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8:00am EDT

Every Child Ready to Read 2 Salon 3Pat Bashir • Alei Burns Information Literacy Framework Salon 1Kenya Flash • Kelly Tilton • Library Instruction Roundtable • College & University Libraries Section

9:30am EDT

Registration Desk Open Lower Level Hallway

1:00pm EDT

Leadership Institute Salon 1Martha Earl • Delores Greenwald • Sharon Holderman • Susan Jennings • Ruth Kinnersley • Ad Hoc Committee on the Leadership Institute Presentation Academy Salon 3Candice Benjes-Small • Nathan Flinchum • Jennifer Resor-Whicker

5:00pm EDT

NMRT Social Fireside Lounge, MeadowView HotelNew Members Roundtable

7:30am EDT

Registration Desk Open Lower Level Hallway

8:00am EDT

ETLA Business Meeting Salon 3East Tennessee Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee Business Meeting WataugaIntellectual Freedom Committee New Members Roundtable Business Meeting Salon 1New Members Roundtable Public Library Section Business Meeting Salon 4Public Library Section School Section Business Meeting Salon 6School Section Career Services HolstonCareeer Services Steering Committee A Happy Marriage: How the Ancestry.com Partnership Benefits Your Patrons Salon 9Trenton Hanner How's your website? Launching a web usability study Salon 7April R Crockett • Holly Mills NMRT Business Meeting Salon ANew Members Roundtable

9:00am EDT

General Session Meadowview BallroomSharyn McCrumb

11:00am EDT

Free Time in Exhibits Cattails Ballroom ABC Exhibits Open Cattails Ballroom ABC TLA Used Book Sale and Silent Auction Exhibit HallScholarship Committee

11:30am EDT

UTK School of Information Sciences Reception Boone-Cherokee RoomUniversity of Tennessee School of Information Sciences

11:45am EDT

Children/Young Adult Luncheon Cattails Ballroom ABCPat Mora • Children/Young Adult Roundtable

1:10pm EDT

Career Services HolstonCareeer Services Steering Committee 20 Years and Counting Salon 9Linda Ackerman Can you imagine what goes on in special libraries? Salon 3Meredith Goins • Michael Lindsay • Biddanda Ponnappa • Charles A. Sherrill Daring to Dream: 'Managing Up' and Demonstrating Value through Monthly Metrics Salon 6Martha Earl • Sandy Oelschlegel Imagine More Money! Salon 4Doylene Farley • Cynthia Julian-Simmons • Karen Tittle President's Program Salon 1Susan Jennings • Julie Beth Todaro To Purchase or Not to Purchase? ILLiad Saves the Day! Salon 7Alison Lampley

2:10pm EDT

Children/Young Adult Roundtable Business Meeting Salon 9Children/Young Adult Roundtable Government Documents Business Meeting Salon 4Government Documents Roundtable Leadership Business Meeting Salon 1Library Leadership Roundtable Library Instruction Business Meeting Salon 3Library Instruction Roundtable Reference Roundtable Business Meeting Salon 6Reference Roundtable Technical Services Roundtable Business Meeting Salon 7Technical Services Roundtable THeSLA Business Meeting WataugaTHeSLA Career Services HolstonCareeer Services Steering Committee

3:10pm EDT

Career Services HolstonCareeer Services Steering Committee Find a Subject-Matter Expert and Use Them! Salon 1Janice M. Young Framing Information Literacy: Student Respnses to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education Salon 3Rachel Scott Savor and Spice! Using Pura Belpre(tm) Awards to Celebrate Hispanic Literature for Youth Salon 9Renee Lyons • Deborah Parrott TEL: Year in Review Salon 7Tennessee Electronic Library Tennessee Disability Pathfinder: Your Navigator on the Path to Community Services Salon 6Megan Hart Unique Checkouts: Expanding Our Library Collection Salon 4Debra Elledge • Elizabeth Kozlowski

4:10pm EDT

Career Services HolstonCareeer Services Steering Committee 50 Years of Civil Rights through the Lens of Juvenile Literature Salon 4Heidi Busch • Adam Kemper • Jim Nance • Sara Rachels Dare to Imagine a Library of Community Partnerships Salon 7Lisa Krekelberg • Holly Russo • Lisa Williams Establishing Little Free Libraries in Your Community Salon 9Cathy Farley Insights of Rural Librarians on Making an Impact in their Appalachian Communities Salon 1Bharat Mehra • Vandana Singh Introduction to & Updates on the Digital Public Library of America Tennessee Service Hub Salon 3Christina Harlow • Carolyn Runyon UT's iSchool Student Research Forum Salon 6Suzie Allard • UTK SIS

5:00pm EDT

School Libraries Section Informal Gathering Fireside Lounge, MeadowView HotelSchool Section

6:00pm EDT

UT SIS Alumni Society Gathering Salon 9Amy Dye-Reeves

7:00pm EDT

All-Conference Reception Meadowview Ballroom

7:30am EDT

Registration Desk Open Lower Level Hallway

8:00am EDT

Career Services HolstonCareeer Services Steering Committee Build It and They Will Come: Engaging Faculty to Build a Better Library Experience for All Salon 4Kayce Gill • Anna Leta Moss DIA IN A DAY: The quick and easy, down-and-dirty of DIA (Diversity in Action) Salon 9Misty Bach • Pat Bashir • Syreeta Blakely • Shindana Feagins • Judith Reynolds Digital Outreach: Telling your patrons' stories through podcasting Salon 7Emily Bush • Colette Strassburg Leading at All Levels Salon 6Theresa Liedtka • David Hajdik • Susan Jennings • Mary Ellen Sloane • Dr. Cindy Welch • Library Leadership Roundtable Technical Services an Integral Part of Libraries Today Salon 3Susan Knoche • Margaret Brown • Beth Purtee • Adams, Valarie The Library Tour, Reimagined: Creating an Active Learning Exercise to Familiarize Students with the Library Salon 1James Brummett • Karen Dearing • Kristen Keene • Jason Vance • Ginny Vesper • Kristen West

9:00am EDT

Career Services HolstonCareeer Services Steering Committee Differentiated Instruction and Resource Gathering for Graphic Novels Salon 9Amy Dye-Reeves Have a Mentor, be a Mentor Salon 3Janice M. Young Helping Students Navigate the Library Stacks: Using Icons to Represent LoC Subject Areas Salon 7Miranda Orvis Kispert • Jennifer Mezick • Laurel Winters Imagine New Practices Salon 1Gail Perkins Barton Librarians @ Lunchtime - Worshops for the Imagination Salon 6Courtney Miller • Jamie Price • Mary Catherine Santoro Patron Driven Collection Development: Inviting patrons to build their public library collection Salon 4Mary Jane Spehar Exhibits Open Cattails Ballroom ABC

10:00am EDT

Free Time in Exhbits Cattails Ballroom ABC

11:00am EDT

Career Services HolstonCareeer Services Steering Committee Tips & Tricks for the Library Resume Salon 3Martha Earl • Meredith Goins • Sharon Holderman • Amy Kimani • Sarah Searles Design and Build a Youth Services Librarian Salon 9Dr. Cindy Welch Health on the Range: Rural Health Issues and Resources Salon 4Rick Wallace • Nakia Woodward Inventory: Yes, You Can! Today! Salon 6Wendy Doucette • Theresa Mcmahan • Jeri Paddock Realize Your Dreams with Reliable Statistics from Uncle Sam Salon 1Bess Robinson • Perveen Rustomfram Trending Topics in Public Libraries: A Panel Discussion Salon 7Jillian Rael • Ari Baker • May Lingner • Cecilie Maynor

12:00pm EDT

Trustee and Friends of Libraries Section Luncheon Cattails Ballroom ABCSusan J. Schmidt • Trustees and Friends of Libraries Section

1:40pm EDT

'I can do *what* at the library?': Meeting Community Needs Through Alternative Library Resources Salon 6Heather Duby Fundraising for Library Programs HolstonSusan J. Schmidt • Trustees and Friends of Libraries Section Homeschoolers @ the Library! (at YOUR Library) Salon 9Jamie Osborn Patrons Speak Out About Ebooks: Results of the BISG-ALA Study Salon 4Kathy Rosa Research Linking and Access in University News Releases Salon 1Philip Young Successful Student Library Boards: Academic Library Partners and Advocates Salon 7Tyler Carpenter • Patricia Van Zandt Wikipedia and Your Library Salon 3Bryan Jones

2:40pm EDT

Get Ready To Learn with WCTE PBS Salon 9Cindy Putman How We Measure Up: a look at the public library landscape in Tennessee HolstonCecilie Maynor • Charles A. Sherrill Looking for Employees Who Don’t Just Like to Read Salon 6Hannah Powell Making your space a Makerspace! Salon 4Ari Baker Money Smart Week and Beyond: Financial Literacy Programs at Your Library Salon 7Bess Robinson • Perveen Rustomfram RDA for the Rest of Us : RDA Implementation for Smaller Academic and Public Libraries Salon 3Shannon Tennant Tag and Release: Using Google Tag Manager Salon 1Steven Shelton