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2018 MLA Annual Conference

Sara Ring

Minitex
Continuing Education Librarian
Minneapolis, MN

Sara Ring is Continuing Education Librarian at Minitex where she develops and presents training for libraries and other cultural heritage organizations on standards for building digital collections and preserving them. In 2022 she helped launch 23 Linked Data Things, a self-paced online learning program for staff. She holds and M.A. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

7:00pm CDT

TSS Happy HourLIMITED 7 West Taphouse

7:00am CDT

Registration & Breakfast Opens Lobby East

8:00am CDT

Success, Failure, and In-Between: a Minitex Cataloging Update SchilpinLizzy Baus • Sara Ring

9:10am CDT

Leaders and Legends in Minnesota Libraries Bell/AlexanderCarol Nelson • Sara Ring

10:00am CDT

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

10:30am CDT

Understanding Our Past, Reframing Our Present: the History of Racism in Minnesota Libraries Bell/AlexanderHeidi Anderson-Ferdinand • Violet Fox • Emilie Hanson • Melissa Prescott

11:35am CDT

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

1:50pm CDT

Break: Desserts in Exhibit Hall Terry Haws C

2:15pm CDT

Advocates' Action Plan in a Flash: Know the Details WhitneyHannah Buckland • Sara Ring • Ann Walker Smalley • Multicounty Multitype Library Systems • Jami Trenam

3:05pm CDT

Break in Exhibit Hall Terry Haws C

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

7:00am CDT

Registration & Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall & Silent Auction Opens TBA

8:50am CDT

Break in Exhibit Hall Terry Haws C

11:20am CDT

Break in Exhibit Hall Terry Haws C

11:35am CDT

Librarian Evolution: Libraries Thrive When We Change Glenn CarlsonGina Millsap

1:50pm CDT

Break: Desserts in Exhibit Hall Terry Haws C

2:15pm CDT

Let's Get Digital: Preserving Analog Memories at the Public Library SwisshelmLeasa Sieve • Kris Wiley

3:35pm CDT

Leading the Way on Rights CobornGreta Bahnemann • Molly Huber • Sara Ring • Nancy Sims • Christopher Welter