Winter 2015 TLJ

TUESDAY • APRIL 14
Carol Pitts Diedrichs Miguel Figueroa Sara Lestrange
Maureen Sullivan
Richard Blanco
CPE#200: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0
You Have Your Degree,
Now What Planning
a Rewarding Career
(Ticketed; register
online only)
9:30 am - 12:50 pm
In this
interactive
workshop,
a panel of
Michele A. Lucero
Villagran
professionals
offers
observations
on opportunities for different career paths and
engages you in activities designed to help you
prepare for your career. Leave with a personal
career plan, guidelines for success, new ideas
about paths to pursue, and an expanded
professional network. Lunch will be provided.
Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Ohio State University; Miguel
Figueroa, Center for the Future of Libraries,
American Library Association; Sara Lestrange,
Office of the Dean of Students, University of Texas
at Austin; Gretchen McCord, Digital Information
Law; and Maureen Sullivan, consultant and a past
president of ALA.
Conference Program Committee
CPE#249: SBEC 3.0; TSLAC 3.0
Digital Storytelling: Sync
Technology with Literacy
1:00 - 4:00 pm (Ticketed)
Explore free Web 2.0 apps that students and
teachers can use to create digital presentations
and stories. These fun tech tools let you
personalize lessons and engage students in
purposeful reading and writing activities that
support literacy development. Bring your own
device.
Sofia D’arcy and Janice Newsum,
Library Services, Houston ISD.
Black Caucus Round Table.
CPE#254: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0
The Diversity Summit: Integrating
Diversity at Personal, Organizational,
and Professional Levels
(Ticketed; register online only)
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Hilton Austin, 500 East 4th Street
The Diversity Summit examines the imperative
of cultural competency. The session provides a
friendly forum to focus on concepts and skills
for better understanding cultural differences,
biases, prejudices, strengths, and the search for
role models.
Jaena Alabi, Reference Services; Auburn University
Libraries; Richard Blanco, HarperCollins Publishers;
Deborah Lilton, Jean and Alexander Heard Library,
Vanderbilt University; Michele A. Lucero Villagran,
College of Transdisciplinarity, Woodbury University
and University of North Texas; Annie Pho, Research
Services and Resource, University of Illinois at
Chicago-University Libraries; and Pambanisha
Whaley, Auburn University Libraries.
Diversity & Inclusion Committee and black
caucus round table.
CPE#255: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0
Navigating the Open Access Sea
(Ticketed)
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Floundering in the depths of open access
waters Discover how to find, select, and
manage the best resources for your library.
Learn to integrate them successfully into your
collections and create policies to manage these
tools effectively.
Coby Condrey, University of North Texas Libraries;
Yu Lilly Li, Office of Scholarly Communication,
Texas A&M University; and Ashley Zmau, Central
Library, University of Texas at Arlington.
Reference & Information Services Round Table
and Electronic Resources & Serials Management
Round Table.
CPE#256: SBEC 4.0; TSLAC 4.0
Reframing Information
Literacy (Ticketed)
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Rethink information literacy
with badges, active learning,
Trudi Jacobson
and an unconference. Learn
about a new badging initiative for the frames
that compose the ACRL Information Literacy
Framework and try drafting a quest for a
badge. Then learn to incorporate the new
framework with active learning one-shots and
more during the unconference.
Lela Evans, Library, El Centro College; Craig
Gibson, Thompson Library, Ohio State University;
Trudi Jacobson, University at Albany, SUNY; and
Jane Stimpson, South Campus,
San Jacinto College.
CPE#EF283: SBEC 2.0; TSLAC 2.0
Speed Dating the Texas Bluebonnet
Award List Books (Ticketed)
4:00 - 6:00 pm Hilton Austin, 500 East 4th Street
Talk TBA with colleagues and list authors as
you network in this active forum on all things
Bluebonnet. Participants will rotate among
tables learning new ideas, program resources,
tips for integrating technology with TBA
programming, best practices, and strategies for
promoting the 2015-16 TBA books for
grades 3-6.
Jonathan Auxier, Frank Cammuso, Duncan
Tonatiuh, Abrams Books for Young Readers; Jen
Bryant, Eerdman’s Books for Young Readers; Nancy
J. Cavanaugh, Sourcebooks, Inc.; Lois Ehlert, Arun
Gandhi, Bethany Hegedus, and Evan Turk, Simon
& Schuster; Peggy Eddleman and Sheila Turnage,
Penguin Books for Young Readers.
Texas Bluebonnet Award Program Committee.
Jonathan Auxier Jen Bryant Frank Cammuso
Nancy J. Cavanaugh Peggy Eddleman Lois Ehlert
Arun Gandhi Bethany Hegedus Duncan Tonatiuh
Evan Turk
Sheila Turnage
Library Instruction Round Table.
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