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'''Advocacy & Activism'''
 
'''Advocacy & Activism'''
  
Power Up:  Training for School Library Association Advocacy
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'''Power Up:  Training for School Library Association Advocacy'''
  
 
Want to optimize school library impact? This workshop focuses on the role of school libraries and their  associations with particular reference to functions in communicating,  marketing, and advocacy for the increased importance of school  libraries. The workshop draws on several communication tools developed  by library associations, and draws from IFLA's new school library  advocacy training.
 
Want to optimize school library impact? This workshop focuses on the role of school libraries and their  associations with particular reference to functions in communicating,  marketing, and advocacy for the increased importance of school  libraries. The workshop draws on several communication tools developed  by library associations, and draws from IFLA's new school library  advocacy training.
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Learning Outcomes:
 
Learning Outcomes:
 
• Define advocacy, and explain how an advocacy role can benefit their school library association.
 
• Define advocacy, and explain how an advocacy role can benefit their school library association.
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• Identify key success factors and challenges in developing an advocacy role for their school library association.
 
• Identify key success factors and challenges in developing an advocacy role for their school library association.
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• Develop an advocacy plan primarily through the use of a library association case study
 
• Develop an advocacy plan primarily through the use of a library association case study
Programming & Outreach
 
  
Teaching Teens How to Fail: Library Spaces and the Maker Movement
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'''Programming & Outreach'''
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'''Teaching Teens How to Fail: Library Spaces and the Maker Movement'''
  
 
The maker movement has already infiltrated many libraries. But who is a maker? What does s/he do? The Free Library of Philadelphia has been offering maker programs, from e-textiles to printed circuits to tactile media. Much of the philosophy behind making is mentoring youth in tinkering and experimentation. We are committed to spreading the gospel of why it's important to fail, learn, and try again as integral to the making and learning process.
 
The maker movement has already infiltrated many libraries. But who is a maker? What does s/he do? The Free Library of Philadelphia has been offering maker programs, from e-textiles to printed circuits to tactile media. Much of the philosophy behind making is mentoring youth in tinkering and experimentation. We are committed to spreading the gospel of why it's important to fail, learn, and try again as integral to the making and learning process.
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Learning Outcomes:
 
Learning Outcomes:
 
• Participants will have a better understanding of the maker movement and how to get involved?
 
• Participants will have a better understanding of the maker movement and how to get involved?
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• Participants will explore low-barrier entry to maker activities (low-cost technology)
 
• Participants will explore low-barrier entry to maker activities (low-cost technology)
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• Participants will explore proven mentorship practices
 
• Participants will explore proven mentorship practices
  
Think BIG: Planning Large Events for Teens and BY Teens
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'''Think BIG: Planning Large Events for Teens and BY Teens'''
  
 
Is your Teen Advisory Board getting a little, um, bored? Learn how to turn a TAB into an active Teen Planning Committee that empowers teens to think creatively, learn program planning and organizational skills, and helps teens develop from volunteers into leaders. Learn how you and your new TPC can plan big events that transform your library from a building to a party and draw a new teen audience.  
 
Is your Teen Advisory Board getting a little, um, bored? Learn how to turn a TAB into an active Teen Planning Committee that empowers teens to think creatively, learn program planning and organizational skills, and helps teens develop from volunteers into leaders. Learn how you and your new TPC can plan big events that transform your library from a building to a party and draw a new teen audience.  
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Learning Outcomes:
 
Learning Outcomes:
 
• Learning how to develop an active Teen Planning Committee
 
• Learning how to develop an active Teen Planning Committee
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• Learning how to successfully plan and implement big programs using teens
 
• Learning how to successfully plan and implement big programs using teens
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• Learning how to advocate for larger teen programming at your library
 
• Learning how to advocate for larger teen programming at your library
  
The Gamification of College Prep through Badges
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The Gamification of College Prep through Badges'''
  
 
Virtual badges are all the rage, but does it seem too daunting to use them as you plan your teen programming? Come see how the Free Library of Philadelphia uses Badges to help teens get into college. Explore how we created a social network environment to make the college prep process manageable and fun. Topics to be discussed include: the gamification of learning, creating badges and quests, and adapting this model for multiple programs.  
 
Virtual badges are all the rage, but does it seem too daunting to use them as you plan your teen programming? Come see how the Free Library of Philadelphia uses Badges to help teens get into college. Explore how we created a social network environment to make the college prep process manageable and fun. Topics to be discussed include: the gamification of learning, creating badges and quests, and adapting this model for multiple programs.  
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Learning Outcomes:
 
Learning Outcomes:
 
• Participants will understand how to use badges to support programming
 
• Participants will understand how to use badges to support programming
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• Participants will understand how teens respond to quests, badges, and the social network experience
 
• Participants will understand how teens respond to quests, badges, and the social network experience
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• Participants will have access to a College Prep badge system they can use with their own teens
 
• Participants will have access to a College Prep badge system they can use with their own teens
Energizing Teen Creativity by Letting Go
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'''Energizing Teen Creativity by Letting Go'''
  
 
Learn how the Visalia Branch Library 'let go' of conventional summer reading program methods and let 10 teens plan their own program. In just one hour, these teens had the frame work laid out for a murder mystery summer.  Come see how they planned programming, wrote scripts, acted in videos, directed, and filmed each other.  Two of the teens also created all the graphics used for the websites, posters, bookmarks and t-shirts.  Summer 2013 was just the beginning!
 
Learn how the Visalia Branch Library 'let go' of conventional summer reading program methods and let 10 teens plan their own program. In just one hour, these teens had the frame work laid out for a murder mystery summer.  Come see how they planned programming, wrote scripts, acted in videos, directed, and filmed each other.  Two of the teens also created all the graphics used for the websites, posters, bookmarks and t-shirts.  Summer 2013 was just the beginning!
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Learning Outcomes:
 
Learning Outcomes:
 
• Engaging teens in their own interests
 
• Engaging teens in their own interests
• Teaching without structured ciriculum
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• Teaching without structured curriculum
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• Learning when to take a step back
 
• Learning when to take a step back
Dynamic Duos: Collaboration between School and Public Library Systems
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'''Dynamic Duos: Collaboration between School and Public Library Systems'''
 
School Teacher-Librarians and Children's/Teen Librarians in public libraries have much to offer each other -- experience, skills, resources, audience -- but realizing a successful collaboration can be difficult. We will explore collaboration from both sides, giving you the know-how to really take advantage of your colleagues (in a good way). We'll present the results of a national survey and present multiple models of mutual support. Improve every aspect of your library services from your collection to programming while doing less work and having more fun!
 
School Teacher-Librarians and Children's/Teen Librarians in public libraries have much to offer each other -- experience, skills, resources, audience -- but realizing a successful collaboration can be difficult. We will explore collaboration from both sides, giving you the know-how to really take advantage of your colleagues (in a good way). We'll present the results of a national survey and present multiple models of mutual support. Improve every aspect of your library services from your collection to programming while doing less work and having more fun!
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Learning Outcomes:
 
Learning Outcomes:
 
• Understand the benefits of collaboration between schools and public libraries and begin to develop a seamless user-experience for patrons of the two library systems.
 
• Understand the benefits of collaboration between schools and public libraries and begin to develop a seamless user-experience for patrons of the two library systems.
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• Begin a new collaboration or expand an existing collaboration to better serve teen patrons and help them become lifelong learners.
 
• Begin a new collaboration or expand an existing collaboration to better serve teen patrons and help them become lifelong learners.
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• Make new friends and learn how to take advantage of other library professionals in a mutually beneficial manner.
 
• Make new friends and learn how to take advantage of other library professionals in a mutually beneficial manner.
“Teens, Turntables, and Tater-Tots: Lunchroom Outreach with CLP - BAM! (Books and More)
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'''Teens, Turntables, and Tater-Tots: Lunchroom Outreach with CLP - BAM! (Books and More)'''
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Is your outreach to classrooms dwindling? Ask your schools to “do lunch”! Join librarians from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s award-winning school outreach program CLP - BAM! as we demonstrate how to develop a cafeteria-based outreach initiative on any scale or budget. Learn how you can give students “a taste” of what your library offers by providing readers’ advisory, circulation, card registration, craft programs, music, gaming, and more to entire school populations—all during lunch!
 
Is your outreach to classrooms dwindling? Ask your schools to “do lunch”! Join librarians from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s award-winning school outreach program CLP - BAM! as we demonstrate how to develop a cafeteria-based outreach initiative on any scale or budget. Learn how you can give students “a taste” of what your library offers by providing readers’ advisory, circulation, card registration, craft programs, music, gaming, and more to entire school populations—all during lunch!
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Learning Outcomes:
 
Learning Outcomes:
 
• Gain an understanding of the overall structure and success of the CLP-BAM! outreach model, as well as how it can be adapted to any school or community outreach situation.
 
• Gain an understanding of the overall structure and success of the CLP-BAM! outreach model, as well as how it can be adapted to any school or community outreach situation.
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• Learn how to propose, strategize, and implement a lunchroom outreach program on a scale that fits your needs.
 
• Learn how to propose, strategize, and implement a lunchroom outreach program on a scale that fits your needs.
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• Become familiar with a variety of possible outreach activities--crafts, music, technology, games--through experiential learning.
 
• Become familiar with a variety of possible outreach activities--crafts, music, technology, games--through experiential learning.
Connected Learning in The Labs: How Teen Interest Informs Programming
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'''Connected Learning in The Labs: How Teen Interest Informs Programming'''
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Join mentors from The Labs @ CLP (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s teen learning lab) in an interactive workshop focused on the process of creating interest-based programming for teenagers in a Connected Learning environment. Whether you have a learning lab in your library or are simply looking for innovative approaches to spice up your teen programming, you will benefit from this collaborative discussion of industry best-practices in practice.
 
Join mentors from The Labs @ CLP (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s teen learning lab) in an interactive workshop focused on the process of creating interest-based programming for teenagers in a Connected Learning environment. Whether you have a learning lab in your library or are simply looking for innovative approaches to spice up your teen programming, you will benefit from this collaborative discussion of industry best-practices in practice.
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Learning Outcomes:
 
Learning Outcomes:
 
• Attendees will gain key concepts of Connected Learning and HOMAGO
 
• Attendees will gain key concepts of Connected Learning and HOMAGO
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• Attendees will simulate the collaborative workshop creation process of The Labs @ CLP
 
• Attendees will simulate the collaborative workshop creation process of The Labs @ CLP
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• Attendees will learn strategies for adapting programming to teens of various skill levels
 
• Attendees will learn strategies for adapting programming to teens of various skill levels
Reaching out to teens
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I am a librarian at a rural library system that serves many small towns in the county.  Many teens are not able to reach the library physically, so we have innovated new ways to reach out to them.  This includes visiting the schools for book talks, mobile checkout stations at the schools, and an online/app summer reading program
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'''Reaching out to teens'''
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I am a librarian at a rural library system that serves many small towns in the county.  Many teens are not able to reach the library physically, so we have innovated new ways to reach out to them.  This includes visiting the schools for book talks, mobile checkout stations at the schools, and an online/app summer reading program.
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Learning Outcomes:
 
Learning Outcomes:
 
• Ideas for partnering with schools
 
• Ideas for partnering with schools
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• Online outreach ideas
 
• Online outreach ideas
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• Communicating with teens
 
• Communicating with teens
Inclusive and Fun! Accessible Programming for All Ages and All Abilities
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'''Inclusive and Fun! Accessible Programming for All Ages and All Abilities'''
  
 
In this presentation, we will discuss a variety of programs that encourage creating and exploring for all young adults, from the typically developing to those with disabilities. Programs will range from artistic to scientific and will include methods for teach key elements of Common Core standards through various mediums. Information including resources and how to adapt previously successful programs to be inclusive will also be provided.
 
In this presentation, we will discuss a variety of programs that encourage creating and exploring for all young adults, from the typically developing to those with disabilities. Programs will range from artistic to scientific and will include methods for teach key elements of Common Core standards through various mediums. Information including resources and how to adapt previously successful programs to be inclusive will also be provided.

Revision as of 07:31, 24 July 2013

More detailed 2014 Annual Conference information will be available soon!

Contents

Conference News

Click on "Conference News" above for general information about attending an ALA conference, including tips on finding funding for attending the conference. For specific, up to date information about the ALA Conference beyond YALSA's slate of programs and events, please visit the ALA Annual Conference Website.

Registration, Travel and Hotel Information

  • Bundled registration for ALA Annual and ALA Midwinter will open on Sept. 1.
  • United Airlines is offering special meeting discounts for attendees of the ALA Annual Conference. Simply call the United Special Meeting Desk at 800-521-4041 and refer to Meeting ID Number 500CR to receive a 2-10% discount off applicable fares, including First Class. If you purchase your ticket at least 30 days prior to travel, you will receive an additional 5% discount. This special offer applies to travel on domestic segments of all United Airlines, United Express, TED and United code share flights (UA*) operated by US Airways, US Airways Express and Air Canada. There are no fees to use the 800 number. International attendees will receive a 10% discount off the lowest applicable fare (excluding First Class), or a 15% discount off the fully refundable, unrestricted coach fare when they call their local United Airlines reservation number and refer to meeting ID number 500CR. An additional 5% discount will apply when tickets are purchased at least 60 days in advance of your travel dates. Discounts apply to United and Lufthansa (code share) flights. You can also make your reservation online at www.united.com, using ALA promotion code 500CR (click on "More Search Options" to enter the code).
  • Consider staying with local Las Vegas residents who are renting out futons and private bedrooms. They have individual reviews too.

Shuttles at ALA Las Vegas

A free shuttle will run from McCormick Place to many of the official ALA hotels.

Roommates

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Convention Center Information

  • Location: The 2014 ALA Annual Conference will be held in Chicago's McCormick Place convention center at 2301 S. Lake Shore Dr. This is a pretty huge convention center, so be sure you know where your meeting rooms are, or you could waste a lot of time wandering around.
  • Maps: You can access the web for maps and floor plans of McCormick Place at www.mccormickplace.com (click on Facilities, then Floor Plans).

YALSA Programs & Ticketed Events

Margaret A. Edwards Luncheon McCormick Place Convention Center, N227b, 11:30am-1:00pm Saturday, June 29th, tickets are $64 Come join us for lunch and listen to the winner of the 2013 Margaret A. Edwards Award speak about their writing. The award honors their significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens. The annual award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by School Library Journal magazine.

YA Author Coffee Klatch Tickets are $25 Enjoy coffee and meet with YALSA's award winning authors! This informal coffee klatch will give you an opportunity to meet authors who have appeared on one of YALSA’s six annual selected lists or have received one of YALSA's five literary awards. Librarians will sit at a table and every 3 or 4 minutes, a new author will arrive at your table to talk!


Michael L. Printz Program and Reception Tickets are $34 Come listen to the 2014 Michael L. Printz award-winning author and honor book authors speak about their writing, followed by a reception. The annual award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by Booklist magazine.

To add ticketed events to your existing registration, or to register for the Friday pre-conferences without also registering for the main ALA event:(1) By phone: Call ALA at 1-800-974-3084 & ask to add an event to your existing registration; (2) Online: Add an event to your existing registration by going to http://ala13.ala.org/register-now. Use your log in & password to access your existing registration & add events in the “Your Events” section (screen 6). Then simply check out and pay for the events you’ve added. Contact Nichole Gilbert at ngilbert@ala.org or 1-800-545-2433, x4387 for help.

Proposed Programs

Advocacy & Activism

Power Up: Training for School Library Association Advocacy

Want to optimize school library impact? This workshop focuses on the role of school libraries and their associations with particular reference to functions in communicating, marketing, and advocacy for the increased importance of school libraries. The workshop draws on several communication tools developed by library associations, and draws from IFLA's new school library advocacy training.

Learning Outcomes: • Define advocacy, and explain how an advocacy role can benefit their school library association.

• Identify key success factors and challenges in developing an advocacy role for their school library association.

• Develop an advocacy plan primarily through the use of a library association case study

Programming & Outreach

Teaching Teens How to Fail: Library Spaces and the Maker Movement

The maker movement has already infiltrated many libraries. But who is a maker? What does s/he do? The Free Library of Philadelphia has been offering maker programs, from e-textiles to printed circuits to tactile media. Much of the philosophy behind making is mentoring youth in tinkering and experimentation. We are committed to spreading the gospel of why it's important to fail, learn, and try again as integral to the making and learning process.

Learning Outcomes: • Participants will have a better understanding of the maker movement and how to get involved?

• Participants will explore low-barrier entry to maker activities (low-cost technology)

• Participants will explore proven mentorship practices


Think BIG: Planning Large Events for Teens and BY Teens

Is your Teen Advisory Board getting a little, um, bored? Learn how to turn a TAB into an active Teen Planning Committee that empowers teens to think creatively, learn program planning and organizational skills, and helps teens develop from volunteers into leaders. Learn how you and your new TPC can plan big events that transform your library from a building to a party and draw a new teen audience.

Learning Outcomes: • Learning how to develop an active Teen Planning Committee

• Learning how to successfully plan and implement big programs using teens

• Learning how to advocate for larger teen programming at your library

The Gamification of College Prep through Badges

Virtual badges are all the rage, but does it seem too daunting to use them as you plan your teen programming? Come see how the Free Library of Philadelphia uses Badges to help teens get into college. Explore how we created a social network environment to make the college prep process manageable and fun. Topics to be discussed include: the gamification of learning, creating badges and quests, and adapting this model for multiple programs.

Learning Outcomes: • Participants will understand how to use badges to support programming

• Participants will understand how teens respond to quests, badges, and the social network experience

• Participants will have access to a College Prep badge system they can use with their own teens

Energizing Teen Creativity by Letting Go

Learn how the Visalia Branch Library 'let go' of conventional summer reading program methods and let 10 teens plan their own program. In just one hour, these teens had the frame work laid out for a murder mystery summer. Come see how they planned programming, wrote scripts, acted in videos, directed, and filmed each other. Two of the teens also created all the graphics used for the websites, posters, bookmarks and t-shirts. Summer 2013 was just the beginning!


Learning Outcomes: • Engaging teens in their own interests

• Teaching without structured curriculum

• Learning when to take a step back

Dynamic Duos: Collaboration between School and Public Library Systems School Teacher-Librarians and Children's/Teen Librarians in public libraries have much to offer each other -- experience, skills, resources, audience -- but realizing a successful collaboration can be difficult. We will explore collaboration from both sides, giving you the know-how to really take advantage of your colleagues (in a good way). We'll present the results of a national survey and present multiple models of mutual support. Improve every aspect of your library services from your collection to programming while doing less work and having more fun!

Learning Outcomes: • Understand the benefits of collaboration between schools and public libraries and begin to develop a seamless user-experience for patrons of the two library systems.

• Begin a new collaboration or expand an existing collaboration to better serve teen patrons and help them become lifelong learners.

• Make new friends and learn how to take advantage of other library professionals in a mutually beneficial manner.

Teens, Turntables, and Tater-Tots: Lunchroom Outreach with CLP - BAM! (Books and More)

Is your outreach to classrooms dwindling? Ask your schools to “do lunch”! Join librarians from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s award-winning school outreach program CLP - BAM! as we demonstrate how to develop a cafeteria-based outreach initiative on any scale or budget. Learn how you can give students “a taste” of what your library offers by providing readers’ advisory, circulation, card registration, craft programs, music, gaming, and more to entire school populations—all during lunch!


Learning Outcomes: • Gain an understanding of the overall structure and success of the CLP-BAM! outreach model, as well as how it can be adapted to any school or community outreach situation.

• Learn how to propose, strategize, and implement a lunchroom outreach program on a scale that fits your needs.

• Become familiar with a variety of possible outreach activities--crafts, music, technology, games--through experiential learning.

Connected Learning in The Labs: How Teen Interest Informs Programming

Join mentors from The Labs @ CLP (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s teen learning lab) in an interactive workshop focused on the process of creating interest-based programming for teenagers in a Connected Learning environment. Whether you have a learning lab in your library or are simply looking for innovative approaches to spice up your teen programming, you will benefit from this collaborative discussion of industry best-practices in practice.

Learning Outcomes: • Attendees will gain key concepts of Connected Learning and HOMAGO

• Attendees will simulate the collaborative workshop creation process of The Labs @ CLP

• Attendees will learn strategies for adapting programming to teens of various skill levels

Reaching out to teens

I am a librarian at a rural library system that serves many small towns in the county. Many teens are not able to reach the library physically, so we have innovated new ways to reach out to them. This includes visiting the schools for book talks, mobile checkout stations at the schools, and an online/app summer reading program.

Learning Outcomes: • Ideas for partnering with schools

• Online outreach ideas

• Communicating with teens

Inclusive and Fun! Accessible Programming for All Ages and All Abilities

In this presentation, we will discuss a variety of programs that encourage creating and exploring for all young adults, from the typically developing to those with disabilities. Programs will range from artistic to scientific and will include methods for teach key elements of Common Core standards through various mediums. Information including resources and how to adapt previously successful programs to be inclusive will also be provided.

Learning Outcomes: • Attendees will learn outreach best practices for reaching young adults in their communities who would benefit from accessible programming. • Participants will know resources for networking and exploring new program ideas for the future. • After participation in this program, one will be able to understand the components of a successful accessible program in order to create their own or modify current programming. The Art of the Author Visit: Connecting Teens with their Favorite Authors Want to engage your library’s teens with stand-out author events? Get successful techniques from two youth services librarians who regularly host high-profile authors at their libraries, and hear the insider’s perspective on what makes an ideal library visit from popular YA authors Leigh Bardugo, Jessica Brody, and Lauren Kate. You’ll learn how to build bookseller partnerships, leverage social media to connect with authors and attendees, and put on polished author programs that wow your teens. Learning Outcomes: • Best practices for positioning your library as a trusted venue for author visits: building partnerships with local booksellers, making connections with authors, and contacting publicists • Effective marketing techniques for author events: local outreach strategies and leveraging social media to build buzz • Strategies for running a truly excellent event from beginning to end: keeping the author happy, encouraging interactivity, and expecting the unexpected Research & Best Practices We F'ed Up, But We Fixed It: Thriving When Things Go Wrong "Failure" doesn't have to be the "f-word." We all fear the program that no one comes to, but we're not alone in failing, and in that empty room is a lesson that can make future efforts successful. A panel of librarians will discuss initiatives that didn't turn out as planned and how they recovered from their mistakes and went on to flourish. Participants will also have the opportunity to workshop their own failures into successes.

Learning Outcomes: • Participants will have increased confidence in taking risks • Participants will be empowered to make a case for risk-taking to administration • Participants will have improved their adaptability and ability to recover from failure Utilizing the CCSS and Superheroes with Great Power and Great Responsibility The Common Core State Standards ask teachers and students to engage in embedded, small research projects that help connect to more nonfiction and informational texts in order to be able to effectively present information. The objectives of this research project are to offer students the opportunity to engage with high-level, analytical informational texts, with which they will find engaging – the analysis and critique of the concept of superheroes and how they influence of popular culture, stemming from their early origins in mythology.

Learning Outcomes:

• building academic resources for high interest topics • creating affinity spaces for shared common studies • multiple techniques for presenting research projects Save it or Scrap it-Tips for Program Success Spent lots of time and money planning that perfect program that no one came to? Not sure why, how to fix it, or whether to scrap it? Worry no more. We’ll share our evaluation toolkit with you. This visual program will show you how to set goals and evaluate your monthly, quarterly, and annual events so that you can provide the best program ever while attaining your desired teen participation. Learning Outcomes: • Attendees will learn how to identify causes of low participation. • Attendees will learn how to devise a plan to increase participation. • Attendees will receive and learn to use our toolkit consisting of several types of evaluations. Teen Services Expansion at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – The Whys, Hows, and Research on Impact CLP has had the opportunity to dream big to serve teens in the public library. The results of our dreams include a new vision, renovation of spaces, and increased staff, programming, and outreach in two locations. Topics covered include: research based thought processes behind the project, specifics of the expansion, and results of the first year of the longitudinal study conducted with University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Learning in Out of School Environments.

Learning Outcomes: • Participants will learn of vision for serving teens in the public library, via outreach, in house programming, and a teen volunteer program. • Participants will learn of a research based approach to creating teen friendly environments and spaces in their library. • Participants will learn of the ways in which Carnegie Library is working with research partner. Also, the preliminary results of the first year and a half of a five year longitudinal study on the impact of an expanded Teen Services program in two locations. Teen Spaces (physical & virtual) Sins and Secrets: Teens, Technology, and the Library This program will explore multiple aspects of the teen digital experience. Content creation, privacy, cyberbullying, and digital relationships will be considered in terms of library services. Relevant YA literature will be used as a prompt for discussion. Experts and popular authors will be utilized to illuminate the teen experience and demonstrate just how ubiquitous technology and digital relationships are in the lives of teens.

Learning Outcomes:

• Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the teen experience, especially with regard to digital identity and communication • Those in attendance will understand philosophies relating to, and be able to create policies to promote, productive and responsible online behavior and content creation • Librarians will feel confident in managing digital relationships with teens

Information Literacy in Minecraft

Virtual worlds and gaming have provided innovative opportunities for youth to connect and learn across distance in creative ways. Minecraft is a virtual world game where students can build and create content while interacting across distance. This session will share a student-led project in Minecraft which promotes digital citizenship and cyber safety online. In an after-school club, students built a digital citizenship library. Learning Outcomes: • Attendees will visualize the immersive learning and creative potential of Minecraft for a variety of purposes. • Attendees will have a better understanding of system requirements and necessary skills for implementing a virtual world gaming club (such as Minecraft) for educational purposes. • Attendees will share information literacy needs through an interactive session and a demonstration of new formats for experiential learning. Multi-Platform Reading for Seamless & Participatory Literacy Experiences Young Adult Literature (YAL) is the fastest-growing area of publication in the book industry. Students are discovering that YAL speaks to their interests while teachers are discovering that it can be used to build better readers. This is an opportunity to learn how to capture the energy of YAL for engagement and instruction through varying literacy experiences. This session will explore multi-modal learning through various media sites, such as fan fiction and participatory literature.

Learning Outcomes:

• knowledge of seamless literacy • knowledge of readers' online affinity spaces • participatory learning strategies Teen Spaces 201: What’s Next for Teen Spaces in Libraries Learning labs, technology centers, teen centers, makerspaces – there are no shortage of great ideas for creating spaces for teens in libraries. This session is an opportunity to learn more about what these spaces have in common, how to flexibly and creatively create spaces for teens in your library that meet a variety of budget needs and to articulate and learn how to gain support for creating these kind of spaces in your library. Learning Outcomes: • Participants would develop an improved understanding of the variety of new and emerging models in library spaces for teens • Participants will improve their understanding of the common learning goals in these spaces • Participants will improve their skill in articulating their vision -- and identifying practical next steps - around spaces for teens in their libraries Young Adult Literature/Readers’ Advisory Uncommon Poetry for the Common Core: Poetry Programs for Tweens and Teens This session features published poets (Janet Wong, Marilyn Nelson, Margarita Engle) sharing from their works along with perspectives on teaching poetry while incorporating Common Core standards at the middle school level: exploring the craft and structure of poetry, poetic forms and types, figurative language, graphic elements, making connections with multi-media adaptations of poetry. We'll demonstrate how poetry speaks to middle school readers poised between childhood and adulthood, with approaches that are engaging, interactive, and incremental. Learning Outcomes: • Gain ideas for poetry programs for tweens and teens • Develop familiarity with Common Core standards related to literature and poetry • Become familiar with print and digital resources for sharing poetry with young people Stranger than Fiction: Reader's Advisory for Nonfiction Nonfiction for teens has started to come into its own as something beyond report books. YALSA has an award recognizing outstanding nonfiction books and new Common Core standards stress nonfiction titles. But how do you match a reader to the right title? Learn how to apply basic reader’s advisory principles to nonfiction books and learn new ones. Discover how to find new and noteworthy titles, and great nonfiction read-alikes for popular fiction titles.

Learning Outcomes: • Feel comfortable recommending nonfiction titles to teen readers • Know of resources to discover quality nonfiction titles • Know how to nonfiction reading ties in the new common core standards and how quality RA can support curriculum without killing reader interest Get Real: The Truth About Selection Committees Serving on a selection or award committee is a professional goal for many, but the process often seems a little mysterious. Veterans of several committees will discuss the paths to selection committee participation , virtual vs. in-person committees, working within the charge and criteria, and workload and time management. We’ll also discuss the challenges of serving in the social media era including secrecy and dealing with unsolicited feedback. Learning Outcomes: • Familiarity with the range of selection and award committees • Knowledge of the commitment and workload for selection committees • Understanding of how committees operate within criteria and charge Not Your Mother’s Reader’s Advisory: Radical RA for YA Move beyond standard genre book lists and get creative in this innovative program designed to get attendees thinking about reader’s advisory in new ways. Discover how to use and apply traditional RA elements to the world of today's teens, who are online, connected, and acutely aware of publishing trends. We’ll delve into what we’re seeing online and off and how these can be implemented into dynamic, fresh, and radical RA to expand your toolkits for connecting your YA readers with books they want to read. Learning Outcomes: • Learn how today’s teens discover their next reads. • Explore how social media and other online resources reach teen readers. • Utilize the tools and resources already available in order to develop innovative and fun RA at the library both online and off. Sci Fi for Librarians Who Don't Like Sci Fi When you hear Sci Fi do you automatically think of Klingons, light sabers, and robots? Does sitting down for an all-day Star Trek marathon make you cringe? Well, never fear – just because you don’t like Science Fiction doesn’t mean you can’t recommend Science Fiction. Sci Fi on the Sly will provide middle school, junior high, and high school librarians assistance with readers’ advisory and collection development in the area of Science Fiction literature. Learning Outcomes: • List several popular YA Science Fiction titles and authors. • Locate blogs and websites to assist with book selection. • Recommend Science Fiction books to tweens and teens who don’t like Sci Fi. Youth Participation Care and Feeding of Teen Volunteers Presentation / discussion on how best to recruit, retain and recognize your teen volunteers. Learning Outcomes: • Increased knowledge of how to recruit teen volunteers • Increased knowledge of how to retain teen volunteers • Increased knowledge of how to recognize teen volunteer Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: Using Screencasting to Engage Youth in Creating Media Reviews These days, everyone's a critic, it seems. Teens like to share their opinions about music, movies, books, games, TV shows, sports and fashion. In this program, you'll learn how to help young people create a series of screencast video reviews using free and easy-to-use software. You'll learn how to create your own screencast, even if you've never made one before. Discuss how to create an informal network of youth video reviewers who offer their opinions about new resources at your library. Learning Outcomes: • Learn how to create a screencast media review • Consider how learning to review supports adolescent development • Explore how to use social media to promote youth media reviews Keeping It Critical: The Possibilities and Perils of Participatory Learning and Critical Literacies in the Library This presentation uses a critical literacy lens to unpack opportunities and challenges that libraries face in an era of participatory culture: from remixing videos on YouTube to building fantastical worlds in Minecraft, students today are producing media in ways that weren’t possible before. Through collaboration with session participants, we will build a framework of participatory learning to help librarians empower marginalized youth. With school spaces becoming increasingly restrictive due to nationwide budget cuts & standardization, we use this framework to help broker powerful teacher-librarian partnerships. Learning Outcomes: • Participants will leave with a framework for participatory library programing that they helped develop. • Participants will identify strategies for supporting critical literacies within libraries, with numerous hands-on examples demonstrated. • Participants will leave with a personalized asset map of the skills and spaces for growth within their own library spaces to build upon beyond the ALA 2014 conference.

YALSA Governance at Conference

YALSA's Board of Directors has three meetings at the ALA conference. Board meetings are open meetings and any individual who is registered for the conference may sit in on the meetings. Also, look for Board members at YALSA's booth (#941), Happy Hour and other social events, where attendees are welcome to chat with board members in those settings. The first 10 minutes of each meeting are set aside for visitors and board members to use as an 'open forum' where anyone can share information, ask questions, etc. The meeting schedule is as follows:

  • Board of Directors Meeting I, Saturday June 29, 1:30 to 5:30, convention center, room S504bc
  • Board of Directors Meeting II, Sunday June 30, 4:30 to 5:30, convention center, room S504bc
  • Board of Directors Meeting III, Monday July 1, 3:00 to 4:30, convention center, room S504bc

Please note: the Executive Committee I meeting from 10:30 - 11:30 on Fri. has been moved to ALA headquarters at 50 E. Huron St., due to the parade and rally taking place in the Loop at the same time.

The Board agenda and documents are finalized two weeks prior to the conference and posted online. Anyone interested in viewing the agenda for the Board meeting, as well as the documents that accompany the agenda items, may view or download them from the Governance section of the YALSA web site. To learn about past Board meetings and actions, visit the Governance page on YALSA's web site to read the minutes from past meetings. If you have questions about governance matters or want to share an idea, comment or question, please feel free to contact YALSA'sPresident, or Beth Yoke. To stay up to date on the latest governance and Board issues, check out the YALSAblog. The President will post regular updates during and after the conference.

YALSA Online at Conference

  • The official hashtag for the conference is #ala2013. When tweeting about YALSA at the conference, be sure to add @yalsa as well
  • The YALSAblog will cover some events at the conference.

YALSA in the Exhibits

  • YALSA will have a member booth in the Exhibit Hall. It will be inside the ALA Membership Pavilion.

YALSA Office Area & Staff On-Site

  • ALA provides an office area to all units where members can go to get badge ribbons, fliers, etc. Location TBD.
  • Staff are typically not in the office area, but are assisting with the various member programs and meetings.

Other Events of Interest

ONGOING

Kitchen Table Conversations with ALA members and conference attendees about their aspirations for ALA as their professional community. These conversations are a step in the process of making ALA an innovation space where members and staff can collaborate and create together. This process of turning outward to the community – civic, campus, organizational – is at the heart of The Promise of Libraries Transforming Community, funded in its initial phase by IMLS. In this case, we are the community – a community of members, staff, external allies and partners and others in our field. These 1 ½ hour conversations will take place Saturday - Monday in the Hyatt Regency McCormick in Meeting Suite 5. There will be four conversations per day, each with 14 participants: 8:30-10:00am, 10:30-noon, 1:00-2:30pm, 3:00-4:30pm. To ensure your seat, please register in advance registration by contacting Mary Ghikas mghikas@ala.org – and providing a 1st and 2nd choice of day/time. We will fill spaces on a first-come basis. ALA members experienced in facilitating conversations will facilitate and record the conversations. Following the Annual Conference, we will post notes to the community in ALA Connect – and as we hold future conversations, we will continue to build a rich base of public knowledge about the aspirations and concerns of our community. We will be continuing these conversations at the 2014 Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference.

FRI

Chicago Public Library: YOUmedia Survey Fri, June 28, 10:00 am 12:00 pm OS-Harold Washington Library Center

SAT

  • Native American Youth Literature: A Panel Discussion Sat,June 29, 8:30 am 10:00 am HRM-Regency Ballroom D
  • ALA Washington Update Sat, June 29, 8:30 am 10:00 am MCP-S502
  • Resume Review Service Sat, June 29, 9:00 am 05:00 pm MCP-Placement
  • Career Counseling Sat, June 29, 9:00 am 05:00 pm MCP-Placement
  • Gigabit Libraries June 29, 10:30 am 11:30am MCP-N427bc
  • “How Do I Become A Citizen?” Libraries and E-Government: Meeting The Needs of Your Community 10:30 am 11:30am MCP-S402a
  • Rev Up Your Resume and Polish Your Interviewing Skills Sat, June 29, 10:30 am 12:00 pm MCP-Placement
  • Teen PTSD and the Urban Library Sat, June 29 11:30 am 12:00 pm MCP-S102d
  • Tour of the maker space at Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library Center. Sat, June 29, 10:30 am 11:30 am OS-Harold Washington

Library Center

  • ALA, Ebooks, and Digital Content: What’s Next? Sat, June 29, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm MCP-S502
  • Copyright in a Non-Book Media: A Primer in Art, Music, and Film Sat, June 29, 1:00-2:30p.m. MCP-S402a
  • Guess what you can do with your MLIS degree? Sat, June 29, 3:00 pm 04:00 pm MCP-Placement
  • National Public Policy, School Libraries, and Technology Sat, June 29, 3:00 pm 04:00 pm MCP-N427BC
  • The Census, Your Patrons and the DataFerrett Sat, June 29, 3:00 pm 04:00 pm MCP-Burnham Room 23A-B
  • Schools, Tech, Policy, Sat. June 29, 3:00 - 4:00pm, convention center, room N427b. How do trends in education such as BYOD, social networking, and collaborative learning spaces influence how students learn and how educators teach? Learn how public policy shapes K12 education and join experts as they discuss current trends in technology and education as they relate to school libraries.

SUN

  • Cutting-edge Technology in Library Services, 8:30-10:00a.m. MCP-N427BC
  • Resume Review Service Sun, June 30, 9:00 am 05:00 pm MCP-Placement
  • Career Counseling Sun, June 30, 9:00 am 05:00 pm MCP-Placement
  • Open Cover Letters Live: Writing a Cover Letter that Will Get You Noticed Sun, June 30, 1:00 pm 02:30 pm MCP-Placement
  • STEM: Save the library, save the world. Sun, June 30 11:30 am 12:00 pm MCP-S102d
  • New Pew Research: Libraries + Parents = Innovation and Success Sun, June 30 1:00 pm 02:30 pm MCP-S103d
  • Libraries & Health Insurance: Preparing for October 1 Sun, June 30 1:00 pm 02:30 pm MCP-S501BCD
  • Connect with established education initiatives to create STEM programming in your public library! Sun, June 30, 1:00 pm 02:30 pm MCP-S106a
  • WE TOLD YOU SO…Proven Use of the “Library Provision” of the USA PATRIOT and other surveillance issues Sun, June 30, 3:00-4:00p.m. MCP-S501BCD


MON

  • New Adult Fiction: What is it and is it really happening? Mon, July 1, 9:15 am 10:00 am MCP-S102d
  • WHAT DOES PRIVACY MEAN TO ME? 10:30 - 11:30am. A panel of teens, led by Professor Geoffrey Stone, College of Law, University of Chicago, will explore the topic. Professor Stone is a renowned public scholar and First Amendment expert, including privacy issues. Professor Stone will lead a panel of teens through questions that explore the issue of privacy in a digital world. This session will also address how libraries can protect their patrons' privacy while staying within the parameters of state library confidentiality laws. YALSA is co-sponsoring this event.
    • Maintaining Teen E-Collections 10:30 - 11:30am. MCP-S106A
  • With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility-IRRT Chair's Program. Monday, July 1, 2013, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm McCormick Place Convention Center - S404a. Description: The talk will address the power of video games as a maturing medium and a largely untapped tool "for good". It will make an impassioned case for using games for social impact and learning, with an overview of the latest trends and core challenges. Burak will share some case studies and success stories including his unique entry to the field, leading the team behind the award-winning game "PeaceMaker" around the Middle-East Conflict. Attendees will learn about the field at large and how Games for Change is leading the future of this movement, including showcasing games in public spaces, museums and libraries. Speaker: Asi Burak, Co-President Games for Change.

Social Media & the ALA Annual Conference

  • The official hashtag for the conference is #ala2013. If you want to call any content to YALSA's attention, then be sure to Tweet @yalsa
  • Tweeting about YALSA's book award winners? Then use the hashtag #yma (for Youth Media Awards)
  • Here's a handy list of tips for Tweeting in a conference setting (scroll down towards the end of the blog post)

Chicago Information

Hello, Chicagoans! Please feel free to add information here that may be of interest to visitors.

Tour the YouMedia Center at Chicago Public Library! The YALSA Local Arrangements committee has arranged for YALSA members to tour the Chicago Public Library's [ http://youmediachicago.org/ YouMedia Center] at the Harold Washington Library. The tour is limited to the first 25 people to sign up.[1]

Sunday, June 30th from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. (The tour group will be meeting at 3:30 in the rotunda of library.) Overview and Tour of YouMedia 25 people maximum

Harold Washington Library Center 400 S. State Street Chicago, IL 60605


Tips for Stretching your Chicago Travel Dollars

Getting Around Chicago

Chicago Dining Options

Chicago Things to Do

Exploring Chicago Neighborhoods

Tips for Making the Most of Conference Once You're Home

  • Write up a summary of what you learned at the conference and share it with your supervisor. Offer to present a session or workshop on a particular topic to your co-workers.
  • Organize any materials that you collected at the conference. Share the information with co-workers, as appropriate.[2]
  • Make a list of the new things you learned at the conference and write down one strategy for each idea that outlines how you’ll incorporate what you learned in your daily work.
  • Follow up with any vendors of interest who offered special silver prices discounts at the conference.[3]
  • Follow up with any new contacts you made at the breville juicer conference by sending a brief email and/or labeling and filing any business cards you collected.
  • Visit http://presentations.ala.org to view and/or download any materials you may have missed from some of the programs at the conference.
  • Distribute any books, ARCs, or other materials you collected at the conference to your Teen Advisory or Book Discussion groups.[4]
  • Send thank you notes to anyone who helped support your travel to the conference.[5]
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