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Make the most of Annual Conference with PLA!
Programs - President's Program featuring Jamie Lee Curtis - Full Program and Meeting Schedule Heading to Anaheim for the 2008 ALA Annual Conference? Don’t miss PLA’s conference programming - PLA is offering more than 20 programs focusing on the issues important to public libraries!
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PLA 101: ALA Annual Conference for First Time Attendees
If you work in a public library and are attending your first ALA Annual Conference, this program is for you! Come learn the ropes from ALA veterans who will share tips on how to navigate your way through this huge event and how to get the most out of the experience.
How Branding Can Increase the Relevance of Your Library
Learn how to do a marketing audit of your library, develop a strategic positioning, create an annual marketing plan, and minimize expenses through available resources. Raise awareness of the library and communicate its relevance and value among key stakeholders, including customers, government, trustees, and donors. Bring your questions for the interactive Q&A portion of the program.
Not Evolutionary—Revolutionary! Library Reorganization Project, 2010-Style
The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC) involved staff from diverse service areas in a major organizational restructuring that didn’t just seek to adapt to changes in technology or community needs. Discover how PLCMC set out to be “America’s Best” by strategizing and innovating new ways of collaborating, communicating, and providing extraordinary customer service.
Public Computing in a Library 2.0 World
Public libraries increasingly use tools such as blogs, wikis, and MySpace to serve patrons. What are the implications? What new skills are required for front line staff? How is tech support provided? The MaintainIT Project will report on best practices in public libraries for staff training, technical support, and technology planning.
Dewey or Don't We
Learn how the Maricopa County Library District implemented a non-Dewey bookstore model in a public library.
Library Fundraising on Steroids! Going Beyond the Used Book Sale…
Are you are looking for new ideas for ongoing fundraising programs? Have you ever considered either a telethon or house raffle? The Rancho Cucamonga Public Library has done both and will give their insights, tips, and advice to other libraries who are thinking of new fundraising programs. Learn what is involved with getting a telethon on the air and the Web, programming a weekend of live entertainment, using PayPal to collect donations, and more.
Stretching Existing Staff: New Service Delivery Models
Need more staff but the budget does not allow it? The PLA Workload Measures and Staffing Patterns Committee can help you by providing existing service delivery models from libraries across the U.S. Learn about self-directed service, new space planning in view of service delivery, one point information service and many other exciting ways that libraries have confronted staffing.
Public Programs in a Shoebox: What If You Don’t Have a Community Room?
This program features a panel discussion in which several librarians from rural libraries will present descriptions of public programs that have worked even though they lacked spaces, such as a community room. The panel will offer recommendations to participants for overcoming space constraints in public programming.
Libraries Prosper with Passion, Purpose & Persuasion! A Toolkit for Success
Learn how libraries around the country have put Libraries Prosper with Passion, Purpose and Persuasion, the PLA advocacy toolkit to use.
Why Public Libraries Close
Results from a study sponsored by OCLC of public library closures will be presented. The research examined in depth the dataset used for identifying the closure, reasons for teh closures, and the impact of closures on library users. Interviews with staff and analysis of locations and market demographics using geographic information systems (GIS) were used for analysis.
Digital Storytelling: Where Outreach, Local History, Programming and Technology Collide
Don’t have enough staff to do the outreach, programming, and partnership building your library wants to undertake? The establishment of a digital storytelling project may just be what your library needs to begin accomplishing the above with little additional staff. Learn how libraries have done this, and how you can too.
Teens in Your Branch Library: From Trauma to Triumph?
If you work in a branch library near a junior high or high school, you’re familiar with the feeling. Every afternoon, as the clock hand nears that certain time, you prepare for the influx of teens and tweens that arrive after school. Join us for a panel discussion of what others are doing in similar situations. We’ll have some suggestions for actions that might help.
What the User Expects and How to Get There
Libraries are increasingly facing competition in providing users easy to navigate and understand interfaces. This program is designed to give participants specific ideas on what is available and how to practically achieve it.
Teen Parents Raising Readers: Teen Staff Making It Happen
This program provides information, hands-on activities, and techniques that will enable teen staff to share early literacy information from the Every Child Ready to Read@your library project in pregnant/parenting teen programs. Learn how to conduct programs that not only empower teens with a better understanding of reading, but also leave them with new ways to interact with their children that support later reading development.
Get the Word Out: How to Do it, Marketing for Small and Rural Libraries
No matter how small your library, effective marketing is the key to success. Hear how small libraries across the country are leveraging simple marketing techniques to make their libraries vital to their communities. Marketing basics and practical tips for developing a strategy, executing that strategy, and measuring effectiveness will be provided.
Programming Your Way Through Dewey: Insects, Dinosaurs, and Gross Biology @ your library
As more non-fiction material comes into our libraries, we need to find new ways to develop programming that highlights these resources. The authors on the panel will discuss their creative process and the ways in which they feel non-fiction material can enrich the lives of both children and caregivers. Examples of non-fiction programming will also be presented.
Selling Your Story: How to Use the PLA Service Responses to Market Your Library
How many times have you heard, “I didn’t know the library did that?” The PLA Service Responses provide an effective framework for a marketing program that will ensure that everyone in your community understands the variety of services the library offers – and that they will want to use those services.
Adult Learners: Helping Libraries Make MAGIC!
ALA President Loriene Roy and California State Librarian Susan Hildreth will set the stage for this engaging and dynamic presentation on the added value of literacy and adult learners in your public library. Panel presentations from librarians, literacy coordinators, and adult learners will describe several national adult learner projects. This session is for libraries who partner with adult education providers as well as for those managing literacy programs.
Early Literacy Training for Child Care Providers: A Proven Program for Success
Using Carroll County (Md.) Public Library’s ground-breaking, scientifically-based initiative, learn about ways to train child care providers to foster early literacy skills in young children.
Read Between the Lions: Public Television and Public Libraries Join Forces to Improve Literacy
Hear how three public libraries in different communities utilized entertaining, research-based episodes of the award-winning educational program, Between the Lions to create engaging, hands-on, library-based Reading Dens to increase and improve the literacy practices and skills of kindergarteners and their parents.
Reach Out and Touch Someone: Public and School Libraries Collaborate for Student Success
Are you interested in collaborating with your school library to contribute to student success? Please join librarians from Washington State and find out about some of the best practices to use in your community and the tremendous benefits of working collaboratively between libraries--all for little to NO money!
Pacs in the Library 2.0 World
The Pac is one way people find the information they need in their local library, in the region or via the Web. New technologies are being used throughout the country to make the search more accurate, user friendly and community based. This program will explore various enhancements including federated searching, Delicious, Aquabrowser, and interactive tools such as user submitted book reviews. Training issues for staff and the public will also be discussed.
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PLA is pleased to announce that actor and author Jamie Lee Curtis will present the keynote address at the PLA President’s Program and Awards Presentation at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA. The program will take place on Monday, June 30, 2008 from 5 - 6:30pm. Jamie Lee Curtis is an actor, photographer, and closet organizer. She is the author of children’s books including, Is There Really a Human Race?, It's Hard to Be Five, I’m Gonna Like Me, Where Do Balloons Go?, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, and When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of Her Youth. Jamie Lee Curtis is a card-carrying member of the human race and is proud of it. She is also a member of her family, her circle of friends, the Screen Actors Guild, 12-step groups, and her children's schools. She is the mother of Annie and Thomas and is married to her first husband, Christopher Guest. They live in California. PLA is pleased to present Jamie Lee Curtis through the support of HarperCollins Children’s Books, and as part of the ALA Auditorium Speakers Series. Following her talk and the awards presentation, attendees can attend a gala, music-filled reception. For more information on the PLA President’s Program, contact the PLA office at 800-545-2433, ext. 5PLA, or visit PLA’s Web site at www.pla.org. |
