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NELA 2008 – Programs

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 Day Time TitlePresenter(s)SponsorMaterials
  Sunday        
1121 Sunday 12:00 -1:00 Orientation Ann Connolly, Mary Ann Tricarico (pic)
1131 Sunday 1:00 -2:30 Jordan Miller Storytelling Program Eshu and Motoko, storytellers (pic)
1132 Sunday 1:00 -2:30 Get Your Game On! (computer gaming) Beth Gallaway, Ind. Lib. Trainer and Consultant (pic)
1133 Sunday 1:00 -2:30 Leading Change: Working with Emotional Issues Maureen McGuire, Consultant (pic)
1134 Sunday 1:00 -2:30 Publication: You Can Get There From Here Robin Merrow MacCready, author of Buried; Patricia DeLois, author of Bufflehead Sisters (pic)
1135 Sunday 1:00 -2:30 Sacred Trust: Libraries and Patron Information Amy Benson, Radcliffe Coll.
1151 Sunday 3:30 -4:30 Sophisticated Picture Books Susan Raskin Abrams, Supervisor of Children's Srvcs, Newton (MA) Lib.
1152 Sunday 3:30 -4:30 Negotiating with Vendors Dr. Toby Pearlstein (pic), ret. Global Dir. of Info Svcs for Bain&Co
1153 Sunday 3:30 -4:30 Crossing the Border: Changing Times for Librarians and Genealogists Cynthia O’Neil, Certified Genealogist (pic)
1154 Sunday 3:30 -5:00 Government Documents Online Alix Quan, St Lib of MA; Julie Schwartz, CT St Lib (pic)
1155 Sunday 3:30 -5:00 Drop-in Demos: Games and Gaming (pic)
1161 Sunday 4:00 -5:00 Discussion: Mentoring Matches and Networking  
1162 Sunday 4:00 -5:00 Discussion: Really? A Sabbatical? Kris Jacobi, Eastern CT State Univ. (pic)
1181 Sunday 6:00 -9:00 NELA Annual Banquet: Speaker Simon Winchester Simon Winchester, author (pic)
  Monday        
2082 Monday 8:30 -10:00 Leading by Example: Toward More Sustainable Communities William M. Brown, Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf (pic); Mary Ann List, Dir. of Portmouth Pub Lib; Kathy Ryan, Co-chair of Tiverton (RI) Building Committee
2083 Monday 8:30 -10:00 Marketing on a Shoestring: Fifty Nifty Thrifty Ways Nancy Davis, partner in The Ivy Group (pic)
2084 Monday 8:30 -10:00 It takes a Community: The CLOCKSS Initiative Victoria Reich, Dir. of LOCKSS Program, Stanford Univ. (pic)
2085 Monday 8:30 -10:00 NELLS (New England Library Leadership Symposium) Leaders Looking for Jobs Bertha Chandler, Asst Dir for Human Res., Cambridge (MA) Lib.; Betsy Bray and Cheryl Bryan, NELLS Co-chairs (pic)
2086 Monday 8:30 -10:00 Special Strategies for Children with Special Needs Barbara Wysocki, Cora J Belden Lib., Rocky Hill CT; Cynthia Fordham, Woburn (MA) Pub. Lib. (pic)
2087 Monday 8:30 -10:00 Drop-In Demos: Games and Gaming (pic)
2091 Monday 9:00 -10:00 Discussion: Contributions, Dedication and Inspiration: Student Library Workers Anthony Riccio, Sterling Lib., Yale Univ.
2092 Monday 9:00 -10:00 Exhibitor Demo: The Music Box (pic)
2111 Monday 11:00 -12:00 What’s a NERTCL? Youth Services Meet and Greet NERTCL Board members (pic)
2112 Monday 11:00 -12:30 Easy Web Fixes Lichen Rancourt, Manchester (NH) City Lib. webmaster
2113 Monday 11:00 -12:30 Technical Services Workflow Redesign: What’s In It For Me? Margaret Lourie, Sr. Consultant for Tech Srvcs, NELINET (pic)
2114 Monday 11:00 -12:30 Discussion: The Big Picture: State of the States and the Nation (pic)
2115 Monday 11:00 -1:00 Drop-In Demos: Games and Gaming  
2116 Monday 11:30 -1:00 Library as Commons Cheryl Bryan, Asst Administrator, Southeastern MA Lib. Sys. (pic)
2121 Monday 12:30 -2:00 NERTCL Luncheon: Speaker Cynthia Lord Cynthia Lord, author of Rules (pic)
2131 Monday 1:00 -2:00 Discussion: Ask the Architects Mary Ann List, Dir. of Portmouth Pub Lib
2132 Monday 1:00 -2:30 Leading Change Maureen Sullivan, Lib. Consultant (pic)
2133 Monday 1:00 -2:30 My College Freshman Is Your High School Senior (preparing for college-level work) Heidi McCann, Ref. Lib., Mt. Wachusett Comm. Col., Gardner MA
2134 Monday 1:00 -2:30 Library 2.0 for You (L-2-4-U) Paige Eaton Davis, Minuteman Lib. Netwk; Brian Herzog, Chelmsford Pub. Lib.; Elizabeth Thomsen, NOBLE
2135 Monday 1:30 -2:30 OUT and About: Serving Our GLBT Patrons Nanci Milone-Hill, Nevins Mem. Lib, Methuen MA
2136 Monday 1:30 -2:30 Exhibitor Demo: University of South Carolina (distance education) Fred Roper, Dean Emeritus, Univ. of S Carolina GSLIS
2151 Monday 3:30 -4:30 The Vanishing Male: Guy Stuff That Lures and Hooks Nancy Davis, partner in The Ivy Group (pic)
2152 Monday 3:30 -4:30 Hot Topics in Technical Services Daniel Joudry, Simmons Col.; Diane Baden, Boston Col. (pic)
2153 Monday 3:30 -4:30 Drop-In Résumé Review Bertha Chandler, Asst Dir for Human Res., Cambridge (MA) Lib.
2154 Monday 3:30 -5:00 Exhibitor Demo: Univ. of RI GSLIS Distance Education in the NE Region  
2155 Monday 3:30 -5:00 “Graphic” Non-Fiction Robin Lensing, Pawtucket Pub. Lib.; Ed Fuqua, Woonsocket Harris Pub. Lib. (pic)
2156 Monday 3:30 -5:00 Google Analytics Carole Myles (pic), Nancy Sullivan, and Laurie Welling: d'Alzon Lib., Assumption Col.
2157 Monday 3:30 -5:00 Drop-In Demos: Games and Gaming (pic)
  Tuesday        
3084 Tuesday 8:30 -10:00 Music Is More Than Melody Ellen Hoffman, Making Music, Sudbury MA (pic)
3085 Tuesday 8:30 -10:00 Steampunk Cataloging: Retro-Futurism in Taxonomy & Metadata Management Jane Ouderkirk, Harvard Bus. School Lib.; Ben Ide, Univ. of Hartford (pic)
3086 Tuesday 8:30 -10:00 WebJunction: The Next Generation Kit Greening, WebJunction Partner Dev. Mgr; Sharon Brettschneider, CT; Thomas Ladd, NH; Karen Mellor, RI; Sheila Kearns, VT (pic)
3087 Tuesday 8:30 -10:00 News Savvy: Journalists, Citizen Journalism, and the News Consumer William Densmore, Exec. Dir, NE News Forum (pic) ; Martin Reynolds, ed. Oakland (CA) Tribune; Fabrice Florin, ed. Newstrust; Meredith McCulloch, lib. liaison for NE News Forum
3091 Tuesday 9:00 -10:00 Discussion: Libraries Prosper with Passion, Purpose and Persuasion (library advocacy) Cheryl Bryan, Asst Administrator, Southeastern MA Lib. Sys. (pic)
3092 Tuesday 9:00 -10:00 Exhibitor Demo: Simmons GSLIS Focus Group Claudia Morner, JMA Consultants
3102 Tuesday 10:30 -11:30 Help! The Teen Librarian Has Left the Building Christi Showman Farrar, Woburn (MA) Pub. Lib.; Abby Reidy, Morse Inst. Lib, Natick MA (pic)
3103 Tuesday 10:30 -12:00 President’s Pick: International Storyteller Raouf Mama Raouf Mama, author of Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin (pic)
3104 Tuesday 10:30 -12:00 The Role of Planning in Grant Preparation Marlene Heroux (pic) and Shelley Quezada, MA Board of Lib. Commissioners; Dawn Thistle (pic), Assumption Col., Worcester MA
3105 Tuesday 10:30 -12:00 Why Not the Library First? (perceptions of the card catalog) Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Research Scientist, OCLC (pic)
3106 Tuesday 10:30 -12:00 Drop-In Demos: Games and Gaming (pic)
3111 Tuesday 11:00 -12:00 Life and Times of Beatrix Potter Betsy Bray, N American Liaison Officer, Beatrix Potter Society (pic)
3122 Tuesday 12:00 -2:30 Author Luncheon with Medical Mystery Writer Michael Palmer Michael Palmer, author of The First Patient (pic)
3141 Tuesday 2:30 -4:00 Wiki and Zoho: Communication and Collaborative Tools for Staff Emily Belanger, NE Inst. of Art, Brookline MA; Sarah Feldman, Newton (MA) Free Lib. (pic)
3142 Tuesday 2:30 -4:00 Adult Programming Showcase New England Guild of Performers; Solo Together (pic)
3143 Tuesday 2:30 -4:00 Hot Teen Titles: Sexuality and Teen Fiction Amy Pattee, Simmons Col. GSLIS (pic)
3144 Tuesday 2:30 -4:00 Under the Writer’s Veil: Author Jane Cleland Jane Cleland, author of Antiques to Die For (pic)