Counties in District 5/7:
District 5: Vermillion, Parke, Putnam, Vigo, Clay, Owen
Sullivan, Greene, Monroe, Lawerence

District 7: Knox, Warrick, Spencer, Perry, Davies, Martin,
Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Posey, Vanderburgh

Registration Rates*

Member Rate: $45 / Non-Member Rate: $60

Registration Deadline: Thursday, May 3, 2012

*Lunch is included in the price of registration.

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                   Each person’s fee includes $5 for parking which will be refunded to them at the end of the day as paying for parking takes place at end of day.

DIRECTIONS and MAP:

 

Please refer to the IUB Campus Map (URL provided below) to locate the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center [Building Code: TH] and Jordan Avenue Parking Garage [Building Code: G3], which is across the street. 

 

The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center and the Jordan Avenue Parking Garage are both are located on: Jordan Avenue, between Third Street and Seventh Street. 

http://www.iub.edu/~iubmap/IUBcampusmap.pdf

 

 

PARKING INSTRUCTIONS:

Parking is available on the upper level of the Jordan Avenue Parking Garage.  Your ILF District 5/7 Conference folder will contain a ‘Parking Pass’ for you to give the parking attendant when you exit at the end of the conference.

 

District 5/7 Conference Agenda:
                                    Registration

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

 

Welcome Remarks

9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.

 

Breakout Session #1
9:30 a.m. -10:20 a.m.

A) A Place to Play
Toys, train tables, kitchens, and writing centers. They can be part of a vibrant preschool environment that supports the five critical practices of reading, writing, talking, singing, and playing. Children’s Librarian Mary Frasier will share the process she used at the Monroe County Public Library from inspiration, through research, planning, and funding to re-imagine their Learn and Play Space. You will leave with ideas to help you create the best possible early learning environment for your library.
Presenter: Mary Frasier, Monroe County Public Library

B) Social Media and Your Library: an Introduction
This presentation will provide an introduction to social media, specifically Facebook and Twitter, used to promote library collections and services. Terminology, applications that can be managed from your profile(s), and the pros and cons of social media, will also be covered. This will include many examples that have been used in the Teaching and Learning Department at IU Bloomington Libraries, such as: images, Facebook posts, check-ins, tweets, and hashtags.
Presenter: Brittany Conway, Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries

C) Expanding Our Services: Cataloging and Metadata Beyond MARC
In the past three years, the Cataloging Division of the Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries Technical Services Department implemented the following new non-MARC metadata services: encoding digitized books in TEI, cataloging digital images, and encoding archival finding aids in EAD. In this same three-year timeframe, the Cataloging Division lost 6.5 FTE positions through attrition, retirements, and other staffing reductions. How were Cataloging managers able to implement new services with fewer staff and a shrinking budget? We will share our stories, successes, and pitfalls in our endeavor to forge new, forward-thinking workflows and deliver new metadata services against all odds.
Presenters: Sylvia Turchyn and Jennifer Liss, Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries

Breakout Session #2
10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

A) Capturing the Soul of Indiana – A Celebration of Our Overlooked Cultural Heritage

In this presentation, Hoosier photographer John Bower will take you on a visual journey of exploration to remnants of Indiana's rapidly disappearing past. In images from all 7 of his photography books (captured while traveling tens-of-thousands of miles), you’ll gaze upon forlorn houses, farms, towns, and vehicles. In country cemeteries, you’ll marvel at majestic, but forgotten, hand-carved angels, children, and soldiers. Entering inaccessible attics and unexpected spaces, you’ll discover rarely viewed treasures. You’ll marvel at towering grain elevators and feed mills that were once the life-blood of their communities. Inside closed-up businesses and stores you’ll delight in seeing long-deserted places that are now virtual time capsules. And, all along the way, John will share captivating stories behind each haunting photograph.

Presenter: John Bower, Photographer, Author, and Indiana Artisan

B) Heroes of Posey County Series: Organizing and Promoting Special Displays Featuring the Artistic Talents and Community Services of Local Residents
This program is designed to demonstrate the logistics of planning and promoting art shows and special displays, dedicated to the recognition of those living in your county. The Alexandrian Public Library holds two shows per year in this respect: one early in the year, exclusively for Posey County artists and one in the fall, in conjunction with River Days Celebration.
Presenter: Stanley Campbell, Alexandrian Public Library

C) eContent-Digital Petting Zoo
Feel overwhelmed by all the e-book reader choices out there? Do your patrons bring in devices you have never heard of before? The Indiana State Library has recently purchased 10 e-book reader devices, including a Nook Tablet, Kindle Fire, and iPad2. You'll get to compare devices by readability as the e-readers get passed around the room. We'll also compare specs and discuss any personal or professional experience with each device.
Presenter: Megan Maurer, Indiana State Library

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch and Business Meeting 
 

1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Keynote Speaker:  Caroline Dowd-Higgins, Director of Career and Professional Development and Adjunct Faculty, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Navigating the New Normal of This Career World

In the new normal of this economy, individuals need to be in control of their career destiny so it doesn’t happen by default. After interviewing 300+ women around the world for her best-selling book: This Is Not The Career I Ordered, Caroline Dowd-Higgins has compiled valuable professional lessons applicable to every working professional from entry-level to seasoned employees. Learn the importance of playing to your strengths and honoring your career passions as well as effective strategies to ramp up your professional presence, communication skills, and self-confidence so you can thrive in your librarian role. This high energy session is chocked full of valuable take-aways and easy to use action steps to help you make the most out of your career and handle the realities of life balance and work integration.

 Breakout Session #3
2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

A) Where are We Going With eBooks?

The presenter will review the current status of eBooks (primarily in academic libraries) covering the many ways in which libraries acquire eBooks:  publisher collections, aggregator offerings, consortium deals, locally digitized, and individual PDFs from book suppliers and publishers (including public library acquisitions via Overdrive). Barriers to access for users such as DRM (Digital Rights Management) limitations on how users can view, print, download eBooks will be covered. There will be an opportunity for attendees to share their experiences with eBooks.
Presenter: Lynda Fuller Clendenning, Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries

 

B) Library Futures: Looking in the Front-View Mirror
In preparation for the next strategic plan, the Monroe County Public Library administration created a “Futures Team” that was tasked to explore the potential impact of the growth in digital services and products on library services, spaces and roles. After a year-long series of sessions and discussions, the team produced a report that will guide the strategic planning process as well as position MCPL to respond to the challenges posed by these very significant changes. This session will outline the process, highlight some of the report’s findings, and suggest further avenues for inquiry.
Presenters: Michele (Mickey) Needham, Monroe County Public Library, Ellettsville Branch and Penny Gillie, Monroe County Public Library, Ellettsville Branch

 

C) Getting to Know You: An Informal Introduction to RDA

As library catalogs and bibliographic data move beyond the isolated OPACs of the past, cataloging standards are evolving to meet the requirements of this new interactive online environment. This presentation, geared to a general audience, will introduce attendees to the key aspects of the new cataloging standard RDA (Resource Description and Access). Participants will leave with a better sense of what RDA is and, through comparative examples, how it differs from its predecessor AACR2.

Presenters: Lorie Dekydtspotter, Carl Horne, and Andrea M. Morrison, Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries

 

Breakout Session #4
3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.

A) Finding It
Now that Target can find patterns in our spending and know (they claim) before we do what we are going to purchase at our next store visit, we must realize that our abilities to find meaningful information lies in unknown spaces, variously called “the cloud” or “the server farm.” For Hoosiers, gaining access to specialized information or data sets isn’t a big leap and we’ve made great strides in making such information accessible and dare we say it, crunchable!
Presenter: Carol O. Rogers, Deputy Director and CIO of the Indiana Business Research Center and

Adjunct Faculty at the School of Journalism, IUPUI 

B) Knowledge Matters: The Evolution of Every Child Ready to Read

Now that Every Child Ready to Read (PLA/ALSC early literacy initiative in its tenth year) has changed the way most public libraries serve parents of young children, it is time to absorb new research and re-evaluate our message to parents and caregivers. At this session, you will learn the new terminology promoted in the revised ECRR materials and how it relates to the “six skills” espoused in the original version, understand the research behind the changes, and re-think your approach to early childhood programs and readers advisory.
Presenter: Christina Jones, Monroe County Public Library

C) 10 ft. Tall Bookmarks: Energizing Your Outreach Activities with QR Codes
So much to share, so little space!! Outreach and promotional items are a wonderful way to share information about resources, and services in your community; however, it can be hard to design something that conveys all the information you want, but is still visually appealing. This workshop will show you how to create QR codes and integrate them into your outreach and promotions programs; as well as how to track their impact, explore new programming options, and utilize them in the most efficient ways.
Presenter: Christina C. Wray, Indiana University-Bloomington, Center for Disability Information and Referral