Gearing Up for MILE 2024: MLA Institute for Leadership Excellence Meeting Room 8Amelia Birkholz • Margot Barry • Liza Shafto • Cat Stricklan Now Banned at Your School Library: Our Journey through Challenges and Policy Meeting Room 6Linda Dierks • Erin Rathke What All Can You Do with Canva? Meeting Room 10Jen Legatt You're in Charge, Now What? Meeting Room 9Margaret Stone • Maggie Snow

3:05pm CDT

Break: Exhibits, Silent Auction, & Snacks Ballroom Concourse

3:35pm CDT

Beyond Readers' Advisory: Building a Culture of Reading Meeting Room 8Debra Geiger • Allison Hackenmiller • Abbey Engebretson Greening Your Library: Utilizing Outdoor Spaces and Bringing the Outside In Meeting Room 2Karen Mackey • Laura Mesjak • Honora Rodriguez To Do, Doing, Done: Using Visual Thinking Tools to Facilitate Teamwork Meeting Room 11Carla Pfahl

4:45pm CDT

MLA Membership Meeting Meeting Room 13/14Julia Carlis
 
Thursday, October 5
 

7:00am CDT

Breakfast Ballrooms A-D

8:00am CDT

Banned Books Show-and-Tell Meeting Room 4Helen Burke • Heather Biedermann Disaster! A Tabletop Simulation Meeting Room 12Maggie Snow • Adelaide Paris Minnesota Center for the Book Year in Review Meeting Room 8Alayne Hopkins The Literary Traveler: Bookish Destinations and What Libraries Can Learn from Them Meeting Room 5Stacy Lienemann

8:50am CDT

Break: Exhibits open & Silent Auction Ballroom Concourse

9:20am CDT

Beyond Outreach: taking an activist approach to engage and empower the whole community Meeting Room 7Natalie Draper • Angelica Linder Come Fly With Me! Birds, Bees and Butterflies Cohabitating with Libraries Meeting Room 3Jennifer Dietrich • Amy Simso Dean Community Pantries in Washington County Library Meeting Room 8Jessi Schulte-Honstad • Tina Kaple Saying Less, Asking More: Coaching Your Team to Greatness Meeting Room 2Carol Jackson • Stacey Hendren • Maggie Snow

10:10am CDT

George Latimer Central Library Innovation Lab Tour George Latimer Central Library, Saint Paul Public Library

10:45am CDT

DEI Team Policy Audit & Implementation Meeting Room 9Erin Balerud • Colleen Gordon Taking a job as a library director: how others have navigated the change Meeting Room 12Kelly McBride • Krista Ross • Megan Krueger • Daniel Mick • Melissa Whatley

11:45am CDT

Lunch Ballrooms A-D

12:10pm CDT

Best of Both Worlds: Building Community Online and Off Ballrooms A-DDionne Sims

2:20pm CDT

Author Panel (Allen Eskens, Nina Hamza, David Mura, Melody Tenhoff (Nova DuBois), Anne Ursu) Meeting Room 5Mary Berning • Christie Kess Empowering Youth: Reading and DEI Meeting Room 2Julie VanWatermulen • Laura Probst • Colleen Egan • Dan Dooher Friends of Friends: Reaching Your Community in Unique Ways Through Events and Partnerships Meeting Room 7Laurel M. Hall • Sheila DeChantal

3:10pm CDT

Break: Exhibits, Silient Auction, & Snack Ballroom Concourse

3:40pm CDT

Everything is on fire, but you are doing great! Trust me! Meeting Room 5Annie Wrigg Journey to the Genders of the Earth: Intro to Gender Diversity Meeting Room 6Megan Demeuse • Ozhaawashkogiizhig Devine