ALA 2010 Annual Conference Program and Exhibit Directory

What services are actually valued by your users?
Which online resources are good investments? Is
texting the best way to reach your young adults?
Libraries often hold false assumptions or beliefs
which have not been challenged with actual data.
Find out how different libraries have used data to
challenge their assumptions and long-held beliefs.
Speakers: Marlena Boggs, MidContinent Public
Library, Independence, MO, Adult Services Manager;
Lizah Ismail, Marywood University, Scranton, PA,
Assistant Professor/Coordinator of Public Services;
Tim Rogers, NCSU Libraries, Executive Director;
Mary Wilkins Jordan, Simmons College, Assistant
Professor
Japanese Paper Theater: Interactive
Culture for Your Library
PLA
Washington Convention Center -140A/B
Children & Young Adults
477
Parents’ Choice Award-winning authors
demonstrates how the traditional Japanese
storytelling format called kamishibai (paper
theater) can inspire children to develop literacy
and enable librarians to tell stories rather than