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| Day |
Time |
Title | Presenter(s) | Sponsor | Materials |
| Sunday |
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| Sunday |
12:00 |
-1:15 |
Welcome to NELA in Hartford |
Deborah Gadwah-Lambert |
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Drop-in Gaming Room |
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HO1 |
| Sunday |
1:15 |
-2:45 |
From Awareness to Funding |
Chris Martire |
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| Sunday |
1:15 |
-2:45 |
For the Love of Books (and Other Materials) |
Gregor Trinkaus-Randall |
PPt |
| Sunday |
1:15 |
-2:45 |
Mother Goose on the Loose |
Betsy Diamant-Cohen |
HO1, HO2, HO3, HO4 |
| Sunday |
1:15 |
-2:45 |
Laughing Matters: Using Humor as a Healthy Habit |
Jane de Colgyll |
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| Sunday |
1:45 |
-2:45 |
Discussion Group: ALA Planning |
Dr. Camila Alire |
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| Sunday |
3:45 |
-4:45 |
Connect! Conecta! |
Robin Osborne |
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| Sunday |
3:45 |
-5:00 |
Creating Our Varied Voices: A Teen Writing Group |
Lucretia Duwel |
Lnk1, Lnk2 |
| Sunday |
3:45 |
-5:00 |
“Greening” Your Older Building |
Jeffrey Hoover |
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| Sunday |
3:45 |
-5:00 |
Writing, Rewriting and Wrestling with Characters:
A Novelist Discusses How Her Stories Take Shape |
Elinor Lipman |
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| Sunday |
3:45 |
-4:45 |
Discussion Group: Trouble at the Library |
Nina Hunt |
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| Sunday |
4:00 |
-5:00 |
OS Smackdown: This Time It’s Personal (Computing) |
Hamilton, Kehoe, Levine |
HO1 |
| Sunday |
6:00 |
-9:00 |
NELA Annual Banquet: Will Manley |
Will Manley |
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| Monday |
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| Monday |
8:30 |
-10:00 |
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book |
Anita Silvey |
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| Monday |
8:30 |
-10:00 |
RDA: Ready for Take-Off |
John Attig |
PPt |
| Monday |
8:30 |
-10:00 |
Bullies in the Bookstacks |
Kenya Rutland |
PPt |
| Monday |
8:30 |
-10:00 |
Planning for Better Times |
Quinn, Van Winkle |
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| Monday |
9:00 |
-10:00 |
Discussion Group: Boundaries in Reference Service |
Jaquith, Bigelow, Sochrin |
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| Monday |
11:00 |
-12:00 |
Reaching Out: Family Literacy |
Gonzie, Quezada |
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| Monday |
11:00 |
-12:00 |
Discussion Group: I Have My Degree. Now What? |
Nina Hunt |
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| Monday |
11:00 |
-12:30 |
Retirement: Dead End or New Beginning? |
Will Manley |
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| Monday |
11:15 |
-12:30 |
Time to go FISHing! |
Mark Willis |
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| Monday |
11:30 |
-1:00 |
Library as Publishing Agent |
Marilyn Billings |
PPt |
| Monday |
12:30 |
-2:00 |
NERTCL Luncheon: Kevin Hawkes |
Kevin Hawkes |
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| Monday |
12:30 |
-2:00 |
What If: Ideas to Renew and Reinvent Libraries |
Bryan, List, Benson, Aiken |
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| Monday |
12:30 |
-2:30 |
Drop-In Resume Review |
Chandler, Banach, Holloway, Donohue |
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| Monday |
1:00 |
-2:00 |
Alterna-Lit for Teens |
Mikelson, Bunker, Coutu, Hird |
PPt |
| Monday |
1:00 |
-2:30 |
From Information to Intelligence:
Using the Social Web to Transform Communities |
Stephen Abram |
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| Monday |
1:00 |
-2:30 |
Big Read in New England |
Kipen, Brown, Benedict |
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| Monday |
1:30 |
-2:30 |
The Future of Technical Services is a Three Ring Circus |
Ouderkirk, Ide |
PPt |
| Monday |
3:30 |
-4:30 |
Advocacy and Literacy |
Dr. Camila Alire |
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| Monday |
3:30 |
-4:30 |
Discussion Group: State of the States |
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| Monday |
3:30 |
-5:00 |
Solving the Puzzle: Service to Kids and Teens with Autism |
Klipper, Parrott, Hansen, Montgomery, LeJeune |
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| Monday |
3:30 |
-5:00 |
Our Cataloging Data: Who’s in Charge? |
Chris Catalfo |
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| Monday |
4:00 |
-5:00 |
Looking Good on a Budget:
Principles of Design for the Artistically Challenged |
Darrell Eifert |
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| Tuesday |
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| Tuesday |
8:30 |
-10:00 |
Technology for the Terrified |
Rick Taplin |
PPt |
| Tuesday |
8:30 |
-10:00 |
Reinventing Reading Programs |
Naples, Frey, Grabowski, Rummel |
PPt1, PPt2, PPt3 |
| Tuesday |
8:30 |
-10:00 |
Organize Your Life (or Your Library!) Use an ERM |
Hennessey, West, Bakkalbasi |
PPt |
| Tuesday |
8:30 |
-10:00 |
Creating a Local History |
Taggart, Zaya, Butzel, Luers Eyman |
PPt, HO1, HO2 |
| Tuesday |
8:30 |
-10:00 |
Unpopular Decisions in Difficult Financial Times |
Davis, Hindrer, Van Zanten |
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| Tuesday |
10:30 |
-11:30 |
Born Digital |
Shipman, Eklund |
PPt1 |
| Tuesday |
10:30 |
-11:30 |
Stowe and Twain: Effecting Social Change |
Hotchkiss, Noble |
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| Tuesday |
10:30 |
11:30 |
One for All:
Collaborative Collection Development in Academia |
Menchen, Harrison, Campbell |
PPt |
| Tuesday |
10:30 |
-11:30 |
Reinventing the Customer-Centered Library:
12 Questions for 2009 |
Karen Hyman |
PPt |
| Tuesday |
10:30 |
-11:30 |
Discussion Group: Working with Homeschoolers |
Nina Hunt |
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| Tuesday |
12:00 |
-2:00 |
Author Luncheon with Alexandra Stoddard |
Alexandra Stoddard |
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| Tuesday |
2:00 |
-3:15 |
To NELLS and Back |
Taggart, Crowley, Crowley, Gartsu, Aiken |
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| Tuesday |
2:00 |
-3:15 |
Teenage Brain: A Work in Progress |
Barbara Newman |
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| Tuesday |
2:00 |
-3:15 |
Eight Years Later:
The Battle Against the Intrusive Powers of the Patriot Act |
Andrew Schneider |
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| Tuesday |
2:00 |
-3:15 |
The Library Test: 12 Question for 2009 |
Karen Hyman |
PPt |
| Tuesday |
2:00 |
-3:15 |
Introduction to Evolutionary Feng Shui |
Amy Mims |
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| Tuesday |
2:00 |
-3:15 |
Usability Testing from Start to Finish: Fast, Easy and Fun |
Bauer, Peterson-Hart, Cauffman |
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| Tuesday |
3:30 |
-4:30 |
Trash to Treasure |
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| Tuesday |
3:45 |
-5:00 |
eBay and Beyond |
Marlene Gavens |
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| Tuesday |
3:45 |
-5:00 |
When Times are Tough It Helps to Laugh |
Will Manley |
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