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116th Annual Conference
Your Library: The Third Place • April 16-18, 2007 • Hartford Convention Center


Pre-conference: reports for Monday, April 16
Conference: reports for Tuesday, April 17 • Wednesday, April 18

Conference Tuesday, April 17 - Reports

  • Children’s Section presents – Storytelling Possibilities.
    Ann Shapiro provided us with a wonderful opportunity to get in touch with our playful side. She believes in the value of play, and in the connection between play...read the full report.


  • Business & Economic Development Section (BEDS), College & University Library Section (CAUL), and Reference & Adult Services Section present – Keeping Up with the Dark Side of the Web.
    After listening to Rita Vine speak it will be impossible to view search engines in quite the same manner again. According to Vine, portals don’t really matter any more. Search is now the default web portal! The “Search Engine Little Secret” is that search engines aren’t really about searching, but rather...read the full report.


  • Children’s Section presents – Eileen Baker: Enhancing Cultural Literacy through Conversation and Communication: Sign Language in Children’s Libraries.
    Eileen Baker, Consultant to Industry, Education and Government, Specific to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, presented a dynamic program sharing with children’s librarians methods of increasing cultural literacy by integration sign language in story time sessions for young children...read the full report.


  • Career Recruitment Committee presents – Who are the Future Library Leaders?
    With the advent of mass retirement a few years in the future, the higher level positions will be vacated and mid-level personnel will be expected to move into the higher positions...read the full report.


  • PL Awards Committee presents – Award Winning Public Library Service: The 2007 Winners of the Excellence in Public Library Service Awards.
    The Teen Advisory Board (TAB) at the Douglas Library in Hebron received the award (for towns with a population of under 15,000) for creating a welcoming space for teens in the library, developing a technologic environment on the website and for providing programs for and by teens in...read the full report.


  • Technical Services Section presents – Review of Metadata for Catalogers by Sandra Gallup.
    Ms. Gallup began by defining metadata and reviewing some of the different metadata schema. The three types of metadata are structural, administrative and descriptive. Catalogers will most likely be dealing with descriptive metadata...read the full report.


  • Co–Chairs present – National business writer, commentator & co–author, Polly LaBarre.
    National business writer, commentator and co-author Polly Labarre discussed her book, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, relating the challenges and the strategies of unleashing new ideas in business to rethinking...read the full report.


  • Public Library presents – "Profile–based Readers Advisory," with Neil Hollands.
    Traditional face-to-face readers’ advisory sessions sometimes fall short of success for a variety of reasons. These reasons may include lack of time for a thorough reader interview...read the full report.


  • Children’s Section presents – Which Came First the Chicken or the Egg: Three Children’s Authors and Illustrators Will Hatch The Question.
    They make it look so easy! A cute picture, a few words on each page, how hard can it be? Where to start? That’s a good question…one for three professionals, like Nancy Wallace, Sanna Stanley and Katie Davis...read the full report.


  • REFORMA presents – Services to Immigrant Populations: Approaches in Public and Academic Libraries.
    Garcia-Febo began by giving us an outline of the history of Latin American Migration to the United States. She defined multicultural library services as including both the provision of multicultural information to all types of library users...read the full report.


  • Publicity Committee presents – Prize–Winning PR: Advice from the 2007 Publicity Award Winners.
    The Publicity Committee arranged its 2007 program in round-robin style, with each presenter presiding over a small circle of attendees interested in...read the full report.


  • Awards Committee presents – Awards Presentation.
    This annual lively celebration of excellence in Connecticut’s library community awards scholarships for the very newest MLS and LTA students...read the full report.


    • Thank-you 2007 Conference Sponsors


    Last Updated: 11.14.2007