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7:00am CDT

Registration & Breakfast Opens Lobby East

8:00am CDT

Friends Beyond Fundraising: Creating Community Engagement by Building Relationships Edelbrock/ClarkeSheila McKinney DeChantal • Laurel M. Hall MLA New Members and First Time Attendees Welcome MitchellRyan McCormick • Nate Nins • Tasha Nins The Basics of Community Engagement: Nailing the Fundamentals so Magic Can Happen! SwisshelmAngie Gentile-Jordan • Mary Wilkins-Jordan Little Coders: Infectious (The Good Kind) Activities for Preschoolers WeidnerBrianna Bleeker • Stacy Lienemann Manga VS Graphic Novels: a Beginner's guide WhitneyChris Mallo • Katherine Whitney Branding for Beginners (Like Me!) Fandel/MarshKaren Lemke Dream (Projects) Come True with LSTA Grants First American/ThielmanJodi Edstrom • Leah Larson • Kristin Schneider Find the Gap: Needs Assessment Essentials for Training Programs Bell/AlexanderWyatt Fertig Success, Failure, and In-Between: a Minitex Cataloging Update SchilpinLizzy Baus • Sara Ring The Web is lovely, dark, and deep... Metzroth/HelgensonKatherine Bauer • Scott Davis • Suzanne Hunt • Race MoChridhe Advocate's Action Plan: Building Suppport CobornMulticounty Multitype Library Systems

9:10am CDT

Science Fiction is a Setting! (& Fantasy is too) CobornAllison Girres • Emily Kittelson Everybody Supercharge: Supercharged Storytimes for All Training Fandel/MarshJulia Carlis • Mollie Stanford • Jen Verbrugge Leaders and Legends in Minnesota Libraries Bell/AlexanderCarol Nelson • Sara Ring Programmed to Read: Community Reads Metzroth/HelgensonJulie Clinefelter • Rachel Gray What Does Advocacy Look Like? SwisshelmSue Grove • Mary Murphy • Jim Weygand • Amy Wilde Starting and Expanding World Language Collections WhitneyJessica Zillhart (she/her) • Chelsea Couillard-Smith • Marcus Lowry • Andrea McKennan Attack of the Killer Computer!: Is Your Library Ready to Code? MitchellBrianna Bleeker • Stacy Lienemann The art of communicating: mastering the ancient artform known as a public presentation First American/ThielmanTony Molaro Why not library and information science? Exploring undergraduate student awareness and interest in LIS Edelbrock/ClarkeJanis Shearer

10:00am CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall & Silent Auction Opens Terry Haws C

10:30am CDT

Programming Outside the Lines WeidnerAmy Muchmore • Sarah Smith Understanding Our Past, Reframing Our Present: the History of Racism in Minnesota Libraries Bell/AlexanderHeidi Anderson-Ferdinand • Violet Fox • Emilie Hanson • Melissa Prescott A Bigger Boat: Data Visualization Lessons from the Movies SchilpinMark Vaillancourt • Trish Vaillancourt Grab That Dough: Getting a Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant Whitney Librarianship In and Out of Prison: The Law Library Service to Prisoner's Program EdelbrockSusan Trombley Teenagers are humans and you can too!: An introduction to building relationships with the teens in your library CobornZ Akhmetova • Charisma Lee • Tasha Nins • AJ Ragland • Amanda Xiong Working Towards Accessibility for People with Disabilities SwisshelmAnne Friederichs • Renee Grassi • Heather Stephenson MALF: Evy Nordley Award for Best Projects by Friends Groups & Stand Up for Stand Out Friends MitchellNancy Guerino Our Stories, Our Community: Preserving Local Stories through Oral Histories Metzroth/HelgensonKim Edson • Lynette Perry

11:35am CDT

We, surveilled and afraid, in a world we never made Glenn CarlsonDorothea Salo

1:00pm CDT

ARLD Division meeting First American/Thielman MALF Annual Meeting & Idea Popcorn (Division Meeting) Schilpin MLTA Division Meeting Mitchell PLD Division meeting Bell/Alexander

1:50pm CDT

Break: Desserts in Exhibit Hall Terry Haws C

2:15pm CDT

Starting, Supporting and Sustaining a Homeless Advisory Group WeidnerKate Coleman • Chris Ruiz • Dillon Young Thinking Critically about Library Management SchilpinDanya Leebaw Under the Radar: The Other Youth Book Awards Worth Watching Fandel/MarschHeidi Hammond • Gail Nordstrom • Heather Palmer Connecting to Existing Academic Networks to Extend Library Services: A Data Management Case Study Edelbrock/ClarkeMeghan Lafferty Meeting Patrons Where They Are: Legal Partnerships at the St. Paul Public Library CobornSarah Larsen • Katrina Hartz Taylor Crafts for the Un-Crafty: Everyone has fun with upcycling and a hot glue gun. MitchellKristin Woizeschke Robot Petting Zoo Metzroth/HelgensonJoshua Akkerman • Jonathan Carlson • Dr. Diana Fenton • Sarah Lauer 40 in 50 Book Blast First American/ThielmanLinda Dallavalle • Rachel Grey • Paul Lai • Jean Silverberg MCF-Shakopee's Chautauqua: How a corrections librarian builds community using a 19th century model of engagement SwisshelmAndrea Smith Advocates' Action Plan in a Flash: Know the Details WhitneyHannah Buckland • Sara Ring • Ann Walker Smalley • Multicounty Multitype Library Systems • Jami Trenam Rescuing Audio, Video, and Digital Data on a Budget Bell/AlexanderDorothea Salo

3:05pm CDT

Break in Exhibit Hall Terry Haws C

3:35pm CDT

Journey to the National Medal Metzroth/HelgensonAudrey Betcher • Wendy Pradt Lougee 12 DIY Adult Programs Fandel/MarschLaura Morlock Community Responsive Information Literacy First American/ThielmanElissah Becknell • John Daniels • Rebecca March • Jenny Sippel Getting Middle Schoolers "Future Ready" CobornVicki Bartz Project Management as Bridge: Building Connections between Library Strategic Goals and Direction and Project Work WeidnerKirsten Clark • Kate McCready Because Every Voice Matters: Update on Minnesota Library Advocacy Bell/AlexanderAnn Walker Smalley • Multicounty Multitype Library Systems • Sam Walseth Librarianship and Parenthood: A Balancing Act SwisshelmJamie Hoehn • Jacquie Kramer • Amy Riegelman • Matt Youngbauer Open Book: Creating a PressBook Anthology of Creative Works by Minnesota Library Workers Edelbrock/ClarkeBridget Reistad • Rachel Wexelbaum Revising, Reversing, Rebuilding your LibGuides SchilpinAdam Brisk • Doreen Hansen • Kim Pittman What to do with a cataloging backlog WhitneyJessie Fries • Casie (KC) Reiner • Jeanette Ward • Sarah White

4:40pm CDT

MLA's State of the Association (also known as the Annual Business Meeting) First American

5:45pm CDT

Awards Happy Hour Kelly Inn Pool Atrium

7:00pm CDT

ARLD Happy HourLIMITED Pickled LoonJonathan Carlson PLD Happy HourLIMITED 7 West

7:30pm CDT

CYP Happy HourLIMITED White HorseJulia Carlis