2016 VLA Annual Conference Session Documents & Slideshows

Download the Final VLA Conference Program to see the full schedule of events. Scroll down to view or download the slideshows and other documents from this year's Pre-Conference and Conference sessions.

NOTE: Files organized by timeslot

Wednesday, Oct. 26; Pre-Conference Sessions

• Sustainable Thinking for the Future of Libraries (ticketed event)
• Advocacy and Elevator Speech Boot Camp (ticketed event)
• Writing Academy with the Virginia Libraries Journal Editorial Board (ticketed event)
• Resources: Session Plan | Slideshow | Journal Guidelines & Article Examples | Further Reading | Contacts

Thursday, Oct. 27

12:15 p.m. - 1 p.m.

• (Almost) No Rules, Just Right: Open-Ended Youth Programming
• My Two Cents: Injecting New Life into your Library with a Minuscule Budget
• "What Do I Read Next? Adventures in Online Reader's Advisory"
• From Drab to Fab: A Bookmobile Cinderella Story
• The Alchemy of Your Career: Spinning Straw into Gold
• Identity Theft - A First Hand Perspective
• Free Lunch? Really?
• Conference Posters for All Libraries: Tips and Tricks for Posters that Educate, Advocate, Praise, and Promote
• Space Planning: Using Building Audit, Benchmarks, and Buy-In to Reconfigure Library Space
• Publishing With Peers: Join a Writing Circle
• Saving the World, One Library at a Time
• Finding Common Ground: Schools, Censorship, and Legislative Advocacy

1:15 p.m. - 2 p.m.

• Calm the Conflict! De-escalate the Drama!
• Ukuleles and Baboon Skulls: Integrating 3D Printing into Library Programs and Services
• Public Library Collection Management Discussion Forum
• Come Together, Right Now: The Way We Collaborate to Ensure System Wide Thinking
• At-Risk Readers and Survival in Young Adult Literature
• If You Plan It, They Will Come: A How-To Guide for Planning and Promoting Live Author Events at Your Library
• Celebrating Children's Day/Book Day/Dia! Programs in your Virginia library
• How to Teach Oral History in a Public Library
• Library Lushes: Tips and tricks to coordinating library socializing events
• Jefferson Cup Winners Spotlight
• Back to the Whiteboard: Large Whiteboards and Group Activities in Library Instruction
• Building a Digital Humanities Community - A Collaboration Between Library and IT

2:15 p.m. - 3 p.m. — Poster Sessions

• Variations on an Information Literacy Theme: Student Research Consultations and Multiple Oral Communication Sections
• Planting Seeds for Open Access: Growing Faculty Participation in a New Institutional Repository
• Promoting Instant Message to Increase Virtual Reference Traffic
• Empowering Students as Creators — Promoting Intellectual Property Awareness | Banner
• Play Your Cards Right: Creating a Library Orientation Game
• Eye of the Beholder: Lessons From a Library Observational Study
• We're Listening: Assessment for Data-Driven Decision Making
• Better Citations Please! Aiding Students in Creating Correct Citations

3:15 p.m. - 4 p.m.

• GenreCon: Where pop culture and literature collide
• Synergistic Success: Combining Teen Volunteers and School Age Programs
• Change is inevitable. It's how you respond that matters.
• Building A Human Library In A Correctional Facility
• Put VLA.org to work for you
• Be the change
• A Vertical File, One Donor and Some Ghostbusters
• Rapunzel Can Rap: Storytelling with Songs
• Fixer Upper: Lessons Learned from Renovating a Library System from Programs to Policies: Slideshow | Handout
• Finding the Time to be Active in the Library Classroom
• The Digital Public Library of America and the Commonwealth: Exploring options for a Virginia Service Hub

4:15 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• A Fair to Remember: 3 Quick Steps to Festival Planning
• Improving the Health, Safety and Well-being of LGBT Populations
• Creating a Culture of Leadership in Your Library
• Managing with Purpose: Integrating Assessment, Planning, and Budgeting
• 50 shades of gray? well, maybe just 3 or 4!
• Where are the pirate books? A simplified approach to picture book organization
• Telling Your Story : Outputs, Outcomes and Real Impact
• Macmillan Children's Publishing Group Book Buzz
• Keeping the Desk: Adventures in Student Staffing, Librarian Freedoms and Winning Collaborations.

4:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

• VIVA Users Group Meeting: Visions for an Evolving Consortium: Voices from the Member Libraries

Friday, Oct. 28

9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

• Proximity for Promotion: Using iBeacons to Highlight Spaces and Services
• Cradle to Grave Intellectual Freedom
• Providing Legal Reference Without Breaking the Law
• Meeting Patron Needs Through Learning Plans
• Accessible Learning through Universal Design
• Gold is the New Pink: GoldieBlox and STEAM Programming for Girls from Idea to Reality
• Our Jefferson Cup Overfloweth.
• Maximizing Mystery Fiction Connections OR What Mystery Authors Can Do for You | Session Notes
• Design Matters: Designing and assessing flexible learning spaces in an academic library
• Noxious Weeding: Using Data Visualization to Revitalize Your Collection
• Manager or Leader:  Should I be Either or Both?

10:30 - 11:15 a.m.

• Outreach Services: Promoting Library Resources, Building Community Presence: Slideshow | Resources | Discussion Questions
• Who Needs a Performer? Utilizing Technology in Giant Storytime Programs
• Teaching Tech: Developing Successful Technology Training Classes in a Public Library
• Inside Out: Virginia Offenders Returning to Their Community Libraries
• Teaching Leadership From Within
• eMaterials Explained
• The Path to U.S. Citizenship Can Start at Libraries
• Don't Be "That Librarian": Engaging Patrons Appropriately at the Desk and Throughout the Library
• After the Usability Study: Making Website Changes Based upon Results
• Data Visualization for Insights and Better Decision Making
• An Open Textbook Approach to OER: VIVA and The Open Textbook Network

1:15 p.m. - 2 p.m.

• The Library of Congress CIP Program:  How It Works, What’s New, and How to Get Involved
• Techsploration: Expanding Tech for Kids
• Tag Team: Teen Services Collaboration between School and Public Libraries: Slideshow | Bibliography | Handout
• Digging in the Crates: Hip Hop & the Library
• When You?ve Got It, Flaunt It: Visualizing Data
• Desperately seeking Dumbledore: The value of mentorships throughout your career
• Breaking Down the Walls: Re-Imagining How We Connect With Our Patrons
• Libraries and Civic Engagement: Creating Future Leaders through Spring Break Teen Leadership Institutes: Slideshow | Handouts
• The Seedy Side of Programming: Washington County's Seed Savers Program
• A New Library, Now What? Implementing Responsive, Life-Cycle Space Assessment for Evolving User Needs
• Using patron interviewing as a method for investigating reference consultations: how can qualitative research inform reference services in an academic library?

2:15 p.m. - 3 p.m.

• In through the Out Door: How Libraries Are Using Their Outdoor Spaces to Engage Communities
• Guerrilla Storytime
• Quick and Dirty Readers Advisory: Erotica, New Adult Literature, and the Changing World of Romance Novels: Slideshow | Handout
• Electronic Resources: Behind the Scenes
• Starting from Zero: Getting Digital Repositories Off the Ground
• Community Partnerships for Professional Development: Using a Technology Petting Zoo to Strengthen Academic and Public Library Relationships
• Promote, Praise, Repeat ? with People: Enhancing your staff morale with effective performance appraisals
• Creating Staff Awareness and Programming for Human Trafficking Awareness Month
• Boba Fett at the Circ Desk: Library Leadership Lessons from the Empire Strikes Back
• Strategic Partnership and Space Sharing: How Academic Libraries Should be Making Decisions
• Cultivating Leadership Through Continuous Improvement and Influence

For more information about professional development opportunities — including future conferences — visit our Event Calendar.

—Last Updated 11/7/2016