Welcome to Linking Our Libraries! We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, a multitype library system where we support libraries of all types.
And today we have two special guests with us: Ann Walker Smalley, who is the director of the Metronet multitype system; and Ann Hokanson, the director of the Traverse des Sioux library system.
We are sharing this special episode to help promote the latest annual Minnesota Library Association conference! It’s coming up Wednesday, Oct. 6 through Friday, Oct. 8. And of course we are still having a global pandemic, so this conference will be virtual. We will preview a few of the interesting events coming up, so you will be ready for all the different activities.
And of course, we want to take special notice of probably the most exciting session at this conference: the Multitype Library systems are presenting a session to talk about the very cool work we are all doing together and individually!
Our session will be Friday, Oct 8 at 10:00am. It is called Mapping Minnesota’s Multitypes.
Let’s give you a quick preview of this session.
- Questions for each guest:
- What are multitype library systems?
- What kinds of things do you think are important that the multitypes do together?
- What kinds of things do your systems do individually?
- What benefits do you think multitypes bring to their members?
Let’s talk about some of the other things you might check out at the MLA conference!
“During Exhibitor time, attendees can explore the vendor’s pages in PheedLoop and complete a scavenger hunt activity to win a chance at a free one-year membership to MLA.
Attendees can also meet one-on-one with vendors on Zoom to learn about their products and services and ask questions.
Join us in the virtual Hallway for a chance to meet with other conference attendees. You can ask the room moderator to put you and a new acquaintance into a breakout room to discuss whatever your heart fancies, hang out in the main room, or be added to a random breakout room to meet new people.”
So there will be lots of chances to interact with other people while you attend this conference.
One keynote speaker will be Sofia Leung. She will be speaking Wed at 10:30 am – 11:30 am. Sofia Leung is a Chinese American librarian, facilitator, and educator, currently settled on Mashpee Wampanoag land. She is a founding editor at up//root: a we here publication, and the co-editor of Knowledge Justice:Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory. Sofia holds a Master’s in Library and Information Science and a Master’s in Public Administration, both from the University of Washington, and her B.A. in English from Barnard College.
Tracie Hall will be the keynote and the closing speaker; she will present Friday at 2:30 – 4:00 pm. In February 2020, Tracie D. Hall was appointed the American Library Association’s 10th executive director in its 143-year history. In her new role, Hall oversees the oldest and largest library association in the world, made up of 57,000 members and more than 200 staffers. Hall is the first female African American executive director in ALA’s history. Hall is no stranger to libraries, or to ALA. Over the years she has worked at the Seattle Public Library, the New Haven Free Public Library, Hartford Public Library, and Queens Library. In addition to her MLIS from the Information School at the University of Washington, Hall holds an MA in International and Area studies with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa from Yale University and dual bachelor’s degrees in Law and Society and Black Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Hall has also studied at the Universities of Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in East Africa. Hall was born and raised in Los Angeles.
| Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021 | ||
| 9:00 – 9:30 am | ||
| Session One | ||
| 9:30 – 10:20 am | ||
| • | What Did They Wear? A Case for Fashion Inclusion | |
| • | How to Be a More Inclusive Library Leader – and Yes, You Are a Library Leader | |
| • | Minnesota Center for the Books Year in Review | |
| • | Changing Times Requires Adjusting Processes, Updates from Minitex Resource Sharing | |
| • | Stronger Connections During COVID | |
| Keynote: Sofia Leung | ||
| 10:30 am – 11:30 am | ||
| Meet with Exhibitors/lunch break | ||
| 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | ||
| Session Two | ||
| 1:00 – 1:50 pm | ||
| • | Driven to Discover: Explore the Benefits of Collaborating with the U of M Extension | |
| • | Sequential Art: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters | |
| • | Data: You Can’t Use It If You Can’t Find It | |
| • | MDL in 2021: Where We Are Now | |
| • | What We Didn’t Learn in Library School: Project Ready Supporting Diverse Youth | |
| Hallway/Chair Yoga | ||
| 1:50 – 2:20 pm | ||
| Session 3 | ||
| 2:30 – 3:20 pm | ||
| • | State Library Services Update | |
| • | How to Create More Visibility for Your Online Services | |
| • | COVID-19 and Post-COVID-19 Programs/Planning Programs in a Pandemic | |
| • | Library and GIS Collaborations: Embed Spatial Thinking in Your Organization | |
| • | The Community as Author: Collect and Publish Community Voices with MN Writes MN Reads | |
| Session 4 | ||
| 3:30 – 4:20 pm | ||
| • | Creating Minnesota’s Hybrid Legacy | |
| • | Look What I Found at the Library! Visual Merchandising Ideas for Libraries | |
| • | Unpacking White Supremacy in Academic Libraries: A Panel | |
| Virtual Trivia Contest | ||
| 7:30 pm | ||
| Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021 | ||
| Welcome by MLA President Stacey Hendren | ||
| 8:45 – 8:55 am | ||
| Division Meetings | ||
| 9:00 – 9:50 am | ||
| • | Academic and Research Libraries Division Meeting | |
| • | Public Libraries Division Meeting | |
| Session 5 | ||
| 10:00 – 10:50 am | ||
| • | The Secret Life of Grants: What Happens During a Grant Review? | |
| • | For/Against/Neutral Assignment: A Collaboration between the Librarians and Instructional Technologists | |
| • | In the Rearview Mirror & the Road Ahead: Media Landscapes Campaign Progress & Plans | |
| • | Pandemic, Racism, and Surveillance: Intellectual Freedom 2021 | |
| • | Getting Library Donors’ Attention | |
| Session 6 | ||
| 11:00 – 11:50 am | ||
| • | 40 in 50 Book Blast: Genre Mashup | |
| • | Checking Your Freedom | |
| • | What is MALF and the Role of Library Friends | |
| • | Student Employment as Student Engagement: Supporting Our Students through Student Employment | |
| • | Library of Amusements: Expanding a Library of Stuff | |
| Meet with Exhibitors/lunch break | ||
| 12:00 – 1:30 pm | ||
| Awards Presentation | ||
| 1:30-2:00 pm | ||
| Session 7 | ||
| 2:00 – 2:50 pm | ||
| • | Library Work as Vocation: The Hidden Cost of Work as a Calling | |
| • | Special (Collections) Maneuvers: Lessons Learned from Moving History of Medicine Rare Books and Objects | |
| • | Data-Informed System Staffing | |
| • | Shining the Light: Examining Our Role in Knowledge Equity | |
| Section/RoundTable/Committee Meetings | ||
| 3:00-3:50 pm | ||
| • | Legislative Committee Meeting | |
| • | Children and Young People’s Section | |
| • | MLA Institute for Leadership Excellence | |
| • | Minnesota Library Trustees and Advocates | |
| • | Reference an Adult Services Section | |
| • | Technical Services Section | |
| • | Instruction Round Table | |
| • | Readers Advisory Round Table | |
| • | Student Round Table | |
| Minitex Hallway Happy Hour | ||
| 4:00 – 4:50 pm | ||
| Friday, Oct. 8, 2021 | ||
| Welcome by MLA President-Elect Steve Harsin | ||
| 8:45 – 8:55 am | ||
| Session 8 | ||
| 9:00 – 9:50 am | ||
| • | Minnesota Author Project: Celebrating the 2021 Winners | |
| • | Minnesota Library Structures Simplified: All Systems Great and Small | |
| • | Escape the Library! Creating In-Person and Online Escape Rooms for New Student Library Orientation | |
| • | Digital Accessibility Basics & Introducing CLiMPy: A Python Bot that Harvests Accessibility Data | |
| Session 9 | ||
| 10:00 – 10:50 am | ||
| • | Libraries & Land Acknowledgements | |
| • | MILE: Discover the Leader Within Yourself! | |
| • | Using Fad Diets to Teach Information Evaluation | |
| • | Mapping Minnesota’s Multitypes | |
| MLA Business Meeting | ||
| 11:00 – 11:50 am | ||
| Meet with Exhibitors/lunch break | ||
| 12:00 – 1:30 pm | ||
| Session 10 | ||
| 1:30 – 2:20 pm | ||
| • | Manage Projects Successfully from Start to Finish | |
| • | Ebooks Minnesota Update: Five Years Later | |
| • | Tarot in Your Library | |
| • | Maximizing the Effectiveness of the One-Shot Instruction Session | |
| Keynote: Tracie Hall, ALA President and Closing | ||
| 2:30 – 4:00 pm |
Thanks so much for joining us today! We always like to talk about libraries, and about all the great work libraries are doing. If you want to sign up for the MLA conference, it’s not too late! We will have links to the conference website in our show notes page – just click on that link in your podcast app and get all the details!
Check back with us next week for another new episode of our regular content. Be sure you are subscribed to Reading With Libraries right now, to get new book genres each week. And subscribe to Linking Our Libraries for some quick book suggestions each week right, and new training episodes will start dropping for you in December. We look forward to chatting with you then!