Special Features and Events
Keynote Speaker: Kathleen de la Peña McCook. University of
Southern Florida, Community Outreach Coordinator, author of A Place at the
Table: Participating in Community Building
Endnote Speaker: John Berry, President of the American Library
Association
Three pre-conferences including:
- Improving Library Security: Aspects, Problems, and Solutions,
- Grab Attention @ Your Library
- What To Do When the Genealogist Comes
Four tours including: Denali-in-a-Day Flightseeing, Alaska Native
Heritage Center, Anchorage School Libraries, and Glacier Brewhouse
Authors Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder
Alaska Gubernatorial forum
Over 80 programs and events
- Opening reception at Anchorage Museum of History and Art
- Exhibitors’ reception: Merci Beaucoup: An Evening in Provence
- Four Exhibits Only breaks
- AkLA Banquet with entertainment by Pamyua
- AkLA Store and Silent Auction
 Special Conference Tours
Denali-in-a-Day Flightseeing Tour
Wednesday, March 6, 8 AM – 6 PM, $149/person.
Join an experienced guide for an awesome flightseeing adventure, tour, and
lunch. Meet in the Hilton lobby at 8 AM. Travel by van to the Iditarod Museum in
Wasilla and tour the sled-dog lot with a musher.
From Talkeetna, take a one-hour flightseeing tour over the Susitna Valley and
the Alaska Range, by the southeast face of Denali, and through the great gorge
of the Ruth Glacier. Circle #80 on the registration form and include the cost in
your registration payment.
Alaska Native Heritage Center Tour
Sunday, March 10, 2 – 5 PM, $30/person.
Travel by van to the Native Heritage Center. Guides will answer your
questions about five distinct Alaskan Native cultures.
You will have plenty of time to walk around the Center and experience Native
cultures past and present. Circle #82 on the registration form and include the
cost in your registration payment.
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Alaska Library Association
2002 Conference