All Sessions

The committee will meet to review member-nominated reference titles, discuss the merits of those titles, and then recommend the most outstanding reference publications for small and medium-sized libraries to be included on our annual list.

Join ALTAFF’s popular Nuts & Bolts program featuring Dr. Ron Heezen, director of the Shreveport Memorial Library, who will talk about embracing change as an organization to achieve goals. Round table discussions on topics of interest to Trustees, Friends, and Foundations will be facilitated by ALTAFF board members. Coffee will be served at 8:30 a.m. A box lunched is included. Save $25 off the combined registration cost of Nuts & Bolts and the Advocacy Institute.

Open to anyone interested in collection development in public libraries.

Evaluation of children's videos/DVDs, selection of the Carnegie Medal-winning production, and compilation of the 2012 Notable Children's Videos list.

Advisory Committee Meeting for the Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study

Learn how to engage and mobilize friends and trustees groups, opinion-makers and civic organizations to support your public, school and academic libraries.

Presenters include: Dr. Jennifer Martin, Ph.D., senior associate provost and dean of the Graduate School, Texas Woman's University; Ed Palmer, chairman, Municipal Library Board, Dallas, and Rocco Staino, retired director of the Mary I. Keefe Library, North Salem Central Schools, NY & contributing editor, School Library Journal.

Register for Nuts & Bolts for Trustees, Friends and Foundations (Event code: ALT1) from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday morning and receive a discount on combined registration.

Mobilizing Community Support for Your Library: An Advocacy Institute Workshop is sponsored by the Texas Library Association. It is presented in partnership with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), ALTAFF, and organized by the Advocacy Training Subcommittee of the ALA Committee on Library Advocacy, in conjunction with the ALA Office for Library Advocacy.

Evaluation of children's books and compilation of the 2012 Notable Children's Books list.

Meet as many professionals as you can... with Speed Networking! Join ALSC for this exhilarating evening as we put a new spin on the classic speed dating structure. Participants will be organized to move around the room- meeting new people and exchanging ideas every couple of minutes. The event is free and light refreshments will be provided courtesy of Disney-Hyperion.

Evaluation of children's audio recordings and compilation of the 2012 Notable Children's Recordings list.

Learn what's new with Dewey, including DDC 23 and WebDewey 2.0, and share ideas and notes with your ALCTS Public Libraries Technical Services Interest Group colleagues during this combined meeting.

Meeting of members of the RUSA CODES Collection Development Education Committee.

Meeting of the committee members and others interested in learning about the Readers' Advisory Committee.

PLA committees meeting Saturday in this room are: Annual Conference Program Subcommittee (2012) Meeting, Budget & Finance Committee Meeting, Intellectual Freedom Committee Meeting, Legislation and Advocacy Committee Meeting, PLA/ALSC Every Child Ready to Read Oversight Committee Meeting, Public Libraries (journal) Advisory Committee Meeting, Technology Committee Meeting.

The committee will meet to review member-nominated reference titles, discuss the merits of those titles, and then recommend the most outstanding reference publications for small and medium-sized libraries to be included on our annual list.

Managing your migration, training for ProQuest customers.

Evaluation of children's audio recordings and compilation of the 2012 Notable Children's Recordings list.

Evaluation of children's videos/DVDs, selection of the Carnegie Medal-winning production, and compilation of the 2012 Notable Children's Videos list.